"Relax, I just want to see if your fever has subsided. I won't harm you," he explained in a faint soothing tone. He rested his palm on her forehead, with his other palm touching his own forehead.
After a few seconds, he dropped his palms and heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness."
Jiang Yao suspected that when he knew about her fever, he must have rushed back from the railway station like greased lightning. Perhaps he took a ride to the town and ran home all the way. She felt his palm sweating as he felt her forehead. The temperature of his palm was so warm that it could burn her forehead.
She chided herself in her mind. "Jiang Yao, were you iron-hearted? Or did you even have a heart at all? How could you have pushed such a gentleman away and avoided him at all costs? How could you have tortured him with emotional abuse for eleven years?"
"Lu Xingzhi..." Jiang Yao called out his name gently. After a few seconds of silence, she stretched out her arms and abruptly hugged the man standing before her.
Her sudden motion caught Lu Xingzhi by surprise. He was transfixed like a mannequin when she wrapped her arms around him in an embrace. He stood upright and straightened his waist like a pole as Jiang Yao embraced him. He instinctively wanted to help support her waist but his arms halted midair.
Xingzhi did
had been married for a year but Lu Xingzhi had never been embraced by Jiang Yao before, nor had she been dependent on him. Lu Xingzhi could sense that she was always keeping a distance from him like she
abruptly as she did, he immediately wondered if she was unhappy in the house. Did she stumble upon something that upset her?
argument?" Lu Xingzhi asked, sounding as soft as
been very angry and had gone against his decision, thinking Jiang
You just take her nagging like a passing wind, so you won't feel so bad. I'll talk to Mom later, don't worry." Lu Xingzhi didn't have a mild temper from a general perspective, presumably because
it's not about that," Jiang
Guizhi, Lu Xingzhi's mother, didn't really fancy her daughter-in-law, but
smoothened Lu Xingzhi's anxious frown slightly. If she was willing to talk to him, it meant that it wasn't
"Then, what's the matter?"
Lu Xingzhi and looked at him. She found it amusing to see him standing awkwardly with an overwhelmed expression that she managed an apologetic smile. She wondered how much