Ch 24: The Scumbag’s Daily Wife-Doting Life [QT]

Xie Wan had always been a princess in everyone’s eyes.

Her father was handsome, powerful, devoted to his family, and unwaveringly faithful. Even after reaching a high position, he never fooled around with other women. No matter how busy work became, he always came home after work and took part in every detail of her upbringing. Every year on her birthday, he would personally host a grand birthday banquet for her and invite all her classmates.

Her mother was graceful and gentle, with an exceptional sense for fashion. After co-founding a clothing company with a partner, she successfully pushed the brand onto the international stage and became a hidden fashion godmother within the entertainment industry, a powerful woman capable of balancing both family and career perfectly.

Her older brother was handsome, wealthy, proud, and unruly, yet fiercely protective. Toward his only younger sister, he was endlessly indulgent and tolerant.

As for Xie Wan herself, she came from an outstanding family background and was adored by countless relatives. Since childhood, she had never worried about anything. Designer handbags, luxury cosmetics, anything she wanted was readily available. Not to mention the excellent relationships she naturally formed thanks to her high intelligence and emotional intelligence.

Countless people envied the good fortune she had been born with.

If there was one small imperfection in her life, it was probably that her conditions were simply too good, attracting swarms of annoying admirers, such as Zhou Dongyu, who had clung to her since middle school.

Fortunately, she had seen through Zhou Dongyu’s true nature very early on. Even though he pursued her persistently for over ten years, she never paid him any attention.

With such an exceptional father as her standard, Xie Wan’s expectations for men were absurdly high. Ever since she was young, she had sworn that the man she married in the future did not necessarily need to be as perfect as her father, gentle, considerate, capable of everything, but at the very least, he had to love her the way her father loved her mother.

Otherwise, she would not even bother sparing him a glance.

Her standards were unbelievably demanding.

Fortunately, around the age of thirty, she finally found someone who met them and married him successfully.

When she was young, her parents protected her.

After growing up, the man she loved protected her.

Xie Wan lived like a princess.

For Zhou Dongyu to even dream of getting close to her was laughable. From the day they met until the very end, the total number of words she ever spoke to him probably did not exceed one hundred sentences.

Of course, Xie Wan had a secret she had never told anyone.

The very night she first met Zhou Dongyu in her youth, she began having strange dreams.

In those dreams, her father did not exist.

Her mother was merely an ordinary rural woman who exhausted herself trying to raise her, working until illness consumed her body.

Later, she went to university and met Zhou Dongyu.

He was the son of a wealthy family and fell in love with her at first sight. Under his pursuit, Xie Wan, who had lacked love since childhood, easily fell into his gentle trap and became involved with him.

As for what happened afterward…

Because it was only a dream, Xie Wan could never remember clearly.

Yet every time she woke from it, she always retained that unbearable feeling of heart-wrenching pain.

Thankfully, it was only a dream.

Thinking of this, Xie Wan quietly let out a breath of relief.

Someone beside her called her name, and her attention quickly shifted away. Smiling faintly, she tossed the strange memories to the back of her mind.

“Xie Wan, do you want to continue the class reunion somewhere else? Maybe move on to the nightlife scene?”

A slightly overweight middle-aged man walked over holding a wine glass, speaking in a flattering tone.

Xie Wan leaned back subtly, putting on a cold expression that kept people at arm’s length as she shook her head.

“No. I need to go home. Staying up late is bad for your health.”

She had only attended this university reunion on a whim anyway. Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. She was not particularly close to most of these classmates, so naturally she would not sacrifice her sleep for them.

A female classmate nearby chimed in immediately.

“Exactly. I don’t want to continue either. I’ve been losing so much hair from staying up late recently. I finally have a day off today, so I’m going home for some beauty sleep.”

The man who proposed the idea looked displeased.

“It’s just hair loss. You’re really ruining the mood over something this minor. Aren’t we old classmates?”

The female classmate froze briefly before laughing mockingly.

“Wang Hua, maybe you should look at your own hair first. It’s already getting so thin. In a few years, once you go completely bald in the middle, it’ll be too late for regret.”

The middle-aged man named Wang Hua looked unconcerned.

Several years later, reality proved the female classmate completely right.

He really did end up with a shiny bald patch on top of his head. Even though he was only thirty, he looked closer to fifty, and by then, there was nowhere left for him to cry about it.

It was around this time that a medical text suddenly exploded in popularity across the internet.

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The book was called Zhang Family Medical Compendium.

It had been jointly compiled by Xie Li and the Zhang family, a renowned lineage of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

The chief editors listed on the cover were Xie Li and Old Master Zhang, while the associate editors included the rest of the Zhang family.

The reason the book became so popular was because it recorded over three hundred medicinal formulas for bodily health and wellness. Most of the formulas in the latter half came directly from Xie Li himself.

Among them, the formula that went explosively viral online also originated from Xie Li.

The formula was straightforward and simple.

Its name was Hair Growth Tonic.

The ingredients were common, and the preparation method was easy. Many people could simply visit a traditional medicine pharmacy, purchase the herbs themselves, brew them into medicine, then use it both internally and externally with astonishingly rapid results.

No matter how sparse someone’s hair had become, visible improvements could be seen in less than a week after using the formula.

In modern society, where stress, insomnia, hair loss, and premature balding had become widespread problems, the formula was unexpectedly revealed by a celebrity and instantly exploded across the internet.

[#HairGrowthTonic# “I’ve been losing hair for five years and always feared becoming bald young. Now I’m staring at my thick black hair and honestly… Boss, take my knees, they belong to you now!”]

[#HairGrowthTonic# #BaldPeopleDontDeserveLove# “…After being single for thirty-five years, I finally got a girlfriend. Hahahahaha!”]

[#HairGrowthTonic# “I’m really not showing off. Just casually posting selfies.” [photo] [photo] [photo]]

[“Seriously, you should all buy this medical book. Aside from #HairGrowthTonic#, the other formulas are ridiculously useful too. Things like treating cold womb syndrome and menstrual pain are basically a blessing for women!”]

[“Hahaha, ‘a blessing for women’ sounds ridiculous. But honestly, Boss Xie really is every woman’s dream husband.”]

Netizens collectively worshipped and thanked “Boss Xie,” the book’s chief editor.

Because of that, Xie Li’s past inevitably got dug up.

In the information age, even tiny details could be magnified infinitely and spread to the public overnight.

To people online, Xie Li’s life looked like the real-world version of a male protagonist from a web novel.

Born into privilege.

Sent down to the countryside after falling into hardship in his youth.

Hitting the lowest point of his life.

Then, the moment the college entrance examinations resumed, he was admitted into the nation’s top university in one stroke, became a famous figure on campus, and from that point onward rose unstoppable through the ranks…

Most importantly, while fully devoted to his career, he somehow also possessed near-divine medical skills and even wrote medical texts whose formulas were absurdly effective.

How could the public not become obsessed with him?

Of course, the thing people discussed most enthusiastically was still his devotion toward his family and his unwavering loyalty toward his wife.

In that era, despite holding immense power and status, Xie Li never abandoned the wife who had shared hardship with him. Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. Instead, he remained utterly devoted to her. His level of wife-spoiling was practically an endangered species, making him the fantasy husband of countless women.

And Xie Li’s legend did not stop there.

His career achievements were impressive enough, but what truly grew more famous with time were the medical works he left behind.

At first, the book was simply regarded as a practical text for maintaining health.

But many years later, after traditional Chinese medicine experienced a cultural revival, the book was practically elevated into a sacred classic within the field. It became required reading and mandatory exam material for countless students studying Chinese medicine.

The medical philosophy Xie Li proposed also deeply influenced generations of practitioners afterward.

Because he boldly combined the strengths of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, opening an entirely new medical path.

That philosophy became the true spark that reignited the revival of Chinese medicine.

There was even another famous legend surrounding him.

Over a hundred years later, a precious wild mountain ginseng left behind by Xie Li surfaced publicly.

The ginseng was as thick as a child’s arm, shaped uncannily like a human face, vivid and lifelike.

Some experts claimed the ginseng was at least two hundred years old, something unprecedented in history and unlikely to ever appear again.

Eventually, it was placed in a museum and became yet another legendary relic associated with Xie Li.

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