“This man’s mouth is so venomous—he must have offended someone with his words and got his eyes poisoned as punishment!” All the way home, Ye Ningxin couldn’t let go of the Prince’s mocking remarks about her weight.
For a fleeting moment, she even thought: If the Prince weren’t blind but mute instead, the world would be a much better place.
“Never mind, I’ll let him off for now, considering how good-looking he is!”
One bowl of rice…
Two bowls of rice…
By the time she served the third bowl, the Prince still hadn’t opened his noble mouth to praise the cook.
Although he ate at a decent pace, he did so in an orderly manner, maintaining impeccable etiquette!
While chewing, his mouth remained tightly closed, his puffed cheeks resembling a little squirrel storing food—strangely adorable!
“Aren’t you eating?” The Prince seemed to have noticed he was being watched.
“Oh, I’m on a diet. You go ahead,” Ye Ningxin said, unable to suppress a gulp. She wanted to eat too, but what happened on the road earlier had left a lingering impact on her.
I can’t go on like this anymore—I must lose weight! Ye Ningxin vowed.
“What a pity. Tonight’s dinner is quite delicious,” the Prince remarked, his tone genuinely suggesting he considered this a regrettable matter, though he showed no intention of offering her any.
“Hmph, as if I wouldn’t know whether it’s tasty or not! I guarantee you’ll be craving the next meal after this one.” Ye Ningxin had complete confidence in her culinary skills, especially since she had already gathered all the ingredients earlier that day.
Speaking of the daytime, it seemed she still had something to report.
“Oh, right, when I went to the pawnshop today, that jade pendant really fetched fifty taels of silver. You’re quite impressive.”
As she spoke, she took out the remaining silver.
“I bought rice, flour, chicken, meat, some vegetables, oh, and two quilts, spending a total of one tael and five mace of silver. The rest is all here.”
She placed the silver on the table.
“You should keep these. Otherwise, I might end up taking them back home again.” Ye Ningxin further expressed her sincerity in cooperating.
Prince: “So, is it your hands you can’t control, or your feet?”
“I…” Ye Ningxin felt the urge to seal his mouth shut, but his next words made her change her mind.
“Never mind, my eyes aren’t convenient, and it’s not suitable for me to go out. I’ll have to trouble you with these trivial household matters in the future, so you should keep it.”
“Is this the unconditional trust between pure comrades-in-arms?” Ye Ningxin felt a little moved.
However, upon second thought, she felt the Prince was a bit foolish. The original host had nearly emptied his entire fortune, yet he could still entrust the financial authority to her—perhaps this Prince was an inexperienced, naive sweetheart.
While she was analyzing this internally, the naive sweetheart over there had finished his meal, satisfied and ready to rest.
They slept separately—a rule she had established herself on their wedding night.
That foolish girl, the original host, had been fixated on remarrying her unreliable cousin in the future.
Leaving aside the cousin’s character, just in terms of appearance, this Prince with his flower-like beauty and moon-like elegance surpassed that scoundrel a hundredfold.
But this arrangement suited Ye Ningxin for now—she wasn’t yet ready to accept physical intimacy with a strange man.
Sleeping in the newly purchased quilt at night, the soft cotton still carried a faint scent of sunlight. Ye Ningxin sighed contentedly, unable to resist rolling around a few times. Finally, she had a comfortable bed to sleep in.
However, her internal organs chose this moment to protest. The burning hunger in her stomach grew increasingly intense. Hearing Gu Haoyuan’s faint snoring from the other side, Ye Ningxin was now too hungry to fall asleep.
“Damn it! Losing weight is truly agonizing.”
In her previous life, Ye Ningxin had a constitution that never gained weight no matter how much she ate. She could happily indulge in food and drink every day while still maintaining an enviable figure. Little did she expect that the biggest challenge she would face after transmigrating would be her own weight.
Even disregarding aesthetic concerns, excessive weight remained a major threat to health. How on earth did the original owner manage to accumulate nearly 200 pounds of flesh?
Perhaps sensing her inner despair, the medical laboratory deep within her consciousness unexpectedly manifested itself once again.
This was indeed beyond her expectations.
Delighted, Ye Ningxin approached the instruments and equipment in the laboratory and began searching for the fastest method to lose weight.
Based on the structural characteristics of the human body, the key to weight loss always boiled down to two principles: control your diet and increase physical activity.
Exercise and dietary control were the two most effective tools for weight loss.
However, the reason there were so many overweight people in the world was that both exercise and dietary control required persistent willpower—something the vast majority of people lacked.
“No, this method is too slow. I need a faster way,” Ye Ningxin continued her search.
After extensive research, she concluded: to lose weight quickly, one must either undergo surgery or take medication.
Surgery was unrealistic. She couldn’t anesthetize herself and perform the operation at the same time. Besides, if a nearly 200-pound woman suddenly transformed into a beautiful warrior, her Prince would likely regard her as a monster.
As for medication… there were various weight-loss drugs on the market, all operating on the principles of appetite suppression and enhanced excretion. However, their side effects remained significant…
Lost in thought, Ye Ningxin suddenly remembered a medication she had researched with her adoptive father in the laboratory.
The original purpose of developing this drug was to promote metabolic differentiation in the human body. For individuals with metabolic disorders, the drug could stimulate their metabolism to achieve an ideal outcome.
Now, it seemed this medication could be perfectly applied to weight loss. By accelerating metabolic functions and supplementing it with satiating components to control energy intake, it could effectively achieve the goal of “controlling one’s diet.”
Most importantly, the drug was self-developed and had no side effects. To ensure physical health, the vitamins and trace elements within it could be adjusted at any time.
Perfect!
Retrieving the formula and gathering the raw materials, Ye Ningxin began producing the first batch of weight-loss medication.
The advantage of the Medical Space was its lack of physical form—it could be carried anywhere and accessed anytime. Moreover, Ye Ningxin had noticed during these two visits that the items inside never seemed to diminish. No matter what she used, everything remained exactly as it was the next time she entered.
The only drawback was that she still hadn’t found the key to open it. Each appearance of the Medical Space seemed entirely random.
…
The synthesis of the medicine required some time, but Ye Ningxin knew that by tomorrow morning at the latest, she would be able to obtain her first batch of pills. During this period, she couldn’t sleep, as once she dozed off, there was a high chance the Spatial Dimension would close again.
Taking advantage of the free time, she could treat her arm.
After the initial simple treatment of the wound, the torn flesh not only hadn’t healed but had already begun to fester slightly.
Using scissors to clean the wound and spraying it with a recovery-promoting potion, the once gruesome injury gradually began to heal as time passed.
As the sky began to lighten and the roosters in the village started crowing one after another, Ye Ningxin harvested her first batch of Weight-Loss Pills. Finally unable to hold on any longer, she fell into a deep sleep.