Mu Feichi looked at Yun Xi with a smile as he swiftly caught the cushion she threw at him.
"What? Babe, did you think that I would climb through the windows into your house every day? Well, I can do that too, because I bought the house next to you. So if I climb onto your balcony, I don't even need the keys."
"..." What else could she say when he was so shameless?
"Well, at least take your things over to your apartment. I won't be able to explain to them if my father does a surprise spot check and finds all of these in my house."
"Don't worry. I bought everything of the same colour, and even the home slippers are of a size that both men and women can use. None of these things looks like they're for a man. So even if your father comes over, he won't think that you are keeping a man at home."
Yun Xi couldn't help but roll her eyes. She took a deep breath and said, "Sir, you sure thought of everything."
This man in front of her was always thinking of ways to get his way with her. And Yun Xi always felt as if her plans and thoughts were useless when confronted with him.
Mu Feichi nodded and looked at her earnestly. It was as if he was emphasizing something extremely serious.
"I don't have an option. You will probably have many suitors once you go to university. And before I can eliminate them one by one, I have to carve a way for myself first."
This little girl, who was about to come of age, had gradually become gentler and more delicate. He felt as if he was reading a book and had gotten to the most exciting part.
Mu Feichi started noticing the radiance Yun Xi gave off, and he knew that other men would be able to sense it too.
He can only start to slowly take out all her suitors once he has established himself with her.
Yun Xi couldn't respond to what Mu Feichi had just said. It would sound wrong no matter how she said it.
"Oh, yes, here is detailed information about the prominent figures in your school. Qiao Ximin is in her second year and is a campus belle with many suitors. Si Wenxuan, who went to the high school for the noble families, did not study abroad and has also been accepted into Jingdu University."
"That's so weird. As the President's daughter, why is Si Wenxuan living such a high-profile lifestyle? Why isn't she worried that someone will try to kidnap her? After all, all it takes to create an international incident would be for a foreign special agent to kidnap her and threaten the President. It would be so easy to negotiate for any terms from him when holding his daughter as bait."
Mu Feichi stopped what he was doing when he heard what Yun Xi had said. He smiled as he leaned on the sofa and started telling her about a past incident.
"I've talked to you about this previously. When Si Wenxuan was still a child, there was an incident where people tried to kill her and her mother. So after that incident, the President spoiled her rotten. She has also experienced kidnapping. I was the one who led a team of special agents and rescued her within five hours. The country that kidnapped her sent more than 100 kidnappers, and none survived. Many knew about this incident, although that country wouldn't talk about it openly. But after that, it became well known internationally that Jun Country has a capable army special forces unit that is brave, unpredictable, and can fight against lots of people. As no one can find out any details of our unit, no one dared to think about laying their hands on her again."
It was also because no one knew precisely about the forces protecting Si Wenxuan. Hence, no one dared to come and risk death again.
So Si Wenxuan no longer hides when she's studying or socializing. But she still has a small team of bodyguards protecting her from afar.
Her childhood and how she was brought up were the exact reasons why she was so arrogant now.
Yun Xi finally understood why Si Wenxuan refused to leave Mu Feichi alone.
Mu Feichi had saved her once when she was at the age of just finding out about love. He was like the beacon of light in the dark, shining on all her life and love values.
That's great. Qiao Ximin had always wanted to know the President's daughter, but her status didn't allow that. So now, Yun Xi will send Si Wenxuan to her.
Yun Xi had planned that her battle with Qiao Ximin would start when they were both students at Jingdu University. Now she didn't have a plan to deal with Qiao Ximin yet.
The Qiao family was the most crucial character in Yun Xi's game and her ultimate target for revenge. She can't let the Qiao family or Qiao Ximin get kicked out so early in the game.
People always say that the higher you climb, the harder you fall. The Qiao family had only just started to stand out, so they had not yet experienced being at the top and wouldn't know the feeling of losing everything.
So what Yun Xi needed to do now was to encourage Qiao Ximin's ambitions. And she would do it just like how she had forced Liang Xinyi into sacrificing herself and her body in exchange for what she wanted. After one gets what one wants, one would always want to get more and protect everything one has at all costs.
One would feel more pain when being cut by a blunt knife, and this was the exact reason why she didn't want to get rid of the Qiao family too easily.
If she eliminated the Qiao family at this point, she would no longer have so much fun in her game.
Yun Xi hated Qiao Ximin and Han Yaotian so much that she wouldn't ever find peace within herself if she didn't get back at them.
...
She hadn't expected their first encounter to be so soon.
A few days after Yun Xi had returned home, many parents living in the villa residences had asked her to tutor their children. The first one who asked her was Feng Yang's sister, Feng Xixian.
As Yun Xi had tutored her previously, she accepted the job. And, since school had just started, she made full use of the time to teach her the main essential topics.
"Yun Xi, I heard that the biggest Bo Jue Amusement Park in Jingdu has opened. There's a huge Ferris wheel. Why don't we go take a look?"
Yun Xi took a look at the time and then at the results of the last assignment she'd given Feng Xixian. After seeing that she'd done well, Yun Xi nodded.
"All right! I will buy you a ticket to the amusement park as a reward since you did well on this assignment."
"Oh, yes! Yun Xi, you're the best!"
Feng Xixian jumped up from her chair after hearing that Yun Xi would buy the tickets and go with her. "Let's go! Our chauffeur will drive us there!"
"I will go get changed."
Yun Xi had gotten used to carrying a bag when she went out. She never knew when she might need it to defend herself if she got kidnapped again. She didn't know when it had started, but she could no longer neglect her safety.
...
At the same time, Qiao Ximin was also at the amusement park, keeping the mayor's wife and her grandson company.
Qiao Ximin was not interested in coming to a place that was mainly for children to have fun. But it was a rare opportunity where she could get close to the mayor's family. So even if it meant playing with the mayor's young grandson, she wouldn't miss it for the world.
The mayor's wife doted on her only baby grandson. Qiao Ximin wanted to spend more time with the mayor's wife to create a good impression so that she would speak in favour of the Qiao family to her husband. So of course Qiao Ximin had to act well behaved.
Qiao Ximin was good at pleasing older people, but she usually was impatient when dealing with young kids. It was the summer season now, and it was torture for her to line up under the scorching sun to go on rides, and she even had to do it without any special privileges or treatment.
Holding a lacey umbrella in one hand, Qiao Ximin wiped the perspiration off her forehead. Her makeup was long gone, but she persisted and stayed in the line.
The mayor's wife held an umbrella over her grandson. Although she was already more than 40 years old, she seemed to handle the heat and the wait better than the young Qiao Ximin.
She was clear about Qiao Ximin's purpose in approaching her. The Young Commander had already told her that Qiao Ximin would try to curry favours with her family to prevent the Qiao family from getting in trouble for anything. But of course, she couldn't let on that she knew.
Moreover, she absolutely couldn't stand how Qiao Ximin was behaving like a delicate heiress. However, since Qiao Ximin needed a favour from her family, she wouldn't mind putting her through some hardships.
Anyway, Qiao Ximin was the one who had suggested coming to the amusement park, so the mayor's wife just took the opportunity to bring her grandson along for fun.
The amusement park had been open for several months, coinciding with the summer holidays, and the number of children who came to enjoy it was particularly large.
Many of the attractions had long lines, especially the massive Ferris wheel, where the lines were not only long but also especially slow.
Qiao Ximin stood impatiently at the front of the line, having no choice but to force a smile on her face and wipe away her sweat, talking to the mayor's wife from time to time.
After waiting for more than half an hour, just as she was about to have a heat stroke from the sun, it was finally their turn.
There were too many people in line, so Yun Xi and Feng Xixian stood in the group of people at the back.
Just as the Ferris wheel lifted off and had completed one rotation, Yun Xi, who had been talking with Feng Xixian, looked up and noticed a passenger in the cabin that had just completed a rotation had fallen off his chair.
In the cabin, a middle-aged woman supported the child and banged on the glass door in a desperate attempt to get the Ferris wheel to stop.
Instantly understanding that something was wrong, Yun Xi quickly turned to Feng Xixian and said, "Someone is having some sort of attack in the cabin, get the staff to stop the Ferris wheel! Now!"
One round of the Ferris wheel takes at least ten minutes, so three rounds will take up to half an hour. If it was not stopped in time and something happened to one of its passengers, this newly opened amusement park would have to be closed down.
"Oh...okay..."
Not realizing what had happened, Feng Xixian made her way out of the line and rushed up to where the staff worked.
Yun Xi didn't stay idle either. She pushed through the crowd and approached the staff on the ground, telling them to inform the machine control room to stop the Ferris wheel.
Looking in the direction she was pointing, the staff member also noticed the tourist in one of the cabins desperately rapping on the hatch. After talking on the intercom to the person in the control room, he quickly walked to the gate and waited for that Ferris wheel cabin to return to the ground.
The lively crowd was suddenly abuzz with speculation.
With great difficulty, the control room personnel cooperated with the ground staff to run the Ferris wheel back toward the ground. Soon, the middle-aged woman in the cabin emerged with her child in her arms.
"Doctor! Call a doctor! Ning Ning, please don't scare Grandma! Ning Ning, please wake up..."
The mayor's wife held the child as she knelt on the ground. It seemed as if the child had been convulsing.
Yun Xi pushed through the crowd and ran forward, kneeling on the ground beside the child while reaching out to check the child's pulse. She looked up and said: "Madame, I am a medical student, please let me take a look at the child. I have already sent someone to call the paramedics."
Mrs Yang held the child as she looked at the young girl in front of her. The child was convulsing, and she, the grandmother, was heartbroken.
No longer caring about anything else at the moment, she could only nod her head in an anxious panic: "Quickly find out what's wrong with our Ning Ning!"
Feeling his pulse while laying the child flat on the ground, Yun Xi concentrated on monitoring the number of heartbeats.
She watched as the child's fingers spasmed, both hands twisted into chicken claws, gasping for air, the entire body cold and weak.
"Madame, does the child have any heart conditions?" Yun Xi raised her head to look at the middle-aged woman across from her. She looked somewhat familiar, and after a few more glances she remembered who she was.
Isn't this the mayor's wife of Jingdu?
In her past life, she had had a meeting with Mrs Yang at a reception, and she remembered that this child was the most precious grandson of their family.
When she'd met Mrs Yang, the young master of the Yang family had already graduated from college, and the warm, lovely young man had attracted a lot of people's attention as soon as he'd appeared at the reception.
The Yang family was considered a relatively low-profile political family from Kyoto. Many large commercial families hoped to enter into a marriage with the Yang family, but the Yang family had few children, and the youngest had just turned 21 years old.
All these foolish people would have to wait for a few more years.
Thinking of something, she looked up to talk to the mother and saw Qiao Ximin standing behind Mrs Yang. With just one glance she knew exactly why Qiao Ximin was here.
"Heart disease?" Mrs Yang thought carefully and shook her head. "No! This child has always been healthy. How could he have heart disease?"
Yun Xi's face wrinkled in concentration as she looked at the child's pale face. She raised her hand and patted the child's chest, squeezing his cold hand with hers and rubbing it gently.
After several moments, she leaned down and asked him, "How do you feel? Any better?"
The child nodded and slowly opened his eyes, looking much better than earlier.
As soon as Yun Xi's hand stopped patting his chest, he once again closed his eyes in agony and started whimpering.
"Madame, please gently pat the child's chest while I help him regain sensation in his hands, which are still stiff."
Mrs Yang squeezed the child's hand, feeling how cold it was, particularly on such a hot day. She was so worried that the child might be close to death.
"Okay..." Mrs Yang had watched Yun Xi patting his chest and followed her example by patting the child lightly on the chest.
"Madame, please think harder. Has the child had any major illnesses before? What exactly was it? Was it related to the heart?"
Mrs Yang thought carefully and then remembered. "I forgot. The child had viral myocarditis a few years ago. Is it related to this?"
Yun Xi figured it out immediately and nodded. "That must be it! There must have been damage to the heart muscle when he was sick, and, combined with the thin air experienced at the high altitude that the Ferris Wheel was at, he reacted. Maybe he was afraid of heights, which could have caused sudden cardiac arrhythmia. The heart, affected by psychological stress, could have triggered a lesion."
"We shouldn't have come to the amusement park. We shouldn't have gone on the Ferris wheel. It's no wonder that Ning Ning complained that he was uncomfortable as soon as we reached a high altitude."
When Mrs Yang remembered that it was Qiao Ximin who had suggested coming to the amusement park, she glared at her with anger.
This look of reproach made Qiao Ximin feel that all the things she had suffered this day were the equivalent of a waste of effort. She'd even risked offending the mayor's wife.
Her original goal had been to please them by catering to the child's desire to come to the amusement park, but she didn't expect the kid to suddenly fall ill, causing her to be put in a difficult and conflict-ridden situation.
Once Yun Xi had identified the symptoms of the disease, she hurriedly rummaged through her backpack to find the heart attack pills that she always carried around with her and pressed one under the child's tongue.
"This pill will save him from having a heart attack. It's only a temporary fix and you should rush him to the hospital for emergency treatment. He seems to be starting to have difficulty breathing."
Yun Xi raised her head and looked at the staff rushing over. "Hurry up and take this child to the hospital!"
Feng Xixian also rushed over at that moment, and she couldn't help but freeze when she saw Mrs Yang holding the child on the ground.
"Auntie Yang, why are you here? Ning Ning? What's the matter with him?" Once she saw that it was someone she knew, Feng Xixian hastily knelt to check his condition.
Hearing her voice, Mrs Yang raised her head. She was also a little surprised to see that it was Feng Xixian.
"Ning Ning suddenly fell ill. We must hurry to the hospital..."
"Come with me, my driver is still outside. Yun Xi, how is Ning Ning? Aren't you skilled in the art of medicine?"
"A sudden heart attack, we have to rush him to the hospital. Hurry!"
Yun Xi called for assistance from the staff and a group quickly rushed the child to the hospital.
Qiao Ximin followed behind, worried that something might happen. She hurriedly called her driver over and followed them to the hospital.
Before getting into Feng Xixian's car, Yun Xi glanced at Qiao Ximin, who was following behind them and entered the car with an enigmatic smile.
At the entrance of the emergency room, Yun Xi told the doctor about the child's condition in detail to make it easier for the doctor to make an accurate diagnosis as quickly as possible.
The waiting time to go to see the doctor felt a little long. The hospital's deputy director and several experts arrived shortly after Mayor Yang Mingjiang, who had rushed over after receiving a phone call from his wife. All the commotion had attracted the attention of many pedestrians, who had now gathered outside the emergency room.
After greeting and reassuring those who had arrived, the Deputy Director caught a glimpse of Yun Xi, who was standing on the sidelines. He was surprised.
A mayor's presence had already alarmed the entire military headquarters. Now, adding Yun Xi to the mix was going to create a huge story. Everyone was really worried about being embarrassed in front of the mayor.
"Miss Yun, why are you here?"
The Deputy Director walked forward with a smile on his face. The last time he had seen her she had successfully operated on the First Lady of Jingdu. It was impossible for everyone to not respect the medical knowledge and skills of this talented girl.
At such a young age, she was able to compete with doctors with decades worth of experience. If they hadn't seen her natural inborn abilities for themselves, they really would have had no way of convincing themselves to trust this young girl with peoples' lives.
Yun Xi looked at the Deputy Director and offered him a polite nod after she finally remembered who he was.
"Hello, Deputy Director. I have brought this woman's child to the emergency room."
Mayor Yang looked at the Deputy Director and then at his wife. After seeing his wife nod, he studied the young girl to who the Deputy Director was talking. Her clear eyes gleamed with intelligence, and her quiet, unselfish aura was enough to make him trust her. When she met the Mayor's eyes, her calm eyes showed an unmistakable gleam of sharpness and tenacity.
This young girl exudes neither aggression nor the pretentiousness of most girls her age. She has an air of a lady from a prestigious family who is gentle yet possesses a stubbornness and pride that most ordinary girls do not possess.
After all these years in politics, he is never wrong about people. There is more to this young girl than meets the eye.
"What is the situation now?" the Deputy Director questioned Yun Xi in detail about the course of events and the illness she has diagnosed.
Yun Xi told him about the initial diagnosis she made on the way to the hospital. The Deputy Director expressed that he'd understood the situation, nodded to the cardiologists by his side, and entered the emergency room with them in tow.
After hearing Yun Xi using medical terminology diagnosing what had happened to the boy, and listening to her fluent conversation with the experts, Mayor Yang got a clear idea about the situation.
He had originally thought that the young girl was just being helpful, but then he had realized that she did indeed have vast medical knowledge.
After a long wait, the doctor finally came out of the emergency room. The attending doctor took off his mask and looked at the Mayor, reaching over to shake his hand.
"Doctor, how is the child?" Mayor Yang couldn't care less about manners at this moment. He was eager to know about the child's condition.
"The child's condition has stabilized. It was indeed a relapse of his case of viral myocarditis. He will need to stay in the hospital and be observed for quite some time. Fortunately, he got to the hospital right on time and was given emergency first aid on the way here. If he had gotten here any later, we would have not been able to save him..."
"Thank you, Doctor!"
The attending doctor waved his hand and smiled at the girl standing among the crowd who had explained the whole situation and the child's condition to him on the child's arrival. "If you want to thank someone, thank this young lady who brought your child to the hospital. If not for her emergency first aid and her use of the rescue pill to stabilize his condition, I'm afraid the situation could have turned out much worse. Thank her instead of me. We are just doing our job as doctors."
Mayor Yang turned to Yun Xi, who is still practically hiding among the crowd. He nodded politely and gratefully at her and walked forward toward her.
"Thank you so much for helping, young lady."
Smiling shyly, Yun Xi said, "You're welcome. I was only doing what a physician should do."