129: Chapter 129 Um... Could you please buy this for me...?

However, right now he didn't have time to overthink.

Lu Li quickly adjusted his line of sight to avoid any awkwardness.

Then he quickly hurried over to Shen Qingxue's side.

"Um... Stomachache?"

Shen Qingxue turned her head away, refusing to look at him, her voice muffled.

"...Yeah."

"When did it start?"

"Just now..."

Shen Qingxue's voice was very soft, carrying a hint of a nasal tone. It sounded like she was pouting, yet also like she was acting spoiled.

But Lu Li completely ignored all of that.

Her face was completely pale, and she was sweating profusely from the pain. He was so scared that he had no mind to care about anything else.

Then Lu Li took a deep breath, his tone becoming much gentler.

"Does it hurt badly? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

"No need."

Shen Qingxue answered quickly. After a pause, she added another sentence.

"It's just... my period, menstrual cramps."

The last few words were so soft they were almost inaudible.

Lu Li froze for a moment, then suddenly understood.

No wonder her complexion was so terrible, and she was curled up like that.

Although he hadn't experienced it firsthand, he knew well enough that this kind of pain could be agonizing.

"Just wait here. I'm known as the Miracle Doctor whose hands bring spring back to life."

Lu Li stood up and turned to walk outside.

Hearing the footsteps, Shen Qingxue instinctively turned her head to look, only to see Lu Li's back disappear through the doorway.

She opened her mouth to call out to Lu Li, but swallowed the words back.

The room quieted down.

Shen Qingxue buried her face back into the pillow. Waves of cramping pain came from her lower abdomen, causing her whole body to tremble slightly.

That feeling of grievance welled up again.

Not because of Lu Li, but because... she herself didn't even know why.

She just felt miserable.

Physically miserable, and emotionally miserable too.

After about two or three minutes, the footsteps sounded again.

Shen Qingxue didn't raise her head, but she could feel Lu Li approaching and then crouching down beside the bed.

"Get up, take the medicine first."

Lu Li's voice was much gentler than usual, keeping it very soft as if afraid of startling her.

Shen Qingxue froze for a moment, then slowly raised her head.

Lu Li was crouching by the bed, holding a cup of warm water in one hand and pinching two pills in the other.

His expression was very serious, without a trace of joking.

"I have a few boxes of Ibuprofen hoarded here, and they'll come in handy right now. Forget about a stomachache; I guarantee to cure your headache, toothache, hand ache, and foot ache."

Hearing Lu Li rattle off those words like a rap or chant, Shen Qingxue wanted to smile, but couldn't quite manage it.

So this was the miraculous doctor?

She really had to hand it to him.

Afterwards, Shen Qingxue took a deep breath and slowly propped herself up with her arms.

Seeing this, Lu Li instinctively reached out to support her shoulder to help her sit steady, then quickly let go.

Shen Qingxue took the cup and the medicine, lowered her head to put the medicine in her mouth, took a sip of water, tilted her head back, and swallowed.

"Slow down, slow down, don't choke."

Lu Li watched from the side with a nervous expression.

Shen Qingxue handed the water cup back to him, leaned against the head of the bed, and closed her eyes.

The medicine didn't take effect that quickly, and the cramping in her lower abdomen continued, but for some reason, that feeling of grievance in her heart had dissipated a lot.

"Do you need anything else? A hot water bottle? Or brown sugar water?"

Lu Li stood by the bed, still holding the cup of water, looking completely at a loss.

Shen Qingxue opened her eyes and glanced at him.

"How do you know about these things?"

Lu Li froze for a moment, then scratched his head.

"Um... I saw it online."

He wasn't lying about this. Don't ask why he knew so much; ask because he spent way too much time surfing the internet.

He had read all kinds of popular science knowledge.

Shen Qingxue didn't press further. After a few seconds of silence, she spoke in a very soft voice.

"Can you... could you..."

She stopped halfway through her sentence, as if hesitating whether to say it.

"Could you what?"

Lu Li pressed on.

Shen Qingxue bit her lip, as if making some major decision.

Then she turned her head away, not looking at him, her voice muffled.

"Could you... stay here for a while?"

As soon as she finished saying this, the tips of her ears turned red again.

What a blockhead! Why did she have to say it herself? Couldn't he... couldn't he just be a bit more forceful and stay on his own?

Lu Li froze for a moment, then nodded.

"Alright."

He placed the water cup on the bedside table, pulled over the chair from in front of the desk, and sat down by the bed.

There was a distance of about a meter between the two of them, neither too far nor too close.

Shen Qingxue leaned against the head of the bed, finally calming down. With her eyes closed, her breathing gradually became more even.

However, she was still pondering one thing in her mind.

She hadn't expected Lu Li to have hoarded Ibuprofen.

But while the Ibuprofen was taken care of, how should sanitary pads be resolved? Surely she couldn't say Lu Li had hoarded sanitary pads too, right?

That would be too...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help blushing on her own.

Lu Li sat in the chair, looking at her flushed cheeks with a strange expression.

What was she up to?

After about ten minutes, Shen Qingxue's complexion looked a bit better, not as pale as before.

"Ahem, feeling better?" Lu Li asked.

"Mhm."

Shen Qingxue opened her eyes, turned her head to glance at him, and nodded.

"...Thank you."

Lu Li waved his hand.

"What's there to thank? You helped me pay five million in breach of contract penalties; isn't it only right for me to pour you a glass of water and get you some medicine?"

Shen Qingxue didn't reply, lowering her head as her fingers drew circles on the blanket.

"Um..."

Lu Li suddenly spoke up, his tone carrying a hint of hesitation.

"Did you text me to come over earlier... just because of this?"

Shen Qingxue's fingers paused for a moment, then she nodded.

"Mhm."

Lu Li let out an "Oh," and the little pink bubbles in his heart completely burst.

No way, after all that, it really turned out he was overthinking.

She was just feeling physically unwell and wanted to find someone to help out, yet his brain had actually crammed so much messy stuff in there.

I really deserve to die!

Fortunately, the reassuring thing was that it didn't turn into a huge farce.

Good thing this old man is naturally suspicious~

Thinking of this, Lu Li couldn't help asking another question.

"Then why didn't you just make it clear to me over your phone?"

Shen Qingxue fell silent for a few seconds.

If she said she just wanted someone to keep her company, would Lu Li believe it? Yeah! Right! He definitely wouldn't believe it.

Thus, Shen Qingxue successfully convinced herself to tell a little white lie.

"Mostly because... I was afraid of troubling you."

"Afraid of troubling me?"

Lu Li froze for a moment, then couldn't help laughing.

"Because of just that, you typed and beat around the bush with me while enduring the pain?"

Shen Qingxue turned her head away, not looking at him. Her voice was muffled, but she also felt a bit guilty.

"Didn't you also not come right away, and stood there guessing back and forth? Don't think I don't know what you were thinking..."

The second half of her sentence grew softer and softer, but Lu Li still heard it.

He opened his mouth to explain, but found that there really wasn't much to explain.

Ahem, how awkward, my friends in front of the screen.

Thinking about it now, he really wanted to slap himself.

The two of them fell silent again for a while.

Lu Li glanced at the time; it was a little past twelve.

"Get to sleep early. I'll be right out in the living room. If you need anything, just call me—I'll be at your beck and call."

He stood up, pushed the chair back in front of the desk, and turned to walk out.

"Lu Li."

Shen Qingxue suddenly called out to stop him.

Lu Li stopped in his tracks and turned back.

"What's wrong?"

"Um... could I trouble you... to help me buy some sanitary pads? Originally, I wanted to ask you to buy both the Ibuprofen and sanitary pads together..."

By this point, Shen Qingxue's cheeks were completely flushed.

Asking a co-renting roommate, especially a guy, to do such a private thing—it was really embarrassing for her to actually say it out loud.