“Stop pretending!” Xyla was mad. “Rowan, do you think you’re the only one who’s an expert in medicine? Can you deceive someone who is not as smart as me instead!?”

She pointed at his arm. She was laughing from rage. “Look! The place that you poked and I did isn’t the same acupoint!”

“Xyla…”

Rowan called out to her weakly, and then he smiled like an idiot.

Why was she the same when she was young!?

He remembered that she would poke him with a needle when she was mad. Sometimes, he would be poked over ten times when he talked with women. Half of his body would be numb.

He thought it was strange that an over-10-year-old girl could poke a needle so accurately.

He realized it made sense. She was the princess of the Irwins. The family had been the royalty’s doctors for generations. She was blessed with talent and knowledge in medicine, unlike him, who had to work hard and take small steps to get what he had.

There were no shortcuts—he had to push through, just like the revenge that year.

The moment Xyla broke up with him, he had been heartbroken but had pushed through.

that now. He could not

you

was shaking. “When you recover and get discharged, let’s pretend

“Xyla!”

directly into his eyes. “Rowan, don’t

time, he would eagerly strangle himself when he

Why did he make that promise? He had even said they would not bother each other

hit him

a deep breath in and saw Xyla turning around. She looked old, no longer

woman for him in

had fallen in love with her back then for her

willing to hold her hand to catch fireflies in the rainforest

to walk on the streets, buy her flowers

princess, and he was willing to be her knight for

each

in her heart. She

he had promised her since they were young. He was

his own

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