Before Zhi Ying opened the door, she bent down and covered her knee with her hand. If she hadn't seen the injury, she wouldn't have noticed the pain. But upon seeing the large ugly bruise, she now constantly felt a burning pain in her knees.
Then she straightened up and went to open the door. Zhi Ying gazed at Jiang Wei, who was standing outside the door. He was shrouded with cold winter air, and Zhi Ying raised an unusually polite smile, "Sorry to have troubled you to bring the medicine, thank you."
Jiang Wei was wearing a black overcoat. As soon as he saw the smile on Zhi Ying's face, he immediately noticed that her injury was serious.
When she wanted to cover things up, she always acted like this, responding with a standard polite smile.
"You won't invite me in?" Jiang Wei asked directly. Cautious girls who were a little wary would've felt that he was planning something.
But Jiang Wei did have a purpose, he wanted to help a certain rough-handed person apply medicine.
"Oh." Zhi Ying couldn't refuse, so she took a step back to let Jiang Wei in.
Jiang Wei didn't look around, only walking towards the sofa in the living room. "Sit down," he said upon reaching the sofa.
Zhi Ying took a look at the sofa, then at Jiang Wei. "Me?" she asked doubtfully.
Jiang Wei nodded, "I'll apply medicated oil for you."
Zhi Ying moved over slowly, she knew what the medicated oil was. When she ran around on Lugu Mountain in the summer, some uncles often picked things up that would injure their shoulders. When they had free time, they would rub each other with the medicated oil with great force.
"This knee?" Jiang Wei asked, squatting down as he pointed to one of Zhi Ying's knees.
"Mhm." Zhi Ying thought for a moment and concluded that she couldn't escape. She could only nod and roll up her pajama pants.
Her skin was fair in the first place, and her face would only tan for a period of time under frequent exposure to the sun without protection. The skin that was usually covered by her clothes was especially fair and dazzling.
Because of that, the bruise on her knee looked all the more terrifying.
Jiang Wei couldn't help clenching the hand that was holding the medicated oil bottle as he voiced out his concern, "Does it hurt?"
Zhi Ying answered honestly, "A little bit, but it's nothing serious."
However Jiang Wei did not listen to Zhi Ying's words. In his opinion, unless Zhi Ying became paralyzed, he would never be able to make her pay attention to her own injury.
After opening the bottle cap of the medicated oil, a strong smell immediately hit their nostrils. The smell of the medicated oil completely lingered in the living room.
This type of medicine was not usually in Jiang Wei's everyday medicine box. It was placed there by Uncle Li, who occasionally uses it on himself. This time, Jiang Wei conveniently brought the bottles over.
Zhi Ying sat on the sofa and looked down at Jiang Wei dripping the medicated oil onto the palms of his hands, then rubbing his palms together to heat the oil up.
"The smell is a bit strong, but the medicine is very effective." Jiang Wei looked up at Zhi Ying, as if telling her not to worry too much about the pain.
"Oh." Zhi Ying said dryly, "Thank you."
Jiang Wei didn't respond to her words, but gently applied the medicine to her knee, kneading and pressing the bruise.
Zhi Ying sat on the sofa with a bitter face, not daring to move. She watched Jiang Wei's slender and clean palms covering her knees, circling on them from time to time.
"It hurts?" Jiang Wei raised his eyes and saw Zhi Ying's unnatural expression, and immediately stopped his hands.
Zhi Ying shook her head, "It doesn't hurt." It was just that having someone else's hand on her knee was very... strange.
"Then I'll use my strength slowly, and you'll tell me when it hurts?" Jiang Wei added some more medicinal oil to his palm, and rubbed it vigorously to make the medicinal oil warm up.
Zhi Ying looked at his hand nervously. When Jiang Wei started to massage, she didn't feel any pain, so she relaxed.
Suddenly, Jiang Wei pressed firmly. The pain made Zhi Ying shrink back, and her whole body curled up from the stabbing pain.
Seeing this, Jiang Wei felt as if he was pricked by dense needles, and there was dense pain in his heart too, but he did not stop massaging Zhi Ying's knee.
Jiang Wei frowned and applied pressure on Zhi Ying's leg. He didn't ease up on the strength at all. He knew that the medicine oil had to be massaged firmly to make the medicine penetrate into the body.
"I don't feel any pain at all." Zhi Ying tried to explain.
"Mhm." Jiang Wei replied deeply.
Boys' hand strength has always been naturally stronger than girls', Zhi Ying was so tortured by this blunt pain that she almost burst into tears.
Jiang Wei was also ruthless. It was as if he could not hear Zhi Ying's pained gasps at all, he just lowered his head and continued rubbing in the medicated oil.
Soon, Zhi Ying's knees were covered with medicinal oil, and the pungent medicinal smell filled the entire living room.
"Remember to apply it tomorrow morning." Jiang Wei reminded Zhi Ying with a serious face, with the residue of the medicinal oil still on his hands.
"Okay." Zhi Ying still had tears welled up on her eyes from the earlier pain.
Jiang Wei wanted to wipe away Zhi Ying's tears with his hand, but his hand was covered with the oil stains.
Before Jiang Wei could wash his hands and get a tissue, Zhi Ying had already wiped away her physiologically induced tears with the sleeve of her pajamas.
"Thank you for today." Zhi Ying thanked in a nasally voice.
Jiang Wei stood up, asked Zhi Ying where the bathroom was, and went in to clean off the medicated oil on his hands.
"Just turn right." Zhi Ying wanted to stand up and show Jiang Wei the way, but he refused her help.
"I can go by myself." Jiang Wei walked to the right.
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After washing his hands, Jiang Wei looked at the frowning teen in the mirror, his eyes darkened.
Seeing that Jiang Wei still hadn't come out, Zhi Ying tried to stand up and take two steps. The result was because of the heavy pressure when applying the medicated oil just now; as soon as she stood up, her legs went limp.
Just when Zhi Ying thought she was going to fall to the ground, a strong force from behind directly picked her back up.
As soon as Jiang Wei came out, he saw Zhi Ying fall and almost sit straight on the corner of the glass tea table behind her.
If she abruptly sat like this, Zhi Ying would no longer simply suffer from a knee injury.
Jiang Wei quickly ran over to lift her up. Perhaps it was because he was too nervous, his strength was a little too intense, making Zhi Ying a little out of breath.
"I'm fine." Zhi Ying reassured him awkwardly.
"It's getting late, go to rest." Jiang Wei relaxed a little, but did not completely relax, then he continued to ask, "Where is your room?"
Zhi Ying vaguely pointed out the direction of her room to Jiang Wei, and was about to ask what was wrong when she felt dizzy.
Jiang Wei directly picked her up.
Zhi Ying's eyes were wide open, full of bewilderment. She looked up at Jiang Wei, only seeing his beautiful and firm chin.
Jiang Wei strode to Zhi Ying's room very steadily. The door was not fully closed. He just nudged it lightly with his foot, and it opened.
"I just finished applying the medicated oil, don't rush around." Jiang Wei looked down at Zhi Ying, and then gently placed her on the bed.