Chapter 87: Risking His Life for Love

Nan Xun followed Jun Huang’s gaze and saw the old man. He went up to him and bought two candied hawthorn sticks for her. From what little he knew about women, he thought that all women had a sweet tooth.

Jun Huang looked at the candied hawthorn with an odd look. “I don’t like sweets.”

Nan Xun frowned. “I thought girls like sweets.”

“No one asked me if I liked them when all I had for meals was medicine,” Jun Huang said quietly. “Now that I’ve gotten used to the taste, I no longer like food with strong flavors. Sweets are too much for me. I don’t enjoy them anymore.” Her expression was distant, as if the time she served as a test subject to her mentor was but a fleeting dream.

But how could she have forgotten?

Nan Xun would rather Jun Huang complain to him. He would rather she said that the medicine was so bitter she could barely swallow it, that the silver needles hurt her so much she could feel it in her bones. He didn’t want to see Jun Huang put on a brave face and kept all her pain to herself.

The harsh...