Gradually, she wasn't cold anymore, as her body temperature returned to normal.
She took the medicine and he just kept watching her.
Hiding medicine wasn't something she hadn't done before; once, he had caught her red-handed.
She was about eight or nine years old, had a cold in the winter, and refused to take her medicine, so she secretly hid it and then lied to him that she had taken it.
He thought she had taken it, but when the cold didn't get better for a long time, he became suspicious.
There was this one time when he deliberately left, only to see her bending over, sneakily throwing the medicine out of the window.
That way, she got caught by him, received a good scolding, and cried breathlessly.
She cried and promised him that she would never do such a bad thing again.
When she cried, he was helpless, all his resentment dissipated, leaving only helplessness behind.
After that incident, she behaved a lot better.
