Filed To Story: My Accidental Bride Is a Fashion Circle Queen Novel
The trauma in his heart was still there.
In the end, he helped her put her pajamas back on and rolled back to his side of the bed, “My wound hurts.”
Qian Lan’s gaze turned dull.
Soon, Zichen’s steady breaths echoed through Qian Lan’s ears. At this time, Qian Lan stood up, wandered over to the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room and looked out into the distance.
She was about to leave for a mission and she didn’t know how long it would take before she’d come back. It wasn’t easy for Zichen to finally relax a little around her, if she had to wait another 10-14 days, when would she fully win his heart.
The army was holding a competition amongst the new recruits. As an instructor, she naturally had to attend…
So, she had to leave at 5am.
After thinking carefully for a short while, Qian Lan returned to the bedroom and kneeled down beside the bed. As she watched the sleeping Zichen, she gently reached out her hand and patted him on the head, “I’m sorry, Zichen. I know that no matter how many times I apologize, there’s an obstacle in your heart that we can never get past. I don’t know what you want and I don’t know how to comfort you. I want to beg for your forgiveness, but I don’t know where to start. I really don’t know what to do.”
“As soon as 5am hits, I will need to leave again. This time, it may be another week. You don’t know how much I want to get a response from you.”
“Forget it, I asked for all this. I won’t blame you.”
“I simply hope that you won’t torture yourself by holding back.”
After speaking, Qian Lan stood up and headed to the study room. She knew that she wouldn’t be able to lie sleepless next to Zichen for an entire night.
Amidst the darkness, Zichen opened his eyes and painfully rolled over.
Silly woman, she was disturbing someone’s sleep…
…
Before 5am hit, Qian Lan woke up to find a sandwich and a glass of warm milk on the table.
Qian Lan was a little surprised, but she quickly realized who prepared it for her and her heart lit up with joy.
Did he hear what she said last night?
After finishing her breakfast, Qian Lan placed the medicine that Zichen needed to reapply on the dining table and left a note, reminding him to use it.
When Zichen woke up and saw her reminder, he rolled his eyes, “If an intelligence officer used such cheap medicine, how long would they have to suffer in pain?”
The medicine he used was special. It was something that wasn’t sold to the public.
But, even though he said this, he still held the medicine in his hands. His actions did not match his words.
This time, Qian Lan left for 10 days. During these 10 days, she did not contact anyone.
Zichen understood how the military operated and knew that even if he tried to make a phone call, he would not be able to get through to her. So, he decided not to bother her.
Qian Lan hoped every day that Zichen would find her and contact her, but no matter how long she was away from home, it didn’t seem like Zichen cared where she was and what she was doing. In fact, it didn’t seem like he cared if she was dead or alive.
Qian Lan had a photo of Zichen with her. It was a photo that was given to her during her teaching days, when her friend first introduced her to him. Judging by the angle of the photo, it was taken without him knowing. Whenever Qian Lan had some free time, she would take out the photo and look at it. This made many of her colleagues laugh at her, “Are you still not with the man that you dream about all day?”
“We’re together now,” Qian Lan replied.
“Then why don’t you contact each other?” her colleague asked nosily.
“Yes, why don’t we contact each other?” Qian Lan couldn’t help but ask herself.
“I bet it’s a one-sided love. That man never agreed to be with you, right? Forget about it, focus on your mission. These new recruits are all troublemakers. There’s absolutely no time for me to think about relationsh*ps!” her colleague patted her on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.
Qian Lan chuckled and put away the photo in her hands. Her colleague was right, it wasn’t the time to be thinking about relationsh*ps.
But, early the next morning, before Qian Lan even woke up, someone ran in and reported, “Instructor, something’s wrong, a few new recruits have wandered into the restricted zone. There are land mines in there!”
“Then why are you still standing around? Hurry and find them!” Qian Lan immediately got out of bed. These new recruits couldn’t give her time to relax.
However, Qian Lan had no idea that this rebellious action would almost take her life!
Helicopters and all kinds of detection devices including UAVs were deployed by the army, but no one could find the missing recruits.
In the end, Qian Lan had no choice but to request for entry into the restricted zone so she could bring them back.
Her superior gave her permission to enter, but even though she was on her own and her life was on the line, Qian Lan did not hesitate for even a second.
“Instructor Qian, it’s really dangerous…are you sure you can do it?”
“It’s not a matter of whether I can do it or not. Those punks have cut their GPS signal and turned off all communication devices. We can’t contact them and we can’t determine their exact location. Apart from going in to look for them, we have no other choice,” Qian Lan said as she got prepared to enter the restricted zone. “I’ll leave everyone else in your hands.”
“In that case, be careful.”
Qian Lan nodded and wandered into the restricted zone on her own.
Even if she was actually hurt, she believed that no one would care, so what was she afraid of? On the other hand, those new recruits all had people that worried about them.
With this thought, Qian Lan quickened her pace.
The new recruits were smart and their methods to avoid detection were not bad, but they were unaware of their limits. How dare they disobey their orders?
As Qian Lan searched for the missing recruits, she slowly wandered into the center of the restricted zone. A little while later, she finally heard their voices coming from an abandoned factory.
Qian Lan immediately ran inside. As soon as the new recruits saw her, they were so frightened that they began to cry, “Instructor, you’re here! Miller Long stepped on a land mine.”
Two men and two women surrounded Miller Long as they tried to keep him from moving.
Qian Lan pulled out a dagger, advanced forward and kneeled down in front of the new recruits, “How long has it been?”
“It’s been half an hour. We were too afraid to run around and we didn’t know how to ask for help.”
“Everything I’ve taught you has gone to waste. Also, who allowed you to disobey your orders?” Qian Lan helped Miller Long remain stable as she pulled out a communication device to contact the outside world.
“Instructor Qian, we won’t do it again!”
Qian Lan humphed and stopped scolding the recruits. She then looked up and said, “Don’t worry, this isn’t impossible to defuse, OK?”
“I…I trust in you, Instructor,” the young recruit was too scared to even take a big breath in case the land mine under his feet would explode.
However, at this time, one of the female recruits suddenly screamed because she thought she had also stepped on a land mine. This shock caused Miller Long to instinctively flinch.
Qian Lan quickly covered the new recruit and rolled away, “Everyone get down!”
Everything happened too suddenly, so the explosion shocked the entire army base.
After everything fell silent, the new recruits finally noticed that Qian Lan’s back was covered in blood…
“Instructor Qian!”
“Instructor Qian!”
But, Qian Lan had already lost consciousness…
Was she dead? Was she never seeing Zichen again?
Qian Lan really didn’t want to close her eyes, but she had absolutely no strength…
…
Zichen waited 2 weeks but he still didn’t hear anything from Qian Lan, so he began to sense that there was something wrong.
Logically speaking, Qian Lan’s mission shouldn’t have taken any more than 2 weeks, but 2 weeks had already passed and there was still no sign of Qian Lan.
Zichen thought for a bit and decided to give Qian Lan a phone call. However, Qian Lan left her phone at the base and didn’t turn it on.
The more Zichen thought about it, the more he felt that things weren’t right. Finally, he called the army base to check on her.
After waiting for a while, he finally got told that Qian Lan was in the hospital.
Zichen immediately drove to the hospital with an unexplainable feeling. Even if he didn’t forgive her and even if he ignored her, she wasn’t allowed to get hurt. That’s the complex feeling he felt.
Soon, Zichen arrived at the hospital. At that time, Qian Lan’s colleague was visiting her.
As soon as she saw Zichen, she was quite surprised. The dream guy in Qian Lan’s photo was here in real life.
“You…”
“I’m Qian Lan’s fiance,” Zichen said. “What happened?”
“Qian Lan told us not to contact her family no matter what happens to her. But, she never gave us your contact details,” the colleague replied. “A few days ago, she was hurt in an explosion when she went to save a new recruit. Her back has already undergone three surgeries and she is still recovering.”
“The anaesthetic hasn’t worn off, so she hasn’t woken up yet.”
“Was she seriously injured?”
“She almost lost her life,” the colleague sighed. “Since you’re here, you can take good care of her. I’m going to leave first.”
Zichen nodded before he laid his eyes on the woman lying in the hospital bed.
She was lying on her front because her back was seriously injured.
Her face was pale and she looked extremely weak.
After Qian Lan’s colleague was finished talking, she turned to leave. But, she paused at the doorway to greet a few other colleagues that had arrived to visit Qian Lan.
“Don’t go in. Her fiance just arrived.”
“When did Qian Lan have a fiance?”
“It’s the man in Qian Lan’s photo. The one that she’s been missing for 5 years.”
The colleagues quickly realized what was happening and nosily peered into the room, “In that case, we’ll come back another day.”
After hearing the conversation bet**en the colleagues, Zichen gently closed the room door.
Perhaps Qian Lan sensed Zichen’s presence, so she slowly opened her eyes. When she saw the familiar figure and face, she tried to get up, but she was in so much pain that her eyes immediately welled up.
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