Desert Island Survival: A Hundredfold Improvement After Having a Baby?

"What happened last night?"

Xu Zhixia turned her head to look at her, her expression very serious.

"I told you to be mindful of the impact."

Su Qingxue's temple throbbed.

Did you hear that?

"The whole cave could hear it."

"Zhou Kai woke up once in the middle of the night, turned over, and pretended to be asleep again. Song Ya buried her head in her arms, her ears turning red all night."

Su Qingxue's face burned from her ears all the way down to her neck.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found that she had no grounds to refute it.

Last night I really... couldn't control myself.

After being interrupted by Xu Zhixia in the first half of the night, Lin Fan went out and sat for a while.

She thought the matter was over, but after everyone outside fell asleep, Lin Fan lifted the curtain and came back.

There were no extra words, not even any extra foreplay.

He only said one sentence: "Continue."

And then... it continued.

And the second time was even worse than the first.

Su Qingxue didn't want to admit it, but the truth was, she really couldn't control her mouth.

"That was... an accident." Su Qingxue turned her face away, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible.

"An accident?" Xu Zhixia raised an eyebrow. "Four accidents in one night?"

Su Qingxue suddenly turned her head and glared at her.

"You counted them?!"

"The soundproofing is practically zero." Xu Zhixia said without changing her expression. "No need to count, you can hear it automatically."

Su Qingxue wished she could find a rock and bury herself in it.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of dignity as the eldest daughter of the Su family.

"Xu Zhixia, I think you have psychological problems. You actually eavesdropped on that kind of thing."

"Su Qingxue, even if you're hungry, can't you at least be mindful of public hygiene?"

"Public health?"

"Mental health," Xu Zhixia said seriously. "Zhou Kai is a young man in his early twenties. What you're doing is affecting his mental health."

Su Qingxue was speechless.

She stared at Xu Zhixia's calm, almost punchable face, and suddenly felt that this woman was even more hateful than Lin Fan.

Lin Fan is at least straightforward: he either does it or he doesn't.

Xu Zhixia is the type who smiles as she stabs you in the heart, and then tells you, "This is for your own good."

"Fine." Su Qingxue gritted her teeth. "Next time I'll bite the pillow, okay?"

Xu Zhixia didn't respond to that, but remained silent for a few seconds.

Her gaze fell on Su Qingxue's neck. "Seriously."

Xu Zhixia's tone suddenly changed, losing its earlier teasing and gaining a hint of genuine curiosity, "He... is very capable?"

Su Qingxue was stunned.

She looked at Xu Zhixia's expression and confirmed that the other party was not joking.

Why are you asking this?

"Purely medical curiosity." Xu Zhixia maintained a professional calm on his face, but the slightly reddened tips of his ears betrayed him. "From an acoustic perspective, your reaction intensity last night far exceeded the normal threshold. Either you have extremely high sensitivity, or the other person's technique was indeed..."

"Xu Zhixia!" Su Qingxue interrupted her, her voice rising a half-octave, "Are you crazy?"

"I'm conducting academic research."

"You're being horny."

When those two words came out of Su Qingxue's mouth, even she was stunned for a moment.

Xu Zhixia's expression cracked.

The two stared at each other for three seconds, and the air froze.

Then Xu Zhixia turned her face away, her ears turning completely red.

"……I don't."

"You have." Su Qingxue crossed her arms, finally regaining some home-field advantage. "Xu Zhixia, you've asked me about him three times since last night. Do you think I didn't notice?"

Xu Zhixia's Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

She's a doctor, so of course she knows what her body's reactions mean.

Lying outside last night, listening to the noises coming from behind the curtain, she did indeed... momentarily lose her composure.

It wasn't out of sympathy for Su Qingxue, nor out of anger towards Lin Fan.

It is a pure, physiological level of resonance.

That feeling made her extremely uncomfortable.

Because it shouldn't have been on her.

She is Xu Zhixia, a doctor—rational, calm, and professional.

In her world, there are only patients and data; there is no place for hormones.

But the island is slowly stripping away her mental fortitude.

"I was just..." Xu Zhixia carefully chose her words, "...curious."

"What are you curious about?" Su Qingxue pressed.

Xu Zhixia was silent for a few seconds, then said something that Su Qingxue never expected.

"I'm curious what it feels like for two people to sleep together."

Su Qingxue's expression froze.

She stared at Xu Zhixia's profile and suddenly remembered something: from the time they met until now, nearly ten years had passed, and she had never seen Xu Zhixia in a relationship.

During college, a line of men pursued her stretched all the way to the school gate, but she ignored them all.

When she was in graduate school, a senior student kept pestering her for half a year, so she switched labs.

Needless to say, after starting work, I spent all my time in the emergency room and had no normal social life.

"Xu Zhixia." Su Qingxue's voice suddenly softened, carrying a gossipy tone only best friends would use, "You wouldn't... really have never had one, would you?"

Xu Zhixia did not turn around.

But her silence was the answer.

Su Qingxue took a deep breath.

No wonder.

"No wonder you reacted so strongly last night." Su Qingxue's lips curled up, with a vengeful smugness. "Even someone who has never tasted candy will drool at the smell of it."

"I wasn't drooling," Xu Zhixia said in a muffled voice.

"Your face is so red right now, what's the difference between that and drooling?"

Xu Zhixia finally turned her head and glared at Su Qingxue.

There was anger and embarrassment in his eyes, but more than anything, there was a sense of helplessness after being hit where it hurt.

"Su Qingxue, I'm warning you, if you keep talking, I'll get angry."

"Why are you getting so angry?" Su Qingxue tilted her head to look at her. "Didn't you just ask me if he was good or not? Let me tell you..."

"No need!" Xu Zhixia stood up. "I don't want to know anymore."

"Impressive." Su Qingxue added insult to injury from behind, her voice neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for the two of them to hear, "I feel like I've wasted the last twenty-odd years of my life."

Xu Zhixia paused for a moment.

She didn't turn around, but her back visibly stiffened for a moment.

Then she quickened her pace and walked towards the cave entrance.

As Su Qingxue watched her retreating figure, the smile on her lips slowly faded.

She is not stupid.

Xu Zhixia's words just now, on the surface, were medical curiosity and teasing from her best friend.

But Su Qingxue knew this woman too well.

Xu Zhixia would never ask a second question about something she wasn't interested in.

She asked three times.

Su Qingxue lowered her head and looked at the light red mark on her wrist from being clenched.

Lin Fan left this last night.

Her fingers traced the mark, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

She was possessive, felt insecure, and even had a hint of...smugness that she herself was unwilling to admit.

At the entrance of the cave, Xu Zhixia stood on the edge of the platform, the sea breeze blowing her loose hair.

Her face was still hot...