A dowry of one billion, and I'll marry him!

"She's just being dramatic. It has nothing to do with you. Don't be sad. I just taught her a lesson, and I believe she won't dare to mess with you again," Leng Chengshen coaxed in a low voice.

Hearing him say that, Shen Lianchu finally stopped crying and started laughing.

"Thank you, Brother Shen, I knew you were the best!" Shen Lianchu said sweetly through the phone.

Leng Chengshen was overjoyed by her charm and forgot his displeasure from earlier, saying, "Honey! Don't worry about such a small thing. You have a variety show to do tomorrow, so get some rest."

"Okay, I'll hang up then." Shen Lianchu said, and decisively hung up the phone.

Leng Chengshen sat in the car, gripping his phone tightly. Shi Yanxia's cold gaze kept replaying in his mind, and he slapped his forehead in frustration.

"She's definitely playing hard to get; her coldness just now was all an act! I didn't even introduce her as someone who's been married before, so what right does she have to look down on me for being an illegitimate child?" Leng Chengshen said, feeling a little better, and quickly drove away.

Inside the alley, Shi Yanxia slipped away amidst the chaos, and watching Leng Chengshen's things being smashed filled her with great joy.

She hailed a taxi, got in with her things, and looked out at the night view. Her almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly as she whispered, "How did he find me so accurately when I was just out buying things?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Shi Yanxia's eyes. Although she was unsure, she immediately typed in a line of code on her phone.

A red exclamation mark flashed on the screen, and she accurately located the software. A chill instantly rose in her eyes. She hadn't expected that Leng Chengshen had actually installed a location tracking app on her phone.

"Heh." She sneered.

I remember once, Leng Chengshen borrowed her phone to make a call. She was busy at the time, so she just handed the phone over.

It's likely that he installed the security software when he took her phone that time.

It's normal for a normal person to borrow a phone to make a call, and she never thought of the worst-case scenario. She never expected that Leng Chengshen, a top actor, would do such a perverted thing.

She originally wanted to uninstall the location tracking software, but after thinking about it, she had an idea.

Instead of uninstalling it directly, they used the software in reverse, injecting a virus to hack Leng Chengshen's phone and copying everything from it.

Her eyes were fixed on the WeChat chat window on the screen, and she tapped into it with her finger.

When she saw Shen Lianchu's message pop up, she opened their chat window and saw their ambiguous conversation! Her pupils contracted slightly, and she scrolled up in disbelief.

"So Shen Lianchu used me to show his affection to Leng Chengshen every time he wanted to create an opportunity? Making him think that I was head over heels in love with him? And he even told him behind my back that I had a crush on him?" Shi Yanxia was stunned.

Previously, Shen Lianchu had brainwashed her, saying that Leng Chengshen was interested in her.

And then she told Leng Chengshen that she loved him!

She was deceiving both sides, leading Leng Chengshen to believe there was something going on between them, while Leng Chengshen thought she was a simp? However, she did have some feelings for Leng Chengshen before.

This is also one of the reasons that indirectly led to her being manipulated by him and developing depression.

Thinking of this, she quickly took screenshots to save the chat history and uploaded them to the cloud and her email. After doing all that, her car happened to be parked outside the Zhan residence.

She carried her things back into the room.

I found two pastries and a glass of milk on the bedside table.

Shi Yanxia looked at the things on the table, her feelings incredibly complicated! She picked up the milk, smelled it, and only after finding nothing wrong with it did she pick it up to drink.

A knocking sound came from outside the door.

"Who is it?" Shi Yanxia quickly put down her water glass and got up to open the door.

The butler stood anxiously outside. When he saw her, he was overjoyed, as if he had seen a lifeline. He said, "Young Madam, you're back? Young Master just took a medicinal bath and suddenly vomited blood."

"I'll go take a look." Shi Yanxia listened and walked outside.

She glanced around and accurately pushed open Zhan Jinglin's door. The butler quickly followed behind her and saw her walk directly into the bathroom.

"Young Madam." The butler hurried forward, trying to call out to her.

Gu Qing covered his mouth and dragged him out, saying, "You've already called her 'Young Madam,' what's wrong with her going into the bathroom?"

"Yes, yes, I forgot." The butler was taken aback by Gu Qing's words.

Only then did she realize that the betrothal gifts had been sent during the day, and that she had entered the Zhan family. Even without any ceremony, she was already the young mistress.

The bathroom was filled with mist.

Shi Yanxia stepped inside and saw a tall man sitting in the bathtub, his back perfectly outlining his physique, his strong arms casually resting on the edge of the tub.

She stepped forward and reached out to touch the side of his neck.

"Who?" Zhan Jinglin's hoarse voice rang out, and the man grabbed her wrist with his other hand.

Shi Yanxia's wrist was grabbed by him, and the man pulled her forward half a step with force. She pressed her hand on one side to steady herself.

She tilted her head, her beautiful hair cascading down, and looked at Zhan Jinglin.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and the man froze. Seeing that her wrist had been grabbed, he quickly let go and pulled a towel from the side to cover his body.

"Why are you here?" Zhan Jinglin frowned and glanced at her warily.

The man exuded a chill, his superior demeanor becoming increasingly apparent. His imposing aura was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe, but Shi Yanxia remained unperturbed.

"The housekeeper just said you vomited blood, so I came in to check on you," Shi Yanxia said calmly.

She reached out and pressed her hand against the pulse on the side of his neck, then placed her fingertips against the side of his thin lips, gently dabbing a little of the blood from the corner of his mouth onto her fingertips.

"You've taken a lot of medicine over the years. After you finish taking it, it will be metabolized in your body, but a lot of it will accumulate in your body and remain in your blood. All medicines have some toxicity, and taking too much will harm your health."

"After taking the medicinal bath, the toxins in your body have combined, which is why you vomited blood. However, starting today, don't take any other medicine besides taking the bath. It won't help anyway," Shi Yanxia said in a low voice.

She stood in front of the bathtub, looked down into the tub, and gently scooped up some of the medicinal herbs with her fingertips for a closer look.

Zhan Jinglin sat in the bathtub, his tall body stiff, watching her beautiful fingertips draw on the water's surface. His gaze kept drifting into the bathtub, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

His slender fingers gripped the edge of the bathtub tightly, and after a long while, he said in a hoarse voice, "I understand."

"Don't worry, I said I'd keep you alive for a month, and I mean it," Shi Yanxia said softly, then suddenly reached out and pressed her hand on his shoulder.

The woman's beautiful fingertips roamed over the man's shoulder, touching his Adam's apple and moving down to his neck.

The man's Adam's apple bobbed, and a hint of emotion flickered in his deep black eyes. His body stiffened as he leaned against the bathtub, looking down at her fingertips as they traveled down his body and finally landed on his chest.

Where her fingertips touched, a warm current seemed to flow downwards, and a tingling sensation, like an electric current, kept hitting him. His body, which had felt like it was about to break apart, felt an unprecedented comfort after her fingertips touched him.