Chapter 10 (1/2)
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“Fu Shen!”
A h to his ears He was still conscious, but his body had lost sensation, the sound of the rain following suit like a shadow Soue familiarity in their touch
It was like the warm arms he had been taken into after he had fallen a few days prior, and like the gentle hands upon his back froo
Who was it?
He was carried into a narrow, arid cage, then forced to leave those war hands and that e not enough time to savor it, his temper worsened all of a sudden, and he abruptly reached out to latch onto the other person's collar, viciously pulling it forwards——
Bang
Mr Yan, who hadn't been able to straighten out his back yet, busted into the carriage, his body now pressing down on the Marquis of Jing Ning in a position that coainst public decency And Fu Shen lived up to expectations by returning to his senses from the impact
Four eyes were opposite each other Yan Xiaohan hadn't foreseen that this sick, fainted devil wouldback to life, but he happened to et mad about it
There were still raindrops suspended on his lashes, and with the scattered light in his eyes, it looked like he had been crying Even if he kneell that that wasn't a reality, Mr Yan's fire was extinguished anyways, and he picked hio to my Estate first and have Shen Yi'ce coht?”
He was a little uneasy about Fu Shen's condition; having a handicapped person kneel on stone brick for a shi+chen was truthfully no laughing uely ‘ to not have the strength to speak, and leaned bonelessly against the carriage's wooden wall The capital roads that the buggy took on its way to the Yan Estate were flat, but still he jolted and swayed fro attention for a very long ti to reach out to him As expected, he wasn't even close when the person as dozing off with closed eyes struck out with lightning speed, holding his hand back by the wrist “What are you doing?”
“Are you uncomfortable anywhere?” Yan Xiaohan asks
A trace of perplexity flashes past Fu Shen's face “I'ers were cold as ice while his pal his wrist andthat hand and placing it on the otherup”
It's hot enough to scald
On the contrary, Fu Shen felt nothing He raised his own hand to feel it for himself “But it's not hot?”
“Feelthe back of his head as a fulcru the other “It's nothing…” he replied nonchalantly, “I'll be just fine once I go back to sleep”
This is only going from the palace to the Yan Estate, but his non-treatable, hidden injuries and suffering of the chill fro drenched by the rain has caused a flare-up His tuical overdraft and overall exhaustion, leaves Fu Shen a bit delirious from fever He was out cold when it was ti no matter hoas called With no other option, Yan Xiaohan had to carry him all the way inside
Each and every subordinate here doesn't soto impose Yan Xiaohanfar and above more swift and efficient than the old, weak, and sickly help of the Marquis's Estate It was but awas co with blankets and clothes, as they invited the two to go bathe
Tooto have someone else do it, Yan Xiaohan undressed Fu Shen hile-layer white robe is adhered to hi an almost full view of his lanky, leanly-muscled body What a shahts about it right now, as his full attention was on Fu Shen's legs
The layers upon layers of bandages had since been soaked through It wasn't clear before due to the red clothes obstructing thehastly Yan Xiaohan bent over and picked his around to carefully place him into the wooden tub filled to the briot itself on him with a splash “Marquis… Fu Shen?” he spoke up, not quite able to handle how poorly the ers unintentionally brushed over the side of Fu Shen's neck and pushed his dark hairs to the side, revealing a light-colored scar right next to a h to cause fear in anyone seeing it after the fact, and if it went a bit deeper, this ht not have been able to lie peaceably here in this tub today
Only now did Yan Xiaohan become aware of how many scars were on his body, both old and fresh and never obvious in front of others, engraved into the young Marquis as annals to a bygone ti devil-may-care
He suddenly understood what Fu Shen said – ‘difficult to be complacent'
If he had never trusted the Emperor, never cherished the country within his heart, then why should he take the burden of his heavy arain — are the broad branches of a third-rank Duke's inheritance not able to shelter a wealthy Young Master so he can live a life of luxury?
Yan Xiaohan called in a boyservant fro in his tub “Keep watch and don't let him fall into the water”
A screen was placed within the bathing roo out two spaces Yan Xiaohan went around to the other side, washi+ng hi out his long hair, pulling the hairpin out fro his clothes before he returned to Fu Shen's side The boyservant, having never seen him be so meticulous for someone, was secretly astonished
A piece of formless chaos boiled with Fu Shen'sThe sense of sinking into ater all of a sudden after a freezing cold, rainy dayoff, but someone suddenly propped hiht into his ear “Stick out your ararwood incense gently wafts about, a bit enticing in a way that couldn't be explained
As if bewitched, Fu Shen held up his arms towards him The other clasped an arm around his shoulders with a s with the sound of crashi+ng water, he was taken out of the tub
The instant he separated from the ater, the chill of the air attacked him from every direction, as if he were thrown back into the desolate environ noises, subconsciously attele free in an effort to try to huddle hied headfirst into the water due to the sudden force, but his anger was cut off when he noticed what the other was doing He promptly shook open a blanket and wrapped him up in it “It's okay, don't flail about Are you still cold?”
Fu Shenthat Yan Xiaohan couldn't make out, so he leaned a bit closer “H else as his lih his broere still as tightly scrunched as before, like he was doing everything he could to bear with it “Do you hurt soure out his expression