Si Wenjie quietly left the clinic and caught a glimpse of the blood-stained bandage in the wastebasket.
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The sensor lights in the underground parking lot lit up one by one.
Shi Heng and Gu Youran got in the car.
The moment the car door closed, the only sound in the car was each other's breathing.
Shi Heng leaned closer, his fingertips accidentally brushing against her collarbone.
Gu Youran smelled a faint medicinal fragrance mixed with the unique green wood scent on his body.
That was the scent of her special calming sachet, which she hadn't expected him to carry with him all the time.
"Are you cold?" Shi Heng pressed the seat heating button, and the warmth spread from behind his waist.
Suddenly, Gu Youran noticed that his right index finger was wrapped in an invisible Band-Aid, and the edge was stained with the red soil unique to Yunling.
She thought of the unnatural handwriting on the contract, and her heart trembled violently.
"Does it hurt?" she asked softly, touching his wound with her fingertips.
Shi Heng chuckled, untied his tie with one hand, and trapped Gu Youran between the car seats with the other hand.
He twisted the wormwood scent on her hair with his fingertips and said, "Today, I picked a twin-stemmed Ganoderma lucidum on the cliff."
He took out a small velvet box from the inside pocket of his suit, and inside the box lay a twin Ganoderma lucidum.
The two mushroom caps are nestled close together, emitting an amber halo under the car lights.
"Traditional Chinese medicine says that Lingzhi mushrooms with two stems can calm the mind and help with sleep."
He kissed her on the lips, "But I think... it's more suitable to witness how a licensed doctor was treated by an unlicensed doctor..."
The ending tone was drowned in the intertwined breaths of the two people.
The air in the car seemed to be frozen, with only each other's body temperatures quietly rising.
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