When she saw Lu Tianxing’s shoulder wound, Bai Zhiqing couldn’t help but gasp in shock. There, embedded in Lu Tianxing’s shoulder, was an ivory-colored bullet. The flesh around it was drenched in blood, creating a particularly harrowing sight.
Bai Zhiqing covered her mouth, struggling not to cry out. She found it hard to imagine how Lu Tianxing, after sustaining such an injury, pretended to be unharmed and managed to escape with her from the assassin’s grasp.
"Lu Tianxing, how do you feel? Shall I drive you to the hospital?" Bai Zhiqing said, her face slightly pale as she clenched her fingers.
"No need, it’s just a minor injury. Wife, if you find the blood repulsive and can’t stand it, you can turn away. You don’t have to look," Lu Tianxing said, forcing a bright smile and speaking gently.
Hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, a sudden pang of sorrow welled up in Bai Zhiqing’s heart. Lu Tianxing still didn’t want her to understand him.
"No, I won’t turn away. I want to see with my own eyes this bullet that nearly took my life being removed. I want to remember this moment forever."
Bai Zhiqing stood her ground with a resolute attitude.
Seeing Bai Zhiqing’s defiant look, Lu Tianxing said nothing more. He took sterilized tweezers, reached behind himself and slowly started to extract the bullet lodged in his muscle.
"Suck in your breath!"
The moment the tweezers touched his skin, the searing heat made Lu Tianxing grimace in pain. Enduring the agony, he managed to pull the bullet out from his muscle, and Lu Tianxing couldn’t help but gasp in discomfort. Despite being a Martial Artist, he was not a god who could be completely insensitive to his own pain.
Bai Zhiqing screamed when she saw Lu Tianxing pulling the bullet out directly. Fearing she might disturb him, she quickly covered her mouth and stared intently at Lu Tianxing, feeling a surge of pain in her heart. She had never before seen such a raw scene of bullet extraction, particularly the moment the bullet was removed and blood spurted out, which was startling and fearsome to witness.
After giving the wound a rudimentary treatment and disinfecting it, Lu Tianxing turned to Bai Zhiqing and said, "Can you bandage a wound?"
"Help me bandage it."
Bai Zhiqing was taken aback for a moment, then quickly came to her senses, picking up the gauze from the medical kit and walking over to Lu Tianxing.
Instantly, a fresh and elegant scent wafted from Bai Zhiqing’s body.
"Wife, you smell really good," Lu Tianxing said with a smile.
"Pervert, even when you’re injured, you don’t forget to be lecherous."
Bai Zhiqing glared at Lu Tianxing, her pretty face blushing, but the expected anger was not there.
Seeing Bai Zhiqing’s reaction, a smile briefly crossed Lu Tianxing’s face. It seemed that getting injured this time was completely worth it. The ice was beginning to melt, and it might not be long before they could enjoy some more pleasant activities.
Bai Zhiqing gazed at the bloody hole where the bullet had been, feeling slightly dazed. She realized that she was the cause of the injury. If Lu Tianxing hadn’t saved her, that bullet might have been embedded in her head instead.
Taking a deep breath, Bai Zhiqing’s fingers trembled as she lifted them, suppressing the pounding in her heart and focusing on bandaging Lu Tianxing’s wound with her head bowed.
After a long while and several fumbles, the wound was finally bandaged. Bai Zhiqing felt as if she’d fought a grueling battle, exhaling a long breath and wiping the copious sweat from her face, finding it more taxing than negotiating a business deal. There were several mistakes, and only with Lu Tianxing’s guidance was it completed.
"Wife, can you tell me who you’ve offended?"
Seeing Bai Zhiqing approach, Lu Tianxing also let out a long sigh, suppressing the fire in his heart. When she lowered her head to bandage him, her hair kept brushing his back, and the faint fragrance wafting from her body was so distracting that he almost couldn’t resist pushing her down.
"I haven’t offended anyone."
Bai Zhiqing was also puzzled by his question; she too didn’t know who she could have offended that they would want her life not just once but several times.
"Lu Tianxing, thank you, really, for saving my life."
Bai Zhiqing looked at Lu Tianxing with shimmering eyes that flickered with complex emotions, along with an unexplainable tenderness that even Bai Zhiqing herself was unaware of.
"No need to thank me; you are my wife, saving you is only natural. Of course, if you really want to thank me, that’s not impossible, all you have to do is agree to one condition."
Lu Tianxing shook his head as if nothing was wrong—the injury was trivial to him, comparable to a common person cutting a finger with a small knife, and he could recover at any time if he wished.
However, he saw this as a rare opportunity to win over a beauty’s heart and Lu Tianxing was not one to let such chances slip by.
Upon hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, Bai Zhiqing agreed without hesitation: "What condition? As long as it’s within my ability, I can agree to it."
Lu Tianxing was taken aback by how readily Bai Zhiqing agreed, "Even if I ask you to offer yourself to me, you would agree?"
"Of course. You’ve saved my life; offering myself once is not a big deal," Bai Zhiqing said, fixing her gaze on Lu Tianxing, clenching her teeth, and slowly speaking out.
Lu Tianxing’s eyes brightened, almost wishing he could take her up on the offer to offer herself. But he knew if he allowed Bai Zhiqing to make that move, he could forever forget about breaking through her icy fortress.
Thinking this, Lu Tianxing immediately dismissed the thought; a temporary pleasure was good, but the long game was king.
Lu Tianxing chuckled mischievously, "Wife, don’t be nervous, I was just joking to lighten the mood. You’re looking much better now, pretty much back to normal. But I do indeed need your help with something."
Lu Tianxing swayed his head and made a request that turned Bai Zhiqing’s face crimson, "Wife, I need you to help me with a bath. I’m covered in blood, and this sticky feeling is really uncomfortable."
"What, you want me to help you bathe? Lu Tianxing, you must be dreaming."
Bai Zhiqing shrieked, her face burning hot with embarrassment and anger as she shot Lu Tianxing an irate look, only to find him staring back with eager anticipation.
"Was this your plan all along? You intentionally got injured to deceive me?"
Bai Zhiqing glared at Lu Tianxing with gritted teeth. Last time, Lu Tianxing had managed to dodge a bullet, so why couldn’t he do it this time? And the thought of helping a man bathe, especially when that man was her husband in name only, was excruciatingly embarrassing.