The white rose I picked up cried and said she liked me.

The next day, when Xu Nian woke up, it was already noon.

He slept so well that he stretched and his bones made a slight clicking sound. Instead of the stiffness he had expected, he felt a sense of relaxed strength.

He paused for a moment, then raised his hand and rubbed his shoulder.

My body, which was almost falling apart from Long Teng's grueling training yesterday, didn't feel a single bit sore or achy.

My arms don't hurt, my legs don't ache, and even my broken bones seem to have been pieced back together.

He clenched his fist, and could clearly feel the force emanating from his palm, much firmer than usual.

A hint of surprise flashed across Xu Nian's eyes, but she quickly understood. It must be that the grueling training yesterday had really worked.

What surprised him even more was the bottle of magical potion from Longteng that Xu Xi had poured into the bathtub last night.

It is well known that the body does not feel much pain during high-intensity exercise and labor.

But as soon as I finish work and exercise, I wake up to intense pain like a tidal wave. Even the slightest movement causes excruciating pain, and I often find myself bedridden for days.

Xu Nian, who had spent the first half of her life doing manual labor, knew this all too well.

This is the price of muscle repair and growth. Just like in martial arts novels, even if you cultivate diligently and reach a bottleneck, you will still encounter a tribulation of lightning when you break through and advance to a higher level.

After soaking in the Dragon Soaring Medicine, he miraculously escaped the "lightning tribulation".

Xu Nian's lips twitched slightly, and the resentment she felt towards Long Teng dissipated without her realizing it.

This kid is actually quite capable, managing to get his hands on something so useful.

He turned his head and looked at the person beside him.

Xu Xi was still asleep, her bare shoulders exposed outside the blankets.

Her face was etched with exhaustion, and her eyes were surrounded by dark circles. She was fast asleep, her chest rising and falling slightly.

Xu Nian scratched her head, a sense of guilt rising in her heart.

He remembered soaking in the bathtub last night, feeling so comfortable that he drifted off to sleep.

Now that he can lie on a soft bed, clean and tidy, it's obvious that Xu Xi gave him a bath and carefully carried him to the bed.

Judging from her appearance, she probably won't dare to sleep until the middle of the night.

He moved gently, reaching out to pull the blanket up to cover her exposed skin.

He leaned down and gently kissed her forehead.

After doing all this, Xu Nian got up, dressed, washed up, and went downstairs.

At that time, in the plaza downstairs from the hotel, Long Teng was leading several of his men in their daily training.

"Good morning, Long Teng." Xu Nian walked up and greeted Long Teng, who was doing pull-ups.

Long Teng used his arm to leap off the horizontal bar, dusted off his hands, and glared at him: "Boss, what time is it? Still early? The sun's already high in the sky."

Xu Nian glanced at the time and scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly.

It's already almost 12 o'clock.

"I thought you were too scared of me yesterday to get out of bed today," Long Teng joked.

Xu Nian smiled and gave him a grateful look: "Thanks to the potion you gave me, I feel like a completely different person when I woke up today. If it weren't for that, after you tortured me like that yesterday, I would have been bedridden for at least a week."

Upon hearing the mention of the medicine, Long Teng's eyes lit up. He chuckled, put his arm around Xu Nian's shoulder, leaned closer, and spoke with a gossipy tone.

"Boss, to be honest, didn't you feel especially proud in front of your wife last night?"

Xu Nian was stunned for a moment, looking completely bewildered: "What face? I don't understand."

Long Teng panicked, rubbing his hands together, but he was too embarrassed to say it outright. After stammering for a while, he finally mumbled, "It's...it's that kind of thing, you know."

"In which aspect?"

Xu Nian was still completely confused, her brows furrowed slightly as she carefully recalled what had happened last night.

"I fell asleep while taking a bath last night and slept until now. Nothing special happened."

"Huh?" Long Teng's lips twitched, his eyes widened, and he stared at Xu Nian for a while. Seeing that Xu Nian's expression was calm and his eyes were clear, and that he didn't seem to be lying, he shook his head with a regretful look and clicked his tongue twice: "Boss, this is such a waste. It's a real waste of talent."

"What's a pity?" Xu Nian was even more confused, subconsciously recalling the details of last night.

All I could think about was the warm water in the bathtub and the feeling of my body relaxing.

Besides that, there was only one strange dream.

In his dream, he transformed into a giant python that reached the heavens and fought for a long time with a stubborn human girl.

The girl was clearly no match for him, yet she never uttered a single word of begging for mercy, allowing him to ravage her in every way until she was on the verge of death.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Long Teng waved his hand, his heart aching with pain.

He himself was reluctant to use that miraculous medicine, and only gave Xu Nian a bottle after gritting his teeth.

He thought it would help him save face in front of Xu Xi, but the guy just fell asleep, and all the most important effect was wasted.

So he decided to vent his anger on Xu Nian's training plan for today.

He blew his whistle twice: "Trying to slack off because you're late? No way! Today's training is the same as yesterday: one lap around the island, running and walking. Let's go now!"

"Huh? Another twenty kilometers?"

"Woof woof woof...!"

"I'll knock! I'll run! I'll run, okay?"

......

(I'm taking a day off tomorrow~)