"Beichen, if it hurts, just cry out!"
Ye Nuanxi wiped the sweat from his forehead as she spoke, tears welling up in her eyes, a heart-wrenching pain sweeping over her. Before Huo Beichen could respond, she swiftly extended her hand towards him, "Or bite my hand, it might feel a bit better..."
"You think this is like making love, that you should cry out when it hurts?"
Ye Nuanxi's instinctive words of comfort were interrupted by Huo Beichen's panting, and then he forced a faint smile on his face, covered in red blotches, "Seems like I've said this before, Nuannuan, do you remember?"
Remember?
"Of course!"
It's the most memorable phrase for her. That year, to save her brother who was driven into a corner, she became his surrogate mother by a twist of fate. The first time they met, this was all she knew about him!
"You were so bad back then!"