Su Xiaoqi was severely injured and lost a lot of blood. That night, her wound became infected, causing her to develop a high fever. The doctor who occasionally visited was helpless, and she was close to death.
It was Shen Yun who decisively used the medicine Su Xiaoqi had once used to treat his injuries. After two days and two nights of constant care without rest, he managed to snatch her back from the clutches of death.
On the third day after Su Xiaoqi was injured, her fever subsided, and she regained consciousness. She saw Shen Yun, with his hair loose and a stubble on his face, sitting by her bedside.
If not for his eyes, she would have thought she had mistaken him for someone else.
"Husband?" Su Xiaoqi looked doubtfully at the stubbled man leaning against the bedpost, holding a dagger and lost in thought.
She recognized the dagger. It was the one Shen Fu had used to stab her. After he had dropped it in his fright, Shen Yun had picked it up.
For the past two days, besides taking care of Su Xiaoqi, he had been staring at this dagger.
This was the murder weapon. Unfortunately, they couldn't report it to the authorities because of the corruption. Given Shen Fu's status as the Prince of Ning's heir, reporting it would be useless.
They also couldn't go to the Prince of Ning's mansion to seek justice.
It was common knowledge that Shen Fu was the only son of the Prince and Princess of Ning, the sole heir for three generations, and cherished dearly.
How could they possibly shake this mountain?
Thus, all official channels for seeking justice were blocked. They even kept the matter a secret, telling no one except those present at the time.
However, Shen Yun would never give up on revenge.
He intended to keep the dagger as a reminder that the Prince of Ning's mansion owed his wife a blood debt.
One day, this dagger would be used on Shen Fu.
Shen Yun did not hide this thought from Su Xiaoqi.
His intention was to reassure his wife that he would avenge her.
"Husband, I... perhaps we should let it go. I don't want revenge." Su Xiaoqi tried to dissuade Shen Yun from this idea.
It wasn't that she didn't want revenge, but she didn't want Shen Yun to be the one to carry it out.
She would seek revenge herself, not through Shen Yun's hands.
For some reason, Su Xiaoqi had a strange feeling.
It felt as if the more blood Shen Yun's hands were stained with, the greater the possibility of him becoming corrupted in the future.
It was like a curse, with the preceding actions being rituals and the subsequent corruption being the outcome.
If Su Xiaoqi still held her old thoughts and did not intend to stay by his side, she would not care what happened to him.
But things were different now. She had feelings for him, and she did not want him to walk the path of his past life again.
Although he was powerful and influential in that life, covering the sky with one hand, he lacked familial love, romantic love, and even human affection.
He was like a machine, constantly engaged in power struggles, devoid of warmth, as if he was only fighting for power for the sake of power.
Originally, Su Xiaoqi had planned to use her injury as an excuse to avoid attending the Bathing the Buddha Festival at Gan Quan Temple.
But seeing how Shen Yun was not himself due to her injury, constantly thinking of revenge even in his dreams, she began to hesitate again.
Forget it, she should recover quickly.
Otherwise, she didn't know what this man might do out of guilt.
With this thought, Su Xiaoqi waited until Shen Yun fell asleep in the dead of night, entered her space, and exchanged a good amount of grain for a spiritual medicine.
The effect was immediate.
After sleeping through the night, her injuries had miraculously healed.
When Shen Yun pulled away the bandages to change her dressing, he found that the redness and swelling on her skin were gone, and there were no scabs.
Her wound was healed.
It was too strange.
This was simply a miracle.
"Wife, your wound..." Shen Yun called out to Su Xiaoqi, unsure of what to say for a moment.
He had always known his little wife had secrets, but he didn't know she possessed such abilities.
"Hmm?" Su Xiaoqi was clueless.
She had fallen asleep after taking the medicine and was unaware that her injuries had completely healed.
Her current confusion and bewilderment appeared perfectly genuine in Shen Yun's eyes.
"Wife, look." Shen Yun found no abnormalities on Su Xiaoqi's face and pointed to her shoulder and back for her to see.
"Mmm, Husband, are you joking? I'm still injured, how can I turn around to look?" Su Xiaoqi said, trying to turn her head back, gritting her teeth as if in pain.
But halfway through, she realized that the wound that had made her suffer so much no longer hurt.
There was no pain at all.
Could the spiritual medicine be this effective?
Although Su Xiaoqi knew the medicine was potent, she had only administered it to others and had never experienced it herself.
Moreover, she had fallen asleep after taking the medicine last night and was unaware of the changes it had brought about.
"Eh, Husband, my wound... it doesn't hurt anymore." Su Xiaoqi already knew it was the spiritual medicine's effect and felt a bit guilty, but she had to continue the act.
She couldn't possibly tell Shen Yun that she had a space with spiritual medicine, where a single dose could heal injuries to their original state.
Wouldn't that frighten him?
"Wife, your wound is healed. It seems the medicine you concocted before was very effective." Shen Yun saw through her thoughts completely.
Seeing that Su Xiaoqi didn't want him to know, he pretended to be oblivious and cooperatively played along with her act.
In his eyes, what space or spiritual medicine mattered little; as long as the person he cared about was well, that was enough.
Furthermore, his wife was so generous. She had been reluctant to use such potent spiritual medicine on herself, but she had used two doses on him consecutively so that he could participate in the imperial examinations as he wished.
This was a testament to her deep affection!
"Wife." Shen Yun embraced her tightly, his voice muffled.
He was touched by his little wife. He had always thought she didn't love him as deeply as he loved her, but in reality, she had given her all to be good to him without his knowledge.
All of this made Shen Yun feel even more guilty towards Su Xiaoqi. He vowed to treat her doubly well in the future and never let her suffer any grievances.
At the same time, his mind was racing, figuring out how to make the Prince of Ning's heir pay.
Recalling the rumors that the Prince of Ning's mansion had only one heir for three generations, he thought, why not ensure they have no descendants?
From an angle Su Xiaoqi couldn't see, Shen Yun's expression darkened.
As they were talking, Guo'er came to announce that Miss Du had arrived.
Although Su Xiaoqi had been unconscious, she had heard from Shen Yun upon waking that Du Yiyi had visited three times, staying for half the day each time.
Upon hearing of her arrival, Su Xiaoqi was very excited and quickly said, "Yiyi is here, please invite her in."
As Du Yiyi entered, she glanced at Su Xiaoqi, saw her rosy complexion and delicate appearance, and felt a surge of joy.
She quickly stepped forward to examine her closely, "Sister Xiaoqi, are you alright? That's wonderful! Do you know, I was so worried seeing you lying there all these days."
Su Xiaoqi smiled and said she was fine, that she wasn't really injured, just scared herself, and being tired from the previous days, she had slept a bit too much.
Su Xiaoqi spoke of it lightly, but Du Yiyi refused to believe it, saying she still had bandages on her and couldn't be so careless.
"Sister, you don't seem to care about yourself, but I wonder how much your brother-in-law cares. He hasn't rested these past few days." Du Yiyi glanced at Shen Yun, who had already stepped away, leaving the space for the sisters to talk. She praised him sincerely:
"Brother-in-law is truly a good man. He stayed by your side, never leaving for two or three days. Even when Zhao Momo offered to relieve him, he refused, fearing that if you woke up, he wouldn't be the first to notice. My maternal grandmother always said that if a man is willing to attend to you like this, and care for you so much, he is a good man worth entrusting your life to. Sister, you are kind-hearted, which is why you found such a good marriage."
Du Yiyi's words made Su Xiaoqi look at her more than once. Despite her young age, she spoke so eloquently.
However, Du Yiyi's words were not wrong, and Su Xiaoqi agreed with them wholeheartedly. From now on, she truly wanted to live a good life with Shen Yun!