The shutters were tightly shut, and the dusty curtains were drawn. Not a single ray of sunlight could enter the narrow room. Ye Linlang looked at the incandescent lamp above her head in a daze. She actually had the illusion of being in the middle of the night. Just as ye Linlang was lost in her thoughts, Jiang Qiran lowered his head and used a cotton swab dipped in disinfectant to pick out the grains of sand on ye Linlang’s head bit by bit. Ye Linlang sucked in a breath of cold air, her tears flowing out of her eyes. “Does it hurt like this?” Jiang Qiran asked in a low voice, his voice gentle as if he was coaxing a child who was much younger than him. Ye Linlang finally managed to stop the tears in her eyes. Her eyes were red, and her voice was a little intermittent. “You…… you try to be gentler.” Ye Linlang sobbed slightly. She lowered her head to look at the bloody wound on her knee. She could not describe what she felt in her heart. Logically speaking, she was a child who grew up in the mountains. She had been used to acting atrociously since she was young, so she should not have taken this kind of small injury seriously. However, Ye Linlang was so afraid of pain. In the past, when she was running on the mountains, she fell into the mountain pit. When she was found, she also had a big wound on her knee. At that time, Ye Linlang cried for half a night. When she saw some bloody things coming out of her knee, she wondered if her knee would never recover. The song family’s granny comforted her. Many years after the incident, she still remembered the incident deeply and teased her for being silly. At that time, she would hide in the song family’s Granny’s arms and act coquettishly, saying a lot of irrelevant things. In order to take care of her, the grandmother would occasionally save up some money. When the craftsman from the neighboring village who made brown rice candy came over, he would bring some brown rice and money to buy some. Of course, it was only a little. After all, when they were in the small desolate village, even eating meat was very difficult. How could they have too much money to buy candy? …… Although ye Linlang’s finances were still tight at the moment, and the Ye family wasn’t willing to give ye Linlang as much pocket money as ye Siyao did, there wouldn’t be a life as poor as the small desolate village. When Ye Linlang was very young, she thought that if she could read well and earn a lot of money, she would definitely buy a lot of new clothes for the song family’s Grandma and take her to eat a lot of food. It would be best if she could eat meat every meal. At that time, the naive ye Linlang thought that eating meat every meal was a very rich life. Now, in the Ye family, even though she was ostracized as an outsider, the Ye family still wouldn’t allow ye Linlang to eat vegetarian every meal. So, the life of a rich family was like this. Eating meat every meal was definitely not the standard of wealth. Perhaps to them, gambling money, running horses, running around the world, and being able to easily buy many beautiful but useless luxury goods was the lowest standard of life, right? …… Ye Linlang’s thoughts suddenly ran far away. Her eyes were absent-minded. Thinking of the lonely old man sleeping alone in the small desolate village, her heart really felt sour. That uncomfortable feeling even overcame the waves of piercing pain on her knees. In this world, the first person to show kindness to her, and at the same time, the person who had given the most to her, had left just like that. She did not even have the chance to repay the song family’s granny for every bit of affection she had for her upbringing. The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind does not stop. The child wants to be raised, but the family does not stay. The song family’s Granny and Ye Linlang weren’t blood relatives, but in ye Linlang’s heart, that old man was an even more moving existence than family. The granny wasn’t here anymore…… In this small health care room, facing the gaping wound on her knee, ye Linlang finally understood this point so clearly. The tears that she had managed to hold back with great difficulty fell involuntarily at this moment. It was not a physical pain, but a heartache. …… When Jiang Qiran saw ye Linlang’s tearful face, his handsome brows immediately furrowed. “Is it really that painful?” As Jiang Qiran spoke, he applied the medicine on his hands even more gently, as if he was afraid that ye Linlang would cry again. He did not understand why girls were so afraid of pain. In Jiang Qiran’s memories, he was the type who rarely cried. Even when he was training with the army in the third grade of primary school, Jiang Qiran was stung by a bee. Although his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and never cried. The battalion commander was amazed. He said that Jiang Qiran had such strong resilience and endurance at such a young age. Perhaps he was born to be a soldier. The only two times he cried were probably because of his parents. The first time was because he wanted to live separately from Su Wan, and the second time was because he was afraid that Jiang Xuecheng did not like him. Although he said that he hated Jiang Xuecheng’s arrogant father, he was still a boy after all. Deep down, he always had the feeling of worshipping the strong. After returning from the military training, Jiang Qiran had become darker and thinner. Su Wan’s heart ached terribly. What Jiang Qiran did not expect was that Jiang Xuecheng would actually teach him how to shoot after that! Jiang Xuecheng practically taught him step by step, correcting his minor mistakes bit by bit. He even demonstrated how to disassemble and assemble a gun with his eyes closed. In Jiang Qiran’s memories, he had never been so close to his father. Seeing his father’s shooting skills with 100% accuracy and his accurate assembly skills when he was blindfolded, Jiang Qiran was still young at that time. His eyes were wide open and he was almost amazed. Children were always sharp-witted. Jiang Qiran suddenly realized that his arrogant father probably didn’t hate him that much. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taught him everything he knew. …… Ye Linlang’s eyes were red, and she looked like a little rabbit who had been bullied by someone. She looked a little pitiful. “It’s not the pain…… I just thought of the granny who raised me. When I was in the small desolate village, I would sometimes fall down on the road. The granny would always find herbs to apply it on me and blow my wound like she was coaxing a child.” Jiang Qiran’s dark eyes narrowed slightly. He quietly listened to ye Linlang’s words, and that image suddenly appeared in his mind. A white-haired old Granny was hugging a petite and Petite ye Linlang. Perhaps the little girl was crying loudly, and the old granny was very patient in coaxing her…… That image lingered in Jiang Qiran’s mind for a long time. He raised his eyes to look at Ye Linlang. Suddenly, his heart felt as if it had been hit by something, and it became very warm. Jiang Qiran lowered his head and suddenly exhaled slowly toward the wound that he had just cleaned and disinfected for ye Linlang. “Is that so?” The youth gently pressed on Ye Linlang’s leg, his face buried between ye Linlang’s legs, and carefully blew on Ye Linlang. Seeing that Jiang Qiran was about to blow on the wound on her thigh, ye Linlang’s face instantly turned red! The important thing was, she wasn’t wearing any pants now! The fine hair on Ye Linlang’s leg trembled, and she hurriedly reached out to push Jiang Qiran away. “No need, enough!” If someone were to barge in now, they might have a misconception!