21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 152 Red Eyes

Although Chen Yu had permitted Ayajichi Shoubu to participate in the surgery, the operation would not begin so quickly.

On one hand, there was no news about the surgical instruments Chen Yu had custom ordered. On the other hand, the physical recovery of Ichinose Miyako had not yet reached the point where she could undergo surgery.

Even though the previous surgery Chen Yu and Daimon Michiko performed on her was very successful, it involved a cervical spine fracture. It's said that it takes a hundred days to recover from a bone and muscle injury, especially one as serious as to the cervical spine. Naturally, they needed to wait for her cervical bones to heal before proceeding with the second surgery.

More importantly, Chen Yu needed to wait until the nerves reconnected during Ichinose Miyako's first surgery had fully healed. Only then could he accurately determine which nerves needed to be reconnected in her second surgery based on her physical condition.

Nerve surgery is unlike other types, as it involves the cervical spine. Chen Yu and Daimon Michiko had opened the surgical field through Ichinose Miyako's mouth for the first operation. To put it bluntly, they had made an incision in the skin at the back of her throat to perform the surgery.

Because the size of a human mouth is limited, unless Chen Yu could detach Ichinose Miyako's jaw, the surgical field would remain constrained. The difficulty and precision required for such surgery are extremely high. For a surgeon, performing high-precision operations for extended periods is a significant strain and burden.

Even with Daimon Michiko serving as the first assistant, with her very fast surgical speed, Chen Yu could not possibly ask her to reconnect all the nerves that had been operated on before.

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After all, some nerves were thought to have been successfully reconnected by Daimon Michiko during the last surgery. Although there might be some functional impact, they did not necessarily belong to the category of nerves that had to be reconnected.

As for which nerves needed to be reconnected, a comprehensive examination would have to be conducted after Ichinose Miyako's recovery.

However, more troubling than the surgery itself for Chen Yu was Jounouchi Hiromi, who stood in front of him, looking indignant.

"Tell me, what's really going on with your eyes?" Jounouchi Hiromi slapped her hand on Chen Yu's desk and glared at him with her beautiful and large eyes. She was almost ready to put a leg up on the table and press Chen Yu for answers, "I was just on a night shift and didn't come home for one night, and your eyes have turned this red! Tell me, what exactly did you do last night?

You didn't go to a nightclub and drink all night, did you?"

Of course, staying at a nightclub all night was pure fiction. Even if Chen Yu really had gone to a nightclub, there wasn't any that would actually stay open all night; usually, they would close after 1 a.m.

But obviously, Chen Yu would not tell Jounouchi Hiromi what he had been up to the previous night. The redness in his eyes was not due to staying up late but was the result of the shock he experienced due to Gao Tianyuan's injuries, which left lingering bruises. Besides, Jounouchi Hiromi would not believe such a story unless Chen Yu revealed all his secrets to her.

Yet, seeing his girlfriend's indignant expression and the worry in her eyes, Chen Yu could not bear to deceive her. He could only explain to Jounouchi Hiromi as he had previously told Daimon Michi, "I didn't sleep well last night, so my eyes are a bit red. With a beautiful girlfriend like you, Hiromi, do I need to find entertainment at nightclubs?"

"Didn't sleep well?" Jounouchi Hiromi was still somewhat skeptical. Although Chen Yu had always been very good to her, and they were quite close, spending most nights in close contact since moving in together, women are naturally suspicious. Although there had been no reasons for suspicion before, Chen Yu's red eyes today couldn't simply be explained away by a lack of sleep.

Being surgeons, identifying bloodshot eyes wasn't difficult, but Jounouchi Hiromi was no ophthalmologist and couldn't determine the exact cause of Chen Yu's bloodshot eyes. At least, she was certain that staying up late couldn't have caused it to this extent.

Thinking this, Jounouchi Hiromi walked around Chen Yu's desk and directly stood in front of him, leaning in close as she suspiciously sniffed at his scent. If he had been drinking, his body should still carry the smell of alcohol even after a whole night.

However, no matter how much Jounouchi Hiromi sniffed, even though her body was almost laying in Chen Yu's arms, she could only detect a faint fragrance—it was Daimon Michiko's perfume.

The scent of Daimon Michiko's perfume on Chen Yu wasn't surprising to Jounouchi Hiromi; she had heard about Michiko running into Chen Yu in the morning when she arrived at the office. Therefore, the perfume scent on Chen Yu didn't prove anything.

But just letting Chen Yu off the hook didn't quite sit well with Jounouchi Hiromi.

As Chen Yu's girlfriend, Jounouchi Hiromi was very satisfied with him; he had no bad habits and didn't indulge in the typical Japanese pastime of social drinking. After work, he would just go home with her, which even caused Jounouchi Hiromi to have some minor complaints. After all, in Japan, a man with no work socializing was seen as lacking in capability.

But Chen Yu was without a doubt capable, more so than 99.99% of people worldwide. Were it not so, he wouldn't have been able to become an associate professor at Eastern University Affiliated Hospital, a major university hospital, before hitting thirty.

However, in the process of a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, a girlfriend suspecting her boyfriend, followed by the boyfriend appeasing his girlfriend, is quite the classic coquettish tactic. Jounouchi Hiromi herself had been treated this way in middle school, so naturally, she applied the same strategy to Chen Yu, wanting him to coax her.

Chen Yu certainly couldn't be unaware of Jounouchi Hiromi's intentions, but being aggressively sniffed by his girlfriend made it hard for him to coddle her as she wanted, leaving him temporarily frozen in place.

Just as Jounouchi Hiromi maintained her façade of fierceness while considering how to give Chen Yu a way out without losing face, the door of Chen Yu's office suddenly sounded with two knocks and was opened by Shirai Reina.

"Professor, there is..." Shirai Reina had just begun to speak when she saw Jounouchi Hiromi, who in her haste to stand up from Chen Yu's embrace had not managed it and instead fell into his arms, causing her to exclaim in surprise, "Ah! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to intrude! I didn't see anything!"

Hearing that, she closed the door with a "bang" and the sounds of her explaining to someone else could be heard from outside.

After such a debacle, Jounouchi Hiromi hurriedly climbed off Chen Yu, her face unable to hide her embarrassment.

Chen Yu also felt a bit embarrassed but still straightened his clothes and said to Jounouchi Hiromi, "Hiromi, ask Shirai-san to come in."