"You can save Xin Qing, and I appreciate you for that. I'll give you another chance, do you really have to do it this way? Even If we get married, I won't like you anyway." Ying Qingcang tried to calm himself. This woman named Tang Shuang, was the doctor that Young Master Shen brought back. But the first time that she had met him, she demanded to marry him, otherwise she refused to cure Xin Qing.
Young Master Shen opened the door and got in. "I'll take you to the Ying's residence tomorrow afternoon."
"Alright! I want to see Xin Qing, too, since she's your ex-wife." Tang Shuang stood up and smiled at Ying Qingcang. "No one can change what I've decided on, I believe that sooner or later you'll fall in love with me!"
Ying Qingcang rubbed the spot between his eyebrows. He waited until Tang Shuang left and then asked Young Master Shen, "Did...did she ask about me?"
"Xiao Qingqing had read the news." Young Master Shen frowned. "What if we just give this up, Xiao Qingqing will be fine living like this, you'll protect her forever anyway."
The sadness was written all over Ying Qingcang's face, the fact that he couldn't do anything to help her made him furious as if he had experienced all the good and bad in life in just a second. Knowing that anything could happen in their lives, he suddenly felt dead inside.
"I was living across Ah Qing, I watched her every day, all she did was just sit there and zone out. Gradually, she stopped keeping the lights on, she only ate when she remembered to." Ying Qingcang closed his eyes. "I watched her wither, slowly, bit by bit. If she kept doing this, she won't keep it going for long. I'm afraid that she'll get crazy before she recovers."
"You can't understand how I feel, I was so close to her, so close... But I didn't even have the courage to reach a hand for her. I can't be her savior I can't watch her suffer to death."
You were deep in pain, but I couldn't get you out of it. My love couldn't save you from all the pain. If getting mad and crazy is the only way to keep you safe, then...
"Then she can hate me all she wants!" Ying Qingcang's voice was pale and powerless. "When she recovers her memories, just tell her that I cheated on her."
"Shit!" Young Master Shen's eyes got teary. "I'll go talk to Tang Shuang, if I can't convince her, I'll threaten her."
Ying Qingcang yelled. "Do you want to get Xin Qing killed? If she made a mistake during acupuncture, then..."
It was not that he hadn't thought of other plans, but Ying Qingcang couldn't promise whether Tang Shuang's true intention was to treat her illness. Once she felt upset and made a mistake during acupuncture, Xin Qing would be screwed.
"Alright!" Young Master Shen bit his teeth. "We'll do whatever she wants to satisfy her, we can settle everything after Xin Qing recovered. Marriage is a piece of cake, it's all fake anyway. We'll explain to Xiao Qingqing when everything is settled."
Ying Qingcang pressed the corner of his mouth with his lips. "This is a matter of time. When Xin Qing gets back on her feet, I won't care a single bit about that woman. But I worry that Xin Qing will get hurt by then. My heart gets twisted when she cries, let along the fact that I'm the one who makes her cry."
"Who could have thought we will compromise ourselves like this!" Young Master Shen laughed at themselves. "When Xiao Qingqing gets better, I'll personally send Tang Shuang to Mr. Wan's."
Ying Qingcang totally agreed, Mr. Wan did researches on Biochemical weapons in secret, which often involved human bodies as experimental subjects. But those people were all wicked desperadoes. He didn't feel like this was too cruel for Tang Shuang, on the contrary, Ying Qingcang almost wanted to skin that woman alive. Any more pain for her couldn't repay the hurt that she put on Xin Qing.
Tang Shuang grew up with her grandpa in the mountain, she was wild and honest. But her grandpa wasn't a good man, he was a military surgeon in the Golden Triangle, and he had done all the bad deeds including killing people. Usually when someone who came for his treatment wasn't satisfied with the results, they would be killed directly and thrown in the mountain to feed the wolves by him. Tang Shuang had learned ever since she was a kid that she had to do anything possible to get what she wanted, in good ways or bad. As for whether other people would get hurt by her actions, that was none of her concern.
So when she first laid eyes on Ying Qingcang and determined that she had fallen in love with him, she immediately decided that she was gonna marry him and spend the rest of her life with him.
"Hello! I'm Tang Shuang." She stared at the woman sitting on the sofa, she was just like a little girl. Didn't they say that she was a year older than herself? How come she looked even a few years younger than herself?
Xin Qing looked at Young Master Shen, then he nodded. "She is the doctor that came here to treat your illness."
"Thank you!" Xin Qing reached her hand. "Sorry to cause you so much trouble."
Tang Shuang reached her hand with a smile on her face. "No wonder Ying Qingcang had fallen for you before, you're so beautiful!"
"You too." Xin Qing smiled back.
"Of course!" Tang Shuang flipped her hair. "Come on! We have nothing in common and we are basically rivals in love now. Although you are almost kicked out in no time, I won't like you anyway. Give me your hand, I need to feel your pulse."
Xin Qing gave her her hand. Tang Shuang wasn't gonna say anything to her anymore. Because now Xin Qing didn't have any memories, she wouldn't feel anything with whatever she said. She'll tell her all about it when she got her memories back.
Every few minutes she wrote down some names of the Chinese herbs on the paper, then continue to feel her pulse. Occasionally she would scratch out one of the names she wrote and added a new one. Almost half an hour had passed, just when Young Master Shen worried would there be any problem, Tang Shuang finally handed the piece of paper to him. "Get the herbs according to this prescript, use three bowls of water to boil the herbs till it concentrated into one bowl of liquid medicine, drink it in the morning and at night every day, this is the dose of three days." Young Master Shen took the paper and handed it to Ah Che.
"Use better methods to get these herbs, those from the pharmacy... they aren't exactly of the best quality." Tang Shuang added.
Ah Che nodded and left with the piece of paper.
Then the acupuncture began. Watching Tang Shuang stuck a finger-long needle into Xin Qing's head, Young Master Shen started to have trouble breathing.
"What are you nervous about?" Tang Shuang glanced at him.
"Stay focused." He saw Tang Shuang picked up another needle while talking to him.
Tang Shuang laughed out loud. "Relax, I, more than anyone, want her to recover, otherwise I won't be able to marry Ying Qingcang."
Young Master Shen's face darkened. "Be careful what you're saying."
"Relax!" Tang Shuang looked at Xin Qing, who was staring at the table with a calm face. "When she fully recovered, she won't remember anything happened after the loss of memory. So, even if she knows about the price of me saving her is Ying Qingcang marrying me, it won't matter anyway, this is the fun part, isn't it?"
Xin Qing finally had expression on her face, she looked at Young Master Shen in confusion.
"It's alright, the most important thing is that you get well soon!" Young Master Shen put a bitter smile on his face. "Then it will worth everything Ah Cang has done for you."
Xin Qing wanted to stand up, but got pressed down by Tang Shuang. "What are you doing?" She sounded furious. "Do you know even if the needle in your head misses the right spot by merely 0.1, it could have turned you into a retard?"
"I know you didn't want Ying Qingcang to do this, but think about it, if you refuse the treatment, you will become his burden for all his life. And I can assure you, no one in this world... besides me can cure you."
Tang Shuang was like a wise woman who took charge of everything, she could see Xin Qing's mind through and through. Young Master Shen hurriedly sat next to her. "Sit still!" He looked at Xin Qing, with something he didn't dare to say in his eyes. Xin Qing didn't say anything and started to sit still.
Time passed slowly, although the air conditioning was strong, Tang Shuang started to sweat on her body. To stick 36 needles exactly into the right acupuncture points, it was tiring, even for Tang Shuang. Young Master Shen kept staring, anything wrong with Xin Qing and he would break Tang Shuang's neck right there and then.
After three whole hours, Tang Shuang started to take the needles out. She was relieved and said, "Take your medicine on time, drink it while it's hot. Don't go anywhere during treatment, don't eat anything pungent, don't get too moody."
"Thank you, you've been working very hard." Xin Qing nodded. After Tang Shuang gather all her things she threw in, "I did this for myself."
Young Master Shen stared at Xin Qing. "Do you feel uncomfortable? If you feel something's wrong just call me okay?"
Tang Shuang twitched the corner of her mouth. "Let's go, you have to send me back. I have a dinner date with Ying Qingcang."
Not long after they left, Aunt Tian brought Ah Sha back. Aunt Tian took her to the play house when Xin Qing was getting the acupuncture, because they didn't want to scare the kid. When Ah Sha saw Xin Qing, she rushed to give her a hug again. Ever since Xin Qing left last time, Ah Sha became very clingy because she was afraid that Xin Qing would disappear again. Just before dinner Ah Che brought the herbs back, Aunt Tian stayed in the kitchen and boiled the herbs for an hour, and then she made Xin Qing drink it before bed.
At night, Xin Qing was holding Ah Sha, the kid was already asleep and blowing bubbles. Xin Qing's train of thought went back to what Tang Shuang said in the afternoon. That man was gonna get married in order to save herself. According to What Young Master Shen meant, they didn't want her to know the truth. But what will happen when she got her memories back? Was she supposed to hate Ying Qingcang for cheating on her?
Ah, right, she would forget everything happened during her memory loss, so by then she wouldn't even remember what Ying Qingcang had done for her. Xin Qing took up the cowhide book, thought for a second and closed the book. Never mind, forget about writing it down. It was better not knowing...
Three days later, Tang Shuang came to do acupuncture for Xin Qing again, she seemed pleased with Xin Qing's state. Then she changed two herbs on the prescript. In the afternoon when she wanted to the Ying Enterprises to look for Ying Qingcang, she saw a woman was pointing and yelling at Ying Qingcang.
"Who are you and why are you welling at him?"
Zhang Mi let out a cold laugh. "Who I am is none of your concern. Even looking at a wicked, shameless bitch like you makes me sick."
"Oh! You came here to avenge Xin Qing, you're her friend, right?" Tang Shuang smirked. "No matter how you yelled at us, it won't change the fact that Ying Qingcang and I are getting married. Yell all you want!"
Zhang Mi laughed sarcastically. "Do you think he's rich? All his fortune now belongs to Xin Qing. You won't be the young Mistress of the Ying residence even if you marry him!"
"Zhang Mi!" Young Master Shen, who just stepped in, heard what she said. His face went pale instantly.
Ying Qingcang took up the ashtray on the table and smashed it at Zhang Mi. "Get the fuck out!"
"Ah!" Zhang Mi screamed. She covered her leg and couldn't get up for a long time.
Young Master Shen carried her and rushed outside, the office suddenly went dead quiet. After a long while, Tang Shuang opened her mouth. "I don't want your money I will marry you even if you're broke."