Chapter 608 — Kang Jingming Makes His Move
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"How can that be? You are so beautiful—if you do not know how to care for yourself, beauty too is fleeting!" Kang Jingming pressed on. "Think about it: you are so beautiful now because youth is invincible. But in a few more years, when youth has faded and the looks are gone, what will you do then?"
Guan Xin glared at Kang Jingming. What sort of talk was this? What did he mean, youth faded and looks gone? Was the man insane? But Guan Xin was well bred and slow to anger; though displeased with Kang Jingming, she said nothing more, merely lowering her head to keep reading, thinking that if she ignored him, he would go away.
But who would have thought Kang Jingming would not leave, and instead kept chattering on, "The Divine Doctor Kang family has done a great deal of research on TCM cosmetology. The things written in books like these are all ordinary medicinal materials—in truth, they are useless. To preserve one's youth forever, one must take potent medicines! For instance... lingzhi, snow lotus, deer antler, tiger penis..."
Kang Jingming had no idea which medicines were actually good. But since Guan Xin did not understand either, he simply rattled off a few precious medicinal materials he had heard mentioned before.
At the words "tiger penis," Guan Xin could not help blushing, and she grew even more annoyed inwardly. Was this man sick in the head? Why did he say anything that came into it?
But Kang Jingming had no self-awareness whatsoever. Seeing Guan Xin blush, he assumed she had been moved by the depth of his learning, and grew even more pleased with himself. "My family still has half a tiger penis at home. After I ate half of one last time, it did me a world of good. If you need it, I can bring it to you..."
Kang Jingming had not the faintest notion that there was anything improper about a tiger penis. He was simply desperate to curry favor with Guan Xin, and so among these precious medicines, he named whatever his family happened to have! Snow lotus they had as well, but that was used in making the beautifying and skin-nourishing wound medicine—he was not so foolish as to dare give that away.
Guan Xin truly could not endure the man before her any longer. She closed her book, intending to leave, but as she raised her head she caught sight of Wei Zhao standing not far away, and her heart leaped with joy! She waved to him. "Wei Zhao! What a coincidence—you come to the bookstore too?"
Kang Jingming had been proudly showing off his family's stores when he saw Guan Xin actually walk away—and go to Wei Zhao, of all people. He was so furious his teeth itched! The whole Kang family regarded Wei Zhao as a mortal enemy. Ever since Kang ** had gotten mixed up with that wretch, the Kang family had been thrown into utter turmoil!
A perfectly good life-extending, poison-expelling pill, and he had refused to explain it clearly, costing the Kang family not only a precious elixir but a collective meal of dog shit. There was no humiliation greater!
Of course, Kang Jingming never laid any of these mistakes at his own family's door! It never occurred to him that if his family had not doubted that Kang ** had sent them a wondrous elixir, and if Kang Jingming had not trampled the pill to pieces, none of what followed would ever have happened.
But Kang Jingming laid all the blame on Kang ** and Wei Zhao, complaining that they had failed to make things clear beforehand!
And then, the Life-Extending Detox Pill his family had spent over four hundred million on had actually been eaten by a dog, and for that too he blamed Kang ** and Wei Zhao! If the two of them had not brought that Life-Extending Detox Pill in the first place, would his family have gone looking for some shepherd dog? Would they have gone studying dog droppings? (To be continued.)