Chapter 101: Let me help you put it in

“Still haven’t inserted it? Are you sure you don’t need me to help you?”

Now that Xu Ruobing had already changed out of all the blood-stained dirty clothes, Jiang Lai had one extra step to take—she needed to insert the sanitary tampon used during her period.

Xu Ruobing had originally thought Jiang Lai would only need a few minutes, but she had been in the bathroom for a full ten minutes without any success.

The female nurse who delivered the supplies had specifically reminded them that sanitary tampons absorbed much better than sanitary pads.

Although Jiang Lai was now well enough to be discharged, judging from her recent experience, she would likely still be bleeding heavily over the next couple of days.

If she only used sanitary pads, the blood might overflow, so Xu Ruobing had also bought a pack of tampons while arranging for the clothes delivery.

But Jiang Lai was taking even longer than Xu Ruobing expected.

Wasn’t she in such a hurry to get home just now?

How had she suddenly become so slow?

Could it be that she had never used one before?

Although tampons weren’t as widely used as sanitary pads, Jiang Lai was a grown woman—she should have used one before, or so Xu Ruobing thought.

Realizing that Jiang Lai probably had never used one, Xu Ruobing gently placed her hand on the bathroom door handle, wanting to go in and help her.

But as soon as she cracked the door open, Jiang Lai, sitting inside, slammed it shut with force.

“You can’t come in now! I haven’t put my underwear on yet!!”

If it weren’t for the fact that this ward was quite secluded—the hospital’s VIP Ward, in fact—the loudness of Jiang Lai’s voice just now would have drawn a lot of attention, and the fact that she hadn’t put on her underwear would have become common knowledge.

“This is kind of my own fault,” Xu Ruobing smiled, watching the door firmly closed. “The longer Jiang Lai drags this out, the better for me.”

After all, she wasn’t the one in a hurry anymore.

Having a bit more time to spend with Jiang Lai was a great thing.

Outside the door, Xu Ruobing waited patiently and calmly, but inside the bathroom, Jiang Lai was already at her breaking point.

Even though she had just hurriedly looked up how to use a sanitary tampon on her phone, when it came to actually doing it, she found she simply couldn’t manage.

Her face was flushed bright red, almost like an apple, and even the corners of her eyes and eyebrows had a faint rosy tint.

The air around her was filled with a subtle, enticing warmth.

When Jiang Lai saw the bathroom door being opened earlier, she nearly lost half her life in fright.

She knew how embarrassed she had been just moments ago.

She kept encouraging herself not to be afraid—after all, this was just a normal feminine product, nothing indecent, no need to resist so much internally.

But when she was about to finish the preparations, she saw the door—unable to be locked—slowly open again.

She could even see Xu Ruobing outside through the crack, already dressed beautifully.

She nearly broke out in a cold sweat.

“What should I do next?”

Jiang Lai looked down at the small tampon in her hand.

She once again pulled down the underwear she had hastily lifted up when the door opened just now.

So, she was supposed to insert this now, right?

Her movements became extremely cautious as she replayed the tutorial she’d just searched online over and over…

Although Jiang Lai had accepted her own normal physiological needs, that didn’t mean she could just touch her private parts with ease.

The difference between being able to do so seriously and with peace of mind was enormous.

Apart from touching herself while bathing to clean, Jiang Lai had barely explored there at all.

Now that she had to touch herself, it felt like she was a stranger to her own body, and that unfamiliarity left her completely lost.

Her shame made her originally fair fingertips turn bright red, contrasting sharply with the pure white tampon she was holding between her fingers.

Closing her eyes, she had planned to just push it in all at once, but she couldn’t find the right spot at all, and all her built-up courage instantly evaporated.

It was really difficult…

When you encounter an insurmountable obstacle on the path forward, the best way is to find another route.

Jiang Lai glanced at the time on her phone and realized she had already wasted over ten minutes in the bathroom, when she should have been hurrying home.

She lightly knocked on the door, whispering in a voice so low it was almost shy, “Ruobing, Ruobing, is there really no sanitary pad?”

Her almost tearful, shame-filled voice made Xu Ruobing at the door want to laugh.

Her bad mood caused by a call with Chi Yingyu earlier was completely dissolved at this moment.

“There’s none. The nurse also said it’s best to use tampons during the first couple of heavy days. Once those days are over, you can switch back to normal sanitary pads or even sleep pants.”

Xu Ruobing described the shape of sleep pants in the simplest terms.

But in Jiang Lai’s mind, the image she conjured was of baby diapers.

That was absolutely impossible!

Jiang Lai’s last shred of shame kept rejecting the idea—at least for now, she couldn’t accept such a thing.

She simply couldn’t imagine herself wearing something so similar to baby diapers.

That would be way too humiliating.

Wouldn’t that just make her a little baby?

Jiang Lai looked at the tampon that no matter how she tried, wouldn’t go in.

She looked again at the time—if she took it slowly and calmly, she could spend half an hour or even an hour preparing and getting used to it.

But she had already wasted so much time.

If she wasted more, she might be eating dinner late at home.

Thinking of the little sister-in-law waiting for her at home, her face flushed even deeper.

The faint redness at the corner of her eyes was now tinged with moisture.

Almost in despair, she covered her face with both hands and shamefully whispered, “Can you… can you come in and help me?”

Her voice was strange and awkward.

“I really can’t do it on my own…”

“So you really need me that much!”

Once Jiang Lai gave permission, Xu Ruobing didn’t hesitate.

She opened the bathroom door and saw Jiang Lai flustered, covering her lower body with clothes, her face nearly bleeding from the redness.

“Alright, I’ll reluctantly help you then!”

‘Reluctantly?’ Jiang Lai could even see the smile lingering at the corner of Xu Ruobing’s eyes.

Xu Ruobing had never stopped smiling outside the door—she was almost bursting with laughter now.

Her smile was gentle, and her voice soft as if she wanted to pamper Jiang Lai to heaven.

But her hands moved decisively, “If you don’t spread your legs, how can I help you?”