After work, I ran into Wu Huilan at the gym. Just like before, I accompanied her during her workout and helped her with a massage.
When I brought up continuing with her treatment, she still seemed a bit hesitant.
She said she didn’t have time now and would contact me when she was free.
Guess the last time, almost being cornered by Hao Meiyun at the hotel, left her with some lingering fear.
"Tsk tsk, Xu Tian, you’re really something. Always so busy."
Just as I was leaving the gym, I happened to encounter Zhang Huan, that crazy woman.
She was holding a slim woman’s cigarette between her fingers, smoking away. Her hair was styled in big waves, paired with thick black-rimmed glasses. The way she was exhaling smoke had an oddly brooding allure.
"You should cut down on this stuff. It’s bad for your health."
I walked over and snatched the cigarette right out of her hand.
Caught by my action, Wang Nian froze for a moment, but then quickly displayed a mocking expression. "And who do you think you are? What gives you the right to boss me around?"
She spoke while pulling out another cigarette, ready to light it.
But again, I snatched it out of her hands and tossed it into the trash can.
"If you want to conceive, you’re going to have to follow my instructions. Understand?"
Zhang Huan gave me a complicated look, then let out a sneering laugh. "Xu Tian, are you scared that I might do something crazy right now?"
"Relax. For the time being, I don’t feel like dying just yet. At least not so soon."
"Come on, let’s go to my place."
With that, she turned and walked away.
The two of us hailed a taxi and headed straight to her rented home.
Unexpectedly, her place was a mess.
But what caught me off guard were the baby items scattered around her house.
There were even some photos of her during pregnancy, her face lit up with an unmistakable look of happiness. In those pictures, she looked truly captivating.
However, I noticed in some of the photos, the person standing next to her had their face slashed out with a knife.
From the looks of it, she harbored an intense hatred toward that man.
"Alright, staring at those won’t change anything. Now tell me, what’s your plan for helping me?"
"I need to first prepare some Chinese herbal medicines for you, and then give you acupressure treatments to adjust your body. Once we get your health stabilized, I’ll focus on healing your damages."
"With a two-pronged approach, you’ll be able to successfully conceive once it’s all done."
Saying that, I took out the herbal medicine I had prepared for her and went into the kitchen to begin simmering it.
During this time, she went for a shower.
By the time she came out, I had already cleaned up the entire house.
She was taken aback at first but quickly plastered a dismissive smile on her face.
"Xu Tian, quit pretending. I know you can’t cure me."
"How about... while we’re both still alive, we just enjoy ourselves for once?"
Zhang Huan walked towards me with a slow, flirtatious strut, giving me a seductive smile. Then, without hesitation, she let her bath towel drop to the floor.
In an instant, her fair, alluring body was fully exposed.
Even droplets of water still clung to her glowing white skin.
Those two soft, enticing mounds swayed gently as she moved, dotted with pink, tempting buds that quivered faintly. I stood there, lost for a moment.
She was too sultry, too intoxicating.
Zhang Huan had the kind of balanced, tall figure where every curve met the perfect proportion—full where it should be, slender where it needed to be. Nothing exaggerated, just flawlessly proportional.
The longer I looked, the more the heat started to build up inside me.
Even though I had no intention of getting involved with her, my body involuntarily betrayed me.
This woman was truly beautiful—everything about her was great, except her personality was just too stubborn.
"Zhang Huan, I promise you, I’ll definitely cure you."
"Whether it’s the issues with your body or the scars in your heart."
I assured her with a determined expression.
"Heh, really? Then tell me, how do you plan to help me?"
"Let me be honest with you. I’ve been to plenty of hospitals and consulted countless so-called experts."
"And look at me now. I still can’t be like a normal woman, bearing and raising children."
"I didn’t use to smoke or drink, but now... I can’t live without them."
"Without the numbing effect of alcohol, I can’t even sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I think of my baby..."
"It’s all because of those two bastards. They’re the ones who killed my baby. They’re murderers!"
As Zhang Huan spoke, her eyes once again burned with deep, unrelenting hatred...