Adopt

11. Can you... Sleep here with me?

It was a tough work trying to help Kun up from the basement carpark all the way up their apartments, especially after Kun insisted that he would be able to walk and rejected the offer of a wheelchair from the nurse. In the end, Kun's walk was more like dangerously hobbling with one foot and YuXin had to sling his left arm over her shoulder and act as a human crutch for him to walk that few steps, much to Kun's delight.

Standing in the middle of their apartments, YuXin glanced up towards Kun and asked, "Do you prefer staying at my place or yours?"

"Of course it's yours." Kun answered without hesitation.

"Okay, let's pack some of your clothes and stuff then head over to my place."

After settling down at YuXin's home, Kun looked at YuXin with a sad puppy look "Xin.. I need your help."

"What do you need?" YuXin replied with a gentle tone.

"I smell like the hospital and I want a shower." YuXin's eyes widened in shock upon hearing that.

"Ah I meant I probably can't wash my hair on my own, can you help me?" Kun quickly explained and YuXin nodded agreeably.

Shifting a stool near the sink, YuXin helped Kun on it and started lathering the shampoo on his head, massaging his scalp skillfully. She took the shower head and tested the temperature of the water with her hand before helping Kun lean back into the basin and rinse off the shampoo.

"Done." YuXin used a towel, covering his hair and patting it dry. "Do you need any other help?" YuXin looked at him with a worried frown. Unbeknownst to her, her innocent question had triggered Kun to take it in another direction.

"I can manage the rest" Kun replied quickly with his face flushing red, urging himself internally to stop thinking wry.

Glancing at the clock in the living room, YuXin started to frown with worry. It's been thirty minutes since she left Kun in the toilet alone and he's still not out. Standing up, she walked over to the toilet and pressed her ear closed to the wooden door while knocking on it lightly.

"Kun, are you doing okay?"

"Uhh.. Not really.."

Worried that Kun was struggling in the toilet on his own, YuXin opened the door without hesitation to see a half naked Kun failing to button up his shirt.

"Let me help you." YuXin offered and started to button up his shirt without waiting for Kun, who's too stunned at the moment to reply. He looked at YuXin with his mouth slightly hanging loose and stare at the girl while she insert the buttons into the respective holes.

As her hands traveled downwards, Kun saw her ears turning redder by the moment and smirked to himself secretly. He knew she's getting shy even though she didn't outwardly show it. Cai Xukun, if you don't take this once in a lifetime opportunity properly, you're a pig, he muttered internally.

YuXin cleared her throat and looked at Kun, "It's getting late, lets go to bed." She pulled his left arm over her shoulder and helped Kun sat on her bed slowly.

"You can sleep here, I'll sleep in the other room." When YuXin was turning to leave, Kun grabbed onto her wrist, causing her to stop and turn to look at him.

He looked up at her with a pitiful frown and glum look. "Can you.. Sleep here with me?"

"Huh??"

"I mean it's more convenient to call for help when you're in the same room.. And your bed is spacious enough for the both of us."

YuXin's eyes darted between Kun's injury and her Queen size bed that could easily accommodate the both of them with plenty of space left. "Alright, I will sleep here with you."

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Cai Xukun gritted his teeth in agony as he tried to control his groaning from the throbbing dull pain that was emanating from his arm and leg after the painkillers had weaned off.

He tried his best to remain still on bed but the pain was too much and he shifted himself in an attempt to find a more comfortable position.

"Kun? Are you alright?" YuXin asked softly as she sat up slowly with concern. She felt a dull ache in her heart as she saw how much pain Kun was enduring. Seeing how Kun had his eyebrows knitted with beads of cold sweat on his forehead, she immediately went to the toilet and returned with a damp towel to wipe his face.

"I'm alright.." Kun mustered a smile to reassure YuXin.

"Silly, you're obviously in pain."Yuxin smoothed Kun's hair slowly and placed the pain killer in his palm, handing a cup of water to Kun.

" It's okay, I'm here."

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"What are you doing?" YuXin's cold stern voice made Kun's hair stand and he froze in his seat in panic, avoiding the piercing stare from the front.

"I.. I'm just.." Kun stammered like a timid puppy.

YuXin strode over to his side with an angry frown and arms crossed. That was the first time Kun saw YuXin being angry at him, scratch that, at anyone. If he didn't know better, he'd thought he'd committed a crime.

YuXin shifted his laptop away and lectured him along, "Sigh. You are supposed to rest, if you need any help with your work I can help you."

YuXin knew that it's impossible to let Kun rest fully whilst he's recovering. The job and responsibility of his role in the company doesn't permit him to do so. However, seeing how he's struggling to work with a single hand made her upset despite knowing the fact that he'd no choice.

She sat herself on the chair beside him and placed the laptop in the middle of the desk. "I'll be your hands while you're recovering."

Kun pressed his lips to contain his smile and tilted his body closer to YuXin had he slowly explained to her what needs to be typed and edited.

Not bad at all, this fractured leg and arm is worth it. He thought as he smile to himself.