The Villain Saves The Male Lead

After an amazing breakfast, the found babies were handed off to Steward Paul (with Sylvia back in her human baby form) for the day, and Ren and Fang headed off to the newly built Sirocco Institute of Medical Sciences. While it was a new medical school that had just received its certifications, Ren had made sure that the best of experts from all over the world had been hired to teach and handle the attached hospital, and that the best of healthcare services would be provided at SIMS, as they lovingly called it.

And the coming of all these renowned international experts as well as the glamourous couple of Chairman Ren and his prodigious fiancé Fang as students at SIMS were enough to attract many more students than Ren and Fang had initially anticipated. Ren had actually scoffed at Pax when the latter had suggested that they cap the first batch of students at one hundred – and Ren had said that he would be glad to have over ten students, and that there was no need for setting any limits at the moment, since there is no way there would ever be a hundred students signing to up study at a newly established medical school.

Ren had clearly underestimated his own charm as well as the allure of the international experts he had brought in, or the international relations that he himself had built up.

The first batch of SIMS had two hundred and sixty eight students.

Ren was currently sitting in the Director's office at SIMS, holding his head, and Pax was looming over him like an avenging angel. Fang sat demurely by Ren's side like a shy, obedient wife – had it been anyone but Pax, Fang would have immediately spoken out and even fought on behalf of Ren, but in front of Pax, both of them could say nothing, especially after dumping Ren's entire workload on poor Pax's head.

It was a good thing that Fang had dragged Ren out of the house much earlier than he originally intended to, Fang thought to himself rather wryly.

A few minutes ago, when Ren had seen the number '268' written in digits and 'two hundred and sixty eight' written in words next to it on the file slammed on his desk by Pax, he had been stunned.

"Is this for real?" Ren had asked in a faint voice. "It's not twenty six, right?"

"And where would be get the zero point eight student?" Pax had demanded angrily. "I told you to cap the first batch at a hundred students, but did you listen to me? Did you?"

Ren was utterly unable to say anything in his own defence. He really should have listened to Pax, he thought.

"What do we do now?" he asked Pax.

Pax huffed. "Fortunately for you, I had enough foresight to make arrangements for three hundred students," he said.

"Do we have enough faculty?" Ren asked worriedly.

Pax shrugged. "The teacher to student ratio that you had planned for the lectures – that's not going to work, naturally, with so many students. However, when it comes to practical work experience, I have managed to procure collaborations with an adequate number of practising doctors to make sure that the optimal ratio we decided on is maintained," he said.

Ren was very relieved. "Pax, you are the best," he murmured. "Absolutely the best. There is nothing that can go wrong when you are in charge!"

Pax smirked. "Well, it is a good thing for you, then, that I capped the number at three hundred. Thirty two more students will be joining tomorrow," he said. "There are more who are still trying to send in their applications, but thankfully, I capped it – otherwise we may have ended up setting a world record for becoming the largest medical school in the shortest span of time."

The Director of SIMS, a veteran doctor from Ray Country who had won many, many awards and had been the first person Ren and Pax had gone to woo for SIMS, cleared his throat.

Ren, Pax and Fang all turned to look at the Director.

"Actually, you have already set that record," the Director said mildly. "I am still receiving queries if we can admit more students. I have about fifty students who are willing to wait a year and study elsewhere for a year and then come to SIMS next year."

Pax nodded. "Yes, I have seventy three of those as well," he said.

This time, Ren really did fall out of his chair in shock.

Pax rolled his eyes. "Don't worry, Chairman Ren," he said archly. "I have made arrangements for expansion this year, and we will have several branches of SIMS up and running by this time next year. At that time, it would be perfectly fine even if we have five thousand applications. For next year, though, I'll have to cap it at five thousand. The year after, we could double that, and within five years, we would be able to scale up to fifty thousand. Of course, how fast the scaling up happens will also depend on how fast the two of you are able to graduate from SIMS."

Fang silently helped Ren to get off the floor and sit on the chair again.

"Are you all right?" Fang asked worriedly.

Ren rubbed his temples. "We can't cater to five thousand students next year," he muttered. "That's too much, Pax."

Pax practically threw a thick file at Ren's head. Fortunately for the stunned Ren, Fang caught the file smartly and opened it, looking through it rapidly.

"Oh," Fang said with a smile. "This is perfect, actually." He looked up at Ren and beamed. "Pax has already thought through everything – it will be fine, Ren, don't worry so much."

Ren sighed and leaned over to take a look at the papers Fang was reading. And he realised that Pax and Fang were absolutely right. Pax really had planned for everything!

Ren looked at Pax, his golden eyes shining with gratitude and affection. "Thank you, Big Brother Pax," he said quietly.

All the anger and annoyance on Pax's face melted away and embarrassment took their place. After all, he wasn't used to Ren showing his affection to himself – most of Ren's unabashed displays of affection were reserved for Fang and the babies.

The Director, who had been quite taken aback by the dynamics between the newly appointed CEO Pax and Chairman Ren, finally understood what their relationship was, and why Fang, the fiancé, seemed completely at home with the whole thing. He had actually never even imagined that the fearsome CEO Ren – well, Chairman Ren now – would actually be this adorable behind closed doors, and the always calm and composed CEO Pax would actually be this naggy! Or that young Fang would be this closely involved in the business matters of Sirocco that he would actually review plans and Chairman Ren would actually rely on a young boy's opinion!

Of course, this was only the start of the surprises in store for the Director. Soon enough, he would be equally bedazzled by Ren and Fang, and would often rue the fact that two such outstanding men had chosen to be together to the exclusion of everyone else, because both these men had genes which absolutely had to be passed on to the next generation for the betterment of humankind! Still, the Director was also one of the biggest shippers of the Ren and Fang power couple, and he doubted that there was anyone else on earth who would be able to keep up with either Ren or Fang other than these two themselves.

"All right, well, now it's all settled," Pax murmured, an embarrassed flush still staining his cheeks. "Now you two run along and attend your first class. Be good and don't create too much trouble, all right?" he cautioned Ren and Fang.

Chairman Ren and Fang nodded like obedient little children would respond to their parent or older sibling. Then the two of them bid farewell to the Director and Pax and went off.

CEO Pax turned to the Director, all the affection and softness gone from his face along with the departure of Ren and Fang.

The Director almost cried out in surprise at the rapid change in CEO Pax's demeanour!

"I trust you will ensure that Ren and Fang are adequately protected while they are at SIMS," Pax said coldly.

The Director nodded, swallowing nervously. Was there any need for Pax to issue this warning? Weren't there elite bodyguards from the Blue Wolves that were secretly protecting Ren and Fang? Five of them had even enrolled themselves as students in the class! Exactly how paranoid was CEO Pax about the safety of Chairman Ren and Fang?!

Pax pursed his lips and crossed his arms across his chest, looking rather imposing. "Please remember that SIMS exists solely for Ren and Fang. Even if we will have two hundred and ninety eight other students, Ren and Fang must always remain your priority, and that of the other teachers and the staff here. If I get to hear that anyone has sought to harm even a single hair on Ren or Fang…" Pax let his voice trail off menacingly.

The Director shuddered.