Chapter 688 — Time Bomb

"How do you figure that? Even if she knows Guan Xin, she can't be glued to her side all day long. Just keep out of her way — isn't that enough?" Kang Zhaoming asked, puzzled.

"Keeping out of her way won't do it, Young Master Ming. Think about it: what if that little Xiaofen's mouth runs away with her and she blurts out everything about your past? Do you think Guan Xin's impression of you would survive that? What chance would you have left?" Wang Shubin was every inch the schemer, and he weighed every angle.

Wang Shubin's words knit Kang Zhaoming's brows together at once. The man was right: with Xiaofen at Guan Xin's side, she was a time bomb, and one day — who could say when — she would go off with a "bang" and blow him to shreds.

"So that means Xiaofen really is one great big problem!" Kang Zhaoming now hated her with all his heart. Why was she such a magnet for trouble? Nothing had gone right since he'd run into her again. The Kang family had been having a rough stretch, and his pursuit of Guan Xin was now the grand plan for the family's revival; he absolutely could not let Xiaofen ruin it! At the thought, a ruthless glint flickered through Kang Zhaoming's eyes. "Should we find a chance and do away with her?"

Kang Zhaoming might look on the surface like nothing more than a pleasure-loving young master out for a good time, but his heart was rotten through and through; he had done his share of murder and arson without so much as blinking. Back in middle school he had dared to conspire to kill Xiaofen, and now he was worse still.

"I say go for it. She didn't die last time — lucky for her. And now, instead of staying home like a good little lunatic, she has to come swanning out to show herself off. She's begging for death, if you ask me!" Zhu Xiaozhang was a vicious man too, and he backed Kang Zhaoming's proposal outright.

"I say we'd better not!" Wang Shubin hesitated. "Killing her is no good solution."

"Wang Shubin, since when did you turn coward? You were the one who found the car when we planned to run Xiaofen down!" Zhu Xiaozhang gave him a strange look. "Don't tell me you're getting tamer the older you get?"

"Xiaozhang, hear the man out," Kang Zhaoming said. He still set great store by Wang Shubin's advice; the man's head was sound, and if he said this, he must have his reasons.

"Young Master Ming, that friend of Kang Xiaobo's, the one called Wei Zhao, is a fucking lunatic — a flat-out violent maniac!" Here Wang Shubin faltered, a little cowed. "We all know how Zhao Qibing injured Tang Yun, don't we? At Zhao Qibing's completion ceremony that day, Wei Zhao tore Qibing Tower down on the spot and broke Zhao Qibing's leg! Holy crap — that's the kind of man we'd best not provoke."

"But Xiaofen isn't Tang Yun. Would Wei Zhao even stick his nose into this?" Zhu Xiaozhang was frightened too, but he still argued his case.

"Xiaofen is Kang Xiaobo's girlfriend now. If we kill her and it comes out, Kang Xiaobo will go begging Wei Zhao to avenge her — and better safe than sorry. If Wei Zhao comes, we're all finished!" Wang Shubin shook his head.

"That does make sense!" Villain though he was, Kang Zhaoming feared death as much as any man; at the mention of Wei Zhao coming for revenge, he dropped the notion of killing Xiaofen on the spot. A violent maniac like that was best left alone!

How on earth had Wei Zhao lived this long? Zhao Qibing seemed to command enormous influence — so why hadn't he gone to make trouble for Wei Zhao?

"So you see, Young Master Ming, we need to sit down and talk through a proper plan — how to settle this problem once and for all," Wang Shubin said.

"Then what am I supposed to do about my injection?" Kang Zhaoming suddenly thought of a very serious problem; seeing Xiaofen just now, he had nearly forgotten he still had a cold.

"We'll have to find another nurse now. Guan Xin is out of the question..." Wang Shubin said, somewhat helplessly.

"My God, did I catch this cold for nothing?" Kang Zhaoming nearly keeled over on the spot. He had endured such agony, had nearly croaked from it, and only then managed to catch a cold — and now he couldn't even have Guan Xin give him the injection!

"Young Master Ming, look at it this way: if we were sitting there having Guan Xin give you the shot and Xiaofen walked in, wouldn't we be exposed on the spot?" Wang Shubin reasoned. "Seen like that, our misfortune has turned out to be a blessing!"

"Now that you mention it, that's really how it is!" Kang Zhaoming thought it over, and so it was — he ought to be glad! If Guan Xin hadn't refused and had simply given him the injection, wouldn't he have been found out right away?

At that, Kang Zhaoming cheered up again. Clearly Heaven itself was backing his pursuit of Guan Xin!

Accompanied by Wang Shubin and Zhu Xiaozhang, Kang Zhaoming arrived at a general surgery treatment room and handed the doctor's orders to a nurse who looked young and pretty. Kang Zhaoming thought: even if Guan Xin couldn't give him the injection, a pretty young thing would do nicely!

Big eyes, a melon-seed face, skin with a dewy sheen — Kang Zhaoming drooled at the sight. It was a regular uniform fetish! Such a pretty girl, wasted as a nurse in a place like this! His mind began to stir. He had bedded plenty of girls over the years, but few of them top grade; Xiaofen had counted as first-rate, and if she hadn't been so besotted and so keen to meddle in everything, so set on marrying him, he wouldn't have dumped her so quickly.

But this nurse before him was, in Kang Zhaoming's eyes, absolutely top-tier — far better than Xiaofen! She wasn't tall, but just right, and the key thing was that figure — even the white coat could not hide those delicate curves. His old ailment was acting up again!

Only, at the thought that his main mission now was to win Guan Xin, Kang Zhaoming's spirits sank, and he had to give up on this pretty nurse. Still, Guan Xin was top-tier too, so it wasn't such a loss.

Just as Kang Zhaoming handed the orders to the pretty nurse, she turned and passed them to a hulking, strapping great woman: "Nurse Wang, you've got a patient!"

"Oh, all right!" The strapping woman called Nurse Wang took the orders and glanced at Kang Zhaoming. "A cold, is it? We'll do an allergy test first, then an intramuscular injection; if there's no reaction, you can go on a drip!"

"Huh? You're going to stick me?" Kang Zhaoming watched the strapping woman get ready to needle him and panicked at once. He had picked out a pretty young nurse! How had she turned into this hulking woman?

"What, you want to pick and choose?" The strapping woman shot him an impatient look. She was the deputy head nurse here; she was more than experienced with injections — plenty of children asked for her specially. And this young man had the nerve to object?

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