The next morning, as sunlight illuminated the sheer curtains of the bedroom.
Exhausted, Su Xiaonuan lay drenched in sweat, nestled weakly in Shen Qiang's arms. Clinging to her supple waist, he breathed in the fresh scent from her hair, restless with longing.
Feeling Shen Qiang's movements, an utterly drained Su Xiaonuan opened her eyes with a mix of shyness and urgency, coquettishly scolding him, "Stop it, it's Monday. Don't you have to go to the Medical University to handle some training procedures? Get up, get~up!"
Shen Qiang, helpless, held Su Xiaonuan. The temptation of her soft and fragrant warmth was great, but he couldn't delay the important tasks ahead.
He got up, took a quick shower.
Returning to the bedroom naked, Shen Qiang saw Su Xiaonuan, who had urged him to get up, now snuggling back into sleep. This feeling... was a helpless one indeed.
"Hey, the sun's up your ass. Don't tell me you're not busy today?" Shen Qiang called out.
Roused by Shen Qiang's voice, Su Xiaonuan lazily whined, "Stop it, just let me sleep five more minutes."
Shen Qiang, again feeling helpless, reached for the underwear made-to-measure for him by the puppet dressmaker expertly. As he put them on, he was suddenly astounded.
What the hell was this big long nose on the front of the underwear?
While Shen Qiang was bewildered, the drowsy Su Xiaonuan, who had just opened her eyes, instantly spotted the long, elephant-trunk-like separated part on the front of Shen Qiang's underwear, complete with an embroidered top hat and bow tie, and she burst into laughter, "Oh my god, Shen Qiang, what are you doing? Is this a new style of men's novelty underwear?"
Shen Qiang was stunned.
It took him a long moment to come back to his senses.
Damn...
This was definitely the costume designer's way of getting even!
After changing into his clothes,
Shen Qiang went downstairs.
There he saw the puppet dressmaker, clad in pajamas, making breakfast in the kitchen.
Shen Qiang frowned and walked over.
She seemed indifferent.
"The underwear you made is not bad," Shen Qiang said.
The puppet dressmaker smiled slightly, "Elegant and gentlemanly; I'm glad you like it."
Shen Qiang, seeing her unembarrassed composure, furrowed his brow even more deeply. After a silence of a full three seconds, he said, "That's fine, but I feel the need to remind you, it's too small. Do you understand? Your top-hatted gentleman can't hold my grandeur!"
Having said that, Shen Qiang turned and walked away.
It wasn't until the sound of the door closing with a bang reached her, that the puppet dressmaker, calmly preparing porridge, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"This woman is definitely no pushover!"
Shen Qiang stomped downstairs, still huffing.
The situation was quite clear. Shen Qiang had pulled one over on her with the Jade Cream, and now she had retaliated with that novelty underwear. What was she playing at?
Did she really think Brother Qiang was that easy to bully?
No rush, take it slow. After all, she wanted to remove her freckles and become beautiful; she was all in Shen Qiang's hands now.
On his way to Medical University Affiliated,
he called Mr. Ma,
asking him to take some people to Datong River and take over on Shen Qiang's behalf, to handle some procedures, meanwhile transferring 50 million to Mr. Ma.
The market value of Datong River restaurant was 50 million.
But after negotiations between Mr. Ma and the owner of Datong River the day before, the final price was 45 million, which certainly meant Mr. Ma had used some tactics.
Shen Qiang wasn't familiar with the plot twist.
But Shen Qiang knew that the culinary industry was actually a double-edged sword.
The same bowl of noodles might only cost five yuan at a street stall.
In a star-rated hotel, it would be several tens of yuan.
If placed in a prestigious restaurant like Datong River, the price would rise to over a hundred yuan.
Thus, the profits of Datong River would definitely be substantial.
However, unfortunately, in this Huaxia Cuisine Competition, the Provincial City's number one was not Datong River; otherwise, riding on this momentum, the market value of Datong River would have soared.
But once Datong River came into Shen Qiang's hands, the situation would be different. It must be noted that Shen Qiang was the chef who ranked first in the Provincial City competition. With this identity revealed, along with the acquisition of the second prize-winning Truffle Steak, Datong River would undoubtedly become the new holy land of gastronomy in Provincial City.
The profits would definitely not be bad.
He then went to the Medical University Affiliated.
The advanced training procedures were extremely smooth.
This was the advantage of being at the Medical University Affiliated—one could just be recommended by the hospital to pursue further studies.
If you were a doctor from any other top-tier hospital, haha, please apply for the exam and talk about it once you pass.
After completing the procedures, Shen Qiang submitted some research data concerning the treatment of lactose intolerance with Thermophilic Streptococcus.
Whether he could snag an assistant professor position based on this was not easy to say; he could only wait for news.
Apart from that, there was nothing else to be done at the hospital, just waiting for all the procedures to be completed before he could go for advanced studies at Medical University.
This feeling of being free of obligations made Shen Qiang exceptionally buoyant.
Upon leaving the hospital, he made a trip to the medicinal herb market. The Pei Yuan Pills he had previously refined were originally intended for his own cultivation but ended up being sold because of Bai Jiao.
Luckily he made a lot of money.
So now, it was time to refine a few more for his own use in cultivation. After all, as a practitioner, Shen Qiang now possessed the Plague Source and the Five Cultivation Techniques of the Mixed Arts. Being unbeatable at the same Realm Cultivation level was not difficult, but compared to truly strong practitioners with a higher Realm Cultivation, the gap was still sizeable.
Moreover, without reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, even with an Earth Spirit Embryo, there was no way to refine Jiazi Pills.
To Shen Qiang's surprise, the materials needed for refining Pei Yuan Pills, which were previously easy to obtain, not only suddenly became scarce but their prices soared as well.
After spending an enormous amount of effort and eight million yuan, Shen Qiang barely managed to gather enough materials for one Pei Yuan Pill.
The price of raw materials had more than doubled, which made Shen Qiang want to curse.
Because he was unaware,
It was the advent of Divine Grade Pei Yuan Pills that had triggered a craze in the Cultivation World to refine Pei Yuan Pills. Not just in Provincial City, but materials for Pei Yuan Pills across Huaxia were almost completely bought out.
After all, if someone could refine a Divine Grade Pei Yuan Pill, then naturally others wanted to attempt to replicate it.
With the material prices skyrocketing and supply unable to meet demand, such a situation was naturally not hard to understand.
However, this kind of situation couldn't help but disappoint Shen Qiang, who wanted to mass-produce Divine Grade Pei Yuan Pills for profit.
Back at home, after refining a Pei Yuan Pill, Shen Qiang did not hesitate to consume it himself; after all, power was better off manifesting in one's own body.
Over the next two days, Shen Qiang focused on cultivation. Supported by the Pei Yuan Pill, his progress was rapid. In just a few days, Shen Qiang's cultivation had already solidly reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Furthermore, after seventy-two hours of evolution, not only had the tuberculosis bacillus completed its evolution, but the Earth Spirit Embryo had also successfully evolved strains of three, five, and seven colors. Next, he needed to cultivate these strains and, once his cultivation reached the Nascent Soul Stage, he could refine life-extending pills such as the Jiazi Pill, Thousand Returns, and so on.
But before that, there was one crucial thing to do.
That was...
Challenging a rival!
Target: Life-extending Hall!
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