Shar-ti blinked her eyes with a face that didn’t understand Ren’s meaning.
‘Weeds? Out of the blue?’
Not comprehending the situation, Shar-ti pinched her own cheek to snap out of it.
‘…Ouch.’
There was no need to pinch too hard.
As soon as she touched her cheek, a tingling pain pierced through her nerves.
It felt like waking up sharply.
‘Come to think of it, did I get hit by that man?’
Last night, the memory of being caught trying to take scissors from under the pillow and getting caught by Dodin flashed in her mind.
Shar-ti frowned, wrapping her cheek.
Surely, the inside of her mouth must be torn.
‘I didn’t even apply the medicine, so it probably got worse.’
If she looked in the mirror, her cheek would surely be swollen. Getting hit by a person was more painful than scratches or bumps.
To exaggerate, it was so painful that tears almost welled up.
“I’m sorry.”
“…….?”
While Shar-ti endured the pain, Ren apologized again with a gloomy voice.
‘Why does he keep apologizing?’
Once Shar-ti removed her hand from her cheek, she gestured to Ren.
As if waiting, Ren naturally reached out his hand.
But Shar-ti wrote her reply on her palm, not his.
Ren’s eyebrows twitched.
It was an expression he made whenever he didn’t like something.
“I did my best.”
“Well, that’s…”
Choosing his words, Ren glanced at Shar-ti.
He, who looked rigid with his thick features, appeared unexpectedly gentle.
“If I had properly gathered herbs, the fever would have gone down, he said.”
Unexpectedly, Shar-ti’s eyes widened at his words.
Ren stroked his throat as if he were embarrassed.
“I memorized the picture and went, but I didn’t distinguish them well.”
Shar-ti paused for a moment in her writing.
It took time to understand Ren’s words due to the sluggishness from the fever.
‘So, did he go to gather herbs to lower my fever? He asked Tein to show the picture, but… Tein checked and found out they were all weeds?’
Pffft. To hold back the laughter bursting out, Shar-ti turned her head abruptly.
It was not a big deal.
It wasn’t even that funny.
Yet, for some reason, a ticklish laughter scratched her chest.
Suppressing the laughter with her hand, Shar-ti felt like her head was getting hotter.
When Shar-ti chuckled lightly, Ren looked puzzled.
“Why are you like that? Does it hurt a lot?”
Looking at Ren, who was examining her with a worried expression, her heart fluttered.
As the fever rose in her head, her guard broke down, and Ren’s seemingly affectionate gaze exposed a vulnerable gap.
“Was it the cold medicine you gave me yesterday? I took it.”
“…?”
Then, why did he say he went to gather herbs?
If she had gone outside and encountered village residents, it would have become complicated.
There was no guarantee that the lie that she was a runaway slave would be convincing to the villagers.
Especially among the villagers who were strongly guarded against outsiders, a few had a distorted view of reporting.
This time, Shar-ti expressed concern for Ren with a serious expression.
Last night, Ren broke the bedroom door, was attacked by Dodint, and even pursued him for revenge. If the smoothly healing wound had somehow reopened, she was undoubtedly the cause.
As Shar-ti tried to get up, Ren grabbed her hand as if folding it on the bed.
Ren’s face approached hers, and Shar-ti, surprised, moved her body backward.
“No need for that. The little doctor found the ointment and applied it.”
With an indifferent face, Ren gently laid Shar-ti back down.
Then he placed the towel that had fallen under the pillow back on her forehead.
‘What about the herbs, then?’
As Shar-ti’s curiosity remained unsatisfied, she squirmed slightly.
Ren lightly stroked the hand of Shar-ti he was covering.
Although Shar-ti, who thought she would pull it out right away, seemed unaware that he was holding her hand.
To avoid showing strange tingling, Ren focused on his expression.
“The little doctor said that there are herbs good for energy.”
Even after giving Shar-ti cold medicine, if Tein was not reassured, he had shown Ren medicinal herbs for body care from the book.
[If the teacher takes it, the body will become sturdy.]It was a natural flow for Ren, who had just asked Viretta what he could do for the sick Shar-ti, to be convinced by Tein’s words.
“I never knew that even if they looked the same, weeds with different root shapes could become different plants.”
He didn’t confess to Shar-ti, but Ren received disappointed looks from Tein for not being able to distinguish herbs from weeds.
Now, he had become an uncle patient with only a big body and nothing in his head.
Self-loathing was a bonus.
“I just wanted to do something, even if it was just that.”
“…….?”
“I wanted to do something, even if my will couldn’t make it.”
The words he added at the end mumbled like the end were Ren’s most sincere.
Shar-ti recalled the words she had poured out to him last night.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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