Chapter 196: What does she mean by giving me this kind of pill?

Lin Meng dripped blood onto the storage bag to claim ownership, and soon saw inside about ten or so spirit stones and a small porcelain bottle.

Those spirit stones looked clearer and more brilliant than before, with a richer spiritual aura; they were likely middle-grade spirit stones, extremely valuable.

Lin Meng then took out the small porcelain bottle, inside which lay two pills.

She gave one to Ye Chenjing, leaving one extra as a precaution.

However, Lin Meng thought the second pill probably wouldn't be needed; none of the few men around her would likely be so unlucky as to suffer a vital injury, right?

After a delay, Ye Chenjing must be anxious; perhaps he had already secretly seen a doctor in private.

But considering his luck, knowing her is not a loss; this pill is comparable to a life-saving medicine, and that guy will surely be especially grateful to her after taking it.

Seeing that it wasn't late yet, Ye Chenjing probably hadn't gone to sleep, so Lin Meng took out a pill and went next door to find Ye Chenjing.

The gate was soon opened; the moment Ye Chenjing saw Lin Meng, his eyes shone brighter than the lightbulb on the gatepost.

"It's been a few days, General Manager, why do you look unwell?"

Lin Meng walked past him straight into the courtyard, not noticing that Ye Chenjing's gaze kept following her.

Hearing that, Ye Chenjing rubbed his brow, revealing a faint fatigue on his face.

"I'm fine; the company's been busy these days."

The old master has also been frazzled these days; it's all because of Ye Chenyu that brat, who was given some authority and indeed messed up the company into a dark haze.

He even took the lead in slacking off during work hours at the company, saying he rejects the company's wolfish culture and advocates a free, lax work environment, letting employees treat the company as their own home.

The idea is good, but the group's many industries have numerous projects and workloads; reducing the burden must be done gradually.

Now it's come to this: employees in the group who do real work have seen their progress hindered, while those who originally just wanted to slack off have effectively gotten amnesty, openly supporting Ye Chenyu and truly treating the company as their home.

These days he's been busy reorganizing the workplace, getting the group back on track, so busy he hardly touches the ground.

Lin Meng doesn't care about the Ye Group's business; she also trusts Ye Chenjing's ability, only reminding him to rest.

Receiving Lin Meng's concern made Ye Chenjing very happy; all his fatigue vanished at this moment.

After entering the house, Ye Chenjing bustled about, brewing calming soup for Lin Meng and slicing fruit for a platter.

Watching Ye Chenjing's busy figure, Lin Meng suddenly thought, hiring a maid wouldn't be bad either?

If someone helped her with household chores and meal preparation every day, it would indeed save a lot of time.

However, she has too many secrets; having a housemaid in constant contact would inevitably expose something, so she needs someone absolutely reliable, but there's no suitable candidate yet.

If Ye Chenjing knew at this moment that Lin Meng had been staring at him for a while and her thought wasn't to find a man but to find a maid, he'd surely laugh and cry.

Lin Meng ate the fruit, drank the calming soup, and then got straight to the point.

She placed a pill before Ye Chenjing, thinking about how to speak without directly revealing the pill's effect, so as to save him some face.

Before Lin Meng could speak, Ye Chenjing stared at the pill and smiled.

"Twenty million, is that okay?"

Lin Meng gave him another pill to eat; this must also be because she's worried about him, wanting to leave him a life‑protecting pill.

The Return Spring Pill she gave him last time, he's already made into a drifting‑bottle pendant, hanging close to his chest.

This pill looks different from the three kinds of pills he's seen before; he doesn't know what it does.

Lin Meng was about to speak when she heard Ye Chenjing voluntarily quote a price; his mouth moved slightly then closed, and he was silent for a moment.

She hadn't intended to take money, but since Ye Chenjing offered to pay, she couldn't well refuse.

"Alright, then twenty million it is. Take the pill now—you'll definitely thank me."

Ye Chenjing hesitated not at all, and without even asking about the pill's specific effects, he opened his mouth and swallowed it.

This pill is bitter and astringent, hard to swallow compared to the pills he'd taken before.

Yet Ye Chenjing had no doubt whatsoever, and quickly transferred twenty million to Lin Meng's account before saying:

"Thank you."

Lin Meng smiled, nodded, stood up, and prepared to leave.

"No need to thank me; get a good night's sleep, and tomorrow morning you'll be a man again—keep it up!"

After leaving Ye Chenjing with a line that left him baffled, Lin Meng went away.

After watching Lin Meng return to her own villa, Ye Chenjing then turned and went inside.

At that moment the bitter medicinal taste in his mouth hadn't faded, and his body felt no obvious change.

He remembered that when he took the Return Spring Pill, his wound visibly healed; when he took the Jade Marrow Pill, his body felt energized almost immediately, as if reborn.

But this pill, whose effects he hadn't asked about, still hasn't……

Ye Chenjing was carefully sensing changes in his body when suddenly he felt a surge of heat burst from his lower abdomen, followed by his whole body becoming restless with heat.

At that instant, Ye Chenjing felt as if struck by lightning, quickly realizing what was happening to him.

But how could this be? How could that pill……

What does she mean by giving me this kind of pill??

A string of question marks popped up; Ye Chenjing couldn't fathom Lin Meng's actions at all, and had to force himself to calm down.

But the increasingly restless qi inside his body inevitably provoked a physiological reaction.

His face was visibly turning flushed at a noticeable speed.

Ye Chenjing gritted his teeth in silence, rushed into the bathroom, turned on the shower, and let the cold water wash over his body.

Fortunately, the sensation came and went quickly; within ten minutes the heat subsided and his body returned to normal.

That night, Ye Chenjing sat alone in the study, over and over imagining a hundred possible reasons and intentions behind Lin Meng giving him that pill, but none felt right.

When Lin Meng gave him the pill, there was not the slightest hint, nor any improper thought toward him.

He knew Lin Meng was absolutely not the sort of person who would drug him.

Could it be… that the pill is… an aphrodisiac?

It's said that many wealthy merchants buy such little pills to maintain their vigor, but most of those are taken by people suffering from kidney deficiency.

He was in his prime, and hadn't even…

Ye Chenjing rubbed his brow, unable to figure out exactly where the problem lay.

But just as he was feeling vexed, out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of an invitation on the table—precisely the medical exchange conference hosted by the Fang Family.

Thinking of the Fang Family, Ye Chenjing suddenly understood.

Fang Siyao had recently been spreading rumors that he'd been injured there in a car accident, and as a man he probably couldn't perform, right?

Although the rumors were quickly quashed, Fang Siyao also received a stern warning.

But who knows—maybe this just happened to reach Lin Meng's ears by coincidence.

"So she also thinks I'm injured there, incapable, and came to treat my illness?"

Heh.

Ye Chenjing propped his forehead with one hand, really about to laugh from anger.