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Shen Chuwei, carrying the food box, couldn’t wait to head to the Guest Room, but she couldn’t walk too quickly for fear of spilling the soup. Yet, walking too slowly would make the noodles unappetizing as they could clump together.

When she arrived at the Guest Room with the food box, she saw Xiao Jinyan in the garden. He leaned on crutches, looking as though he was about to go find someone.

Shen Chuwei lifted her brows and approached with a smile.

Lin Xian hadn’t made up his mind yet when he saw a figure approaching from afar. Illuminated by the moonlight, he was stunned for a moment when he saw that delicate face clearly.

Xuetuan saw Shen Chuwei and excitedly cried out, "Meow."

Shen Chuwei approached, ignoring Xuetuan. With a smile in her eyes, she asked, "Husband, were you coming to find me?"

Seeing her arrive, the anxiety Lin Xian had been holding onto also settled, but at that moment, he felt somewhat guilty.

He wanted to find her, but he hesitated.

"Why have you only come now?"

"There were some issues. Let’s go in first, we can talk while eating." Shen Chuwei saw him leaning on crutches and added, "Don’t move, just stand there. I’ll bring the food in, then come back to help you."

Lin Xian was about to say it wasn’t necessary, but Shen Chuwei had already walked in carrying the food box, and when she came out again, she was running.

Shen Chuwei ran all the way to Xiao Jinyan, took his hand, and placed it on her shoulder, bearing most of his body weight on herself.

"Try not to put too much pressure on your leg, just lean on me."

Lin Xian looked down at Shen Chuwei, who was much shorter and smaller in stature than him, and felt even guiltier after hearing her words.

Shen Chuwei took a couple of steps and noticed that Xiao Jinyan wasn’t moving. She looked up at him with confusion in her eyes, "Husband, what’s wrong?"

Feeling guilty, Lin Xian averted his gaze, "It’s nothing."

"Then let’s go in. Otherwise, the noodles will clump together and won’t taste good."

"Mhm."

With Shen Chuwei’s support, Lin Xian walked into the room and sat down in his wheelchair again.

Shen Chuwei took out the noodles from the food box and placed them in front of Xiao Jinyan, "There was an issue today, and I didn’t have time to cook, so I boiled noodles and also have corn. You’ll have to make do for now."

Lin Xian looked at the steaming noodles in front of him, then at the corn beside them. He hadn’t seen these before.

But at that moment, he was indeed very hungry.

Picking up some noodles with his chopsticks, he blew on them to cool them off before taking a bite. He found them to be more delicious than any noodles he had tried before.

Shen Chuwei was also hungry. Not bothering to talk, she grabbed some noodles, blew on them a few times, and shoved them into her mouth, chewing twice before swallowing.

After eating a couple of bites of noodles, Lin Xian looked up at Shen Chuwei, "The problem you mentioned, does it have to do with Ouyang Jingyuan?"

Shen Chuwei, who had just taken a big bite of noodles, couldn’t swallow quickly enough and could only nod with bulging cheeks, "Mhm, Ouyang Jingyuan suddenly fainted. They believe it was my doing, so they captured me and Qin Xiao."

Lin Xian hadn’t expected them to just seize Shen Chuwei directly; he’d thought that as long as she healed the person, there would be no issue.

"Is it resolved now?"

Shen Chuwei shook her head, "It’s not resolved yet. I was afraid you’d be hungry without your evening meal, so I snuck out. I’ll have to return later."

Lin Xian paused upon hearing that, "You snuck out?"

Shen Chuwei nodded, "Mhm."

Lin Xian asked again, "Just to bring me food?"

"Not just to bring food, but I also need to change your dressing. Otherwise, it will be uncomfortable." Shen Chuwei said this and, without raising her head, continued to slurp up her noodles, taking a big bite of the sausage.

Lin Xian was stunned. He hadn’t realized that while detained, her concerns were that he’d be hungry and uncomfortable, and she had figured out a way to sneak out to bring him food.

This made him feel guilty, a feeling that deepened the initial hesitation he had about seeking her out.

She was just a delicate woman.

Shen Chuwei must have been quite hungry, eating in a rush, and she picked up her bowl to drink a few sips of soup.

Lin Xian noticed a bean-sized blister on the back of her fair hand, "What happened to your hand?"

Shen Chuwei glanced at the back of her hand; she hadn’t paid attention to it in her haste and only now noticed the blister from the oil splatter.

"It happened while I was frying the Sunny Side Up Eggs.

Lin Xian could guess she had burned herself in her rush to save time. The affected area on her hand, white as jade, was too conspicuous.

"Why didn’t you apply ointment?"

"I didn’t have time. We’ll talk about it after eating." Shen Chuwei continued to eat, as nothing was more important than filling her stomach at the moment.

Lin Xian stared at the blister on her hand for a long time, finding it difficult to swallow his food.

After the meal, Shen Chuwei handed him a piece of corn, which neither she nor her Xiao Jinyan remembered, just like he didn’t recall the taste of corn.

"Husband, try the corn."

Lin Xian lifted his head to look at Shen Chuwei, as if she wasn’t the one who had escaped the Confinement Room to so calmly deliver food and share a meal with him.

He took the corn.

"We don’t have time for acupuncture tonight. I’ll change your dressing, and then I must go back," Shen Chuwei said, squatting down in front of him to efficiently roll up his trouser leg.

Lin Xian said, "It wasn’t easy to sneak out, and yet you still have to return?"

"If I don’t, should I wait to be captured? This place belongs to the Xingmiao Clan, skilled in using Sorcery. I’m just a Doctor, if I anger them and they use Sorcery on me, I’d have nowhere to turn. Besides, Qin Xiao is still inside, and if I don’t go back, they will certainly not spare him."

Shen Chuwei continued, not looking up, her hands steady as she worked.

Lin Xian’s feelings were mixed, soon realizing that everything Shen Chuwei had done was because of the face resembling her husband’s.

Once the dressing was changed, Shen Chuwei helped Xiao Jinyan get into bed to rest.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Husband, I’m going back now."

Shen Chuwei turned to clean up the bowls and chopsticks.

Lin Xian watched her busy figure in the room, and then he noticed a red mark on her lower back, standing out sharply against her moon-white clothes.

"Doctor Shen, why is there blood on your body?"

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