Chapter 6 Pain…

“Can’t you reach it? Why don’t you ask a maid?” Li Yancheng’s voice was cold, matter-of-fact.

“I…” Jiang Yan’s small face was full of disappointment, and she lowered the hand that had been lifting her clothes. “Okay.”

However, she didn’t go to find a maid. Instead, she took the medicine and went back into the bathroom.

With her current status in the Li family, it was uncertain whether she could find a maid to help her apply medicine late at night.

Moreover, if word got out that she needed a maid to apply medicine for her, others would know that she was not favored by Li Yancheng, and they would be even less respectful of her as the young mistress.

She hadn’t expected Li Yancheng to apply the medicine for her; she had just wanted to show him the wound on her back.

She had married Li Yancheng, and now he was awake.

To secure her position in the Li family, she could only cling to him.

Either make him fall in love with her, or make him feel sorry for her.

Falling in love with her was clearly impossible for now.

So she could only try to evoke his compassion.

This way, Jiang Yan’s path would be easier.

After Jiang Yan came out of the bathroom again, she saw that Li Yancheng was already lying in bed resting.

Naturally, she didn’t dare to disturb him.

Now that Li Yancheng was awake, she didn’t dare to share the bed with him anymore.

Glancing at the sofa beside her, Jiang Yan thoughtfully went to sleep on the sofa.

The wound on her back hurt badly; she couldn’t lie down, so she could only sleep on her stomach.

Lying on her stomach was uncomfortable, so she kept turning over and over to stretch.

Li Yancheng heard the turning sounds from time to time, and he became angry. “If you make another sound, get out!”

Now, Jiang Yan didn’t dare to move at all.

Not long after, Li Yancheng received an email.

He sat up, picked up the laptop beside him, and opened his mailbox.

The email contained information about Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan, 23 years old, an outstanding graduate of the Imperial Capital International Design Institute, interned in the design department of the Li Group in 2022, and has been working there ever since.

She has a younger brother in his third year of university and a mother who needs a kidney transplant and is in urgent need of money.

No dating history, but because of her beautiful appearance, she had many suitors during her school years and several pursuers during her time at the company.

She had participated in an online survey about the person she most wanted to marry, and the answer was Li Yancheng of the Li Group…

Li Yancheng didn’t show any change in expression while reading the earlier parts.

But when he saw this sentence, Li Yancheng’s eyebrows involuntarily moved.

She, the person she most wanted to marry was him?

Reading further, Jiang Yan had secretly waited near Li Yancheng’s parking space before and after work, just to catch a glimpse of him from afar.

When company employees gossiped about Li Yancheng in private, Jiang Yan would always stand up to defend him and argue with them.

The email also included screenshots of Jiang Yan’s Weibo secret account.

The content was all about Li Yancheng.

The latest Weibo post was: He’s awake, he’s finally awake, God must have heard my sincere prayers. But I didn’t take good care of him, and he was poisoned. I’m sorry, I will definitely take good care of him in the future.

The previous post: Did I really marry him? Aaaaaaaaaah, am I not dreaming? Thank you, God. Although he’s still a vegetable now, I believe he will get better, and I will definitely take good care of him.

After reading this information, Li Yancheng felt a little dazed.

His gaze shifted to the sofa.

That woman had secretly liked him for so long?

Li Yancheng searched his memory for anything about Jiang Yan.

He really didn’t remember having any interaction with Jiang Yan.

However, Li Yancheng thought, he was the CEO of the Li Group, and Jiang Yan was just a small designer in the design department.

It was normal that he didn’t remember Jiang Yan.

Besides, there were countless women who liked him.

It wasn’t strange that Jiang Yan liked him.

However, after reading the information, Li Yancheng lay in bed without any sleepiness.

Somehow, he remembered the wounds on Jiang Yan’s back.

After hesitating for a moment, he got up and walked to Jiang Yan.

Looking at Jiang Yan, Li Yancheng’s eyes darkened.

Why did he come down?

It didn’t matter if she liked him or not.

Just as Li Yancheng was about to turn around and go back to bed, a faint murmur came: “It hurts…”

Li Yancheng stopped in his tracks.

Three seconds later, Li Yancheng turned around.

The moonlight shone through the window, and only half of Jiang Yan’s face was visible as she lay on her stomach.

Li Yancheng found that she was indeed quite pretty.

Seeing a tube of ointment nearby, Li Yancheng picked it up.

Then, he knelt down with difficulty and squeezed some ointment onto a cotton swab.

He pulled open Jiang Yan’s loose pajamas with one hand and applied the ointment on the cotton swab to her wound with the other hand.

As if afraid of waking Jiang Yan, Li Yancheng’s movements were very gentle.

After applying the ointment, he acted as if nothing had happened, put the ointment back in place, and turned back to bed.

He didn’t know that at the moment he turned around, the girl lying on the sofa slowly opened her eyes…

Jiang Yan didn’t sleep well in the first half of the night, and when she woke up the next day, it was already bright.

She rubbed her eyes and sat up, immediately looking towards the bed.

Li Yancheng was already up.

He was sitting at his desk, seriously working.

“You slept until nine o’clock. Is this how you take care of me?”

A cold, indifferent voice rang in Jiang Yan’s ears.

“I’m sorry…” Jiang Yan immediately apologized, but there was no panic on her face.

He had taken the initiative to let her take care of him, which meant he didn’t reject her.

It seemed that Jiang Yan’s actions last night were correct.

Jiang Yan got up and asked, “Are you hungry? Did you have breakfast?”

“What do you think?” Li Yancheng asked back, dissatisfied.

“I’ll go prepare breakfast for you right away.”

Jiang Yan didn’t have time to wash up; after changing her clothes in the bathroom, she went downstairs to the kitchen.

Saying she was preparing breakfast for him actually meant having the kitchen chef make it.

Then she would bring it to the room.

She didn’t know whether it was because Li Yancheng couldn’t walk smoothly yet, he didn’t want to see people, or something else.

Since he woke up, he seemed to have been in the room, never leaving.

He worked in the room, and he ate in the room.

Jiang Yan quickly brought the breakfast to Li Yancheng.

During breakfast, his eyes never left the computer.

It seemed that being the CEO of the Li Group wasn’t easy.

He was so busy that he didn’t even have time to eat.

The whole morning, Jiang Yan silently took care of Li Yancheng as she had done yesterday.

Soon it was noon.

Just as Jiang Yan was about to go to the kitchen to prepare lunch for Li Yancheng, there was a knock on the door.

“Young Master, the old master said that since you woke up, the family hasn’t had a meal together, and haven’t seen the young mistress yet. He’s now with the second master and the others in the dining room waiting for you to have dinner.”

A maid’s voice came from outside the door.

Hearing this, both Li Yancheng and Jiang Yan’s expressions darkened…