Chapter 636: Heart Sweeter Than Honey

Letting Fu Yan Cheng use the chamber pot in front of Liu Chuxue — that was absolutely impossible.

Fortunately, at the last moment Xiao Guo understood the deputy battalion commander's meaning: "Deputy Battalion Commander, let me help you up. Take it slow yourself, be careful not to pull the wound on your back."

Fu Yan Cheng first moved his legs to the edge of the bed, lowered one leg to the ground, then reached out an arm to drape over Xiao Guo's neck, gritting his teeth as he borrowed the strength to stand up.

No need to think to know how agonizing that must be — after all, his legs also had wounds, let alone his entire back being injured quite badly.

Liu Chuxue saw that in just this short while, fine beads of sweat had already seeped out on his forehead, and her heart ached.

Seeing him stand upright, she hurried forward, ready to help support him.

But she heard Fu Yan Cheng say: "Xue'er, wait here, I'll be right back."

To avoid embarrassment, Fu Yan Cheng didn't even give Liu Chuxue a chance to speak, signaling Xiao Guo to help him walk outside.

The comrade in the neighboring bed frowned and said: "Deputy Battalion Commander Fu, you really don't take care of yourself — injured this badly, what are you trying to prove?"

But at this moment Fu Yan Cheng was in a hurry to relieve himself and had no time to bother explaining.

At this point Liu Chuxue naturally also understood his intention, and the corner of her mouth couldn't help but curl into a smile.

Fu Yan Cheng was afraid of leaving Liu Chuxue alone in the ward and making her feel awkward, so the moment he finished relieving himself, before his belt was even fastened, he said: "Let's go back."

Guo Zhanrong saw the sweat dripping down from his forehead and couldn't help but sweat for his own deputy battalion commander in his heart.

He thought his own deputy battalion commander was a real man — how badly the back was injured, others didn't know, but he had witnessed it with his own eyes. Every step probably pulled at the wound, yet he stubbornly gritted his teeth and endured without a sound.

Seeing him return, Liu Chuxue hurried to meet him, supporting him back to the bedside.

Originally Fu Yan Cheng had wanted to try sitting on the edge of the bed to eat, but Liu Chuxue didn't agree: "Just lie back down on the bed. In a few more months we'll be getting married — do you want to keep treating me like an outsider?"

Hearing these words, Fu Yan Cheng knew Liu Chuxue had guessed his thoughts, so how could he dare insist any longer: "Alright, I'll listen to you."

Hearing him back down, the expression on Liu Chuxue's face finally eased.

Still with Xiao Guo as the main force, Liu Chuxue lending a little hand on the side, Fu Yan Cheng lay back down on the bed.

Seeing he had sweated quite a bit, Liu Chuxue hurriedly took out her own handkerchief and handed it over: "Wipe the sweat off your face."

Fu Yan Cheng didn't stand on ceremony with her either, and after taking the handkerchief: "Thank you."

Liu Chuxue was right — in a few more months they would be getting married, and there was no need between husband and wife to be so distant, nor any need to stubbornly save face and suffer for it.

Seeing how she had just ached for him, he decided to change his strategy — he could just take advantage of his injury to win Xue'er's sympathy, thereby nurturing the feelings between them and closing the distance between them.

Seeing him obey, Liu Chuxue pulled over a stool, then placed the half lunchbox of chicken soup on the stool: "I prepared a spoon. Make do with it for the next few days — once the scab forms on your back wound, you should be able to sit up and eat. Bear with it for now."

Seeing that heart-aching expression of hers, Fu Yan Cheng's heart felt sweeter than having eaten honey, and only now did he remember to ask: "How did you know I was injured?"

Liu Chuxue then recounted the whole thing from beginning to end: "Your luck is something else too. Fortunately I only went back to Changping — what if I had been on a business trip? How could I have gotten here so quickly then."

Just as he said — how could his own parents have only let Xue'er come over.

Liu Chuxue urged: "Drink the fish soup first before talking."

She really wanted him to drink the fish soup with the spatial pool water as soon as possible — that way he could suffer a little less too.