Chapter 217
Song Xuan's face was somewhat pale, and he was only wearing a white undergarment. Shen Qingnian could see the scattered bloodstains on the white undergarment.
She walked quickly to the man, put the things she was carrying on the table next to her, took out some medicine and gauze from them, and said, "Take off your undergarment, and I'll apply the medicine for you first."
Upon hearing this, Song Xuan turned his back, then took off his inner garment, revealing his back marked with knife wounds. The clean back made the knife wounds all the more shocking.
Shen Qingnian felt a pang of tenderness. She opened the medicine, took a small piece with her fingertip, and carefully applied it to the knife wound.
Her movements were very gentle, as if she were afraid of hurting the man.
"Does it hurt?" she asked softly and honestly.
Song Xuan felt a tingling sensation on his back, not pain, but even a slight itch, and his heart felt tingling as well.
The two were very close at that moment.
He couldn't help but say in a hoarse voice, "It doesn't hurt. I'm a martial artist, so my wounds heal faster than ordinary people's. You don't need to feel guilty."
He was afraid that his wounds would make her feel guilty.
Shen Qingnian's eyes stung with tears upon hearing this. She pursed her lips and agreed, then fell silent.
The dim candlelight flickered, and the atmosphere in the room flowed gently, warm and tranquil.
After the medicine was applied to the wound on his back, Shen Qingnian went to Song Xuan to apply medicine to the wound on his chest, but was refused.
Song Xuan turned slightly to the side: "I can take care of the chest myself. You should eat something to fill your stomach first."
His chest had been cleaned by now. Although he was deliberately turned to the side, Shen Qingnian could still see the healed scar on his chest at a glance.
Upon seeing this, Shen Qingnian felt a slight tremor in her heart, and at the same time, doubts arose.
The scar was located right over the heart. Judging from the appearance of the scar, the puncture must have been very deep. Such a deep wound must have meant that the person was on the verge of death at the time.
In the three years since he left, has he suffered such a serious injury?
Thinking of this, Shen Qingnian couldn't help but look at the man, only to see that he had already picked up the medicine on the table, turned his back slightly, and begun to apply the medicine to himself...
She wanted to ask, but didn't know where to begin, or perhaps she was too ashamed to ask.
Although the two had improved their relationship tonight due to the bandits, the estrangement between them remained.
Shen Qingnian swallowed her words and instead spread the quilt that He Lianxin had brought on the bed.
After the man applied the medicine, she laid out the quilt.
A moment later, the man in the gray shirt sat down with her at the table and ate flatbread.
Song Xuan spoke first: "Do you have any ideas about the bandits this time?"
He wanted to know what she was thinking.
Shen Qingnian looked at the dry flatbread in her hand and said, "Three years ago, Shen Zheng was going to send me to Lincheng, but I found a way to get rid of the people he sent and came to live in Jiangnan."
In the past three years, I have not made any enemies. After the bandits kidnapped me, they produced a scroll, indicating that someone had hired someone to kill me. I can't think of anyone else besides Shen Zheng.
After saying that, she looked up at Song Xuan, her eyes filled with anger and hatred that he had never seen before.
The man had seen her true appearance tonight, and she no longer wanted to hide it, nor should she.
Song Xuan felt that Shen Qingnian's eyes were very bright, like the stars and the Milky Way...
She was used as a pawn by her own father and threatened with her birth mother. It was no easy feat for her to break free of this predicament in the capital.
“If it is indeed Zheng who is sinking, then Jiangnan will no longer be safe,” Song Xuan said slowly.
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