The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

Lin Liping knew very well that although Jiang Xinghai was usually all smiles and jokes, his eyes held a firmness and determination, as if he truly believed he was worth a hundred million.

"But, Jiang Xinghai, you’re a Divine Doctor. Isn’t a hundred million a bit too little?" Lin Liping teased.

"So you also think a hundred million doesn’t match my status, huh?" Jiang Xinghai said with a smug smile.

"Of course. You have heaven-defying medical skills, know Alchemy, and are a Martial Arts expert. If you ask me, your status should be worth at least a billion—no, at least ten billion to start," Lin Liping said, this time in earnest.

Jiang Xinghai smiled. "Unfortunately, right now, someone’s only offered a hundred million for my head."

"You’re not telling me this is actually real, are you?" Lin Liping asked, hearing his tone turn serious.

"It’s only a hundred million, but even a mosquito is still meat. If someone threatens you one day, you can just turn me in. Go ahead and earn that hundred million first," Jiang Xinghai said, his tone now undeniably serious.

Hearing this, Lin Liping’s heart skipped a beat, and she abruptly stood up.

She put down her phone and was about to rush out.

But before she could, Jiang Xinghai floored the gas and drove away.

"Get back here!"

Lin Liping yelled, her sharp cry causing all the nearby pedestrians to turn and stare.

Their call was still connected.

"Liping, you need to remember what I’m about to say."

Jiang Xinghai continued, "I’m heading to Yun Province tomorrow. I should be back in seven days, but I might be back a few days early. While I’m gone, if anyone comes looking for you and asks about my whereabouts, just tell them what I told you earlier. Got it?"

"Jiang Xinghai, who... who put a bounty on your head?"

Lin Liping now believed it was true. She thought Jiang Xinghai was going to Yun Province to live as a fugitive, and she was so worried she started to cry.

"Liping, it’s just a normal business trip. You don’t need to worry," Jiang Xinghai said earnestly.

"Fine, I believe you, and I’m not worried. But you have to tell me, who exactly put a bounty on your head?" Lin Liping continued to press for an answer; she wouldn’t feel at ease otherwise.

Jiang Xinghai didn’t plan on hiding it and told her what happened at Gathering Talent Tower at noon.

"So it was the Sun Family..."

Lin Liping was stunned for a long moment, then quickly composed herself and said, "Okay, I understand. You have to be careful out there."

"Don’t worry. When I get back, we’ll go earn that hundred million for ourselves."

Jiang Xinghai hadn’t driven far. He still had to pick up Feng Lulu to go for acupuncture and a massage.

After ending the call, he dialed the Feng Family’s number.

"Divine Doctor Jiang, long time no see."

The Feng Family’s Great Clan Elder, Feng Gong, answered the phone and said cheerfully, "It has been twenty-five days since we last parted. In five days, I must trouble Divine Doctor Jiang again regarding my granddaughter Zhuoran’s illness."

This Great Clan Elder’s granddaughter, Feng Zhuoran, was thirteen years old and had leukemia.

Jiang Xinghai could have saved her, but she had already stepped onto the path of Martial Arts. To treat her leukemia, she would first have to have her Martial Arts foundation broken, forcing her to forget everything she’d learned, and then soak in a medicinal bath for a month.

Back when Jiang Xinghai first came to the Provincial City to find Feng Lulu, he had caused a huge scene at the Feng Family’s estate.

"Great Clan Elder, you don’t have to deliberately remind me. I remember this matter."

Jiang Xinghai had contacted the Feng Family on his own initiative, hoping they could secretly send people to look after Feng Lulu and Lin Liping while he was away from the Provincial City.

When he brought this up, Great Clan Elder Feng Gong pounded his chest and guaranteed, "Divine Doctor Jiang, rest assured. If anything happens to those two before you return to the Provincial City, you can blame it all on the Feng Family. My head is yours to take."

"I want them to be completely safe, not for you to tell me what happens after an accident. Understand?" Jiang Xinghai said.

"Understood, understood." As the Great Clan Elder, Feng Gong of course understood the meaning behind Jiang Xinghai’s words.

Before hanging up, Jiang Xinghai gave the Feng Family a warning. "Remember your promise. If the slightest thing happens to them, my previous promise to you will go up in smoke."

After the call, just as he was about to dial Feng Lulu’s number, he received another call.

Shen Lingxue!

"Lingxue, miss me already?" Jiang Xinghai’s face was all smiles.

"The Sun Family’s bounty, it’s for you, isn’t it?" Shen Lingxue asked, her expression very serious as she caressed her slightly swollen belly.

"What Sun Family bounty?" Jiang Xinghai feigned ignorance.

He knew Shen Lingxue was pregnant and didn’t want to tell her the truth about this.

"I just got news that the eldest grandson of the Provincial City’s Sun Family was killed, apparently by a man in camouflage. Weren’t you wearing camo right before you left?" Shen Lingxue wasn’t interrogating him, just analyzing the situation step by step.

Of course, Jiang Xinghai had to keep denying it. "Lots of guys wear camouflage. Don’t go pinning it on me."

"Xinghai, if it wasn’t you, then I can rest easy."

Shen Lingxue added a concerned reminder, "After all, the Provincial City’s Sun Family is a First-class Martial Arts Family, with a much deeper foundation than the Martial Arts families in small cities like Jizhou and Central State. You can’t just steamroll over them like you used to."