2 02 - Wish

Halfway through their dinner, Laura finally got to the point.

Laura put down the tableware and said, with a hint of hope and pleading.

"Mr Mills, I invited you to this dinner to discuss an important matter. I hope that we can receive your help."

"What's the matter, tell me. I will help you if I can!" Rowan also put down the tableware and listened carefully.

"So, as you know about the Crown family, our hospital is one of the best but..." Laura slowly explained the problems she encountered in the hospital.

"...And this is what is happening. With our hospital's current funding, those purchases are something very difficult for us to make, we can't arrange the almost 120 million we need. If we withdraw money from the available funds to purchase it, it will impact the normal operations of our hospital. Therefore, we would like to buy this batch of equipment on credit. I hope Mr. Mills can help us with this. We promise that within half a year, we will repay this debt and also accrue interest according to the bank's current loan interest." Laura said sincerely.

Rowan nodded and said, "Okay, let me ask the officials related to this matter, Ms. Crown. I'll have an answer for you after that."

After Rowan said that, he picked up his phone and texted the people who could answer Laura's question.

After a while, he put away his phone and said, "I asked the director of the finance department and he said there would be no problem if we give the credit to a reputed hospital like yours. Tomorrow, you guys only need to bring some documents over to our group and follow the regular procedures."

"That's… all it took?" Laura looked confused.

"Of course, it's not that difficult!" Rowan said but continued in his mind, 'Anything for you, my love.'

"You don't have… any other requirements?" Laura couldn't believe it.

Rowan chuckled and sipped on wine as he said, 

"What more do you want? Everyone has a time when their funds are a little low. You can later help the Mills group just as we are helping you right now. Isn't that what business is all about? I believe that under your management, this small money should be easily earned back. When you guys have sufficient funds, you can give the money back."

"Definitely and thank you, Mr Mills. Cheers!" Laura happily raised the glass of red wine.

Rowan smiled and raised the glass with her, "Cheers!"

After the important matter was settled, Laura relaxed.

She shook the wine glass in her soft hands gently then looked at Rowan with a smile.

"Mr Mills, I find you to be quite different from the rumours."

"Rumors? What am I like according to them?"

"In the rumours, you are a rich second generation who is ignorant of everything, spends money all day and always asks your parents for money without earning back anything. But you look and act completely different right now. You seem like a perfect gentleman, like a learned scholar, as if you are an experienced old man who sees through everything..."

Laura shook her head, "Anyhow, you seem so different to me. I don't get it, which one is the real you?"

Rowan smiled, "They're all me!"

Laura was puzzled by Rowan's answer. She asked, "It's all you? What do you mean, Mr. Mills?"

"It's all me! I am the ignorant rich second generation, the perfect gentleman is also me, the learned scholar is me, and the old man who sees everything is quite definitely me. For me, as long as I am happy, I am anyone I want to be! As for what the people and the rumours portray me as… I don't quite care. I don't live for them!", Rowan swirled the wine in his glass and smiled.

Laura's heart moved slightly. She didn't know why, but when she saw the carefree man smiling happily in front of her, she felt moved.

With a hint of shame, Laura said, "Mr Mills, don't call me Ms Crown, it seems too formal. Please call me Laura."

"You too, Ms. Crown- I mean, Laura, please call me Rowan."

"Of course, and, could I have your number? It's just so that we can, you know, contact each other easily in the future without having to trouble our secretaries and also reducing the potential risk of confidential information getting leaked with-", This was the first time Laura asked a man for his number and had no idea how to do it, only to end up being embarrassed the moment she started.

"Yes, Laura. Let's exchange numbers, but please calm down first. Your face is redder than the wine right now."

With these light jokes, the relationship between the two took a step from being strangers to friends.

Both of them then continued talking and laughing while eating their dinner.

However, Rowan looked at the restaurant door from time to time.

'Thy first male protagonist, the god of dumbness, Linden Burke, why haven't you arrived yet?'

At this time, a man wearing sunglasses and a hat was hiding in the distance.

"You two are hooking up again! Especially Laura, that sl*t. She is obviously my fiancée but she is hooking up with him. Why doesn't she just be a good woman and stay loyal to me? In this life, I will make you beg for me. That, that moment will be when I hook up with some other girl."

This person is the male protagonist Linden Burke, a student of the Genius Herbal medic, the 'Ghost doctor' and at the same time, he was also Laura's fiancé.

And yes, he was regressed too.

He was regressed back to the beginning of the story from his perspective. When his medical skills reached the zenith, he left the mountains and his master to live with his fiancée.

Although he hadn't seen Laura since he was a child, when he saw Laura's face again recently, he regarded her as his woman but when he saw her going out with a tense expression on her face, he followed her all the way.

However, he found that his woman was talking and laughing happily with a handsome man and, the main point was that they both seemed to be very close.

He was so jealous that he couldn't help but take action.

In his previous life, he thought that with his own ability in herbal medicines and the identity of the student of Ghost Doctor, he could easily clean the floor with Rowan but contrary to that, Linden was the one always losing.

In every contest, he was consistently crushed by Rowan, utterly defeated.

'My own woman, Laura, also gradually left me and threw herself into his arms. He was obviously a stupid rich second-generation according to the rumours, how did he become so good?'

Fortunately for Linden, God gave him a chance to be regressed with his memories perfectly intact.

Regression is one of the most common powers of a protagonist.

'I've got a regression now and know all the future events. I don't believe that I can't beat you.'

"I swear on my name as Linden Burke, in this lifetime, I must make you, Rowan Mills pay the price! I'm going to make you go bankrupt. I want you to live on the streets and beg on them as you see me take Laura home in a car. Laura, you can only be mine!"

After taking the oath, he stared at the two people opposite him with a solemn expression.

This is a very important point in his life according to Linden.

On this day, the two reached a cooperation after dinner and the relationship between them developed rapidly after that.

'Therefore, I must interrupt their cooperation to reduce their future contact. And, right now is the perfect chance.'

But, how to interrupt?

The best option would be to make Rowan suddenly die.

'If this happens, the Mills family would definitely blame Laura. Their cooperation would naturally fall through and when Laura and the Crown family are on the verge of falling, I'll take advantage of the situation. With my superb herbal medical skills, not only can I save them and get Laura but also get support from the Crown family.'

The plan was very simple yet it was perfect.

Thinking to himself, Linden took out a sharp dart and laced it with some kind of liquid he took out of a vial from his pocket.

'Doctors can save lives but doctors can kill too. I'll just stick this needle into his skin and he'll die begging for death!'

When the time was late on the clock, Linden pretended to be a drunk guest and staggered over to their table.

Due to the loud sound of staggering, Rowan turned his head and looked over, feeling a little surprised.

'The first protagonist is here, obviously a good thing, but… how the fuck did this bitch become like this?'

'Never mind! Now that he's here, it's time to test how good the curse placed on the system is.'

Rowan couldn't wait and excitedly said in his heart, 'Hey system, wish time…'