I raised stunning young ladies, but they all wanted to possess me.

Gu Yan shook her head, stood up, and went to pour them water.

When he returned with two glasses of warm water, he saw that both of them were staring at him with their eyes open.

Lin Jinyu's golden pupils shone like two small suns under the dim light, while Pei Yuran's ice-blue pupils resembled two glaciers glowing in the night.

He was so stared at by them that he slowed his pace by half a beat.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

"It's quite amusing to watch you pour water."

Lin Jinyu said.

"slow."

Pei Yuran said.

Gu Yan placed the water glasses on their respective bedside tables.

Lin Jinyu reached out to grab it, which aggravated her rib injury, causing her to frown.

Gu Yan bent down and held the water glass to her lips. She drank a few sips from the glass and licked her lips after she finished.

Pei Yuran turned her head to look at him, her icy blue pupils unblinking.

Gu Yan carried another glass of water to her bedside. She didn't reach out, but simply opened her mouth, her meaning clear.

Feed me.

Lin Jinyu snorted from the side.

"Your arm isn't broken."

Pei Yuran ignored her and just looked at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan had no choice but to bend down and bring the water glass to her lips.

She sipped slowly, her eyelashes drooping, as if she were drinking something very precious.

After finishing her drink, she said something very softly.

"Thanks."

Lin Jinyu snorted again.

The nights are the hardest to get through.

The temporary camp at the sixth line of defense was poorly equipped, with the sea wind blowing all night long, and the tents were as cold as winter.

Yu Ran is an ice-type ability user. She is cold-blooded, and her hands and feet become as cold as ice as night falls.

Gu Yan moved her bed to a more secluded spot, covered her with her only two blankets, and filled three hot water bottles, placing them near her feet.

She didn't say she was cold, but her body was shivering slightly under the blanket.

Jin Yu is a fire-type ability user. She was not afraid of the cold, but after being seriously injured, her spiritual power became disordered, making her more afraid of the cold than ordinary people.

Gu Yan took off his coat and covered her with it. She then pulled the coat up to her chin, revealing only her golden eyes as she stared at him.

Where do you sleep tonight?

"On the chair."

"It's just a folding chair, won't it be uncomfortable for you to sleep on it?"

Lin Jinyu's tone carried a hint of dissatisfaction.

"good."

"I'm used to it."

Gu Yan sat on the folding chair, stretching out her legs.

His feet just touched the edge of the tent.

The sea breeze blew in through the cracks, and he shrank his neck.

Lin Jinyu remained silent.

Pei Yuran remained silent.

After a while, Lin Jinyu suddenly spoke.

"Come here."

"What's wrong?"

"come over."

"Sleep next to me."

"The blanket is big enough."

She turned her head away when she said that, but the ear that was visible was bright red.

Pei Yuran's voice drifted from the other bed, as cold as ice.

He still has injuries.

"Are you trying to break his ribs or freeze him to death by squeezing him onto your hospital bed?"

"I'll keep him warm; he won't freeze to death."

Lin Jinyu retaliated.

"Your spiritual energy is disordered, you're feeling cold yourself, who are you trying to warm?"

Whether I keep him warm or not is none of your business.

"He's mine."

"Of course it concerns me."

"What did you say?"

"Is he one of yours?"

"Did you ask him?"

"I carried him back from northern Myanmar!"

Gu Yan sat on the folding chair, listening to the two arguing across him.

He suddenly missed Yuzuru Hanyu very much.

At least when Yuzuru was around, these two knew to behave themselves a little.

"Stop arguing."

"I sleep on the floor."

"Just lay out a moisture-proof mat."

"no."

They all spoke in unison again.

Gu Yan rubbed her temples.

He looked at the top of the tent, where the sea breeze made the canvas rustle.

He thought that if Elena walked in from outside right now and said in her calm tone, "Human emotions are so complicated," he would probably be moved to tears.

.......

Time is always passing.

Life at the temporary camp on the sixth line of defense passed neither quickly nor slowly.

Every morning when the sea breeze lifts the tent flap, Gu Yan begins her day's work.

He nurtured Pei Yuran's meridians with his spiritual energy, changed the dressing on Lin Jinyu's burns, queued up at the medical supplies office to collect rations for two people, and then returned to sit on the folding chair between the two cots, listening to their rambling.

After a few days, his dark circles were even worse than when he had just left.

But his mental strength recovered faster than expected.

The methods Elena taught him worked, and the daily use of the Mirror Flower Seal to nourish Yu Ran's meridians was equivalent to repeatedly practicing the most basic mental power manipulation.

Although I'm still far from being able to fight, at least I won't experience blackouts while standing still anymore.

That evening, Gu Yan had just returned from the supplies department, carrying two boxes of rations and several rolls of newly arrived bandages in her arms.

Before even reaching the tent entrance, they could hear Lin Jinyu's raised voice coming from inside.

"That's mine."

"Can't you take it yourself?"

"He gave it to me."

"Yours is by the bedside."

Pei Yuran's voice remained as cold as ice.

"I only have one box by my bedside."

I'm hungry.

"You're hungry because you ate his portion at lunch too."

"I'm injured."

"I should eat."

"I'm injured too."

"I should eat too."

Gu Yan lifted the curtain and went inside, placing the two ration boxes on their respective bedside tables.

The two people looked at him at the same time, and then looked away at the same time.

Lin Jinyu turned her head away to open her lunchbox, her movements so rough that she almost knocked it over.

Pei Yuran placed the lunchbox on her lap, opened the lid to take a look, and then closed it again.

"Have you got a meal yet."

Pei Yuran asked.

"not yet."

"You guys eat first, I'm not hungry."

Gu Yan sat down on the folding chair, took out half a compressed biscuit from her pocket, and took a bite.

Lin Jinyu suddenly stopped what she was doing, shoved all the meat out of the lunchbox onto the lid, and handed it to him.

"Eat this."

"There's only this much meat in the patient's meal."

"You're eating compressed biscuits every day, which will slow down your healing process."

Before Gu Yan could reach out to take it, Pei Yuran took the fish out of her own lunchbox, put it in another lid, and handed it over as well.

"Fish is better than meat."

"You're too thin."

Gu Yan looked at the two lids handed to her, one containing stewed meat and the other containing steamed fish.

He suddenly laughed.

"Did you plan this out beforehand?"

"Who will discuss this with her?"

Lin Jinyu shoved the meat lid into his hand.

"Eat quickly."

"It's gone cold and tastes fishy."

Pei Yuran didn't give him the fish; she just placed it on his lap and then lowered her head to eat the remaining rice and vegetables from her lunchbox.

She ate quietly, picking up rice grains with her chopsticks and putting them into her mouth one small bite at a time, a stark contrast to Lin Jinyu's ravenous eating habits.

Gu Yan ate both the meat and the fish.

The meat broth soaked into the rice, and the fish bones had been removed beforehand.

Pei Yuran picked it out; there was still a little fish soup on her fingers.

"Thanks."

He said.

"You're welcome."

The two spoke at the same time, then looked at each other.

Lin Jinyu turned her head away first, and Pei Yuran lowered her eyes.

The tent was quiet for a few seconds before the sea breeze slipped in through the gaps in the curtains, causing the camping lights hanging on the frame to sway gently.