The Sweetest Medicine

The resort had a variety of different entertainment facilities for guests that were holidaying there.

Yu Gangan noticed a ring toss machine.

Unlike the ring toss games at an amusement park, the rules and operation of this machine were simpler. One simply had to put a coin in and the machine would spit out a ring. Whatever the ring hooked around, would be the prize.

She pulled Fang Zhihan towards the machine excitedly, “Fang Zhihan, look at that pig, it’s so big.”

The winter sun reflected against the white snow making her small face glow a little.

“Do you want it?” Fang Zhihan asked.

“That’s the major prize. It’s big and far. It’s probably impossible to win.”

Without a word, Fang Zhihan walked over and scanned his phone against the QR code according to the instructions.

“Hey, I thought you didn’t have Alipay before,” Yu Gangan said curiously.

“Just because I didn’t have it before, doesn’t mean I will never have it. After all, I have a family to support now.”

“But, scanning a QR code doesn’t mean you’ll definitely win the prize,” Yu Gangan teased with a laugh. “If you don’t win it, I will be upset.”

Fang Zhihan’s lips curved upwards slightly with amusement, “As a wife, you should be more understanding.”

He pressed the start button, moved the joystick, set the distance, and pressed the shoot button.

The ring missed and simply dropped beside the pig’s body.

Yu Gangan covered her mouth and laughed, “See? I knew you wouldn’t be able to win it. It’s too far and big, and the ring is small. It’s really difficult.”

One game had five throws, so Fang Zhihan simply smiled at Yu Gangan and made his second attempt.

He was too far to the left during his first attempt, so he shifted to the right a little… In the end, he missed four times consecutively and only had one last attempt left.

Yu Gangan was mucking around at the beginning, but she now looked a little defeated.

Sadness clung to her face. She had already given up, but there was still a thread of hope in her heart. As Fang Zhihan shot out his last ring, she grabbed onto his arm nervously.

The fifth ring landed accurately around the pig’s body; they clearly won.

For a moment, Yu Gangan stood dumbfounded in disbelief before she looked at Fang Zhihan and said excitedly, “You got it!”

“En,” Fang Zhihan responded gently, remaining calm from beginning to end.

Yu Gangan went to pick up the big doll, hugged it in her arms and handed it to Fang Zhihan, “You’re amazing, you actually won it.”

Her joy infected the man and his eyes warmed up like winter snow being soaked in a hot spring.

“Doesn’t it feel different to win after five goes instead of one?”

The man suddenly said.

Yu Gangan froze for a moment before she realized, the man had deliberately failed his first four attempts so he could bring her the biggest joy.

She wanted to laugh, but she held it in and yelled angrily, “Fang Zhihan, you’re a bad person.”

Fang Zhihan’s slender index finger brushed across her nose.

Yu Gangan glanced at the thick snow on the floor, stooped over, picked up a handful, and threw it at the man.

Fang Zhihan’s reaction was fast, so he quickly blocked the snow with the pig in his arms.

Seeing this, Yu Gangan ran over to him and touched his face with her ice-cold hands. This time, Fang Zhihan did not avoid her attack. As her cold hands touched his handsome face, his lips curved upwards into a smile and he threw the woman onto his back.

A burst of laughter and joy, rippled through the snow…