Chen Rou reached out, but instead of pulling Nie Zhao up, he pulled her towards himself.
At the same time, he adjusted the bed position with his other hand, and the headboard suddenly rose, pushing him up as well.
Everything happened in an instant. Chen Rou's nose almost poked his eye socket. His long, thick eyelashes swept across her eyebrows and eyes, and his warm breath, carrying the scent of medicine, brushed against her face, like a caterpillar tickling her.
This is a man with exceptionally refined features, especially his eyebrows, which are fine, long, and shaped like sharp blades.
His eyes were also very beautiful, with deep-set eyes and exceptionally thin eyelids. At first glance, his eyes seemed very affectionate in the morning light, but upon closer inspection, the underlying color of his eyes was quite similar to Nie Rong's, showing scrutiny and suspicion, which made him appear very ruthless.
Instinctively, Chen Rou tilted her head back and shook off Nie Zhao's hand.
Nie Zhao also quickly lowered his eyes, his entire face twitching with pain. He struggled to cover his collarbone with his hand, where there was a penetrating wound that was still inflamed and difficult to heal. Because he insisted on not using anesthesia after the surgery and had to endure the pain, one can imagine how intense the pain must have been.
There were painkillers by his bedside, several kinds in total, including injectable, spray, and oral medications, which could effectively relieve pain of varying degrees. The hospital had prepared these for Nie Zhao after he refused to receive sedatives.
Chen Rou, a former soldier, was surrounded by incredibly strong and capable people, both men and women. She herself was of iron will and had no sense of chivalry. However, considering that Nie Zhao was just an ordinary person who couldn't handle pain, she picked out a spray-on anesthetic and said, "Let me spray some medicine on you. It can relieve the superficial pain, and spray-on medicines have no side effects."
Nie Zhao said decisively, "No need, I can handle it."
He said he could handle it, but the muscles in his face were trembling with pain, and the hairs on his forehead stood up clearly.
Chen Rou often beats people up, and 99% of them are men. She is never curious about men, and apart from her former superior in the army, she has never admired any man. However, she does admire Nie Zhao's ability to endure pain.
She thought he was in a hurry to get up to see Mei Lu. Fortunately, there were scarves, blankets, and a wheelchair prepared by Uncle Ming by the bedside. So Chen Rou prepared to pull the wheelchair and take him out.
But at the same time, Nie Zhao pushed the bed back a little, picked up his water glass, took a sip, and asked, "Do you know Nan Batian?"
Chen Rou couldn't recall it for a moment, but felt that the name Nan Batian was very familiar to her.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Nie Zhao tried asking again, "Do you know Liu Wencai and Huang Shiren? Are you familiar with them?"
This isn't a matter of whether you know them or not. Liu Wencai, Nan Batian, Huang Shiren, and Zhou Bapi—in China, no matter which province, county, or street, if you randomly grab someone and ask them, they'll tell you that they were the four most notorious landlords before liberation. People used to play cards and fight against these four when they played Dou Dizhu (a card game).
The Landlord F4, a four-person bully group.
For a moment, Chen Rou wondered if Nie Zhao was crazy, and almost asked him: Don't you know any of them?
But she immediately realized that Nie Zhao was from Hong Kong and had grown up in the West, so he really didn't know the Four Great Bullies.
She was unaware of the things Song Yuanchao and Nie Zhao had whispered to each other by the bedside. In addition, regarding Han Yuzhu's death, many of the clues Nie Zhao had given her were ones that Chen Rou had never read about in her previous life when it came to the case of the Nie family. These clues also perfectly matched the kidnapping case, so Chen Rou began to suspect that if she could time travel, then Nie Zhao might have also time traveled.
Chen Rou's birthday is June 18th. According to historical timeline, today is the fifth day after her birth, and also the fifth day after the original owner of this body was murdered. On the day the original owner died in the Philippines, she, little Chen Rou, was born.
Chen Rou was definitely worried about her family, so she planned to return to the mainland after the Nie family's affairs were settled, to find her mother, and also to see herself as a baby.
Also, her biological father will die in two years due to drug trafficking, and she definitely wants to save him.
However, when making this plan, Chen Rou assumed that she was the only time traveler.
Her mission in this life is to avenge the original owner of this body by killing all the pirates, saving her father, and then wiping out the drug dealers.
However, none of those things are easy to accomplish. After all, the pirates have the United States backing them up, while the damned drug traffickers are involved in the encirclement and erosion of China by the entire Southeast Asia during the process of reform and opening up.
Nie Zhao is now a figurehead for the West in Hong Kong. Moreover, with only eight years left until the handover, 70% of the Hong Kong airport he was building was for military purposes, serving as the British colonial government's military hub in the Pan-Asian region. In short, Nie Zhao and Chen Rou are not only not friends, but enemies.
As the person in charge on the British side, if he were to hear that she was a special forces soldier from the mainland, he would most likely send her directly to MI6 and have MI6 use her as a guinea pig for experiments.
But if Nie Zhao were to be reborn, or travel back from the future, given his future status as a recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal, his attitude towards China and Western countries would be different from his current one.
On the bright side, if they are honest with each other and share the same vision, he will be a great help to Chen Rou.
So, did he really get reborn? And how should Chen Rou test him without revealing herself?
In her past life, Chen Rou occasionally read time-travel novels to relax, so she knew the saying "odd changes, even remains the same, sign depends on quadrant," as well as "little rabbit, be good and open the door, or don't open it, don't open it," and "Imperial Jade Liquor, 180 yuan a cup." So, could she use these to test Nie Zhao?
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