Worried about her younger brother, Yan Ziruo woke up very early.

She glanced at the clock on her nightstand—5:21 in the morning. She threw on a jacket, got out of bed, left the master bedroom, and walked over to Yan Feifan’s bedroom.

Yan Ziruo gently pushed open the door. In the dim light, she saw her brother sleeping soundly in his bed.

A wave of relief washed over her.

Just as Yan Ziruo was closing the door, something in her peripheral vision caught her eye.

The clothes, neatly folded in the laundry basket, were stained with dark brown spots of various sizes.

Yan Ziruo walked into the bedroom, bent down, picked up a piece of clothing from the basket, and examined it, even giving it a sniff.

The dark brown or black splatters and the faint metallic odor confirmed her suspicion: it was blood.

Yan Ziruo shook the garment open and found it was covered in bloodstains.

Anxious, she roughly shook Yan Feifan awake.

“Feifan, what’s with all the blood on these clothes?”

“Last night, weren’t you working part-time at Song Yan’s company to earn some money?”

“Why do these clothes make it look like you’ve been to a slaughterhouse?”

Jolted awake, Yan Feifan stared blankly at the clothes his sister was shaking in his face. After a dazed moment, he slowly said, “Someone jumped off a building. I got this on me during the rescue.”

“Jumped?” Yan Ziruo asked, shocked.

Yan Feifan sat up in bed and yawned, clearing his head a little. He gathered his thoughts before explaining, “The part-time job last night went smoothly. I was done after eleven.”

“I just didn’t expect someone to jump off the building right as we were leaving!”

He added regretfully, “We couldn’t save them…”

Yan Feifan was being economical with the truth to keep his sister from worrying.

He didn’t dare mention that the jumper had nearly landed right on top of him and Song Yi.

As for a “rescue”… with the person’s brains splattered on the pavement, there was absolutely no point.

Yan Ziruo didn’t suspect a thing. She sighed softly. “Another one who couldn’t see a way out. But, Feifan, I’m starting to think you have the potential to be a real jinx. Trouble seems to follow you wherever you go.”

“You should sleep a little longer…”

Yan Feifan glanced at the clock on his nightstand. It was already 5:30. He yawned and started to get dressed.

“Sis, they said the fifty thousand payment will be transferred to my debit card today. Keep an eye out for it.”

Yan Ziruo picked an outfit out of the closet and tossed it to Yan Feifan.

“I’ll definitely be watching for it!”

She suddenly announced, “Since I’m up early today, I’ll go work out around the residential complex and do a little reconnaissance… scout out a few suitable targets…”

That morning, the siblings had breakfast together at the beef soup shop near the south gate of their residential complex.

Dressed in a form-fitting red sweatsuit and with her makeup carefully applied, Yan Ziruo showed her brother a post she’d found on her phone.

“Feifan, this must be the guy who jumped last night, right?”

Yan Feifan took the phone. It was a screenshot of a few messages from a social media chat.

The messages said that the CEO of a game company had jumped from a building in the High-Tech District last night because his game’s development had failed and his company went bankrupt.

“The time matches. It must be him.”

Yan Feifan handed the phone back to his sister and said slowly, “The economy hasn’t been great lately. We’ve seen a noticeable increase in the number of suicidal patients admitted to the ER.”

Yan Ziruo looked at her brother, then suddenly reached out to pinch his cheek. “It’s a good thing you woke up when you did,” she said softly.

“I don’t mind telling you, I thought about giving up, too. I even thought about taking you with me and jumping into the ocean.”

Yan Feifan replied with a deadpan expression, “Getting all bloated from the seawater and then being eaten by a swarm of crabs is not the ending I would have chosen.”

Yan Ziruo shot him a glare. “We’re in the middle of a meal! Don’t say such disgusting things.”

After a pause, she asked with a curious look, “Feifan, do crabs really eat the bodies of people who jump into the sea?”

“Of course!”

Yan Feifan launched into a lecture. “Crabs are extremely efficient scavengers. They’ll eat any corpse they find; they’re not picky eaters in the slightest.”

“Because crabs eat all sorts of things, they carry a lot of bacteria and viruses.”

“After a crab dies, the bacteria inside its body multiply rapidly and spread into the meat. This significantly shortens the periods of rigor mortis and autolysis.”

“That’s why you should only buy fresh, live crabs, and never eat dead ones.”

Yan Ziruo pouted. “Now that you’ve put it that way, I don’t think I even want to eat the live ones anymore…”

After breakfast, Yan Ziruo returned to their complex to begin her mission: finding a wealthy bachelor.

Yan Feifan, on the other hand, rode a shared bike to the Affiliated Hospital and started his busy, routine day…

Just after four in the afternoon, Yan Feifan saw Mrs. Xv lead a woman in her early twenties with a choppy, fiery-red haircut into the treatment room.

“Mr. Yan, this is my niece, Luo Wei.”

Luo Wei quickly added in a sweet voice, “Hello, Mr. Yan. I’m sorry to trouble you.”

“Don’t mention it,” Yan Feifan replied, studying Luo Wei’s face.

‘One look at her features and I see why she’s so dead set on getting double eyelid surgery.’

Her eyes weren’t attractively shaped, and her brows tilted up sharply at the ends.

Overall, Luo Wei had decent features. Her face was a nice oval shape, she had a high-bridged nose, and her lips were well-proportioned.

However, her lips were slightly crooked, with the left corner pulling up.

Moreover, the musculature of her face was harsh, giving her features a coarse, almost menacing quality.

‘If I were to rate her on a 100-point scale,’ he thought, ‘her face shape is an 80, her nose an 85, her mouth a 70, and her eyes a 60 at best.’

But when all these features came together, combined with the harsh lines of her face, they created a sinister impression that was rather unsettling.

‘Just getting double eyelid surgery won’t fix her upturned brows. And even if her eye shape is corrected, her overall look…’

Several reconstruction plans flashed through Yan Feifan’s mind.

Thinking about it wasn’t enough. His fingers itching to get to work, he reached out and began to carefully palpate Luo Wei’s face.

Luo Wei was a bit confused.

But when she saw that her aunt, standing nearby, had no particular reaction, she stayed perfectly still and cooperated, letting Yan Feifan proceed.

After thoroughly examining Luo Wei’s face with his hands, Yan Feifan began cutting a roll of medical tape into numerous half-centimeter-wide strips.

He then started applying these thin strips to Luo Wei’s face.

He used the tape to lift the outer corners of Luo Wei’s eyebrows and also raised the right corner of her mouth slightly.

He used more strips to pull up or press down various sections of her skin, making a series of adjustments.

When he was finished, Yan Feifan stepped back. Gazing at her face, now adorned with a dozen or so strips of tape, he nodded in satisfaction. “There. That looks much more harmonious.”

Mrs. Xv also studied Luo Wei’s face carefully, then nodded. “It really is much more pleasing to the eye. She not only looks much prettier, but she looks sweeter, too.”

“But this involves changing so many places on her face?”

Yan Feifan smiled confidently. “Even though it requires incisions in several places, they’re all minor cosmetic procedures to tighten the skin and alter the direction of the muscles.”

“They just require a high degree of precision. The overall amount of surgery isn’t large.”

Hearing this, Luo Wei couldn’t restrain herself any longer. She whipped out her phone and snapped a few selfies.

After scrolling through the photos, Luo Wei clenched her fists, leaned forward, and craned her neck to ask nervously, “Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan, you can really make me look like this?”

Yan Feifan paused to think, running another quick simulation in his head, before giving a conservative estimate, “I’m about seventy to eighty percent certain.”

Luo Wei turned to Mrs. Xv and pleaded, “Auntie…”

Mrs. Xv held up a hand to stop her. “You know I was actually against you getting the double eyelid surgery.”

“But if he can make you look like this, I’m one hundred percent supportive.”

“I trust Mr. Yan’s skills. If he says he’s seventy to eighty percent sure, that’s as good as a guarantee.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll talk to your parents for you.”

Luo Wei rushed forward and hugged Mrs. Xv tightly, shouting excitedly, “Thank you, Auntie!”

She added eagerly, “Auntie, I’m going home right now to convince my parents…”

Seeing her turn to bolt, Yan Feifan quickly reminded her, “The tape on your face…”

Luo Wei said breathlessly, “Mr. Yan, I’ll go home just like this! It’ll be more persuasive if they can see it for themselves.”

“These few strips of tape have completely transformed my face.”

“This is the look I’ve always dreamed of…”

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