Chapter 197: What Hurts Will Still Hurt

Shen Yu feels that he has become ungrateful.

When his mother called him to tell him that she would not be coming back tonight, his first reaction was actually happy, and he even wished that his father and mother could stay at his great-aunt's house for a few more days, or that he would go back to his old house with Rika tomorrow.

It cooled down during the night and there was a light rain.

In this weather, Mum and Dad won't be running home in the middle of the night ......

The two of them watched the replay of the Spring Festival dinner together on the sofa until eleven o'clock.

It is such a pleasure to have a warm, soft girl in your arms that Shen Yu feels she will never get tired of watching the Spring Festival Gala reruns ten more times.

There is a hurdle of intimacy for men and women in love, and one of the most important ones is kissing.

Once they've tried it, there's no going back, and Shen Yu and Rika are now full of thoughts of kissing and cuddling again, and their little hands and feet are getting restless.

Rika was like a kitten, tickling Shen Yu's heart. He ran his big hands over Rika's back like a cat, probably because the material of her pyjamas was so soft that it felt good to the touch, and when he smoothed her back in this way, he felt like he could not let go.

"Well ......"

Rika, too, enjoyed the caress and, with a soft grunt, arched into his arms and found a comfortable position to lie at ease.

She was afraid of the cold, and the room was heated. Rika's feet were still wearing plush socks, in the black and white panda style, just above her ankles, which accentuated the whiteness of her calves.

"Shen Yu ...... When are we going to get to the next step?"

"It's too soon ...... you're still young ......"

"Bad people!"

Rika blushed and slapped him with her small hand, "I mean when are we going to get engaged?"

"What do you think?"

"I'll do whatever you want ......"

"I'm not even twenty-four yet."

"Nasty."

Shen Yu looked down at her face, his large hand playing with her small hand, gently squeezing her fingertips, one after the other, lightly.

Confessions, proposals, engagements, marriages ......

He and Rika have managed to walk a quarter of the way through this series of love steps, something that was far away for him a few months ago, but which he has now touched the edge of.

His mind was already made up, but talk was useless and he had to do something. Once the company's operations had settled down, he went to Yokohama to get engaged to Asaba Kazuo.

Rika was like a rainbow that burst into his life unannounced, and Shen Yu had a large part of all his future plans for his life.

The more he felt the sweetness, the more Shen Yu didn't want to let go. He used to feel that it was too soon to think about these things, but when she came into his heart, he suddenly realised that it wasn't too early at all, and he became like her, wanting to do it as soon as possible.

It was almost twelve o'clock and neither Shen Yu nor Rika mentioned going back to bed, but they tacitly agreed to stay on the sofa together.

In his arms, Rika suddenly frowned and curled up slightly.

"What's wrong?"

"A little tummy ache ......"

"Are you going to have diarrhoea? The medicine from home is in the cupboard, I'll go and find it."

Shen Yu was about to get up when Rika pulled him back with a grimace.

"Don't go ......"

"Don't you have to have diarrhoea?"

"...... is not it!"

Rika, ashamed and annoyed, hugged him and wouldn't let him go.

I'm not sure if I'm in a relationship with Shen Yu, he's going to kill me. He doesn't know anything, and even if I have diarrhea, I can't say it like that.

"What should I do then?"

Shen Yu frowned, he could see that Rika was not feeling well, his face was bitter and he was afraid of the cold.

"You can hold me for a while ......" Rika whispered.

Shen Yu then hugged her even harder, "Is that better?"

"Well ......"

Rika behaves better, closes her eyes and naps in his arms, but it still hurts a little and her little brow is wrinkled together.

Shen Yu finally guessed what was going on and asked with an odd expression, "Are you ...... that coming?"

Rika's face turned even redder, and she patted him with her small hand, without saying anything.

Still true.

According to biological knowledge, women are more likely to be in heat during those days of the month, so it's no wonder Rika has suddenly changed colour so much in the past two days.

"Let me go and get you a cup of hot water."

Shen Yu Never tried what it would feel like on those days, but it's always good to drink hot water.

Hot water has the effect of invigorating and warming the blood, so you can drink it not only at this time of the year, but also when you have a cold, a headache, or when you have nothing else to do.

But apart from China, there are no countries like us that love hot water, the West generally drinks cold water, and Japan also drinks cold water.

Rika likes to drink cold water except when her soup is hot, and she likes cold food so much that when we went shopping in the afternoon, the two of us had just finished eating ice cream.

Shen Yu put Rika down, got up and went to the kettle, which had cold boiling water in it, so he pressed the heat and when the water warmed up, took Rika's cup and poured her a cup of hot water.

Rika hadn't even had a drink yet, but just looking at Shen Yu's nervous face warmed my heart.

"Be careful of the heat."

Shen Yu gave her the cup, so Rika held it in her hands, warmed her hands, blew gently on it and took two small sips.

The taste of hot water is different from that of cold water, even if nothing is added to it. When hot water is drunk in the mouth, it always has a bit of astringency, which amplifies that bland and tasteless taste more than a hundred times.

Rika stopped drinking after a couple of sips and asked Shen Yu to come and hold her again.

"Drink more, you must have had too much ice cream this afternoon."

"Not good ...... would be good with some sugar ......"

"What about picking then."

After hearing Shen Yu's words, Rika covered his stomach again and said with a frown, "It hurts so much!"

"Fine fine ...... you wait, I'll go and give you sugar ......"

Seeing her appearance, Shen Yu was terrified and rushed to the kitchen. Although he had never seen a pig run, he had eaten pork, and if you add sugar you have to add brown sugar, which he had still heard of.

A phone call to Mum in the kitchen.

"Mom, where did you put the brown sugar?"

"What happened to the seven soles ......?"

"Rika she is not well."

It was Zhang Xiaoru who had the experience and instructed while rubbing mahjong, "The brown sugar is in that jar against the side of the cupboard, put a few slices of ginger in it while you cook it to drive away the cold ......"

Shen Yu took note of all of them.

Rika was lying on the back of the sofa, watching Shen Yu grate ginger in the kitchen. It wasn't really that painful, she had endured it before and it passed.

"Shen Yu, it's okay, I'll be fine after a rest."

"I'm cooking it all, so just wait."

A few moments later, Shen Yu came out of the kitchen with a bowl of brown sugar and ginger water, a little hot around the edges, and as he placed it on the table, he drew back his fingers and rubbed them gently.

"It's hot, let it dry for a while."

"Uh-huh."

Rika burrowed into his arms again.

Girls are delicate, he had only been away for a moment and now when he held her little hand again it became cool again.

Rub her hands together and when her hands are warmed up, the brown sugar and ginger water is not hot anymore.

Rika held the bowl in both hands and took small sips. It was the first time she drank it, the ginger taste was slightly pungent, but after drinking it, the warmth spread gradually throughout her body, starting from her stomach, and that unbearable pain was gradually relieved a little.

Some girls experience pain so severe that they break out in a cold sweat. The pain is most intense on the first day, when it is spasmodic, and sometimes so severe that it can be felt in the lower back and inner thighs as well.

While Rika was drinking brown sugar and ginger water, Shen Yu was looking up ways to relieve menstrual cramps on her phone, and by the time she had finished, Shen Yu had become an expert.

"Don't you touch the cold water for a few days!"

"...... oh."

"No ice cream either!"

"...... oh."

"Get an early night's rest."

"...... No no no, I'm not sleepy."

Rika is not a good boy and nuzzles over to Shen Yu's arms again.

Shen Yu held up the small half bowl of brown sugar and ginger water she had left, "Aren't you going to drink it?"

"Drink well and be full."

"It tastes okay, doesn't it?"

"Shen Yu cooks superbly well."

Shen Yu was curious and took a couple of sips from the bowl with the rest of her brown sugar and ginger water, which was a little sweet and slightly spicy, and he did feel a lot warmer afterwards.

"I'll go and get you a hot water bag, you can cover it later, and there are some massage techniques you can learn too, I've seen it work ......"

Rika was amused by his expert look. He was obviously a boy of steel, yet he acted like a woman's friend, she had been having her period for years and she didn't know how to ease the pain as well as he did.

"I don't want a hot water bag ......"

Rika grabbed his big hand, Shen Yu's palm was particularly hot and it was a great pleasure to hide his cold little hand in his big hand in winter.

"So what do you want ......"

Before Shen Yu could finish her sentence, she saw Rika take his large hand and slide it under the hem of her dress and press it against the small of her back.

It was the first time Shen Yu had touched her belly, and it felt amazingly soft, like he was touching a water-filled balloon, and it was so delicate to the touch that his heart immediately pounded wildly.

"That's it ...... don't move ......"

Her belly was slightly cool, and once Shen Yu's large hand was on it, the heat penetrated along her skin.

Rika grunted softly and grabbed Shen Yu's hand to stop him from moving around, so he felt like he was holding a natural baby warmer.

Shen Yu didn't dare to say anything, let alone move, just rolled his throat up and down a little and looked down at Rika in his arms.

She too closed her eyes, her body gradually relaxing, her brow beginning to relax, even the small hand that was watching over his large hand gradually relaxing, and seeing that he was being honest, she let go of his hand and let him put his own hand obediently against the small of her back.

"Better?"

"Well ......"

Rika whispered, "If only it was hotter ......"

Shen Yu then took his hand out of the small of her back and as soon as his hand left, he immediately felt a coolness seep in as his skin touched the air.

Rika was about to speak when she saw Shen Yu's two large hands together, rubbing them together quickly and hard, waiting until her palms were warm and hot before reaching in through the hem of her nightgown and pressing her large hot hands against the soft small of her belly.

The heat was immediately transferred from his hands to her body, dispelling the chill cleanly.

"Shen Yu ......"

Rika's little face is flushed and her eyes are watery, and the sound of her voice in her ears can crisp a boy's bones.

"You don't talk, you're the sickest."

Shen Yu tried not to think about the strange sensation in her hands and honestly covered her stomach.

Rika's strength was empty and she slapped him sheepishly.

After a series of ten, the paroxysms finally subsided.

It was after 12pm and both of them were getting a little sleepy, especially Rika, as the pain eased and sleepiness set in.

She crawled up Shen Yu's body and nestled into his arms, closing her eyes as her breathing began to even out and a light smile tugged at the corners of her mouth.

Shen Yu turned off the TV, the Spring Festival reruns were already on.

He patted her on the shoulder, "Get up, go to bed in your room."

"Rika has a stomach ache and can't walk."

"It's still sore, do you want me to press it for you?"

"Just going to take advantage of me ......"

"Who cares."

As Rika pondered what Shen Yu would do, he moved and after a night of being a human cushion, all Shen Yu could feel was numbness throughout his body.

His left hand went through the crook of her leg, his right hand went around her armpit under her shoulder blade, and when he stood up, he picked the tiny girl up off the couch with him.

"Ah ......"

Before Rika could react, a cry of surprise was followed by a tightening of his arms around his neck.

It's her favourite princess hug position.

"I don't want to go back to sleep ...... It's raining outside ......"

She twisted and turned, her little legs stirring, but she was too small to resist Shen Yu's strength.

"Stop it, if you sleep in the living room and my parents come back in the morning and see you, we'll be finished."

Shen Yu's reminder helped Rika to behave; if her aunt and uncle had seen her sleeping on the sofa with Shen Yu, she would have been shamed to death on the spot.

She rested her little head on Shen Yu's shoulder, lifted her chin and gave him a kiss on the side of his face, looking at him with big unblinking eyes.

It's so fairytale to be carried into bed by the boy you like, Rika feels like a little princess.

Shen Yu carries Rika into the room, turns on the light, places her gently on the bed and then sits down on the edge of her bed, cradling her feet in his arms.

Her feet move playfully as she hides in her bear socks, and Shen Yu then removes her bear socks to reveal two pale paws.

His palms took hold of her paws, rubbing and squeezing them until her feet were warm too.

Rika blushed and didn't look at him, letting him play with her feet as she pulled a pillow over her head and covered it with it.

"Be good and sleep."

Shen Yu helped her put the covers back on and prepared to get up and leave.

"Shen Yu ."

Rika calls out to him, her little hands tugging at the corners of the blanket as she looks at him with wide, expectant eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"You ...... you're forgetting one more thing ......"

"Good night, Rika, I like you best."

"One more ......"

Rika blushed and whispered, "You haven't spoiled me yet ......"

Looking at her pink lips, Shen Yu took a deep breath, sat down on the edge of her bed, leaned down and took her soft lips in his mouth like a prince kissing a sleeping princess.

Rika is satisfied.

"Good night, Shen Yu, Rika love you."