Stop Thinking Chapter 20: His face is sore

Chapter 20: His face is sore

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Ruan Yu did not dare to struggle any more, and did not know how to ask.

His intuition told him that he couldn’t open his mouth indiscriminately, once he made a mistake in wording, it would cause Gu Xiuhan to be embarrassed like Qin Yue that day.

Ruan Yu mumbled for a long day, suffocated by his belly full of questions, and still ended up with a beetroot-like little red face, wilted and good-naturedly hugged Gu Xiuhan.

It was like a lifetime of emotional intelligence was used in this journey.

As soon as Ruan Yu touched the bed, he slipped into the nest like a fish and quickly arched into a small round bag, closing his eyes and covering his ears, not listening and not looking.

Gu Xiuhan was not sure, took off his jacket, pulled up the cuffs by two folds, went to the bathroom to get a face wipe, knocked on the door like a knuckle tap on the small round bag, and said in a warm voice, “Come out and wipe your face.”

If you don’t want to change your clothes, at least wipe off your makeup.

Ruan Yu dawdled out from above the edge of the quilt, the pupils of his eyes as bright as water, as if he had been bullied.

Gu Xiuhan thought he was feverish and uncomfortable, so he dipped a face wipe into the skin cleanser to remove his makeup. The result is that as soon as his hand reached out, Ruan Yu grabbed the corner of the wipe, his eyelashes lowered, and his voice was small, “I can wipe it myself.”

At first glance, he seemed to be mature and understanding, knowing that it is not good to even let others wipe your face for you.

Gu Xiuhan expression fell, “hmm”, got up to find the medicine.

The mermaid medication was different from the human. What Ruan Yu brought to the energy planet in the small medicine box were several research institute’s special mermaid medicines, to relieve the symptoms of courtship fever, the effectiveness different, appropriate to various actual situations.

Gu Xiuhan first took Ruan Yu’s temperature, which was right at the threshold of high fever.

Gu Admiral who has always been a thunderbolt on the battlefield, felt rare uncertainty providing such chaotic care. After a little hesitation, he asked in a light voice, “Are your hands and feet cold?”

After taking care of Ruan Yu for so many years, he has accumulated some experience.

If your hands and feet are cold when you have a fever, it means that your body temperature will continue to rise and you need to pay extra attention to it in the next few hours, otherwise the temperature has reached its peak and there is no big problem.

“Mn…” Ruan Yu absentmindedly said perfunctorily, “It seems to be a little.”

Seeing that he was confused, Gu Xiuhan only had to clutch his fingers.

Soft and slippery, like squeezing the tender tips of a few spring shoots.

Before Gu Xiuhan let go of his hand, Ruan Yu had drawn it back in a stressful manner.

He was just afraid that the signal would spread too well, causing him to hear strange heart sounds again.

But this small action was somewhat perverse and inevitably interpreted as dislike and revulsion.

Gu Xiuhan with his hand hanging in mid-air, quietly looked at Ruan Yu, and slowly lowered his head to open the pill box, the tone of voice can not be heard ripples, “body temperature will rise, eat this first.”

Gu Xiuhan pinched the corner of the opened box of pills and handed it over, calmly instructed, “three pills.”

After the words, he set a reminder to take several other drugs, pulled a single sofa to sit aside, and opened the terminal ready to deal with some trivial business here.

This was how he personally took care of Ruan Yu whenever he was sick since he was a child.

During baby Ruan Yu’s time, he was not well adapted to the natural environment of the capital star, so he was very delicate and got sick quite a few times.

The most dangerous one was when the mermaid’s immune system was unable to cope with a pathogen that was not harmful to humans, resulting in a high fever for several days, and Shen Jingya’s senior researchers were scrambling to find a solution, and little Ruan Yu was transferred to a special care unit in the research institute.

The dough-like, soft and tender baby Ruan Yu was steaming red with body heat, and the small tail, which was usually curved in a dignified manner, was drooping down, flattened in the medical bay.

Teenager Gu Xiuhan put the hand wearing sterile protective gloves in, gently stroking the little fish cub’s round head, silently comforting him.

The little Ruan Yu did not move, since the beginning of the drug mist treatment he stayed lying on his side, tenaciously maintained lying with the little fish butt towards Gu Xiuhan, fascinated by the puffed up look.

Gu Xiuhan was inexplicably uneasy and wanted to see his face, so he turned to the other end of the medical bay.

Little Ruan Yu wiggled his short pouting fish tail with difficulty and “snapped” over, determined to keep his back to the state.

He was already weak from the fever, Gu Xiuhan did not dare to toss him to turn over again, in place for a long time, or reassured, simply probed into the medical cabin, gently fished out the burning little fish baby into his arms.

Gu Xiuhan fixed his eyes, the round face was wet with tears, and then turned the pillow.

Such a small little one, but his tears were large, tucked under the pillow so it was not too hard on the head.

The usual delicate and difficult to feed baby Ruan Yu, constant temperature artificial lake fluctuations of 0.1 ℃ would wilt head and no spirit, now burned like this, hard to cry all the time, Gu Xiuhan could not imagine how tormented he was.

His heart was so sour and bitter that it was like lemon juice.

Gu Xiuhan used his arm to hold little Ruan Yu steady, let the little head pillow on his shoulder nest, back and forth, trying to put him to sleep.

After all, if you fall asleep, you won’t know how hard it is.

Sensing Gu Xiuhan’s anxiety and urgency to the verge of losing control, little Ruan Yu wiped his face wet with tears and snot with his webbed fat hand, because he was a clean-loving fish cub, he also wiped his hands with Gu Xiuhan’s protective clothing in a dying breath, and only then whispered comfortingly, “Brother…. Ruan Ruan is not uncomfortable.”

The tone was rustling, exhaling a small stream of air burning like coals.

It should be that the throat area inflammation was too heavy, Gu Xiuhan could even smell a very faint wisp of blood gas.

How can it not be uncomfortable?

And you are crying like this… Why do you still think about comforting others?

Gu Xiuhan gritted his teeth, and his jawline slowly tensed up.

“No, it’s not.” The little Ruan Yu struggled to organize language retort, raised a small hand, weakly rubbed Gu Xiuhan’s anxiously raised forehead, and finally could not tense up when he spoke again, his mouth deflated, the little milk voice again tinged with a glutinous cry, two half-formed pearl tears rolled down his face, “is afraid brother sad, afraid brother will feel pain… Woo…”

Gu Xiuhan was stunned for a long time before he understood.

Little Ruan Yu thought that this illness could not be cured and that he was going to die. He was not imagining things, but read the fear in Gu Xiuhan’s heart. If he died, Gu Xiuhan would be very, very sad, which he could feel.

Moreover, if he dies, he wouldn’t be able to help Gu Xiuhan relieve the severe headache that could cause the loss of will to live when the mental energy explodes.

That’s why he said that.

The reason for crying like this was more because of worrying about Gu Xiuhan.

Probably because he was born with a strong spiritual healing ability and was supposed to act as a “healer” in his own community, Ruan Yu could easily empathize with other beings, especially close and important relatives.

This was an important part of the reason why the spiritual healing for Gu Xiuhan was so effective.

Ruan Yu would mourn what he mourned and hurt like he was hurting.

Gu Xiuhan would always remember how it felt to be healed by Ruan Yu.

Being understood, being tolerated, being comforted.

Like the melting of a glacier, the tender shoots arching through the frozen soil, a weak root scratching the tip of the heart, tingling and tickling, the sweet warmth of pure childishness filling the lungs.

Ruan Yu treated the pale and cold deserted beach in his spiritual world as his own little world, clumsily and slowly, planting flowers all over it with his two little fleshy hands.

…

As an effect of the medicine, Ruan Yu’s thinking became more and more sluggish and fell asleep, while pondering the strange mental body in Gu Xiuhan’s brain.

He had an extremely long dream.

In the dream, he returned to the ocean of his home planet, floating with the waves in the gentle azure water, his consciousness was chaotic and relaxed, and the boundary of his ego gradually disappeared, like a drop of water quietly merging into the sea.

In this dream, which lasted for an unknown period of time, Ruan Yu had the illusion of melting into seawater and then coalescing out of it.

It was as if everything in his body was changing and alternating with his spirit, tending to mature and perfect.

I wonder if all mermaids experience such a wonderful experience during courtship fever.

Ruan Yu was a little reluctant to wake up after returning to his hometown in his dream.

But he was still called up several times intermittently during this period, his eyelids half-opened and half-closed, sleepwalking as Gu Xiuhan fed him medicine.

Because he was not soothed by a suitable mate, the heat in his body kept climbing, his throat became more and more sore, and the pills gradually became less palatable.

“It hurts…” A thin, weak whining voice.

Ruan Yu rubbed Adam’s apple with his finger, pushed away the water cup, and refused to take the medicine obediently anymore.

Gu Xiuhan’s eyebrows knitted slightly, and did not force, only said in a deep voice, “Open your mouth.”

He had to check how far Ruan Yu’s throat was inflamed.

Ruan Yu was still half asleep and opened his mouth honestly at the words.

Gu Xiuhan lowered his eyes and looked in.

In just a few hours, the area of the throat has swollen red, no wonder it hurt so much that it wouldn’t even swallow the medicine.

He saw clearly, but did not immediately let Ruan Yu close his mouth.

A riddling silence flowed in the air, and it was not clear what he was thinking.

And just then, a scene suddenly burst into Ruan Yu’s consciousness – it was himself with his mouth open.

The burning red palm face tilted up, silly and foolish.

Behind two rows of pearly white teeth, the soft flesh of his mouth was filled with soft and shiny fluid.

…

It was brief, lasting only about a second or less.

Ruan Yu knew what it was, it was something that mermaids pick up only when they are highly coordinated with the spirits of other organisms, pictorial EEG signals…

Or it can be like this when encountering lower organisms whose spirits were particularly easy to read.

The accidental reading of Gu Xiuhan’s intracerebral images was probably a perceptual boost from the courtship fever.

Ruan Yu was instantly awakened from his muddled state.

For EEG signals to be strong enough to form a picture, the organism needs to be in a focused or emotionally intense state.

In other words… . Gu Xiuhan was watching his mouth very carefully and attentively.

There seemed to be nothing wrong with it, he was the one who started yelling about his sore throat.

So if Gu Xiuhan didn’t look carefully, should he look carelessly?

Ruan Yu himself thought he was baffled.

But…

Ruan Yu abruptly parted his hot face, busy to close his mouth, small bulging lips pursed to deformation.

” What’s taking so long,” Ruan Yu did not dare to tell the truth, his eyes wandered, and he complained with insufficient breath, “My face is sore…”

 

 

 

 

 

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