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Ye Wenyu waved her hand and said generously to Lin Tingfeng, "Oh, what does it matter? You have to call a nurse just to go to the toilet. Nurses are very busy." As she spoke, she reached out and took Lin Tingfeng's arm.

Seeing her slender, white fingers resting on his arm, Lin Tingfeng hesitated, then blushed and said to her, "It will smell terrible, Xiaoyu. I don't want you to see the unpleasant side of me."

He had just come off the operating table and couldn't walk on his own. He probably wouldn't be able to take off his pants by himself when he got to the bathroom, and then, because he needed to defecate, there would definitely be some unpleasant smells coming out. He really didn't want to see the beautiful moments between them.

They've just begun; happiness awaits them ahead.

"You're so silly. Would I ever look down on you? This is a perfect opportunity to touch your six-pack abs," Ye Wenyu playfully comforted him, reaching out as if to touch his abs.

Lin Tingfeng smiled. Under her insistence, he finally agreed to let her help him into the toilet.

Lin Tingfeng was very tall and strong. Any girl standing in front of him would look like an ant standing in front of a big tree. So when his heavy body leaned on Ye Wenyu's shoulder, she looked very tired. Her originally pale face flushed red and her forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

Lin Tingfeng glanced at her and was very worried. He said to her, "Oh dear, I'll call a nurse and have them get me a wheelchair. I'm worried that carrying you like this will cause you to fall over."

"It's okay, it's okay, I can handle it. Besides, the doctor said that you should get out of bed and walk around. If you can get out of bed and walk around, it means you're not far from being discharged from the hospital and won't need to use a wheelchair."

As Ye Wenyu spoke, she put one arm around Lin Tingfeng's waist and half-carried, half-supported him to the bathroom.

The short distance of just a few meters felt like the Long March, extremely difficult.

When they arrived at the restroom, Lin Tingfeng stood up, holding onto the edge of the sink. Ye Wenyu was so exhausted that her chest heaved violently, and she was out of breath.

Lin Tingfeng felt very guilty and apologized to her, saying, "I'm sorry, I'll try to find someone to help me tomorrow."

"No need, they're definitely not as meticulous as me. I can do it." Ye Wenyu wiped the sweat from her forehead and cheered herself up.

"Can you take your pants off yourself?" Seeing that he was still standing in front of her in his clothes, she knew that he had said he needed to pee earlier, and about ten minutes had passed since then.

Lin Tingfeng smiled and said, "I'll give it a try."

He tried to lift his arms to untie the elastic band around his waist, but because of stomach cancer, the surgical incision was on his upper body, and he could barely move his arms. Not to mention his arms, even his fingers trembled slightly and he couldn't muster any strength.

Lin Tingfeng didn't want Ye Wenyu to serve him like a servant, didn't want her to see his vulnerable side, and didn't want her to smell anything unpleasant. He gritted his teeth and tried several times, but in the end, he failed each time.

He said to Ye Wenyu, "You can go out now. I'll ring the bell to call the nurse."

Ye Wenyu didn't say anything, but reached out and took the initiative to take off his pants.

"No--"

Before Lin Tingfeng could even utter a word of refusal, his pants had already been pulled down to his knees, and his handsome face flushed a deep red.

Ye Wenyu casually touched his abs and smiled at him, "I've wanted to touch them for a while now, and I finally have the chance. Okay, I'm going to help you take off your underwear."

Lin Tingfeng was amused by her, and seeing that she didn't seem to care at all, he stopped worrying about it.

He thought to himself that many couples, when they first start dating, are always romantic and beautiful, without any ugly or real side.

But because he was sick, seriously ill, and had no friends, she had to take care of him. So, from the beginning, the two of them were hospital companions, which was the ugly side, the real side, the extremely difficult side, and also the side that tested human nature the most.

However, as he sat on the toilet, Ye Wenyu closed the bathroom door and waited for him outside, Lin Tingfeng thought with relief that after going through the most difficult and challenging aspect of human nature, they would definitely grow old together and live a peaceful life.

Lin Tingfeng stayed in the hospital for a month, and Ye Wenyu took care of him the whole time. From the time his stomach cancer was discovered until his surgery, he didn't tell his mother because he was worried that she wouldn't be able to handle the shock. Zhang Xiaohong at home still thought her son was the workaholic he used to be, working overtime at the company every day. Sometimes when she was alone and thought of her deceased husband, she felt depressed and blamed her son for being unfilial and not talking to her.

While taking care of Lin Tingfeng, Ye Wenyu would wait until Lin Tingfeng fell asleep before starting to review her civil service exam materials. Sometimes, when Lin Tingfeng woke up, he would see Ye Wenyu reading. She was very focused, her mind completely absorbed in the review materials, studying more diligently than anyone else.

Once, Ye Wenyu looked up. She had finished writing in her old notebook and was looking for a new one when she saw Lin Tingfeng looking at her. He was gazing at her so affectionately and intently, which was inexplicably touching. She wondered how long he had been looking at her.

Ye Wenyu blushed, and while searching for a new notebook, she asked Lin Tingfeng, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Lin Tingfeng smiled and said to her, "You're so focused on your studies, what kind of exam can't you pass?"

The night was peaceful and beautiful. The warm orange light in the ward illuminated the surroundings, creating a cozy atmosphere.

Ye Wenyu's face turned even redder, as if she had applied rouge, but because of his words, she laughed and said to him, "There are many people taking the civil service exam. It's probably one in ten thousand, like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. I'm not sure I can pass."

Lin Tingfeng, however, continued to look at her, smiled, and said, "I bet you'll pass the exam."

He looked at her, her eyes swollen with dark circles from studying and taking care of him, her face pale and haggard, like ice and snow. He couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache and said to her, "You've taken care of me for over a month in the hospital. Thank you so much, Xiaoyu." He had never felt so grateful to anyone before.

Ye Wenyu smiled and said gently to Lin Tingfeng, "Seeing you get better day by day makes me especially happy. You know what, studying here is much more energizing than studying alone in the library."

Lin Tingfeng also laughed.

He truly wished that such times could last forever, without having to face external interpersonal conflicts or deal with those trivial and messy matters.