Chapter Two: A Perfect Day

I attached three months of staffing records: I averaged seventy-two hours per week; my longest continuous shift had lasted forty-one; the two doctors absent during the resuscitation had both been reassigned by He Yuanshan. I copied Medical Affairs and the union. When I clicked Send, I smiled. Everyone at the hospital looked twice. The head nurse said I looked freshly returned from vacation. Xiao Qiao asked whether I had found a miracle drug. When I said I had slept, her eyes reddened. “I'm sorry, Dr. Su. I didn't delete the screenshots.” “Good.” She stared as though meeting me for the first time. At ten, He Yuanshan summoned me. My report lay on his desk, the copied recipients circled in red. “What does this mean?”