Chapter Eighteen: She Is an Incompetent Doctor (Please Subscribe~ Please Keep Reading~)

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Bai Nanyan hadn’t expected that her concern would be met with such a cold, indifferent reply; her delicate face paled slightly.

Suddenly, she glanced at Gu Sihui, a look of realization dawning in her eyes. “Is it that Xiao Hui won’t allow you to get close to me, isn’t it?”

Gu Sihui: ?

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But Bai Nanyan felt she had uncovered the truth. She sympathized with Teng Qu and said gently, “Xiao Qu, you’ve suffered. But even if you are her beast husband, so what? A beast husband is free; you can have your own preferences. It’s wrong for her to force you.”

Sniffling, Bai Nanyan handed a notebook to Teng Qu. “You’re the only python I know. These are cultivation notes I had Xiang Xiu organize. I hope they help with your training and that you’ll soon become a flood dragon. Then my little Xiu won’t be lonely anymore.”

Bai Nanyan sniffed again, revealing a soft smile.

Teng Qu’s long eyelashes fluttered as he tried to push away the notebook with his hand pinned at the corner, but Gu Sihui held his hand firmly, pretending to smile without warmth as she said to Bai Nanyan, “Thank you for your gift, Sister Da Tie.”

Bai Nanyan: …

“All right, all right, we’ve accepted the gift, and I forgive you for breaking into my room,” Gu Sihui said as she brusquely pushed them toward the door. “Nothing else, just leave quickly. I have to go find Duke Wende.”

A flash of irritation crossed Bai Nanyan’s lowered eyes. She had come precisely to provoke Gu Sihui into leaving through Xi Mo. But this woman, for some unknown reason, didn’t go crazy seeing her with Xi Mo. Instead, she even remembered to go find Duke Wende.

Bai Nanyan’s expression shifted, and she quickly devised another trick.

Following Gu Sihui’s shove, she suddenly cried out and fell backward.

“Yanyan!”

Xi Mo couldn’t bear to watch Bai Nanyan fall and hurriedly reached out to catch her.

Noticing Xi Mo’s angry gaze, Gu Sihui struck first: “If you have osteoporosis, get treatment! Stop falling down all the time and trying to cheat!”

“Miss Bai, as a Level Three Physician, can you not even cure your own osteoporosis?” Heng Binwei appeared from some shadowy corner, his gaze toward Bai Nanyan filled with undisguised disdain. “Such crude medical skills. I must seriously reconsider whether to employ you as my wife’s exclusive physician.”

Bai Nanyan’s breath caught. Before she could defend herself, Gu Sihui immediately chimed in, “Yes, yes. Duke Wende, I’ve told you before—she really is an incompetent doctor!”

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“That’s not true…” Bai Nanyan struggled to speak in her defense, but Heng Binwei’s attention had already shifted away.

He gave a subtle glance to a servant nearby, and promptly a maid with a polite smile approached to cut off Bai Nanyan’s words, firmly escorting her and Xi Mo out of the ancient castle.

With the noisy voices gone, Heng Binwei’s mood seemed even better.

He tilted his head toward Gu Sihui, his eyes gleaming with gossip. “I heard that you refused Cui Wenmin’s invitation, and even humiliated him by making him your subordinate?”

Just as Gu Sihui was preparing to boast and sell her own praises, she suddenly faltered.

Her toes tucked inside her shoes seemed to have a mind of their own, curling as if clinging to the ground. She blushed but was still somewhat defiant: “How can inviting someone to be an assistant be considered humiliation? I sincerely wanted to invite Master Cui to assist me so we could progress together.”

Facing Gu Sihui’s sincere, sparkling eyes, Heng Binwei for the first time felt a lump in his throat.

“Hahaha!”

Then suddenly, he burst out laughing heartily.

“All right, all right, all right!” Heng Binwei called out three times, looking at Gu Sihui not with formal detachment but a hint of admiration. “I really didn’t misjudge you. From now on, my wife is in your hands.”

You… and them?

Could he mean her and her beast husband?

Indeed, she currently had no other capable people around. During treatment, the only ones who could help were that useless bunch of beast husbands.

Gu Sihui sighed deeply, “I’ll do my best.”

Heng Binwei’s mouth twitched; a rare spark of curiosity flickered. “What’s this? You seem quite unwilling?”

“Of course I’m unwilling,” Gu Sihui groaned. “You don’t know how hard it is to cooperate with people who have no skills.”

As she said this, she spread her hands in a helpless gesture.

Whether it was her imagination or not, after she spoke, Duke Wende’s mouth twitched even more.

Heng Binwei stared at Gu Sihui for a long while, then suddenly laughed again. “Hahaha, I’m looking forward to it. Don’t disappoint me.”

Disappoint what?

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Gu Sihui didn’t understand, but she said nothing.

She brought up another matter. “You promised that once I obtained the Level Five Pharmacist qualification, you would release Gong Zhengqing.”

Gu Sihui paused, then mustered courage to ask, “Now, can I take my people away?”

“Yes.” Heng Binwei had no intention of restricting Gu Sihui’s freedom.

Even if he had once considered it, after the recent conversation, he abandoned the thought.

Because Heng Binwei suddenly realized Gu Sihui was a very interesting person.

And he always showed more tolerance toward things that intrigued him.

Moreover, in the Krolaiha Empire, no matter where Gu Sihui went, he could find her immediately.

On the other side, Bai Nanyan was unwilling to be expelled from Heng Binwei’s ancient castle and was in a very gloomy mood.

To make matters worse, the system informed Bai Nanyan that because she failed to secure Heng Binwei’s route, the difficulty of her future "group favorite" path would increase threefold, and for the next three days, she would face the system’s bad breath punishment.

“Yanyan, don’t be sad,” Xi Mo comforted her thoughtfully upon seeing her bad mood. “Duke Wende can’t recognize true worth. He’s keeping Gu Sihui now, but when he discovers her true nature, won’t he come begging you?”

“What do you know? Useless!” Bai Nanyan was so upset she forgot to keep up appearances and snapped at Xi Mo, “Isn’t that bitch Gu Sihui supposed to like you? How come she didn’t care at all when she saw us so close today?”

Xi Mo had never seen Bai Nanyan so harsh and sharp-tongued; he stood there stunned—this was completely different from the gentle, kind, pure goddess he had in his heart!

Bai Nanyan continued, “If you can’t even win over one woman, what good are you to me?”

For a moment, Xi Mo felt as if he were dreaming, but a sudden wave of foul stench brought him back to reality. He instinctively covered his face, trying to escape.

Foxes are naturally sensitive to smells, let alone this stench, which was like ten cesspools exploding simultaneously, dead fish stuffed into a bird’s stomach and left to rot under the blazing sun for three days. Xi Mo couldn’t catch his breath, rolling his eyes as he fainted from the smell.