[Cold on the outside, warm on the inside disabled big shot × sharp-tongued doctor who can turn the tables | Married first, fall in love later | He dotes on her | Face-slapping maven | Explosive chemistry | Sweet enough to take your breath away]
Everyone was waiting to see her make a fool of herself.
On her first day after transmigrating, her whole family drugged her and shoved her into her older sister’s fiancé’s room.
The six-foot soldier had broken legs, and she spent the whole night tying his hands up to “treat” him.
The next day, the crowd eager to catch them in the act smashed down the door. Wearing his military shirt, she opened it and said, “I slept with him. I’ll take responsibility.”
The whole alley erupted. Everyone waited for the Zhou family to lose patience and send her back, for Jiang Zhi to slink back to the Jiang family, and for the man who’d been lame for three months to become permanently useless.
But as they waited...
Jiang Zhi crouched by his wheelchair, giving him acupuncture. When she finished, she hooked a finger into his trouser leg and tugged it up. “Lift your foot. I’ll massage it.”
Zhou Lin Chuan looked down at the crown of her head, his Adam’s apple bobbing again and again. “Jiang Zhi, if you keep touching me...”
She looked up and glared at him. “I’m a doctor!”
“And why are your ears red, Doctor?”
Later, when his legs began to feel again, she was so delighted that she threw herself into his arms. He wrapped an arm around her waist and said hoarsely, “That’s not how you treated me that night.”
Later still, he was back on his feet. In front of everyone who’d been waiting to laugh at him, he leaned on the wall and walked step by step toward her, then scooped her up and set her on the back of his bicycle.
The whole alley stared in stunned silence.
Jiang Min’s face turned green.
Chen Ji Ming’s account book was unearthed.
Jiang Huai An didn’t even notice when a cigarette butt burned his hand.
Meanwhile, Zhou Lin Chuan pushed his bicycle beneath the pagoda trees as the girl on the back seat swung her legs. “Company Commander Zhou, you’ve only just recovered. Are you sure you can give me a ride?”
He turned his head, the corners of his mouth lifting. “Am I up to it? You should know better than anyone.”
