"Lu Yan, are you really planning to marry me? Your situation will only last a few months at most, shouldn't we..." She had already thought it through; she would just issue a statement saying that they had broken up peacefully. She felt there was no need to continue pretending.
His knife paused slightly as he cut the steak.
"You want to distance yourself from me?" Lu Yan's eyes were deep.
"No, I just think the girl is quite cute and a good match for you, so I don't want to hold you back."
She felt the chill emanating from him growing stronger, and she couldn't help but swallow.
He laughed angrily, "Xia Yixin, then what do you think our relationship is?"
“Friend, to put it another way, you’re three years younger than me, and I’m your older sister. I have to think about your life’s most important thing. If you don’t like this one, tell me, and I’ll find you another one.”
She put on an act of genuine concern for him, but to her surprise, his expression grew increasingly grim, and behind his glasses, his eyes held a thousand stars, as dangerous as a wolf's.
She was anxious, wondering if she had said something wrong.
The man suddenly said in a cold voice, "You want to be my sister?"
"Ahem. You don't have to call me if you don't like it..."
She felt a chill run down her spine from his gaze. Unexpectedly, he suddenly put down his knife and looked at her with a helpless smile.
"You usually seem pretty smart, but you can be incredibly stupid when it really matters."
He really wanted to wake her up now, but it wasn't the right time. Her cluelessness saved him from further trouble, but...
"You should avoid seeing that Su guy in the future; the Su family is tainted."
She didn't quite understand his erratic thinking, but thinking about the way Su Bei looked at her, she frowned slightly.
"That's good, it saves those gossip magazines from spreading nonsense."
Her words pleased a certain man.
He gave the steak he had cut to Xia Yixin.
Overwhelmed with gratitude, Xia Yixin stammered, "Thank you."
The man responded with a smile.
The Western restaurant wasn't too crowded at lunchtime. The people at the table next to them were a middle-aged couple.
Seeing this, the woman couldn't help but glare at her husband, saying, "Look how considerate other people's husbands are!"
A woman who was quietly eating her steak almost choked.
Xia Yixin finally managed to swallow the best-tasting beef, and watching the man across from her calmly and methodically slicing his steak with a knife like a scalpel, she secretly sighed that he truly deserved to be a medical professional.
Cutting a steak felt like dissecting a body to her, and she naturally asked some questions.
"Lu Yan, what made you decide to study medicine?"
She waited a while, thinking he wouldn't answer, and was about to change the subject when he spoke.
"It is a shortcut; it can conquer the fear of death and pain; it is the most enduring tool for seizing benefits in the world."
Good heavens...
"My apologies, my apologies." She chuckled awkwardly, only to find the man looking at her mockingly. This guy was actually talking nonsense with a straight face. "Hey!"
Lu Yan put away his joking tone and answered seriously, "It's for researching the Bai family bloodline. Strength, speed, and healing ability are the Bai family bloodline's abilities, and it also minimizes pain, which sounds impressive. But the Bai family's bloodline abilities are not innate."
She was a little confused. "Not the Bai family ancestors?"
"What I mean by innate is its activation, not its natural occurrence. It requires two conditions: first, there must be a mutation in the genes; second, there must be a capricious process that prompts the Bai family bloodline to function."
Only when driven to the brink of despair can rebirth be triggered.
Xia Yixin understood what he meant and suddenly remembered that Li Rui had said he hadn't appeared since leaving the orphanage until he came to the Capital Medical College three years ago.
Who adopted him?
Was that person forcing him into a desperate situation for the sake of the Bai family bloodline?
Whether in the original work or not, no one has studied why Lu Yan became an antisocial personality, but at this moment Xia Yixin seems to have guessed something.
She knew that sympathy was pointless, and said carefully.
"Actually, I've also had days when life was worse than death, but I've come to understand a principle: only when you're infinitely close to death can you truly appreciate the meaning of life. So in this wonderful world, we should be indomitable, live towards death, and forge ahead through thorns."
She felt so touched by his words that she suddenly felt a warmth on the top of her head as he gently rubbed her head.
"If you don't eat it soon, your strawberry ice cream will melt."
Who knows why the desserts at this restaurant come out so fast! She slapped his hand away in frustration.
This clueless, emotionless straight man, ugh!
She didn't notice Lu Yan's thoughtful expression; he had grasped the key point in her words.
Did you ever experience a living hell?
His investigations have clearly revealed her life over the past ten years. Apart from being praised to death, she lived a life of luxury and privilege. How could she possibly be living a life worse than death?
The closer he got to her, the more interesting things he discovered.
This little liar is definitely hiding a secret.
In the following days, with Lu Yan's cooperation, the pharmaceutical company's license and certification procedures went very smoothly.
Yixin Pharmaceutical is fully prepared in all aspects.
There's a story behind why the name "Yixin Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd." was retained.
When Xia Yixin organized a vote among all the shareholders of the new company to choose a name, the name proposed by Lu Yan was unanimously approved, except by Xia Yixin.
"Single-minded, that's quite profound." Professor Hao's words drew the other shareholders' "we'll just quietly watch you spout nonsense" expressions.
The company name was ultimately decided by a twist of fate. As for whether "Yixin" and "Yixin" are actually related, the parties involved pretend not to know, and the onlookers can only play dumb as well.
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