Discovering Si Yueting’s body was burning like a fireball, Yan Zheng suddenly thought:
[Could that tonic Grandma made Si Yueting drink be something extremely potent like tiger penis and deer blood?]
[No wonder Grandma asked me to come wipe Si Yueting down! Probably the water outage was deliberately arranged by her too. To hold a great-grandchild, Grandma really wouldn’t hesitate to scheme against her own grandson!]
Still pretending with him?
Si Yueting sneered coldly, gripping her waist and pressing down forcefully—
Letting her feel just how fierce the fire she had ignited… truly was!
The man’s vigorous desire pressed against her insistently, and Yan Zheng’s face instantly flushed like pink jade.
Her full lips resembled tempting cherries ripe for picking, and he seemed bewitched as he lowered his head…
When his scorching breath was just a hair’s breadth from her lips, Si Yueting warned in an icy tone,
“I’ve told you before, ours is merely a contractual marriage. There will be no children between you and me! Don’t use Grandma as an excuse to harbor inappropriate intentions!”
Yan Zheng was momentarily stunned, then inwardly burst into laughter:
[Si Yueting, this short-lived fellow, actually has some self-awareness. Not wanting a child to lose their father early, so he’d rather not have one at all?]
[Even if he’s handsome, he really doesn’t need to flatter himself so much! Even if he begged me to bear his child, I wouldn’t be willing to have one with him!]
Si Yueting was already struggling to control the surging fire within him. Her merciless internal mockery fueled his irritation, and the rising heat became even harder to suppress!
He remembered how Yan Zheng used to show envious and fond expressions whenever she saw children on TV.
She clearly liked children.
So what did this “not wanting to have one with him” mean?
Seeing the man’s handsome face flushed crimson, faintly tinged with a suppressed purplish hue, Yan Zheng pulled out the acupuncture kit she had brought from the hospital and gestured toward him:
“I truly had no knowledge about the tonic or the water outage. Si Yueting, if you believe me, I have a way to help suppress this uncomfortable feeling.”
Without waiting for his refusal, her hand moved swiftly, accurately inserting needles into the acupoints on his chest, lower abdomen, and arm.
Since the client didn’t trust her medical skills, this was a perfect opportunity to let him experience the treatment’s effects for free.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t be so kind as to care about him!
Si Yueting, his face dark, reached to remove the needles, but Yan Zheng quickly pressed her small hand over his, making a fierce “be obedient” gesture.
She resembled a proud little wildcat with lively dark eyes, stretching out sharp claws at him.
Though it held no intimidation whatsoever, he pursed his thin lips and remained still.
After about half an hour.
The fiery sensation receded like an ebbing tide, and his body temperature gradually returned to normal.
Si Yueting was somewhat surprised—did she really know acupuncture?
“Did your grandfather teach you?”
“More or less.”
Yan Zheng reached out to check his pulse.
The bathroom was rather warm; she had broken into a sweat, and a few strands of hair clung damply to her jade-like neck. Si Yueting felt an inexplicable dryness in his throat.
When his pulse gradually stabilized, Yan Zheng removed the needles and stored them in the cloth pouch:
“After acupuncture, you must wait 24 hours before bathing—not even wiping down. So tonight, you’ll have to endure it temporarily.”
Watching her nimbly slip out of the bathroom, Si Yueting’s eyes darkened immeasurably.
Even though the desire had faded, his chest, still carrying the faint fragrance of her, held an indescribable emptiness.
In the nearly thousand-square-meter room, apart from the bedroom and study, there was also a reception area, a fitness zone, an entertainment lounge, and even a cinema with a starry ceiling.
Normally, Si Yueting slept in the bedroom, while Yan Zheng slept in the cinema.
The cinema had its own private bathroom, and the sofa bed could be adjusted for different positions.
Watching a movie under the romantic starry sky before bed, accompanied by 360-degree surround sound, was simply too delightful!
After finishing her wash-up, Yan Zheng stood in front of the mirror and inserted silver needles into the acupuncture points on her face.
At first glance, she looked just like a cat with whiskers.
While rummaging through her suitcase for her pajamas, a blue medical book fell out.
Yan Zheng remembered that this medical book was written by the original owner’s grandfather, documenting many critical illnesses and their corresponding dosages and usage methods.
Flipping through it casually, she noticed that the last page had been torn out.
She recalled that this page recorded a highly virulent virus.
It detailed three newly isolated strains and their specific antidote formulations.
Yan Zheng couldn’t understand how a village doctor would know such things.
She still remembered that stormy day when she returned from gathering herbs on the mountain and found her grandfather collapsed inside the house.
As she tried to run out to call for help, a man hiding behind the door grabbed her by the neck.
Just as she was about to be strangled to death, she faintly heard a male voice say, “Don’t hurt her.”
She didn’t see the man’s face clearly, but his voice felt strangely familiar.
The perpetrator quickly turned himself in and confessed, claiming he only intended to rob but denied tampering with the medical book.
He insisted that the male voice she heard was a figment of her imagination and that no one else was present at the scene besides him!
Aside from the book with the torn page, Yan Zheng also found a bronze plaque engraved with the character “shade” among her grandfather’s belongings.
She always felt that her grandfather’s death was not as simple as it seemed, but with the perpetrator’s confession, the case had long been closed.
Although her grandfather couldn’t afford to send her to school, he was always loving and protective of her.
Whenever patients brought delicious food as a token of gratitude, her grandfather would always save it for her.
Yan Zheng lowered her gaze.
If her grandfather was truly killed because of this medical book, she would definitely uncover the real culprit and avenge him!
After putting the medical book back into her suitcase, she removed the silver needles from her face.
Changing into her pajamas, she lay down on the bed. Before she could even find a good movie to watch, she succumbed to drowsiness and fell asleep under the starry ceiling.
After returning, Si Hanche reinvestigated the medical dispute from years ago.
He discovered that the man whose wife died in the hospital and who had wielded a knife to injure others should have been sent to prison, but Shen Mengyu had issued a letter of forgiveness.
Not only did the man avoid prison, but according to his sister-in-law, he somehow obtained a sum of money, quickly remarried a younger woman outside, and even abandoned his own daughter.
Using his connections, Si Hanche spent several days tracking down the man’s second wife.
The woman, who was in the midst of a divorce, accepted the money and immediately told Si Hanche:
The person who had bribed her husband to intentionally injure her, then issued the letter of forgiveness and refused to hold him accountable, was none other than Shen Mengyu!
Even though it was the height of summer, Si Hanche felt colder than in winter.
…
During lunch, Yan Zheng learned from her grandmother that Si Hanche had uncovered the truth about the medical dispute and had broken up with the scheming Shen Mengyu. She was taken aback.
So he actually went to investigate—it seemed Si Hanche’s pig brain wasn’t entirely beyond saving.
But how could Shen Mengyu give up so easily?
Yan Zheng flipped through the Fate Ledger.
[As expected. In order to win back Si Hanche, Shen Mengyu came up with a dirty trick, planning to make her move at tonight’s Hanbao Pavilion auction.]
[Jiang Mingyan attended the auction with her father. Shen Mengyu deliberately invited Si Hanche as well. Before Si Hanche could clear up the misunderstanding with Jiang Mingyan, tonight became the turning point that led to their complete falling out!]