"Twelve million!"

In Dr. Qiu Ge’s office, Yan Feifan, along with Yan Ziruo and Yu Suye who had tagged along, unable to contain their curiosity and excitement, saw a cashier’s check that Dr. Qiu Ge was showing them.

"Mr. Ren said this extra two million is to compensate for his previous distrust and irrational behavior."

Qiu Ge explained, then looked at Yan Feifan and continued, "Mr. Yan, you deserve the lion’s share of the credit for the successful completion of this surgery and the timely resolution of the misunderstanding."

"This extra two million... we won’t split it. It’s all yours."

Yan Feifan quickly waved his hands in refusal. "I can’t accept that!"

"You were the one who put in the most effort during the surgery, Dr. Qiu, and you were also the one who basically shouldered all the misunderstanding."

"Besides, Dr. Qiu, you have a whole surgical team."

"According to our previous agreement, five million is more than enough. This is already the easiest big money I’ve ever made."

Qiu Ge chuckled. "Without your diamond drill, Mr. Yan, I wouldn’t have had the confidence to take on this surgery."

"More importantly, without your timely and accurate diagnosis, this bonus might have gone completely down the drain."

"This two million is what you deserve, Mr. Yan..."

After a few rounds of back-and-forth refusals, they finally split it fifty-fifty.

After that, Dr. Qiu Ge and Yan Feifan’s official representative, Yan Ziruo, left the hospital together, rushing to a nearby bank to cash the check...

Yan Feifan and Yu Suye, meanwhile, returned to the Emergency Department together.

In the emergency room lobby, Yan Feifan once again gave a technical evaluation of Qi Xiuping’s specific work performance.

When he returned to the teaching and research office, Yan Feifan was surprised to find that in addition to Qin Ying, Mrs. Yu and Mr. Liu were also there.

Mr. Liu, his face glowing, said with a chuckle, "Feifan, this past weekend, Mr. Yu from Baining Hospital and I visited the dean of the medical college and the university president. We also met with the director of the Health Commission’s planning division."

"And this morning, we spoke with the vice mayor in charge of public health for half an hour."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan couldn’t help but ask, "Mr. Liu, has it been decided that Baining Hospital will build its branch campus here in Binhai?"

Mr. Liu shook his head and smiled. "Things don’t get decided that quickly."

"This round of visits was just to understand and exchange our respective ideas and positions."

"It will take two or three months, maybe even longer, of tough negotiations before anything is finalized."

Yan Feifan let out a soft "oh" and asked, "Does the medical college intend to make the Baining Hospital branch an Affiliated Hospital?"

Mr. Liu nodded. "The medical college graduates over 1,500 students of various types each year. Our one Affiliated Hospital can only absorb a small fraction of them."

"On top of that, we have to arrange internships and teaching for so many students, plus research tasks. They’ve wanted to add another Affiliated Hospital for a long time."

Yu Suye asked doubtfully, "With the reputation of Bin University Medical College, shouldn’t tons of hospitals be fighting tooth and nail to become an Affiliated Hospital?"

Mr. Liu said proudly, "Not just any random hospital can become an Affiliated Hospital of Bin University Medical College."

He then said in a low voice, "Mr. Qin, Mrs. Chen, Feifan, Mr. Yu, I’ll let you in on something."

"If the preparations for the Baining Hospital branch don’t get off the ground soon, it’s highly likely we’ll initiate plans to build our own branch campus."

After sharing this news, Mr. Liu hesitated for a moment and asked Yan Feifan, "Feifan, about that young doctor assessment and selection process run by Mr. Wang, have you heard anything?"

Yan Feifan glanced at Chen Yu and shook his head. "No. Mr. Wang hasn’t said anything to me about the assessment."

At this point, Chen Yu spoke up. "Mr. Liu, if it’s a child of a close relative or friend, you should just speak to Mr. Wang directly."

"Don’t put Feifan in a difficult position."

Mr. Liu said a little awkwardly, "It’s just the child of a casual acquaintance. Whether he gets selected or not will depend on his own abilities."

"Alright, I have other work to attend to, so I’ll be going..."

After the ambitious Mr. Liu left, Chen Yu analyzed the situation. "Mr. Liu is using the collaboration, or the construction of our own branch, as a bargaining chip in his bid for the hospital presidency."

She turned her gaze to Yan Feifan and said, "Whether a branch gets built or not doesn’t have much to do with us doctors."

"Even if they start planning it now, it’ll be three to five years before it’s operational."

After a pause, Chen Yu continued, "Feifan, tell me more about that idea of using a toe bone as a penis bone..."

Under constant questioning from Chen Yu and Qin Ying, Yan Feifan gradually fleshed out his undeveloped idea.

For example, the skin to cover the extended part of the penis could be sourced from the highly elastic and expandable scrotal skin.

For the filling muscle, Yan Feifan’s idea was to transplant muscle from the waist and abdomen, supplemented with artificial fillers.

As for connecting the nerves, blood vessels, and ureter, it would be relatively easy to acquire suitable transplant materials from elsewhere in the body for such a short length of only three to five centimeters.

"There are several key points for the surgery..."

Yan Feifan explained as he thought, ’Should the connection between the pubic bone and the toe bone be a rigid fixation or a flexible one?’

’Whether the post-operative results will function as we predict is still an unknown. After all, this is a new addition to the human body; there might be adverse reactions.’

’After the transected section of the corpus cavernosum is re-grafted, will it be able to engorge again?’

’And what about the recovery of the connected nerve segment!’

Chen Yu nodded. "Yes, there are indeed many difficulties to overcome. We can verify them one by one."

She turned to Qin Ying and said, "Even if we successfully verify everything and determine this concept is truly viable, you know as well as I do that this surgery still carries enormous risks."

"We can’t have the patient backing out at the last minute after we’ve gotten everything ready."

Qin Ying said thoughtfully, "That is indeed a problem. I will have an in-depth discussion with the patient first."

"If he approves of this concept..."

Qin Ying hesitated for a moment before deciding, "I will persuade him to first donate some funds as research funding for this concept."

Chen Yu smiled with satisfaction. "Money makes things easier." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Yan Feifan glanced at Yu Suye and saw her standing there quietly with no sign of speaking up, so he had to ask himself.

He didn’t ask about the patient’s identity directly, but instead asked circuitously, "Teacher, can the patient come in for a visit?"

"It’s necessary to give him a detailed physical examination, so I can have a clear picture of the situation."

Qin Ying shook her head. "He doesn’t need to come over for now."

"It won’t be too late for him to come to the hospital once we’ve verified the concept is truly viable and are ready to perform the surgery."

Yan Feifan felt a little frustrated.

It seemed the mysterious identity of this patient would only be revealed at the very last moment.

P.S.

Damn it, the heat broke during the coldest weather in decades. I’m freezing to death...