At night, in the bedroom.
Ding Qiunan nestled in her man's arms.
"Li Chu, I heard everything you and Wenxuan said just now."
"Huh? What did you hear?"
Ding Qiunan sat up abruptly, facing her man, not caring whether her delicate skin was exposed.
“I heard what you two were saying in the study just now. I was just about to go in to get you some water when I got to the study door. Your door wasn’t closed properly, and your voices came through the crack.”
Looking at his lover's tense face, Li Chu smiled slightly and reached out to pull her into his arms.
"Don't move, explain yourself first." Ding Qiunan dodged his hand.
"What are you talking about? Since you say you heard it, you should know what I said."
Taking advantage of his wife's momentary lapse in attention, Li Chu quickly reached out and pulled her close, holding her tightly in his arms.
Before Ding Qiunan could struggle, he leaned over and kissed her again.
"We've been married for over twenty years, don't you trust me?"
"Of course I believe you, but I just feel a little uncomfortable." After hearing her husband's words, she stopped struggling, but her voice sounded a little muffled.
"I don't care whether you're physically or emotionally with me. Why are you uncomfortable? We can't control what others are thinking, nor do we need to. We just need to be ourselves."
Ding Qiunan raised her head and gazed at the man she loved so dearly.
“Li Chu, tell me the truth, ever since you found out that she had those kinds of feelings for you, did you hesitate for even a minute?”
“No, not even for a second. My heart is very, very small, so small that it can only hold you. Ever since we became a couple, here…” He pointed to his heart.
"I have no other thoughts, I just want to be good to you and live a down-to-earth life with you."
"Hmph, you pass!" Ding Qiunan rested her head on his chest again.
"Then tell me, whose child is she carrying?"
"How could I know? The last time I saw her was in 1982 when her sister got married. I haven't seen her since."
"Oh well, never mind her." With that, Ding Qiunan looked up again, leaned close to Li Chu's ear, and whispered, "Darling, love me."
"When will I ever stop loving you?"
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The next morning, as soon as he arrived at his office, Li Yunli came to report that the head of the pharmaceutical company in West Germany wanted to meet with him.
Didn't he say what it was about?
"No, he only said he hoped you could find some time to meet him."
Li Chu thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Alright, let's go now."
Two years have passed, and five pharmaceutical companies have sent a total of fifty people to participate in the drug trials. Some of them have already entered the second phase, but the researchers sent by these companies have gained nothing except witnessing the drug's miraculous effects.
In fact, Li Chu sometimes felt a little guilty. After all, these companies had spent a lot of money in the past two years and had already started investing in mainland China. As for the wild ginseng they had somehow acquired, he had also managed to get a lot of it through various means.
There are also those who come for training. There are four batches every two years, and the fifth batch is currently underway. It has basically covered hospitals at the county level and above across the country, including those engaged in the use, maintenance, and laboratory testing of medical equipment.
Even the public security system, organized by provincial department, sent many police officers engaged in laboratory testing to come and learn.
If you keep targeting these few companies and taking advantage of them, eventually everyone will feel embarrassed.
In the base's small conference room, Li Chu met Conrad and Bell. From their high spirits two years ago to their current somewhat dejected state, Li Chu sometimes wanted to comfort them.
"Gentlemen, what brings you to see me?"
Conrad and Bell exchanged a glance, and then Conrad spoke up: "Lee, we've been working together for two years now. I thought we were friends. I know you speak many languages, so why do you insist on communicating through a translator?"
Li Chu paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Conrad, you should know that I am a public servant and a soldier, so..."
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At this point, he spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders.
His reasoning left Conrad and Bell feeling helpless, but they had no way to refute it.
In their eyes, this is just a business collaboration; as long as there is profit, I can make friends with anyone.
In their eyes, Li Chu was the person with whom they had a huge vested interest.
Conrad looked at Li Chu's face, which had hardly changed in the past two years, and finally asked the question that had been bothering him.
"Okay, let's not talk about that anymore. I'm concerned about something else now: does your medicine have any cosmetic effects?"
“I can tell you very clearly, no. And you should be able to tell that your companies have been communicating privately, and you should know better than me what changes have occurred to those fifty people.”
Li Chu answered him without hesitation, saying that it was not true at all.
After listening to Li Yunli's translation, Bell, who was sitting next to her, couldn't help but point to her own face: "Li, can you explain to us why your appearance is so inconsistent with your age?"
"Heh, Bell, what you said is hilarious, you know? Why should I explain? Give me a reason why I need to explain."
"Uh..." This question stumped Bell.
That's right, why should they explain it to you? Whatever they took or applied, what does it have to do with you?
After finishing her translation, Li Yunli, who was sitting to the side, kept stealing glances at her leader, eager to know the answer as well.
No woman can resist such temptation.
Especially since she sees Ding Qiunan almost every day, even though she is ten years younger than him, if the two of them stand together, no one would think she is younger; they would only think that she is the older one.
After Li Chu finished speaking, he also thought of the prescriptions he had on hand: ones for removing freckles, whitening, and removing scars. However, since he hadn't tested them, he wasn't sure if these medicines would work on people of other skin colors.
"Li, I'm sorry, I got a little excited and misspoke. What I wanted to ask is, do you have any prescriptions for beauty treatments here?"
Bell realized he had said the wrong thing and quickly explained.
“Bell, I don’t have those prescriptions here. I’m a doctor, not a cosmetic surgeon.”
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