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But he hadn't made a sound. He'd carried her forward step by step, his back slightly hunched, careful not to let her fall.

At that moment, she felt like she was his whole world—his life, everything.

When they got home, she applied medicine to his wound and pressed a kiss to his stump.

For all these years, she had treated him as her pride. She wouldn't allow anyone to look down on him