In the evening, Lin Jie ca to the dining room and saw that An Kexin, An Keng, and Lin Miao were all having a bowl of overcooked noodles like himself, and said, "You don't have to accompany like this."
"My tooth still hurts now, and I don't have much appetite. Even if you eat delicacies, it won't make crave them."
An Kexin resolutely said, "Sharing joys and sorrows can't just be talk!"
"Although we can't bear your toothache, when it cos to food, we need to keep consistent to show support."
Lin Jie happily said, "Thank you for your support. I just need to endure for three or four days, and my diet will basically return to normal."
The warm noodles entered his mouth, touching the wound inside, and it still hurt a bit.
Lin Jie slurped the noodles, tilting his head to the right, trying to keep the noodles in his mouth away from the wound…
"Sister, let tell you sothing, Boss Ye ca in the morning…"
An Keng, who was stirring the noodles in her bowl with chopsticks, chattered about the matter that Ye Hongqing had told about his friend's daughter disfiguring herself.
She said with so incomprehension, "Sister, how could this girl be so foolish?"
"Knowing she's prone to scarring and still going through with disfiguring herself, is she short-sighted or does she have a self-destructive tendency?"
"Ah Jie, is this true?" An Kexin also found it hard to believe.
Lin Jie quietly replied, "That's what Boss Ye said, it probably wasn't fabricated."
"Alas, young people these days are becoming more and more worrying."
An Kexin sighed and said to An Keng and Lin Miao, "Many people jokingly say that won in love have zero IQ. Young girls in love have a negative IQ."
"This points to a fact that so girls lose themselves once they fall in love."
She pondered and said, "In this world, there have been quite a few young girls who, just because of their parents' disapproval, have committed suicide claiming it's for love. In that sense, cases like self-disfigurent aren't that hard to understand."
An Kexin warned again, "Boss Ye's reminder is very apt, and this is sothing you all need to take as a warning."
"The boys who truly like you wouldn't want you to do such things; you must carefully discern in the future…"
An Kexin thought for a mont, then continued, "You must understand one thing, the love from your family is absolutely selfless."
"Our discipline or prevention is based on our past experiences, maybe not one hundred percent correct, but the intention is definitely for your own good."
"If any conflict arises, you must think positively and never act rashly like this girl did."
An Keng and Lin Miao both responded with an "Oh."
Lin Miao chuckled, "Kexin, you don't have to take the opportunity to educate us."
"To , Brother is an omnipotent presence. When he gets mad, I wouldn't dare not listen to him."
An Keng also said in a charming voice, "I've always been well-behaved and have listened to Dad and you, Sister. Now, I also listen to Brother Jie."
An Kexin glanced sideways at the two of them and said, "I hope you rember what you're saying now."
"When the ti cos, don't get so infatuated that you don't care about anything else…"
After dinner, Lin Jie originally planned to read so books or journals in the study or research a surgery plan, but the pain from the wound made it difficult to concentrate.
After trying for more than half an hour, Lin Jie gave up.
He went back to the living room, intending to watch TV and chat with Lin Miao and the others to distract himself.
However, the scene before him made Lin Jie a little gloomy.
The coffee table was piled with fruits, nuts, little cakes, and various snacks, with so wrappers and nut shells scattered on the floor.
An Kexin, An Keng, and Lin Miao all had sothing in their mouths, turning to look at Lin Jie, not daring to chew or swallow.
Lin Jie pointed at them one by one and snorted, "Is this what you call sharing joys and sorrows?"
"Is this how you support ?"
An Kexin swallowed the food in her mouth hard, with an embarrassed expression and said, "Ah Jie, why did you co out of the study? Once you went in, you would stay for at least two or three hours before."
"The wound hurts, can't concentrate," Lin Jie said, covering his left cheek, in a not-so-good mood.
Lin Miao stood up and pulled Lin Jie to sit on the sofa, saying fawningly, "Brother, do you want to warm up a cup of milk for you?"
"I can make fresh fruit juice," An Keng volunteered.
Lin Jie shrugged and said, "I really don't have an appetite."
"But, you all can still eat, don't mind ."
An Kexin started tidying up the fruits and snacks on the table, chuckling, "Ah Jie, it was wrong of us this ti, we shouldn't have secretly eaten without telling you."
"It won't happen again. This ti we'll definitely do as we say, I promise."
The table was quickly cleaned up, and the four of them squeezed onto the sofa, covering themselves with a blanket, and started watching TV.
Now, Lin Jie wasn't interested in TV shows.
After becoming a doctor, he didn't have much free ti to watch TV shows.
This ti, after watching a variety show with them for a while, Lin Jie felt a bit bored and thought it would have been better to watch the news.
An Kexin said softly, "I just watched a few scenes of a TV drama starring Hu Ge and found it uninteresting so I changed the channel. How's the guy who had costic surgery to look like Hu Ge doing?"
Lin Jie casually replied, "He's already been discharged. However, for the wounds to heal completely and stabilize the costic appearance, he still needs so ti to recuperate."
"Once he's fully recovered..."
He confidently said, "With a bit of makeup, appropriate clothing, and a couple of people acting as assistants, showing up in places like airports, the likelihood of being mistaken for Hu Ge is very high."
An Keng laughed, "With such a realistic appearance and image, can't he leverage the fa and popularity of a big star to make money by attending comrcial events?"
An Kexin wrapped her arm around An Keng, who was leaning against her, and said, "For impersonators who bear a high resemblance to big stars and have so talent, this is exactly how they earn money."
"The really skilled ones can have an annual inco of several million."
Surprised, Lin Miao couldn't help but say, "Wow, isn't this a great way to make money?"
She thought for a mont and said, "Spend a few hundred thousand for my brother to get surgery to look like the hottest star, then he could do performances everywhere and earn a few million in a year."
"The return on investnt here is exceptionally high."
"Brother, brother..."
Lin Miao shook Lin Jie's arm and giggled, "I've thought of a great business idea."
"We start a talent show company. You give plastic surgeries to produce the most famous dostic and international stars, let them perform at events, and split the earnings in half."
"This way, earning tens of millions a year, or even a billion, is possible."
Lin Jie just smiled, pinched Lin Miao's nose, and said, "You only think of good things."
"In such cases, a single person working small-ti to earn so money is fine and won't attract attention."
"But if you really establish such a company, it will get noticed, and then lawsuits for image infringent, deception, and misleading will co your way."
Lin Miao responded with an "Oh" and said, "Then you should just be a doctor. Just performing surgeries for others, you can earn a lot of money."
When it ca to money, Lin Jie turned and asked, "Kexin, how's the company's financial situation, is it still tight?"
"There were a few paynts that ca in these past few days, providing so relief."
"However..."
An Kexin said helplessly, "In the next two to three years, the company's finances probably won't improve."
"Unless Anlin Hospital can quickly turn a profit, or the company's revenue sees a significant leap."
"But the likelihood of these situations occurring is slim."
"Ah Jie, the forty million you lent us can't be paid back in the short term."
Lin Jie said unbothered, "It's fine, Miaomiao and I don't lack money to spend, and we don't have any large expenses. Occasionally, we might encounter a wealthy person willing to spend money to save their life and make a big profit."
An Kexin leaned her head on Lin Jie's shoulder and softly said, "Thank you!"
She cautiously suggested, "Ah Jie, your inco is already quite high. You don't need to worry about frugality. Your standard of living and consumption can be raised a bit more, just a bit more!"
The stable monthly inco of the Lin siblings mainly has three components.
They are the stipends, labor fees, and surgery fees from the University Affiliated Hospital, the salary of the vice president of the First Military dical University Affiliated Hospital, and the monthly rent from a comrcial property leased to a bank as a branch location.
Totaling these three components, it cos to about 150,000 per month.
As for the little salary Lin Miao earns, it's not even considered by Lin Jie anymore.
The additional inco cos from appreciation from patients and research project grants, among others.
Although these incos are not stable, their amounts are quite substantial, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions or even tens of millions.
Lin Jie also has a very substantial prospective inco in mind, a share of the sales profits from a generic drug by Zhengmao Pharmaceutical.
In his expectations, the annual inco from this section should at least be in the tens of millions level.
Perhaps due to deeply feeling the helplessness of poverty in early years, both Lin Jie and Lin Miao are not extravagant spenders.
Although their monthly expenses are relatively high compared to ordinary families, often exceeding seventy to eighty thousand, compared to their inco, they are still considered frugal.
Moreover, the bulk of this monthly seventy to eighty thousand expense includes the salaries of Qin Gang, Guan Muhua, and Zhang Xiaoxiao, traditional Chinese dicine for the Lin siblings, and nurous red packets for various weddings, funerals, and full-month celebrations.
Overall, the Lin siblings' spending level in Binhai City is roughly in the middle tier.
Certain refined and level-enhancing expenditures, such as attending a symphony, watching a play, visiting a museum abroad on weekends, viewing an art exhibition, or listening to an opera, are simply not in the picture.
In other words, if Lin Jie didn't have the title of a famous doctor, given his wealth and inco, his current level of living and spending would be unsophisticated, stingy, and inexperienced.
To put it nicely, he still doesn't know how to enjoy life; his nature is plain.
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