In the end, Yu Tian still failed to get Yan Ming’s WeChat.

When Qi Sihao came to mooch dinner at Yu Tian’s house that evening, she shared this tragic event with him while cooking noodles, but not only did she receive no comfort, she was also mercilessly mocked by him.

Yu Tian became furious with embarrassment: “I helped you solve the Ren Yali problem!”

She said indignantly: “Qi Sihao! You should be grateful!”

“Can’t I repay you? As an exchange, I’ve already agreed to sell my body for you—what more do you want?”

Qi Sihao’s tone was full of anguish: “Yu Tian, you should feel honored! This is my first time! Do you know what the first time means to a man? How much psychological pressure I have to overcome, how much mental preparation I need to calmly face the camera…”

“…”

Yu Tian felt deeply powerless.

She had only asked Qi Sihao to appear in her next episode, but in his mouth, it sounded as if Yu Tian was forcing a good citizen into prostitution.

During her medical school studies, Yu Tian occasionally made medical science popularization videos for fun during her leisure time, editing and uploading them. Unexpectedly, over five years, she had accumulated a certain number of fans and became a medical science popularization content creator.

Her videos had never featured real people, only funny accompanying images. To output some basic medical knowledge or debunk common medical misconceptions, Yu Tian would sometimes extract clips from TV dramas and web series that allowed secondary creation, rewrite the dialogue and dub them to make an episode.

It started as just a hobby, but unexpectedly, several episodes became popular due to their humor and received traffic support from the platform, causing shares to skyrocket. They even broke out of their niche several times and caught the platform’s attention—she received an exclusive contract offer with guaranteed income and revenue sharing.

At that time, Yu Tian was still planning to become a doctor, so she directly refused the platform.

Now, although times had changed, Yu Tian didn’t regret it.

After all, if she could get an exclusive contract just by casually running the “Xiao Yu Loves Candy” creator account as a hobby, now that she was determined to fully commit to operating medical science popularization short videos, it surely wouldn’t be worse.

Although she couldn’t become the doctor she once wanted to be, the medical knowledge she learned shouldn’t go to waste. At least she didn’t want to give up her original intention of helping others through medicine.

Nowadays, people’s habits of receiving knowledge have long shifted to short videos, and there are already many medical science popularization content creators. However, due to a lack of oversight, the quality of many medical short videos varied greatly.

Yu Tian conducted thorough research and found that some medical science popularization creators who currently dominate traffic didn’t even have basic medical knowledge behind their operations. Many of their so-called science popularization videos were full of holes—some were just sensationalist, sacrificing the comprehensiveness and accuracy that medical science popularization should have for entertainment and eye-catching value.

For example, she had watched an episode teaching people how to perform CPR. The video featured a beautiful actress playing a doctor, whose explanations sounded coquettish, whose artificial respiration looked like kissing, and whose CPR movements were completely incorrect.

In another episode, it started as medical science popularization explaining how to handle skin allergies, but halfway through the science education, it forcibly inserted a no-name product, claiming to be hormone-free with no side effects and able to easily solve allergies. It turned out to be an advertisement disguised as a medical science popularization video.

However, markets often saw bad money driving out good. These videos had companies with money behind them, producing very exquisite content with attractive actors, making them much more watchable than some genuine medical videos that focused on education.

When Yu Tian was making science popularization videos as a hobby before, she hadn’t thought about this much. But now, she began thinking about how to balance interest and professionalism, and how to achieve science popularization while considering commercialization—this was also the core issue self-media entrepreneurs had to face first.

Therefore, this was also the catalyst for Yu Tian’s decision to take the first step and invite Qi Sihao to appear on camera.

Thinking of this, Yu Tian couldn’t help asking Qi Sihao: “Will you eat hotpot in the next few days?”

Qi Sihao was a level-ten hotpot enthusiast and immediately said emotionally, “Did your conscience awaken? Are you planning to treat me to hotpot?”

“In your dreams!” Yu Tian knew this would happen. “You’re not allowed to eat hotpot for the next few days—no spicy or oily food! No staying up late either! You must apply face masks before bed every day!”

Yu Tian pursed her lips and said seriously: “If you get pimples when you appear on camera and your looks decline, that would be criminal!”

Qi Sihao perked up: “How am I a criminal? What crime did I commit?”

“As medical students, don’t we have the obligation to convey correct medical knowledge to the public? If your looks decline, many people might swipe away from the video I worked hard to shoot and edit because of your one pimple, thus missing a chance at medical science education.”

“This not only prevents medical knowledge from spreading wider but also causes some people to believe in folk remedies when they get sick because they didn’t receive the correct medical science education, ultimately leaving lasting health problems or even dying!”

Yu Tian said righteously: “Isn’t that criminal? I think you should go to jail!”

“…”

Qi Sihao looked extremely speechless: “Then why don’t you ask your Brother Yan Ming to film? Didn’t you praise him as devastatingly handsome, a hundred times better looking than me?”

Yu Tian glanced at Qi Sihao: “What order do we serve dishes when eating?”

“?”

Yu Tian took away the noodle bowl Qi Sihao was eating from, saying expressionlessly: “Who serves a full Manchu-Han banquet right from the start? Don’t you start with cold dishes? The main courses come last.”

Qi Sihao stared at Yu Tian.

Yu Tian said righteously: “If the first real-person video on my channel featured my Brother Yan Ming, wouldn’t that be starting at the finish line? Debuting at the peak? Although that would be good, once everyone has seen someone like him, how could they psychologically adapt to seeing someone like you in later episodes?”

“Do you understand the concept of casting pearls before swine?”

The moment Yu Tian mentioned Yan Ming, her heart immediately filled with longing: “First, throw out your broken brick, which gives me a chance to learn and improve my video editing skills. During this time, I’ll get to know Brother Yan Ming better, and when I’m familiar with him, I can ask him to record several episodes for me. Won’t my traffic explode immediately?”

“…”

Song Chunxiang returned home about an hour after Yu Tian sent Qi Sihao away.

Her face was radiant with smiles, humming songs, her whole person glowing.

Seeing her like this, Yu Tian gossiped and came over: “Mom, how was Uncle Yan? Do I have a chance to be a flower girl at your wedding?”

“Go away, go away.” Song Chunxiang’s face was slightly red as she waved her hands as if to shoo Yu Tian away.

But she didn’t refute.

There was hope!

Could she become Yan Ming’s sister?

Yu Tian’s eyes brightened: “Mom!”

Song Chunxiang, unable to resist the pestering, could only glare at Yu Tian sternly but weakly: “We haven’t even crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s yet!”

She said somewhat worriedly: “At our age, both with family baggage, it’s different from young people dating. It’s not just about getting along well ourselves—we can’t be together just based on that.”

“Yan Wenhua is a good person, but when we chat, two out of three sentences mention his son. He probably treasures this son incredibly.”

Song Chunxiang sighed: “Your father left early, but Yan Wenhua is different from me—he divorced his ex-wife because they couldn’t get along. But he and his ex-wife have such an excellent son together, and he values this son so much. If this son has any bad feelings toward us, rejects us, disagrees with our remarriage, and wants to reunite him with his ex-wife, then he and I probably won’t work out either.”

“Besides, even if we do get together, if his son remains hostile toward me, my future remarried life won’t be easy.” Song Chunxiang said worriedly: “From what he says, their family conditions are quite good—they seem quite wealthy. Our family is humble, and I’m afraid his son will think we’re social climbing.”

Yu Tian’s mother, having lived to this age, was a sensible person. She said gravely: “Rather than live in frustration, it’s better to stay single!”

Yu Tian blinked: “So you’re satisfied with him, right?”

Song Chunxiang nodded: “He’s a good person.”

“Then don’t worry about anything else!” Yu Tian was instantly filled with a sense of mission. “Mom, just love boldly with confidence. Leave the public relations with Yan Ming to me! I’ll unite with him like we’re one person! As long as you want it, I’ll get both my name and yours written into the Yan family household registration!”

Unfortunately, although Yu Tian made bold promises and guarantees to Song Chunxiang, facing the harsh reality, even a clever housewife couldn’t cook without rice.

She hadn’t even added Yan Ming on WeChat.

Fortunately, Yan Wenhua was on a business trip these days, and Song Chunxiang was chatting enthusiastically with him online, temporarily forgetting the numerous difficulties in reality.

Since that was the case, Yu Tian took advantage of this gap to begin planning her social media account operations.

Creating a full episode of medical knowledge popularization required first planning content, then completing recording and editing, followed by post-production. The entire process wasn’t short, but as a content creator, she should maintain certain activity levels to enhance subscriber engagement.

After researching, Yu Tian felt she could try combining videos with live streaming.

For live streaming content, she decided to focus on health preservation, emphasizing dietary therapy.

She was quite skilled at cooking. After live-streaming an episode on making desserts suitable for diabetics, she received great reviews and attracted many new fans. The tips alone earned her a small profit.

This somewhat surprised and encouraged Yu Tian.

While her medical science popularization startup project was showing some progress, Yu Tian was still at a loss regarding Yan Ming.

She knew how precious an ophthalmology appointment with a doctor like Yan Ming was. As a medical student, she couldn’t do something like taking up a patient’s appointment slot under the pretense of having her eyes examined just to approach him.

Fortunately, Yu Tian’s home wasn’t far from the First Affiliated Hospital where Yan Ming worked. So, according to Yan Ming’s consultation schedule, during her leisure time after meals, Yu Tian would stroll back and forth for several days, hoping for a chance encounter.

Unfortunately, it was fruitless.

She never encountered Yan Ming once.

The first few times, Yu Tian would feel disappointed, but after several attempts, even she accepted the impossibility of bumping into Yan Ming.

However, the habit of post-meal walks was inadvertently cultivated.

This evening, Yu Tian had eaten a bit too much, so she routinely went out for a digestive walk.

Through the huge dense shade of camphor trees, the sky showed the dusky yellow of approaching but not yet arrived night. The sun hadn’t exhausted itself, but moonlight was already surging up with ambiguous halos, climbing up tree tops and rising above residential buildings, also illuminating the rooftops of the old houses still remaining in this area.

The entire city seemed to have entered a slow-paced journey, shedding the noise and busyness of daytime. There were already groups of two or three people taking post-meal walks on the streets, elderly people gathered around chess games by the roadside, and children laughing and running in the nearby playground.

Time seemed to gradually slow down with a leisurely rhythm.

Yu Tian dragged her steps among them. Today, Song Chunxiang had urged her to take out the trash on her way out, so she had left in a hurry without even changing clothes, just wearing loose, old home clothes with her hair messily hanging loose.

Fortunately, no one around knew her, so Yu Tian had no psychological burden as she strolled while thinking about what theme to use for her next medical science popularization episode.

When she came to her senses, she had unconsciously walked to the small park outside the First Affiliated Hospital out of habit.

This lush green park was perfectly positioned outside the First Affiliated Hospital.

Hospital atmospheres were usually depressing and sad, so having such a green space was convenient for patients and families to come out and relax, changing their mood. Since it wasn’t far from nearby residential areas, the open space naturally gathered elderly ladies who came to do square dancing, already adjusting their speakers and warming up.

Yu Tian walked around the park once and was wandering near the First Affiliated Hospital entrance when she saw several people who looked like just-off-duty doctors coming out.

She curiously looked up.

Then she saw Yan Ming.

He was wearing a simple, elegant shirt—very ordinary clothing that no longer seemed ordinary on him. Even in a crowd, Yan Ming was still the most dazzling one.

She had wandered around the hospital so many times hoping for an encounter but never met him once, yet now, wearing such shabby and casual clothes, she ran into him immediately.

Yu Tian could no longer lament her bad luck.

She should seize this rare opportunity to approach and get acquainted.

But Yu Tian simply couldn’t do it.

What she was wearing was really…

Yu Tian felt only shame and embarrassment at this moment, her only thought being not to be discovered by Yan Ming.

However, the more you don’t want something, the more likely it is to happen.

To get to the First Affiliated Hospital parking lot, one had to pass through the small park. Yan Ming was walking toward the small park, originally looking straight ahead, but for some reason, he turned his head and looked in Yu Tian’s direction.

Then Yu Tian saw Yan Ming pause, frown slightly, and walk purposefully toward her.

He had seen her.

For a moment, Yu Tian seemed to lose her ability to think.

She had only one thought in her mind.

Absolutely couldn’t let Yan Ming see her dressed like this wandering around the park.

But Yu Tian’s current location was near an open space in front of the park. Except for the elderly ladies already preparing to start square dancing, there was nowhere for her to hide or slip away.

Whether it was a stress response or quick thinking, when Yu Tian came to her senses, she had already darted into the square dancing group.

Several elderly ladies were disrupted by her intrusion and complained a bit.

“Starting to dance at such a young age? Don’t you young girls all go to gyms? Our group only accepts those over forty.”

Yu Tian’s face burned.

She brazenly said: “I’m weathered inside, with the mental age of fifty.”

“…”

Regardless, rather than being caught by Yan Ming in her current state, hiding in the square dancing group was safer.

After all, hiding in the group was like a drop of water flowing into the ocean!

Unfortunately, this didn’t last long, as if heaven wanted to work against her.

Yu Tian had just brazenly secured a spot in the square dancing group when the lead dancer positioned herself at the front and turned on the small speaker.

Before Yu Tian could react, the elderly ladies around her began dancing passionately to the beat.

In the deafening and magically brainwashing square dance music, Yu Tian could only grit her teeth and start mimicking the arm-swinging and leg-moving.

This square dancing group had high dancing skills—not only were their movements neat and uniform, but their dance steps were quite wild, fast, as if showing off.

Yu Tian had to awkwardly imitate the dance steps of the ladies in front of her, but she was always half a beat slower than the surrounding ladies.

She hadn’t managed to blend in like a drop of water in the ocean.

She was like an eye-searing drop of oil!

Completely floating on the water surface.

Lagging in the entire group.

And what she prayed for didn’t happen.

After losing sight of Yu Tian, Yan Ming’s gaze didn’t quickly leave. He looked around, then locked onto the square dancing group and walked directly toward Yu Tian’s dance troupe with pursed lips.

Stay calm.

Yu Tian gave herself a mental pep talk.

Today, she was dressed like this, with messy hair, hiding in the colorful square dancing group, singing and dancing.

Yan Ming might not recognize her.

Don’t be presumptuous.

Just stay calm.

Yan Ming would naturally leave soon.

Thinking this, Yu Tian danced even harder.

Only by keeping up with the ladies’ rhythm and becoming one with them could she avoid standing out.

But just as she was dancing to the square dance music beat until she was sweating profusely, Yan Ming, whom she thought had left, was somehow standing beside her.

“Missing you keeps me awake, forgetting you I cannot do, falling in love with you drives me crazy, do you know or not Missing you keeps me awake, letting you go I cannot do, one word ‘love’ torments me day and night, how should I escape your prison of love”

In the piercing and brainwashing melody of the square dance music, Yan Ming looked at Yu Tian expressionlessly—

“It is you.”