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"Yes, a friend." Xu Han said the word "friend" with extreme reluctance.

"As long as he's your friend. My family's waiting for me to go home for dinner, so I'll be off."

"Alright, thank you, Uncle Wang." She didn't actually want to thank him at all.

Uncle Wang waved to show there was no need for thanks. After he left, Grandma Qiao came out of the kitchen as well. Just as she was about to ask who had come, Xu Han shoved the knife into her hand and said, "Grandma, go make the dumplings. Don't come out."

"Oh, alright, alright." Grandma Qiao looked at Xu Han and Gu Yanqing with some concern, but seeing how calm she was, she carried the kitchen knife back inside.

Xu Han took a few quick steps over to Gu Yanqing. She had to admit that Gu Yanqing in person was genuinely handsome—tall and upright, with a cold, chiseled face and deeply defined features. Just standing there, he exuded the natural presence of someone in a high position.

If Xu Han hadn't known she was inside a novel, and that the author had already arranged everything between them so clearly, she might have fallen for a man like him too.

Gu Yanqing had only brought one assistant. If she remembered correctly, his name was Wang Xiao—the one who had delivered the check and passed along the message before. She vaguely remembered that his attitude had been especially unfriendly.

Xu Han brushed the vegetable scraps from her hands. Without inviting them inside to sit, she stood in the doorway and asked, "Mr. Gu, what brings you here?"

Gu Yanqing frowned slightly. Her attitude before and after had changed far too much.

But since she wasn't beating around the bush, he didn't feel like wasting words either. He asked directly, "You gave birth to my child?"

Uh...

Speaking of the child, Xu Han had still been planning a few days ago to let Gu Yanqing raise Koukou. But after seeing the result of her experiment today, she suddenly couldn't bear to part with him.

After all, he was the only cheat she had brought with her into this novel—sob!

Other people who entered novels got portable

space

or overpowered

systems

while she entered one with a "Spirit Urine" villain?

Xu Han had little social experience, and the answer was already written all over her face. Gu Yanqing understood. His voice turned cold as he said, "Qiao Wanqing, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Xu Han spread her hands and said with a straight face, "My brain doesn't work too well. By the time I realized I was pregnant, I was already seven months along. I couldn't get an abortion anymore, so what could I do? I could only give birth."

Gu Yanqing: "..."

Xu Han added, "Don't worry, I won't ask you to take responsibility. But if you can provide some child support, that would be even better."

Evening was drawing near, and under the dim twilight, Gu Yanqing's expression was unreadable. Still, Xu Han could roughly imagine the complicated look on his face, and it felt quite satisfying.

Gu Yanqing truly hadn't expected the negotiation to turn out like this. He had thought that this vain woman had given birth to the child to extort money from him, perhaps even to use the child to force him to take responsibility for her.

After all, she was the person who had used dirty means to sleep with him, then wanted him to take responsibility.

But her entire style had shifted faster than a tornado, leaving the words he had prepared stuck in his throat.

He had originally planned to take the child for a paternity test. If the child was confirmed to be his son, he would bring him back to the Gu family to raise and compensate Qiao Wanqing with a sum of money.

After all, Qiao Wanqing had carried the child for ten months and endured the pain of childbirth to bring him into the world. Other than planting the seed, Gu Yanqing had done nothing at all. Saying such things would make him seem like a complete bastard.

"Alright, it's getting late," Xu Han said. Knowing he probably needed to rethink his plans, she rudely showed him out. "We didn't make extra dinner, so we won't ask you to stay. See yourself out."

At that moment, Koukou, who had been sleeping inside, woke up and began to cry. Xu Han stopped paying attention to Gu Yanqing and turned to go indoors.

Hearing the child's cries, Gu Yanqing clenched the hand at his side. After several seconds of silence, he finally said to Wang Xiao, "Let's go."

"That's it?"

Gu Yanqing had spent all this time searching for Qiao Wanqing's whereabouts. He had finally found her, dropped everything at work, and hurried over without stopping—yet he was leaving just like that?

Without even taking a look at the child?

Gu Yanqing didn't answer and walked away first.

Perhaps because she knew the arrangement of the protagonist's fate, the matter didn't affect Xu Han much. At most, she privately hoped Gu Yanqing might throw her a one-million check as child support or something.

She might not be as vain as Qiao Wanqing, but she wouldn't turn down money falling from the sky either.

Ahem.

After discovering Koukou's little secret, Xu Han stopped throwing away his diapers. Instead, she soaked them in the bucket used for watering vegetables, mixed in water, and carried it to the vegetable garden to water the crops.

In the countryside, people usually used human urine diluted with water as fertilizer for growing vegetables. It was the fastest and most direct method. The fertilizer seeped into the roots with the water, allowing the plants to absorb it quickly, with outstanding results.

The next option was composted poultry and livestock manure, which was used to fertilize the fields.

Now that she had Koukou's urine, Xu Han found she could save on everything else, because the vegetables in the garden grew incredibly quickly—roughly a day's growth equaled three or four days for other plants.

Xu Han used a row of bok choy for her experiment. She watered one side with water containing Koukou's urine and left the other side alone. A few days later, one side was still nothing but tender green sprouts, while the other was already a lush, thriving cluster of leaves.

Bok choy that normally took twenty days to grow was ready to eat here in just eight days.

As expected of the Spirit Urine Boy!

Moreover, vegetables cultivated this way looked even fresher and more tender than the bok choy sold at the market. Their juices were plump and full, and when she snapped a stem with her fingers, she could hear a crisp snap.

Xu Han picked a handful of fresh bok choy and brought it home.

Grandma Qiao was astonished that the vegetables were ready to eat after only a few days. Xu Han didn't tell her for now that it was because of Koukou's urine—it was too bizarre, and she was afraid of frightening the old woman.

She only said that she had learned a cultivation technique at school that could make plants grow especially fast. Grandma Qiao had little knowledge and knew almost nothing about technology, so she believed it with barely any suspicion.

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