Seeing Liu Zihao's phone, Chen Xiao couldn't help but recall the humiliating experience a few days prior when Liu Zihao and Li Bingxue had framed him into mass-sending harassing messages to all female colleagues at the Central Hospital. Without a second thought, he replied to Gou Shunfang's message:
"What do you think?"
Soon, Gou Shunfang called again to confirm.
Annoyed, Chen Xiao casually tossed the phone out the window and continued to treat Ye Qingxin, who lay unconscious and unresponsive on the bed.
Thanks to the "Life-Creating Needle," which could allegedly "resurrect the dead, mend broken bones, steal yin and yang, and seize creation," Ye Qingxin was temporarily out of danger. However, after being tormented by Liu Zihao and his cronies, her condition had worsened and she urgently needed treatment. There was no time to delay. If treatment was further postponed, the life-sustaining effect of the Life-Creating Needle would run out, and even an immortal couldn't save her. After all, the Life-Creating Needle could only be used once, extending life for a maximum of nine days.
With lives hanging in the balance, Chen Xiao could no longer afford to be concerned about propriety. Gritting his teeth, he pulled aside the quilt covering Ye Qingxin's chest and began vigorous massage and acupressure using the "Yin-Yang Ghost Hand." Instantly, his stamina began to drain as rapidly as oil poured onto a raging fire.
...
Gou Shunfang was unable to reach Liu Zihao by phone. She could only stare at the reply message "What do you think?" from Chen Xiao on Liu Zihao's phone, pondering it repeatedly. The more she thought, the more uneasy she became. After some deliberation, she decided to call the leader of the professional thugs Liu Zihao had hired to confirm.
She would never have dreamed that those hired thugs were fleeing for their lives like rats caught in the open. After seven or eight attempts, she finally got through. In a panic, she fired off a barrage of questions:
"Why aren't you and Zihao answering your phones? Is the job done? Have you controlled Chen Xiao? Is Zihao with Qingxin?"
The thug leader on the other end was preparing to flee Ju Xian City overnight. Because Liu Zihao's family was backed by the Ye family, he couldn't bear Gou Shunfang's wrath.
To buy himself more time to escape, he blurted out a subservient reply, following Gou Shunfang's lead:
"Yes... yes, Young Master Hao is currently alone with Miss Qingxin. Madam Liu, a moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Please... please don't disturb the newlywed couple's consummation."
"Really?"
Gou Shunfang's excitement surged as if she had been injected with chicken blood. Fearing that speaking loudly would disturb Liu Zihao, she quickly lowered her voice and instructed the thug leader:
"Make sure Chen Xiao is firmly watched tonight. I have important use for him tomorrow morning."
After hanging up, Gou Shunfang grew more and more agitated, tossing and turning and unable to sleep. Finally, as dawn broke, she had even thought of a name for her grandchild. Impatiently, she called Ye Jinhuan, deliberately feigning a tense tone:
"Director Ye, do you have time to visit Swan Lake? Last night, a beast with the audacity of a rapist broke into Qingxin's residence and committed violence. Fortunately, my Zihao rescued her in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable!"
Ye Jinhuan was furious. She could no longer afford to consider the risk of her secret of being pregnant before marriage and having an illegitimate daughter being exposed. She immediately drove straight to the Swan Lake residential area.
Meanwhile, Ye Qingxin, who had been unconscious all night, slowly regained consciousness.
Looking up at the familiar ceiling, her memory still lingered on the moment she was about to jump off the balcony to commit suicide. She was stunned for a moment, then horrified to discover she was completely naked. The quilt that had covered her the night before was now wrapped around Chen Xiao, who was still sleeping soundly by her pillow.
"Ah—"
Ye Qingxin instinctively cried out and reached to pull the quilt over herself. As if by instinct, she extended her bare foot and kicked Chen Xiao.
"Bang!"
Chen Xiao fell off the bed and was jolted awake.
After a night of self-operation of the Great Dream Vajra Divine Skill, the stamina he had exhausted using the Yin-Yang Ghost Hand the previous night had been fully restored.
Sitting on the floor below the bed, he saw Ye Qingxin on the bed, wrapped in the quilt, glaring at him with terrified, angry, and resentful tear-filled eyes. Realizing what he had done the night before, he felt a bit embarrassed and said with a wry smile:
"Miss Ye, please don't misunderstand. I was exhausted from massaging you last night, which is why I ended up in the same room. I guarantee I didn't do anything improper to you."
Chen Xiao's explanation only made things worse. As soon as he spoke, Ye Qingxin burst into tears:
"Wuwu..."