Tiana purred over the phone, "Trust me. I can show you what it really means to be treated like a king!"

Andrew rolled his eyes, cursing silently. 'This damn woman's getting bolder by the day.'

With a hard click, he ended the call. Then, he headed off to wake Lauren, Francesca, and Aspen. After calling for them multiple times, none of them got up. All three complained about sore bodies and begged for a full day to rest.

Andrew did not push it, letting them recover.

Meanwhile, Dylan and Natasha took over guard duty at Serenity Villa, maintaining tight security. Andrew stayed in and began sorting through the prizes he had earned at the Grand Medical Summit.

He only had one word for everything: perfect.

Among his rewards were five stalks of rare medicinal herbs, each aged around five centuries. He did note with a hint of regret that two of the five herbs had overlapping properties, meaning one of them would not be particularly useful to him.

Nonetheless, "not useful" did not