"There is no need for you to apologise," said Ah Man. She glanced at her husband, whose eyes were filled with tears and said to him, "It's I who wronged you." She slowly sat up straight on the layers of the beasts' skins and rubbed her back. Because she had been lying on the floor for so long, her back had turned stiff. Seeing that his wife was rubbing her back, Nuan Nuan hurriedly started massaging her on the back.
He said to her, "I was so scared, Manman. I thought I lost you; fortunately, Chanchan knows a little about how to deal with the poison of the Mist Spider and managed to give you an antidote on time or else I…" His eyes turned tearful when he thought about what kind of bleak future would be waiting for him if his wife died. After all, he was not a warrior-kind beast mer; not many women would want him, and even if he somehow managed to get another woman, she wouldn't want his child to follow him.
