Jiang Zheyu felt like she had discovered something.

The original owner couldn’t get what she wanted in reality, so she sought substitutes on the Star Network.

Jiang Zheyu: ...

"Doctor Li, please take a look at my arm." Jiang Zheyu sat down on the examination stool next to him. She couldn’t be bothered to overthink things anymore. ’If I don’t get this treated, is my arm going to be useless?’

Li Xingbai put down his pen and finally turned his gaze to Jiang Zheyu.

He had assumed this female was faking an illness just to cause trouble for him again. He was on the night shift, and he’d thought she had timed her visit perfectly.

But when he glanced over, he was met with the sight of a snow-white arm covered in a large patch of blood.

He paused. In the past, the young woman would have started wailing and making a scene over the smallest scratch. But now, with such a serious scrape, her face was just pale as she stared at him in a daze, looking somewhat spaced-out.

In truth, Jiang Zheyu wasn’t spaced-out. She was just experiencing a social death from having to face him with such hideously drawn makeup, which had caused her to become numb. It was a daze born of utter despair.

Seeing Jiang Zheyu’s state, Li Xingbai suddenly felt the situation was more serious. He gently took the wrist of her injured arm and examined the scrape for a moment. Then, his clear, silver eyes met hers, and he said in a cool voice, "Miss Jiang, if you don’t want this scrape on your arm to leave a scar, your only option is the Healing Pod."

Jiang Zheyu nodded with a wooden expression. "I’ll have to trouble you then, Doctor Li. I don’t want to leave a scar."

A single treatment in a Healing Pod was not only expensive, but its maintenance costs were even more exorbitant, requiring tens of millions of Star Coins annually.

Ordinary Male Beastmen couldn’t get access to a Healing Pod’s treatment. However, because Jiang Zheyu was a female, she was able to use one simply to avoid a scar on her arm.

Besides, once she was in the Healing Pod, a pass of the laser would heal her scrape completely. She had no desire to endure a painful recovery process.

Jiang Zheyu had never been one to shortchange herself.

An hour later, Jiang Zheyu emerged from the Healing Pod.

She stared in amazement at her fair, smooth, and flawless arm. Although she knew this would be the result, seeing it with her own eyes was still a little surprising.

"Miss Jiang, your injury is healed." Doctor Li was standing nearby, holding a medical record of Jiang Zheyu’s condition. His slender fingers gripped a pen, writing nonstop as he spoke without looking up. "When you get home, stick to a light diet and avoid nutrient solutions for the time being. I will personally come to give you a follow-up check in three days. We have already contacted your only current Beast Husband. Mr. Su is waiting outside. If there’s nothing else, Miss Jiang, you may leave. Don’t keep Mr. Su waiting."

Doctor Li maintained an impartial and professional demeanor, reciting the long speech with his cool, thin lips without taking a breath.

Jiang Zheyu slowly rose from the bed of the Healing Pod. She put on her shoes and, as she walked out, said to Doctor Li, "Well then, Doctor Li, I’ll be going."

Li Xingbai just nodded. "Yes. Take care, Miss Jiang."

Jiang Zheyu turned and left.

Li Xingbai watched Jiang Zheyu’s departing figure, realizing that the young woman truly didn’t turn back this time.

He was puzzled by Jiang Zheyu’s attitude. It was a miracle she hadn’t harassed him today. Whatever she was thinking, not being bothered was a huge relief for him.

Li Xingbai went back to handling his own affairs.

Inside the hovercraft, Jiang Zheyu and Su Yan sat facing each other. Neither of them spoke.

Jiang Zheyu had no intention of speaking. She planned to just be a "plastic couple" with Su Yan. Once he got together with the female lead of the story, she would let him go.

Su Yan, on the other hand, was looking at the makeup caked on Jiang Zheyu’s face, his gaze falling on her beautiful, tea-colored eyes, which were quietly half-lowered.

’It seems I’ve never truly looked at her before.’

Despite the caked-on makeup, it couldn’t hide the exceptional beauty underneath.

He had seen her without makeup.

The first time was her ID photo on a matching profile.

In that ID photo, the young woman was completely bare-faced, staring expressionlessly at the camera.

Looking at that one photo, Su Yan had been shamefully captivated. ’She’s so beautiful. I want her.’

That was why, even though a C-level female should not have been able to match with an S+++ Level Male Beastman, Su Yan had forced the match between them.

Unfortunately, the result was a far cry from his expectations.

He knew that today she had gone to the Night Club with that malicious female again. He had thought they could finally change their past relationship...

But it seemed she was about to revert to her old ways.

’I’m nervous. So nervous.’

She could feel the man’s gaze fixed on her.

’Why is he staring at me? It’s not like Su Yan hasn’t seen the grotesque makeup on my face before. What’s with him staring at me so intently now?’

"Female Master, your injury has healed. Is there any remaining discomfort?" Su Yan’s deep voice finally broke the silence.

The man was quite tall, and even sitting opposite Jiang Zheyu, he still took up most of the space.

Jiang Zheyu felt the space shrink even further, as if she were completely enveloped in his presence.

Hearing Su Yan’s question, she slowly raised her head. "Much better."

"What happened today?" Su Yan asked. He was dressed in a well-fitted black suit, sitting with his legs apart and hands clasped in front of him, projecting a steady air of someone willing to listen. "Female Master, would you mind telling me about it?"

Jiang Zheyu: ...

’What’s gotten into Su Yan today? Didn’t he despise the original owner?’

’Why is he so talkative? And since when did he ever care about the original owner?’

’Normally, wouldn’t he just take me home without a single word?’

’Forget about showing concern, he wouldn’t even offer a simple greeting.’

’The original owner and he were like strangers living together.’

’Aside from their whip "relationship," there seemed to be nothing else between them.’

"It was nothing." Jiang Zheyu subconsciously wanted to avoid too much contact with Su Yan, who was potentially the female lead’s future man.

After saying this, she lowered her head again.

Su Yan once again sensed Jiang Zheyu’s distance from him.

"Female Master, if you still hold a grudge about my last uncontrolled Beastification, you can punish me as you did before." Su Yan placed one hand on the seat cushion next to Jiang Zheyu’s leg. He leaned slightly closer to her, his red eyes watching her with a calm yet cool gaze. "But not like this. Ignoring me completely... I might misunderstand and think my Female Master doesn’t want me anymore."

Jiang Zheyu’s lips moved. ’This is so bizarre,’ she thought.

’Isn’t my ignoring him exactly what he wants?’

’So why is he acting like I’ve given him the cold shoulder?’

’He can’t be a masochist, can he?’

"Your last uncontrolled Beastification did scare me," Jiang Zheyu decided to explain clearly. "So, I’ve decided not to hit you anymore. From now on, we’ll just..."

’...act like strangers. Then, when we both find someone we like, we can go our separate ways.’

But before Jiang Zheyu could finish that thought, she was interrupted.

"Act like couples from Ancient Earth in the novels?" Su Yan slowly continued.