The two sat by the roadside, leisurely licking their ice cream cones when Xu Jinyan suddenly thought of something. He eyed her up and down and said, "You weren't hurt just now, were you?"
"No!"
Xu Jinyan was completely relieved.
It was not until Jiang Yuan was taking a bath that evening that she discovered a bruise on her arm from being kicked during the fight earlier. She pressed on it; it was a bit painful, but not serious. The purple mark was quite conspicuous against her slender, fair arm.
Thinking that no one would notice it so late at night, she didn't pay much attention to it and went out directly wearing her nightgown.
Perhaps it was because of the ice cream she ate, by nightfall her lower abdomen began to ache faintly.
Unable to sleep, Jiang Yuan got up and went downstairs to pour herself some hot water.
Xu Jinyan hadn't gone to bed yet.
