281: Chapter 281 I Want Them All

"Tsk tsk..."

Xu Zhixia shook her head. "Lin Fan, tell me, have you been eyeing me since a month ago?"

"You..."

"What about me?" Xu Zhixia interrupted him, twirling a strand of loose hair around her ear. "Let's clear up the logic."

"If Su Qingxue asks..."

"You wanted to take the medicine yourself."

"One wasn't enough, and you wanted to eat a whole bottle."

"As for the effects... you just couldn't control yourself."

"And I, Xu Zhixia." She patted her chest, her gesture outrageously open and unbothered, "am merely a dedicated doctor. After finding that the patient had an overactive drug reaction, I used my own body..."

She paused and switched to an even more shameless phrasing.

"To give you a physical cooling."

Lin Fan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Physical cooling?

You call that physical cooling?

"Xu Zhixia." Lin Fan took a deep breath. "How come I never noticed before that you are so obscene and shameless."

Xu Zhixia tilted her head to look at him, a trace of a smile welling up in her clear eyes.

"I learned it from you."

Four light words struck Lin Fan completely speechless.

Lin Fan rubbed his temples, forcing himself to calm down. This woman was scheming, venomous, and had a sharp tongue.

Since he couldn't win an argument against her, he could only change the subject. "Xu Zhixia, there's something I really can't figure out."

"Go ahead."

"Logically speaking, my body has already been enhanced threefold." Lin Fan stretched his neck. "My metabolism is three times that of an ordinary person, and my liver metabolic capacity is also three times."

"Shouldn't my drug tolerance also be enhanced threefold?"

He turned his head to stare at Xu Zhixia.

"Why did a single pill knock me flat? And the onset speed was ridiculously fast?"

Xu Zhixia didn't answer immediately; she first smiled.

She smiled very prettily.

The corners of her eyes curved slightly, her lips pursed lightly, stray hairs clung to her cheeks, and the refraction of the stream water was reflected on the side of her face.

At that moment, Lin Fan almost thought the drug effect was kicking in again.

That kind of prettiness was different from Su Qingxue's cold glamour, nor was it like Song Ya's purity.

It was another kind of different beauty.

"Lin Fan." Xu Zhixia restrained her smile. "You know what this medicine is used for, right?"

"...To induce heat, duh."

"That's right, it's to induce heat..." Xu Zhixia took a step forward, leaning in closer. "But as I told you long ago, this medicine is Yang Ningcong's exclusive supply."

"A person like Yang Ningcong uses this kind of thing on women not to commit crimes like an ordinary person would."

"Did you think he swallowed the pills dry?"

"Then how does he use it?"

"Mixed in wine." Xu Zhixia held up a finger. "Throw one into seven hundred and fifty milliliters of foreign liquor, stir it well, and then take a few small sips by yourself."

"It's about romance and atmosphere."

"The other party just needs to take a small sip, and the effect is enough. It slowly goes to the head, step by step, from blushing to softening the body, making the whole process as natural as being drunk."

"A single pill is the total amount used as a base for seven hundred and fifty milliliters of liquid."

Lin Fan's pupils shrank slightly.

Xu Zhixia watched his reaction, the corners of her mouth curling up again.

"You, on the other hand, swallowed it dry."

"A whole one."

"And you didn't even wash it down with three sips of water."

"At this dosage, let alone your threefold enhancement, you couldn't withstand it even if you were enhanced thirtyfold. Bring an ox over, and its legs would go weak on the spot."

Lin Fan froze in place.

A single pill was meant to be the base for a bottle of wine.

He chewed it dry directly.

What was this equivalent to? It was equivalent to someone dumping the coffee powder for a large bucket of coffee directly into their mouth and swallowing it.

Not dying suddenly was already a blessing from his ancestors.

"Then why the hell didn't you make it clear when you gave it to me!"

Xu Zhixia tilted her head with a look that begged to be disciplined. "Did your brain get fried from taking drugs?"

"If I had told you the usage and dosage, would you have eaten it?"

The corners of Lin Fan's mouth twitched twice.

Xu Zhixia continued to deliver the finishing blow. "To be honest, I hesitated for a moment back then."

"Hesitated about what?"

"Hesitated whether to just give you three pills."

Lin Fan's back felt cold.

"If it were three pills, following Yang Ningcong's usage, it would be enough to mix into nearly two liters, which is the amount of three bottles of wine."

"I figured you were enhanced after all, and one pill might not be strong enough. What if it had no effect and you missed your chance forever?"

"But later I thought about it..." Xu Zhixia glanced down at Lin Fan's lower body, "Swallowing three pills dry, I'm afraid you would suffer from tissue necrosis due to congestion..."

"So, I showed mercy."

Lin Fan's expression right now could be described in four words: surviving a catastrophe.

This woman almost played him to death just now, yet she still claimed she showed mercy.

Three pills.

Swallowing three pills dry.

Given his state just then, if he had eaten three, let alone necrosis, he probably would have had to choose the type of wood for his coffin lid in advance.

Lin Fan gripped the medicine bottle in his hand tightly and took two deep breaths.

"Xu Zhixia."

"Hm?"

Lin Fan raised his head to look at her, his gaze complex.

"I finally understand what Su Qingxue said earlier."

Xu Zhixia raised an eyebrow, signaling him to continue.

Lin Fan spoke, "It's truly true that the prettier a woman is, the better she is at lying."

Xu Zhixia raised her head, her watery eyes staring straight at Lin Fan.

"Then who do you think is prettier now, me or Su Qingxue?"

Lin Fan stared intently over, scrutinizing her carefully from head to toe.

Xu Zhixia stood by the stream, her damp hair clinging to her neck, her jacket loosely draped over her shoulders, and dappled light spilled down from the gaps in the canopy, spreading between her collarbones and shoulders.

She and Su Qingxue were on two completely different paths.

Su Qingxue's kind of beauty came with its own aggressiveness.

Standing there without speaking, a three-meter radius around her automatically cleared out.

The aura of a hundred-billion-dollar net worth radiated outward, causing ordinary people's knees to automatically buckle when they got close.

That was an iceberg—shocking to view from afar, suffocating up close.

But when the iceberg occasionally melted a corner, like Su Qingxue blushing and saying something soft, or failing to keep a straight face halfway through acting spoiled—

that contrast could directly hook a person's soul away.

Xu Zhixia was different; she had a professional filter.

Throwing on a white lab coat and hanging a stethoscope around her neck, it should have been a sense of holiness dedicated to saving lives and healing the wounded, yet she managed to wear this outfit with a completely different flavor.

Furthermore, she was direct and didn't beat around the bush. She wasn't like Liu Fei, who was a cheap commodity with flirtatiousness written all on her face; she was that kind of... irresistible allure that grew more intoxicating the more restrained it was.

Lin Fan mentally gave them a score in his head.

Su Qingxue: cold. Xu Zhixia: sultry.

Each had their own unique merits.

Before Lin Fan could speak, Xu Zhixia continued to ask: "If you were only allowed to have one, who would you choose?"

Xu Zhixia was still looking at him with her head tilted.

Lin Fan's throat rolled.

Who to choose?

These two people each had their own merits; he was truly stumped.

That's not right...

Was his brain kicked by a donkey? Why would he choose?

Both of them belonged to him.

An emperor picking his concubines never does single-choice questions.

We want... all of them...