Rory’s gaze almost burned a hole in my head as she stared me down, barely holding back laughter. This was by far the most immature thing I’d ever done, but fuck, it was hilarious. Besides, sometimes a break from all the mature, mundane stuff that adult life had to offer was necessary, and sneaking into a drug convention provided the perfect opportunity.
“I’m sure my partner would love for us to give our presentation now,” I continued. “If that’s all right with everyone else, that is.”
Rory stifled a giggle and whispered at me. “Oh my god, Finn, you’re so dead once this is over.”
I shook my head slightly and murmured to her. “Don’t worry,” I said. “We’re not really going to go up there and say anything. It’s not really…”
I was cut off by the presenter speaking again. “Ah, your partner?” he said, suddenly looking delighted. “You must be the husband and wife scientist duo who’ve come to talk about the latest pharmaceutical advances in sexual dysfunction medication. We were all wondering when you’d show up and kick things off here!”
A few people laughed, and I paled with every word coming out of his mouth. Jesus, what had I gotten us into? I hadn’t honestly thought there’d be people here who just so happened to be giving a presentation on Viagra, of all things. I’d just thought it would be funny to sneak in here and have a few silly laughs before being thrown out, but things had taken a shocking turn, and apparently, we were now expected to give a real presentation.
I had no idea what to say.
“You asked for this,” Rory whispered, flashing an evil smile my way before clearing her throat and speaking up.
“Yes, as the lead scientist on our team, my husband is very well-versed on everyone’s favorite little blue pills,” she said as I sat there like a stunned mullet, earning us another few laughs and titters. “He’s been dying to give his speech on the subject.”
I gave her a murderous look before standing up with her. I half considered making a run for it, but Rory was clearly dead-set on making me suffer, and I probably deserved it for trying to put her in a compromising position in the first place.
“Come on,” she whispered. “You started this, so now you’ve got to finish it.”
She had a point.
She walked me to the front of the room while the audience clapped in anticipation, and I felt like I was walking to my own execution, especially once I reached the dais on the stage with everyone in the audience staring at us.#p#分页标题#e#
The presenter smiled at me. “So, Mr...”
“Mr. Chang,” Rory said, earning another desperate look from me. “Minho Chang.”
The presenter gave her a weird look and glanced at my nametag, and Rory shrugged. “Adopted,” she whispered.
He nodded and threw me a meaningful look as if to say he understood.
“Now, Mr. Chang, in the last thirty years, sexual dysfunction in men and women has been a hot topic in the pharma industry," he said, giving me a beaming smile. “I hear there’s been some stunning new developments in the chemical formulation of your drug, which has led to vastly improved effects compared with the old Viagra pills, and there’s also been talk of a female sexual enhancement pill, colloquially known as the female Viagra. So in a nutshell, what has your experience with this research at your company been like so far?”
“Err…” I said, my eyes begging Rory for help.
“Well,” she cut in, looking like she was about to nudge every person in the room and wink at them meaningfully. “As Mr. Chang’s wife as well as his lab partner, I must say, Viagra has been quite the life changer. Our latest formulation is over three times more effective than the old formula with half the old dosage, and let’s just say we haven’t only been testing it on lab rats...”
“Care to elaborate?” the presenter asked excitedly, grinning at the unsuspecting audience.
Well, they all thought we were here to sell Viagra to them, so I figured that I might as well do my best. “Uh, yes, our recent research has been a revelation,” I said. “I’m not the usual target demographic, I realize, but...”
“He’s actually been suffering with erectile dysfunction for years, and our particular line of work has afforded us the opportunity to experiment with that issue,” Rory interjected in a solemn voice before giving me an innocent smile. “He’s almost completely unable to achieve an erection on his own, but our latest formula is really something, and it’s been a game-changer for us. So to briefly sum it up, we aren’t just doing our pharmaceutical research for a name in the medical journals…we’re doing it for our marriage.”