Chapter 103
Although Princess Sherry couldn't visit Feng Ran in person, she sent someone to deliver gifts as a gesture of goodwill. In terms of business dealings, she was a satisfactory boss.
During his treatment and recuperation, Feng Ran missed the royal press conference. The announcement of the new vaccine and medicine completely ignited public opinion. The StarNet media praised it to an unbelievable degree. For a time, the imperial people's enthusiasm for exploring the medicine was unprecedented. Even though the Academy of Sciences repeatedly stated that the medicine needed further testing, it was attacked by trolls as being in cahoots with the parliament and was scolded so much that it couldn't lift its head.
The courts and prosecutors' offices are receiving a flood of letters every day questioning why new drugs are not allowed to be promoted or covered by medical insurance despite paying so much tax every year. Some citizens have even started to monitor the words, actions and spending of various parliamentary officials, trying to find evidence of their corruption in order to launch a major attack.
Even during the fundraising after the press conference, the positive effects led to a surge in the stock and futures prices of companies that donated more. The continuous vitality from the people was running throughout the ancient framework, and for a time, a new atmosphere appeared in all parts of the empire.
But Feng Ran didn't know that much. All she knew was that after the council and the academy were robbed, Sherry, under the pretext of needing it for further research, plundered the academy and gave her a piece of Kraken's crystal core.
She admitted that the bribe was very useful to her, and she would probably agree to such a deal again in the future. However, she was worried that her treatment was not over yet. Otherwise, she would really like to go back to the laboratory now to study whether the crystal nucleus was attached to other substances and whether it could affect the homologous alien organisms.
Fengran claimed to be suffering from systemic muscle weakness due to endocrine disorders during his hospitalization. Regardless of whether others believed him or not, after staying in the hospital for a period of time and recovering to the point where he could control his limbs, he insisted on going home.
Fran, as her most loyal servant, left even earlier than her. After all, gland poisoning could only be cleared by compatible pheromones, and other external injuries were minor issues. The hospital's nutritional meals were inconsistent in taste, and when they were unpalatable, Fran would sneak out of the hospital to buy grilled shrimp, making people feel that he was unnecessary to stay there.
Even after he was discharged from the hospital, Feng Ran did not lift the ban on his experiments. Xing Tong wanted Fran to return to his youth and try to get into a medical university for further studies, but he refused with great resistance. Then, he took the condolence money he received from Feng Ran and started traveling around and spending it for revenge, as if he wanted to experience all the good days he had not experienced in the first thirty years of his life.
Feng Ran was very dissatisfied with the current situation. After returning home, she kicked away Chen Shiqian, who was sucking her like catnip, and said with dissatisfaction, "I want to go out and play too!"
Her senses had barely recovered to the state they were in before she went berserk due to mental stress. With the help of a hearing aid, she could hear some sounds again. Perhaps the dosage had been increased this time, because her right ear, which was originally completely numb, could also hear a little sound. The world finally became a stereo surround sound effect, but the uneven sound made Feng Ran often feel dizzy and lightheaded.
Shen Shiqian pulled her back into his arms: "Baby, but didn't you say we need to have a second treatment?"
Although the repair medicine has significant side effects, it is quite effective. Xing Tong suggested that Feng Ran undergo three cycles of treatment at once, so that her nerve damage might recover to a level that could be controlled by ordinary medication.
But the days of recuperation were incredibly boring. Even though Shen Shiqian started to slack off and act as a hands-off manager, spending every day at home with Feng Ran, she still felt suffocated.
When Feng Ran got willful, he immediately bit the clingy Shen Shiqian, venting his anger and then showing a pitiful, tearful expression.
But this tactic sometimes fails when used too often. Shen Shiqian reached into her pajamas and touched her glands with his handsome nose. For some reason, he became stubborn and refused to give in.
“Baby, we can play at home too.”
Feng Ran felt a little hot from his rubbing against her. This man's seductive tricks were sometimes effective and sometimes not. Feng Ran thought angrily, "What are you playing at? Are you trying to create a baby?"
She refused with a sour face: "I don't want to."
Seeing her stubborn expression, as if she would give up on the rest of her treatment if she wasn't taken out, Shen Shiqian could only helplessly indulge her: "Alright, alright, where do you want to go? Let's make some plans."
Feng Ran was happy then, and snuggled up to him coaxingly, "Can you make the plans? I don't know anything about these things. Consider it a make-up date, okay?"
Since dating Shen Shiqian, they haven't had any proper dates except in bed. When they went to Norstar before, they both had their own ulterior motives. If Feng Ran hadn't been too tired and didn't have the energy to argue, she probably would have fought with Shen Shiqian on the starship.
Needless to say, the incident at the amusement park was another case; the two stubborn individuals' argument dragged many people into the mess.
Feng Ran immediately made the decision: "Oh well, if all else fails, let Xing Tong make a few more plans. We can just choose whichever one we like. If all else fails, we can always change course along the way. It's not a hassle."
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After Shen Shiqian rejected Xing Tong's thirty-second travel itinerary, this fussy guy finally took matters into his own hands and made the plan himself. He filled the small itinerary with the activities he and Feng Ran wanted to do, and then the young couple happily went on their trip.
Xing Tong was so angry she wanted to blow up his terminal. Just like its master, it was stubbornly clinging to a set of rigid logic and refused to acknowledge Shen Shiqian's status as the official wife. It deliberately interpreted Shen Shiqian's nitpicking as fault-finding and felt wronged, wondering how it could be ordered around by all sorts of inexplicable things! It wouldn't accept it!
So he blamed the whole thing on Fran, since they were equals in terms of status, and Xing Tong was even a senior. He figured that bullying her wouldn't anger Feng Ran, so he unilaterally threw a small tantrum.
Fran had only been enjoying himself outside for a few days when Xing Tong forcibly dragged him back. The villa's laboratory was locked, and the robot prepared another study. Pushing open the door, a banner with a uniquely AI-generated aesthetic hung above the desk: "Strive for 180 days, and getting into medical school is not a dream!"
The broken system finally broke down. Fran angrily messaged Feng Ran, asking her to take care of it. But Feng Ran was too busy having fun to care about him. She even felt that Xing Tong's actions made sense. After all, she couldn't let someone follow her to do underground experiments forever. She would eventually have to get back on track.
Fran's protest was declared invalid, and he painfully began his repeat year of high school.
But what he actually resisted wasn't learning itself, but the thought of being so old and having to attend classes with a bunch of kids made him realize that sometimes you don't have to be so focused on surviving.
That's what they said, but when he was actually given the opportunity to relearn everything, he fell into a state of blissful immersion and couldn't extricate himself. At night, Xing Tong would use a series of tricks to turn off the lights and electricity and give him sleeping pills. When Fran woke up in the morning, he would break down and yell, "There are only a little over a hundred days until the exam! What's wrong with letting me study a little longer!"
Xing Tong wanted to electrocute him, but what happened to the last eighty days? How could they change its slogan!
It roared back defiantly, "It's just to get you a diploma, not to actually make you a doctor. Why are you working so hard? The exam papers haven't even been released yet, and I'm not worried, so why are you?"
Fran: "..."
"When you were forging my identity, why didn't you think about getting me a diploma?"
Xing Tong: "School relationships are complicated, okay? If you just randomly put something together, you'll easily be exposed. Of course, it's easier to fabricate something with no connections!"
It then condescended to explain the three "nothings": "No parents, no partner, no relatives or friends."
Fran: "I don't think I'm in a very good mental state either; I can't stand hearing those words."
Xing Tong ignored him: "Putting everything else aside, you should first correct your terrible handwriting and typos. You misspelled three out of five words. If I hadn't been proofreading, my master would have twisted your head off first!"
Fran glanced up at the slogan on the wall. The new day had just begun, and he already felt tired and numb: "So, should I give it my all or not?"
Xing Tong gave a rigorous conclusion: "Don't push yourself so hard."
Fran: Sometimes he really had enough of the master and servant pair.
Xisen was equally fed up with the wind. Before the royal press conference was prepared, he, as a professor at the Imperial Medical University, was summoned to verify the efficacy and stability of the new drug. Although the princess did not reveal who the researchers behind it were, the bold operation of using alien species in the drug and the strange yet familiar hemocyanin molecules in the original solution made it difficult for Xisen to guess wrong.
He finally understood why Feng Ran had suddenly resigned from the hospital. At the same time, he regretted not actually asking for leave to go with her. After all, if he wanted to do this kind of research now, those stingy people at the Academy of Sciences would be furious and even more difficult to talk to.
Before he could even speak to Feng Ran, Feng Ran had already sent him to the hospital. Every day, Xisen acted like a bodyguard, pacing outside the ward and waving to the other curious doctors and nurses: Don't ask questions, don't be curious, don't ask too many questions.
Fortunately, after staying for a while, the Buddha finally returned home. Just when Xisen thought that life could finally return to its former peace, the dean of their School of Biomedical Engineering approached him again. The new drug had caused a stir in the academic world at the press conference, and many laboratories wanted to take affiliation with it. Experienced mentors were in short supply, not to mention Xisen, who had participated in the verification experiments. Not only his Imperial Medical University, but also people from all directions were throwing olive branches at him. In particular, he was a well-known friend of Marshal Shen, and everyone thought that he could put in a good word for the laboratory to bring back a foreign biological material.
Of course, the offer they made was very generous, enough for Xisen to quit his job at the hospital and school and devote himself to making money. But he was still hesitant. After all, he hadn't dared to choose the opportunity for success that Feng Ran had presented to him before. If he did it now, it would make him seem dishonest.
Even while the passionate young couple was traveling, they didn't forget to send him messages to harass him.
Shen Shiqian, holding the brochure for the skydiving project, asked Feng Ran if it would affect his health.
Even a normal person would worry about whether their body can handle the stress and impact of extreme sports if they go jumping. You must be out of your mind to take a sick person to jump.
Not long after, Feng Ran suddenly asked him as if he had lost his mind, "Is sphincter eversion normal?"
Xisen's vision went black. He resigned! He ran away! He ran right now!
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