Chapter 133 Cowardice (1/2)
When he mentioned the word ”repay”, his face was smiling.
She heard too many instances of the story ”The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, so Xiang Wan held reservations and was skeptical of his warmth for fear of being teased again.
”What do you want?” Her tone was especially cold.
Bai Muchuan chuckled. ”As you wish. I can accept your marriage pledge.”
”… Nonsense!” Xiang Wan rolled her eyes at him and felt goosebumps all over. She took the scissors calmly, took his hand, and started to cut his sleeve roughly. She cut off the torn portions which was around his elbow, dapped the wounds with alcohol, and gently tore it open…
”Tsk!” When the alcohol touched the wound, he furrowed his eyebrows.
”You can really act!” Xiang Wan now more or less knew some background of his. She believed that since he used to be from the commando unit, he shouldn't be bothered with such trivial injuries. Thus, she would not believe his exaggerated expression. ”Less tricks, more sincerity. Only then can we still be friends.”
Bai Muchuan lowered his head and looked at her carefully cleaning his wound.
She had delicate, pretty facial features; slender white neck; eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings; straight, black hair; and purity like the first breath of fresh air when one walked into the mountains, far away from the haze in a city…
He could not take his eyes off her.
He paused for a while, unable to pull away his sight from her face. ”How am I insincere?”
”Everywhere!”
”Teacher Xiang, you can't generalize a person from a one-sided point of view!”
”Shush—” Xiang Wan raised her head and made a hush gesture. ”Knock it off,” she said slowly, ”I've developed immunity to your words!”
”Oh no!”
Bai Muchuan suddenly took ahold of her arm.
”What are you doing?” Xiang Wan's hair stood on end due to the physical contact and stared at him sternly.
”But you're not immune?” The corners of Bai Muchuan's lips turned upward. ”I can clearly see that you have a strong reaction to my words…”
”…”
As a matter of fact, Xiang Wan had carefully analyzed the events over the past few days.
Bai Muchuan's sudden apathy was certainly strange. If he wasn't a schizophrenic with bipolar disorder, then the reason he gave was the most reasonable explanation.
Unfortunately, there is a saying that goes like this: once hurt, twice shy.
She took a look at Bai Muchuan and continued to ”repay” her savior by treating the wounds.
When a woman and a man were alone in a house, the woman would be no match against the man if she continued to retort and argue with him.
Clever women should know when to back down!
Under the silence, she cleaned the wounds on his arms, and rubbed only a little alcohol upon his strong request.
So all that remained was the knee injury.
Xiang Wan looked at the trousers he was wearing and frowned. ”Do you want to cut this as well?”
Bai Muchuan raised an eyebrow with a straight face. ”If you cut it, I'll have no more trousers to wear. Or, I'll just take it off?”
Xiang Wan: ”…”
Her cheeks immediately turned red and glared at him fiercely.
”Will you die if you stop joking around?”
”You have very complicated thinking,” chuckled Bai Muchuan. ”Can't you remove the unnecessary thoughts? If you clean my wounds, you're no different from a nurse or a doctor. Medical care does not discriminate by age or gender. The patients do not mind whether a male or female doctor or a male or female obstetrician is treating them. Moreover, I only have one knee to get treated.”
Sounds so reasonable!
He knew how to argue to his advantage.
Xiang Wan was thinking if this guy were to write a novel, it would definitely be popular.
A thought suddenly flashed inside her head. She grunted a laugh as if she thought of something funny and placed the scissors on the coffee table. Then, she got up, pointed at the first aid box, and glanced at him from the corner of her eye. ”Due to your poor behavior, I don't want to help you anymore. You do it yourself!”
Bai Muchuan: ”…”
This little woman has a temper too, he thought. She went inside her room after saying those words.
”Whether you want to take off your trousers or whether you want to treat your wounds, it's none of my business!”
Anyway, there were only slight injuries on his knee. She had already treated his wounds on his right arm. How could he not able to treat his knee injuries himself?
Xiang Wan did not give him a chance to joke around. She went inside her bedroom directly and closed the door. Then she turned on her laptop and continue to write her story.
However, although she was sitting in front of her laptop, her heart was not with her.
No matter how indifferent she might have portrayed, that could not erase the traces he had left inside her heart.
Bai Muchuan's influence on her was different from any other ordinary guy…
She sat in a daze for a while as she thought about her relationship with him as well as the important sentence he had said earlier—that he was trying to protect her. She also wondered if there really was a ”manipulator” behind the cases, and what kind of person was that…
Not sure how long it was when he knocked on her bedroom door.
”Xiang Wan.”
His voice always sounded pleasant to the ear.
Xiang Wan turned to look at her bedroom door.
”What's up?”
”I'm done.”
”Since you're done, you should go back now.”
With the door in between them, Xiang Wan could control her emotions easier, and her tone was so apathetic that it sounded unfeeling.
Hence, that door did not feel like a door but a layer of protection instead…
”I can't.” Bai Muchuan sighed.
Xiang Wan was taken aback. ”How come?”
”It hurts.”
You're acting again! Xiang Wan criticized him inside her head.
They were not serious wounds. How could it be so severe?
”It's true!” Bai Muchuan's voice sounded weak and pathetic. ”I'm feeling dizzy, my chest feels stuffy, and I even feel nauseous.”
The way he put it--she felt that he was just pretending.
Xiang Wan recalled the critical moment when he saved her. Besides seeing him land on the ground, she could not recall anything else. However, from her angle, there was a high possibility that the back of his head could have hit the ground…
D*rn! Could he really have hit his head or something?
Concussion!
A horrible word popped out in her head, making her dazed for a second.
Those social news about ”he was fine when he fell, but he died suddenly afterward”. One by one, they started to appear in her head. Xiang Wan did not even hesitate. She got up quickly and opened the door.
”I have to bring you to the hospital…”
But she suddenly paused when she hadn't even finished her words!
Oh heavens! Is Bai Muchuan a devil?
He had cut his trousers and shirt, transforming them into a set of very harmonious and fashionable leisure wear. The exposed muscles of his arms and calves accentuated his masculinity.
Xiang Wan was at a loss at where she should look.
Getting along with men was her weakness.
Even though she had read a lot of romance fiction, they could only offer advice in the theoretical aspect. She would still need practical experience to order improve in this area.
”You… Are you cold?”
”I'm cold!” Bai Muchuan nodded his head. ”I'm dizzy too…”
”Then go to the hospital.”
”No!”
”But…”
”I want to take a rest.”
Xiang Wan pointed at the sofa, but he pointed at her bed.
”I want to borrow that!”
What? Xiang Wan blushed again.
”Bai Muchuan, you're deliberate, right?”
”Xiang Wan, do you have compassion for your fellow comrade?”
”…”
Xiang Wan thought she must have been brainwashed. Otherwise, why did the moment when she saw his gentle line of sight, she would think of him as a hurt little kitten waiting to be loved? She felt like giving him a pat and could not bring herself to chase him out of the house?
”The sofa is the same as the bed!” she persisted, speaking in a weak voice. For the sake of compassion for her fellow comrade, she explained, ”I'm not used to let others sleep on my bed!”
”Liar!” Bai Muchuan looked at her coldly.
When did she lie? Xiang Wan did mean it.
Bai Muchuan immediately exposed her. ”Didn't Fang Yuanyuan sleep on your bed?”
”…” Xiang Wan almost broke out in laughter hearing that. ”How can this be the same? She's a female.”
”I'm a patient! Can't you cast the gender aside?”
”…”
Xiang Wan was speechless.
She counted herself unlucky but still insisted on her rule.
Bai Muchuan grunted with a grim expression. He did not insist further and let her help him over to the sofa and lied on it lazily. His eyes were on Xiang Wan the whole time though. That focused gaze was as though imprinted on her. Xiang Wan's face was burning, her heart was racing, and her body felt numb…
”Bai Muchuan, you must have had a lot of girlfriends right?” she blurted a question.
Xiang Wan was really curious, even though this might not be a good time to ask.
”Hm?” Bai Muchuan raised an eyebrow. ”Why do you say that?”
”You're too experienced. You can totally write a guide book about how to flirt with girls!”
Bai Muchuan's thin lips formed a straight line.
”I've never eaten pork doesn't mean I've never seen pigs run?”
Hur! Xiang Wan did not believe him. ”I don't believe you!” She looked at him coldly. ”Liar.”
”You either think of all men as bad eggs when it's not, and think of men as good people when you should think otherwise! Aren't you silly?” Bai Muchuan patted on the sofa beside him as a gesture for her to sit down and talk. After Xiang Wan rejected his request, he rubbed his temples and laughed in a somewhat muffled manner.
”Men are not that bad… But men are not that good, either. Even a wonderful man like me, those information that I should know, I have already learnt them ages ago from the sea of information in the internet…”
Xiang Wan felt that those words did make some sense.
She did not retort but asked in a straight face, ”So your first teacher is?”
Bai Muchuan laughed meaningfully. ”It's you, Teacher Xiang!”
Xiang Wan gritted her teeth. ”Shameless!”
She wanted to leave, but Bai Muchuan grabbed her wrist in time.
He was like a big, lazy pet lying on her sofa, innocent and harmless. But his gaze was intrusively domineering, somewhat conflicted and somewhat aggressive as he held on to her.