Su Yuze rushed back to the hospital with a big bag of sanitary pads. He tossed the bag onto the hospital bed and asked, "How do you use these?" Su Rou on the bed didn't seem to be in as much pain as before, but she was still lying there drenched. Her small body had stopped trembling, but the bloodstains on her lower body were still horribly eye - catching.
Su Yuze's fair and handsome face blushed slightly. He averted his gaze somewhat awkwardly.
The doctor gave Su Yuze a look as if he were an idiot. This gentleman was being a bit too exaggerated, wasn't he? So many sanitary pads!
"You'd better go out again. You can take your sister home after I've taken care of her," the doctor said. She could tell that these siblings might be without parents. The younger sister was having her first period, and the elder brother was acting like a fool. She'd be kind enough to help them out.
Right now, Su Yuze would do whatever the doctor said. He'd probably jump off a building if she told him to.
After the doctor helped Su Rou stick the sanitary pad onto her underwear, she called Su Yuze in to take Su Rou away. "Give her more brown sugar water, red dates, and other blood - tonifying things," the doctor advised.
"Okay, thank you," Su Yuze replied.
Su Yuze didn't mind the dirty, blood - stained Su Rou at all. He carried her to the car. The passenger seat was also stained red, so he put her in the back seat.
When they got home, there were bloodstains on the bed. The sweat - soaked sheets were still damp and unfit to sleep on.
Su Yuze was speechless. He had no choice but to take the quilt to the living room and lie down on the big sofa with Su Rou in his arms.
...
The next day, Su Rou opened her sleepy eyes. Her stomach was still aching slightly. She rubbed her lower abdomen and found herself on the living - room sofa. She scratched the back of her head. Did she sleepwalk last night?
"Little Rou, you're awake," Su Yuze said as he walked downstairs in clean clothes.
"Um... Brother Yuze, my stomach still hurts," Su Rou said as she got up from the sofa. She felt something padded under her buttocks. She reached out and touched it. "Ah..." Could it be that her period had come?
Su Rou lifted the quilt. The nightgown stained with fresh blood immediately came into the sight of both Su Rou and Su Yuze. Su Rou widened her eyes, quickly covered the quilt again, and looked at Su Yuze with teary eyes. "I... My period..."
Su Yuze wasn't fazed. He'd seen it all last night. "I know," he said as he handed her a bag of sanitary pads. "Can you change it by yourself?"
"... I can," Su Rou replied. Many girls in junior high school had gotten their periods, and they'd talked about it privately.
Su Rou took the sanitary pads slowly. Suddenly, she thought of a question and looked at Su Yuze in horror. "Then, who helped me with this?" It couldn't be Su Yuze, could it?
This? What was she referring to? Su Yuze thought for a moment and immediately understood. "It was the doctor," he said.
So they'd gone to the hospital last night. Ugh... How embarrassing! Su Rou wrapped the quilt around herself and rushed to her room. As she passed by Sister Wang, she saw Sister Wang throwing a blood - stained bedsheet into the washing machine. Su Rou felt even more embarrassed. It was just too humiliating!
"Sister Wang, there's also my bedsheet. Little Cutie peed on it..."
Sister Wang turned around and smiled at her. "Don't worry, Miss. I know."
...
After Su Rou tidied herself up, she walked downstairs awkwardly. She was unusually silent. After sitting on the sofa for a while, she suddenly remembered that she had school today!
"Brother Yuze, what time is it?"
"Eleven o'clock," Su Yuze said as he walked over and sat next to Su Rou. "Does your stomach still hurt?"
Su Rou nodded pitifully. "A little." Then she stood up and grabbed Su Yuze's hand. "Brother Yuze, take me to school!"
"Don't go. I've asked for leave for you. You should rest at home for these few days," Su Yuze said. The memory of last night was too heart - wrenching. If he let Little Rou go to school alone, who knew what might happen? Moreover, he'd heard that girls felt very uncomfortable during their periods. If she was uncomfortable, then she'd better not go. She could go back to school after her period was over.
"Okay," Su Rou replied. She did feel uncomfortable, so she didn't argue and obediently agreed.
Su Yuze boiled some brown sugar water for her and told her to hold the cup and drink it slowly. "It's too sweet..."
"You have to drink it even if it's sweet. It's good for your blood," Su Yuze said. The doctor had said so. "Didn't you say your stomach hurt? Drinking this will make you feel better."
Su Rou looked at the dark - colored brown sugar water. Actually, it was donkey - hide gelatin brown sugar brought by Sister Wang. It smelled like traditional Chinese medicine. Su Rou looked at the cup disdainfully, then held her breath and gulped it down in one go.
She lay on the sofa, looking listless. After being tortured by menstrual cramps last night and becoming completely drained, it was no wonder she had no energy! Su Yuze didn't even go to work. He stayed at home to take care of his Little Rou. "Sleep if you're tired."
"Okay," Su Rou pouted and slowly closed her eyes.
Su Yuze was learning for the first time how hard it was for a girl to have her first period. He stroked Su Rou's hair, tucked the quilt around her tightly, and then went to the study to work.
...
When Su Rou returned to school, it was already five days later. Xiao Yun and Yu Fei looked at her worriedly. "Rourou, what's wrong with you? Are you sick?" They'd been so worried since she'd been absent from school for five days. Especially Jiang Ling. He'd almost rushed to her house. Fortunately, he didn't know where she lived, so that disaster had been avoided.
Su Rou's period was over, and she was full of energy again. She threw her schoolbag on the desk. "I got my period, so Brother Yuze asked for leave for me!"
"Just because of your period?" Her brother was spoiling her too much, wasn't he? Just for her period, he'd asked for five days of leave!
"Um... Because it hurt so much!" Now that she thought about it, the excruciating pain was just like giving birth. It was so terrifying! According to Brother Yuze, she might have this pain every month...
"Ah, you're so pitiful!" Yu Fei stroked her head. "But at least your period has come." If it hadn't come, it would have been abnormal.
"Yeah," Su Rou pouted. It was so painful. She didn't want it to come at all.
"Rourou, when you were gone, Jiang Ling was so worried. He asked us every day if we knew where you lived," Xiao Yun said.
"What did you say?" Su Rou asked.
"Of course we said we didn't know!"
Just then, Jiang Ling walked over. As usual, he brought milk, chocolate, and other snacks. "Little Rou, what happened to you those days?" He'd been so worried since she'd been absent from school for five days. He'd wanted to go to her house to check on her, but he didn't know her address. He'd wanted to call her but found he didn't even have her phone number!
"Nothing..." How could she tell a boy about her period?
"If nothing happened, why did you ask for five days of leave?" Jiang Ling clearly didn't believe her.
"... " This boy was so persistent!