Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The car arrived at the Central Hospital in no time.

The doctor who came to examine Zhou Yanshu was changed. It was said that the previous doctor was unwell, so a different chief physician came instead.

“Hello, Earl. I am Ander. Do you remember me?” The doctor stood up when he saw Zhou Yanshu. There was a thick stack of test papers on his table, with black and gray photographs of certain bones printed on them.

Zhou Yanshu glanced at him: "I remember."

Ander, his former personal physician. He was originally just a homeless child in the slums, but later received funding to study at medical school, which allowed him to fully display his talents.

Later, he rose rapidly through the ranks and became the youngest chief physician in the clan.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yanshu remained in a coma for many years without waking up. With the change of power, Tamo dismissed Ander after taking the throne. Ander left the royal family and eventually took a position at the Central Hospital.

“It’s an honor that you remember me.” Ander opened the adjacent isolation room. “The equipment is ready, please.”

The servant pushed Zhou Yanshu into the room. Ander stood at the door and said to the servant, "The electromagnetic radiation inside is very strong. Please wait outside."

The attendant hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the camera hanging in the corner of the room before finally relaxing and leaving: "Okay, doctor."

The cubicle door opened and closed, the air inside was stuffy, and the only sound could be the beeping of the instruments.

Zhou Yanshu remained seated in his wheelchair. When he saw Ander put on white leather gloves and walk over, he reached out and took the blanket that was covering his legs.

Ander tried to knead Zhou Yanshu's thigh to relax his leg muscles: "Count, your injury is not serious. The cold poison has invaded your body, but I will use medicine to force it out."

Ander lowered his voice deliberately, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses on his nose with one hand, and continued, "Don't worry, I've changed the surveillance footage, they won't be able to find out."

Zhou Yanshu lowered his eyes: "Ander, you won't have a good ending if you offend Tamo."

Moreover, five hundred years have passed, and Zhou Yanshu is no longer the mermaid king he once was. If Ander wants to rely on Zhou Yanshu to return to the royal family, it will likely only backfire.

“Your Majesty saved me from danger at the perilous sea back then, and I will never forget that,” Ander said in a low voice. “The statue of the sea god still stands, and I swore to it that I would never betray you.”

A smile, whether genuine or not, inexplicably appeared on Zhou Yanshu's lips. He propped his chin up and asked casually, "Really? Who did you swear an oath to? The statue of the sea god?"

Ander frowned, seemingly puzzled as to why Zhou Yanshu would ask him such a question.

“Of course, I am referring to…” A blurry figure flashed through Ander’s mind, causing countless stings within seconds.

Ander gripped the corner of the instrument beside him tightly, suppressing the pain in his head, and repeated, "That's right, I swore an oath to the statue of Poseidon, and I won't change it."

Zhou Yanshu looked at him silently.

Ander, the child who survived by relying on others and growing up in poverty, is now capable of standing on his own.

“I can’t walk right now, and Tamo wouldn’t want me to be able to move.” Zhou Yanshu closed his eyes wearily, and said meaningfully, “Just fill out the next test report truthfully.”

Ander nodded: "Yes."

“There’s one more thing.” Zhou Yanshu twirled his golden hair that fell to his waist with his fingertips, a dark light flickering in his silver eyes. “I need you to help me test the pheromones of a certain Alpha.”

"...Who?" Ander asked, his tone changing slightly as he guessed that it might be the Alpha Zhou Yanshu married on her wedding day. "But even so, I want to see him in person."

“He’s very good at disguising himself. You probably won’t get any useful information from him.” Zhou Yanshu recalled the two completely different pheromone scents from this morning and raised his eyes slightly. “His pheromones are all here with me. You can go and get them tested directly.”

Ander asked in surprise, "Where?"

He did not smell any pheromones on Zhou Yanshu.

"In my glands."

*

In the morning, Yu Zhuo went to the palace with his attendants to report the situation.

Tamo was still asleep, so Yu Zhuo could only wait outside the door. The morning sun still carried a hint of dampness and chill. Yu Zhuo stood outside the palace gate, watching the sun rise from the east and slowly move to its zenith.

Tamo slept until noon before getting up.

Yu Zhuo stood outside the door. He finally heard the announcement from inside and immediately strode inside.

The main hall was empty. Not long after Yu Zhuo entered, he heard a report that Tamo had woken up but then became sleepy again, and had turned back to sleep halfway through his journey.

In the end, Tamo just threw Yu Zhuo a notebook and told him to write down what happened last night.

Yu Zhuo: "..."

Yu Zhuo knew that Tamo was not mentally sound, but he did not expect him to be mentally sound to be this bad.

Adrian was more motivated and ambitious than him.

Yu Zhuo held back and said nothing. He simply wrote down the relevant information on the paper and then withdrew from the palace.

On her way back, Yu Zhuo happened to run into a minister who had also returned empty-handed. The minister noticed Yu Zhuo and soon approached her: "Are you... the Countess from yesterday?"

"..." Yu Zhuo stopped in his tracks, looked to his side, and sized up the person: "Who are you?"

The man appeared to be middle-aged, with wrinkles around his eyes and face. He squinted as he spoke, revealing deep furrows on his forehead.

"Qi Mohan," the minister said, taking the initiative to speak.

Yu Zhuo searched the system database and immediately realized who this person was. He exclaimed in surprise, "Left Envoy Qi? I never expected to meet you. I had only ever seen your name in the news before."

The two envoys under Tamo's command are keeping his throne from collapsing. The right envoy, Lin Shuang, commands the army to defend against external enemies, while the left envoy, Qi Mohan, controls the internal economy and manages the current commercial empire.

The two served as advisors to Tamo, yet they looked down on each other. Lin Shuang had been away fighting for many years and had not returned, leaving Qi Mohan to manage the clan's affairs.

Qi Mohan helped Tamo seize the throne in his early years. Although he and Lin Shuang were both left and right envoys, Tamo secretly favored Qi Mohan more.

Now that Lin Shuang has been away for many years and Ta Mo is absurd and lazy and doesn't care about politics, Qi Mohan has the idea of ​​interfering in politics.

But he was, after all, a merchant by birth and knew nothing about national politics. The several wars of aggression launched by Tamer under his instigation all ended in failure.

Yu Zhuo had wanted to find an opportunity to get closer to Qi Mohan, but he didn't expect that Qi Mohan would take the initiative to come closer to him today.

"That's just a small reputation of mine. I wonder how the Earl is doing?" Qi Mohan said with a smile. "He and I are old friends, and I was just thinking of going to see him."