Chapter 1

In the largest medicinal herb market nationwide, my half-sister and I both had our eyes on the same millennium ginseng.

My fiancé, however, didn't hesitate to light the sky lantern for her.

"Su Qianxia, you're just my fiancée in name, what right do you have to challenge Mei'er?"

He looked at me with contempt and even publicly shared a kissing display with my sister.

I deliberately raised the price to one billion, then let them have it.

To humiliate me, my sister asked my fiancé to grind the ginseng into powder and feed it to her dog.

Looking at their smug faces, I sighed inwardly.

Fine, the only herb that could save my fiancé's father is gone!

"Su Qianxia, the millennium ginseng that you couldn't obtain no matter how hard you tried has now been completely consumed by my dog. Do you feel like you're living worse than a dog?"

Ruan Mei'er clung to Lu Siting's arm, mockingly raising an eyebrow at me.

To provoke me, she deliberately licked her glossy lips as if savoring the earlier kiss.

"Little greedy cat, want more?"

Lu Siting smiled and simply pulled her in for a longer, more passionate kiss.

If half the trading hall hadn't gathered around, the two might have, in a fit of passion, given me a live performance.

At their feet, a palm-sized teacup pup joyfully gobbled up the dog food mixed with ginseng powder.

Seeing this scene, the onlookers murmured amongst themselves.

"Oh my god, a ginseng worth a billion fed to a dog, President Lu really spoils Ruan Mei'er unbelievably!"

"I heard Ruan Mei'er is actually Su Qianxia's father's illegitimate child from outside, and was kicked out by the Su Family when the affair was exposed. Yet now, President Lu supports Ruan Mei'er, utterly trampling the Su Family's reputation!"

"Tsk tsk, if I were Su Qianxia I'd definitely want to die of shame; this is so humiliating!"

Hearing this, Ruan Mei'er looked even more triumphant, smiling at me like a victor.

Seeing her smug look, I found it amusing.

Once Lu Siting's actions spread back to the Lu Family, the one wanting to die of shame wouldn't be me.

Three months ago, Lu Siting's father suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, helpless against all the famed doctors, and was on the brink of death.

In the end, they begged my grandfather, who had already retired, and only then received a life-saving prescription.

And the most important ingredient was that millennium ginseng.

Afraid of errors, Grandfather ordered all parties not to leak the news and commanded me to personally buy the ginseng.

Who knew that as soon as I expressed interest in buying, Ruan Mei'er appeared out of nowhere like a ghost, bringing Lu Siting along to snatch the ginseng from me.

Raising the price to one billion was me giving them an out; Lu Siting didn't give me any face at all, hell-bent on supporting the daughter of the mistress who destroyed my family.

If that's the case, I might as well go along with his wish.

But out of duty, I still reminded Lu Siting that the ginseng could save his father's life and urged him to take it home.

Who knew, the next second, listening to Ruan Mei'er's nonsense, Lu Siting had the ginseng ground up and fed to the dog.

For a son to betray his father to this extent, I had nothing else to say.

After all, this marriage arrangement was something the Lu Family patriarch begged for with his life. When I agreed initially, it was just to repay a favor on behalf of my grandfather, using a marriage agreement to support the Lu Family through a crisis.

Now that my grandfather had given the prescription, it meant we owed nothing in return.

Back home, I could still take the moral high ground and annul the engagement in one fell swoop, solving this trouble once and for all.

With time pressing, I didn't want to waste more words with them and turned to pick up several boxes of hundred-year-old medicinal pills.

"I'll take all of these."

Grandfather said that besides the life-saving ginseng, these few medicinal pills could also slow down the disease and reduce pain, and instructed me to buy them all.

Just as I was about to swipe my card to pay, Lu Siting swiftly stepped forward and slapped my card away.