Xia Jinyuan wasn’t too inclined to bring up his dark past. Still, when he saw Ye Jian’s eyes were shining with interest, and her expression wasn’t as nervous as she had before, Major Xia was still willing to talk about her dark past to keep her happy.
A man who was willing to talk about his dark past he rather kept hidden to entertain you were more often than not your one true love because he was willing to share his life and the rest of his life with you, with the only desire that you could fully enter his world.
“I might be a troublemaker, but something like stealing a gun wasn’t something I’d do; however, since Han Zheng brought it up, I’m also not in the place to disappoint him, so I nodded and agreed immediately. Wanna guess what I did next?”
“You stole the Supreme Commander’s sidearm?”
Xia Jinyuan burst out in laughter, “Silly fox, how could a sidearm be stolen that easily? The Firearms-Control Law we have today isn’t a Revision; we already had strict laws all those years ago, I might be a troublemaker, but I still know that if a soldier loses his firearm, he’ll get laid off.”
“Although I wasn’t on good terms with the old geezer, I wouldn’t have taken his gun.”
“Then what bad thing did you do?” Ye Jian was fond of listening; listening to his childhood was like the part she was missing, offsetting her own incomplete childhood, “I don’t think it’s going to be a bad thing.”
“Han Zheng still holds a grudge about it till now; after I returned, I thought about it and was worried Han Zheng was really going to steal the gun, so I ran to the Han family and told Uncle Han. When Han Zheng returned after his calligraphy class, a whipping was welcoming him home, making Han Zheng howl from the pain.”
Ye Jian couldn’t hold it in and laughed out loud, the clear springwater-like laughter bubbled outwards, and spoke in a tone filled with sunshine: “Han Zheng would definitely get angry, he couldn’t make a decision and went to ask you, when he finally made his mind, you then turned around and sold him out. Before he even managed to cause some trouble, he was already beaten up; it’ll be weird if he wasn’t angry.”
“That’s what he said after Han Zheng finished his beating, he said it’s worth it if he was beaten up after he caused some trouble, but he was already beaten up before he had managed to do anything; what a waste!” Xia Jinyuan, who had brought up his own past, also couldn’t hold his laughter in; he had caused too much trouble when he was younger, not even three full days was enough for him to finish talking about it.
“After Uncle Han beat Han Zheng up, he purposely visited to thank us with some fruits, the moment my father heard; he felt that Han Zheng didn’t have the audacity, and surmised that I had something to do with that, after Uncle Han left, I was also beaten up.”
“From then on, I realized something, before snitching on misconduct, I’ll have to weigh myself up. Although Uncle Han came to thank me, he had also revealed my role in it. In the future, if I wanted to stir up trouble, I have to remember not to leave any trails, don’t snitch very simply, and must conceal myself well, and hide all the things that I have done.”
Ye Jian was already in tears from laughing, although Captain Xia didn’t have a mother in his childhood. However, he was blessed to have a family that loves him.
“Captain Xia, you were really blessed.” She spoke earnestly.
“Believe me, little fox; we would also be very blessed.” Her childhood was filled with shadow and gloom; he was willing to use his childhood past to fill her yearning towards her childhood.
With Xia Jinyuan’s childhood events, Ye Jian’s tensed mind had finally loosened up; when the car drove into the Shanghai Traditional Courtyard where its red outer wall was covered in Boston Ivy, Ye Jian’s smile had yet to fade away.
When the security guard saw the car driving into the garage, he immediately went into the room. He reported in, Supreme Commander Xia, who was already prepared for his future daughter-in-law’s visit, stood up immediately, straightening his collar, and opened the door to welcome them.
That kid has some skill and knew how to persuade his own girl to come here.
