Chapter 18: Going Crazy on the Eighteenth Day Lu Xingjian gave you this
"Nangong Lie, how dare you pull my hair!"
Watching Nangong Lie pulling out a handful of her hair, Tan Mo screamed in pain.
I suddenly opened my eyes and saw pitch black.
"Host, are you having a nightmare?" The system quietly came online.
Tan Mo nodded, then quickly touched her hair in the dark.
Fortunately, her beautiful hair, one of the few that she still has while working, is still there.
Taking the context into consideration, the system quickly deduced what Tan Mo had dreamed about. "Host, don't be afraid. The one who should be worried about the hair is Nangong Lie. You pulled out quite a bit of his hair during the fight."
But being able to pull out Nangong Lie's hair and beat him up with the "Pegasus Meteor Fist" was not free. Tan Mo spent a full two million.
This was the first time she spent so much money on a man.
I guess Xu Xiaonian didn’t spend as much as she did on Nangong Lie.
Tan Mo felt heartbroken just thinking about it.
She turned over slightly, feeling sore and weak all over. Tan Mo sighed softly, "It turns out that spending money on a man is the beginning of a woman's suffering."
"These are wise words from the vast majority of sisters who have suffered losses."
Tan Mo put her right hand on her left wrist, wanting to rub it, but instead of feeling any soft skin, she scratched it, feeling the slippery sensation of something between her fingertips and wrist.
A faint aroma of bitter medicine seeped out from the gaps in the quilt.
It's a plaster!
Tan Mo sat up, enduring the pain, and flicked on the bedside lamp. She held her hand to the light, its flawless whiteness tinged with the yellow of the scenery. Covered with plasters and bandages, it swelled like a steamed bun.
She took the mirror on the bedside table and looked at her face. The wound on her face had also been treated.
If you look closely, you can see cute cartoon patterns on the Band-Aid.
Tan Mo laughed heartily. "I feel like a comic book bad girl right now. I didn't expect Lin Yu's wound treatment skills to be quite good."
"Lu Xingjian put it on for you."
The sudden system voice froze Tan Mo's smile on her face.
Her mind began to flash back to the scene of herself beating Nangong Lie, coming out of the office, and finally fainting in Lu Xingjian's arms.
This picture is a bit romantic.
So filthy! So filthy!
Tan Mo was stunned for a few seconds, then screamed and reflexively hid back in the quilt, burying herself completely.
Good, she's a corpse now.
Don’t think about anything, don’t think about anything!
You stupid fool, I told you not to think about anything! Why is your mind still stuck on the last scene where you fell into Lu Xingjian's arms?
Braised pork, sweet and sour spareribs, pork knuckle...
Why don’t you change the picture?
The system that could see what was in Tan Mo's mind was speechless. It wondered if its host had lost his brain.
After playing with herself in bed for half an hour, Tan Mo was completely exhausted.
She emerged from the quilt, sweating profusely. The cool night breeze blew in through the open window, making Tan Mo feel much better. Along with the wind came the sounds of cars, voices, and the fleeting movement of lights.
And the aroma of food.
Tan Mo sniffed and said, "What a nice smell! Who's cooking preserved egg and lean meat porridge?"
Anyway, it can't be her house.
This is what it’s like to work alone and rent a house. There’s never a delicious meal waiting for you. If you want to eat something, you either have to drag your tired body to cook it yourself, or order takeout that’s heavy in oil and salt.
Tan Mo took out her cell phone. It was already 8:30 in the evening. She then opened the food delivery app and started searching for century egg and lean meat porridge.
After browsing for more than ten minutes, she exited the software in annoyance. The dishes on it were either pre-made or labeled as new and creative lean meat porridge, which looked terrible at first glance.
Speaking of which, the best lean meat porridge Tan Mo has ever had was made by her mother. The rice grains were neither too rotten nor distinct, the preserved eggs were chewy, and the lean meat was fresh and salty, leaving a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth.
She can drink two bowls at a time.
The more she thought about it, the hungrier she got. Tan Mo simply ordered some ingredients online, planning to make it herself. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she climbed out of bed and searched through the snack pile for some bread.
As she chewed the bread, Tan Mo suddenly realized something important. "Did someone say I was the lost daughter of a wealthy family?"
At that time, she was tired and hungry, and was eager to beat Nangong Lie, so she didn't take this matter to heart.
System: "That's what happened."
"Is this plot in the book 'The Priceless Little Wife: 99 Escapes'?"
"No, but after you entered the book, some of the plot has changed, and I can't predict it."
Could it be that he is playing a trick on her?
Tan Mo warned herself not to have any expectations.
But what if it was true? She would be fine, but what about her friends?
You always have to give a reminder, right?
Just like the last time when she was completely unaware, she accidentally found out that Lin Yu was the heroine of another book and was secretly in love with Hu Jiayu. She still felt a sense of disparity.
Tan Mo took out her cell phone, thought for a moment, and sent a WeChat message to Master Gao, Aunt Fengjuan, and Lin Yu respectively, saying, "I have a secret. I might very well be the real daughter of a wealthy family who is living away from home."
After looking at the screen, Tan Mo copied and pasted the same words to Lu Xingjian.
Soon, Master Gao and Aunt Fengjuan replied at the same time.
Master Gao: "It's bad for your health to have fewer dreams at night."
Aunt Fengjuan: "It's bad for your health to have fewer dreams at night."
Tan Mo: ...
Tan Mo: "You two definitely drank together secretly."
Master Gao: "There's nothing I can do. Nangong Lie got beaten up and was yelling at home, so I came out to get some peace and quiet."
Aunt Fengjuan: "This idiot got beaten so badly, it's so satisfying."
Tan Mo: It seems that the people in the villa don’t know that it was her who beat Nangong Lie.
After seven or eight minutes, Lin Yu was the third person to reply to her.
Lin Yu: "I'll tell you a secret too. Hu Jiayu is my boyfriend."
Tan Mo: ...Is this still a secret? She's quite sincere, though. She's telling her such a secret. She's truly a sister. I was so moved I almost cried.
Lin Yu: "Like me, I suspect it was a hallucination before death."
Tan Mo: ...Okay, my tears were shed in vain.
Then she was bombarded with messages from Lin Yu on WeChat: "Come to work when you wake up. Nangong Lie is annoying me to death."
"When you're not around, he just exploits me. He's calling me so late at night. Why doesn't he call Assistant Lu? Can't he just treat me like I'm dead?"
"Why didn't you beat him to death with one punch during the day? Woohoo, my life is so miserable. I want to quit."
"Tan Mo, come and work overtime with me."
Tan Mo: It seems that the news that she is the real daughter has not yet been revealed.
Faced with Lin Yu's collapse, Tan Mo just silently set her to do not disturb and then exited, Amen.
Look at the responses from these three people.
Tan Mo: Okay, okay, okay. No one believes her. She is just too self-indulgent.
Just as she was about to turn off her phone, Tan Mo received a message from Lu Xingjian.
"You are."
Tan Mo: Well, he trusts her so much.
"When I sent you home this afternoon, I made you some preserved egg and lean meat porridge. It's on the gas stove, so just heat it up."
Tan Mo: Eh…!!
The slender fingertips, like peeling onions, touched the screen and clicked to send the long sentence.
"Zhou Jie, are you okay? I'm dying of pain!"
Hearing the impatient voice, Lu Xingjian turned off his phone, put it in his pocket, and quickly put on medical gloves, a mask, and glasses. When he reappeared in the light, he was already a professional doctor in a white coat.
"Lin Yu actually dared to hang up the phone. All of them are so annoying." Nangong Lie threw his phone on the sofa in frustration. He glanced at the person in front of him and said irritably, "Zhou Jie, you don't want me to worry about it either, right? You just went to prepare some medicine, but you took so long. It hurt me so much."
Zhou Jie walked towards him, put the medicine box on the small round table beside him, and said in a calm voice: "You are injured like this, of course I have to prepare more medicine."
Without stopping his hands, he dipped a cotton swab in iodine and glanced at Nangong Lie. "You have a few bald spots on your head. You may need a hair transplant later."
"Bang--"
"Impossible! I'm a CEO, and I want a hair transplant?!" Nangong Lie slammed the coffee table. "This woman is so cruel!"
As soon as the cold cotton swab touched the wound, Nangong Lie grimaced in pain, "Be gentle."
Zhou Jie glanced at him, then lowered his eyelashes and wiped the wound more vigorously, "It's not heavy, how do you clean the dirt out?"
He spoke lightly and calmly, which was convincing and Nangong Lie found it difficult to refute.
"If you're afraid of pain, you should call a nurse. That's their job."
"don't want."
He would be so embarrassed if outsiders saw it. After all, Jay Chou was his college classmate and one of his own.
"Don't look at me looking so miserable. That woman had no better life in my hands either." Nangong Lie tried to save his face.
After hearing this, disdain and ridicule flashed across Zhou Jie's eyes.
"Oh? Why didn't you let her feel better?"
"I am like this...like that..." Nangong Lie gestured to him with his hands, describing himself as an invincible and mighty general.
Then he pointed to the bruise on his left eye and said, "See? This is my medal."
"A woman like her...ah..." Before he could finish his words, Nangong Lie screamed in pain again.
“…Human, ah!”
“…Just, ah!”
"…yes!"
“… Ouch!”
“…Collect, ah!”
“… Pick up, ah!”
Nangong Lie became a screaming chicken.
He pushed Zhou Jie's hand away irritably.
"Why do you always poke me when I say something bad about her!"
Zhou Jie lowered his eyes to hide the anger in his eyes, "Then why do you always say bad things about her when I poke you?"
Nangong Lie's mouth was numb with pain, and everything was going wrong.
"Okay, wait until I finish applying the medicine before you talk." Zhou Jie changed the subject, "Since you beat her so badly, didn't you ever consider that she would retaliate?"
"She's just a little assistant, how can I be afraid of her? How can she be so brave?" Nangong Lie didn't care at all and urged: "Hurry up, apply the medicine on me. What do I look like now?"
Zhou Jie stood beside him, tending to bottles and jars of medicine. He lowered his eyes slightly, a thin, cold shadow stretching out from the corner of his eye beneath his plain glasses. His eyes, as damp and snake-like as a glint, made one shudder.
It’s a pity that Nangong Lie didn’t see it.
"I have the latest ointment here, it works very well, would you like to try it?"
"Okay, I want good results."
Zhou Jie soaked two bottles of powdered medicine in water, then soaked them with gauze and took them out.
Nangong Lie looked at him and suddenly asked, "Zhou Jie, did you have plastic surgery? I feel like your eyes didn't look like this before."
Zhou Jie paused and said calmly, "How long has it been since you last saw me?"
Nangong Lie was embarrassed.
"Okay, now close your eyes and I'll put it on you. It'll be a little cold and painful at first, so you have to bear it."
"Remember, you must endure it."
Feeling the cool touch against his skin, Nangong Lie said, "I know, stop nagging."
"I'm going to the bathroom."
Nangong Lie joked: "Shouldn't you go to the urology department to see if there is something wrong with your prostate?"
However, Zhou Jie did not answer him, and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away in his ears.
"There's something wrong with this kid. He's so silent today." Nangong Lie muttered as he lay on the sofa.
Although he was busy dating Xu Xiaonian and hadn't caught up with his brothers for a while, he still understood Zhou Jie's carefree and talkative personality.
"Is it because you can't find a wife and you're angry and sad because you see me showing off my affection every day?" Nangong Lie had gauze on both eyes and he muttered, "Looks like I still need to find a girlfriend."
The cold touch on his eyes began to turn hot, and liquid flowed into his eyes, causing some stinging. Nangong Lie remembered what Zhou Jie said, but he still endured it.
Gradually, the stinging pain became unbearable, as if hot silver needles were pricking his eyes, and tears began to flow.
He said anxiously, "That's not right, Zhou Jie, why are my eyes so uncomfortable? Are you sure you want to endure it?"
No one answered.
"Zhou Jie?"
"Zhou Jie?"
Nangong Lie shouted twice, louder and louder, until the empty room was filled with only his echo. Nangong Lie's heart sank, and he snatched the gauze from his eyes and stumbled to the bathroom to wash his eyes.
The ice-cold water now felt like scalding lime water. The moment it touched my eyelids, the skin started to fester and bubble. The already purple eyelids were stripped of their healthy flesh, a horrible sight.
"Zhou Jie!" Nangong Lie cursed in pain.
While wiping his eyes with a clean towel, he took out his cell phone to call Zhou Jie, but found that Zhou Jie had blocked him.
And WeChat.
Nangong Lie sent a voice message, but received a red exclamation mark.
Delete him.
Nangong Lie became more and more confused.
Zhou Jie was both his friend and his family doctor. Whenever he or Xu Xiaonian had a minor illness, even in the middle of the night, as long as he received a call, Zhou Jie would come over to check on them.
As usual, Jay Chou was also called by his assistant tonight.
Nangong Lie found the phone number of the private hospital where Zhou Jie worked and dialed it angrily.
If this was a joke from Jay Chou, it's not funny at all! What friend would endanger a friend's life for a joke?
The phone beeped twice and connected.
Before the other party could say anything, Nangong Lie went straight to the point, "Where is Zhou Jie? Let him answer the phone."
"Hello, who are you?" It was obviously the voice of a female nurse.
“Nangong Lie!”
"Oh, it's you. It took you so long to call." The nurse's eager voice cooled. "Doctor Zhou resigned six months ago to continue his studies in the United States."
"He deleted and blocked all your contact information, and let me tell you, he's tired of you calling him in the middle of the night to deal with a wound that could be fixed with a Band-Aid."
"No friend would treat his friend like this."
"He couldn't stand your madness anymore, and didn't want to be the victim anymore, so he resigned and went abroad to study. Oh, and he even asked me to call you a lunatic."
"Goodbye, Mr. Dian." After saying that, he hung up the phone neatly.
Nangong Lie: ...
I got such a result.
Nangong Lie was in a complicated mood. He was abandoned by his friends and was called a madman by his friends. Is he really a madman?
Before he could think about it, he felt a chill.
Since the Zhou Jie he knew resigned half a year ago, who is the Zhou Jie who treated his wounds today?
Could it be that Tan Mo sent someone to take revenge on him?
The hairs on Nangong Lie's back stood up and he felt cold.
"Tan Mo! You and I cannot coexist!" Nangong Lie swore viciously.
As soon as I finished swearing, the pain in my eyes came back again.
Someone come and help him.
"Xiao Nian, Xu Xiao Nian?"
"Master Gao? Has anyone replied to me?"
"Butler Feng, come here quickly, Xu Xiaonian, save me, my eyes hurt so much!" Nangong Lie cried miserably.
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