"......"
"Or can you touch yourself here while hanging?"
"......"
"Surely you wouldn't be hanging while someone touches you here..."
Xiao Jin Yu took a deep breath, desperately wanting to grab her and throw her onto the bed to strip her bare, but the negligible strength in his body only allowed him to entertain the thought...
"Chu Chu, I've never hanged myself..."
"Oh..." Chu Chu stared thoughtfully at the already swollen and erect part, seemingly oblivious to Xiao Jin Yu's trembling elsewhere. "This is the first time I've seen someone thinking about this while hanging. How interesting!"
Xiao Jin Yu was going mad, no longer caring about dignity. "Chu Chu... either take off your clothes or let go..."
Chu Chu froze for a moment, stared at the object in her hand for a while longer, then made matters worse by kneading it a couple more times, causing Xiao Jin Yu to nearly cry out as his body shuddered violently. "Wang Ye... is using my hand okay?"
Xiao Jin Yu's entire body was burning, his mind completely muddled. He no longer cared what she used, as long as she would quickly spare his pitiful body. "Fine..."
He thought that would be the end of it, but no sooner had he said "fine" than Chu Chu immediately let go, pulled up the blanket to wrap his feverish body, deftly rolled out of bed, put on her shoes, grabbed her clothes, and ran out. "Wang Ye, wait for me! I'll be right back!"
"......!"
Chu Chu soon returned, excitedly calling out for Wang Ye as soon as she entered the room. Though Xiao Jin Yu had been tormented by her and was wide awake, he kept his eyes tightly shut, ignoring her.
After calling his name several times without a response, Chu Chu couldn't help but touch Xiao Jin Yu's forehead. "Wang Ye, what's wrong?"
Xiao Jin Yu didn't even bat an eyelid. "Dead..."
Chu Chu burst out laughing. "Dead people can still talk?"
"I'm a ghost..." Xiao Jin Yu weakly opened his eyes to look at the grinning girl, full of resentment. "A wronged ghost."
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. He had missed her so much while bedridden with illness that he was nearly delirious. Finally having the chance to bring her over, who would have thought she'd pounce on him like a hungry wolf, strip him bare, only to study corpses using his body...
All his pent-up longing had been reduced to ashes by her little hand. Was there anyone in the world more wronged than him?
Chu Chu's eyes curved with laughter as she climbed onto the bed, voluntarily stripped herself bare, slipped under the covers, shamelessly pressed against Xiao Jin Yu's still feverish chest, and reached down to touch him.
The tormented part was still throbbing. Xiao Jin Yu struggled to restrain the soft, delicate yet utterly wicked hand, his face dark. "Explain first... where did you go?"
"I went to investigate the case! Wang Ye, it was really helpful this time!"
"Explain clearly..."
"Wang Ye, I suspect those three people didn't hang themselves willingly."
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Xiao Jin Yu was startled by this, and in his momentary distraction, the restless little hand broke free from his grasp.
"Chu Chu..."
Looking at Xiao Jin Yu's increasingly dazed eyes, Chu Chu asked with complete seriousness, "Wang Ye... do you want to die right now?"He wasn't just thinking about it—he'd been thinking about it ever since that moment earlier...
"Wang Ye, any man who wants to die at a time like this must either have something wrong with his mind or his body."
Xiao Jin Yu's forehead darkened.
The only woman still thinking about dead people at a time like this... must be his wife!
"Chu Chu..."
Rather than being tormented by her like this...
Xiao Jin Yu took a deep breath and looked sincerely at Chu Chu's serious face, "My stomach hurts..."
"Ah?" Chu Chu was startled, immediately releasing her grip and looking nervously at Xiao Jin Yu's face that kept shifting between red and pale, "Does it hurt badly?"
Suppressing the urge to pull her into his arms, Xiao Jin Yu furrowed his brows and weakly reached out to rest his hand on Chu Chu's slender arm, his voice trembling slightly, "Help me prepare the medicine..."
"I'll go right now!"
When Chu Chu returned with the medicine, Xiao Jin Yu lay pale on the bed, a fine layer of sweat covering his forehead. He looked completely exhausted, startling Chu Chu. "Wang Ye, are you alright?"
Xiao Jin Yu shook his head slightly.
Chu Chu touched his forehead—it was burning hot. "Ah! Wang Ye, you have a fever!"
"It's nothing..."
He'd been running high fevers every night these past days, to the point where not having one felt unusual... Earlier, his entire focus had been on her, and with all her antics, he hadn't noticed how uncomfortable the fever really was. In truth, he was already physically drained, and the moment he relaxed just now...
He hadn't entirely lied about the stomach pain either. The meals at the Imperial Examination Hall weren't particularly careful, and his stomach condition had been acting up for two or three days. The medicine wasn't working—he'd vomit severely after eating anything and could only keep down some plain congee.
Chu Chu fed him the medicine spoon by spoon, but he vomited everything up immediately after drinking it. His stomach twisted painfully as if being wrung by coarse ropes, his thin body trembling like a leaf in the wind.
This scene had played out many times over the past few days, but what was different now was that the person he longed for was holding his weak body, using her warm, soft hands to gently soothe that unbearable suffering.
For him, no one but her could ease this pain.
As the pain subsided, Xiao Jin Yu looked apologetically at the clothes Chu Chu had soiled with his vomit. "I'm sorry..."
Chu Chu pouted slightly and carefully helped him lie back down. "You promised back at the Liangzhou military camp that you'd take good care of your health. Why do you always break your word... I don't believe you anymore. From now on, wherever you go, I'll go with you. Look how much thinner you've gotten in just a few days..."
"I'm sorry..."
Chu Chu gently brushed aside the hair stuck to his cheeks with cold sweat and placed a soft kiss on his pale lips. "Rest for a while. I'll stay with you."
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