Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 23

Jiangning District.

“Finally finished with the renovations,” Princess Nankang said, looking around.

“It cost me nearly 300,000,” Dr. Wu Quemei said with a wry smile.

After Pukou District fell into the hands of the Longxiang Army, this doctor also fled to the city and used her savings to buy a new clinic in the south of the city to continue her private practice. Of course, given the high cost of land in the city, Princess Nankang lent her some money.

When the renovations were halfway done, news came that the Longxiang Army had been defeated and Pukou District was successfully recaptured. However, since most of the people there had fled, her original psychiatric clinic couldn’t continue operating and was sold to a post-war reconstruction contractor.

“Still, it’s remarkable how a poor boy can become the head of a clan. Fate can be truly strange,” Dr. Zhou Xingzhi sighed.

“By the way,” Wu Quemei teased, “Nankang, did you manage to win him over in the end?”

The three had studied together at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Nankang was a student of Academician Xie Guyan, while Wu Quemei and Zhou Xingzhi had different mentors. Now, one was a princess, one a psychiatrist, and one a school doctor, all still unmarried (the curse of female PhDs?), with Princess Nankang being teased by the other two about her romantic progress.

“Not yet,” Princess Nankang waved her hand. “These things take time…”

“Be careful not to let someone else snatch him away,” Zhou Xingzhi warned with a playful tone.

“It doesn’t matter,” Princess Nankang said with a cold smile. “At worst, I’ll be the mistress first, then take over and steal him back.”

Wu Quemei: …

Zhou Xingzhi: …

Nankang was great in many ways, but her thoughts and behavior were somewhat off.

Considering the group of highborn ladies around him, shouldn’t she be at least a bit jealous? If not jealous, shouldn’t she feel some sense of crisis? But no, she was completely indifferent, saying she would win him back no matter who he was with. Not only that, she claimed she could have him right in front of them.

This kind of “broad-mindedness” regarding being the main wife, concubine, or second wife was something the other two couldn’t accept.

Meanwhile.

Wang Wanrou received a call and was speechless.

Even a clay figure has some temper; doesn’t this young lady Wang need to save face?

“Give her the phone,” Wang Wanrou said with a smile.

Cheng Jinyang sensed something was wrong: “Uh, Wanrou, didn’t we agree beforehand…”

“Cheng Lang,” Wang Wanrou smiled again, “please give her the phone, okay?”

Cheng Jinyang: …

[T/N: Lang=Young man/Gentleman.]

For some reason, he suddenly felt as if a knife was being pressed against his chest.

But the knife had clearly been put away by Teacher Li earlier; it wasn’t out at all.

He handed the phone to Li Qingwan, who cautiously took it, her eyes still on him as she listened to Wang Wanrou’s voice on the other end.

“Mm, mm-hmm, I see…” She looked at Cheng Jinyang with an increasingly strange expression. “Is that so? I understand, okay then.”

She then hung up the phone and handed it back to Cheng Jinyang.

“What did she say to you?” Cheng Jinyang asked cautiously.

“It’s not convenient to say,” Li Qingwan said softly. “Anyway, I understand now, and I believe you won’t tell anyone about my matters. I’m sorry for deliberately scaring and threatening you earlier.”

Her sudden change in attitude was both surprising and expected to Cheng Jinyang.

Surprising because he didn’t know what exactly Wang Wanrou had said to persuade a woman wielding a knife to back down in less than a minute.

Expected because… given it was Miss Wang, nothing she did was surprising.

Since Li Qingwan had apologized, Cheng Jinyang didn’t hold onto the earlier matter, especially since Teacher Li’s knife was aimed at herself.

To ease the still somewhat awkward atmosphere, he smiled and said:

“Since you’ve joined us now, those nearly self-torturous behaviors you used to do are no longer necessary. From now on, leave the leveling up to the team.”

“Is that so?” Li Qingwan sighed and took out a sharp blade, handing it to Cheng Jinyang.

As soon as he grasped the handle, before he could react, Li Qingwan pulled hard, plunging the blade into her own chest.

“But, cough cough…” She coughed up blood, struggling to speak, “After getting used to the pain, I realized… only when I’m hurt do I feel truly alive.”

Pulling the blade out again, her chest wound quickly healed, the excess blood staining her shirt, pants… and the bed sheets.

Cheng Jinyang: !!!

Great, now the bed is unusable.

“Jinyang.” Li Qingwan spoke again, “Since you promised to keep my secret, you’ll also help me with this, right?”

“Uh, Qingwan, help you with what exactly?”

“I’m completely tired of self-harm.” Li Qingwan said softly, cutting wounds on her smooth arm with the blade, “Wanrou told me you slayed countless demons in your dreams? Then it’s no problem for you to do the same to me.”

Cheng Jinyang hesitated, sweating profusely.

Really, he had never seen such a twisted person.

Take Chu Qingqing, for example. Although she went crazy killing demons in dreams, at least she was practicing on demons and didn’t cause trouble for everyone.

But, Teacher Li, asking me to kill you? Even if you’re twisted enough to enjoy pain, I’m a normal, positive-minded young man. How could I do such a perverse thing?

Seeing his reluctance, Li Qingwan smiled and said, “Jinyang, if you don’t want to see blood, then fighting is fine. Hit me hard, okay?”

Teacher Li, could you stop smiling while making such twisted requests?

“Qingwan, it’s not that I don’t want to help you,” Cheng Jinyang said earnestly, “but your hobby is too… shocking.”

“Have you thought about what happens if someone sees us? They’d misunderstand and think I’m abusing you! Even if no one sees, doing this for a long time would be a psychological burden for me!”

“It doesn’t matter.” Li Qingwan gently held his hand, “If someone sees and misunderstands, I can explain for you. If you turn twisted because of this, I can accept that too.”

So you do realize you’re twisted! Cheng Jinyang was speechless.

After thinking for a long time, he sighed and said:

“I really can’t help you with this… but I know someone who might be willing.”

“No, I don’t want a sadist.” Surprisingly, Li Qingwan refused without even hearing the name.

“The only one I can trust is you, Jinyang.”

Are you brainwashed or something? Cheng Jinyang was shocked.