Su Ting's diamond earrings shook violently and her face turned from red to white.
She opened her mouth and wanted to refute, but she remembered her indifferent back in the surveillance footage.
Finally, she bit her lip and turned away.
The crowd gradually dispersed.
Chen Xiaoyu helped the old man up and was about to leave.
Suddenly, a clear voice came from behind.
"Wait a moment."
Chen Xiaoyu turned around and saw Gu Youran standing behind her.
"This is for you." Gu Youran handed over a note with neat handwriting: [See you in my office tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock.]
Chen Xiaoyu took the note, her fingertips trembling slightly.
She looked up at Gu Youran, her eyes full of surprise, "Doctor Gu, I..."
Gu Youran smiled and patted her shoulder, "You did a great job today."
Chen Xiaoyu's eyes were slightly red. "Thank you, Dr. Gu. I will definitely not let you down."
…
Gu Youran pushed open the door of the clinic.
Shi Heng was leaning against her desk, playing with a silver needle in his hand.
The silver needle flipped between his slender fingers, reflecting tiny bits of light.
"What's going on? Mr. Shi has switched to acupuncture?" Gu Youran smiled as she approached, placing her fingertips on his wrist. "Let me take your pulse and see if you're suited to this line of work."
Shi Heng took the opportunity to pull her into his arms.
"Doctor Gu, I have a difficult case..." His breath swept past her ears, "Lovesickness, can it be cured?"
Gu Youran's ears flushed red, and she placed her fingertips on his chest. "This disease requires a unique secret remedy..."
Before she finished speaking, Shi Heng had already lowered his head and kissed her lips.
"bite--"
The silver needle slipped from his fingers.
His palm moved along her waistline, and his fingertips touched the skin under her white coat.
Gu Youran panted softly and pushed him away, "Stop messing around, this is a clinic..."
"Then let's go home?" Shi Heng's lips touched her earlobe, his voice low and hoarse, "I've just learned a new set of massage techniques, and I'd like to give them to you to try."
"Bang--"
The door was kicked open.
Si Wenjie rushed in panting, his tie askew and the document in his hand crumpled.
Gu Youran was being held in Shi Heng's arms. She immediately broke free from his embrace, the blush on her ears not yet completely fading.
Shi Heng's hand was still resting on her waist, his brows slightly furrowed, "What's going on?"
Si Wenjie coughed dryly and tried to catch his breath. "Something's happened! I just received news that Tiantian Pharmaceutical, along with several other pharmaceutical companies, is trying to ban our new product launch tomorrow!"
He slammed the documents on the table and said angrily, "They bribed all the suppliers, cut off our access to raw materials, and spread a quality inspection scandal, saying our products were substandard."
"Those dealers who had already signed pre-order contracts and were originally planning to sign the formal contracts at the new product launch have now all changed their minds!"
"The boss of Tiantian Pharmaceutical has declared that anyone who dares to cooperate with us will never be able to get any of their products on the shelves of their national pharmacy chain!"
"The boss of Tiantian Pharmaceutical approached me before," Si Wenjie wiped the sweat from his forehead. "He wanted to buy the formula provided by my sister-in-law and produce it ourselves, but I flatly refused."
"I didn't expect them to hold such a grudge and team up with other pharmaceutical companies to trip us up."
The clinic fell into silence for a moment.
Shi Heng suddenly chuckled and walked to the window.
The dusk shone through the blinds, creating alternating lines of light and dark on his profile.
The slender fingers drew several invisible tracks on the windowsill, as if they were deducing a chess game in the void.
"Don't worry, there will be a turning point."
When he turned around, the last ray of setting sun just passed over his brow, and a dark golden edge was sharpened in his pupils.
The document in Si Wenjie's hand suddenly slipped.
He had never seen Shi Heng like this before.
He is dressed in a suit and tie, but looks like a general wielding a sword.
Even the aroma of medicine floating in the clinic was transformed into an invisible aura of war.
Shi Heng returned to Gu Youran and tapped the table with his fingertips.
"They're only cutting off regular raw material channels."
He opened his phone's photo album, showing a valley shrouded in mist. "The wild polygonatum and ganoderma lucidum in Yunling are three times more potent than those on the market."
Gu Youran's eyes lit up, "You mean..."
"The acquisition agreement was just signed this morning."
Shi Heng projected the electronic contract onto the wall. "The Yunling 300,000-acre ecological planting base is now our exclusive supplier."
Si Wenjie's eyes widened. "When did you..."
Shi Heng smiled slightly and said, "I started preparing after you rejected Tiantian Pharmaceutical's proposal a few days ago."
Si Wenjie stared blankly at the Yunling Mountains stretching out in the projection.
He suddenly remembered the "Chinese Medicinal Materials Research Fund" document that Shi Heng asked him to sign half a month ago.
It turns out that this man had been planning since then.
"Hengzi, your sneak attack on Chencang..." Si Wenjie's Adam's apple rolled, and his voice was hoarse, "I'm afraid all the Thirty-Six Stratagems must be engraved in your DNA."
Gu Youran stared at the signing timestamp in the electronic contract.
10:00 AM
It was time for her to interview the doctor.
At that time, she also received a text message from Shi Heng: [Remember to eat lunch.]
At this moment, she also discovered that there was a dry ginkgo leaf stuck on the edge of the scanned copy of the contract.
Tiny water droplets condense between the leaf veins, which are the morning dew crystals unique to Yunling.
"Did you get caught in the rain in Yunling when signing the contract?" Gu Youran asked.
The edge of the gauze under Shi Heng's cuff was stained with light yellow medicine, the color of her special wound ointment.
He rolled up his shirt sleeves carelessly. "I slipped while sampling the sample."
He revealed a fresh scratch on his forearm, but accidentally turned the phone screen towards her.
The lock screen showed a photo of her sleeping at her desk last night, her eyelashes casting fine shadows under the desk lamp.
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