Ye Wan's toes had frostbite. Her once fair and delicate toes were now red, swollen, and clumsy. She quickly said, "I can do it myself."
"Don't move," Gu Yunting held her ankle and insisted on applying the medicine himself. He squeezed the medicine onto his fingertips and carefully smeared it onto all her toes.
"Give me your hand." Gu Yunting disinfected his hands with alcohol and extended them to her.
Ye Wan could only obediently give him her hands. Compared to the frostbite on her feet, the frostbite on her hands was more severe, especially the crack that had opened today. The bleeding had stopped, but it was still shocking to look at.
Gu Yunting had never seen such hands. He was a man, and even in winter, he wouldn't feel cold just wearing a shirt, so he didn't understand what it felt like for a girl's hands to be frostbitten.
"Does it hurt?" he looked up at her and asked, his voice a little hoarse.
Ye Wan immediately shook her head, "It doesn't hurt, it's just a little itchy."
When it heals, it becomes itchy. She didn't dare to scratch, so she could only endure it. It was more unbearable than pain.
"Sleep," Gu Yunting put the things down on the bedside table, reached out, and turned off the light. Ye Wan immediately moved aside and burrowed into the covers.
Gu Yunting also lay down, reached out, and pulled her into his arms. Ye Wan held up her hands, afraid of the medicine getting on him.
"Put them down," the man frowned. He disliked her cautiousness. He wanted her to be more relaxed around him.
Ye Wan then lowered her hands. She looked up with her small head at his handsome profile and said, "Thank you, thank you for being willing to save my brother."
"You don't need to thank me. I'm not doing it for free. You must fulfill the condition I set." Gu Yunting felt that the exchange he proposed was fair.
"Still, thank you, Gu Yunting. I will try my best to be a good wife," Ye Wan blinked her eyes and earnestly promised him.
Gu Yunting's heart felt as if it had been pinched, and ripples spread outward. He could hardly believe that this little thing would earnestly tell him she would be a good wife. Da Feng Novel Network
"Mmm," he suppressed the surging emotions in his chest and replied in a low voice. He felt his reaction was too bland, so he added, "I believe you."
Ye Wan smiled shyly.
"I will also try my best to be a good husband," Gu Yunting stroked her head, his fingertips slowly tracing her cheek.
Ye Wan nodded, "I believe you too."
Gu Yunting found her current docility somewhat unreal. Not long ago, she had threatened to die to leave him, refusing to come back even if it meant death. Today, she was lying obediently beside him, making promises.
Ye Wan felt even more embarrassed under his gaze. She changed the subject, "I heard giving birth is very painful. I'm afraid of pain."
Gu Yunting genuinely wanted her to have a child for him, but he had never considered the pain of childbirth. Hearing her say it, he began to think about a girl nurturing a life, that life staying in her belly for ten months. It was said that the pain of childbirth was equivalent to breaking all of a person's ribs at once?
Thinking of this, he tightened his embrace around the little thing. He couldn't let her experience that kind of pain.
"Don't be afraid, I'll find another way, so you don't have to feel pain," Gu Yunting promised her in a hoarse voice, his hand unconsciously stroking her flat abdomen.
Ye Wan blushed a little, "I've checked. There's no way to avoid pain completely. Even with a C-section, it's still very painful when you get out of bed and walk! But it's okay, I can endure it."