Lady Meilin is seduced by her green tea brother-in-law everyday-Chapter 172: Tang Bingwen’s sorrows.

St. Jude’s Hospital.

Tang Bingwen was regretting his life’s decisions. He had always dreamed of being a doctor--a benevolent doctor like his relative Tang Siming. He wanted to be a beacon of healing, a symbol of hope and a man whose name was written in the books of history as someone whose great contributions to the field of medicine had somehow shaped humanity. What he hadn’t dreamed of was being the most bullied intern doctor and St. Jude’s Hospital and all for a crime had had not committed.

Every morning or evening when he showed up at the start of his shift, he endured passive-aggressive comments from the security guards at the hospital. If he was lucky, he dodged those of some patients and nurses as he made his way inside.

His days only seemed to become harder after that as he was always assigned mind-numbing tasks. He was even made to take out bed pans, a task meant for hospital assigned robot butlers. His food always went missing from his bag or the refrigerator.

If he chose to eat in the cafeteria, he was always given small portions and he had to endure the sneers, whispers and smirks from other doctors as he forced the food down his throat. He was not liked by his colleagues, many accused him of using the Tang name and his affiliation to the great Tang Siming to sail through medical school. He was even enduring unproven claims that he had only passed because he was a Tang.

Mrs. Xu’s revelations on national Tv had made his life worse. Now, everyone knew that even the Tang name was borrowed. It did not come from his father but rather his mother. They had taken to calling him a mooch. Some even asked him if he and his sister Tang Yue were both Mo Liang’s mistresses.

Tang Bingwen had just become Junior resident but the senior residents and fellows who were surgeons treated him like an overqualified intern than a fellow professional.

He had just reported for the night shift today and already, he was facing the same daily challenges.

A female patient had just refused to be checked by him and he had stepped out of the consultation room to call another doctor.

"Are you even a real doctor?" sneered Dr. Wei as he walked passed Bingwen. "I want a coffee, run out and get me one. Buy six cups, the other surgeons want some coffee as well. As we do real doctor work, you should find a way to make yourself useful."

"But she is my patient..." Bingwen argued.

"Do you want to go in and try again?" Doctor Wei barked.

"He thinks smiling and selling his face like his sister will heal wounds." A doctor that was passing by threw in a comment.

Bingwen folded immediately and retreated. He did not even ask for money for the coffee. It was not as if they would pay if he told them to anyway.

He walked to the break room to get his coat and put away his doctor’s gown. When he pushed the door open slightly, he overheard more of his colleagues discussing him and giggling.

"I am taking bets on when doctor Tang the doormat will quit. " One said.

"Ten yuan and I say a month at most."

"One hundred yuan on two weeks, the surgeons are really giving it to him."

"Fifty yuan on half a year. That mistress’s brother is really stubborn."

"Maybe he will sleep with the chief of the department and keep his job. If his sister could do it and proudly show off the bastard she gave birth to, why can’t he walk the same path?"

"Which department chief? Ours is a man but again, that might not stop Tang the doormat from bending over."

They all laughed like mean girls.

"I don’t know how much longer I would have held it in if I was in his shoes. He is blamed for everyone’s mistakes, he is forced to do all the paperwork, he is pushed around even by the cleaners. He is always apologizing and he barely gets to treat patients anymore. If I were him, I would move to some place where nobody knows me and start over."

"His sister is famous worldwide. People call her the national mistress, space mistress, alien mistress and so on."

"But he is not his sister. I almost feel sorry for the poor bastard because he is paying for crimes that he did not commit. Doesn’t Space M have a lab? He should go to his brother-in-law’s company and ask for a job. Who knows, it might even be the opportunity to go to space with the next expedition team."

"Are they recruiting already?"

"Yes, haven’t you heard. The next team will be leaving in three months. They are already recruiting, all old and new participants must first go through one and half months of training. After that they are off to space to research that livable planet."

"Second earth, they are calling it second earth."

"Tang Bingwen will never get to go to second earth with the expedition team. The actions of doctor Tang Yue and the scandal which followed was so embarrassing to the empire that they would never make the mistake of sending anyone from that family up there so soon."

"Imagine if he goes and also impregnates someone else’s wife! I almost wish it would happen because it is too funny."

"Ah--that poor bastard. I remember when the hospital first recruited him, he was welcomed with a pomp. The medical directors, dean and many professors were stepping on each other just to shake his hands."

"Do you remember how they were all clamoring to invite him to their departments? Now they spit when they see him and walk as far as they can away from him."

"He had the glory of being a Tang back then. His addition to our hospital raised its prestige and increased the client base. Now that they know he is not actually a Tang, they see no value in him."

"Exactly, I think the dean is also afraid of crossing the Jun family. Rumor has it that Lady Chi Lian bought the hospital where Tang Yue works and she has people going over all her records. They are looking for malpractices and small mistakes. Anything that will have Tang Yue’s medical license revoked."

"Wow!!! the Jun’s are really ruthless. But Tang Yue deserves it. How could she sleep with Mo Liang of all men? It is like having an affair with the prince consort. Once the emperor or imperial princess discovers it, you are axed immediately. In the old days, you would be torn apart by horses. Today, you just vanish or live a really difficult life."

Tang Bingwen pushed the door open, startling his colleagues. He went inside and packed up all of his property. He stopped by the nurses desk and turned in his resignation letter and hospital identification card.

He had come to a decision. It was time to do something radical--he would not give up on his career, he would fight. If they saw no value in him at St. Jude, he would go somewhere else.