Outside a hospital room.
Xi Linghua and Xiao Yu whispered to each other, their faces grave. Anyone who didn't know better might have thought they were conducting some secret spy transaction.
Xi Linghua nervously clutched the unremarkable pill in her hand.
Such a tiny thing cost 1.5 million.
Rich, fair-skinned, and beautiful as she was, even she wasn't that wealthy. She was terrified she might accidentally crush it!
"Master Xiao, I just need to put it in his mouth? No rituals or spells or anything?"
"No... but Miss Xi Linghua, are you really just going to give him the pill and cure his illness like that? If it's too easy, too casually done, I don't think it'll make him 'remember your sacrifices and kindness for the rest of his life.' It won't be enough to make him 'love you for the rest of his life.'
"We should find a way to make him more grateful to you. Ideally, that gratitude should outweigh his 'scumbag instincts,' making him too ashamed to be a scumbag, or making him despise himself if he ever thinks about abandoning you."
"I think so too... It's honestly pathetic. This is supposed to be love, yet I have to think of ways like this to tie him down... Master Xiao, sometimes I think I'm really debasing myself. Why does it have to be him?"
"You're not debasing yourself. The idea of staying faithful to one person for life is just too deeply rooted in you. From my perspective, I'd actually rather see the day he abandons you and dumps you. Only then will you be able to find someone who truly loves you and deserves your love."
But Xi Linghua kept shaking her head.
Right now, she still loved this man, loved him very much.
So she