Not following the expected path? Reborn and unexpectedly married to a demon.

"Chu Luo," Jin Wuchen called her in a hoarse voice.

Chu Luo showed no reaction at all. Jin Wuchen frowned slightly, pulled Chu Luo's wrist over, and took her pulse.

He didn't know if Chu Luo's hearing and vision problems were temporary or permanent.

He looked at the smile on Chu Luo's face and felt a pang of sadness in his heart.

She couldn't hear or see, and didn't know whether the person in front of her was good or bad, yet she smiled so sincerely, radiant yet heartbreaking.

He reached out to touch her smiling face, and her smile broke the darkness in the cave.

Chu Luo smiled easily; she wanted to make things stop because she was trapped and unable to move forward.

He didn't know that Chu Luo actually sensed that he wasn't a bad person and trusted him.

He felt safe and therefore unafraid of the darkness and silence.

Jin Wuchen didn't think too much about it. He took her hand, wrote something in her palm, and asked her if she felt uncomfortable anywhere.

His response reassured Chu Luo even more; her unseen eyes were crystal clear, not at all like someone who couldn't see.

She shook her head. "I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere right now."

"My benefactor, where am I?" Chu Luo asked in confusion.

Jin Wuchen didn't answer, and Chu Luo assumed that he didn't know many characters and had difficulty writing.

Then Jin Wuchen asked her on her palm if she was hungry.

Chu Luo nodded, and Jin Wuchen helped her sit down by the fire.

Chu Luo touched her benefactor's hand, which was covered in wounds and calluses, with some deformed joints, as if it belonged to someone who had worked hard for many years.

Her benefactor had large hands, so he must be a man. He smelled of herbs and was able to heal her, so he must know something about medicine.

She accidentally touched his pulse. This man had no internal strength at all, and seemed to be at the end of his strength.

Ke Enren's steps and breathing were still quite steady, unlike the one she touched.

Perhaps the time was too short.

This place should be near the prison. Chu Luo thought of the family who helped deliver the message. They were people who made a living by collecting herbs. Her benefactor should be like that too.

Chu Luo was still thinking when she smelled a fragrance and had something warm placed in her hand.

Chu Luo took a bite; it was soft, sweet, and fragrant, like something like a sweet potato.

After she ate for a while, a bamboo tube was placed on her other hand. She shook it, and water spilled out.

She quickly took a sip; her benefactor was truly considerate.

After watching her finish eating, Jin Wuchen handed her the medicinal liquid infused with his non-toxic blood.

Chu Luo smelled the familiar scent and realized it was medicine.

She had dealt with herbs in several lifetimes and knew many of their scents very well. She could vaguely analyze which herbs were in them.

There was one ingredient in this medicine that she didn't recognize; it didn't seem to be a medicinal herb.

However, asking the benefactor is not a good idea. Judging from her handwriting, which is not very nimble, she probably doesn't know many characters. She is also deaf and blind, so asking her wouldn't be of much use.

For two or three days in a row, Chu Luo's vision and hearing did not recover at all.

Before Chu Luo woke up, Jin Wuchen had already opened up her meridians, so it wasn't a problem caused by blocked meridians.

Despite using all the necessary herbs, Chu Luo's eyesight and hearing still haven't recovered much.

The current Chu Luo trusts him, which is very different from how she used to be, always wary of him.

For a moment, he thought it would be nice if Chu Luo could always rely on him like this.

But he immediately banished the thought. Chu Luo's name is Luo, but she is not a vine that likes to depend on people. She should be vibrant, bright, and independent.

She can depend on him because she likes him or for some other reason, but she must never depend on him because of her visual or hearing impairment.

This is probably not the life she wants, and it's somewhat shameful to even think about it.

He, Jin Wuchen, didn't need to satisfy his desires by inflicting Chu Luo's suffering. Once she was safe and sound, he could openly and brazenly possess both her body and her heart.

Chu Luo was also trying to find a solution. She couldn't do anything because she couldn't hear or see. She still had things to do, and since she was alive, she couldn't waste time.

She recalled all her memories related to medicine from her previous lives and vaguely remembered a massage technique for treating eye diseases that seemed to have some effect; perhaps she could give it a try.

Chu Luo started massaging herself. She could reach out and press around her eyes and face. After the massage, her eyes felt much better, which meant it was effective.

But the acupoints on her head, neck, and shoulders couldn't be pressed; her hands weren't fully healed and she lacked strength.

Jin Wuchen watched for a while and realized that Chu Luo was performing acupressure. Chu Luo knew about poisons, and poisons and medicines are inseparable, so she must have come up with some solution.

Seeing her raise her hand several times only to helplessly lower it again, Jin Wuchen took her hand and offered to help, asking her to tell him the acupoints.

Chu Luo felt a little embarrassed, but she was in a hurry to recover, so she told him the acupoints. She originally wanted to tell her benefactor the exact location.

To Chu Luo's surprise, her benefactor immediately started pressing the acupoints she had indicated.

Jin Wuchen's hands were not very nimble, but he was extremely accurate in locating acupoints.

Chu Luo told him the order and the pressure applied to different acupoints. The acupoints and methods of this treatment surprised Jin Wuchen.

He had seen that old man Long Yu have his disciples and grand-disciples massage people, and he had some experience with it, but he had never seen such a strange combination of acupoints.

"Thank you so much, my benefactor. My eyes feel much better after the massage, but I'll still need to trouble you for the next few days," Chu Luo said sincerely.

Jin Wuchen didn't say anything; why would he find it troublesome?

For several days in a row, Jin Wuchen massaged those acupoints for Chu Luo. With all his internal energy depleted, the toxins on his fingers began to accumulate again.

In order to better control the force, Jin Wuchen kept practicing his hand movements on the side.

Chu Luo could sense that there was something wrong with his hand. After thinking for a moment, she told Jin Wuchen, "My benefactor, your hand joints are swollen and stiff. I think I saw a doctor before and they treated it. May I try to treat it for you?"

Jin Wuchen wrote "Good" on her hand.

Chu Luo groped for Jin Wuchen's hand and began to massage it.

After the massage, Jin Wuchen discovered that his fingers were actually softer.

No wonder Long Yu was so eager to take her as his apprentice. Not only was she extremely quick-witted and talented in medicine, but she was also very skilled in acupressure massage.

The two had developed a tacit understanding: after Chu Luo massaged his hands, he would massage her eyes in return.

Persistence pays off; Chu Luo's eyes were now able to perceive light again, and when the light was brighter, she could vaguely see some white shadows.

Jin Wuchen looked at his current appearance in the water and was very impressed by the effect of the Song of Thorns. Not to mention Chu Luo, even he himself could not recognize himself. So there was no need to worry that Chu Luo would reject him after seeing him.

There are still some misunderstandings between them that haven't been resolved. Even if there were no misunderstandings, Chu Luo might not want to see him, so now is not the time for them to acknowledge each other.

After taking a short nap, Chu Luo was hit in the eye by a beam of light, which was a bit dazzling. She squinted and slowly opened her eyes, and was pleasantly surprised to find that she could see things blurry.

After a while, Chu Luo blinked and her vision became clearer.

Chu Luo immediately beamed with joy, eager to share the news with her benefactor, and cried out, "Benefactor, I can see again! Where are you, benefactor?"