Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Wait Until I’m Healed

After finally finishing the porridge, Lu Cheng didn’t want to wait another second and gave Jiang Peng his marching orders:

"Go back to your room and get some sleep. You need to focus on your recovery."

Jiang Peng didn’t detect Lu Cheng’s disdain. In fact, he was quite touched.

’He gave me food and told me to get some sleep. If this isn’t love, what is?’

"Alright, Brother-in-law, I’ll go get some sleep. I’ll come back and keep you company after I wake up."

Lu Cheng: ’Please don’t come back.’

After Jiang Peng left, Jiang Moli got ready to take the lunchbox and spoon to the utility room to wash them.

Lu Cheng stopped her. "Don’t worry about that. Just leave it; a nurse can clean it up later. You should sit down and rest. You must be exhausted, right?"

After rushing all this way on such a long journey, it would have been a lie to say she wasn’t tired.

Jiang Moli put down the lunchbox and sat on the stool.

Lu Cheng gazed at her gently. "Did you come here by yourself?"

Jiang Moli teased, "What? Disappointed your parents didn’t come along to see you?"

Lu Cheng smiled. "Having you here is more than enough. If they came, they’d just be superfluous."

Meanwhile, the "superfluous" Lu Deyao had just received a call from Jiang Xiaoguang, who reported that everything was fine.

After hanging up, he called An Hui. "Don’t worry, he’s fine. That little rascal has nine lives."

An Hui grunted in acknowledgment, her reaction muted.

Ma Hongmei, on the other hand, clasped her hands together and muttered, "Thank the heavens."

It wasn’t that An Hui wasn’t concerned for her son’s safety; she and Ma Hongmei already knew his life wasn’t in danger.

Given Lu Deyao’s high rank, the military had informed him the moment Lu Cheng got hurt.

By the time Jiang Peng had called Jiang Moli, Lu Cheng had already been treated and was out of mortal danger.

But the old couple had their own agenda. They wanted the young couple to reunite, so they didn’t expose Jiang Peng’s "lie." Instead, they actively encouraged their daughter-in-law to go to him.

Evidently, Lu Cheng had also figured out his parents’ well-intentioned scheme.

Worried that his wife would get angry once she pieced it all together, Lu Cheng tried to placate her by changing the subject:

"You must be exhausted after traveling for so long. Come up here and get some sleep."

Jiang Moli retorted playfully, "Sleep? Are you using that as a verb or a noun?"

Lu Cheng, long accustomed to his wife’s roguish ways, replied without batting an eye, "Just wait until my injuries heal."

Jiang Moli pouted. "The bed’s too small. You can have it. I’ll go to the guesthouse."

"No need. You take it."

As he spoke, he sat up in the bed and swung his legs over the side, gesturing for Jiang Moli to lie down.

"You take the bed. I’ve been lying down for two days, and I’m getting stiff. It’ll be good for me to sit up for a while."

Since he put it that way, Jiang Moli didn’t refuse. She took off her coat, draped it over him, then kicked off her shoes and slipped under the covers.

The covers, still toasty from his body heat and carrying his unique scent, lulled Jiang Moli to sleep in no time.

Only after he saw that she was asleep did Lu Cheng clutch his left side, wincing in pain.

The bullet had hit his ribs. It hadn’t damaged any internal organs, but the slightest movement sent a piercing pain through him.

But to ensure his wife could stay in the bed, he had forced himself to endure the pain without showing the slightest hint of it.

Looking at his soft, fragrant wife on the bed, even the pain felt blissful.

Before long, Wei Huihui entered the room with a tray of medicine.

She froze when she saw Lu Cheng sitting on the edge of the bed. Then, her gaze fell upon Jiang Moli sleeping soundly in his place, and her anger flared.

She strode to the bedside and opened her mouth to wake Jiang Moli, but Lu Cheng interrupted her.

"Time to change the dressing, right? Please don’t wake my wife. We can do it outside."

Wei Huihui couldn’t believe her ears. "Camp Commander Lu, you’re the patient here..."

"Shh. Keep your voice down so you don’t disturb her. Let’s go."

Seeing his determination to leave the room, Wei Huihui kindly offered a hand to support him, but Lu Cheng waved her off. "I’m fine. I can walk on my own."

Wei Huihui obviously realized Lu Cheng was trying to avoid any hint of impropriety. She shot a glare at the sleeping Jiang Moli, her heart a mix of envy and jealousy.

’Such a capable and devoted man, a true gem, and he’s stuck with a wife who doesn’t have a single considerate or gentle bone in her body.’

[Disdain Value +1. Credited: 10,000 Yuan.]

「Outside the hospital room.」

Lu Cheng sat on a bench meant for family members while Wei Huihui knelt on the floor to change his dressing.

"Camp Commander Lu, your injury requires bed rest. I can find another bed for you. After I’ve changed your dressing, you should go lie down."

"That’s not necessary."

"But..."

"Nurse Xiao Wei, I’m aware of my own condition, so there’s no need for you to worry. By the way, could you please wash the lunchbox and spoon on the cabinet?"

Her kindness was completely unappreciated, and now he was ordering her to wash a lunchbox. Wei Huihui couldn’t help but seethe with silent indignation.

Although attending to Lu Cheng’s daily needs was part of her job, that only applied when no family was around. With a family member present, these tasks should fall to them.

Back at the nurses’ station, a fuming Wei Huihui started complaining about Jiang Moli to the other nurses on her shift.

"I’ve really seen it all now. In all my years as a nurse, I have never seen a family member kick a patient out of bed just so they could hog it for a nap."

"I just can’t fathom how a woman like her managed to marry a man as good as Camp Commander Lu."

Listening to her colleagues join in to criticize and condemn Jiang Moli, Wei Huihui finally started to feel a bit better.

[Disdain Value +4. Credited: 40,000 Yuan.]

Jiang Moli was woken up by the alert signaling that she had received Disdain Value.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Lu Cheng sitting across from her, his back against the wall, watching her in silence.

When he saw she was awake, he happily got up and came over. "Did you sleep well?"

’My wife’s finally awake. Now I have someone to talk to.’

Jiang Moli, however, misunderstood his eagerness. Thinking he had been waiting a long time, she got up to give him the bed back.

"You can have the bed now."

Lu Cheng didn’t refuse. He had been forcing himself to sit upright for two hours, and his body was about to give out.

Jiang Moli poured a glass of water, took a couple of sips, and then held it to Lu Cheng’s lips.

Lu Cheng didn’t mind in the slightest that he was drinking after her; on the contrary, he looked absolutely delighted.

"Honey, I need to use the bathroom."

Jiang Moli bent over, pulled the urinal out from under the bed, and lifted the covers.

"Tsk, well, he’s certainly in high spirits."

"He’s saluting you."

Amused by his witty retort, Jiang Moli aimed the mouth of the urinal and positioned it.

A trickling sound filled the hospital room.

Jiang Moli asked casually, "So, who’s been helping you pee these last two days?"

The trickling sound stopped abruptly.

Jiang Moli raised an eyebrow. "All done? That was quick."

The trickling sound started up again.

A rare, guilty look crossed Lu Cheng’s face. "When I was unconscious... I probably didn’t need to go, right?"

Jiang Moli had only asked on a whim.

It wasn’t that she didn’t mind—she did, a little—but she didn’t mind *that* much.

After all, this was a hospital. To the medical staff, it was just an organ.

"I’ll never let myself get injured again."

"You rest. I’m going to the restroom."

She quickly helped him with his pants, then carried the urinal out of the room.

Watching her hurry away, Lu Cheng clearly misunderstood and thought she was upset. He felt a mix of frustration and happiness.

He was frustrated because he had no idea who might have touched him while he was unconscious.

’My wife is angry, which means she’s jealous. And if she’s jealous, it means she cares about me.’

What Lu Cheng didn’t know was that Jiang Moli rushed out to investigate why she was suddenly racking up so much Disdain Value.

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