Chapter 57 - Your Techniques are Bad (2/2)

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After dinner, Adrian brought the plate out to be washed in the dishwasher. When he came back, he saw that Zhong Yan had already turned on his terminal and was looking at the news on the virtual screen.

Adrian pulled a chair over to the bed and urged him, “You still haven’t recovered yet. You should rest. I’ll handle everything, Intron is also working on things your side.”

“I should still handle it by myself. It’ll help distract me. It…” Zhong Yan’s face was even paler than usual, but he tried to put on a weak smile, “It hurts a little right now.”

If it was able to make Zhong Yan take the initiative to say it was painful, then it was definitely unbearable. Adrian instantly felt restless and he wished he could suffer the pain in his place. With some hesitation, he said, “Should I give you a dose of your painkillers now? This needle should be tomorrow’s dose, but I can call and ask Wei Lan if we can administer it earlier.”

“No need…I can still bear it.” Zhong Yan was gasping lightly as he asked Adrian, “Where are you sleeping tonight?”

“I won’t be sleeping, I’ll watch over you. If I get tired, I can just rest here by your bed for a while.”

Zhong Yan wanted to say something, but Adrian thought he wanted to persuade him to get proper sleep upstairs, so he quickly interjected, “It’s fine, I was sleeping during the day before you woke up too, so I’m not tired.”

“That’s not it…” Zhong Yan pursed his lips. He thought that saying this straight out may be too bold, but—Adrian said it before, they were already married. They were legal partners so it should be normal. He kept trying to mentally prep himself through, but he still hesitated a little when he said, “I wanted to ask whether you wanted to…uh…I mean, if you’re willing, you could share a bed with me.”

Adrian was surprised. “Really? I was worried I’d bump into you in my sleep—Oh right, since I’m going to be up watching over you anyway, can I get in now?”

Zhong Yan nodded. Adrian had always been the proactive type. He carefully moved Zhong Yan inside a little. Normally, Zhong Yan was light enough that he could easily lift one of him in each hand, but he was too afraid that moving him too quickly might open Zhong Yan’s wound again. He went back and forth, moving his head and legs slowly each time, and every time he did, he would ask him if he had hurt him. After going through this process for a few minutes, even the slowpoke Zhong Yan couldn’t stand it anymore and said, “You don’t have to be so careful, the surgical techniques these days aren’t like what they were thousands of years ago. Just a few days is enough to fully recover.”

“That’s other people, do you know how bad your physical qualities are? There’s no way you can recover in less than half a month.” While saying that, Adrian crawled in bed and helped Zhong Yan fix his blanket before holding both him and the blanket in his arms. “What’s more, of course I have to be careful. You’re my only precious baby, who am I going to cry to if I break something?”

Zhong Yan was amused. “How am I going to look at the news if you wrap my arms up in the blanket?”

“Don’t look at it anymore. I’ll help you get distracted by chatting with you.” Adrian said, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know. Oh right, I actually do have something I need to tell you. I had Wei Lan remove…the scar under your ribs.”

Zhong Yan was stunned, then his complexion changed—That’s right, his scar! All those doctors saw it when they were doing the operation…

“Don’t worry, I know the reason why you never had it removed was because you couldn’t bear to have anyone see that scar, but your wound broke up that scar yesterday so the words couldn’t be seen. I asked Wei Lan to get rid of the remnants as well…From now on, nobody will ever find out.” Adrian brushed his fingers through his soft hair. “Since you’ve already had your revenge, just let the past stay in the past. You have me now, we can make new memories together, and cover all the bad ones.”

Zhong Yan moved his hands from under the blanket to touch his ribs through his shirt. There once was a shameful mark there. It wasn’t as if he didn’t want to get rid of it, but he was too ashamed to let anyone see it, even if it was a surgeon. Even two days ago, the night his body merged with Adrian’s for the very first time, he felt so embarrassed by that mark on his body that he didn’t even dare to take off his shirt under the lights. Right now, the brand that had followed him for half his life, forcing him to constantly recall his inferior childhood and shame was completely gone.

With his body as a shield, he saved Adrian’s life, and also gave himself a new lease in life.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry, sweetheart.” Adrian could see the corners of his eyes getting red and was worried he’d cry. Wei Lan had warned him that he shouldn’t be stimulated these two days, so he tried to tease him on purpose. “Hey, so does this mean we don’t have to turn off the lights in the future?”

As expected, he managed to make Zhong Yan laugh. “Now that you mentioned that, I’ve got questions for you too. Have your former partners never said anything to you?”

Former partners? What partners? Suddenly, Adrian recalled how he boasted to Zhong Yan that he had “tons of experience”. He wanted to explain that that was actually his first time, but he still wanted to listen to what Zhong Yan wanted to say before that. He was confident that it had to be a compliment, so he asked with pleasure, “Said what about me? That I’m big?”

Zhong Yan was stunned by his straightforward self-praise and gave Adrian a grumpy shove. “No! I’ve read the books and it’s reasonable to say if that if properly done, both parties should experience great pleasure. But that day…Well, uh…has anyone ever told you that…your techniques are bad?”