Shen Hua felt drowsy, the medicine not yet having taken effect. She felt hot and pushed away the covers, but was seen and stopped by Xie Xun.
"Be good and lie down. Even if the weather is getting warmer, you mustn't catch a draft after sweating so much."
The girl's palm-sized face was void of life.
"I'm fifteen, I've come of age, I'm already a grown lady, why should I still obey?"
Xie Xun looked towards Cui Yun with an expression that was both smiling and not smiling.
"Fifteen, hear that? I'm afraid some beasts have forgotten."
He had not missed the scratch marks on Cui Yun's neck, or the swollen corners of Shen Hua's lips from being kissed.
Not having kicked out Cui Yun was already an extreme exhibit of his lifelong restraint.
Cui Yun lifted his eyelids slightly: "I'm nineteen."
"Always eager to get married soon."
Xie Xun: ...How capable!
