Seeing the hand in Shen Qiaoyue's hand, Lu Chen felt a pang of heartache and self-reproach, and complained, "Why didn't you ask me to help you?"
"I called out, but you didn't respond."
Lu Chen felt guilty; he had been too angry to hear Shen Qiaoyue's voice.
He didn't speak.
Lu Chen wrung out the towel, wiped Shen Qiaoyue down, put on his clothes, and carried her back to the room.
The windows and doors in the room were covered with newspapers to prevent cold drafts from blowing in.
"Let me apply some medicine for you." Lu Chen took out disinfectant and cleaned the wound on Shen Qiaoyue's hand. "Ouch~ Be gentle, it hurts." Shen Qiaoyue recoiled in pain.
This disinfectant isn't killing poison, it's killing her life.
Lu Chen frowned slightly and said, "In our army, no girl is as delicate as you."
Shen Qiaoyue sensed that Lu Chen's attitude towards her was different after he returned from outside compared to when he returned from the hospital.
Hearing him say that other women are better than her...
Shen Qiaoyue was so angry that her eyes were red from crying.
"Yes, it's different. Are you satisfied?" Shen Qiaoyue felt a pang of sadness, and her voice choked with emotion.
Judging from her tone, she's angry. He wasn't even angry about what she was going to do, but she's the one who got angry first!
Lu Chen remained silent, then applied the medicine, sprinkled some powder on the affected area, and wrapped it in gauze.
As Lu Chen was about to get up and leave, Shen Qiaoyue said tearfully, "You haven't finished applying the medicine for me yet."
That's when Lu Chen realized that the medicine hadn't been applied to that area yet.
His face darkened again, and he took out the ointment, glancing at Shen Qiaoyue.
Shen Qiaoyue shyly covered herself with the blanket, not daring to look at Lu Chen's face.
Lu Chen blushed as he applied the medicine and covered Shen Qiaoyue with a blanket.
"I'm sleeping in the room across the hall tonight. If you need anything or need to use the restroom, just call me."
Lu Chen took the blanket and was about to leave.
Shen Qiaoyue wondered if Lu Chen had overheard what Lin Yaya had told her, given his cold attitude towards her.
"We are husband and wife, why do you want to live separately from me?" Shen Qiaoyue asked.
“Husband and wife, weren’t you thinking of getting a divorce?” Lu Chen retorted directly. “If you want a divorce, I will apply for it in a while. I haven’t been managing your money. Also, Lin Yaya is not a suitable person to be your friend.”
Knowing that Shen Qiaoyue doesn't love him, he wouldn't go so far as to put on an act like this.
As expected, Shen Qiaoyue knew he was angry because of what she had said.
“I didn’t want to divorce you,” Shen Qiaoyue said.
“I heard everything,” Lu Chen said again.
"Brother Shen, I really never thought about divorcing you. It's because she kept asking me for money before and then never paid it back. This time, she found out that you gave me two hundred yuan as a bride price when we got married, and my parents also gave me a dowry. She wanted to borrow money, so that's why I said those things to her. I didn't mean to say anything bad about you." Shen Qiaoyue needed to explain clearly, otherwise, it would be bad if a misunderstanding arose.
Lu Chen stood at the door with a blanket in his hand.
Hearing those words made Lu Chen feel bad.
But Shen Qiaoyue did not like him before.
"Brother Shen, I can explain. I said I would live a good life with you, please believe me." Shen Qiaoyue was so anxious that tears were about to fall. "Brother Shen..."
Lu Chen finally softened and put the blanket back in the closet.
Turning around, I saw that Shen Qiaoyue's eyes were red from crying, and her pink little face looked extremely aggrieved.
“Chen Qiaoyue, I’m not angry. You may not like me. If you want a divorce, wait a while. You don’t have to put on this act here anymore. After the divorce, I will give you ten yuan every month until you find someone suitable to marry. I am a soldier, and this profession is really important to me. I hope you won’t deliberately smear me. If I have really done something wrong or treated you badly, you can tell me, and I will try to change.”
Lu Chen had no idea what Shen Qiaoyue was thinking.
“We just got married and don’t know each other well, but I don’t want you to go down a path of no return. Lin Yaya is a bad person, so don’t get too close to her.”
If it were anyone else, Lu Chen wouldn't have bothered with it.
Holding back her tears, Shen Qiaoyue looked up and met Lu Chen's serious expression.
The tears flowed down, drop by drop.
My body was still twitching.
Shen Qiaoyue just couldn't control herself.
She knew Lu Chen had misunderstood her, but her previous behavior had indeed made Lu Chen very disgusted.
He insulted him on their very first meeting, saying he came from a peasant background and was not well-educated.
On their second date, they went to the movies. Shen Qiaoyue deliberately chose a foreign film to mock Lu Chen for not understanding it.
But no one knew that Lu Chen had attended literacy classes and learned foreign languages from the instructors in his regiment in the army.
I received training at the military industrial school and even got a graduation certificate.
Such an outstanding person, Shen Qiaoyue was truly blind in her past life.
I can't stand to see him do anything good!
Seeing Shen Qiaoyue's aggrieved look, Lu Chen finally softened his heart and sat down by the bed to carefully wipe away Shen Qiaoyue's tears.
Shen Qiaoyue hugged Lu Chen tightly and said, "Brother Shen, I mean it. I don't want a divorce. I want to live a good life with you. Please believe me. I will prove it to you."
In her eyes, Lu Chen was too good, too good; she felt she owed him too much in her past life.
"Okay, I believe you." Lu Chenxin believed that as long as Lin Yaya stayed by Shen Qiaoyue's side, their marriage would not have any future.
Shen Qiaoyue said, "Brother Shen, I know she wanted to marry you before and pursued you for a long time. Lin Yaya spoke ill of you to me in order to drive a wedge between us. I will definitely be able to handle it and make her get back the money she owes me. Can you trust me?"
"Okay, I believe you." Lu Chen's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.
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