“You don’t touch me because you don’t like me.”
“We’re husband and wife. This kind of intimacy is normal between married couples, unless you have someone else.”
“But…”
Lu Chiwan’s voice softened, “I can accept it. Feelings are unpredictable anyway.”
“If you reject me once or twice, I can still swallow my pride and throw myself at you. But if it happens too often, I won’t do it anymore. As a girl, I need to maintain some dignity.”
It was clear the young woman was genuinely hurt, having been repeatedly rejected by Li Yanxing.
Such matters should naturally be initiated by the man.
She had taken the initiative several times already, only to be pushed away each time. No matter how persistent she was, she couldn’t keep this up.
Seeing the young woman’s reddened eyes from crying, Li Yanxing felt terribly stifled. He lowered his head to kiss the corner of her lips. “I truly… can’t.”
“Liar!”
“You had a physical reaction.”
“That’s true, but I’m still not normal. I was injured before.”
“Qingqing, not being able to touch you pains me too. It’s not that I’m deliberately avoiding intimacy.”
“But… I don’t want to believe you. I… think you’re lying to me.”
After being deceived time and again, Lu Chiwan wasn’t so easily fooled anymore.
Li Yanxing had come to understand her temperament somewhat. She appeared soft and fragile, her temper never rising too high, like a gentle little bunny with no real bite.
But in truth, this little bunny had a strong will beneath her gentle exterior, and she was quite stubborn.
If he couldn’t soothe her tonight, this little bunny would undoubtedly run away from home.
He glanced around at the room’s decorations – tacky romance everywhere, even the bedsheets had been changed to red.
He never had any use for romantic notions.
Yet looking at this room full of cheesy yet endearing decor, he felt inexplicably happy, even forgetting the pain from his injuries.
“I’m really not lying. I have a medical diagnosis from the doctor.”
“It’s with Lin Mu. I’ll have him bring it over.”
Li Yanxing took out his phone and sent Lin Mu a message: “Forge a medical record dated from the car accident. Diagnosis…”
Lin Mu, who was about to head home and rest, glanced at his phone while driving.
Bang!
Distracted, his car crashed into the roadside flowerbed, denting the front bumper.
He read the message again.
Forge a medical record stating Brother Yan was injured down there and temporarily unable to consummate the marriage.
What the hell?
Hadn’t Brother Yan already been with the young woman?
He hadn’t?
If he hadn’t, why forge a medical record claiming impotence?
!!!
What man could stand this!
Wait, no – what woman could stand this either!
Wasn’t Brother Yan afraid of being looked down upon?
Moments later, he received another message. Li Yanxing instructed him to forge the examination report and personally deliver it to Brocade Creek Bay.
Lin Mu had no choice but to drive his damaged car with the nearly detached bumper and rush to the hospital to have the examination report forged.
Back at Brocade Creek Bay.
Seeing Li Yanxing’s sincerity and his insistence that Lin Mu deliver the examination report that very night, Lu Chiwan was seventy percent convinced.
But she still felt wronged and miserable. She had been busy all day without even eating.
Her stomach growled loudly.
Li Yanxing frowned. “You haven’t eaten?”
“No, I was thinking about your return and wanted to surprise you. I spent a long time picking out this outfit too.”
Lu Chiwan grabbed Li Yanxing’s sleeve and wiped her tears and… runny nose.
Li Yanxing: “?”
“Who told you not to eat? Don’t you know…”
“You’re yelling at me again, yelling at me again! Can’t you just talk to me properly!”
Li Yanxing’s tone had just turned stern when it was immediately subdued by the girl’s soft, pleading voice.
“Let’s eat first.”
Li Yanxing helplessly reached out to flick the girl’s forehead, but remembering her delicate nature, he withdrew his hand.
“I asked Aunt Jiang to prepare a candlelight dinner. Go take a bath, change your clothes, and freshen up before we eat.”
“And I want to see your medical report! If you dare lie to me, I’m leaving right now!”
Lu Chiwan waved the small bag in her hand.
It was a crossbody bag she’d bought from Taobao—not expensive, just a few dozen yuan—but the style was quite pretty.
Lately, Lu Chiwan had been busy shopping online, using Li Yanxing’s credit card.
Every transaction triggered a text notification on Li Yanxing’s phone.
But he never paid attention to money matters and didn’t bother checking how much she spent.
Had he looked, he would have noticed Lu Chiwan only bought items costing a few dozen yuan, one or two hundred yuan at most, with plenty of 9.9 yuan purchases mixed in.
Lu Chiwan knew he was wealthy and didn’t care, but she still felt somewhat self-conscious whenever she remembered she hadn’t even finished elementary school.
“Hmm.”
Li Yanxing loosened his tie and entered the bathroom.
Just as he turned on the shower, the bathroom door swung open.
“Honey, I’ve used this towel—let me get you a fresh one…”
“What’s wrong?”
“Why is there so much blood!”
Lu Chiwan had intended to use the towel delivery as an excuse to sneak some affectionate contact with her husband, but instead she discovered Li Yanxing’s blood-soaked wounds.
He truly didn’t seem to care, just letting the shower water rinse over them.
Lu Chiwan rushed over, turned off the water, and burst into tears at the sight of multiple knife wounds on his body. “How did you get so many injuries? Did something happen during your business trip?”
“Why didn’t you go to the hospital?”
“We’re going to the hospital right now!”
“So much blood, how can there be so much blood…”
The girl trembled with distress, her voice shaking. “What should we do, what should we do? Does it hurt terribly?”
Watching her panicked, helpless expression, Li Yanxing froze for a moment.
This innocent girl seemed as pure as blank paper untouched by any color—or perhaps she was like colorful paper, vibrant with bright hues, completely lacking the gloomy shades of black, radiating warmth and light.
She had no memories, no idea he’d been deceiving her all along, seeing him only as her closest person. Seeing him injured distressed her more than if she were hurt herself.
“Just external wounds. They were treated earlier, but the wounds reopened slightly. Rinsing with water and applying some medicine will be enough.”
“Be good, wait for me outside.”
Li Yanxing gently pinched the girl’s nose, his tone unconsciously softening, treating his injuries as nothing serious.
“We’re going to the hospital! Right now!”
“Or I’ll never forgive you!”
Lu Chiwan hugged the towel and broke down sobbing.
Her crying gave Li Yanxing a headache. He rubbed his throbbing temples and said, “They’re just surface wounds. I have experience treating injuries. Go ask Butler Du for the first aid kit.”
“But…”
“Be good, I promise I’ll be fine.”
Although Li Yanxing’s so-called “external wounds” kept bleeding, he’d experienced all kinds of injuries over the years, both major and minor.
Lu Chiwan ran out to find Butler Du and retrieve the first aid kit.
When she returned, Li Yanxing had changed into fresh pants and was bare-chested. His wounds had been cleaned but were still oozing blood, though the bleeding had significantly slowed.
However, the cleaned wounds looked even more terrifying—various scars of different sizes and depths, with flesh torn open, appearing gruesome. They were likely knife wounds.
Lu Chiwan frantically opened the medical kit. “Tell me how to handle it, I’ll do it.”
Li Yanxing rubbed the girl’s head, feeling quite helpless. “Can you manage? Aren’t you scared?”
Lu Chiwan pursed her lips and whispered a single word, “Scared.”
After a moment, she added, “But I’m even more scared of you suffering.”
With so many wounds, this man had acted completely normal before taking off his clothes.
Her heart ached terribly.
“Alright, I’ll guide you.”
Li Yanxing instructed Lu Chiwan on how to tend to his wounds—it wasn’t particularly difficult.
However… the girl was clearly inexperienced at this kind of task, appearing clumsy with her uneven pressure, sometimes too light, sometimes too heavy.
He didn’t find it particularly painful; instead, the varying pressure was rather tantalizing.
Lu Chiwan was extremely nervous. After working for a long time, she still hadn’t finished, her forehead covered in fine beads of sweat.
She stammered, “Husband, does it hurt a lot? I’m so clumsy. I’ll go slower…”
Li Yanxing glanced around the room’s decorations. They weren’t overly elaborate—balloons, streamers, stickers—probably only took about three hours to set up properly.
Yet she had worked for over ten hours without eating or drinking.
Seeing how she handled the wounds, he could understand why.
“Gently.”
“Huh?”
“My injuries really aren’t that serious.”
“With so many wounds and so much blood, and you say it’s not serious?”
“Mm, not serious. If it were truly severe, I’d probably already be dead by your hands.”
Given her wound-tending technique, more serious injuries would likely worsen under her care—it wouldn’t be impossible for her to press someone to death.
Hearing this, Lu Chiwan’s hand holding the cotton swab trembled violently and pressed down on Li Yanxing’s wound that had just stopped bleeding.
Perfect. Blood gushed out.
Now it was truly a case of adding injury to injury.
Lu Chiwan was completely stunned.
“Brother Yan, I’ve brought the test results, I…”
Lin Mu, panting heavily, finally arrived within the time limit Li Yanxing had set.
Seeing the bedroom door open, he rushed in with the test results, only to witness Lu Chiwan’s actions causing the blood on Li Yanxing’s abdomen to surge suddenly, like a roller coaster…
“Sister-in-law, are you… trying to murder him?”
He knew about Li Yanxing’s injuries—they were quite serious. Not long ago, he had urged Li Yanxing to go to the hospital, only to be scolded.
Now, after Lu Chiwan’s handling, the injuries were worse than before.
“I-I-I, I didn’t mean to, I-I-I…”
Lu Chiwan was so frantic she was on the verge of tears.
Li Yanxing shot Lin Mu an impatient glare. “Too much time on your hands?”
If he had so much to say, he might as well sew his mouth shut and become mute.
Lin Mu: “?”
“You do it.”
But with Lu Chiwan crying like this, she couldn’t continue tending to Li Yanxing’s wounds.
Fortunately, Lin Mu, the free labor, had shown up, so he honorably took over Lu Chiwan’s position.
Lin Mu’s wound-tending technique was skilled and practiced.
Even so, Lu Chiwan was still extremely worried.
“Husband, does it hurt badly?”
Lu Chiwan lifted her small face, looking at him with deep concern.
Li Yanxing originally intended to say it didn’t hurt, but changed his mind at the last moment. “A little.”
“Then I’ll blow on it for you, so it won’t hurt.”
Lu Chiwan spoke as if coaxing a child. After saying this, she knelt on the bed, lowered her head, and gently blew on the wounds on his abdomen.
Faced with the sudden intrusion of this little head squeezing in and taking up space, Lin Mu was very displeased. “Sister-in-law, you…”
Before she could finish speaking, an inexplicable chill crept up her neck.
Lin Mu instinctively looked up, startled, then quickly lowered his head and obediently resumed treating the wound.
“Does it still hurt?”
Lu Chiwan’s attention was entirely focused on Li Yanxing, completely oblivious to the subtle changes in her so-called brother’s expression.
“Much better.”
Li Yanxing smiled and gently pinched the girl’s nose. “Our Qingqing is very capable.”
Lu Chiwan’s eyes lit up, shamelessly accepting the praise. “Yes, I am.”
Lin Mu: “?”
Wasn’t it just moments ago that you nearly handled him to death?
After Lin Mu finished treating Li Yanxing’s wound, he noticed Lu Chiwan staring at him without blinking.
“…”
“Sister-in-law, wh-what’s wrong?”
Had he done something wrong again to upset her?
“Where’s the medical report?”
Lu Chiwan extended her hand. “As a wife, it’s my duty to safeguard my husband’s personal items like medical reports. So please return my husband’s report to me.”
Lin Mu mercilessly exposed her. “You just want to see what’s written on it, don’t you? Why make it sound so righteous?”
Lu Chiwan widened her eyes, then turned her head toward Li Yanxing, pouting. “Husband, he’s bullying me.”
“Mm, let’s chop him up.”
Li Yanxing said expressionlessly.
At times like this, brothers could be treated like trash.
Lin Mu was speechless.
“I was wrong.”
“The medical report.”
Lin Mu took out the fabricated medical report from over half an hour ago from his pocket and respectfully presented it with both hands.
Lu Chiwan took the report, her eyes darting around. “I’m going to the restroom to wash my hands.”
Clutching the report, she quickly hid in the restroom and began reading it word by word.
Li Yanxing: “…”
Lin Mu: “…”