Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After the contract was signed, Xiao Si was in a very good mood. âTingting, weâve won this battle. Did you see how dark those Chuanqi Gaosha peopleâs faces were when we signed the contract just now? They suffered a loss but canât talk about it. Haha! Oi, letâs go get a drink to celebrate. Luosang needs to come too. Sheâs the one who made this possible. Ah, right, we also need to celebrate now that youâre back on your feet,â he said.
Nian Junting slightly raised his brows, as he, too, wanted to celebrate. He had been staying at home for two months after he was injured, and he was being driven crazy.
However, before he nodded, Luosang said, âMr. Nian, have you forgotten about what the doctor said? You canât drink now.â
Xiao Si grinned and said, âHeâll only drink a little. Itâll be fine.â
âI donât think you should go to any crowded places before youâve recovered completely. If any accidents happened while you are drunk, you might get stuck in bed for another month,â Luosang smiled, saying this flatly. âBut itâll be alright actually. Youâll have someone to sponge-bath you, to help you to the bathroom, and to wheel your chair anyway.â
Nian Juntingâs face turned darker and darker when he heard her. âIâm not going. Letâs do that later,â he said.
âUh...â Xiao Si helplessly gave Luosang a thumbs-up.
He was amazed by Luosang, as she managed to figure out exactly what Nian Junting was afraid of after spending just a couple of weeks with him.
âAlright, Iâll invite other people if you arenât going.â Xiao Si shrugged and said, âTomorrow is the Lantern Festival. Are you going back to your familyâs house?â
âNo. My mom will come tomorrow. I didnât spend time with her during the New Year vacation.â
Xiao Si sighed and said, âAre your parents really not going to make it up? Itâs been so long since that thing happened. Your dad actually does care about your mom.â
Nian Junting snorted, then gave a sneer and said, âHe wouldnât have done it if he had cared about my mom,ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Xiao Si didnât respond after hearing what he said.
Luosang listened to their conversation silently. She guessed that Nian Juntingâs father did something that hurt Murong Cheng before. It was most likely cheating. No wonder some people said that the wealthier a family was, the more problems it would have.
The next day, during the Lantern Festival, Luosang helped Sister Lan make sweet dumplings in the dining room. Nian Xi soon arrived. She watched for a while and found that it was quite fun, so she took part in the dumpling-making with great interest.
The three women chatted while making the dumplings.
âSister Luosang, I think youâve been taking really good care of my brother. I havenât been here for a while, but he can already walk on his own.â
âThe credit is not on me,â said Lusoang smilingly. âMr. Nian is persevering and has no fear towards hardships. Plus, heâs young and strong. Iâve seen many patients like him in the hospital. Many of them couldnât stand the pain during their rehabilitation training, so they didnât do it frequently enough. Consequently, they always needed to spend longer to recover.â
âThatâs true.â Nian Xi raised her head, nodded, and said, âMy brother is good at enduring pain, indeed. Maybe itâs because he has spent his time in the army before. You may not know that my brother used to be a special force soldier. He used to take highly intensive survival training in deserts or grasslands during every season. I donât think anyone ordinary could cope with that kind of hardship. My dad was planning to find a way to transfer him back to the Military Region after he served a couple of years in the army so that he could be a general someday. But he was shot and injured badly near the border during a mission. He had recovered, but wasnât able to take intensive training anymore. Plus, my mom was strongly against him staying in the army, so he retired.â
While speaking, Nian Xi sighed.
Luosang gave a start when hearing that. She had heard that Nian Junting used to serve in the army, but never thought that he was a special force soldier.