The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51: 51 Surprises

In the next few days, Gu Jiao did not go out, instead, she stayed home to learn calligraphy with Xiao Liulang, and to assist with his rehabilitation.

Xiao Liulang did not seem to care much about whether he would stand again, a fact Gu Jiao noticed before his surgery. She didn’t know what he had gone through, but his heart was as gray as ash, utterly devoid of a passion for life.

Fen Lin was worried about the risks of surgery, but Xiao Liulang agreed without any hesitation. This wasn’t fearlessness but a casual indifference to life or death.

But Gu Jiao would not let him die, or let him be disabled.

“It’s time for your exercise,” Gu Jiao announced, after tidying up the house and entering Xiao Liulang’s room.

She had grown increasingly unconcerned about acting like an outsider. She even entered without knocking.

Xiao Liulang’s face immediately turned sour.

Not because she came in without knocking, but because he didn’t want to exercise.

Gu Jiao anticipated his resistance, deprived him of any chance to decline. She approached him, pulled him off the chair. Quite a change, from a guest to a pest who not only went into his room at will but also caught and pulled him around.

Xiao Liulang frowned, unable to resist due to his disability, he was nonetheless dragged out of the room.

“The crutch,” Xiao Liulang said.

Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow, “From today onwards, no more crutch.”

Xiao Liulang glanced at her and said plainly, “Without the crutch, I can’t walk.”

Gu Jiao crossed her arms over her chest, her demeanor flirtatious, “If you can’t walk, I’ll support you. I will be your crutch!”

She did not miss how unenthusiastic his rehabilitation was every time he leaned on the crutch, placing all his weight on it, neglecting to exercise his right leg.

Xiao Liulang’s eyebrows furrowed.

Gu Jiao grinned, “If you want the crutch, walk back to the room and get it.”

But with a weakened right leg, how could he go back? He could only hop back.

The thought of himself hopping frustratingly made Xiao Liulang decisively give up!

This was how Gu Jiao squashed Xiao Liulang’s attempts of sloth with the crutch.

He could comfortably use the crutch, but he couldn’t do the same with Gu Jiao’s slender figure because—

“My lord, you’re not supposed to entirely depend on me, you need to exert your strength.”

“Yes, that’s it!”

“Could you exert more strength?! I’ll be crushed by you.”

“How can you expect a woman to do all the work on her own?!”

Xiao Liulang gritted his teeth, “…Just, just helping…!”

Stop blabbering nonsense and shut up?!

Thus, Xiao Liulang was forced to take his walking seriously. Previously, going back and forth a dozen times wouldn’t tire him out. But now, just a single round was enough to exhaust him. Moreover, Gu Jiao insisted that he had to make a minimum of a hundred steps every day.

By the end of a hundred steps, Xiao Liulang was dripping in sweat.

Gu Jiao handed him a handkerchief to wipe the perspiration, “My lord, does your body ache? Feels like you’ve been run over by a carriage, too tired to move even a finger and legs trembling non-stop…”

Xiao Liulang: “…”

With the completion of that day’s torment, the time had come for him to have a go at Gu Jiao.

“Did you practice your writing today?” he asked seriously.

A second ago, Gu Jiao was gloating, but suddenly she froze.

Xiao Liulang felt a moment of satisfaction and payback, narrowing his eyes, “You make me walk so much, and yet you don’t practice writing a single character. You have a hundred characters left from yesterday to write.”

Gu Jiao frustratingly scratched her head!