Overpowered Resident Doctor

Chapter 539: Chapter 538: A Moment of Despair

Under Song Yi’s lead, everyone freely voiced their opinions on the newly named Sleep Promotion Device.

The discussion continued until after ten o’clock at night, when Yan Ziruo suggested it was time to wash up and rest, and everyone finally stopped talking.

Next, Song Yi got the unpleasantries out of the way. She recorded everyone making an oral confidentiality agreement, binding them to strict secrecy regarding Yan Feifan’s research and development.

Song Yi also promised that when the Sleep Promotion Device was launched, she would give everyone present a big red envelope...

The villa had a total of five furnished rooms available for people to stay in.

Mr. Tian and Mrs. Tian stayed in the first-floor bedroom, while Shu Lei and Mrs. Xia were in a secondary bedroom on the second floor.

Song Yi and Zeng Ni each took one of the second-floor guest rooms.

With this arrangement, Yan Feifan was left to sleep on the living room sofa, while the master bedroom was given to Yan Ziruo, Yu Suye, and Tian Yu.

Fortunately, the bed in the master bedroom was large enough. Its width was even greater than its length, so there was more than enough room for the three of them...

「Early the next morning」

Yan Feifan, asleep on the sofa, was woken by the person in his arms shifting.

He was startled at first, but a familiar feeling soon set his mind at ease.

It was Yu Suye!

’Su Ye must not have been able to stand my sister and Xiaoyu trading kicks and punches in their sleep, so she had no choice but to run out and squeeze in with me.’

Yan Feifan gently got off the sofa.

He covered the still-sleeping Yu Suye with a thin blanket, adjusted her pillow, and then left the living room for the small courtyard.

The air, fragrant with grass and trees, rushed to greet him, and Yan Feifan couldn’t help but take a few deep breaths.

The sun had not yet risen in the east.

But he could see the brilliant glow of dawn, and the white clouds overhead were tinged with a little color.

His body was wrapped not in the inescapable scorching heat of the season, but in a refreshing coolness that seeped into his skin.

What he heard occasionally were the calls of unknown birds, from near and far, no longer the jarring sound of car horns that made one feel restless and irritable.

Yan Feifan stretched his arms, enjoying the incredibly pleasant mountain morning.

Suddenly, he heard light footsteps. He turned his head and saw it was Song Yi.

"Couldn’t get used to sleeping here?"

"I slept very well. I’m just used to waking up at this time."

Dressed in her pajamas, Song Yi came to Yan Feifan’s side and began to stretch with him.

"I’m more clear-headed in the morning. I can use the time to think about things I didn’t finish yesterday and plan my work for the day."

Hearing this, Yan Feifan said persuasively as he rotated his waist, "Work isn’t everything. You shouldn’t push yourself so hard."

"It’s not like you’re short on money."

Song Yi chuckled. "I used to say the same thing to my brother, telling him to take care of his body and not work day and night on circuits and control chips."

"Only now do I understand that this kind of work can be addictive..."

Song Yi tilted her head to look at Yan Feifan and continued, "Just like you, leaving early and coming home late every day, sometimes even pulling all-nighters for surgery. You’re exhausted every day, yet you still enjoy it, day in and day out."

"It’s called an addiction to self-torture."

Yan Feifan couldn’t help but laugh. "There’s no such illness. It would be more appropriate to call it obsessive-compulsive disorder."

He then added with some feeling, "But then again, in today’s society, if you want to accomplish anything, you really do need a bit of obsession and self-discipline."

"Relying on interest alone only gets you in the door, just past the threshold."

"If you want to achieve mastery and accomplish something great, you need to build it up day by day."

Song Yi couldn’t help but correct him. "That’s for ordinary people like us. If we want to succeed, the only way is through relentless effort and perseverance."

"A genius like you, Feifan, relies more on natural talent, right?"

Yan Feifan rolled his eyes at her. "I’m even more persistent and relentless. You just haven’t seen the effort I put in."

After a pause, he changed the subject. "September is just over a month away. Can you guarantee the IV controller will go into production?"

Song Yi said, full of confidence, "Don’t worry."

"Everyone at the company has been working day and night to ensure a smooth production launch, and to guarantee both quality and quantity."

She then declared with gusto, "This year, we’ll focus on the IV controller. Next year, the Sleep Promotion Device. One flagship product a year."

"The company will reach a new level every year, go public in five, and become number one in the industry in ten!"

Yan Feifan chuckled lightly. "You’ve got a small frame but grand ambitions. If growing a company were as easy as you say, the bosses of all those big corporations would be lining up to jump off a building."

Song Yi’s face was full of smug delight. "It’s different. We have you."

"In today’s society, technology is the primary productive force."

"We don’t need much. Feifan, if you just research one medical breakthrough a year that can be mass-marketed, it’ll be enough for our company to grow at rocket speed."

Yan Feifan just rolled his eyes at her.

"Don’t oversimplify things. Take this Sleep Promotion Device, for example. There’s still a lot of work to be done."

"This high-frequency sound wave resonance might just be an isolated phenomenon, with no real value for widespread application."

But Song Yi was very optimistic. "The fact that Mr. Wang and you were clearly affected by the sound of the rain means the percentage of responsive people can’t be that low."

"Multiply that by the population of our country and the world, and the market potential is naturally vast."

Just then, the melody of "Jasmine" drifted out from the living room.

Yan Feifan quickly ran into the living room, picked up his phone, and answered the call.

It was a call from the TV reporter, Xiao Man.

"Mrs. Man, calling so early. What’s up?"

"Yes, it’s about the car accident that happened near your place yesterday..."

"If I hadn’t been working yesterday and had gone to your housewarming celebration, I might have been able to file a live report."

Xiao Man expressed her regret over the phone, then quickly added, "There’s a short video online taken by a passerby, recording your enthusiastic rescue efforts."

"Someone also posted that several doctors from the Affiliated Hospital just happened to be at a friend’s party in the community; otherwise, the consequences would have been dire."

"Feifan, please cooperate with my work, okay?"

"I’m going to do a phone interview with you now, so I can edit it for the station’s morning news broadcast..."

Yan Feifan was a little exasperated but felt he couldn’t refuse.

This was a good deed done by a whole group of people. He himself might not need the recognition, but the others deserved to have their names known or to be praised.

Yan Feifan spent ten or twenty minutes answering Xiao Man’s questions about yesterday’s car accident rescue.

He also made a point of listing the names of everyone involved.

As the call was about to end, Xiao Man suddenly asked, "Feifan, have you seen the surveillance footage of the accident yet?"

"No, I just got woken up," Yan Feifan gently reminded her.

Xiao Man said, "Oh," and began to describe what was on the call. "Feifan, the surveillance video has been released online, and it’s quite clear."

"Two kids on bicycles suddenly rushed out from the mountain road, and the SUV slammed on its brakes, skidding sideways."

"The vehicle barely managed to stop in time."

"But the two kids seemed to be scared stiff. They just propped up their bikes with one leg and stopped right in the middle of the road."

"Just then, that electric vehicle plowed into the SUV without slowing down at all..."

"It didn’t slow down?" Yan Feifan asked, confirming.

"It didn’t slow down. Some tech experts analyzed it and said that not only did it not slow down, it actually sped up a little..."

Xiao Man continued, "The brake problems with this brand of electric vehicle have been a hot topic lately."

"Last night, the driver’s wife told an online journalist that her husband had been stomping on the brake the whole time, but it had no effect..."

"In the middle of the night, the car manufacturer urgently released data from the accident to respond and refute her claim."

"The data showed that the driver never touched the brake and was, in fact, pressing the accelerator the entire time."

After a pause, Xiao Man’s voice continued from the phone.

"I learned from the police..."

"The police retrieved the dashcam data. For more than half an hour before the incident, the wife had been nagging and scolding her husband as he drove."

"Apparently, the scolding was very harsh, but the husband didn’t say a single word back."

"Feifan, what do you think..."

"Is it possible that the husband, in a moment of despair, just impulsively crashed straight into the SUV?"