100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 83.2: Adept At Transferring Money (2)

The night of the engagement ceremony, Li Xiaoxing had a dream.

He couldn’t remember the details of the dreams too, but the feelings of shock, anger, and frustration continued to linger even after he woke up. On top of that, there was something that felt much more tangible than just the feelings of agitation.

… An intense pain in his legs.

That was what had jolted him awake from his dreams. He had never experienced such intense pain in his legs, even on the day of the accident, more than a decade ago.

He was already drenched in cold sweat when he woke up. He tried his nudge Ji XInxin awake while trying to get the A.I. digital assistant to call Secretary Fan.

“What’s wrong? Where are you feeling unwell?” Ji Xinxin immediately got up and asked concernedly.

“Legs…” Li Xiaoxing moaned in pain, “My legs…”

Ji Xinxin turned to look at his legs in bewilderment. Other than being thinner and fairer than an average man’s legs due to the lack of exercise, nothing looked out of the ordinary. She carefully applied some light pressure on Li Xiaoxing’s leg in a bid to find out more about his pain. “Where does it hurt?”

All she could really feel was his cold skin.

But Li Xiaoxing let out a muffled scream as if Ji Xinxin had just plunged a knife into his flesh.

His extreme reaction made Ji Xinxin leap back in shock.

It was fortunate that the call with Secretary Fan connected just then. Ji Xinxin hurriedly explained the situation and Li Xiaoxing’s symptoms to him.

Li Xiaoxing’s medical team immediately rushed to the house, and a series of comprehensive tests were carried out to determine the cause of his pain.

The problem was that the results showed that everything was normal. In fact, Li Xiaoxing hadn’t even regained sensory functions in his legs, which made it even more baffling how he could be feeling pain.

“Mr. Li might be in excruciating pain at the moment, but it might be a good thing if the pain stimulates his legs. It suggests that he might be slowly regaining sensory function in his lower body,” explained the principal doctor

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