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Sigh!
The little girl has grown up; it's tricky, oh!
Lying in bed, hands clasped behind his head, Fang Yi couldn't help but sigh softly.
He wasn't a fool; having lived two lives, how could he not know Zhao Wanqiu's feelings?
It was just that in this life, he intended to live without regrets, to truly be himself, so he didn't want to hurt her.
Being happy brothers and best friends for life was actually quite good.
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Despite sleeping quite late last night, Fang Yi still got up early the next day.
Because he had promised Qiu-ge last night that he would accompany her to the hospital for surgery.
"Aunt Wang, don't be nervous, it's just a minor operation," Fang Yi comforted her in the hospital corridor outside the operating room.
"Mm, I know!"
Wang Juan nodded. Even though the chief surgeon had told her the same thing, she still couldn't help but feel nervous.
After all, for Wang Juan, Zhao Wanqiu was her spiritual pillar, her everything.
In contrast, Fang Yi seemed much more relaxed. He opened his notebook, held his pen, and continued writing from where he left off last night.
Lung cancer sounded very intimidating, but in actual surgical terms, Zhao Wanqiu's case was truly considered a minor operation.
Most importantly, Zhao Wanqiu's cancerous tissue in her lung was only 1.8 centimeters, and it hadn't invaded other organs, which greatly reduced the difficulty of the surgery.
By the millennium, thoracoscopic surgery had already been introduced in China.
There was no need to make a large incision, nearly 30 centimeters long, as in the past.
After the operation, only a small one or two-centimeter wound would be left, and patients could go home after staying in the hospital for a few days.
At this moment, Wang Juan suddenly spoke, "Xiao Yi, I heard that this thoracoscopic surgery is a new technology. Will there be any problems?"
"Aunt Wang, don't worry. Thoracoscopic surgery is very mature now. This minimally invasive surgery is very popular abroad," Fang Yi explained.
"Oh, oh, that's good!"
Hearing that foreigners were also using it, Wang Juan couldn't help but breathe a slight sigh of relief.
Although it was somewhat frustrating, the prevailing attitude in China at this time was like this: national pride and honor were not yet strong, and people believed that foreign things were the best.
The surgery lasted about two hours. Just as Fang Yi was writing about Hu Bayi and his group finally seeing Queen Jingjue's coffin, the operating room door was pushed open from the inside.
Wang Juan sprang up from her seat like a spring, rushing forward and asking anxiously, "Doctor, how is my daughter?"
The chief surgeon smiled, looking slightly tired. "Don't worry, the surgery was very successful."
"Thank you, Doctor, thank you!"
Wang Juan was expressing her gratitude when she saw two nurses pushing Zhao Wanqiu out of the operating room.
On the hospital bed, Zhao Wanqiu's face was pale, and her eyelashes trembled slightly beneath her tightly closed eyes.
Seeing that the surgery was successful, the last burden in Fang Yi's heart was lifted.
Helping the nurses push Zhao Wanqiu into the ward, and after everything was settled, Fang Yi looked at Zhao Wanqiu, who was still under anesthesia, and said, "Aunt Wang, I have some things to do, so I'll be leaving first. I'll come see Wanqiu tomorrow."
Wang Juan quickly said, "Oh, look at me, it's already noon. Have some lunch before you get busy again."
"No need, Aunt Wang!"
Fang Yi refused with a smile. He always had an inexplicable aversion to hospital food.
Leaving the hospital, he got on his bicycle. Fang Yi didn't go home.
After buying two steamed buns to fill his stomach, he rode towards the old district under the scorching sun.
There, was the first, and currently only, internet cafe in Jiangzhen City.
Feiyu Internet Cafe!
Does the name of the internet cafe sound familiar?
Ever since Wang Yuesheng opened the first Feiyu Internet Cafe in Sijiucheng, many Feiyu Internet Cafes quickly popped up across the country.
These internet cafes were naturally not branches of Wang Yuesheng's, nor were they franchises. They merely borrowed the name "Feiyu."
Parking his bike, Fang Yi pushed open the door and entered the internet cafe.
The internet cafe was very small, only about thirty square meters, with a dozen computers scattered along the walls on both sides.
There was no air conditioning, only an old electric fan on the ceiling, oscillating a little cool air.
The entire internet cafe was as stuffy as a steamer.
But even in such an environment, it couldn't stop the enthusiasm of young people; the internet cafe was packed.
Fang Yi quickly scanned the room. Aside from two people looking up information, most of the others were playing games.
Around the millennium, there weren't many online games. At most, there were only Stone Age and King of Kings, which were in open beta.
At this time, King of Kings had only been launched a few days ago.
Fang Yi remembered this game because it was quite iconic.
Many people know that Hanguo (South Korea) imported many games into Tianchao (China), such as Legend of Mir 2, Audition, DNF, and so on.
But what many people don't know is that at first, it was actually we who first entered the Hanguo market.
The domestic game that Hanguo imported at that time was this King of Kings!
After a brief glance, Fang Yi withdrew his gaze.
Having been bombarded by various AAA blockbusters in his later life, looking at such rudimentary game graphics no longer sparked any interest at all.
After waiting about ten minutes, the young man by the door finished looking up information and got up from the computer.
Seeing this, Fang Yi immediately stepped forward and snagged the spot.
As soon as he sat down, the internet cafe manager, an old woman, walked over with a notebook. "How long will you be using it for?"
Fang Yi asked in return, "How much per hour?"
"12!"
Tsk, tsk!
This was why, even if he secured the agency rights for Legend now, he wouldn't make much money.
An internet fee of 12 yuan per hour was completely unaffordable for ordinary people.
One could understand this more intuitively by comparing it to other prices.
Currently, the price of pork in Jiangzhen City was 3.2 yuan per jin (500g). A large, full plate of fried noodles cost only 1.5 yuan, and that was with added ham sausage and egg. Without them, it was even cheaper, only one yuan.
Of course, if you thought 12 yuan per hour for internet was expensive, you could go to a computer room without internet access, which was cheaper, only three yuan an hour.