“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.

no longer do that

can you let me

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

“Xyla!”

his eyes. “Rowan, don’t

could turn back time, he would eagerly

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

hit him in

saw Xyla turning around. She looked old, no longer thin and beautiful like when

woman for him

admitted that he had fallen in love with her back then for her intelligence

not as beautiful as before, he was willing to hold her hand to catch fireflies in

the streets, buy her flowers when they passed by a florist, and kneel to give

was willing to be her knight for the rest

deepened as he enunciated each word. “Xyla, I’m… taking back

in her heart. She turned around and stared at

they were young. He was a man of his word. That was how Irwin

he broke his own

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