Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Su Xi usually went online as soon as she got home from school, but ever since she accidentally saw Lu Huan naked, she had become more cautious about going online.
After opening the game, she first covered her eyes, then secretly opened one eye, peeking out a crack to see if her son was taking a bath again. Seeing him sitting at the table with his clothes intact, Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief and completely lowered her hand from her eyes.
She felt strange… mainly because her son had suddenly become a handsome seventeen-year-old man, old enough to marry and have children, which meant she couldn’t be as shameless as before. Didn’t people in ancient times care a lot about their reputation? Her son must care too; he would get married in the future, and he couldn’t let his purity be tarnished by her.
Su Xi went over and greeted the cub: “What are you writing?”
She glanced at it and saw that the cub was copying down a military report; the cub’s handwriting was as beautiful as ever.
Lu Huan was puzzled by her covering her eyes earlier— what was wrong with her? Were her eyes uncomfortable? But Lu Huan didn’t want to ask, so he just stared at the curtain in front of him for a while, making sure that there was nothing wrong with her eyes, which were still as dark and bright as ever, before he was relieved.
Lu Huan smiled at her and said, “Now that you’ve arrived, I think in a few months, the army stationed in the northern border will be returning to the capital. At that time…”
Lu Huan was interrupted by Su Xi before he could finish speaking.
Su Xi suddenly zoomed in on his neck and exclaimed, “Lu Huan, what happened to your neck?”
Lu Huan noticed that she seemed to have finally stopped calling him “little one” without thinking, and he didn’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing. He subconsciously pressed his neck, but the injury couldn’t be hidden, so he said casually, “Last night we went to rescue those hostages, and I suffered some minor injuries, but it’s nothing serious.”
“Nothing serious? What a load of rubbish!” This was the most serious injury Su Xi had ever seen him sustain since the start of the march! Su Xi was both anxious and angry. She was anxious because he was dressed neatly, his long hair tied up perfectly, clearly having just taken a bath. Why take a bath? He must be seriously injured and didn’t want his clothes soaked with blood to be discovered. She was angry because he had told her beforehand to wake him if they were going to move out, but he went to complete the mission while she was asleep!
Su Xi gritted her teeth and remained silent, frantically searching through the online store for a 100% effective wound medicine.
Lu Huan could also buy the Golden Wound Medicine from the store, but every time he saw her anxiously buying it from the store, Lu Huan felt cared for. He liked this feeling very much, so he didn’t get the Golden Wound Medicine himself, but used the one she bought every day.
He watched with a smile as she selected the Golden Wound Medicine, spending a large sum of money in a flash.
Su Xi looked up and saw that there was still a smile in the corner of the baby’s eyes and eyebrows. She couldn’t help but angrily say, “What are you laughing at? Stand over here!”
Lu Huan: “…” He suddenly discovered Xiao Xi’s fierce side.
Su Xi asked Lu Huan to pull the tent flap tighter, then came closer. He refused to take off his clothes so she could see his injuries, so she did it herself.
At this point, Su Xi completely disregarded the nonsense about men and women not touching each other. She frantically pulled open her son’s robes, and when her gaze fell upon the salt-sprinkled wounds, she gasped in shock. The sight was utterly gruesome and bloody.
With such serious injuries, how could he have been sitting there so calmly copying military reports? And even smiling at me as if nothing had happened?
Su Xi’s eyes reddened, and she really wanted to suggest that they go to General Zhenyuan to ask for leave and return to the capital first, but she swallowed the words back down.
Her nose tingled, she sighed, and carefully and gently poured the wound medicine all over Lu Huan’s body until his wounds were covered with a thick layer of powder before she had him re-bandage and put on his clothes.
Su Xi felt bad, not only because she felt she hadn’t taken good care of the cub, but also because she felt that as time went by, the cub seemed to no longer need her.
He was brave and resourceful, capable of managing the Ministry of War well and gaining the favor of generals. He could also lead troops into battle, stabilize morale, and easily thwart plots to assassinate the emperor.
Even when injured, he kept it a secret from her.
If he no longer needs me, what can I do? I can’t just go online and chat with him every day, can I? If I do that, he’ll definitely get tired of me once he gets married and has children.
Not being needed equals being a useless person.
And he’s been acting strange lately; the bubbles on his head have stopped appearing, as if he’s stopped opening up to himself.
Su Xi didn’t know what to do, so she rubbed her eyes, pretended nothing had happened, and said to the cub, “Next time you get hurt, you have to tell me, or I’ll get angry.”
Lu Huan said, “Okay.”
He put on his robes and fastened his belt. Suddenly, a soldier came to announce from outside the tent: “My lord, among the people who were rescued, there is a peasant girl who claims to be the daughter of a former imperial physician. She is skilled in healing and wants to repay your life-saving grace. Therefore, she has brought you some decoction for internal use to help you recover soon.”
Lu Huan didn’t care much about any wound medicine, after all, Su Xi’s Golden Wound Medicine already had miraculous effects.
However, it wouldn’t hurt to distribute it to his colleagues who had gone deep into the enemy camp with him that day, so he whispered to Su Xi, “I’ll be right back.”
Su Xi: “Mm.”
The daughter of a former imperial physician? Having been immersed in the game for so long, Su Xi suddenly had a premonition. So she opened the system in the upper right corner and took a look. Sure enough, she saw that a new entry, “Liu Ruyan, daughter of a former imperial physician,” had been added to the “Harem” section.
She:……
This lousy game really knows how to squeeze in every spare moment; even while he’s on a military campaign, it still managed to build a harem for their little one!
Su Xi quickly switched the interface to the outside of the tent, and sure enough, she saw a woman standing opposite the little one.
She spent money to unlock the original artwork and looked at the woman. Although the woman had delicate features and lacked the charming beauty of the Minister of War’s daughter or the stunning beauty of Wan Sanqian’s daughter, she possessed a unique gentle charm.
At least, once the original artwork was revealed, it matched the character very well. The character’s height only reached the chest of the character wearing the cloak, making her appear very petite and charming.
She took out the prepared medicine packet and said something to the cub, but Su Xi didn’t notice the pop-up dialog box.
The boy accepted the medicine packet and casually handed it to the soldier behind him.
Su Xi felt a little sour for some reason— she hadn’t felt this way before. Before, when she saw the cub, she dodged the embroidered ball like it was a ghost, and she was very disappointed in him, thinking that the cub was a hopeless straight man.
But now the cub was no longer a straight man; instead of chasing the woman away, he accepted her medicine bag.
Su Xi, however, did not feel so good about it.
Perhaps it was because back then, when the cub was still a little baby, Su Xi watched with a spectator’s mentality, hoping he would fall in love with someone so she could have some fun.
But now, she found that her son was increasingly keeping everything from her and no longer needed her, as if he was gradually growing up, and she felt a sense of loss.
And this feeling became even more unbearable when she saw another member appear in the baby’s harem.
After all, the cub had indeed reached the age for marriage. Even now, before marriage, he didn’t express his feelings to her very much. After marriage, they would definitely never be able to go back to that state of being able to talk about anything.
Su Xi glanced at the line above the cub’s head that read, “At seventeen, one can marry and have children in Yan State,” and felt even more dejected.
She didn’t understand why her mind was in such a mess. She shouldn’t be like this, but for some reason, she just felt unwell.
…Is my baby becoming less and less dependent on me?
After seeing the child return to the tent, she composed herself and turned the interface back to the tent.
Lu Huan sat back down at the table and asked, “Are you still there?”
Actually, there was no need to ask that question. When he looked up, he saw the little stream on the screen, seemingly lost in thought, looking rather listless.
She was silent for a moment before saying, “I’m still here.”
Lu Huan noticed that she seemed a little down, but he didn’t understand why. Could it be that something bad had happened to her while he had just closed the curtain and left the tent?
So Lu Huan couldn’t help but ask, “Why aren’t you saying anything? Is something bothering you?”
Su Xi scratched her head and said, “No.”
She couldn’t help but open the interface in the upper right corner again and take another look. She found that Han Yue and Wan Sanqian’s daughter had just appeared in this column and then disappeared. However, the peasant girl who had been saved by the cub was still in this column and had not disappeared.
Did this mean that the boy had a better impression of the peasant girl than the other two?
Perhaps this trip back to the capital will allow him to bring her back directly. Then he can develop some kind of marriage proposal scenario.
Although she should be happy for her child, the thought of how her child had gotten hurt without telling her and that she had to find out herself made her feel a pang of sadness.
Hehe, kid, now that you have someone else to cook your herbal medicine, you don’t need your old mother anymore, right?
As Su Xi was grumbling to herself, Lu Huan clearly sensed that Su Xi was in a low mood behind the curtain but couldn’t figure out why. Looking at her, he could only see that her lips were a little dry and chapped, probably because she had been in the air-conditioned room where they lived for too long, which made her more susceptible to catching a cold.
Lu Huan recalled how she had suffered from severe menstrual cramps last time and couldn’t help but feel worried. After thinking for a moment, he advised, “Drink more water.”
Su Xi: “…”
Su Xi was even more annoyed and couldn’t help but glare at the little one on the screen.
But she still had to speak very kindly: “Haha, okay, I will. You get some rest, I’ll come see you again tomorrow.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Huan put down his brush and asked, “Is there something else you need to do before leaving?”
Su Xi was fine, but her mind was a mess. When she saw the four big characters “marry and have children” above Lu Huan’s head, her eyelids twitched, and her mood became even more depressed.
She said, “Well, I have something to do, I’ll go now, bye-bye.”
Feeling disappointed, Lu Huan could only say, “Goodbye.”
Su Xi scratched her head and turned off the screen.
She was actually quite afraid that one day her son would no longer need her, because although she had only treated it as a game at first, over time she had developed deep feelings for him.
She couldn’t quite distinguish what this feeling was. Was it the endless conversations that accumulated from spending time together day after day, the warmth she felt from him, or the kind of feeling that grew from getting to know each other little by little and gradually becoming indispensable friends?
So she was almost afraid of him growing up.
But more than fearing that he would grow up, Su Xi thought she was more afraid that one day he would really get married and have children, and with someone else by his side, he would gradually forget her.
Meanwhile, she could only watch from afar.
On one hand, Su Xi wondered if she was overthinking things, but on the other hand, she felt uneasy because the cub had talked with that peasant girl for so long.
She stood up from her desk, collapsed onto the bed, pulled out a pillow, and started pounding it wildly, repeatedly casting a spell on herself: “Stop thinking about it! Stop thinking about it!!”
Lu Huan, who had been staring at the curtain, trying to see what was wrong with her, was speechless.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Huan thought to himself. Her menstrual period had clearly already passed.
The author has something to say:
Little one, who is seventeen and old enough to get married and have children: She’s such a straight woman, she doesn’t understand my feelings at all.
Su Xi: You silly boy! Drink more hot water, go drink it yourself.
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