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And a few weeks later, Wen Ning has leveled up to level 6, and he has five stat points to allocate.
He also is at 19 WIZ.
the ordeal
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"It will be over more quickly if you're still."
More horrible things are happening.
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Finally the horribleness stops. When Wen Ning looks down, his hands are in a brace.
"You should sleep."
... that doesn't make more or less sense than torture, but it makes a certain sort of sense? "...Thank you?" He is not going to mention his hands would have healed anyway.
Unfortunately, right now he is that mix of exhausted and wired you get from being in pain, that makes it difficult to sleep. Mysterious how that happened.
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Lan Wangji returns with vegetarian chicken soup and a spoon.
He puts the soup down, guides Wen Ning to sit up, sits next to him, takes the bowl in one hand and the spoon in the other, and brings the spoon to Wen Ning's lips.
He tries to make himself maximally convenient to hand feed.
(The soup tastes like the divine nectar of the gods, but that might just be the hunger talking.)
The nice thing about being in love with everyone is that this is awkward in a 'my crush is handfeeding me' way and not a 'I am too incompetent to feed myself and am now inconveniencing people' way.
But being mechanically fed by Lan Wangji is... a lot.
He is hungry enough to eat an entire cow, offal and all, but also he is realistic about what happens to people who don't eat for days and then eat a lot at once. "Not right now? Thank you."
He is being tucked in by his crush and he is going to CATCH FIRE. OF EMBARRASSMENT.
...assuming he doesn't fall asleep first, which is looking pretty likely.