Pregnancy Rest, Heartbreak, and Courting Death

Liu Chang'an was a little surprised to see Li Hongfang under the sycamore tree after spending the afternoon at the arcade.

"Come on in and have a seat." Although she didn't know him, she could tell he was looking for Liu Chang'an, so Zhou Shuling warmly invited him.

"Go back and cook." Liu Chang'an waved his hand, shooing Zhou Shuling back.

"You've got guests and you didn't even invite them up for a seat..." Zhou Shuling muttered to herself as she watched Liu Chang'an stand downstairs to talk. She glanced back at Li Hongfang a few more times before continuing up the stairs. This woman seemed to be about her age; she wondered if she was married and what she wanted from Liu Chang'an.

Zhou Dongdong stood in front of Li Hongfang, holding a rubber duck in her hands, and looked up at the unfamiliar aunt.

"Your milk ice cream is ready." Liu Chang'an patted Zhou Dongdong's bottom.

Zhou Dongdong immediately ran upstairs yelling. As long as her mother wasn't cooking downstairs, she could eat milk ice cream at her brother Chang'an's house. As for the possibility of getting a beating for eating ice cream in winter, that was something to worry about after she finished eating. Zhou Dongdong was fearless.

Li Hongfang couldn't help but glance at Shangguan Dandan again. This beautiful girl was sitting there looking at her with an expression similar to Zhou Dongdong's. Li Hongfang saw that Liu Chang'an had sent Zhou Shuling and Zhou Dongdong away, and wondered how Liu Chang'an would send this girl away next.

Unexpectedly, Liu Chang'an made no attempt to avoid Shangguan Dandan.

"You're fully recovered?" Liu Chang'an asked with genuine concern, revealing his kind and compassionate nature.

"Yes." Li Hongfang hadn't expected Liu Chang'an to have such a warm feeling. Looking at this charming man, she suddenly understood why Su Nanxiu couldn't forget him.

"Can you get a health certificate yourself? I'm planning to open a new store and I need a store manager," Liu Chang'an asked.

"Ah?"

"I told you I had something for you to do, didn't you promise?" Liu Chang'an reminded her to keep her promise.

"Oh, okay." Li Hongfang hesitated for a moment, but still nodded. After all, she didn't have the courage to resist Liu Chang'an... Once a woman feels completely convinced by a man, it's hard for her to maintain her independence and individuality when they're together. She often unconsciously follows his requests, and it's even normal for her to give in to his demands.

This is the source of many boys' sense of crisis when they hear their girlfriends praising another man or expressing their admiration for someone else.

"I'll contact you later. It's mainly to help that young mother from earlier. She's not very bright, so please take good care of her." Liu Chang'an had a lot of faith in Li Hongfang's abilities. She was capable of leading a group of daring and ruthless thieves to dig up ancestral graves, and now she was more than capable of managing a restaurant team.

Li Hongfang didn't realize that Zhou Shuling wasn't very bright, but Zhou Shuling did have a great figure, especially her slender waist, which looked quite beautiful as she swayed.

"Oh, by the way, Su Nanxiu asked me to give you a message. She's going to Lin'an soon. If that robot contacts you, it means the underground base is in danger. I hope you can take care of her," Li Hongfang said.

"I understand." Liu Chang'an didn't ask any further questions about Su Nanxiu. "Are people still capable of delivering messages these days? Doesn't she have a cell phone? Can't she send a text message?"

She said you don't read messages.

"Oh."

"Also... actually, I called you, but you didn't answer, so I had to come to your house to wait for you."

"At the arcade. Go back now, wait for my call." Liu Chang'an nodded.

Okay, goodbye.

"Wait a minute." Shangguan Dandan called out to Li Hongfang.

Li Hongfang looked at Shangguan Dandan with a puzzled expression.

Shangguan Dandan waved.

Li Hongfang glanced at Liu Chang'an, hesitated for a moment, and then walked over.

Shangguan Dandan's hair swung up and bound Li Hongfang's arms.

Li Hongfang cried out in surprise and quickly reached out to pull, only to find that the hair was tightly binding her arm, making her unable to move. The curly hair could not even be straightened by her.

"It's alright." Liu Chang'an patted Li Hongfang on the shoulder.

Li Hongfang was slightly relieved, but still looked at Shangguan Dandan's strange hair with lingering fear. "If you dig up too many graves, you're bound to see ghosts eventually?"

Li Hongfang stared intently at the strands of hair that Shangguan Dandan had used to bind her arms. After a few close looks, she noticed that fine strands of hair were being pulled out of her skin. Then, Shangguan Dandan's hair released Li Hongfang's arms.

Liu Chang'an pinched a few strands of Shangguan Dandan and saw a thin layer of blood film congealed on the ends of her hair.

"What is this?" Liu Chang'an sniffed it. There was no fishy smell at all, and it didn't resemble the blood film that normal human blood could form, because it felt too smooth and flexible.

"It must be the essence left in her body by some kind of demon, which I extracted." Shangguan Dandan raised her hand, gesturing for Li Hongfang to squat down.

Li Hongfang didn't know what she meant, but facing this amazing girl, she still cooperated well. Li Hongfang squatted down in front of Shangguan Dandan with a little trepidation.

Shangguan Dandan didn't touch Li Hongfang's head. After all, this woman wasn't Shangguan Dandan. It was just because Li Hongfang was tall that Shangguan Dandan didn't want to keep looking up when she spoke.

"Fairy... what fairy?" Li Hongfang asked quickly, seeing that Shangguan Dandan seemed easier to communicate with than Liu Chang'an.

"A fairy is a fairy."

Li Hongfang could only look at Liu Chang'an.

"It should be the life substance Rasputin left in your body, Su Nanxiu couldn't completely remove using her lab's technology." Liu Chang'an could understand. In Shangguan Dandan's old-fashioned mind, she was naturally not used to expressing things with modern biological terms. In her view, creatures different from ordinary people were fairies.

In fact, Liu Chang'an felt that Shangguan Dandan was the real enchantress, in every sense of the word.

"Su Nanxiu probably didn't intentionally leave these things in my body. She did her best and tried many methods. When she finally told me that it was completely removed, I felt that she truly believed it," Li Hongfang quickly explained. Although she had once been very afraid of Su Nanxiu, Li Hongfang was a grateful person and didn't want Liu Chang'an to misunderstand Su Nanxiu.

Liu Chang'an smiled but said nothing.

Shangguan Dandan finished dealing with Li Hongfang's matter, there was nothing else to do, so Li Hongfang went back.

"You're quite enthusiastic," said Shangguan Dandan, Liu Chang'an was always eager to do these things but never helped Liu Chang'an with any housework.

"These things on her... what if she's in danger? Zhou Shuling is with her, what if she gets caught in the crossfire?" Shangguan Dandan glared at Liu Chang'an. "If anything happens to my wife, I won't let you off the hook."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager." For the first time, Liu Chang'an sincerely thanked Shangguan Dandan.

Shangguan Dandan waved again; whenever she felt smug, she wanted to pat his head.

Liu Chang'an looked around, then bent down and touched her.

It was just for a moment; Liu Chang'an immediately stood up and went home.

Shangguan Dandan skipped along to keep up with Liu Chang'an, holding his finger, wondering if there would be meat buns for dinner tonight.

After dinner, Liu Chang'an, Shangguan Dandan, and Zhou Dongdong took a walk together. As they walked, they arrived at the Baolong Center. Zhou Dongdong wanted to play with Fairy Sister, so Liu Chang'an asked Zhu Juntang. She had already finished her tutoring class for the day, so Liu Chang'an took them to find Zhu Juntang to play.

Feeling bored, Zhu Juntang led Zhou Dongdong and Shangguan Dandan to the toy house to play. Liu Chang'an, not knowing how long they would play, went to Zhu Juntang's library to look at some books.

After a while, just as Liu Chang'an was engrossed in watching, Zhu Juntang ran in.

"You..." Liu Chang'an paused for a moment, looking Zhu Juntang up and down.

Wearing a sheep-shaped mascot costume, Zhu Juntang swaggered up to Liu Chang'an, then bent down and poked Liu Chang'an with the sheep horns on her head.

Liu Chang'an was slightly nudged, but he looked at Zhu Juntang calmly.

Zhu Juntang became smug, "You fell for it, didn't you? I fooled you with my cute sheep coat, making you think I was just pretending to be cute. Little did you know I hid an electric shock device in the sheep's horns. You got shocked, didn't you?"

"How can you be so boring?" Liu Chang'an shook his head. She was so boring that Liu Chang'an felt that it was understandable for such a bored person to do anything, and beating her up wouldn't seem to make any sense.

"How can I not be bored?" Zhu Juntang also felt listless. She took off her specially made sheep head mask and said while taking off the mascot costume, "I don't know what Qin Yanan is doing. She's like she's in postpartum confinement, never leaving the house. She's always sitting on that mountain. When I go to visit her, she insists that she needs to calm down and rest. If I visit her too often, it will affect her genes and cause her future children to not be very smart."

"Look at you, everyone hates you, you're such a failure." Liu Chang'an laughed.

"And then there's Bai Hui... This person, now she's just messing around with her little shabby house every day, posting selfies that make her feel all melancholic and pathetic, like she's lost her mind after a breakup. I asked her to come visit me, and she sent me a picture of herself lying in bed looking utterly hopeless, not even wearing makeup." Zhu Juntang frowned, looking at Liu Chang'an suspiciously. "Did you force her into a breakdown, causing her self-image to crumble and her to have a mental breakdown?"

Liu Chang'an picked up the sheep's head she had thrown on the ground, found the switch for the electric shocks, and rammed it into Zhu Juntang, shocking her a hundred times before letting her go. After all, he was very soft-hearted.

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I'd like to recommend "Above the Dome" again; it's an epic story.