From Broken Family to Life Winner: A Reborn Mother's Journey

Su Li was completely stunned. She covered her bright red face with her hands, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it would leap out of her chest.

”Wu Sheng, hurry up and put your clothes on! We’re still on the road, what are you doing...”

As Su Li was speaking, she suddenly heard a soft chuckle. The next second, she felt Wu Sheng leaning in.

Su Li jerked away to the side, her heart nearly stopping.

’If Wu Sheng suddenly leans over or hugs me, I’m going to scream and hit him...’

Just as Su Li was thinking this, she felt a warmth on her foot.

She froze, and the chaotic thoughts in her head came to a halt.

The next moment, her foot—or to be precise, her injured foot—was carefully enveloped in something warm and soft.

Su Li’s heart stirred. She slowly lowered her hands and opened her eyes to look.

Wu Sheng was carefully placing her foot back on her shoe. The foot, along with her ankle, was now wrapped up in the undershirt he had just taken off.

Wu Sheng straightened up. ”Don’t move around.”

He had already put on his button-up shirt.

”My jacket is too stiff, and it smells a little. It’s not warm either. The undershirt is better. It was all warmed up from me wearing it, and it’s soft.”

After explaining, Wu Sheng extended a long arm, put on his jacket, and in the next second, his hands were back on the steering wheel.

The car started moving again, but Su Li was still staring blankly at Wu Sheng.

The corner of Wu Sheng’s mouth curled up for a fleeting moment. ”Am I that handsome? Is my side profile especially handsome too?”

Su Li snapped back to her senses and hurriedly looked away. ”You...”

She wanted to speak, but the words caught in her throat.

She looked down at the undershirt around her foot, feeling the warmth radiating from it. A sour feeling suddenly stung her nose, so sharp it was unbearable.

’He’s actually treating me like this... Is he an idiot, doing something like this...? It’s just a little cold, and we’ll be there soon. Why did he have to...’

”Are you an idiot...”

Su Li’s voice was already thick with emotion.

Wu Sheng whipped his head around to look at her.

Seeing the shimmer of tears in Su Li’s eyes, Wu Sheng froze for a second, then abruptly pulled the car over to the side of the road.

Once the car was stopped, Wu Sheng reached out, cupped the back of Su Li’s head, and leaned over to kiss her on the forehead.

”You’re the real idiot, you little idiot.”

Wu Sheng murmured, lowering his head to gently kiss Su Li’s eyes.

The tiny tear that had escaped was slightly salty, but Wu Sheng tasted more than just salt.

”And you said it didn’t hurt. You’re crying from the pain, aren’t you... And here I was, trying to get to the hospital as fast as I could.”

He continued to murmur as he kissed her eyes, until Su Li’s small hand clutched at his clothes. ”I’m not crying...”

Wu Sheng chuckled softly. ”Right, you’re not crying. You’re just...”

He pulled back a little, a sly glint flashing in his eyes. ”You just yelped. Little idiot, fess up. What were you thinking when you saw me take off my shirt?”

Feeling Su Li stiffen in his arms, the amusement in Wu Sheng’s eyes deepened.

”Covering your face and crying out like that... Tsk tsk... You must have been thinking some naughty thoughts, Little Su Li. I never would have guessed...”

Wu Sheng snickered, his laughter making his chest vibrate.

Su Li kept her eyes shut, her face so red it felt like it was about to cook.

’That jerk, Wu Sheng! Is he a mind reader? How could he... how could he...’

”Shut up! What nonsense are you spouting.”

Eyes still closed, Su Li abruptly pushed Wu Sheng away. She swore she would never let herself be moved by him again. Every time she was, Wu Sheng would just ruin the moment!

’I’m going to feed my sentimentality to the dogs!’

Su Li was fuming, her eyes practically shooting fire.

Wu Sheng was laughing uncontrollably. ”I can’t take it. Su Li, I’m dying of laughter! You’re getting mad because you’re embarrassed, aren’t you? You really were thinking that just now.”

He tsk-tsked twice. ”You always used to make fun of me, saying I was a true ’Old Perv.’ Now it looks like you’re ’Pervy Su Li’ yourself.”

’Pervy Su Li... Pervy Su Li... Pervy...’

Su Li felt like she was going to die of shame and frustration.

Before, Wu Sheng and Tang Yuanxiao used to call each other Old Tang and Lao Wu.

Every time Su Li heard the nickname Lao Wu, she would feel the urge to laugh, and she’d laugh whenever she thought of it. Later, Wu Sheng noticed something was up and tried various ways to ask her about it, finally getting the truth out of her.

After finding out that his name, Wu, sounded just like the word for ’perverted,’ Wu Sheng couldn’t help but grimace every time someone called him ’Little Wu’ or ’Lao Wu.’

Since other people didn’t know the meaning, he usually only joked about it with Su Li.

But now Wu Sheng was calling her ’Pervy Su Li’!

Su Li was at once shy, frustrated, and anxious. She hurriedly blurted out a threat.

”If you keep blabbering, I’m going to hit you! Are you going to drive or not? Weren’t you just saying you were worried about my pain?”

Wu Sheng’s expression immediately turned serious. ”Does it hurt?”

Looking at Wu Sheng’s worried face, Su Li suddenly felt wronged, and the pain in her foot became clearer and clearer.

Finally, as if guided by some strange impulse, Su Li said,

”Mhm... it hurts.”

It really did hurt.

’I can feel pain. I’m not someone who’s numb to it; I’m just used to it. But I can still feel pain.’

She truly felt the pain; she had just been subconsciously ignoring it.

Now that she had said it, Su Li suddenly felt that admitting she was in pain wasn’t so difficult after all.

Seeing Su Li’s expression and hearing her admit she was in pain, Wu Sheng’s face changed.

”Okay, okay, I get it. It’s my fault. We’re going to the hospital right now, right now.”

The car sped off.

Su Li sat to the side, watching Wu Sheng drive with a tense expression. The blush on her face slowly faded.

She looked down at her foot wrapped in the undershirt, then back at Wu Sheng, and a smile couldn’t help but appear at the corners of her lips.

’My Wu Sheng. Even if he ruins the mood time and again, even if he’s always making me mad, I’ll still let myself be moved.’

’I won’t feed that feeling to the dogs. I’m keeping it for myself.’

”Does it hurt a lot?” Wu Sheng turned to ask Su Li, a trace of regret on his face. ’It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have been teasing her just now; I should have just rushed to the hospital.’

Su Li looked at Wu Sheng and shook her head. ”Not very much.”

”So it does still hurt,” Wu Sheng retorted, unable to stop himself from speeding up a little.

Su Li didn’t argue, just watched Wu Sheng quietly.

’Ever since Wu Sheng discovered her habit of enduring and hiding her pain, he’s become incredibly nervous over every little injury, not wanting her to suffer even a bit. With him being so worried for so long, it seems... I’m actually starting to feel pain now. Or rather, my endurance for it seems to have lessened.’

’I can really feel the pain now, and I can even... cry out in pain.’

’Just like countless children who grew up being treasured and spoiled by their parents, I’ve learned how to say it hurts.’

At the hospital, while sitting on the examination bed as the doctor pressed on her toes to check them, Su Li winced from the pain and instinctively turned to Wu Sheng.

”It hurts.”

”Wu Sheng, it hurts.”

The moment Wu Sheng heard Su Li cry out in pain, he nearly threw the doctor aside.