But there was no need to tell Wang Zhao about these things. He had been wearing loose clothes during this period, and Li Zhenguan self-deceptively believed that Wang Zhao couldn’t notice any changes.

He actually had some strict requirements for body management. He had specially hired a coach before, but because he was afraid of miscarriage from dancing after getting pregnant, he hadn’t been to the dance studio for a long time.

Wang Zhao didn’t mind him, she put her phone on the upper right corner and started to do exercises with her head down. In some popular literature, the protagonists seem to not have to worry about survival issues, having time to think about love and such all day, but in reality, when coming to a new world, survival becomes the most realistic problem.

Her pressure was invisible.

Wang’s parents seemed to always believe in their daughter, never worrying that Wang Zhao couldn’t pass the civil service exam. Li Zhenguan didn’t seem to worry either, always blindly believing in her, or rather, Wang Zhao felt that these people believed in the previous Wang Zhao, and this trust was like an invisible mountain pressing on her head.

All she could do was try her best to do everything perfectly.

Li Zhenguan didn’t make a fuss either, just lay on the bed quietly watching Wang Zhao. In this situation, his emotions could always calm down quickly. After Wang Zhao was busy for a while, quickly finishing a set of exercises, when she raised her head to stretch her neck, she saw that Li Zhenguan had already finished his shower and was sitting on the bed. When she looked over, Li Zhenguan’s face was facing the screen on this side, seeming to have been watching her all along.

Wang Zhao was a bit surprised: “I thought you had hung up long ago, why aren’t you sleeping? It’s already past ten.”

She took off her glasses from the bridge of her nose, put them on the table and rubbed a bit, her vision becoming a bit blurry.

Li Zhenguan said: “I just finished showering. Uncle Zhang said to drink a glass of hot milk before going to bed.”

He had been having cramps at night these past few days, and the uncle at home said it was because he was lacking calcium and needed to supplement calcium. He also needed to supplement nutrition in his diet, eat more soy products and iron-rich vegetables like spinach, which are good for the baby’s development.

In these matters, Li Zhenguan was an obedient person, but after eating too much, he would feel nauseous at the smell of some soy products, so he added a glass of hot milk every night.

Now the milk was on a tray, and Li Zhenguan was planning to drink it in one gulp after it cooled down a bit.

Wang Zhao made a sound of acknowledgment.

Li Zhenguan then asked: “Do you have anything to do tomorrow? My dad said we should go and get our measurements taken. It’s probably very rushed to make the formal attire now, so we need to pass the data over as soon as possible.”

Wang Zhao’s hand paused, her gaze turning to the video. She met Li Zhenguan’s gaze and smiled faintly, saying calmly: “I need to go to the hospital tomorrow morning. I heard from Xu Yingchun that a classmate drank too much alcohol on an empty stomach and had a slight gastric bleeding. They’re still in the hospital on an IV drip. I need to go visit tomorrow morning, so I might not have time.”

“Then we can go in the afternoon.”

Li Zhenguan didn’t think much of it. He knew that several phone calls had been made to Wang Zhao tonight, probably for this matter. The sword hanging over his heart was gone, and Li Zhenguan smiled with pursed lips. Maybe he had been overthinking.

Starting this afternoon, he suddenly felt a palpitation, as if something was about to happen. The two calls Wang Zhao received made him very concerned, especially the first one, where the other party had a very obvious evasive action.

“Then tomorrow afternoon, I’ll have my family’s driver pick you up at your house. We need to go to the store to get measured.” Actually, they could go to his house too, but it’s more convenient at the store, and they could decide on the style on the spot.

Wang Zhao had no objections, she nodded slightly, glanced at the time again, and watched Li Zhenguan drink the hot milk before wanting to end the video call and send him off to bed.

Li Zhenguan didn’t want to. He didn’t know why, he just didn’t want to hang up the call. He said to Wang Zhao: “Can’t we just sleep on video like this? I don’t snore when I sleep.”

Wang Zhao was speechless.

Is this about snoring?

Li Zhenguan sometimes had quite a knack for this, skillfully playing with concept substitution.

Sleeping together on video was too intimate for her. Wang Zhao still couldn’t accept it, after all, she was someone who had to be cautious even about touching Li Zhenguan.

Some people might wonder, if it’s so hard to accept, why accept Li Zhenguan as a person at all?

This was just the most reasonable decision Wang Zhao made after evaluating the original body’s social relationships, and the one with the smallest cost to bear. She just needed to adapt. Moreover, she and Li Zhenguan had only known each other for a little over a month, during which they had only met once or twice in the hospital for most of half a month, and most of their interactions had been in recent times.

Marriage doesn’t mean complete acceptance. For her to truly accept a person requires many conditions to be met: enough time spent together, understanding the other’s personality, and most importantly, she feels she can control the other person. Li Zhenguan obviously doesn’t quite meet these conditions at present.

Moreover, Wang Zhao was a person with a bit of mental cleanliness. Her ability to accept Li Zhenguan as a person had realistic components; otherwise, with her personality, how could she possibly accept a pregnant man? This was a historical legacy product that she had to solve, because she had to survive here, recognize moral beings, and reputation was also within her consideration.

Moreover, as she stayed here longer and longer, Wang Zhao also found that she had more and more similarities with the original body. The fact that Xu Yingchun and Wang’s parents hadn’t noticed anything wrong with her was enough to give her some guesses, not to mention that the handwriting in a notebook under the bedside table was familiar to her, it was her handwriting.

But she never remembered writing those words here, and the handwriting in that notebook was also different from the handwriting in those law books.

It was clearly a normal world, but Wang Zhao suddenly felt as if she had transmigrated into some suspense crime script. Fortunately, there were no victims yet, otherwise she might really doubt her life again.

She unhesitatingly rejected Li Zhenguan’s proposal, hung up the phone, and told him to go to sleep early, they would see each other tomorrow afternoon.

So the next day she got up very early, ate breakfast and read a book in her room for a while before driving to the hospital.

When she arrived, it was just past nine o’clock, still very early. She made a call to Chen Fangli and found that hospital room.

The two people on both ends of the phone sounded calm, asking and answering without saying anything they shouldn’t, as if Wang Zhao really came to visit an old classmate in the hospital.

It was a strange feeling.

It was as if the trouble and irritation brought by that phone call from Chen Fangli last night had dissipated.

She pushed open the half-closed door and saw a young man lying on the bed. Unlike Li Zhenguan’s delicate and somewhat gorgeous temperament, Chen Fangli looked like a handsome man, but now this man lying on the bed looked somewhat decadent, with an IV drip hanging on the back of his exposed hand.

Wang Zhao froze at the door, unable to imagine what kind of scene it would be to see Chen Fangli.

The man lying on the bed raised his eyebrows at this moment, seeing Wang Zhao standing at the door, he also froze for a moment, then smiled with a weak air: “Won’t you come in?”

Wang Zhao closed the door of the ward and walked in, finding a place to sit down.

“I heard from Yingchun that you’re on a liquid diet these days, so I didn’t bring anything when I came.” She secretly observed Chen Fangli, trying to analyze this man’s personality.

But for some reason, when she saw this man, she felt a long-lost familiarity, and a subtle, invisible sense of melancholy.

Chen Fangli was also looking at Wang Zhao, but he was doing it openly. His overly pale face had no color, making him look very haggard, leaning on the hospital bed like a patient who had long resided in a gloomy castle.

Could it be that he had stayed in England for so long that he had taken on the rainy flavor of London?

“Xu Yingchun said you hadn’t changed much, I didn’t believe it at first. Unexpectedly, after more than a year of not seeing you, you’re really still the same.” Chen Fangli lying on the bed didn’t seem to feel any sense of shame at all. His tone was familiar, teasingly saying a sentence, as if there was nothing awkward between the two of them.

Wang Zhao looked at the man.

She was pondering something.

Chen Fangli looked at Wang Zhao’s expression, but at this moment he slightly deliberated before opening his mouth: “I’m quite embarrassed, I troubled you yesterday when I was drunk. You know I might have been confused and said some nonsense when I was drunk, don’t take it to heart. I know you don’t like people being entangled, this kind of thing won’t happen a second time.”

Wang Zhao still looked at him, her gaze quiet, not speaking, making it impossible to see clearly what she was thinking.

Most people, when faced with this expression of hers, whether justified or not, would later become less confident and start to doubt themselves.

Chen Fangli, however, smiled palely, bringing out the sense of weakness in his body. His other long, fair hand was placed on his abdomen, changing the topic: “I heard from Xu Yingchun that you had an accidental car accident before and also quit your job?”

Wang Zhao wasn’t quite sure what he meant by bringing up this topic. Actually, from the moment she entered the door, she found Chen Fangli to be a very interesting person, or perhaps more appropriately described by another word, smart.

Chen Fangli was really very smart. This kind of smartness made Wang Zhao, sitting here, also unsure whether the man in front of her still really liked her, still couldn’t forget the original body?

Wang Zhao, following the principle of adapting to circumstances, didn’t think too much about it. Since Chen Fangli didn’t want to tear off the mask, she also said lightly: “Yes, there was a car accident, had a bit of a concussion, lay in the hospital for a while, but the resignation happened before the accident.”

Actually, she didn’t really want to mention the previous events. The original body certainly wasn’t afraid, but she might be a fake, right? Fortunately, Chen Fangli didn’t start by reminiscing about the past with her.

“You never told me.” Even though he had already known from Xu Yingchun, hearing it from Wang Zhao’s mouth, Chen Fangli still lost his composure for a good while before muttering.

He had been in England for so long and had never heard about this. Otherwise, he would definitely have returned to the country for a visit.

But Wang Zhao still understood.

Now she really believed that the man in front of her still liked “her”. If he liked her, why did they break up? Was the breakup proposed by the original body? But Wang Zhao felt it wasn’t quite right. Chen Fangli should be a person with a lot of self-esteem. If he had been dumped, he wouldn’t have called her when he was drunk.

Don’t ask her why she thought so, Wang Zhao couldn’t be sure of her thoughts. She seemed to have a special judgment standard, subconsciously coming to a conclusion.

The breakup was proposed by Chen Fangli.

When she came to this hospital and entered this ward, Wang Zhao was like a fully armed person, with some wariness towards Chen Fangli from her heart. Sometimes heavy wariness is really difficult to hide, even if Chen Fangli tried his best to ignore it, his keen observation still wouldn’t let himself off.

Even people with the best temper will have sharp moments. Chen Fangli’s emotions became unstable at this time, his stomach started to ache slightly. He pressed his hand on it, feeling that dull pain.

But at this moment, Wang Zhao suddenly realized that perhaps because she had never seen him before, the sense of danger from Chen Fangli was so great in her heart. But actually, when she met him face to face, she suddenly found that in front of her, this young man always had a sense of inferiority, as if always half-lowering his head.

However, at this time, the young man in front of her regained his composure after taking a deep breath. Those somewhat narrow eyes looked at the woman just a short distance away, and he still asked that question: “I heard from Xu Yingchun and others that you got married?”

“Just on the day of our class reunion.”

Wang Zhao’s heart skipped a beat. She knew that even the wisest can make mistakes. She made just one mistake, and it happened to be caught by someone.

Sure enough, the next sentence was, “Did you specially block me from that moment you posted on your friend circle that day?”

This sentence carried expectation, and some unclear emotions. But this sentence also seemed to have exhausted this man’s spirit.

Chen Fangli quietly looked at Wang Zhao.