Chapter 215: I just can't let you get me easily

Xie Qin loved cleanliness and had a severe obsession with it. His burn wounds hadn't healed yet, and he couldn't stand not washing for a day.

Shen Li used her extra free time at noon to help him wipe his body in the bathroom.

In front of the dry-wet separated vanity, Xie Qin washed her hands for her. The scorching temperature on Shen Li's face hadn't faded yet, and she avoided looking at him. After washing her hands and drying them with a towel, Shen Li quickly turned and walked out of the bathroom.

"Come over, I'll apply medicine for you."

"Alright then." Xie Qin was oily-mouthed, following behind her, his steps slow as he walked to the sofa and sat down.

He wasn't wearing a shirt on his upper body and only had black shorts on his lower body. Shen Li sat beside him, using a cotton swab to apply medicine to his wounds: "If you want to shower or wipe your body, just call me. Don't do it yourself, your wounds are still in the recovery period and can't get wet."

Over the past four days, Xie Qin's burn wounds had scabbed over and were recovering quite well.

"You're busy with your studies, how could I dare to trouble you? I'll just do it myself. Anyway, I'm heavy-handed, so if it hurts, it's me who hurts, it doesn't affect anyone else. A little pain is fine." Xie Qin said lazily, his tone carrying a bit of resentment, sounding a bit aggrieved.

The reason for the grievance was that Shen Li had been called away by a senior from the medical school yesterday to help. Just because she didn't apply medicine for him that one time at noon, Xie Qin had held it against her.

Shen Li carefully applied the medicine for him. After finishing one spot, she helped him blow on it, stopped her movements, lifted her eyes, and smiled at him, saying something nice: "You're hurt, I feel bad too."

Xie Qin sat a bit higher than Shen Li. Usually, when talking to her, he had to lower his body. This time, it was as if he bestowed a glance upon her, lowering his eyes to look at her nonchalantly. He let out an "Oh," and said, "Didn't see it."

Xie Qin really had no temper in front of her and couldn't bear to be fierce at all. He was just being a bit unreasonable, holding onto the fact that she didn't come to apply medicine for him yesterday.

Shen Li lowered her head and continued to apply medicine, a bit too lazy to deal with him.

Seeing she didn't speak, Xie Qin leaned back, his whole body leaning lazily, his arm stretched long and resting on the edge of the sofa, his fingertips tapping as he stared at her, raising his eyebrows: "Not talking? Looks like our feelings have faded."

"..."

Then he sighed again, "Xu Zhouyuan was right!"

Shen Li asked curiously: "What did he say?"

Xie Qin met her eyes and said, slowing his pace, drawing out his tone: "He said... I just can't let you get me easily. If you get me too easily, you won't cherish it."

"I didn't feel it before, but now I think he's quite right."

"I was just too easy to get, like a head of cabbage."

Shen Li couldn't help but laugh out loud. Xie Qin's way of speaking was something she really found hard to respond to. No matter when, she was a very serious person; she didn't joke, and others didn't joke with her.

Most of the time, except for Xie Qin, she didn't know how to respond to his words. After turning it over in her mind, she finally said to him: "You're not a cabbage."

"Hmm?" Xie Qin raised an eyebrow: "Then what am I..."

Shen Li also joked with him: "A fish I'm raising in my pond."

Xie Qin's eyes narrowed dangerously: "Shen Li... your courage is growing! You even dare to raise fish!"

Seeing he was about to get angry, Shen Li immediately smoothed his feathers: "... I'm only raising you as one."

This immediately coaxed Master Xie well.

"Hmph~ You're sensible!"

Xie Qin suddenly thought of something, turned his head to look at her and said: "When we were moving, I saw a bottle of medicine in your study drawer. There was no label on it, what was it for?"

Shen Li threw the cotton swab into the trash can, her movements pausing: "..."

"I brought the medicine for you, it's in the nightstand drawer in the bedroom."

Shen Li lowered her eyelashes, trembling slightly, and said to him naturally: "It's for stress relief, my studies are too intense usually."

Xie Qin nodded thoughtfully: "Rest when you're tired. Don't push yourself too hard. If you really can't hold on, then... don't study anymore."

In terms of learning, no matter what she did, Xie Qin supported her.

But the medicine in that bottle was already bottoming out; she must have taken it quite often.

No matter what, Xie Qin didn't want her to be too tired.

Shen Li: "Hmm."

It was agreed that they would visit Xie Qin's parents on May Day, but in the end, it didn't happen. Shen Li sent a message to tell her, and Xue Jingshu didn't say anything, just kept sending her messages, constantly asking about her mother's situation.

The words in the text all revealed genuine concern.

Shen Li felt really guilty about Xie Qin's injury; this was the second time... he was injured because of her.

Sometimes, she really wondered if she was Xie Qin's nemesis.

Why did she always bring him harm?

Every time he was injured, she couldn't do anything for him, even if she could bear his pain on herself.

Later, Xie Qin's mother also sent a huge pile of supplements to Yu Lizhen, all kinds of ginseng, velvet antler, cordyceps, and so on.

Shen Li didn't want to accept them, but since they were already sent, it wasn't good to return them.

Yu Lizhen also accepted them under Shen Li's persuasion. She never liked owing favors and thought about calculating the price and returning some gifts.

But after she estimated the price, she found that these things were worth at least one or two hundred thousand, not cheap goods at all, and some were even impossible to buy on the market.

Shen Li had been living with her mother these days, and she could clearly feel that since that fire, her mother had begun to slowly accept Xie Qin. Even if she didn't say it, her behavior... had changed a lot.

Just the second day after returning from the hospital, Yu Lizhen stewed pig's trotter soup early in the morning and asked Shen Li to bring it to him. She was really surprised at the time.

Yu Lizhen still stubbornly said: "I accidentally cooked too much."

For several days in a row, Yu Lizhen found ways to boil soup for Xie Qin.

Today, she boiled bone soup, and Xie Qin gave her face, drinking it all without leaving a drop.

At noon, the sun was bright, and the temperature was just right, neither cold nor hot.

Xie Qin sent Shen Li back to school, holding hands as they walked on the road. He lowered his head to look at her and asked uncertainly: "So what does Mom think now?"

"Has she accepted me? Or... is she preparing to observe me some more?"

Shen Li met his eyes and curled her lips: "Mom will understand sooner or later."

"..."

"Xie Qin... we have a long way to go!"

Our future days are still very long, we can take it slow.

Use a long time to prove to everyone that we... are destined.

The most correct thing Shen Li had ever done in her life was coming to Wuchuan, coming to Chengde University, and meeting someone who loved her as his own life.

Xie Qin had never said the three words "I love you" to Shen Li.

But everything he did told everyone clearly and plainly that Xie Qin loved Shen Li.

Loved her enough to change for her.

Loved her enough to not even want his own life. ===== CHAPTER 216 =====