Chapter 79 Got bitten? Then bite me back!

The moment the bullet grazed past his body, this face flashed through Zhao Wenchang's mind.

Stubborn, coquettish, shy and timid—every frame is so clear it seems etched into their very bones.

So once he returned to the military region, he couldn't care about anything else. He had only one thought in his mind and eyes—to see her, to pull her tightly into his arms, and to use her body heat to prove that he was still alive.

Jiang Wanqiu's body suddenly sank, and before she could react, a sharp pain shot through her shoulder.

The man took a bite without any hesitation.

"It hurts..." she flinched.

Zhao Wenchang immediately released his grip, pressing his burning lips against the tooth mark he had bitten, kissing it gently and repeatedly.

His voice whispered close to her ear, with a ticklish, tantalizing quality: "Then bite me too."

Jiang Wanqiu turned her head away, not wanting to pay him any attention.

"That means you dislike me." The man's hands became restless, pinching her waist before sliding down a few inches.

Then she suddenly muttered to herself, "Why does my butt feel flatter? Is it because I sit for too long as a teacher?"

"You're the one who gets beaten up! Your whole family gets beaten up!"

Jiang Wanqiu was still very concerned about her figure. When she heard that, she immediately turned her head, found his arm, and bit down.

"hiss--"

Zhao Wenchang gasped in pain, and the muscles in his arm tensed instantly.

But the sharp pain did not anger him; instead, it filled him with a strange sense of satisfaction.

The fact that he can feel pain is proof that he is still alive.

He sighed contentedly, pulled the still sulking woman back into his arms, nuzzled his cheek against her neck, and then drifted off to sleep peacefully.

As dawn broke, Zhao Wenchang opened his eyes.

He quietly got up and quickly changed into a new training uniform.

He had to return to the division headquarters to report before the troops discovered that he had deserted without permission.

Before leaving, he bent down, looked at the woman sleeping soundly on the bed, and couldn't help but kiss her smooth forehead again.

He suddenly remembered the big fat cat he used to keep in his hometown when he was a child.

Before leaving the house, he always liked to kiss the cat, which was still snuggling on the warm kang (heated brick bed). The cat was just like the woman in front of him; it would always turn its face away with a look of disgust, but it wouldn't move its body and let him kiss it.

It's just a pity that later...

Zhao Wenchang's eyes dimmed, and then he shook his head vigorously to shake off those bad thoughts.

He gave Jiang Wanqiu a deep look, then turned and strode away before the sun had fully risen.

When Jiang Wanqiu woke up, she found herself alone on the kang (a heated brick bed). If it weren't for the lingering teeth marks on her shoulder, she would have thought that what happened yesterday was a dream.

She had just finished washing up in the enamel basin when someone banged on the living room door with such force that it sounded like they were trying to tear the door apart.

She opened the door with a frown.

A stern-faced military officer stood prominently at the entrance, followed by Lin Mengyao, who had an unfriendly expression, and several medics in white coats.

Outside the courtyard, Bai Weiwei and Sun Xiaomei, with their hands tucked in, pretended to be passing by watching the commotion. They all craned their necks, their faces showing undisguised schadenfreude.

The officer, with a cold face, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and read it aloud in a businesslike manner: "Comrade Jiang Wanqiu, we have received a report with real names and have come to investigate your case of 'practicing medicine without a license, causing drug poisoning to military family members.' Please cooperate."

No sooner had she finished speaking than Bai Weiwei interjected sarcastically, "Oh, Officer Li, it's not just selling fake medicine! Several of us heard a man's voice in her room last night! Battalion Commander Zhao just left, and she couldn't resist the temptation? You should search the room thoroughly to see if that wild man is still hiding there!"

Upon hearing this, the investigation team members' expressions turned even uglier.

Officer Li waved his hand and said, "Go in and search!"

The medics immediately rushed into the room and ransacked the place.

Jiang Wanqiu remained surprisingly calm. She simply crossed her arms and coldly watched the group search the house.

The house was only so big, so naturally nothing was found.

Jiang Wanqiu then slowly spoke, looking directly at Officer Li: "Officer Li, are you done searching? Now, can you tell me what exactly happened with the drug poisoning? Also, who reported it? I want to confront them face to face."

The other party sneered: "Don't worry, we'll let you identify the victim."

The group quickly arrived at the ward of the military hospital.

Lin Mengyao immediately adopted the professional demeanor of an attending physician, pointed at Liu Cui, who was unconscious on the hospital bed, and righteously accused her: "Officer Li, look, this is the victim! She took the 'three-no' medicine given to her by Jiang Wanqiu, which caused acute anaphylactic shock and almost cost her her life!"

As she spoke, she took out a piece of evidence containing medicinal powder wrapped in paper from the pocket of her white coat and presented it to the doctor. "This was found at Liu Cui's house. She admitted that Jiang Wanqiu gave it to her!"

When Jiang Wanqiu saw Liu Cui, whose face was sallow on the hospital bed, her heart skipped a beat. Her first thought was whether there was really something wrong with her medicinal wine.

But when she saw the medicine packet in Lin Mengyao's hand, she was first puzzled, and then a cold smile appeared on her lips.

“I never gave her this kind of medicine,” she said calmly.

"Impossible!" Lin Mengyao immediately retorted in a shrill voice, "Liu Cui told me herself! She said it was you who gave it to me!"

Jiang Wanqiu raised an eyebrow and took a step forward: "Alright, I want to ask Liu Cui in person whether I gave her this medicine or not."

All eyes instantly focused on the frail woman on the hospital bed, waiting for her to nail the last nail into Jiang Wanqiu's coffin.

Seeing Jiang Wanqiu remain so calm even as death approached, Lin Mengyao felt a surge of irritation. She walked over and reached out to shove Liu Cui, saying, "Liu Cui, wake up! Tell Officer Li right now, did Jiang Wanqiu give you the medicine you took?"

Liu Cui was jolted awake by the shaking. Still groggy, she sat up, and upon seeing the person before her, uttered a statement that shocked everyone present:

"Teacher Jiang...she has never given me any medicine!"

She was startled to see a group of people gathered around her bed when she woke up. After briefly understanding the situation, she hurriedly explained to the investigation team, "Teacher Jiang only gave me a bottle of medicinal wine to rub on my legs, and it worked very well. My legs don't hurt much anymore!"

As she spoke, she raised her hand tremblingly and pointed at Lin Mengyao, whose face was ashen.

"Yesterday... I had this problem because I took painkillers prescribed by the pharmacy! Moreover, as soon as I got the medicine from the pharmacy, Dr. Lin stopped me in the corridor and even took my medicine to look at it! The medicine I took only passed through her hands!"

These words caused an uproar in the audience!

The focus of the investigation instantly shifted from Jiang Wanqiu to the panicked Lin Mengyao.

Jiang Wanqiu seized the opportunity and calmly made a request to Officer Li: "Officer Li, since that's the case, I request that the 'evidence' submitted by Dr. Lin be examined and its ingredients compared with those of the same batch of painkillers in the military hospital pharmacy. If the ingredients don't match, then where did this tampered medicine come from? I'm afraid... we'll have to ask Dr. Lin to explain it properly."