Exclusive Model for the Top Painter Chapter 76

Bewitching Under the Pretence of Recuperation

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Liang Jin rummaged through all his pockets and couldn't find a single tissue. At this moment, he was incomparably hating his own straightforward style, why didn't he bring some with him just in case?

While he was distraught, the girl next to him whispered, "Excuse me, do you need this?" She took out clean tissues, alcohol, cotton swabs and gauze from her bag.

Liang Jin took the items from her, "Thank you, are you a doctor?"

"Don't say that, it's me who should be thanking you! I'm a medical student from A City Medical University, and I recently did my internship at the hospital, so I brought these things with me." The girl bowed deeply towards them, "I'm really thankful to both of you for helping me, and I'm also very sorry for causing you to get hurt!"

Ji Xiuyuan didn't say anything, and Liang Jin smiled at her, "It's okay, being brave when seeing justice, that's what you should do."

The girl hesitated for a moment and politely inquired, "If you don't mind, I can help you with a simple dressing for your wound?"

Liang Jin was overjoyed, "That would be great!"

Ji Xiuyuan indifferently said, "Thank you, but there's no need."

Liang Jin looked at him doubtfully and said, "Ji Shen, why are you rejecting others?"

Ji Xiuyuan said, "You do it."

"Ji Shen, you want me to help you treat your wounds?"

"Mhmm."

"But she's the professional!"

The girl and her friend were instantly blessed, their eyes glowing with gold and they excitedly muttered to each other for a while before taking the initiative to persuade Liang Jin, "Actually, it's very simple to deal with this kind of wound, it doesn't require any special expertise. Simply sterilise it with alcohol first, and then go to the hospital to get it bandaged."

Liang Jin: "Oh."

"That, the medical expenses, it's better for me to bear it." The girl said, "After all, it's because of me."

Liang Jin took it upon himself to say, "It's okay, he's very rich! You can just give us these sterilising supplies."

"Really... are you sure it's okay?"

"Yeah."

"Thanks!"

"It's late, go back to campus early. Be safe."

"Okay. Then I won't bother you, good people will live a safe life!"

After they left, Liang Jin made Ji Xiuyuan sit on a park bench, and squatted in front of him, carefully wiping away the blood stains on his palm.

Ji Xiuyuan said, "Xiao Jin, how come you are so considerate towards girls?"

Liang Jin explained, "Isn't this basic courtesy?"

"Is it?"

"Yeah, that's all." Liang Jin said, "Only Yuan Yuan is on the tip of my heart. You don't know, when I just saw you standing in front of me to block the knife, I was so scared that my heart stopped beating!!! I wanted to just uproot a weeping willow and whack him to death, so that he would regret being born in this world!!!" He dipped a cotton swab in alcohol and meticulously sterilised the area around the knife wound, "I'm really heartbroken."

Ji Xiuyuan laughed softly.

"What are you laughing at?" Liang Jin asked, "Is it funny?"

"No," he looked at Liang Jin and whispered, "seeing your heartache for me makes me very happy."

"What kind of perverted addiction do you have? I am extremely worried! It's even worse than being injured myself." After briefly bandaging the wound, he cupped Ji Xiuyuan's hand and blew on it, "Does it hurt?"

"Mhmm."

"Ah, then what should I do?"

"Xiao Jin, if you kiss me, it won't hurt anymore."

"... Kiss where?"

"Where do you want to kiss?"

Liang Jin stood up pompously from in front of him and kissed the side of his face, "Does it still hurt? Yuan Yuan?"

"A little more."

Liang Jin covered his lips, and Ji Xiuyuan uncharacteristically did not take the initiative, but let him touch carefully, occasionally responding gently.

This subtle shift instead intensified the searing heat that flowed through him, and before something over the top happened, Liang Jin immediately let go of him, gasping in a low voice, "Let's... let's go to the hospital first."

"Okay."

"I'll drive."

"Mhmm."

After the two got into the car, Ji Xiuyuan sat in the passenger seat, and Liang Jin helped him fasten his seatbelt.

Leaning sideways from the driver's seat, he groped around for half a day but couldn't find the buckle for the seatbelt.

Liang Jin was almost in front of him, with one hand on Ji Xiuyuan's side and the other continuing to grope around the edge.

The ambiguous atmosphere that had been forcibly suspended before, immediately filled the car again.

Ji Xiuyuan slightly lowered his head before kissing him on the lips.

Like a blazing fire that has been doused, it suddenly erupted in the dark and narrow corner.

He tightly wrapped his arms around Liang Jin's waist and held him on his lap, before bracing the back of his head and fiercely invading and pursuing him.

The sounds of breathing and swallowing intermingled. The wound cracked open, and the crimson colour drenched the white gauze once again.

It was as if he couldn't feel the pain at all, but instead became more excited by the slightest smell of blood in the air.

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Hospital, emergency room.

The doctor on duty was a woman in her forties or fifties, and while helping Ji Xiuyuan deal with his wounds, she wondered, "How did the wound split open for the second time?"

Ji Xiuyuan: "A rather intense activity was performed."

Liang Jin's face flushed red: "Cough, he means that he accidentally injured it while driving."

The doctor said meaningfully, "Driving? What kind of driving?"

Liang Jin: ????

The doctor suddenly let out an oh, "You guys look a bit familiar? Didn't you come here last summer too? At that time, it seemed to be this young man who suffered a trauma?"

Liang Jin recalled carefully for a while. A year ago, not long after they first met, he fought with someone for Ji Shen at the painting exhibition, and he really came to this same hospital.

He never expected that he would really run into the same doctor! He praised, "You have such a good memory."

The doctor re-bandaged Ji Xiuyuan's wound, "How can I not remember? You two are so handsome and always come to the door in the middle of the night, it's really impressive. You're wearing wedding rings this time? Are you married?"

Ji Xiuyuan: "Mhmm."

"Since you're married, live a good life, don't get hurt and cause people to worry."

Ji Xiuyuan: "Okay."

The doctor also instructed Liang Jin, "Young man, try not to get your partner's wound wet, okay?"

Liang Jin immediately nodded.

The doctor advised earnestly, "And ah, you have to pay attention, don't let it crack. I know that you young people are full of blood and can't hold it in. Just take the initiative and take care of the patient more, do you understand what Auntie means?"

Liang Jin: ......

Ji Xiuyuan: "Thank you for your advice. Xiao Jin, do you understand?"

"I! Under! Stand!"

The doctor smiled with delight, "What a great relationship, Auntie wishes you a long life together."

Back home, Liang Jin, in line with his duty to take care of the patient, righteously took on the task of bathing and showering the two family members, one large and one small.

Ji Xiuyuan and Amber sat on the sofa, and Liang Jin asked, "Which one of you will go first?"

Ji Xiuyuan said, "Let's take it to the pet shop to be washed tomorrow. Xiao Jin, come here, help me take off my shirt."

"Aren't you fine using your left hand?"

"But I'm not used to using my left hand."

Liang Jin complied and unbuttoned his shirt for him, and Ji Xiuyuan whispered in his ear, "And the trousers."

"You can do this yourself!"

"Xiao Jin, are you shy?"

"No!"

"Then why are you rejecting me? It's not like you haven't seen it before."

Liang Jin: Why is there actually such a shameless person in the world???

Bathroom.

In order to prevent the wound from getting wet, Liang Jin wrapped Ji Xiuyuan's injured right hand in several layers of cling film, and then started to rub shower gel on him.

Ji Xiuyuan had absolutely no intention of properly cooperating with the bath, instead, he kept bewitching him. For example, at this moment, when he rubbed the shower gel to his lower abdomen, Ji Xiuyuan said, "Xiao Jin, a little further down."

Liang Jin didn't notice anything unusual at first, and really did as he was told, and immediately touched something he shouldn't have: "Ah! Sorry!!!"

"It's okay, you can still go down further."

"Further down? What are you thinking? No, were you thinking this kind of nonsense in the first place?"

"Xiao Jin, is that kind of thought strange?"

"This is a bath, can't you concentrate?"

Ji Xiuyuan lifted his chin with his left hand and touched his lips that were wet from the moisture soaking them, "Your clothes are also wet, why don't we bathe together?"

He unbuttoned Liang Jin's shirt with incomparable fluidity and stripped the man naked with one hand. Liang Jin angrily said, "Ji Shen, you can obviously undress yourself! You lied to me again!!!"

Ji Xiuyuan coaxed him, "Xiao Jin, I can only undress you, I really can't do it for myself."

"I don't believe you!"

"Alright, be obedient, I'll help you wash."

His hand moved down from the side of Liang Jin's waist, touching the sensitive area, "Xiao Jin, how about here?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Try it?"

"But your wound will get wet!"

"So, you have to take the initiative, hmm?"

Before Liang Jin could reply, Ji Xiuyuan had already wrapped him in his arms.

Delicate and lingering kisses, along with the dense steam from the water, it was like a mingling of dream and reality, running towards that pinnacle of extreme pleasure and sinking.

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Although there was a special maid in charge of the basic cleaning of the villa, when it came to the housework of private living, they were still accustomed to doing it on their own. While Ji Xiuyuan was recuperating from his wound, Liang Jin took care of almost all of the household chores.

This ranged from purchasing ingredients and cooking meals, to raising and feeding the cat, and waiting for the large carnivore (meaning Ji Xiuyuan) to eat and get dressed. This also inexplicably turned on his home-making attributes: over a period of time, Liang Jin not only improved his cooking skills by leaps and bounds, but also learnt a variety of housework skills.

He would sometimes lament to Ji Xiuyuan, "Yuan Yuan, it turns out that when I have nothing to do at home and play games during the week, you do all these things!"

"Otherwise?"

"Wow wow wow you're really great! I've decided that from now on, I'm going to share the chores equally with you!"

"Xiao Jin, I'd actually prefer you to make other decisions."

"Such as?"

"For example, even after my hand has recovered, you should still stay enthusiastic and proactive."

"??? Then you're dreaming."

Two weeks later, Ji Xiuyuan's wound had pretty much recovered.

When he was at the Tian Han Group office, he instructed Wen Di to get him some red paint.

Wen Di looked at Ji Xiuyuan decorating his soon-to-be-healed right hand with paint and was filled with doubt: "Director Ji, what are you doing? Performance art?"

"Mhmm." Ji Xiuyuan said, "By the way, you can't let Xiao Jin know."

Wen Di: "... You have so many tricks up your sleeves."

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Translator Notes

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: October 6, 2023