Chapter 11

The treatment room was filled with the smell of disinfectant and moxibustion.

Shen Nanxing lit the alcohol lamp and roasted the silver needle over the flame for a few times.

The flames made the cigarette scar on her wrist more obvious.

That was done by my ex-husband Li Dazhuang using red-hot tongs.

“Take off your clothes.” She said without turning her head.

In the forensic autopsy room, she had seen countless corpses.

I really want to send this “executioner” Lu Zhanye to hell with an injection.

Lu Zhanye unbuttoned his military uniform, revealing his muscular upper body.

The scar on his lower back was hideous, and the surrounding muscles were tense with pain.

He is so lucky. If it was off by one centimeter, he would either be paralyzed for life or die.

This guy is not dead.

At this moment, Shen Nanxing cursed the person who saved Lu Zhanye a thousand times in his heart.

“The third lumbar vertebra is two inches to the right. Move a little…”

The moment the needle tip pierced his skin, his muscles contracted violently.

Shen Nanxing’s heart twitched unconsciously.

“It will be a little painful, just bear with it.” Her voice was cold but much softer.

“The shrapnel had been embedded for too long, and the surrounding inflammation was severe.”

Lu Zhanye did not respond, but just gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

This woman is so cruel! She’s like she wants to kill me.

How did I offend her?

“You hate me.” Lu Zhanye suddenly spoke.

This sentence is not a question.

Shen Nanxing hesitated for a moment and increased the strength of his hands a little.

“Captain Lu is overthinking it.”

“Then why are your hands shaking?”

Only then did she realize that her fingertips were indeed trembling slightly.

Maybe it was because of the inexplicable heartache I felt just now.

Shen Nanxing cursed himself in his heart.

“It’s an occupational disease.” She forced herself to remain calm.

“I can’t help it. I get excited when I see difficult and complicated diseases.”

Lu Zhanye chuckled, turned around and grabbed her wrist:

“Shen Nanxing, you’ve learned to lie.”

“I don’t.”

“Don’t you know that when you lie, your right eyebrow raises?”

She couldn’t break free from Lu Zhanye, so she simply leaned over and approached him:

“Then, Captain Lu, do you know that every time you lie, the fingers of your right hand unconsciously clench?”

“Oh? It seems you care about me very much too?”

“Hmph, for example… you didn’t even take the medicine I changed, right?”

The air freezes…

Not long after, Shen Nanxing pulled out his hand and knocked over the needle box, and three silver needles rolled onto Lu Zhanye’s waist.

At this moment, Lu Zhanye’s muscles suddenly tensed, and beads of sweat slid down his spine into the waistband of his training pants…

“Damn it…”

Shen Nanxing reached out her hand but it stopped in mid-air.

The next second, Lu Zhanye unbuckled his belt with one hand, causing her breathing to almost stop.

“You, what do you want to do? The agreement doesn’t say you have to take off your pants for treatment.”

She turned her face away, wanting to escape.

“The belt is in the way. Doctor Shen, you’ve seen men before, haven’t you?”

Hearing the sound of the metal buckle opening, Shen Nanxing quickly picked up the tweezers and poked Lu Zhanye’s tailbone:

“I’ve seen countless male corpses. Does this count? The bullet hole in the death row in the autopsy last week was more impressive than the one in your waist.”

Lu Zhanye suddenly turned over and grabbed her wrist.

The examination bed creaked, as if it could not bear the weight.

Just like that, Shen Nanxing stumbled and fell into Lu Zhanye’s arms, and her nose hit his heart.

She smelled the scent of Pechoin mixed with the smell of gunpowder…

This man actually has a feminine scent?

As expected, all men are bad.

She needs to treat his infertility so as not to affect his performance outside.

“Have you smelled enough?”

Lu Zhanye stared at Shen Nanxing, and suddenly he felt that this little woman was quite attractive.

Thin lips and a pair of talking eyes, always looking at him with hostility.

“Article 2 of the agreement: Marital obligations include…”

“Nothing? Don’t be a rogue.”

Shen Nanxing knelt between Lu Zhanye’s legs, the hem of her nurse’s uniform rolled up to her knees, revealing scabbed abrasions.

“Try to move again, and this shot of mine will send you back to meet the man on the dissection table last week.”

Just as the last silver needle entered Lu Zhanye’s waist, Lu Zhanye suddenly grabbed Shen Nanxing’s calf.

She fell down and sat on his waist, the shrapnel scar under her palm throbbing, and she couldn’t tell whose heartbeat it was.

“Where were you last week? You were even performing an autopsy. Who were you kidding?”

Only then did Shen Nanxing remember that he was not a doctor of forensic medicine.

This wasn’t her forensic autopsy room.

It was a military hospital clinic in the 1980s.

“Doctor Shen, you can’t escape. We must add another clause to the agreement.”

Lu Zhanye’s fingertips curled the laces of her nurse’s uniform, “It’s cured. I have to inspect the results of the treatment.”

“How do you test it?”

Shen Nanxing’s mind went blank and his eyes rolled around.

“For example…trying to see if I can make you pregnant with me…”

“You dare? I’ll make sure you can never lift a gun again.”

The moment Shen Nanxing turned over and got out of bed, Lu Zhanye grabbed her arm and pulled her back into his arms.

The enamel basin fell to the ground because of the tug of war between the two.

The first hug made Shen Nanxing even feel a little “disgusted”.

Shen Nanxing struggled desperately to get up and break free from Lu Zhanye’s arms.

“The treatment is over. Captain Lu, please abide by the daily agreement: sleep in separate rooms.”

“I can sleep in separate rooms. But you have to come and give me acupuncture every night so that I can quickly recover.

Lu Zhanye swung out his belt and wrapped it around Shen Nanxing’s waist.

“You, you still have bad intentions.”

He then let go of his hand:

“Smart woman. How did you know?”

“Same here.”

Shen Nanxing quickly took a step back and kept a certain distance from Lu Zhanye.

“You, now, lie down.”

It was already late at night when the treatment was over…

Shen Nanxing rubbed his sore wrist and watched Lu Zhanye slowly put on his military uniform.

While she was packing up the needles, she said to Lu Zhanye:

“Same time tomorrow. Captain Lu, don’t forget to bring the key to the medicine store.”

Lu Zhanye fastened the last button, then turned around and approached Shen Nanxing:

“Why study medicine?”

“Save people.”

“Does that include people like me?”

Shen Nanxing paused and looked up at Lu Zhanye:

“Captain Lu, do I need to remind you again? We are only in a contractual relationship.”

Lu Zhanye nodded and walked towards the door.

The moment he opened the door, Shen Nanxing suddenly asked, “How did you get the injury on your waist?”

Lu Zhanye’s back froze for a moment. What exactly did she want to know?

“Seven years ago, I was shot…it was supposed to be me that was buried at the collapse site.

An old military doctor tried his best to push me out at the last moment…”

Lu Zhanye’s voice was choked with sobs.

The scene of Shen Huaishan being pierced through the body by steel bars appeared before his eyes again.

The sound of the door closing echoed in the silent corridor.

Shen Nanxing looked at the bloodstains remaining on his palm.

That was seeping from Lu Zhanye’s wound.

Bright red and warm.

It was exactly the same as what I saw at the execution ground in my previous life.

Moonlight streamed in through the gaps in the curtains.

Shen Nanxing sat at the desk in the duty room, looking through Lu Zhanye’s medical records.

The X-ray showed the location of the shrapnel, which was shocking. A half-centimeter shift would have completely damaged the cauda equina.

She suddenly noticed a line of small words on the back of the report:

[Immediate surgery was recommended, but the patient refused to sign]

The date is… one month later.

Shen Nanxing was a little bit unbelievable.

That was the day he was arrested.

She heard footsteps outside the door and quickly closed the file.

Lu Zhanye stood at the door, holding two cups of hot milk in his hands: “Why don’t you go back and rest?”

“Ward rounds. Check… medical records.”

Shen Nanxing had a blank expression on her face. Where could she go back to?

I can only stay here to look at the medical records.

Lu Zhanye seemed to see through her thoughts.

He handed me a glass of milk: “Drink something hot.”

Shen Nanxing didn’t answer.

“Captain Lu, don’t forget, we are not really husband and wife.”

“I haven’t forgotten. But I need to maintain my strength to treat patients and save lives.”

Lu Zhanye put the cup on the table, the milk in the cup was still steaming.

At this moment, neither of them took another step forward.