Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride

Chapter 1125 - 1121: Enjoying Benefits Ahead of Time (3000+)

After Sophia Hamilton walked into the examination room, the doctor who had just called the number glanced at her meaningfully from above his mask, then opened the door and left. Sophia was just about to ask, "Who’s going to examine me now?" when a cool male voice sounded behind her, "Come over here."Sophia turned around and saw a male doctor sitting behind the desk. Instinctively, she pointed to the doorway, puzzled, "Wasn’t the other doctor going to do the examination?"

"She’s my assistant; I’m the attending physician." The male doctor glanced over, wearing a white doctor’s cap and a mask that only revealed a pair of phoenix eyes—not very large, yet somewhat... familiar?

Sophia frowned, walked over and leaned in closer, staring at the doctor’s phoenix eyes carefully, feeling as though she had seen them somewhere before but couldn’t recall immediately.

"Are you here to have your fortune told or for a medical examination?" The doctor said with a bit of humor in his phoenix eyes. Sophia stood up straight, cleared her throat, and sat down in the chair opposite him.

"Actually, your assistant could perform the examination just as well." Although aware that in doctor-patient interactions, gender shouldn’t matter, she felt awkward about letting a man examine her, being a young unmarried woman.

"Are you sure?" The male doctor raised his phoenix eyes, questioning with emotions Sophia couldn’t read, "She just graduated from school as an intern, and even if you’re willing to let her check, I wouldn’t approve. This concerns the hospital’s reputation; if she misdiagnoses your condition, it would create a bad impact."

Though she felt the female doctor didn’t seem as young as the male doctor suggested, Sophia didn’t say anything further, exhaled quietly, and placed the appointment slip on the desk.

Evander Lancaster picked it up and glanced at it, and upon seeing Sophia Hamilton’s name, his lips curled subtly beneath the mask as he asked seriously, "Where is it uncomfortable? What are the symptoms?"

"Um... it’s just these days... it hurts a bit here..." Sophia stammered, subconsciously pointing to the area of pain while describing her symptoms.

Evander raised his eyebrows slightly, turned back and asked seriously, "Which side? Open your clothes for an examination."

"Huh?" Sophia was stunned for a moment, questioning, "Don’t we need to do an X-ray?"

Evander feigned a sigh, saying with a wry smile, "Young lady, you need to be examined before I can issue an X-ray form."

Sophia...

She silently exhaled, thinking it over, then hesitated before raising her hand to unzip her plush sweatshirt.

Evander raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes casually fell on Sophia’s hand, watching as she reluctantly unzipped the inner layer of her sweatshirt...

"If you want a thorough examination, I think you should take this off," Evander suggested seriously, pointing to Sophia’s crew-neck sweatshirt.

"But..."

Sophia hesitated until Evander said, "After you take it off, drape this over yourself; it’ll be more convenient for examination."

Sophia looked down at her crew-neck sweatshirt; raising it during the examination did seem inconvenient.

Pursing her lips, she slowly took off the outer sweatshirt. As Sophia removed the crew-neck shirt, Evander fiddled absentmindedly with a pen, his gaze falling on the slip in front of him with an air of propriety.

"Okay," Sophia said, putting on the plush sweatshirt and grabbing the ends.

Evander then turned back, tilting his chin up, "Open it."

Sophia exhaled quietly while slowly opening the ends of the sweatshirt, revealing only a pink bra inside.

"Undo this as well," Evander said, pointing with the pen, his gaze falling on her chest, showing nothing amiss.

Sophia pursed her lips but didn’t move.

Evander raised his gaze, coldly asking, "How do I examine you like this?"

After hesitating, Sophia reached behind her sweatshirt to undo the clasp. Across from her, Evander coldly said, "Lift it."

Sophia reluctantly lifted the bra, exposing the painful side. Evander reached over, but before his fingertip touched her, Sophia instinctively pulled away.

Evander...

Retracting his hand, he looked at Sophia and said somewhat displeased, "If you don’t want to be examined, leave. There are many other patients waiting. Don’t waste my time."

After speaking, he made a show of standing up to call the next patient.

"Wait! I’ll do it, I’ll do it!" Sophia relented, realizing how hard it was to get an appointment; in big hospitals, you’d need to schedule days in advance, while private hospitals were a bit easier without so-called experts, and thus fewer patients.

Evander sat back down, looking at Sophia with impatience, "Open it."

Sophia finally lifted her undergarment again, pursing her lips with a look of deep concern.

"Which side!" Evander added pridefully, clearly seeing her expose the right side yet asking deliberately.

"This, this side,"

Sophia Hamilton leaned her right side forward slightly, Evander Lancaster reached over, his long fingers gently pressing there, his eyes glanced elsewhere, frowning in a professional manner, asked, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn’t hurt," Sophia shook her head; he wasn’t touching the painful spot, but rather her side near the armpit was hurting.

Thinking about how that little girl almost hurt him the other day and wrecked his car, today seemed like payback time.

With that thought, Evander switched hands to "examine," his eyes looking elsewhere, professionally furrowing his handsome brows.

"Doctor, what’s going on?"

Sophia asked tentatively, because Evander seemed to be seriously "checking," aware he was using the excuse to take advantage.

Evander didn’t speak, pressed his fingers while still averting his gaze, only withdrew his hand after thoroughly "examining."

Originally he wanted to smell the scent on his fingertips, but since the person was still present, he sincerely wiped his fingers with a tissue, asking while wiping, "Which part hurts? So far I haven’t noticed anything unusual."

Sophia exhaled, pointing to the sore spot and leaning in closer, "Here, seems like... there’s a tumor growing,"

The previous patient had soreness in the same spot, then... breast cancer...

Her spot hurt badly too, with a lump, seemed to surely be a tumor.

Evander glanced up, looking towards that place, handsome face devoid of expression but inwardly delighted.

Little girl, you came willingly, it’s not like I’m deliberately taking advantage!

Throwing away the tissue into the trash can, his long fingers extended again, pressing where Sophia indicated, frowning and carefully pressing, there was a slightly hard feeling, likely inflammation rather than a lump.

Though Evander specialized in surgery, he had some understanding of breast and gynecological issues, medical skills often overlap, so after checking, he roughly knew the cause.

His fingers continued to massage the lump slowly, while asking, "When does your period usually come?"

Sophia...

She widened her eyes, stunned for a while, then hesitantly said, "Around the 15th or 16th."

Evander became more certain, continuing to rub slowly while asking, "Has the pain eased a bit?"

Sophia carefully felt it, nodded, "Much more comfortable."

She realized it was likely symptoms of breast inflammation, usually swelling before menstruation, and this little girl probably didn’t know such conditions existed. The painful spot seemed accidentally knocked, appearing like a lump.

"Doctor, what am I suffering from, is it a tumor?" Seeing Evander continually frown, Sophia asked worriedly, face downcast.

Evander drew out another tissue, wiped his fingers while saying, "Well, it’s hard to confirm now, need to take images first to see the result,"

Sophia adjusted her clothes while worryingly asking, "If it were a tumor, could conservative treatment work?" She was so young, hadn’t dated anyone yet. If removed, how would her future look?

Evander tossed the used tissue into the trash, looked up sternly, "If it’s confirmed, removal is advised, otherwise I can’t guarantee it won’t worsen."

Sophia...

Her face turned pale from fear, her hands trembled when putting on a round-neck sweater.

Seeing Sophia’s fear, Evander pondered if he was being too harsh, since the girl wasn’t very old, twenty-five, five years younger than himself, younger than his third uncle’s niece.

But then, she didn’t know to repay gratitude, crashed his car, yet he absolved her from damage costs; instead, she hurt him.

Though he hadn’t considered finding a woman, he didn’t wish to live like a Qing dynasty official!

His long fingers picked up a pen, writing a few lines Sophie couldn’t understand on the registration form, pushing it towards her, "Go ahead, the ultrasound room is downstairs, after the exam, go to the surgical chief’s office on the fifth floor."

Sophia took the form Evander wrote and headed toward the door, nervously forgetting she was at the breast department, wondering why to visit a surgical office.

After Sophia left, Evander took off his mask, brought his fingers to his nose to sniff, besides the wet wipe’s scent, there was the girl’s unique body fragrance...

"Is it really good for a rogue doctor like you to treat a young girl this way?" The female doctor who just went out returned, hands in her lab coat pockets, smiling ambiguously at him; she was Evander’s college classmate, invited by him to work here after graduation.

"What’s bad about it," Evander casually said with his hand on the desk, "She’s my future woman, I’m just trying to enjoy my benefits early."

"Oh, have you come to your senses? Planning to leave singlehood?" Chloe Zimmerman sat opposite him, teasing with a smile.