“It’s okay, Johnny, I’m here.”
Jasmine quickly comforted him and carefully removed the blood bag that was attached to his arm.
Honestly, medical care in the 19th century was not very good. It was already a miracle that Johnny survived the accident. Now that she had hit the male nurse at this shady clinic, she had definitely offended them. Continuing to stay here would be dangerous, so she suggested, “Why don’t you get discharged? I’ll take you home, and then we can make other plans.”
“Mm… okay.”
Maybe feeling that it was embarrassing for a boy to cry, Johnny quickly calmed down. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand as if nothing had happened, and then looked at Jasmine with complicated emotions, unable to make a sound for a long time.
“Jasmine, I…”
“You don’t need to say anything, let’s leave here first. I’m afraid that person will come back to get revenge on me… By the way, do you want to report it? Should I take you to find the sheriff first?”
“No need, you hit that person. Although you did it to save me, this will also get you into trouble.”
Johnny shook his head guiltily. His worry was not unreasonable. Jasmine didn’t think too much when she acted, but in this era, immigrants had a very low status. If there was a conflict with local people, the sheriff would almost always side with the locals. No matter how right she was, it would be useless.
“Take me home first, then I’ll think about what to do next.”
He sighed, and after calming down, he said with difficulty, “Thank you… Jasmine, if you hadn’t come in time, I don’t know what would have happened to me…”
“It’s okay, who told me I like you? When I saw that person trying to hurt you, I didn’t even think about it, my body just moved first.”
Jasmine smiled gently at him. Johnny looked even more guilty, he hesitated to speak, his face wavering. Then Jasmine brought a wheelchair and helped Johnny sit on it.
“Okay, let’s go home quickly. By the way, where is your home?”
The original owner and Johnny’s first date was to watch a movie, and they had never been to his house, and nothing had happened between them.
In fact, Jasmine also found Johnny strange. In 19th century America, horse racing was the most popular sport, and excellent star jockeys were considered to be halfway into high society. They had money and fame and were sought after. Although the former Johnny was a playboy and dated her because she was pretty, in name she was still his official girlfriend, not a secret lover. This boy’s attitude so far didn’t seem to care about her background at all, and was quite nice to her.
…Because this era was really terrible, not having prejudice had become the biggest advantage of some people.
But overall, although Johnny’s personality was not good before, his character was okay. He could have gotten angry at her, but he took all the responsibility for the accident himself, and even decided to break up with her because he didn’t want to drag her down.
This made people like him more.
After sending Johnny home, Jasmine found that he lived alone in a luxurious apartment. He himself was the heir of an equestrian family, and had made a lot of money after becoming famous at a young age when he left home, but because he was unconscious and paralyzed, the house was uncleaned and dusty.
After Jasmine wiped the dust off the sofa with a cloth, she put Johnny down, and when she was about to clean up a little, Johnny suddenly grabbed her hand.
“You don’t have to do this.”
He shook his head, “I hired a housekeeper to do housework. I’ll call her over later. Just talk with me.”
“Okay.”
So Jasmine turned to look at him, “Have you thought about your plans?”
“No…”
He looked extremely depressed, “I really don’t know what I should do now, even living requires courage… I want to know what you think, Jasmine. Do you really still like me? You don’t need to feel responsible for me, you really don’t need to waste your time on someone like me.”
Ah… he said responsible, right? He is really cute, really a little boy…
“It’s too early for you to give up now. It’s just that you can’t move your lower body, you can still move around in a wheelchair. Once you get used to it, you can live like a normal person, it’s just that life will be a bit more inconvenient, but you have money, you will still live better than many people.” Jasmine tried to speak to him in as gentle a tone as possible.
“But I feel like my dignity as a man has been completely stripped away! I can’t imagine… I…”
“Hey, it’s okay, it’s okay Johnny.”
Jasmine could completely understand Johnny’s feelings. She looked at him sympathetically, but still comforted him, “I checked for you before, you weren’t hurt elsewhere during your coma. Your dignity is still there.”
“That’s not what I’m talking about?!”
Johnny looked at her in shock, his face instantly turning red, “Why would you check that kind of place?! Wait! Did you…?!”
“Because you were unconscious and needed help changing clothes. How else would I help you?”
Wait, was he shy? How strange, he wasn’t supposed to be the innocent type.
Jasmine looked at him with concern and replied, “Because I was worried about the nurses here. Many patients get mistreated when they are unconscious. Just in case, I checked every day to make sure you were safe. I didn’t expect that after they thought I wouldn’t come to see you anymore, they still started to do bad things to you…”
As a surgical intern, this was completely okay for the well-informed Jasmine.
“…”
Johnny opened his mouth, staring at Jasmine dumbfounded, unable to speak for a while.
He didn’t know whether he was shocked that his clothes were changed without his knowledge, or that Jasmine checked on him every day.
“Wuaa! How could this happen!”
He collapsed and held his head, but after a long time, Johnny still looked up at Jasmine and said in a complicated way.
“…Thank you Jasmine, I now feel that if a person can be brave, they can overcome all difficulties… Thank you for making me stronger, I think I can try hard and continue to live with these hands.”
“You’re welcome, Johnny, I will always be on your side.”
Jasmine smiled at him, although she didn’t know what Johnny originally wanted to say, she always felt that there was something hidden in his words.
“By the way, about the breakup…”
She changed the subject, and Johnny immediately tensed up. He swallowed, staring straight at Jasmine, as if waiting for her answer, but also afraid of getting the answer, looking very nervous.
Actually Johnny didn’t really want to break up with her, right? Jasmine thought as a matter of course, but because he wasn’t a selfish man, he did it because he didn’t want to burden her.
So she looked at Johnny and said, “Kid, you’re just saying that out of anger, I don’t believe it!”
“?”
Johnny was stunned again, “No… I made this decision after careful consideration… And why do you call me a kid?! You’re only a little older than me!”
“More than a little.”
Jasmine asked aggressively, “Then do you really not like me at all?”
“…Not… you’re still very cute…”
Johnny’s voice became lighter and lighter, he looked like he was about to cry again, “It’s just that I can’t give you anything now… I can’t move, I can’t do anything anymore… If you continue to be with me, everyone will laugh at you! Do you really want to be with me because you like me, not out of responsibility?”
“Of course! I never wrong myself.”
Rather, it’s better now. Jasmine tried to control her expression as much as possible and said gently to him, “Do you think I’m with you because I’m after your fame? Wrong, I like you as a person! So of course I can’t dump you just because you became like this, unless you insist that you don’t like me at all, and you just wanted my body, but now you can’t, so you want to break up, then I have no choice.”
Jasmine pretended to be sad and covered her chest. Johnny quickly and nervously denied it, “Of course not! And I’m not incapable! Maybe I’m still very capable!”
He really cared about this… Jasmine was suddenly filled with sympathy, after all he was still very young… but she didn’t have much interest in that, she liked beautiful boys more from an appreciation angle, whether he was capable or not really didn’t matter.
“But I can’t get over it in my heart!”
Johnny shook his head and said sadly, “Because I know I don’t actually like you that much, this makes me feel like I’m using you. I’m already useless, I can’t be more of a terrible man… I…”
Why are we back to the beginning again! Jasmine couldn’t help but complain inwardly, why is he so stubborn? Is this crybaby really the male lead who does something extreme to the president in the future? But why would he do that? It feels like he wouldn’t even dare to kill a chicken!
“Then why don’t we try again, we’ve only dated once, maybe you’ll like me super much?”
Jasmine’s lips curled up, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Johnny.
“Shall we try dating again?”
Her proposal made Johnny stunned for a moment, but he nodded gently as if he had been looking forward to hearing such words.
“Mm… okay, shall we go watch a movie again?”