Chapter 53 The Heat at Your Fingertips
Shang Ruyi glanced at the expressionless Yuwen Ye before smiling and saying, "I wouldn't dare."
The meal was eaten in complete silence.
After the meal, everyone chatted and drank tea with Yuwen Yuan in the side hall.
Shang Ruyi took the box of fruit and snacks that Huang Gongyi had given her, opened it, and shared it with everyone. Although everyone had already eaten, they each took a piece or two. Yuwen Cheng took the rest of the box when no one was looking.
Shang Ruyi then smiled at Yuwen Yuan and said, "Father, you just mentioned letting me take charge of things, but now that I'm injured, I'm afraid—"
The side hall immediately fell silent again.
Shang Ruyi heard Guan Yunmu, who was sitting to the side, make a clinking sound when he drank his tea.
Yuwen Yuan smiled and said, "Of course, you should focus on recovering from your injuries. Don't worry about things at home for now."
Shang Ruyi replied, "Yes."
After she finished speaking, she sat down in the chair, looked up, and saw Aunt Hui glancing in her direction with a sharp and probing look in her eyes.
Before long, it got dark, and everyone went back to their houses.
Shang Ruyi returned to the room with Yuwen Ye. Yuwen Ye washed his hands and then sat down at the low table in the center of the room, his face expressionless, and his mood was unreadable.
Shang Ruyi knew that the play was over for today, and he naturally wouldn't give her any more face, so she didn't say anything more, got up and went to bed to prepare to sleep.
But as soon as he walked past him, he heard Yuwen Ye say, "Come here."
"...?"
Shang Ruyi was taken aback, but still walked up to him: "What is it?"
Yuwen Ye pointed to the person opposite him: "Sit down."
Does he have something to tell me?
Although Shang Ruyi was puzzled, she still sat down as he instructed. Yuwen Ye then said to her, "Stretch out your hand."
She did as she was told and reached out her hand.
Her hands were fair and slender, with delicate fingers, truly deserving the description of "skin like cream and fingers like scallions." However, her swollen and purplish index finger looked rather alarming. Shang Ruyi didn't know why he wanted her to reach out her hand. Just as she was about to ask, she saw Yuwen Ye suddenly reach out and grasp her fingertip, squeezing it hard.
"ah!"
Caught off guard, she screamed.
Although her index finger was already swollen and numb, the pinch immediately sent a piercing pain through her fingertip, and Shang Ruyi struggled to get up, crying out, "What are you doing!"
Yuwen Ye said in a deep voice, "Don't move!"
He kneaded Shang Ruyi's fingertips vigorously. Gradually, the intense pain subsided, replaced by a tingling sensation from her fingertips.
This is--
Yuwen Ye lowered his eyes and said coldly, "Your fingers are so bruised, you need to improve blood circulation and remove the blood stasis."
"..."
It turns out he was helping him.
Shang Ruyi was speechless for a moment, only feeling a continuous stream of heat coming from her fingertips and spreading to her face.
She lowered her eyes, watching the large, calloused hand grasp and knead her fingertips. After a moment of silence, Shang Ruyi whispered, "Are you apologizing?"
Yuwen Ye frowned slightly: "What?"
Shang Ruyi looked up at him and said, word by word, "Because you used me again."
"..."
“You’ve long been dissatisfied with Huang Gongyi’s mistreatment of prisoners of war, but he was your father’s officer, so you couldn’t go over the Duke’s authority to deal with him. The Duke, too, couldn’t say much because of his relationship with you. So today, you deliberately provoked me into saying those things, making him compete with me.”
"..."
"You used me to tame him!"
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