Under the scorching sun, on board the T366 train heading to Jiangnan City, Liu Mang was sitting in his seat, fast asleep.
Liu Mang was having a wonderful dream and, in a daze, was jolted awake by someone's nudge.
Being woken up like that, Liu Mang was really not happy about it.
Who was this asshole disrupting a man's beautiful dream?
As Liu Mang opened his eyes and looked around, his eyes suddenly lit up.
When he had first boarded the train, the seat next to him was empty, but now there was a beautiful woman sitting there.
The woman was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a blue skirt, a very simple outfit, but she had the figure to pull it off.
Her large, expressive eyes and delicate features of an Eastern woman made her face so beautiful it was almost bubbling.
Her long, shiny black hair was tied into a ponytail, and her skin was ten times better than the new bride at the neighboring Wang Family.
Liu Mang was staring so hard, he wondered if he had woken up to a fairy instead?
The woman's brow was slightly furrowed as she used a tissue to dab at her shoulder, where there were some water stains – the drool from where Liu Mang had leaned over in his sleep.
Glancing to the side, the woman noticed Liu Mang staring at her with wide eyes.
She huffed softly to signal her displeasure and said in a delicate voice, "Rude brute, what are you staring at!"
The more the woman looked at Liu Mang, the more displeased she felt.
Her name was Lin Ziyan, and she had noticed Liu Mang the moment she had gotten on the train.
He was quite young, a few years younger than herself, dressed in a very plain T-shirt and jeans, with a pair of slippers on his feet.
His body emitted a pleasant fragrance of herbs and plants, and his looks were not bad at all – a perfect image of a ruggedly handsome construction worker.
To speak the truth, Lin Ziyan's first impression of him wasn't too bad.
But not long after she sat down, and whether he did it deliberately or not, he leaned over toward her.
Now that she had woken him up, she found him less pleasant than when he had been asleep.
Lin Ziyan's impression of Liu Mang plummeted in an instant, "Hmph, pervert!"
Liu Mang blinked curiously, "How did you know my name was Liu Mang?"
"What? Your name is really 'pervert'?" Lin Ziyan was astonished, thinking his parents must have been quite creative with naming.
"Not the 'pervert' you mentioned. My surname is Liu, like Liu Bang from history, and Mang, as in 'strikingly prominent.'
"Pervert, Liu Mang, it's all the same to me." Lin Ziyan was amused by his name, covering her mouth to chuckle lightly as she said, "Your parents are truly foresighted, giving you such a visionary name."
"I actually wouldn't know how my parents are, I'm an orphan. I was picked up by my master as a baby, and he's the one who named me.
Liu comes from the embroidered characters on a piece of clothing I was wearing when he found me.
As for Mang, my master said he had lived a life of obscurity and hoped that I, his disciple, would never be insignificant."
"Stop right there, just stop," Lin Ziyan interrupted, finding Liu Mang's story increasingly distasteful, "I haven't seen you show any sharpness yet, but you're definitely brazen enough."
Seizing the opportunity to tease Liu Mang, she noticed something off; his gaze had returned to her.
Arching her eyebrows, Lin Ziyan rebuked, "What are you looking at now?"
"Nothing much, I'm just a bit envious of your boyfriend. If I could also find a girlfriend with a figure as good as yours, I'd be happy." Liu Mang spoke with a tinge of envy, genuinely curious about what kind of man her boyfriend was to be so fortunate to have won over such a top-notch beauty. He was truly envious.
"Where on earth did I get a boyfriend? Ah, no, why am I even telling you this." Lin Ziyan almost choked with irritation. What kind of person says this kind of thing in front of a woman? He truly is nothing but a lowlife.
"No boyfriend, huh..."
Liu Mang deliberately elongated the sound of his words, making Lin Ziyan feel quite uncomfortable, even a little sense of crisis.
As a woman, Lin Ziyan was very confident in her figure.
Being ogled by men was nothing new to her.
But the way Liu Mang stared without any pretense of subtlety was indeed rare.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Ziyan gritted her teeth and said, "You scoundrel, what are you staring at now?"
Liu Mang didn't respond verbally. In his line of sight, Lin Ziyan's leg suddenly appeared transparent.
Skin, muscle, blood vessels, and even bones were all visible to him, and he could clearly see a necrotic area on her lower leg bone.
Lin Ziyan felt Liu Mang's gaze was extremely odious. Just as she was about to rebuke him, Liu Mang said very seriously, "Your leg is in bad shape."
Lin Ziyan glared furiously, so angry that she nearly had smoke coming out of her forehead.
Being entangled by a lowlife like you while being a woman like myself, how could it not be bad!
Before Lin Ziyan could speak, Liu Mang continued, "You must have had a fall or a twist in the last half month, and a serious one at that, right?"
Lin Ziyan didn't want to bother with Liu Mang at all, but seeing how earnestly he asked made her involuntarily recall an incident from more than ten days ago.
She remembered one day at school, while descending the stairs in high heels, she accidentally took a tumble.
Liu Mang kept his gaze fixed on Lin Ziyan's face, and from her expressions, he surmised his suspicions were correct, "So, there is something."
"So what if there is?" Lin Ziyan said huffily, secretly wondering how on earth Liu Mang knew about it.
Liu Mang said, "There is something alright. A part of your leg bone has necrosed. If it's not dealt with as soon as possible, it's very likely the entire leg will succumb to necrosis."
"You're spouting nonsense!" Lin Ziyan couldn't help but swear.
After that fall, her lower leg did hurt for two or three days.
She had even gone to the hospital expressly to get X-rays, which showed no damage to the bones.
After a few days on medication, it all got better.
No pain, no itchiness, nothing felt wrong up to now.
Jerking her leg back, Lin Ziyan gave Liu Mang a disdainful look, planning to ignore him.
Liu Mang said cheerfully, "You might not believe me, but I'm telling the truth. My master is the number one Divine Doctor in the world, and I have learned about seventy or eighty percent of his skills. While I haven't reached the level where I can cure every illness in the world, treating your leg injury would pose no problem at all. For just a small amount of money, I could heal you completely."
Lin Ziyan snorted, "And how much money would it take to heal me?"
Liu Mang said, "Not much, just three hundred yuan will do."
Upon hearing this, Lin Ziyan was speechless. More than ten days ago, the damn hospital visit for registration, X-rays, and medication had cost her just under a thousand yuan.
Here was Liu Mang, claiming he could treat bone necrosis for three hundred, an obvious scam, yet this scammer didn't seem to be asking for much.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Ziyan put her hands on her hips, "I'm warning you, don't talk to me again!"
Liu Mang said, "Getting mad over just three hundred, really? If it seems like too much, I can take off a hundred. Just two hundred will do, two hundred to cure all illnesses."
"What, two hundred to cure all diseases?" Lin Ziyan was on the verge of spitting blood. Are scammers these days really that brain-dead?