Chapter 167: Dr. Yu, You Are the Man From My Dream

Chapter 167 -166: Dr. Yu, You Are the Man From My Dream

Yu Xinyue was groggily shaken awake.

She dimly saw Yu Xiangwan and Gu Qingning, who had been sleeping on the sofa, getting up and ready for the day. She forced herself to fight off the drowsiness, sat up in bed, and yawned endlessly.

Yu Xinyue habitually grabbed her phone from the bedside table and turned it on. She stared at it, stunned.

“It’s only six?”

“Fourth Sister, do we have to get up this early?”

Yu Xiangwan gave a wry smile. “Third Sister, now you know how hard it is to live with Fifth Brother, don’t you?”

“That kid is set in his ways. He wakes up at six on the dot every day. After he gets out of the bathroom, he starts his workout routine.”

“And not only that, he makes us do it with him.”

As she spoke, Yu Xinyue saw the door to the adjacent bedroom slide open. Yu Zhiming emerged, looking refreshed and full of energy.

“Morning, Third Sister!”

“Morning, Fourth Sister!”

“Morning, Qingning…”

Since he had to leave the car for his Fourth Sister to drive his Third Sister around Binhai, Yu Zhiming rode a shared bike to the hospital that morning.

At 8:30 in the morning, Yu Zhiming walked into the main office of the Qi Yue Medical Research Center, and Zhou Mo sidled up to him.

“Dr. Yu, I heard you’re going to the Furong Beauty Salon for Women this Sunday to give a health talk and do physical checkups?”

Yu Zhiming grunted in affirmation, then asked curiously, “How did you know? Are you a member there?”

Zhou Mo shook her head. “I’m not, but my mom is.”

“My mom became a member for two reasons. One is for beauty and wellness, and the other is for business networking.”

“You know how it is, Dr. Yu. For custom-made traditional Chinese gowns, all those socialites are her key clients.”

Qiao Lei came over too, a look of anticipation on his face. “Dr. Yu, you’re taking me with you that day, right?”

“The Furong Women’s Club… I’ve heard of it. It’s a gathering place for socialites. I’ve always wanted to go check it out.”

Yu Zhiming shot Qiao Lei a sidelong glance. “Don’t even think about it. It’s not appropriate to bring you to a women’s health screening.”

Qiao Lei’s face fell instantly, full of disappointment.

Zhou Mo giggled. “Qiao Lei, you could just find a socialite girlfriend and have her take you inside.”

Qiao Lei rolled his eyes. “You think I haven’t thought of that? The problem is, I know who the socialites are, but they don’t know me.”

“Most importantly, whether they’re fake socialites or real ones, a guy like me just isn’t their type.”

Zhou Mo took a step back, looked Qiao Lei up and down, and giggled. “A guy like you… tall and strong… hmm, you’re more the type for a rich, middle-aged woman, HAHA…”

Around 10:00 in the morning, after finishing his rounds with Dr. Qi Yue, Yu Zhiming returned to the main office to find two people waiting for him.

A man in his early thirties with glasses stood up slightly. “Dr. Yu, hello. I’m Huang Shao, Zeng Yan’s guidance counselor.”

He then reached out and gently pulled on the arm of the woman next to him, who looked to be in her mid-thirties with her hair in a bun and a slightly nervous expression. “Dr. Yu, this is my aunt, Su Jing.”

When Su Jing saw Yu Zhiming look her way, she gave a somewhat bashful smile and a slight bow. “Hello, Dr. Yu!”

Yu Zhiming nodded in response and asked, “Yesterday?”

Huang Shao answered cautiously, apologizing, “Dr. Yu, I’m so sorry. It was my aunt who stood you up yesterday.”

“I asked her. My aunt said she actually came and even saw you, Dr. Yu, but she got scared and ran away.”

‘Saw me? And got scared?’ Yu Zhiming was a little confused.

Huang Shao tugged Su Jing’s arm again, encouraging her. “Auntie, just tell Dr. Yu yourself. Just be honest.”

Su Jing hummed in agreement, met Yu Zhiming’s gaze, and said slowly, “Dr. Yu, I wasn’t scared of you, exactly. I was scared of the scene and the feeling yesterday.”

Pausing for a moment to gather her thoughts, she began to speak a little faster.

“Dr. Yu, the reason I suspect I have breast cancer is because of a dream I had over three months ago.”

“In the dream, a doctor examined me and then told me, ‘You have breast cancer.'”

“I was terrified when I woke up. I went to the hospital for a breast exam that very day, but the results came back normal.”

“But I’ve felt uneasy ever since.”

“Then yesterday, when I came to this building…”

Su Jing clenched her fists tightly and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

“I suddenly had this feeling of déjà vu. I walked up the stairs, step by step, and came here…”

“And there, in the hallway, I saw you, Dr. Yu…”

Su Jing pointed to a spot in the hallway outside the door and continued, “I suddenly had this intense feeling that I had stepped out of a dream into reality, or that my dream was replaying…”

“Dr. Yu, let me put it this way: you are the man from my dream. You’re the doctor who told me I had breast cancer.”

“At that moment, I was utterly terrified. I couldn’t control myself, so I just turned and ran.”

Su Jing asked timidly, “Dr. Yu, you don’t think I’m making things up or that I’m mentally unstable, do you?”

Yu Zhiming shook his head and said seriously, “Ms. Su, this feeling of déjà vu isn’t unique to you. Many people have experienced it, and it has even been the subject of medical research.”

“In medicine, we call it the Hippocampus effect, also known as déjà vu.”

“It refers to a feeling where you suddenly sense that something happening right now has been seen before, perhaps in a dream or in a real past experience.”

Seeing that Su Jing was curious and interested, Yu Zhiming accessed his memories and gave a more detailed explanation of the Hippocampus effect.

Studies show that over two-thirds of adults have had one or more experiences with déjà vu.

The likelihood of experiencing the Hippocampus effect decreases with age, with the highest probability occurring during youth.

Physiologists have pointed out that there is an area in our brain shaped like a seahorse.

This region later came to be called the hippocampus.

The main functions of the hippocampus are memory, storage, conversion, and orientation.

It is precisely this part of the brain that causes the feeling of déjà vu, which is why the phenomenon is named the Hippocampus effect.

Regarding the cause of the Hippocampus effect, neuroscientists explain it as a special interaction between our brain’s memory system and intuition system.

To put it simply, when we are in a relatively complex environment, our brain can get confused.

In an unconscious instant during this confusion, the scene before us is stored deep in our memory.

When we recall it moments later, that newly stored memory is retrieved, making us think we’ve experienced the scene before.

Psychologists also have an explanation for this phenomenon, which mainly involves dream overlap.

A person has many dreams throughout their life.

When we wake up in the morning, we can only remember fragmented images from our dreams.

When many of these memory fragments from different dreams get pushed together, they are randomly pieced together.

When we arrive at a new scene and suddenly try to recall it, our brain prioritizes piecing together these dream fragments, assembling them into a picture from our subconscious, which creates the feeling of having been there before—of déjà vu.

“There’s also a supernatural explanation: the parallel universe theory.”

“By some coincidence, our memories overlap with ourself from another universe. It’s possible that our other self has experienced the current moment, giving us the feeling of déjà vu.”

Yu Zhiming chuckled lightly. “Ms. Su, the cause of the Hippocampus effect hasn’t been definitively proven, so you can just take these as interesting stories.”

“Now, let me take you for an examination…”

In the examination room, as soon as Yu Zhiming began to examine Su Jing’s breasts, he quickly sensed that something was wrong.

‘Could there really be guidance from a dream? Or a warning?’

‘Or… could parallel universes actually exist?’

The change in Yu Zhiming’s expression caught Su Jing’s attention.

“Dr. Yu, is my dream coming true?”

Yu Zhiming said frankly, “I can only say it’s suspected. We still need further diagnostic tests for a confirmation.”

He then added comfortingly, “Even if it is breast cancer, don’t be afraid. This kind of very early-stage breast cancer has a very high cure rate.”

“I’ll refer you to Jiaoda Affiliated Hospital to be treated by Dr. Wang Yaxian, a specialist in gynecology and breast cancer.”

“We happen to have a research and development project, so you won’t have to pay.”

Su Jing let out a long breath. “To be honest with you, Dr. Yu, I’m not scared at all right now.”

“On the contrary, I feel a sense of relief, like a weight has been lifted…”

From 5:00 to 6:10 PM, Yu Zhiming performed rapid examinations on the stomachs and livers of fifty volunteers.

He identified one patient with suspected stomach cancer.

After finishing his examination work, Yu Zhiming got into Dr. Qi Yue’s Cayenne hybrid and headed for the North Bank of the Pujiang River.

Tonight, Yu Zhiming was scheduled to assist Dr. You Weixian, the Deputy Director of Neurosurgery, in performing a cerebral puncture and radioactive seed implantation on a patient…