Chapter 2083: I'm Here to Accompany You

“I just borrowed this from the library yesterday. How about this one?”

Yaen Chi nodded, “Just read from where you left off. I’m listening.”

“Okay.”

Ye Wanting sat back down and read to him. Her voice was soft, gentle, like a breeze lightly brushing over.

There was a rare closeness about her; it was easy to relax when being around her.

After reading two pages, Ye Wanting slowed down, perhaps because Yaen Chi didn’t interrupt her, she got engrossed. Occasionally, she paused at parts she didn’t understand, carefully looking at the notes below, bringing out her pen and notebook to jot down and copy.

Later on, she forgot to keep reading, crossed her legs with the notebook on her lap—this position was difficult to write in—and she was hunched over. Yaen Chi couldn’t resist and gently lifted her head up a bit with his fingers.

“Hmm?”

“It’s uncomfortable sitting like that.”

Yaen Chi glanced at the coffee table, “There’s a small stool by the sofa. You can use it and write leaning on the table.”

Ye Wanting’s face flushed red, she quickly apologized, “Sorry, sorry. I’m just used to it. I forgot I was reading to you.”

She put the notebook and pen down, prepared to put them back in her bag, but Yaen Chi stopped her with a raised hand, “No need, I just mentioned it casually. I don’t really want to listen; you study.”

“But I came here to keep you company.”

Yaen Chi chuckled, “You’re still keeping me company just by being nearby. Go ahead.”

Ye Wanting felt it was quite rude, but since Yaen Chi insisted and led her in the conversation, thinking that it was hard to find a topic to chat about with him, fearing awkwardness, she agreed half reluctantly.

But she thoughtfully poured a cup of warm water and placed it next to him.

She didn’t notice, when she laid down on the coffee table to study, Yaen Chi was drinking from the cup she had used.

Yaen Chi didn’t disturb her. Having lost his phone, though his data could be restored, there was still a lot left unsorted. He put his phone on silent and quietly worked.

His back couldn’t rest against the chair, and once he stopped working, he felt his waist hurt as if it was about to break.

Ye Wanting was engrossed in her study, so he abandoned the thought of calling her, propped himself against the cabinet, and slowly walked a few rounds around the bed with the help of recovery tools.

By the time he put things away, Ye Wanting had already fallen asleep at the coffee table.

Yaen Chi took a thin blanket and covered her.

There was a knock at the door.

Yaen Chi’s scalp tingled, but he made no sound.

“It’s me.” Xu Shu’s voice came from under the door crack.

Yaen Chi breathed a sigh of relief and silently walked to open the door. However, he moved slowly and misaligned his steps, accidentally kicking a small stool. He hurriedly hooked it with his foot to suppress the noise.

Xu Shu pushed the door open, his tense expression transformed into a smile upon seeing Yaen Chi’s comically awkward posture, “What’s going on here?”

Yaen Chi made a shushing motion with his mouth, carefully placed the stool aside, but found straightening up difficult. It hurt more than a sprain or dislocation.

Xu Shu quickly came over to help him up, “I told you not to move. Trying to show off in front of the little girl, huh?”

“Ouch…”

Yaen Chi’s painful exclamation was suppressed to a whisper; he pursed his lips hard, “If I don’t move around a bit, I’ll really be done for. Just taking a few steps, after all, my back is starting to heal and scab, just itchy.”

“Just itchy?”

Xu Shu revealed him, “Not hurting?”

Yaen Chi glared at him irritably, “Pain my ass!”