Rebirth: Contract Husband Falls in Love with Me-Chapter 450 - 231: What If He Never Wakes Up

Sang Wan chuckled at his teasing with a "tsk" sound, her hand trembling as she once again tried to dodge his Lu Shan claw, shifting her body to the side, "Stop it!"

Before she could finish her sentence, Shi Fengju winced and drew a sharp breath as the movement agitated his wound, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Does it hurt?" Sang Wan couldn’t help but laugh and get annoyed at the same time. She carefully positioned his leg properly, smiling at him, "Don’t move around so much, or it could damage the wound and who knows how long it will take to heal!"

Shi Fengju chuckled and withdrew his hand, then begged her, "Miss Wan, after applying the medicine, could you also ask someone to fetch water to wipe down my body? I haven’t been able to bathe these past few days, and it’s driving me crazy!"

Although the two had already experienced the most intimate contact, and he had often sought such intimacies when he was at home, she was no stranger to his body. But the thought of staring at him nude in front of her, wiping down his body, Sang Wan still felt a bit embarrassed and hesitated, "Hasn’t Steward Zhang been helping you wipe down during these days? You love cleanliness so much, how can you stand it?"

Shi Fengju’s face immediately showed disgust, "How could I, a grown man, let a slave come near and do such things? These days I’ve just been roughly wiping my hands and feet, and for wiping the rest of my body, they wring out the towel for me to do it myself! It’s inconvenient, but I’ve made do."

Sang Wan stifled a laugh and said nothing, thinking to herself that you’re quite fussy, but it’s probably just fooling oneself. When you were fished out of the water soaking wet, didn’t they strip you to change your clothes? When you were unconscious those days, didn’t they wipe you down? It’s just that you talk nonsense when you’re awake, and they don’t have the nerve to call you out on it.

"Miss Wan, look at how pitiful I am as a patient; won’t you help me, please? You are my wife..." Seeing that she remained silent, Shi Fengju once again playfully shook her hand with a grin.

"Let’s apply the medicine first. Later, after helping you onto the bed, I’ll call for someone to bring hot water!" Sang Wan resigned herself to the fact; now that he had asked, what else could she say? After all, the two of them were husband and wife, once the door is closed, what haven’t they done? This was nothing.

Seeing her agree, Shi Fengju laughed heartily and said okay, then rested obediently on the couch without fidgeting. Occasionally, when she looked up at him, he would give her a gentle, tender smile, which always made Sang Wan’s heart skip a beat as she quickly lowered her head, prompting Shi Fengju to chuckle silently to himself, enjoying the sight of her even more.

The wound on his leg was over two fingers long and deep, with the flesh clearly having been turned outwards. It had healed quite a bit by now. Due to the medication, a large area of his originally fair calf had taken on a brownish-yellow hue, tinged with a faint black.

"It must have hurt a lot at that time," Sang Wan said with a touch of sympathy, carefully supporting his foot as she dampened the clean gauze with water, gently rinsing and wiping the wound.

"How could I have felt the pain when I was unconscious? Looking back, it was rather lucky! Now with you taking care of me, it doesn’t hurt anymore!" Her soft, supple hands gently caressed his leg as if a fluffy, soft brush was sweeping across his heart, bringing a tickling sensation wherever it touched. Shi Fengju really appreciated her attentive gestures, finding the previously loathed process of dressing his wound suddenly not so repugnant, even secretly enjoying it a little.

Sang Wan burst out laughing, "You say this now after it’s over. If, if I had arrived and you were still not awake, I really don’t know—oh no, what a cursed thing to say!" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Shi Fengju laughed it off, not minding it at all, and instead teased her, "If you had arrived and I was still not awake, what would you have done?"

A ridiculous idea suddenly popped into his head, and he felt a twinge of secret regret. Had he known, he should have pretended not to be awake and seen her reaction. Then again, he thought she would probably be crying over him and the thought of it pained his heart, so he was inwardly glad he hadn’t done something so foolish.

"What else could I do," Sang Wan laughed, "of course, I would stay by your side and take care of you until you woke up!"

"And if I never woke up?" Shi Fengju, addicted to her responses, pressed on with a smile.

"Don’t talk nonsense!" Sang Wan frowned slightly, scolding him, "Who curses themselves like that? If Mother heard you, who knows how she would scold you!"

Shi Fengju started to laugh, saying, "You’ve learned to use my mother against me! I’m awake now, what does it matter what I say? Miss Wan, you still haven’t answered me!"

Without even thinking, Sang Wan replied impatiently, "Then I would just keep on taking care of you!"

Shi Fengju was taken aback, suddenly feeling an indescribable sentiment, "If I never woke up, wouldn’t being with me ruin you?" After a pause and a self-mocking laugh, he added, "If I truly never woke up, I wouldn’t know what to ask of you. Naturally, I would want you with me, but to ask you to endure such hardship all your life, I would be reluctant to see you suffer..."

As if lost in thought, Shi Fengju’s voice slowly faded into a mumble. Sang Wan felt momentarily bewildered; she was his wife, and naturally should be with him. It was the most natural and unquestionable duty, but when faced with what her most sincere feelings were, she found herself in a fog, her mind a blank, devoid of any thought.