Tang Xiaoman smiled calmly and once again invented a “friend” out of thin air. “I have a friend who’s planning to open a private clinic. He asked me to help purchase a batch of standard medical equipment, medicines, and vaccines.”
After a pause, she added, “There’s nothing illegal in here, right?”
Lu Jingming steadied himself and flipped through the list before replying, “No, there isn’t.”
“Doctor Lu, are you willing to help?” Tang Xiaoman pressed while the iron was hot.
Once she received his affirmative answer, she immediately transferred a five-million deposit into his account. The remaining balance would be paid after all the medicine prices were finalized.
“My friend is in a hurry. Sorry to trouble you, Doctor Lu, but please help get everything ready as soon as possible.”
After lunch, the three of them said goodbye outside the restaurant.
“Bye-bye, Sister Xiaoman!” Shanshan waved sweetly at Tang Xiaoman.
Tang Xiaoman rubbed the little girl’s head gently and said softly, “Sweetheart, live well.”
Lu Jingming felt that she seemed a little strange, but she had saved his precious daughter, and he truly owed her an enormous favor.
He sincerely said, “Thank you! I’ll finish what you asked me to do as quickly as possible.”
Tang Xiaoman waved goodbye to the father and daughter before getting into her own car.
She started the engine again and headed straight for the electronics mall.
The moment Tang Xiaoman entered the electronics mall, she began another round of frantic shopping.
Ten large storage freezers, five battery-powered pharmaceutical refrigeration cabinets, and ten car refrigerators. Twenty small sun heaters and twenty air-cooling fans—these appliances would help deal with the freezing cold of the polar night and the scorching heat of the endless daylight.
Twenty business laptops of various brands, fifty high-capacity smartphones of different brands, twenty tablets, twenty mini voice recorders, ten large-capacity hard drives, and fifty USB drives.
Once the apocalypse began, conditions would grow more dangerous and difficult every year, and the industrial system would almost completely collapse. Even if a few factories continued operating, their products would become outrageously expensive.
These electronic products would practically become nonrenewable resources in the future.
Tang Xiaoman left an address and asked the staff to deliver the especially bulky appliances—like the large freezers, medical refrigeration cabinets, car refrigerators, heaters, and cooling fans—to the club.
As for the rest of the electronics, she had them loaded into her car.
After shutting the privacy windows, she waved her hand and stored all the electronics in the trunk into her spatial storage.
Tang Xiaoman then drove to a department store to replenish her stockpile of daily necessities, clothes, hats, and bags.
She bought women’s clothing for all four seasons, dresses, shoes, hats, scarves, and handbags.
After all, she was still a girl, naturally fond of beautiful things.
Even though she knew there would likely be little chance to wear these pretty outfits in the apocalypse, she still couldn’t resist stocking up on some for herself.
Life should always have something to look forward to. Otherwise, what was the point of living?
Tang Xiaoman tipped the sales assistants and asked them to carry all the shopping bags and boxes into her car.
Once again, she sealed the privacy windows and stored everything into her space.
She got out of the car and took the elevator directly to the down-jacket section.
Ten down jackets of different styles, ten pairs of down pants, ten down vests. In addition, ten sets of thermal underwear, one hundred sets of pajamas for all seasons, one hundred sets of underwear of various styles and materials, and one thousand pairs of panties.
Tang Xiaoman stocked up on practically everything she might need for the rest of her life.
She added another tip and once again asked the staff to move everything into her car.
After they left, she stored everything from the trunk into her space.
Tang Xiaoman stepped out of the car once more and saw that the sky had already turned dark.
The aroma of food drifted through the air, instantly stirring her appetite.
After surviving four years in the apocalypse, her obsession with food ran extremely deep.
Tang Xiaoman decisively paused her stockpiling plans and went to satisfy her stomach first.
Tang Xiaoman went to a roast duck specialty shop and bought a freshly roasted duck to sit down and eat.
She ate until her mouth was dripping with grease, utterly satisfied.
“Boss, another hundred freshly roasted ducks!” Tang Xiaoman waved.
The owner thought he had misheard. “O-One hundred?”
Tang Xiaoman glanced at the ovens and changed her words. “Then however many you have.”
By the time she finished eating, the owner had packed thirty roast ducks for her.
“This is our busiest time of day, so we can’t roast them fast enough. If you want more, you can make a reservation in advance.” The owner handed her a business card.
Tang Xiaoman took the card and added the owner on WeChat. “I’d like to reserve one hundred ducks for tomorrow noon. I’ll come pick them up.”
The owner asked an employee to help carry the thirty packaged roast ducks into Tang Xiaoman’s car.
Tang Xiaoman shut the windows and, as usual, stored all the roast ducks into her space.
Not only did the space preserve freshness, it also preserved temperature.
No matter how much time passed, the food would still retain the exact temperature it had when stored.
Tang Xiaoman loved roast duck, so she planned to stockpile plenty of it.
After filling her stomach, she was just about to continue shopping when she received a text message from an unfamiliar number.
She picked up her phone, glanced at it, and laughed in anger once again.
“Tang Xiaoman, I’m breaking off our engagement!” It was from Gu Heng.
Looks like he was furious from embarrassment.
Tang Xiaoman remembered how, in her previous life, Gu Heng had constantly used their engagement to manipulate her emotionally, painting endless grand promises while squeezing every ounce of value out of her before ultimately killing her.
Yet in this life, he was the one taking the initiative to cancel the engagement. It seemed he had no other way left to control her.
Tang Xiaoman typed out a reply: “Sure.”
The engagement absolutely had to end.
But the blood-deep hatred between them could never be settled by merely calling off a marriage.
It was a fight to the death.
Gu Heng didn’t want to lose face in front of the Su family. Suggesting the breakup was meant to force Tang Xiaoman into giving in.
He still firmly believed that everything Tang Xiaoman had done was merely to attract his attention. In the end, she was just jealous of Su Rou.
Hah. She wasn’t even worthy of competing with Rou’er.
But what he hadn’t expected was that when he proposed breaking off the engagement, Tang Xiaoman replied without the slightest hesitation: “Sure.”
Gu Heng’s expression immediately darkened.
Su Rou still lay weakly in bed and asked worriedly, “Is Sister still angry with you?”
Gu Heng hid his phone away and casually said, “I’ve already hired a private detective to find her whereabouts. Once we get information, I’ll send some people to capture her. From now on, she’ll be your personal blood bank and spare organ donor.”
A gleam flashed through Su Rou’s watery eyes, but she still said softly, “Isn’t that too cruel to Sister?”
“Since I’ve already broken off the engagement with her, that’s her only remaining use!” Gu Heng gritted his teeth viciously.
Su Ke, wrapped up like a rice dumpling and sitting on the sofa nearby, finally couldn’t help speaking up. “Tang Xiaoman is really skilled. She can fight a Tibetan mastiff one-on-one. Ah Heng, you’d better send more capable bodyguards if you want to subdue her.”
But Gu Heng dismissed it. “Last time Shu Jia messed up and let her escape. This time we won’t give her a chance to run or call the police. Let’s see what else she can do.”
At that moment, the private detective called.
Gu Heng smirked. “There’s news already.”
He deliberately turned on speakerphone.
“President Gu, we found Tang Xiaoman’s whereabouts. This morning at Tianlai Villa, she fought three intruders by herself after they broke into a kindergarten. The police even praised her. One of the children she saved was the daughter of your family doctor, Lu Jingming. The father and daughter even treated her to lunch.”
Gu Heng sounded surprised. “One against three?”
Su Ke muttered, “I told you she’s really good at fighting, but you wouldn’t believe me.”
With a gloomy face, Gu Heng ordered, “Keep watching her closely. Find out where she stays tonight!”
Su Rou’s eyes shifted slightly. After Gu Heng hung up, she softly said, “Lu Jingming is your family doctor. Tang Xiaoman saved his daughter… is she trying to win people over?”