Xu Manzhi looked the pretty girl in front of her up and down.
She suddenly remembered something.
On her wedding night, she was bored and hungry in the stone house that Yan Lin had arranged for her. Just then, she heard sparrows chirping outside, so she took out her slingshot to shoot them.
It was past midnight, and birds usually weren't out foraging at that time. She knew something was wrong, but she didn't think about it carefully. She grabbed some pebbles and started sweeping them around wildly.
Whoosh whoosh.
Sparrows fell like raindrops.
Under the moonlight, she vaguely saw a figure, took a deep sniff, and smelled a fragrance in the air, a sweet scent unique to unmarried girls, which seemed to have intruded into her life.
Xu Manzhi picked up the slingshot and aimed.
Instead of dodging, the figure pressed closer...
Its strong aggressiveness goes without saying.
So she picked up her slingshot and started shooting. One stone after another flew out, hitting the figure that kept moving forward without missing a single one.
The man winced in pain, letting out a muffled groan. As he clutched his waist, a dagger fell from his body...
"Comrade Ye Qiqi—"
A shout interrupted Xu Manzhi's recollection.
Only then did Xu Manzhi equate the fictional character Ye Qiqi in the book with the real woman in front of her.
Smelling the familiar scent, Xu Manzhi couldn't help but smile.
She seemed to understand where the female lead's hostility towards her came from...
"Ye Qiqi, step aside. Don't spout any grand principles; I don't understand a word of them. Anyway, my sister-in-law would never harm my brother. Where were you when Brother Yan was on his deathbed?"
Where were you when Brother Yan was critically ill?
"Don't you have any idea why Brother Yan was arrested?"
Zou Xiaozhou ran away.
How dare Ye Qiqi doubt his sister-in-law!
"Dr. Dai, to be fair, didn't my sister-in-law save Brother Yan?" Zou Xiaozhou asked Dai Chunying.
The war was diverted eastward.
Dai Chunying looked bewildered, her gaze falling on Ye Qiqi. Her eyes twitched, and she said, "I know a little about virus-related theories, so what you said is certainly correct, but it's too late to help in the short term. By the time you develop a cure, people will already be gone."
That's the most important thing.
Ye Qiqi was somewhat dissatisfied after being relentlessly criticized by Zou Xiaozhou.
But Dai Chunying immediately got to the point.
Developing effective drugs is not a matter of a short time...
Her expression changed, and she said in a gruff voice, "But, but we can't just do whatever we want. What if someone dies? Can Xu Manzhi take responsibility?"
Should we take responsibility?
Yan Lin, who had been silent all along, revealed a cold smile in his eyes and slowly said, "Even if Zhizhi kills me, I will do it willingly. It is her duty. What does it have to do with you?"
*Slap slap*
Zou Xiaozhou clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "That's right, you are a military doctor, but you are not Brother Yan's personal doctor. If something happens to him, naturally my sister-in-law will take responsibility. Who do you think you are?"
"you--"
Ye Qiqi burst into tears.
She felt the malice of everyone present, and a surge of grievance welled up inside her. She immediately covered her face, cried, and rushed out the door.
Xu Manzhi didn't care at all.
Seeing that Yan Lin made no attempt to hide his favoritism towards her and did not treat Ye Qiqi differently just because she was the female lead, she felt somewhat pleased.
Even though she knew it was because the male and female leads hadn't started the main plot yet...
There was just one thing she didn't understand.
Did Ye Qiqi appear a little too early?
The story begins with Yan Lin's ex-wife dying, and the male and female protagonists are brought together by others and get married right at the start of the book. Whenever the ex-wife is mentioned, it is only briefly.
Ye Qiqi ran away while pregnant only because Yan Lin missed his ex-wife, which became a point of contention for Ye Qiqi. Later, to deepen the relationship between the male and female leads, the "chasing after his wife" scenario occurred...
"Sister-in-law, please don't mind her. Comrade Ye Qiqi is just being straightforward and is genuinely concerned about Comrade Yan Lin's condition," Qian Lei suddenly explained.
“I understand, I won’t take it to heart,” Xu Manzhi said readily.
She wasn't trying to show magnanimity, but rather that there was no need to dwell on it. Saving lives was the priority, killing Ruan Wenming was secondary; the objective was clear and unambiguous.
Qian Lei gave a thumbs up.
He immediately led the group out and said to Yan Lin, "You should recover first. Commander Yan has sent a telegram, telling us to remove the mines in the western district first, otherwise innocent people will be harmed."
The people of the tribe are shameless.
Taking advantage of the magnanimity of the Chinese people and their shared sense of national identity, they actually crossed the border to plant mines.
"good."
Yan Lin said he was aware of the situation.
After they left, Xu Manzhi began to activate the giant virus for Yan Lin, almost three fingers per needle, the dense needle marks making Yan Lin break out in a cold sweat.
The suffering involved is unimaginable.
By the time the blood flowed to the back of his arm, Yan Lin had developed a large lump on his arm.
Xu Manzhi immediately took an empty syringe and began to draw blood.
A syringe full of pus and blood.
In the instant that all his energy was drained, Yan Lin felt completely refreshed, his vitality surged back, and his voice became strong again.
He grabbed Xu Manzhi's wrist and sat up from the bed.
As soon as I stood up, the hole in my waist burst open and started to bleed.
Xu Manzhi quickly pressed him down on the bed with incredible strength. He straightened his back, but the woman forcefully pushed him back down...
"Zhizhi, you, you're incredibly strong! What kind of medicine did you take to grow so strong?" Yan Lin was shocked.
He had never experienced this kind of treatment before.
Especially when he tried to pounce on her, she actually held him down with one of her arms!
Xu Manzhi blushed.
How can this be explained?
Could you say it was innate...?
“You used to be so weak you couldn’t even lift anything, you’d stumble when carrying a bucket of water. I used to tell the brothers that you were too frail to even kill a chicken,” Yan Lin said quietly.
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