By the third time Wen Yu looked toward Shao Wenyue, he finally couldn’t hold it in and asked directly, “What do you need?”
Wen Yu’s face flushed suspiciously red, so much so that Shao Wenyue immediately thought she might have a fever.
“Are you feeling unwell?”
As he spoke, he reached out and pressed his hand to her forehead to check her temperature. “It does feel a bit hot.”
Wen Yu quickly shook her head. “I’m not uncomfortable.”
“Then what is it? Why is your face so red?” Shao Wenyue looked puzzled. She really looked like she had a high fever.
After hesitating for a long time, Wen Yu finally stammered, “I… I need to use the bathroom.”
Shao Wenyue immediately understood.
Right—besides the one time in the morning when a nurse helped, she hadn’t dealt with this for hours.
He knew that taking care of a patient meant handling all sorts of situations. He didn’t feel disgusted—only that it was a bit embarrassing.
“I’ll get the basin.”
Although it was a single room, the conditions weren’t great and there was no private bathroom.
When someone was injured, there wasn’t much choice. And since Wen Yu had a leg injury, she needed to stay in bed for at least half a month. A bedpan had been prepared in the room.
Wen Yu’s face turned bright red. This kind of thing—aside from close family, only professional caregivers would handle it.
Now asking Shao Wenyue to help… she really couldn’t do it.
“Maybe… maybe ask someone else to help?”
“You can hold it?” Shao Wenyue looked at her teasingly. “You’d rather make a fool of yourself than let me help?”
“You—”
“Alright, I won’t tease you anymore.” His tone softened. “Since you’re injured, don’t overthink it.”
He quickly brought over the basin, then reached for her waistband, preparing to help her pull down her pants.
Wen Yu immediately stopped him. Being helped this far was already embarrassing enough—how could she let him do that too?
“I’ll do it myself.”
“You can manage?” Shao Wenyue frowned slightly, unconvinced.
“My leg is injured, not my upper body.”
“…Fine.” He finally relented. “Be careful not to move your injured area.”
“Mm.”
Wen Yu glanced at him. “But I can’t do it with you here.”
“I’ll stay outside. Call me when you’re done.”
Wen Yu nodded quickly. “Go out, hurry.”
This world was really absurd. Who would have thought that the man who used to be so cold toward her would now be taking care of her like this?
If it had been before, she would never have believed it.
After Shao Wenyue left and closed the door, Wen Yu finally hurriedly took care of her needs—she really couldn’t hold it anymore.
Shao Wenyue didn’t go far. He stood straight outside the ward door, his tall figure drawing attention easily.
The incident from the wedding had already spread through the compound. At first, everyone thought Shao Wenyue didn’t care about Wen Yu at all.
But now, seeing him personally staying at the hospital and taking care of everything, people started to think the situation wasn’t so simple.
If he didn’t care, why would he stay by the bedside like this?
Still, thinking about Wen Yu’s looks, everyone also felt it made sense. After all, beauty was hard to resist.
“Wenyue, why are you standing here?”
It was Xu Wan who had just finished her work and came over, intending to check on Wen Yu.
“If there’s anything that needs help, I can lend a hand.”
Shao Wenyue cleared his throat slightly. “It’s not convenient to go in right now.”
“Hm?”
Xu Wan didn’t understand at first.
Then she heard Wen Yu’s voice from inside, and Shao Wenyue immediately went in, took the basin, and walked toward the restroom at the end of the corridor.
Only then did she realize what “inconvenient” meant.
A complicated feeling rose in her heart. She hadn’t expected Shao Wenyue to go this far for Wen Yu.
“Miss Xu Wan, why are you here?” Wen Yu greeted her, still a little embarrassed.
Xu Wan quickly composed herself and smiled. “I’m not busy right now, so I came to see if you need anything.”
“Nothing for now. If there is, we won’t be polite.”
Wen Yu didn’t know how to properly face Xu Wan. She could tell now that Shao Wenyue truly had no romantic feelings for Xu Wan—but Xu Wan’s feelings toward him weren’t so pure.
She had heard Xu Wan once had a deep relationship with Shao Wenqing before.
So why could she still focus so much on Shao Wenyue now?
If she wasn’t from the Shao family, Wen Yu wouldn’t have cared at all.
People often had no choice in life—they had to accept awkward situations whether they liked it or not.
Xu Wan also felt uncomfortable. Every time she saw Wen Yu, she would think of the wedding incident, and it made her uneasy.
For a moment, the room fell silent.
Only when Shao Wenyue returned did the awkward atmosphere break.
He poured hot water and helped Wen Yu wipe her hands.
Then he asked, “Want some water?”
Wen Yu shook her head. “No.”
“Then sleep for a while. You only slept three hours this morning.”
“Alright, I’ll rest.”
She simply didn’t want to deal with the awkwardness anymore.
Xu Wan then said, “Then I won’t disturb you. If you need anything, call me. I’ll come after work.”
Wen Yu nodded.
Seeing Shao Wenyue had nothing more to say, Xu Wan left quickly.
After she left, Shao Wenyue suddenly said, “If you don’t like her, you don’t have to interact with her in the future.”
Wen Yu blinked. “Really?”
“Yes.”
Shao Wenyue gently patted her head. “People you don’t like, you can avoid. You don’t need to force yourself.”
Wen Yu felt complicated. “Don’t you think that’s being petty?”
He shook his head. “As long as you’re not harming anyone, it doesn’t matter what others think.”
Wen Yu had to admit—this version of Shao Wenyue made it hard not to feel something.
Could she trust him again?
Outside the door, Xu Wan had heard everything clearly.
So in his heart, she had already been placed in the category of “someone he didn’t like.”
Bitterness filled her chest.
It wasn’t anyone’s fault—it was just that she had been too greedy.