Isn’t this the “Snow Leopard”?
But now was not the time for that thought! Her breathing was getting hotter and faster.
She realized… she had been drugged!
A sudden thought shot through her mind the apple!
The apple she had eaten had been tampered with!
That apple was meant for Lin Baogui!
Lin Baogui’s little thing had been severed and surgically reattached.
If someone gave him a stimulating drug now, it could ruin him completely or even cost him his life!
So, Widow Liu didn’t want to marry Lin Baogui.
To ensure that, she spent a fortune to buy two apples, poisoned them, and then ran away…
And she, greedy as she was, had eaten one of those apples and been poisoned!
Heavens!
Lin Yinyin felt as if the sky was falling. This was terrifying!
Why?
Because Widow Liu was just a rural woman. Where would she get an aphrodisiac for humans? It must have been meant for animals!
Like the fertility drugs used for her pigs back home!
God, the heavens were going to destroy her!
“Miss, are you alright?” Chi Peng asked again, looking at the dark-red-faced woman in front of him.
Suddenly, Lin Yinyin lifted her head, her eyes shining brightly.
Wasn’t there a ready-made man right in front of her?
And he was a strong, fit soldier!
Right, the soldier!
Lin Yinyin suddenly thought of that cold, icy man.
No, he was too difficult to handle!
But he had a better body, a better face than this one.
Yet, that man was dangerous to provoke!
No any man who had been a soldier was dangerous to provoke.
No rather than all being dangerous, it was better to pick a handsome one.
Ah! What kind of logic was this?!
Her mind was starting to spiral.
“It’s you!” At that moment, Chi Peng recognized Lin Yinyin as well.
“Where’s your Captain Li?” Lin Yinyin asked rapidly.
She could feel her rationality melting away; if she waited longer, she might go crazy and grab the first man she saw, and everyone would call her a hooligan.
“The captain’s on the second floor.”
“Is he injured?”
“Yes!”
“Where is he hurt?” Lin Yinyin fired question after question.
If it was his leg, or… there, she would give up and go for the Snow Leopard in front of her!
Chi Peng shivered for some reason. This girl’s gaze… was like a starving wolf eyeing its prey, making cold sweat break out at the back of his neck.
“His arm!”
“That’s good!” Lin Yinyin breathed a sigh of relief.
“What?” Chi Peng was confused why did this woman, Jiang Feng’s peer, seem so… off?
“Which room is he in?”
“Room 5!”
Before Chi Peng could finish, Lin Yinyin bolted!
At the end of the second-floor corridor, outside Room 5, a soldier stood guard.
Lin Yinyin didn’t even glance at them she lowered her head and barged straight in.
“Stop!” The guard reached out to block her, but seeing the deputy captain approaching and nodding, he let her pass.
Chi Peng followed, but then “BANG!” he was locked outside!
The woman even locked the door behind her!
Inside the room, Jiang Feng saw Lin Yinyin rushing in and nearly sat up in shock.
Lin Yinyin walked straight over good, luckily there was a backup.
“What… what are you doing?!”
Jiang Feng felt as if this woman wanted to devour him!
“Brother Jiang, I have something to tell you!”
“Wha… what thing?!”
“Stand there, don’t come closer!”
Before he could finish, that familiar pain hit him.
He was knocked out again!!
Lin Yinyin yanked the curtain around the bed, “swish”, closing it completely to isolate Li Jinye’s bed from the outside.
Inside, the light was dim. She bent over and looked at the person on the bed.
His brows were furrowed, nose sharp, jawline tense into a cold arc. Even with his left arm bandaged and weakened from illness, he exuded a wild, predatory, cheetah-like aura.
So handsome.
Her small hand reached out.
But as soon as she touched the first button of Li Jinye’s patient uniform, his eyes previously closed “snap” opened!
Sharp eyes locked straight on her, alert and assessing.
Lin Yinyin’s mind went blank. She instinctively swung her hand in a chopping motion.
Li Jinye’s body went limp.
Panting, Lin Yinyin watched his eyes close again, heart racing.
Wuwu… he saw her. Whatever she did, he would know.
Wuwu… would he hunt her down once he fully woke up?
Lin Yinyin bit her lip, steeling herself just do it!
She pulled another apple from her space, bent close to Li Jinye’s lips, and fed him the mashed apple bit by bit.
Because she feared… the eagle might not be able to fly!
(…ten thousand words omitted here…)
Li Jinye had a strange dream.
At first, it felt as though he was trapped in an invisible net. Then the net suddenly turned into raging flames, threatening to consume him. Just as he thought he’d be burned to ashes, a sudden cool downpour fell.
The eagle spread its wings and soared.
But it wasn’t enough not nearly enough…
He wanted to chase more… fly higher!
He had to turn passivity into action… flying endlessly, over and over again.
“Huh?”
Li Jinye suddenly opened his eyes, staring at the incandescent light above, dazed.
“Chi Peng?”
“Jiang Feng?”
Li Jinye felt pain in his back, realizing he had hit something.
He pushed himself up and touched the cold, hard floor with his fingertips.
How was he lying on the floor?
Suddenly, his heart sank. He whipped off the blanket.
Those bare legs, the touch… recalling the last scene…
The temperature in the room seemed to drop instantly by several degrees.
Li Jinye leaned against the wall to stand and walked straight to the door.
But as soon as he grasped the doorknob, he heard two hushed voices outside.
“When do you think the captain will wake up? It’s been over an hour.” Chi Peng’s voice sounded anxious.
“How should I know?!
He stayed up several nights monitoring Tian, then sneaked into the black market yesterday, already weak, then got ambushed by spies, hurt his arm, and now… that woman!
She was so bold, so fierce! Our captain’s temper flared, and she still dared to act!”
“Exactly!” Chi Peng immediately agreed, full of amazement.
“I followed her upstairs. She moved like the wind, locked the hospital room door behind her. At first I wanted to storm in, but then I thought there’s you and the captain inside, surely the two of you can handle a woman, right?
Who knew… shortly after, we heard what happened inside. I couldn’t bring myself to enter!”
He glanced at Jiang Feng disdainfully. “How are you so useless? Last time she knocked you out, this time even worse you passed out in five seconds.”
“I… I…” Jiang Feng couldn’t even respond. “Who knew she would strike so fast, so fiercely! I’m still shaking thinking about it. Her speed like lightning! Two seconds and I was out cold. Five seconds is already too much!”
“Hey, hey, hey, I’ll tell you a secret,” Jiang Feng whispered to Chi Peng, voice very low. “I actually woke up once in the middle!”
“What?” Chi Peng was stunned. “Seriously? You actually woke up?!”
“Of course!”
Jiang Feng nodded, a complicated expression on his face. “I woke up and heard the most embarrassing thing wanted to die right there. That woman was crazy fierce! Too bad the captain’s wall wasn’t very… pleasant to listen to!”
He lifted his collar, grimacing. “Look here! I knocked myself out just to avoid hearing that scene!”
Chi Peng laughed and gave him a thumbs-up. “Brilliant! That move saved your life! As long as you keep quiet, the captain will never know you woke up!”
“Of course!” Jiang Feng’s eyes went wide, voice threatening. “If you tell the captain, I’ll come for you!”
“Relax!”
Chi Peng patted his chest. “I’ll keep my mouth shut!”
Just as they breathed a sigh of relief, Chi Peng leaned closer, lowering his voice mysteriously. “Hey, I’ll tell you something else!”
“Go on!” Jiang Feng perked up.
“When I ran into that girl on the first floor today, her face was red, eyes shining—scary bright. I wondered why… turns out she was drugged. Guess what her first words were when she recognized me?”
“What? Tell me!”
Li Jinye, behind them, craned his neck to listen.
“She asked where my captain was! Why didn’t she ask for my help, and went straight to the captain?”
“Think about it, the hospital was full of people why not ask anyone else?”
“Exactly!”
Chi Peng suddenly got excited. “I saw it myself in the courtyard! The captain literally carried him horizontally so intimate…”
The two of them suddenly felt a chill down their spines, as if an ice spear were staring at them.
Then they turned and oh my god!
The cold-faced grim reaper, the ruthless demon, the indestructible steel plate was awake!!
They were doomed!