"Yan Xi, I've arrived. Come down and open the door."
Wan Yunting, standing at Fang Yanxi's doorstep, called her. Soon, the door opened. Fang Yanxi was wearing a white lace nightgown. She nervously glanced left and right, making Wan Yunting curious, "What are you looking at?"
"I'm checking if Guan Hongyu has left," Fang Yanxi replied.
This left Wan Yunting speechless. He swept her into his embrace at her slender waist and closed the iron gate, locking it. Holding Fang Yanxi, he walked towards the villa, saying, "I say, aren't you overthinking things?"
"I'm not."
Fang Yanxi removed his hand, her pretty face serious. "Really. I feel Guan Hongyu is strange now, especially tonight. He was talking about bizarre things with me!"
"And when he drove me back, he waited until I turned on the lights at home before he left. This makes me very uneasy."
Wan Yunting chuckled. "He wanted to see you safely enter your home before leaving. What's so strange about that? Unless... he has ulterior motives towards you?"
Hearing his words, Fang Yanxi’s pretty face stiffened. She sat on the living room sofa indignantly, huffing, "Don't tell me you don't know Guan Hongyu was interested in me back then!"
Wan Yunting paused, then walked over to sit beside her, smiling and embracing her slender waist. "Of course, I know. Let alone Guan Hongyu, half the boys in school were chasing you."
"Tsk, I'm not referring to that."
Fang Yanxi's eyes widened, and she glared at Wan Yunting, huffing, "Guan Hongyu is different. He confessed to me in private!"
"He confessed to you in private?"
This time, Wan Yunting was completely stunned and unaware. "When did that happen?"
Fang Yanxi said, "It was not long after I agreed to be with you, but we hadn't made it public yet. One day, Guan Hongyu asked me to meet him on the rooftop of the teaching building and confessed to me."
Wan Yunting heard this and slapped his forehead, saying with a wry smile, "I really didn't know about this."
Fang Yanxi shot him a look. "I was worried about ruining your friendship back then, so I didn't tell you."
Wan Yunting smiled. "So you think Guan Hongyu is approaching you with an agenda now?"
Fang Yanxi shook her head slightly, her brows furrowed. "I can't say for sure. Guan Hongyu feels very strange to me now, especially his eyes. I see a lot of darkness in them. And tonight, he said some odd things that made me feel he was very peculiar, even a little frightening."
"Odd things?"
Wan Yunting asked, puzzled, "What did he say?"
Fang Yanxi raised an eyebrow. "He said he saw strange things in Qixiang, and that he saw a deity. Then he followed the deity and cultivated for several years, which changed his state of mind. Anyway, he spoke very strangely. I feel like he's completely detached from us normal people!"
Wan Yunting looked dazed. The more he listened, the more absurd it sounded. Although he felt Guan Hongyu wasn't the same as before, Wan Yunting believed it was normal for a person to change after his parents' incident and then drifting for so many years.
"In short, I'm a little scared of him now!" Fang Yanxi huffed.
Wan Yunting smiled and nodded, embracing her. "How about this, give me your collaboration matters. I'll invest money for him. You can focus on your own things and don't have to see him anymore."
Fang Yanxi raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "Will that work?"
Wan Yunting laughed. "Then what do you suggest we do?"
Fang Yanxi said, "General Manager Jiang is returning to the US next week. How about I go to the US?"
Wan Yunting paused and asked, "How long will you be gone?"
Fang Yanxi replied, "About a week. I'll go there to understand the market."
"Alright."
Hearing this, Wan Yunting nodded. He would instruct Jiang Wenhao to take good care of Fang Yanxi.
"Alright, it's getting late. We should attend to business." Wan Yunting hugged Fang Yanxi's waist and started to get up to no good.
"You rascal..."
Seeing his mischievous look, Fang Yanxi immediately asked, "Oh, right. You called me earlier saying you had something urgent. What was it?"
"Nothing."
Wan Yunting naturally wouldn't tell her about Zhao Fuyang and Fei Xiang's tragic deaths in a sacrifice.
"Attending to business is more important now..."
He said with a sly smile, rolling over and pressing Fang Yanxi onto the sofa...
"Ah, no, you smell terrible. Go wash up first..."
The next morning, Wan Yunting woke up beside the beauty. As he had many things to attend to today, he couldn't spare time for his morning practice. He leaned close to the still-sleeping Fang Yanxi's ear and said, "I have to go back first. You sleep a bit longer, then go to work."
Fang Yanxi grabbed his arm, her voice a lazy, milky protest, "So early? Can't you stay and sleep with me a little longer..."
Wan Yunting smiled gently, ran his hand through her hair, and kissed her cherry lips. Only then did the woman wake up. "I have a lot to do today, and I need to get to the hospital early."
"Alright, go ahead..."
Fang Yanxi snorted in dissatisfaction, closed her eyes again, and changed her position to continue sleeping.
Wan Yunting smiled, got up, washed up, and then quietly closed the door and left Fang Yanxi's house. He went downstairs, walked out of the villa complex, hailed a taxi, and headed directly to his second brother's house.
"Third brother, you're back."
Second sister-in-law Wang Chulin, who was making breakfast in the kitchen, saw Wan Yunting return so early and smiled, "Have you eaten breakfast?"
"Good morning, second sister-in-law. I haven't eaten yet," Wan Yunting greeted her and smiled, "I'm going upstairs first."
"Okay, call Wan'er down for breakfast later, will you?"
"Got it."
Wan Yunting went upstairs, changed his clothes in his room, and then went to wake Wan'er, helped her wash and comb her hair, and put on a pretty little dress before going downstairs. His second brother and Ye Manni had also woken up and were eating breakfast in the dining room. "Third brother, come and eat quickly."
Ye Manni also smiled at Wan Yunting, "Good morning, Brother Wan."
"Morning."
Wan Yunting pulled Wan'er over and started eating breakfast. He said to Ye Manni, "Mannie, you'll go directly to Huadu University at noon. I'll take you to complete the enrollment procedures."
Ye Manni was immediately delighted. "I can go to school!"
"Yes, the school has already been notified," Wan Yunting said, nodding and smiling as he ate.
"That's great."
Ye Manni became excited. Wan Dongming and Wang Chulin were also happy for her. Wan'er called out to Wan Yunting, "Third Uncle, I want to go to school too."
Wan Yunting looked at her and smiled. "Okay, I'll enroll you in school later too."
"Yay!"
Wan'er also happily clapped her chubby little hands. Ye Manni smiled happily at her, "Wan'er, we'll go to school together then..."
Wan Yunting saw that it was almost nine o'clock. After finishing breakfast, he said goodbye to his second brother and sister-in-law and went out. Since his car was still at the stadium, Wan Yunting rode the motorcycle left by Meiying directly to the hospital.
"Dr. Wan is here..."
In the lobby of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, a crowd had already gathered, all waiting to see Wan Yunting. Among them was the young man Xiao Jing, who suffered from palmoplantar keratosis and had competed in a medical duel yesterday. He was brought by his parents.
"Everyone, don't rush. Let's take it one by one."
Wan Yunting entered, smiled politely at everyone in the lobby, and went directly to the second floor to his consultation room to start seeing patients. However, he happened to run into Dai Qiuyue and immediately asked, "Qiuyue, why didn't you go to Chairman Gu's house for dinner last night?"
Dai Qiuyue gave him a cold glance, dropped a sentence, "Not interested," and returned directly to her consultation room.
This made Wan Yunting pause and shake his head with a helpless smile. He returned to his consultation room, picked up his white coat from the hanger, put it on, washed his hands, and came out. After tidying his desk, he let Xiao Jing, who was first in line, come in...