Forced Love: The Villainous Female Supporting Character is Kissed and Cried by the Yandere Villain

Xu Wuning's shoulders trembled as she cried, nodding repeatedly, her voice breaking into fragments: "It counts, it counts..."

"We'll get married as soon as you're better, not a day longer."

"I mean what I say... as long as you get better."

Lu Jingci looked at her, a smile appearing in his eyes. His pale complexion improved, and his weak breath seemed to be almost completely healed.

He closed his eyes for a few seconds, then opened them again, his smile deepening. He said softly, "Then it's a deal. We're back to normal, right?"

Xu Wuning nodded again, sobbing, and sniffed.

Lu Jingci reached out and gently touched her long hair, his eyes sincere: "However, Ningning, I promised you that I would pursue you for the rest of my life and make you happy."

"I don't want you to marry me just because you pity me from the car accident. I want to truly win you over and make you happy... So, Ningning, every day from now on will be the beginning of my pursuit of you."

"Besides, you've been pursuing me for two years... how can I only pursue you for three months?"

"Ningning, it may take you a lifetime to be pursued by me."

"You have a long life ahead of you, you may have to tell me slowly."

Xu Wuning buried her face in his palm, crying and trembling all over: "Okay, okay, I promise you, as long as you can get better... get better and healthier."

Outside the window, the sky slowly brightened.

A thin ray of morning light pierced through the gap in the curtains, falling on the two people's clasped hands and illuminating Xu Wuning's tear-stained face.

Lu Jingci gently wiped away her tears with his thumb, gazing at her with tenderness and affection:

His voice was gentle, "Ningning, don't cry. Look, it's already dawn."

"I'm fine now. My injuries will heal. If you keep crying, you'll end up with a small fish tank full of water... more than all night combined."

Xu Wuning looked up, sniffed, and tears still clung to her eyelashes: "You're wrapped up like a mummy, and you still have the mood to joke around and drive."

Lu Jingci's lips curved into a smile: "I just wanted to cheer you up. Okay, stop crying, stop crying..."

He tilted his head towards the window, gesturing, "Watching the sunrise, it's so beautiful, be happy, okay?"

Xu Wuning looked in the direction of that ray of light.

The sky outside the window was tinged with a pale orange-pink, and the clouds were edged with gold. It was quiet and peaceful, as if the whole world had slowed down at this moment, and even the wind had become gentle.

Lu Jingci tilted his head to look at her, seeing her eyelashes still trembling, her nose still red, and how she looked in the morning light.

He suddenly felt that with Ningning by his side, all the pain was worth it and nothing else mattered.

"Ningning," he called her softly and tenderly.

Xu Wuning met his smiling gaze.

"Don't you feel it?" he said, "that the sun is especially bright today? It's an auspicious sign of surviving a great calamity, so you should be happy and not cry, okay?"

Xu Wuning's lips finally curved into a smile.

She stood up, lowered her head, and carefully kissed his forehead with her lips, very lightly, as if afraid of startling something.

Then she walked to the window and pulled the curtains open halfway, instantly filling the room with warm light.

She turned around and looked at him against the light. He lay there, looking at her too. The two of them smiled gently at each other in the bright sunlight.

"Lu Jingci," she suddenly called out to him in a hoarse voice.

"Um?"

"I've made up my mind. We'll get our marriage certificate as soon as you're discharged from the hospital."

"All the past sorrows are in the past. We start anew, just like this sunshine. It reminds me of a saying: 'The road ahead is bright and promising.'"

"Let's live a happy life together from now on, okay?"

Lu Jingci smiled, his eyes crinkling with laughter. Despite being incredibly weak, he forced himself to speak, "Then I need to get better quickly."

"Take good care of your injury and don't push yourself," Xu Wuning glared at him, her eyes still red, but a light finally appeared in them.

"Okay," he said, "I'll do whatever you say."

Xu Wuning walked back to the bedside and sat down. She looked down into his eyes and suddenly spoke, "Lu Jingci."

"Um?"

"We have many, many more sunrises to come, and I will be with you."

Lu Jingci's lips curved into a wider smile as he gripped her hand tightly, his grip weak yet firm.

"Yes, many, many."

Xu Wuning looked at their clasped fingers and called out to him again, "Lu Jingci?"

"I am here."

"I've thought about this for a long time, and I want to tell you that I didn't want to get engaged to you because I felt sorry for you after your car accident. It's because at that moment, I saw through my own heart."

She looked up and her gaze fell into his eyes, which seemed to be filled with a dazzling galaxy.

"You're always the one who tells me you love me, but I've never seriously said anything to you in return."

"So now I want to tell you..."

She paused, tears welling up in her eyes again, but her smile remained curved.

"I love you too."

"We will always be together, just like you said, for a lifetime, for all eternity."

Lu Jingci's eyes immediately reddened, his lips trembled, and he remained silent for a long time.

Those usually calm eyes were now brimming with tears. In the blink of an eye, a tear slid from the corner of her eye, trickling down her temple and into her hair.

He hurriedly tried to turn his head away so she wouldn't see him cry, but the movement aggravated his wound and caused him great pain.

"Don't move." Xu Wuning quickly pressed down on his shoulder, her voice filled with worry.

Lu Jingci didn't move. He just lay there, looking up at her with eyes full of love that almost overflowed.

Another tear welled up in his eye and slid down his cheek. He raised his finger to wipe it away, but he couldn't lift his hand.

His voice trembled violently, "Ningning, I've been waiting for you to say that for so long, so very long."

He closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, tears streamed down his face. "I thought... I would never hear again in my life."

"I am a person with bad character, a dark and broken heart. I am bad in every way, my family is bad, I am not good enough for you in any way. I thought I was not worthy of your love in this life."

He choked up, his Adam's apple bobbing, "But you said you loved me..."

Large tears slid down her cheeks. "You said you loved me..."

"It's like a ray of light suddenly shining into a bottomless abyss. Someone as utterly worthless as me can actually be cared for and loved by others."

He looked up at her through his tear-filled eyes, "Ningning, thank you for loving me... I'm so happy, I'm really so happy."

Xu Wu Ning's tears also fell down. She reached out and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, her fingertips trembling.

"Don't say that. You're great, you're a really, really good person, Lu Jingci. I think you are, you are, in my eyes, you're the best."

Lu Jingci shook his head, grasped her hand and intertwined their fingers, tears streaming down his face: "Heaven has still been kind to me."

He took a breath, his chest heaving, which aggravated his injury and made his face turn pale, but he was still smiling.

His voice was soft and steady, each word sounding as if it came from the bottom of his heart: "Okay, if Ningning says a lifetime, then it is a lifetime; if she says eternity, then it is eternity."

He pulled her hand to his lips, gently pressing his lips against the back of her hand. His eyes, reflecting the light streaming in from the window, shone with an astonishing brightness.

"I, Lu Jingci, will obediently be Ningning's dog for the rest of my life."

"In the next life, and the life after that, for all eternity, I will be Ningning's dog."

Xu Wuning touched his forehead with her own, her eyes crinkling.

"It's settled then, no reneging on the agreement."

Lu Jingci held her hand tightly, his eyes reflecting only her image, and said earnestly and gently, "Not bad, not bad for a lifetime."

The days are long, the sun is high, and they have a lifetime to live...