The warm light in the room was hazy and warm, and she nestled in Si Yiyan's arms. Her dark black hair looked soft and smooth in the dim light and shadow, spreading on Si Yiyan's chest like seaweed.
Wen Xinya's face was filled with the beauty and grace after a passionate love affair, like a gorgeous poppy that could make people fall in love with her; her delicate and lazy body exuded a fatal temptation.
Wen Xinya's scallion-like fingers gently stroked the scar on Si Yiyan's chest. The scar was about ten centimeters long from the bottom of the chest to the ribs. It was probably caused by a sword. Because the injury happened a long time ago, the originally shocking and frightening wound has only a light flesh-pink nude color left. However, such a light flesh-pink nude color also looks particularly dazzling on Si Yiyan's fair skin.
"How did you get this scar?" Wen Xinya gently stroked the scar with her fingers. Her delicate fingertips were as gentle as feathers.
Si Yiyan had many wounds of varying sizes on his body, and there were even residual whip marks on his back. Some of these wounds were caused by the brutal training he received from his father when he was a child, but most of them were caused by the countless times he was on the verge of life and death in Country E.
Having been with Si Yiyan for so many years, she has always known that Si Yiyan was covered in scars, but she seldom asked about the origins of these injuries, not because she didn't care, nor because she didn't care, but because she cared too much, so she didn't want to mention his past mixed with blood and tears.
"I don't quite remember!" Si Yiyan's big hand stroked her smooth jade-like back. The delicate touch like solidified fat made him unable to let go.
This oblique rib injury was caused when Xinya was kidnapped by Fu Tianyang. He went to rescue her despite being seriously injured, and then sent her to the hospital, exposing his whereabouts. That night, he was ambushed by the old guys from the Xia Si family. The knife went from the left chest to the ribs, and his seventh rib was also broken.
The pain from broken ribs was the worst of all the pains he had ever endured in his life.
It was also from that moment that he realized why God said that woman is man's rib.
"I remember Gu Yuexi said that the knife was very dangerous. It also broke your seventh rib. The fractured bone stimulated the intercostal nerves and caused you a lot of pain. Whether you took a deep breath, coughed, or moved your body, the pain doubled. The pain restricted your breathing on the injured side, made your cough weak, and caused you to suffocate painfully. The fractured bone pierced the intercostal blood vessels and lung tissue, causing you to cough up blood continuously."
Wen Xinya knew that Si Yiyan would not tell her this, so she asked Gu Yuehan about all the injuries on his body. She asked Gu Yuehan about all the injuries, big and small. No one knew better than Gu Yuehan how tragic these injuries had been, and how much pain they had gone through in terms of life and death.
Si Yiyan gently touched her head: "I didn't expect that Gu Yuehan would become so talkative!"
At that time, Gu Yuehan was the only one beside him, and Gu Yuehan was the only one who knew the situation best, so apart from what Gu Yuehan told her, there was no one else.
"I'm his sister-in-law. If I ask him, would he dare not tell me?" Xu Xianghu had been digging for oil in the east for a full six months. Unless Gu Yuehan also wanted to go to the east to dig for oil like Xu Xianghu did.
Si Yiyan thought of Xu Xianghu, who had tearfully accused him of being cruel and had exiled him to the east. He couldn't help but laugh and cry. All his subordinates now knew how to change their ways and cling to his sister-in-law.
"Si Yiyan, I know the story of every scar around you, so don't hide it from me and say you can't remember it clearly." Wen Xinya's lips slowly pressed on the scar on the ribs, with pity and tenderness.
Although she didn't exist in his past, it didn't stop her from feeling sorry for the hurt he had suffered.
"Yeah!" Si Yiyan responded indifferently.
A gentle kiss fell on the scar, seeming to soothe the dull pain that once existed there. On countless nights, Wen Xinya would often kiss the scars on her body like this, but never asked any questions.
He always knew how much she felt pained.
Wen Xinya climbed onto Si Yiyan's chest and gently stroked the scar with her fingers: "The seventh rib is the only soft rib among a man's twelve pairs of ribs. It is also the easiest to break. Has it been since that time that I have become your soft rib?"
The Bible says that God used man’s seventh rib to create woman. From then on, woman would be born from man and would be bone of man’s bone and flesh of man’s flesh.
When a man loses his ribs, his body and his soul are no longer complete. When the only soft spot is injured, the terrible pain is the most terrible pain a man will ever experience in his life.
Si Yiyan shook his head and gently kissed Wen Xinya's hair. The gentle kiss was as light as a feather: "Xinya, do you know the exact location of the second rib on a man's left chest?"
The low voice, in the hazy light and shadow, seemed to have traveled through the years and struck Wen Xinya's chest heavily.
Wen Xinya's throat was hoarse: "I know that the second rib on the left chest corresponds to the aortic valve, which is located above the apex of the heart."
The left ventricle is the location of a man's heart and is the most deadly part of the human body.
Si Yiyan whispered, "It is said in the West that God created woman from man's rib. There are different opinions on which rib it was. The Bible says it was the seventh rib, and some say that man was the first rib. However, I am more inclined to the second rib."
If a man loses his second rib, he will not be able to survive.
However, the second rib is also the hardest rib in the human body and the one that is least likely to break.
"The second rib is right here." Wen Xinya slightly spread her five fingers and placed them horizontally on his left chest. She gently pressed the skin with her five fingers and could feel the hard shape of the ribs.
Legend has it that if the second rib is broken, the human heart will break.
It is a break, not a fracture or a bone crack, but a break...
She believed the legend was true.
"You are the second rib above my heart!" Si Yiyan suddenly turned over and pressed her under him, looking at her with deep and focused eyes. His cold face was as gentle as melting spring snow.
After saying that, Si Yiyan lowered her body. In the dim light and shadow, her beautiful face was tinged with a faint charm, and the narrow corners of her eyes were tinged with a hint of bright red.
Like a red apricot that has escaped from the wall, so charming and attractive!
That was the most beautiful, moving, graceful and gorgeous sentiment that Wen Xinya had ever seen, no doubt about it!