Chapter 77 Do You Really Want Me to Apply Medicine for You?

Chapter 77: Do You Really Want Me to Apply the Medicine for You

The scenes from yesterday were as if right before his eyes...

Luo Yunchen unconsciously licked the corner of his mouth, his gaze gradually deepening.

But soon, Luo Yunchen pinched his palm with one hand and covered his eyes with the other, forcing himself to shift his focus, forbidding himself from thinking about it—must not think about it!

Luo Yunchen took a breath, his voice low and raspy, and said, "Guard Xu, how do ordinary married couples get along?"

"This..." Xu Mo was completely baffled by the question. As a solitary young man with no parents, no wife, no children, how would he know anything about how couples interact?

Luo Yunchen's tone carried disappointment: "You don't know either?"

Xu Mo thought for a moment, then bravely guessed: "Probably mostly like the Emperor and Empress..."

But before he could finish, Luo Yunchen cut him off.

Luo Yunchen's tone turned cold, with disgust: "They don't count!"

Just like his father the king and his mother the queen—they all disgusted him!

He believed Su Zheng would surely hate that kind of marriage too.

Xu Mo immediately shut his mouth and dared not speak further.

After a while, Luo Yunchen spoke again: "Go gather information on how common folk couples get along. Find loving, devoted couples and record what they usually do, how the husband treats the wife. Also, look among wealthy aristocratic families for any who are monogamous and take no concubines, and note how they interact day to day. I'll give you three days. In three days, bring me the collected information."

Xu Mo: "..."

Silently exasperated for half a second, Xu Mo dared not object and went to serve the master's meal.

Now that both were injured, Su Zheng wouldn't allow Luo Yunchen to push himself to take care of him anymore.

Xiaoyunzi was finally allowed to frequently enter the inner hall to serve the masters, though only for tasks like serving tea and water, serving and clearing meals.

For more intimate tasks like undressing and changing clothes, or more meticulous tasks like setting up dishes and wiping mouths, neither master permitted it.

Of course, Xiaoyunzi didn't know that after he left, both masters personally undressed each other and applied ointment to each other's wounds!

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Luo Yunchen's healing ability was astonishing. After enduring three days of sweet yet painful torment, he could basically recover on his own.

Luo Yunchen absolutely refused to stay in bed any longer, and the task of attending to Su Zheng fell back on Luo Yunchen.

Su Zheng forbade Luo Yunchen to leave the Eastern Palace, ordering him to rest properly for two more days.

Over those two days, Luo Yunchen went through the information Xu Mo had collected for him.

Then, over the next month, Su Zheng received a different gift from Luo Yunchen every day without repetition.

One day a hairpin, the next day a jade pendant, and the day after, a talking parrot.

Su Zheng looked at the parrot with interest, nodded, and said, "Plump little thing—obviously plenty of meat on it. Let's roast it."

Luo Yunchen: "..."

In the end, Luo Yunchen took out all his family assets, introduced each item one by one, and handed them to Su Zheng, entrusting him with the household finances!

Su Zheng rubbed his temples and pushed the items back: "Keep them yourself. I'm not managing them!"

The gleam in Luo Yunchen's eyes faded, his sadness and disappointment hard to hide, his voice quavered slightly: "Why won't you take them? Ordinary married couples—the husband entrusts the household finances to the wife. Didn't A Zheng say we'd try being an ordinary couple? If A Zheng won't take my household money, does that mean you regret it?"

Su Zheng was a bit irritated: "Who said ordinary couples act like that?"

Luo Yunchen looked confused: "Isn't that right? I had Guard Xu ask around. In ordinary loving couples, the husband gives his money to his wife, buys her gifts, takes her to temple fairs and on outings..."

Su Zheng rubbed his temples: "I don't need you to do that."

"Then what kind of couple does A Zheng want? I'll work hard to be that!"

"Just... act normal."

Luo Yunchen was even more puzzled: "Normal? What's not normal about us?"

Su Zheng thought to himself, "This isn't normal."

In the apocalypse, he'd gotten used to seeing all sorts of depravity and was almost numb to such scenes—even walking past them as if they were nothing.

But deep inside, Su Zheng was disgusted and resistant.

He also knew that wasn't normal—it was just transaction.

Luo Yunchen's possessiveness toward him, anytime and anywhere without regard for the situation, made him angry.

But it was just anger.

He wasn't disgusted or turned off by Luo Yunchen's closeness.

Perhaps because Luo Yunchen had good looks on his side.

Or maybe because he sensed that Luo Yunchen's feelings for him weren't transactional.

There was nothing off-putting about the way Luo Yunchen looked at him.

Luo Yunchen's possessiveness and desire only got out of control because he was emotionally attached to him.

Because of all this, he had been more indulgent toward Luo Yunchen deep down.

The result of that indulgence was that Luo Yunchen grew even more demanding, and he himself became even more frustrated and upset.