Chapter 59 – Caretaking (1/2)

Chapter 59 – Caretaking

Looking Ye Wei’s guilty face, Lin Zi Yan didn’t know how to react. She grabbed her blanket tightly and sighed deeply.

‘Should I really hold a grudge against Ye Wei for this? His intentions were good, and if it wasn’t for him looking after me the injuries I sustained from this accident could have killed me…”

Feeling embarrassed and struggling to stay calm, Lin Zi Yan’s reasonings told her that she should let it go, but her emotions said not to.

“Ye Wei.” The blushing on Zi Yan’s face showed no signs of fading as she raised her head to look Ye Wei in the eyes. She said, “What you saw does not leave this room, okay?”

“My lips are sealed!” Ye Wei nodded heavily seeing as Lin Zi Yan was prepared to bury this incident and move on, but he felt inexplicably unsettled.

“If others learned about what happened today… you might actually get killed!” Lin Zi Yan warned him in a serious tone.

Ye Wei was puzzled why Zi Yan would be so caught up with what happened, and he wondered if she found him untrustworthy. He would never say anything that would ruin her reputation no matter what.

‘He looks pretty cute when he’s confused. Although he does look childish but he is quite a handsome boy…’ Lin Zi Yan’s mind wandered. ‘What am I thinking!?’

The rush of blood to her head didn’t really help her regain her strength. She wanted to get up, but her dantian and her meridians in her limbs were still weak, so she gave up trying once she noticed how floppy her arms and legs were.

“Ye Wei, can you make me some food?” She resorted to asking for help instead.

“I will get right to it!” Ye Wei replied reflexively and ran downstairs to the kitchen. The Ye’s had servants, but they were taught to do these basic things themselves from a young age which made him quite a good cook for someone with his family background.

Shortly after he went down the stairs, Ye Wei came back up holding a tray with a bowl of warm congee and some pills.

While Ye Wei was downstairs cooking, Zi Yan tried to strengthen her body by filling herself with Qi but failed miserably because of her dantian’s injury.

“Zi Yan, let me help you sit yourself up…” The awkwardness remained, but she was incapable of taking care of herself for the time being.

“Yea.” Lin Zi Yan shyly nodded.

Ye Wei put the tray on the nightstand and took her hand to help her up. He then held her in his left arm and fed her one spoonful at a time.

Their bodily contact did not help lighten the atmosphere.

Feeling Ye Wei’s warm palm on her back, his touch sent shivers down her spine. It was one thing knowing he saw and touched her body when she was barely conscious, but quite another to experience it fully awake. While she was aware that he was not strong enough to protect her, she had never felt more secure than right now leaning on his chest and feeling his heartbeat.

Right now Lin Zi Yan was just a teenager caught in the moment, and she had no idea this memory would stay in her heart and revisit her more often than she could ever imagine.

Ye Wei was very careful when feeding her. He blew on each spoonful of food to make sure it wasn’t too hot. While he was unquestionably doing a decent job at being attentive, he couldn’t help but shift his attention to Zi Yan’s wonderful scent and her exposed body through the opening of the silk gown.