Chapter 13

Chapter 13

I’ll Take Care of You

The compliment made Lu Hang both amused and exasperated.

Even if he loved to smile, 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 Mom and Dad, okay?” Seeing that she showed no trace of worry over his paralysis, Lu Hang’s mood inexplicably lifted.

Remembering his father’s words, he couldn’t help but remind her.

Lin Nannan didn’t hold back at all and declared boldly, “I’ll eat anything!”

Lu Hang was momentarily stunned before replying, “I still have some money here...”

“I have money!” Lin Nannan grinned mischievously. “I squeezed a hundred bucks out of the Lins.”

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

Didn’t they make Lin Nannan marry him just to keep the bride price?

He had assumed she’d been driven out by the Lins without a single cent to her name.

“They didn’t want Lin Qingqing to suffer by marrying you, but they also couldn’t bear to part with the money. So, giving me a hundred bucks solved all their problems—pretty smart deal for them, huh?” she explained cheerfully, adding with a grin.

Lu Hang didn’t think the Lins’ choice was wrong—after all, he was in this state—but their greed was still pretty low.

“They didn’t want their daughters to suffer by marrying me. What about you?” he asked.

Lin Nannan’s reaction, however, took him completely by surprise. The girl gave him a genuinely puzzled look and asked, “Why would it be suffering?”

Before Lu Hang could respond, she continued, “You’re paralyzed, but I can still move! I’ll look after you and take care of you forever!”

As long as her farming worked out, neither of them would starve.

Lu Hang was completely floored by her words—“I’ll look after you and take care of you forever!” He lost his usual cool, his heart pounding hard.

As the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Hang had always been mature and disciplined, sticking to his own plans. To others, he seemed so strong that he needed nobody looking out for him—even now, paralyzed in bed, no one had ever said such words to him.

She was so small, yet she wanted to protect him and support him for a lifetime...

Lu Hang’s eyes burned.

“Farming isn’t easy,” he said with a sigh, having witnessed the hardships of farming since childhood.

He didn’t doubt Lin Nannan’s sincerity, but farming depended on Mother Nature’s mood—it wasn’t something one could just succeed at by sheer will.

Raised in the village and mistreated by the Lins, Lin Nannan had never even attended school. How could she possibly keep a household going and care for a cripple like him in the future?

He couldn’t rely on his siblings forever, either.

Once they married and had their own household, dragging along a cripple like him...

The idea of being a useless burden in bed sickened him.

“I have a master!” Lin Nannan, using the original girl’s memories, came up with a perfect excuse.

“A master?” Lu Hang was startled.

Lin Nannan nodded seriously. “The Lins never cared about me when I was little. When I was hungry, I’d run to the back mountain and met some elderly folks who’d been sent to the countryside for reform. They had no land, did hard labor, and were always hungry with no freedom. So I did little jobs for them, and that’s how I learned which plants in the mountains were edible and which weren’t…”

At first, the original girl had gotten by this way. Those people had been kind to her, making up for the love she never got from her family.

Because she was so young, even the village head pretended not to notice when he saw how close she was with them. That was how the original girl had survived those lean years as a child.