229: Chapter 229 Medical Curiosity

"What happened last night?"

Xu Zhixia turned her head to look at her, her expression very serious.

"I said, you guys need to mind your influence."

Su Qingxue's temple throbbed.

"You heard it?"

"The whole cave heard it."

"Zhou Kai woke up once in the middle of the night, turned over, and pretended to sleep again. Song Ya buried her head in her arms, and her ears were red all night."

Su Qingxue's face burned all the way from the roots of her ears down to her neck.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but realized she had no grounds to refute it at all.

Last night, she truly... couldn't control herself.

After being interrupted by Xu Zhixia in the first half of the night, Lin Fan went outside to sit for a while.

She thought the matter was completely ruined, but after everyone outside fell asleep, Lin Fan lifted the curtain and came back.

There were no unnecessary words, not even unnecessary foreplay.

He only said one sentence: "Continue."

And then... they continued.

Furthermore, the second time was even more outrageous than the first.

Su Qingxue didn't want to admit it, but the fact was that she truly couldn't control her own mouth.

"That was... an accident." Su Qingxue turned her face away, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible.

"An accident?" Xu Zhixia raised an eyebrow, "An accident four times in one night?"

Su Qingxue abruptly turned her head and glared at her.

"You counted?!"

"The soundproofing is close to zero." Xu Zhixia's expression didn't change, "No need to count, I heard it automatically."

Su Qingxue wished she could find a rock to bury herself.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain a bit of the Su Family eldest young lady's dignity.

"Xu Zhixia, I think there is something wrong with your psychology, actually eavesdropping on that kind of thing."

"Su Qingxue, even if you are hungry, can you please pay attention to public hygiene."

"Public hygiene?"

"Mental hygiene." Xu Zhixia said with a straight face, "Zhou Kai is a guy in his early twenties. If you two mess around like this, it will affect his mental health."

Su Qingxue was choked up and speechless.

She stared at Xu Zhixia's face, which was calm to the point of being utterly punchable, and suddenly felt that this woman was even more detestable than Lin Fan.

Lin Fan was at least direct—either they do it, or they don't.

Xu Zhixia was the type who would smile while stabbing a knife into your heart, and then tell you, "This is for your own good."

"Fine." Su Qingxue clenched her back teeth, "Next time I'll bite a pillow, okay?"

Xu Zhixia didn't pick up on that sentence, but instead fell silent for a few seconds.

Her gaze fell on Su Qingxue's neck, "Seriously."

Xu Zhixia's tone suddenly changed, losing the earlier banter and gaining a hint of genuine curiosity, "Is he... that amazing?"

Su Qingxue froze.

She looked at Xu Zhixia's expression, confirming that the other person was not joking.

"Why are you asking this?"

"Pure medical curiosity." Xu Zhixia maintained a professional calmness on her face, but her slightly reddened ear tips betrayed her, "Analyzed from an acoustic perspective, your... reaction intensity last night far exceeded the normal threshold. Either you have extremely high sensitivity yourself, or the other party's technique is truly..."

"Xu Zhixia!" Su Qingxue interrupted her, her voice rising by half an octave, "Are you crazy?"

"I am having an academic discussion."

"You're being horny."

When these two words popped out of Su Qingxue's mouth, even she herself was stunned for a moment.

Xu Zhixia's expression cracked.

The two of them stared at each other for three seconds, the air freezing.

Then Xu Zhixia turned her face away, her ears completely turning red.

"...I did not."

"You do." Su Qingxue crossed her arms, finally regaining a bit of home-court advantage, "Xu Zhixia, from last night until now, you've asked me three times about him. Did you think I couldn't hear it?"

Xu Zhixia's throat moved.

She was a doctor; of course she knew what her body's reactions represented.

Lying outside last night, listening to the commotion coming from behind the curtain, she indeed... had a moment of distraction.

It wasn't sympathy for Su Qingxue, nor was it anger toward Lin Fan.

It was a pure, physiological level of... resonance.

That feeling made her extremely uncomfortable.

Because it shouldn't have appeared on her.

She was Xu Zhixia, a doctor—rational, calm, and professional.

In her world, there were only patients and data; there was no room for hormones.

But this island was stripping away her psychological defenses bit by bit.

"I was just..." Xu Zhixia weighed her words, "curious."

"Curious about what?" Su Qingxue pressed.

Xu Zhixia fell silent for a few seconds, and then said something that Su Qingxue completely did not expect.

"Curious about what it feels like for two people to sleep together."

Su Qingxue's expression froze.

She stared at Xu Zhixia's profile, suddenly recalling something: from the time they met until now, nearly ten years, she had never seen Xu Zhixia date anyone.

In college, the people chasing her lined up all the way to the school gate, but she didn't pay attention to a single one.

In grad school, a senior kept pestering her for half a year, and she directly changed her laboratory.

Needless to say after starting work, she soaked in the emergency room all day long, without even normal social interaction.

"Xu Zhixia." Su Qingxue's voice suddenly softened, carrying a gossipy tone unique to best friends, "Could it be that you... have really never experienced it?"

Xu Zhixia didn't turn back.

But her silence was the answer.

Su Qingxue took a deep breath.

"No wonder."

"No wonder your reaction was so big last night." The corners of Su Qingxue's mouth curled up with a retaliatory smugness, "A person who has never tasted sugar will drool just smelling the scent of sugar."

"I didn't drool." Xu Zhixia's voice was muffled.

"With your face blushing like this right now, what's the difference from drooling?"

Xu Zhixia finally turned her head and glared at Su Qingxue.

In that gaze, there was annoyance, embarrassment, but more than anything, a sense of helplessness after being hit in her weak spot.

"Su Qingxue, I'm warning you, if you keep talking, I'm going to flip out."

"What are you flipping out about?" Su Qingxue tilted her head to look at her, "Didn't you just ask me if he was amazing? I'll tell you..."

"No need!" Xu Zhixia stood up, "I don't want to know anymore."

"Very amazing." Su Qingxue dealt another blow from behind her, her voice neither loud nor soft, just enough for the two of them to hear, "So amazing that I feel like the past twenty-something years of my life were lived in vain."

Xu Zhixia's footsteps paused.

She didn't turn back, but her back visibly stiffened for a split second.

Then she sped up her pace, walking toward the direction of the cave entrance.

Su Qingxue watched her retreating figure, the arc of her mouth slowly fading.

She wasn't stupid.

Those words Xu Zhixia said earlier, on the surface, were medical curiosity and best-friend banter.

But Su Qingxue knew this woman far too well.

Xu Zhixia would never pursue a second time asking about something she wasn't interested in.

She had asked three times.

Su Qingxue lowered her head, looking at the light red mark squeezed onto her wrist.

Left by Lin Fan last night.

Her fingers stroked that trace, the emotions deep in her eyes very complex.

There was possessiveness, a sense of crisis, and a trace of... smugness that even she herself was unwilling to admit.

At the cave entrance, Xu Zhixia stood at the edge of the platform, the sea breeze blowing her scattered stray hairs.

Her face was still hot...