This compliment left Lu Heng both amused and exasperated.

He loved to smile, but he couldn’t go around grinning all day—that would make him look like a fool.

“If there’s anything you like to eat, just tell my parents, okay?” Seeing that she wasn’t the least bit troubled by his paralysis, Lu Heng’s mood inexplicably lifted.

Remembering what his father had said, he couldn’t help but remind her.

Lin Nannan didn’t hold back at all and declared outright, “I love eating everything!”

Lu Heng was slightly taken aback but then said, “I still have some money here…”

“I have money!” Lin Nannan grinned mischievously. “I asked the Lin family for a hundred yuan.”

“How did they agree to that?” Lu Heng asked in surprise.

The reason they had Lin Nannan marry over was because they couldn’t bear to part with the betrothal gifts his family had given.

He had assumed that Lin Nannan had been kicked out of the Lin family penniless.

“They didn’t want Lin Qingqing to marry you and suffer, but they also couldn’t bear to part with the money. So, giving me a hundred yuan to solve all their problems seemed like a good deal to them,” she explained with a smile.

Lu Heng didn’t think the Lin family’s decision was wrong, given his condition, but their greed was still despicable.

“They didn’t want their daughter to marry me and suffer. What about you? What do you think?” he asked.

Lin Nannan’s response, however, was completely unexpected. The young girl looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked, “Why would I suffer?”

Before Lu Heng could answer, she continued, “You’re paralyzed, but I can still move. I’ll protect you and take care of you for the rest of your life!”

As long as her crops grew well, neither of them would starve.

Lu Heng was utterly stunned by her words, “I’ll protect you and take care of you for the rest of your life.” His usual composure vanished as he looked at Lin Nannan, his heart trembling violently.

As the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Heng had always been sensible and restrained, meticulously following his plans. In the eyes of others, he was so strong that he didn’t need anyone’s protection. Even after being paralyzed and confined to bed, no one had ever said such a thing to him.

She was so frail, yet she was thinking of protecting him and taking care of him for a lifetime…

Lu Heng’s eyes welled up with tears…

“Growing crops isn’t easy,” Lu Heng said gloomily, having witnessed the hardships of farming since childhood.

He didn’t doubt Lin Nannan’s sincerity, but farming depended on the whims of nature. It wasn’t something you could just do well simply by wanting to.

Having grown up in the village and endured the harsh treatment of the Lin family, Lin Nannan hadn’t even been able to attend school. How could she possibly support a family and take care of a paralyzed man like him in the future?

He couldn’t rely on his siblings forever.

In the future, they will get married and have their own family.

Lin Nannan’s presence had stirred something in Lu Heng’s heart. He was deeply unwilling to spend the rest of his life lying in bed.

“I have a master!” Lin Nannan, drawing on the original host’s memories, knew what Lu Heng was thinking and came up with a perfect excuse.

“A master?” Lu Heng was surprised.

Lin Nannan nodded earnestly and said, “Since I was little, the Lin family never cared for me. When I was hungry, I’d run to the back mountain. That’s where I met a few elderly men and women who had been sent down for re-education. They had no land and were forced to do heavy labor. They were always hungry and had no freedom, so I helped them run errands. That’s how I learned what in the mountains was edible and what wasn’t…”

In the beginning, the original host had lived like this. Those elderly people, who were well-educated, had shown her kindness and filled the void of familial love that the Lin family had failed to provide.

Because she was so young, even the village chief, who knew she was close to those people, didn’t stop her. This allowed the young original host to survive during a time when many were dying of starvation.