20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3823 The Reason Ke Yaqing Accompanied
After Ke Yaqing and Shen Youli finished washing, they took their clean underwear to the balcony corridor to dry.

Beautiful and sophisticated women love cleanliness. It's not a big deal if they don't wash their outer clothes, but if they don't wash their underwear after wearing it all day, it's considered shameful and unhygienic.

Shen Youli was wearing a light gray cotton short-sleeved nightgown. She thought that the loose light gray cotton nightgown did not show off her figure and was even more conservative than wearing pajamas, because wearing pajamas always exposed the outline of her lower body.

She usually doesn't feel anything wrong with wearing tight shorts to dance on stage, and she's also very confident wearing skinny jeans when shopping. However, when she was wearing baggy pajamas and facing the scrutinizing gaze of a young man, she felt uncomfortable and blushed.

But she didn't know that because of the residual moisture on her body that hadn't been dried, the ultra-thin cotton pajamas absorbed the water, making them cling even more to her soft and graceful body curves. As she walked, the pajamas billowed in the wind, and the fabric occasionally clung tightly to her waist and hip curves, making Zhao Chang'an's mouth dry.

Ke Yaqing glanced at Zhao Chang'an with an understanding smile in her eyes. She knew Shen Youli's destructive power, just like her own when she was young and how destructive she was to those young people.

However, she is now forty-three years old. Although there are still many men who covet her, she no longer has the naivety and vitality of young girls like Shen Youli who are eighteen or nineteen years old. Instead, she has gained the wisdom and gentleness of a mature woman.

This kind of intelligence and gentleness is as devastating to men over thirty as a nuclear bomb, but to young men in their early twenties, they are still slightly inferior to these young and beautiful girls in their eyes and hearts.

She took her clean underwear to the balcony and said to Shen Youli, "What's there to be shy about? We usually wear much less on stage than this, and I've never seen you act so coy."

"That's different."

Shen Youli's face flushed slightly, and she felt her heart beating a little faster. When she passed by Zhao Chang'an just now, she could feel the burning passion in his eyes as he looked at her.

Ke Yaqing knew she was shy, and as someone who had been through it herself, she had also experienced this kind of sensitive feeling, so she didn't say anything more to avoid making her even more reserved.

Instead, while hanging up the underwear to dry, she said to Shen Youli in a calm tone, "I was thinking of asking you to take a look at my massage later, even though what he said sounded a bit mystical. Of course, in the tradition of Chinese medicine, the concern that a master might starve his apprentice is understandable."

"I also think what he said is very mysterious. Acupuncture is acupuncture, massage is massage. I can do acupuncture and massage, and I have done it for others. As for the relief effect, it definitely has both."

Shen Youli pouted. She had sought medical help many times since she was a child because of headaches. She applied to Yanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the acupuncture and massage major.

To prevent her from making mistakes during the college entrance examination due to headaches, Liu Zhonghe prescribed her a month's worth of traditional Chinese medicine. Last year's college entrance examination went smoothly, except for the last exam where she had a headache from overworking her brain, but she persevered and finished it.

Originally, her score was high enough to apply to a better school, but she was afraid that her headache would flare up during the last exam and that her estimated score afterward might not be accurate. In addition, Shen Youli really wanted to enter this major.

However, Shen Youli had to drop out of university after only two months due to severe headaches. She was then assigned to the Central Province Dance Troupe, which did not require much mental work, and was trained as a lead dancer as soon as she joined the troupe.

After entering a workplace where mental labor was less competitive, she continued her professional studies in acupuncture and massage once her headache subsided. She would also return to school at the end of each semester to take professional course exams, but she stopped studying and taking exams for courses such as English.

It wasn't about getting a diploma; she genuinely wanted to find an effective way to alleviate her situation.

The reason Shen Youli chose acupuncture and massage instead of more scientific Western medicine to find a fundamental cure was because she was self-aware; even if she worked at full speed, she couldn't compare to the world's leading medical research institutions. As an acupuncturist with a temporary employment relationship with the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shen Youli simply didn't believe Zhao Chang'an's claims.

"It's still different. Professor He doesn't think that simply massaging these acupoints could achieve such an immediate effect, let alone prevent the recurrence for so long. Actually, I wanted to ask him to massage me so that Professor He Chuling could observe and see if she could find any clues, but he refused, saying that he practices ancient martial arts and that ordinary massage could not achieve such an effect."

Ke Yaqing glanced through the glass window at the now empty living room, a sharp look of displeasure flashing in her eyes.

When Shan Qiang forcefully drove away Mi Xiaoyin and the other investors from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, she, like most people in the community, despised Shan Qiang's ruthlessness and heartless betrayal, and felt indignant on behalf of Zhao Chang'an.

This is why she accepted Zhao Chang'an's invitation to go to Seoul and Tokyo. She wasn't from a wealthy family; her husband only had a fixed monthly salary, and although her salary was a bit higher and she earned some money from commercial performances, it wasn't enough to support the family, especially for her daughter's university and graduate school education, as well as her own high expenses. They were always on the verge of not making ends meet.

So she thought she would take this opportunity to seek medical treatment at two good traditional Chinese medicine clinics in Seoul and Tokyo, as Shen Youli had mentioned.

The two experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors were indeed highly skilled. They used observation, listening, questioning, and palpation to find the cause of her illness: intractable headaches.

Knowing she was from China, they didn't prescribe any medicine for her. Instead, they each wrote a prescription and told her to go back to China to get the medicine, decoct it, and drink it.

To her delight, the two elderly Chinese medicine doctors said the same things as the doctors in China. To her disappointment, the prescriptions they gave were not only very similar, but also almost identical to the Chinese medicine she used to decoct in China.

It seems they are all old Chinese medicine doctors who have taken the same ancient medical books and attended the same classes, which completely dashed Ke Yaqing's idea that foreign monks can chant sutras.

However, when Zhao Chang'an tried to persuade her to refuse, Ke Yaqing already looked down on this young and wealthy man.

Meanwhile, regarding the matter between Shan Qiang and Zhao Chang'an, women gradually sided with Shan Qiang, believing that Zhao Chang'an was too domineering and treacherous, forcing Shan Qiang to do this.

You should know what a wonderful woman Shan Qiang was. When she went to the countryside, Niu Meng'en took advantage of her vulnerability, married her, and gave birth to Shan Cai.

When they returned to the city, she remained devoted to Niu Meng'en, taking him out of the mountains and to Zhengzhou.

They arranged a job for him and later fully supported him in starting his own business, which gradually made him rich and he became the respected Boss Niu.

As a result, once this scoundrel got money, he started having affairs with other women. Even more tragically, he was deceived by a prostitute who thought she was pregnant with his child. He didn't hesitate to divorce Shan Qiang and marry that prostitute.

Who knew that the child wasn't Niu Meng'en's at all, making it a huge joke.

Throughout the entire process, spanning more than twenty years, it can be said that Shan Qiang was a truly good woman and a perfectly qualified wife, full of affection and loyalty!

(End of this chapter)