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Chapter 164 Help Me Take a Bath

The ward fell silent again.

But this time, the atmosphere was completely different.

An ambiguous feeling, hard to define, quietly spread through the air.

Tang Wei lay on the bed, turned to her side, looking at Ning Xiuyang's profile, her heart pounding.

My brother isn't angry...

He still cares about me...

She savored the kiss from before, her face burning hot, but a feeling of unprecedented sweetness and peace welled up inside her.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps sensing her gaze, Ning Xiuyang put down his phone and turned to look at her.

Eyes facing each other.

Tang Wei blushed instantly, like a thief caught red-handed. She wanted to look away, but couldn't bear to.

Ning Xiuyang smiled and extended his hand to her: "Why are your hands so cold?"

Tang Wei was stunned for a moment, and as if possessed, she placed her hand in his warm and large palm.

Ning Xiuyang naturally took her hand and then put her cold little hand into his coat pocket.

"Wouldn't this make it warmer?"

"Um……"

Tang Wei's heart was completely melted.

She looked at their clasped hands and felt the continuous warmth emanating from his palm, as if it could warm her heart.

She didn't say anything, but silently tightened her fingers and gripped him tightly.

Inside the ward, the afterglow of the setting sun streamed in through the window, casting long shadows of the two people.

Silence speaks louder than words.

Just then, Tang Wei suddenly felt something strange.

She twitched her nose, and the blush on her pretty face instantly spread to her ears.

She whispered, with a hint of shyness and pleading in her voice:

"Brother... I feel like I'm sweating... It's sticky and uncomfortable..."

Her voice grew softer and softer until it was almost inaudible.

"I...I want to take a shower..."

"Want to take a shower?"

Upon hearing this, Ning Xiuyang subconsciously glanced at her left hand, which was receiving an IV drip, and frowned slightly: "You're so weak right now, and you're on an IV drip, how are you going to wash?"

His question made Tang Wei blush even more, and her voice was so soft it was like a mosquito's buzz: "But...but I feel so sticky all over, I was all sweaty from crying...it's so uncomfortable..."

As she spoke, she shifted her body slightly, as if to prove that what she said was true.

Ning Xiuyang's heart stirred when he saw her shy and pitiful appearance.

She was crying her eyes out and experiencing intense emotional fluctuations just now, so it's no surprise she was covered in a cold sweat. It's normal for girls to feel sticky and uncomfortable, as they like to keep themselves clean.

"Then when the nurse comes, should we have her help you wipe yourself down?" Ning Xiuyang suggested.

"No...no..." Tang Wei blurted out, shaking her head vigorously. "I...I don't want others..."

She couldn't continue speaking halfway through her sentence; she just lowered her head, clutching the corner of the blanket, looking as if she was about to cry.

Ning Xiuyang understood immediately.

For a shy girl who hasn't even graduated from school yet, having a stranger wipe her body is indeed a very embarrassing and awkward thing.

Especially someone like Tang Wei, who seems strong but is actually shy.

He sighed, his tone softening: "Alright, alright, if you don't want it, then don't. But what can we do? We can't just keep putting up with this, can we?"

A brief silence fell over the ward.

Tang Wei lowered her head, her fingers nervously twisting together, her mind in turmoil.

Say?

Or should I not say anything?

If I tell him, what will he think of me? Will he think I'm... seducing him?

But it's really hard not to say anything... Besides, we just kissed, what could be more outrageous than that?

Her mind was a mess, and the thought of kissing Ning Xiuyang on her own made her face burn.

Ning Xiuyang didn't urge her, but just watched her leisurely.

He wanted to see just how tough this cooked duck's beak could be.

Finally, after a long internal struggle, Tang Wei seemed to have made up her mind and suddenly raised her head.

Her eyes were red-rimmed, her gaze filled with a desperate resolve and deep shame. She bit her lower lip hard, her voice trembling, almost squeezed out from between her teeth.

"elder brother……"

"Um?"

"Could you... could you..."

Her words caught in her throat, and her face was so red it looked like it could bleed.

"Can I do what?" Ning Xiuyang teased her deliberately, a mischievous smile playing on his lips.

"You...you..." Tang Wei was so anxious that tears were about to fall. Finally, she steeled herself, closed her eyes, and shouted with all her might:

"Could you... help me wash?!"

After shouting those words, she felt completely exhausted, as if all her strength had been drained away. She was so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into on the spot.

The entire ward fell into a deathly silence once again.

Ning Xiuyang's smile also froze.

What did he hear?

Help her... take a bath?

He admitted that he had indeed had a tiny bit of unhealthy thought just now, but it was just a fleeting thought.

He never expected that Tang Wei would bring it up herself!

Is this girl... serious?

He looked at her with her eyes tightly closed, her long eyelashes trembling violently with nervousness, her pretty face as red as a ripe apple, and her look of being at his mercy made his Adam's apple bob involuntarily.

Who can stand this!

This isn't just a case of boiling a frog in lukewarm water; the frog itself is adding fuel to the fire and even putting the lid on the pot!

"Weiwei." Ning Xiuyang took a deep breath, trying to make his voice sound as calm as possible, "Do you know what you're saying?"

Tang Wei's body trembled violently, but she still didn't open her eyes, only letting out a barely audible "hmm".

"Let me help you take a bath?" Ning Xiuyang asked again to confirm.

"Mmm..." Her voice trembled with a hint of a sob, as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"Are you sure you're mentally prepared for this?" Ning Xiuyang's tone became serious.

He could be domineering and rude to Shen Yourong, Su Xiaoyan, Han Yunmei, and even Shen Youyou, but he couldn't bear to do that to the girl in front of him.

It's not that I have an excessive sense of saintliness.

Although he had considered Tang Wei as one of his women from the moment he moved into the apartment, he had been trying to win her over gradually.

But when the moment actually came, he hoped that this girl, who had been alone for over a decade, could make this decision in her most lucid moment, because he didn't want her to regret it in the future.

Tang Wei fell silent.

Are you ready?

She herself couldn't explain it clearly.

All she knew was that she had no one left in this world to rely on.

Her adoptive parents' true colors chilled her to the bone.

Li Mingfeng's atrocities instilled in her extreme fear.

It was Ning Xiuyang who gave her a ray of light when she was at her most desperate.

He said he would consider her his sister and that he wanted her.

He said he would always protect her.

In this world, the only man she could trust, the only man she could rely on, the only man she could be close to was him.

She couldn't think of anyone else but him.