Chapter 939 - Bathe (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Happy’s one hour physiotherapy in the morning was soon over!

Happy held his cane and took one laborious circle around the hospital’s garden. He returned to his room while drenched in sweat, and he was suddenly faced with an awkward situation. He was covered in sweat, and naturally, he cannot lie on the bed straightaway.

Bathing was a problem!

One and a half years ago, Happy and Xu Yao had already stated clearly that things between them were over.

To Xu Yao, while it was hard for her to wipe Happy’s body while he was unconscious, those days were still not as awkward as it was now.

And Happy also did not react to it, which was something rare of him.

After all, he had lived at the other side for one and a half years, and he kept a distance from Xu Yao, which was why it was rare of him not to react when he suddenly faced the problem of bathing, because his heart had shuddered, and he felt uneasy, as if there were ants crawling all over his skin.

Both people avoided each other’s gazes in the silent room.

“Patient—Oh, you’re still standing here?

“You’re drenched in sweat! Go wash up. Half an hour later, I’ll come and take your temperature.” One nurse saw this scene when she passed by, and once she said those words, she left into the distance.

‘How nosy.’

When Happy noticed Xu Yao stretching her arm over to unbutton his shirt, he did not know whether to be thankful to the nurse or hate her. His mind was just blank at that moment.

He did not even know how he went into the bathroom with Xu Yao.

However, skinship brought them no peace. It was as if there was static in their touches.

There was no bathtub in the hospital.

Happy did not want to have Xu Yao wipe his body like some useless person lying on the bed either.

While they were in the bathroom, Xu Yao had her head lowered while she bit down on her lip, because she did not have the courage to look into Happy’s eyes. Her movements were not as smooth and effective as usual, and sometimes, she will take a long time before she can even unbutton one button.

After taking a long time to remove Happy’s clothes, she did a lot of mistakes while bathing Happy and ended up with a lot of water on her, causing Happy to feel his heart clench when he looked at her.

“Girl, how many times did you get sick over the year?”

Xu Yao was rendered speechless. Her movements stopped for a moment, as if a memory in her mind had been brought up. Tears instantly filled her eyes, but she forced herself to not look up.

Happy had been attracted by Xu Yao’s determined and bright personality in the past, and he naturally knew just how stubborn she was, which also meant that she did not like revealing her own weaknesses in front of others, and he cannot help but reach out to hold Xu Yao’s face.

Xu Yao’s eyes instantly turned red, and at that moment, she cannot hold her tears back anymore.

She endured a lot of things over the past one and a half years.

She had to take care of Happy during lonely nights, and whether Happy needed him or not, she will stay by his side. When she was sick, she could only stay beside Happy, who was unconscious, and she went through hundreds of days like this.

When she heard Happy’s loving words, the tender side in Xu Yao’s heart was affected.

“…I’m sorry.” He held Xu Yao’s tear-stained face, and he looked as if he managed to understand the endless weakness and grievance behind the girl’s tears. His heart clenched in pain, and he quietly held Xu Yao in his arms. “I’m sorry.”

The water from the shower drenched her body, and that water mixed with her tears, which she can no longer hold back. She began weeping in Happy’s bosom.

Happy held Xu Yao and leaned against the wall with great difficulty while in the bathroom. Then, he began gently adjusting the temperature of the shower.

Both stayed close to each other under the warm water.

Happy’s heart ached for Xu Yao, and there was tenderness in him for her as well, but those emotions were barely noticeable in his eyes.

Xu Yao finally got rid of her gentle and fragile appearance. With her tears and the warm embrace around her, she vented the grievance, loneliness, and suffering she had to endure over the past one and a half years.

No one in the large hospital knew about the heartbreaking but similar heartwarming scene in the small room.

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Even though Xu Yao remained as reticent as ever, when she walked out of the bathroom, she seemed to have got out of some sort of trauma, and she became much more high-spirited than before.

When Happy got back on his bed, he was a little exhausted, but when he saw that Xu Yao’s eyes, which were more energetic and lively, he felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

He stared at Xu Yao’s back as she went about her business with a dumb look on his face.

As if she noticed that someone’s gaze was following her movements, Xu Yao turned her head around and asked, “Aren’t you going to train?”

“Hmm?”

It was only then that Happy noticed he had logged off for a long time. He took his breakfast, went through physiotherapy, took a stroll around the garden, took a long time to shower, and let his mind wander. It was now past noon.

To him, who was fighting for time, he was indeed wasting his time by the way he spent it.

However, for the first time, Happy was not in a hurry. He said, “I’ve slept too deeply over the past one and a half years, and I’ve never managed to take a good look at you. Now, I want to observe you a little longer so that I can make up to all that I’ve lost.”

“Kaixin… We’ve already broken up.”

“Then why didn’t you leave me on the street at that time but brought me back and even let me eat, drink, sleep, and do whatever I had to do to stay alive for one and a half years on your bed?”

Xu Yao said nothing.

“I know that I’m not your boyfriend anymore.”

Happy’s words caused Xu Yao’s eyelashes to flutter.

“But you need to know that you’re still my girlfriend.”

Xu Yao looked up.

Happy said seriously, “Yao, you’ve gone through a lot over the past one and a half years. I know that you intend to leave once I get better, but I have to tell you this, I want you to stay by my side for the rest of our lives. Don’t leave, when I get better, you have to support me when we go and pay our respects to our mom. We should have gone and visited her one and a half years ago, and I owe her an explanation as well as a promise, don’t you think?”