Chapter 14

The tight-fitting clothes accentuated her graceful figure to the fullest.

  “It’s you?” Ethan Carter looked at the woman in front of him—it was the very same Emily Collins he had saved before.

  Compared to her somewhat disheveled appearance back then, Emily Collins now looked stunning, and the security guards around her couldn’t take their eyes off her.

  At the same time, they felt a bit uneasy, because they all recognized her—wasn’t this the owner who had slapped a beautiful woman not long ago?

  Who exactly is she? That other woman had also arrived in a luxury car. Although she couldn’t compare to the beauty before them now, she was still a goddess in the eyes of most people.

  It’s a pity no one recorded it at the time—otherwise, it would have gone viral on Douyin.

  “Mr. Lu, we meet again!” Emily Collins strode over on her long legs and stopped in front of Ethan Carter.

  “You’re really fast!”

  Ethan Carter said. He wasn’t surprised that he’d been found; with the influence of the The Collins Family, as long as they remembered his face, it wouldn’t be hard to track him down.

  “Previously, you saved me, Mr. Lu, and we haven’t properly thanked you for your life-saving kindness!”

  Emily Collins smiled slightly—she looked stunning.

  She and Olivia Harris were two extremes: Olivia Harris dressed in white, ethereal and otherworldly, with the aura of a cultivator.

  Emily Collins, on the other hand, embodied the style of a modern urban woman. Even though she wasn’t a cultivator, coming from a wealthy family gave her an extraordinary presence.

  “Thank me for saving your life? I doubt that. I already said, as long as you don’t sell me out to the police, that’s thanks enough!”

  A faint, teasing smile appeared on Ethan Carter’s face.

  “All right, nothing gets past you, Mr. Lu!”

  Emily Collins gave a wry smile.

  “This matter concerns my younger brother William Collins. Thanks to your help, Mr. Lu, my brother was saved. I wonder if you have a way to cure his heart disease completely. If you can, our entire The Collins Family would be eternally grateful!”

  Emily Collins recalled the doctors’ amazement after her brother was sent to the hospital.

  With the The Collins Family’s wealth and influence, inviting the top cardiologists from across the country—or even the world—wasn’t difficult. But with current medical technology, there was no good solution for this congenital heart disease; the best they could do was ensure he rested and didn’t worsen.

  Even spending a fortune could only barely keep the condition from deteriorating.

  The whole The Collins Family was deeply worried—after all, he was Henry Collins’s only son and the future heir of the The Collins Family.

  But that day, after being sent to the hospital and examined by numerous experts, they were surprised to find that his condition hadn’t worsened after the relapse. On the contrary, it had actually improved a bit.

  This brought immense joy to the entire The Collins Family. After thorough investigation, they found that the only possible reason for William Collins’s improvement was the treatment he had received from Ethan Carter.

  That miraculous treatment—condensing true qi into needles—left a deep impression on Emily Collins.

  Thinking of this, the The Collins Family no longer cared about Ethan Carter’s previous request for secrecy. They mobilized all their resources, pulled surveillance footage from across the city, and quickly found Ethan Carter.

  Of course, this was also because Ethan Carter hadn’t really tried to hide.

  “I do have a way to cure it completely!”

  Ethan Carter paused, then said.

  Hearing this, Emily Collins was overjoyed and quickly said, “As long as you’re willing to treat my brother, anything you ask is fine—just name your terms!”

  Ethan Carter said, “Let me take a look first.”

  “All right, please, sir!” Emily Collins hurriedly invited Ethan Carter into the Ferrari, then stepped on the gas and sped away.

  A group of dumbfounded security guards was left behind, unable to make sense of what had just happened.

  They’d seen and heard of men picking up women in sports cars.

  But they’d never heard of a beautiful woman driving a sports car to pick up a man.

  Adding in Sophia Clark, who had come looking for him the day before, the security guards’ imaginations ran wild, conjuring up a dramatic love triangle.

  To be a man, to be a kept man to this extent—this is truly... the pinnacle of life.

  A role model for men!

  Of course, Ethan Carter had no idea that, in the eyes of the neighborhood security guards, he had become a role model for men, and that they had imagined a whole soap opera of entanglements between him and two women.

  Otherwise, even with his cultivated state of mind, he might have been so exasperated by their wild imaginations that he’d cough up blood.

  The Ferrari left the city, and soon stopped in front of a villa on the outskirts.

  The villa was picturesque, nestled by mountains and water, with small bridges, flowing streams, rockeries, and ancient trees—very much in the traditional Chinese style.

  Even in the suburbs, a villa like this would cost a fortune.

  After the Ferrari stopped, a servant naturally came forward to open the car door.

  After Ethan Carter got out, he glanced around casually, his expression unchanged. In his previous life, he was someone who had seen all kinds of villas.

  “Not bad. I suppose you had someone give you some advice on this place?” Ethan Carter said.

  He could sense that the spiritual energy within the villa was much denser than elsewhere. Although it couldn’t compare to the spirit-gathering arrays he could set up with a wave of his hand, it was clear that a feng shui master had been consulted for the layout.