Jiang Miaomiao quickly hushed, “Keep your voice down, everyone is sleeping. Don’t wake them up.”
Lu Qiming smirked, “You’re with a lot of people?”
“Yes, there are more than ten team members. Didn’t they tell you?”
“They did,” he teased, “but I thought after they found out how lazy you are, they would send you back to the base.”
Jiang Miaomiao lifted her chin and snorted, “Don’t underestimate me! I achieved great success today.”
“Oh? What kind of accomplishment? Tell me about it.”
“I…”
She was prepared to boast to him when she suddenly remembered something.
“Why are you calling me so late? Can you use the communicator now?”
Lu Qiming shook his head, “I exchanged it with them.”
“Exchanged? What did you exchange?”
“With my handsome appearance,” he chuckled. “From now on, your handsome husband’s face won’t belong to you alone.”
“…Let’s be serious!”
“Okay.” Lu Qiming explained honestly, “I agreed to their observation plan, and as compensation, they agreed to let me have a video call with you.”
Jiang Miaomiao’s heart jumped to her throat instantly.
“What plan? Is it dangerous?”
“It’s not dangerous, just an observation…observing how someone with high intelligence reacts under the zombie virus.”
She listened in confusion, “How do they observe that? Do they throw you into the virus?”
“Fool, who would do that.”
“Then how do they observe?”
“You won’t understand even if I tell you.” Lu Qiming changed the subject, “Tell me about your situation.”
Jiang Miaomiao recounted today’s events in detail, deliberately avoiding the dangerous parts and focusing on how they bravely delivered the supplies, making it sound quite heroic.
Lu Qiming listened calmly and asked with a smile, “Is it really your first-hand experience? You didn’t just read someone else’s news and make up stories to fool me, did you?”
Jiang Miaomiao made a fist towards the camera, “You’re asking for a beating!”
He smiled with his eyes curved, paused, and asked, “Time is almost up. Is there anything else you want to tell me?”
Jiang Miaomiao put down her hand, looking at his face so close yet so far, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
There were so many things she wanted to say.
Did he eat? Is he full? Is he warm in his clothes? Is he cold when sleeping at night?
But all these would be laughed off as useless words, adding to her anxiety with no real purpose.
“Just take care of yourself, and wait for me to finish my mission and come see you.”
After holding back for a long time, she said this to him.
Lu Qiming nodded earnestly, “Alright, I’ll be waiting for you to bring me a gift.”
“Okay.”
“Rest early, goodnight.”
“Goodnight.”
The screen flickered and turned completely dark.
Disappointed, Jiang Miaomiao held the communicator in her hands for a while before returning to give it back to Yuan Mubing, then she went back to sleep.
At the same time, in the base’s laboratory.
Lu Qiming, lying on the operating table, handed the communicator to the person next to him.
“Let’s begin.”
The expert picked up the anesthetic and said to him, “You need to be put under general anesthesia. We will make a small hole in the back of your head to extract some tissue for observation. Since we will need to continue monitoring changes in your brain tissue, we cannot allow the hole to heal. We will take necessary precautions, and during this period, you cannot engage in any physical activities.”
Lu Qiming asked, “How long will it last?”
“Approximately one month.”
“Are you trying to turn me into an idiot?”
He was quite skeptical.
The expert said, “We will control the amount we extract, and it will definitely not affect your intelligence. Moreover, due to the virus in your body, your self-healing ability is quite good, so you don’t need to worry about that.”
Good self-healing ability… No matter how good it is, who would willingly have a hole in the back of their head for a whole month?
Lu Qiming closed his eyes and fell silent for a long time. The expert thought he might back out and was about to persuade him when he suddenly said, “Go ahead.”
There was no turning back now.
An anesthetic was injected into his vein, and Lu Qiming quickly lost consciousness.
With the success of the first experiment, the subsequent tasks went more smoothly.
Besides assisting Yuan Mubing, Jiang Miaomiao also worked hard to improve herself and assist other team members in combat.
But the workload was too heavy. Although they said she could rest after the mission, the orders kept coming one after another, leaving her no chance to catch her breath.
It was only after more than a month that Jiang Miaomiao managed to apply for a one-week vacation.
Yuan Mubing didn’t deceive her; she had already communicated with the laboratory and agreed that she could accompany Lu Qiming in the sterile room around the clock.
But she had to comply with the sterilization procedures.
Compared to the joy of being able to meet Lu Qiming, this small request was nothing.
Back at the base, she didn’t even go to her dormitory but went straight to the laboratory.
After going through the complicated sterilization process, Jiang Miaomiao finally saw Lu Qiming, who was resting.
He was lying on a white hospital bed, wearing clothes similar to the ones he wore last time.
His complexion looked particularly weak, and his arms were so thin that the bone structure was visible.
He hadn’t left the base since arriving, and his skin had become much paler, as if coated with a layer of caramel.
He was sleeping deeply, with a slight rise and fall of his chest. The dense eyelashes cast reflections on his face, giving a sense of unfamiliar fragility.
“Mr. Lu, your wife is here to see you.”
The staff suddenly spoke up.
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t want to wake him up, so she quickly gestured for the person to be quiet. Unfortunately, it was too late, and Lu Qiming had already opened his eyes and slowly sat up.
“You’re here?”
He looked pleasantly surprised and yet puzzled.
Jiang Miaomiao could only say, “I’m on vacation, for a whole week.”
“They allowed you to come in?”
“Yes, I can stay here with you all day.”
“Good… good…”
Happiness came too suddenly, and Lu Qiming was unprepared, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Jiang Miaomiao caught sight of the back of his head and exclaimed, “Are you injured? Why is there gauze sticking there?”
He touched it and quickly said, “No, it’s just a small cut, it will be fine in a couple of days. Have you eaten? The laboratory has a kitchen, I can ask them to make something for you to eat.”
The treatment for rescue team members at the base was quite good.
After all, it was a life-risking profession, and at least they didn’t have to worry about meals, with hot food available for every meal.
Ever since Jiang Miaomiao entered the base, she had never worried about her meals again and even saved a lot of food to bring back for “Meatball” (her pet).
She shook her head, looked into his eyes, and suddenly said, “Close your eyes.”
“Huh?”
“Trust me, close your eyes.”
Lu Qiming couldn’t figure out what she was going to do, but if she suddenly wanted to punch him, he would be happy to accept it.
Lu Qiming obediently closed his eyes, and Jiang Miaomiao walked up to him, taking something out of her pocket and putting it on the ring finger of his left hand.
“Ta-da!”
He opened his eyes to find a simple-looking ring on the base of his finger, with its color and luster suggesting that it was white gold.
“Isn’t it nice? We passed by a jewelry store during a mission, and I specially picked this for you.”
Lu Qiming stared blankly at the ring, and his eyes welled up instantly.
“It’s beautiful.”
“It’s been sterilized. You should wear it every day from now on and don’t lose it.”
He nodded, and his fingers closed slightly, as if he wanted to hide the ring inside his flesh.
An expert came in and knocked on the door.
“It’s time for today’s tests.”
Lu Qiming looked up and said, “You play for a while; I’ll be back soon.”
Jiang Miaomiao was afraid of what they would do to him and asked anxiously, “Where are you going? What kind of test?”
Lu Qiming glanced at the expert, without explaining, just said, “Wait for me to come back.”
The assistant brought a wheelchair, and he sat on it, leaving with the expert.
In the room, Jiang Miaomiao was left alone. She looked around; all she could see were white walls, nothing interesting to look at. She sat down on the sofa and waited.
Last night, they stayed up all night for the mission and hardly closed their eyes from beginning to end.
When she returned today, she dozed off a bit on the plane. Despite feeling very tired, the drowsiness overwhelmed her, and she fell asleep quickly after sitting down.
She didn’t know how much time had passed when the aroma of food woke her up.
Jiang Miaomiao opened her eyes and found herself lying in bed.
The scene in front of her was unfamiliar, but when she saw Lu Qiming on the wheelchair, she realized where she was.
“Are you done?” She rubbed her eyes, lifted the blanket, and got out of bed.
Lu Qiming nodded, “Lunch is ready. Do you want to eat first or sleep first?”
“Let’s eat first.”
She finally saw him, and wasting time on sleeping was not a good deal.
In the room, there was an additional small round dining table with two dishes and a soup.
Stir-fried potatoes with cured meat, sautéed lettuce, and seaweed and egg drop soup.
These dishes, which were incredibly common before the apocalypse, were undoubtedly the most luxurious enjoyment in the current base.
Could he eat these every day?
It seemed that the laboratory indeed treated him well.
Jiang Miaomiao was relieved. Taking advantage of his status, she picked up the chopsticks and took a piece of cured meat.
Lu Qiming didn’t move and smiled as he watched her.
“Aren’t you going to eat? Do you want me to feed you?”
He shook his head, “I don’t have much appetite now, you go ahead.”
Jiang Miaomiao ate with some doubt and asked, “Are you feeling unwell? Shall I call someone to check on you?”
Being uncomfortable in the laboratory was a normal state.
Once, Lu Qiming went five days without eating and relied solely on intravenous nutrition.
He had long been used to it, so he shook his head.
“Eat your fill first.”
Jiang Miaomiao held the chopsticks, looked around, and lowered her voice away from the camera as she asked, “If you can’t stand it here, shall we escape?”
Lu Qiming widened his eyes in surprise.
“I don’t care about vaccines or no vaccines. I only care about you. If you don’t want to stay here, we can leave.”
He chuckled, “What childish talk. You’re giving up your job in the rescue team?”
She could stay inside the laboratory without worrying about food and drink, and she didn’t need to face the zombies directly; it was almost the most suitable job after the apocalypse.
Just throw it away casually and go back to wandering with him?
Jiang Miaomiao was anxious.
“You’re the one who’s being childish. What’s the point of a job?”
He touched her head, leaned back against the wheelchair, and smiled.
“No need, really. Endure for a while now, and when the vaccine is developed, I will be a hero for all of humanity.”
Jiang Miaomiao expressed doubt.
She didn’t understand Lu Qiming yet? He was not the material to be a hero at all.
If they put the trophy and cigarettes together, he would definitely choose the cigarettes without hesitation.
“Don’t deceive me,” Jiang Miaomiao said.
Lu Qiming couldn’t help but smile, “Who’s deceiving you? I’m a man. If you don’t believe me, go ask around. Which man in the world doesn’t want to be a hero?”
“Really?”
He gazed at the ceiling, lost in thought.
“If I save humanity and return to the city, the government will surely reward me generously, giving me a luxurious mansion, fancy cars, and more money than I can spend. Wherever I go, people will respect me and address me with honor. And, of course, there will be plenty of beautiful women throwing themselves at me. Oh, should I choose the gentle and delicate type or the sexy and glamorous type?”
Jiang Miaomiao rolled her eyes.
“This is serious! Did the doctor inject the medicine into the wrong place? You’re talking nonsense in broad daylight.”
Lu Qiming leaned over and asked playfully, “What type do you think I should choose?”
“I think you’d make a great eunuch.”
“Are you serious about that?”
“What would I have to hesitate about? Anyway, I only like your face, and I don’t need anything else. Besides, when you become a hero in the city, I won’t be too bad either. The people coming out of the rescue team don’t lead a bad life. By that time, you’ll be old, and I’ll still be young, able to flirt with young guys everywhere. Who can’t compare to an old man like you when they are in their twenties?”
Lu Qiming smiled wryly, “Looks like I should keep you under lock and key.”
She reached up and patted his face.
“You can’t keep me under control, but if you treat me wholeheartedly, I might consider spending more time with the elderly.”
The two of them bantered back and forth, as if they were back to their old days.
After finishing their meal, Jiang Miaomiao and Lu Qiming lay on the bed, covered with a quilt, chatting.
When it was time for Lu Qiming to sleep in the evening, he wanted Jiang Miaomiao to stay with him. However, she had been missing her dog, Meatball, whom she hadn’t seen in a month. So she left to pick up the dog from the kindergarten and brought it back to the dormitory to feed it.
For the next week, Jiang Miaomiao spent her days accompanying Lu Qiming, chatting and telling him interesting stories from both inside and outside the base.
At night, she would take Meatball back home and feed it the food she brought back.
Meatball, which had slimmed down a bit, was soon fed back to its original plump state, swaying its butt when walking.
Good times always flew by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, her vacation was coming to an end.
Yuan Mubing called to urge her to return to the team early.
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t know how to say goodbye.
She knew that she would find it hard to leave if she said farewell in person.
After thinking all night, she simply didn’t go to the laboratory the next day. She dropped Meatball off at the kindergarten and left.
At 8 a.m., Lu Qiming woke up, expecting to see that familiar face.
To chat and have breakfast together as usual. If he ignored the surroundings, it would be the life he dreamed of.
However, he was disappointed. There was only cold, bare walls in front of him.
Breakfast was laid out on the table, but the chatty figure was missing from the table.
A staff member handed him a bag.
“This is left by Miss Jiang. She has already returned to the team and said she will come to see you next time during her vacation.”
Lu Qiming didn’t take the bag and had no intention of opening it.
She just came and went without even saying hello, treating his place like a vegetable garden? Did she think he couldn’t catch up with her?
The staff placed the bag on the bedside table and then left.
Lu Qiming spent a gloomy day, and before going to sleep at night, he couldn’t help but pick up the bag.
Inside was a red booklet and a piece of paper with a line written on it.
【Marriage registration has been opened in the base, but you can’t leave. I found someone to create a backdoor and got the marriage certificate for us. Keep it safe, and if you lose it, I will be mad at you. You are not allowed to refuse, anyway, refusal is useless, haha.】
It was as if a woman’s voice was reading the words to him, and he could even imagine her domineering and triumphant expression.
All the grievances he had felt throughout the day disappeared, and he happily opened the red booklet.
On it were photos of the two and their identification information.
Since he couldn’t go out to take a photo, the pictures were edited. The original image used for the edit was a solo shot taken when he entered the laboratory.
He was originally wearing a black T-shirt, but it was photoshopped to make it look like he was wearing a white shirt with a collar.
Jiang Miaomiao’s head leaned slightly towards him, smiling very sweetly, while he, with an expressionless face, looked like he was forced to register.
“You fool.”
Lu Qiming poked the woman’s head in the photo, and the smile on his face lingered for a long time.
Jiang Miaomiao was very sure that she had already changed the plot.
According to the original setting, in the final ending, only two people from the rescue team would survive – Yuan Mubing and the original male lead.
But due to her guidance, everyone managed to avoid danger time and time again, and no one had died so far.
Not having anyone die was a good thing, but changing the plot might have an impact on the subsequent events.
Her fortune-telling ability was, after all, fake. If an unexpected mutation occurred because of this and brought about greater danger, what would she do?
After spending a year in the rescue team, the events she experienced were becoming more and more different from those in the original text.
Just as she was afraid of losing control of the plot completely, good news came from the base – the vaccine was successfully developed.
This vaccine was specifically for uninfected humans. After completing the course, they would be immune to the cci virus for life. Even if they were bitten by zombies, they wouldn’t have to worry about the risk of infection.
The experts had conducted multiple human trials, and the results were very promising, with an antibody generation rate of 99.8%.
All the rescue team members were urgently called back and lined up to receive the vaccine.
Jiang Miaomiao also took the vaccine, experiencing a mild fever on the first day, and on the third day, the examination showed that antibodies had been produced in her body.
With the successful development of the vaccine, could Lu Qiming regain his freedom?
She was eager to go find him but was called to the office by Yuan Mubing.
All the team members were called to the office, and the leader of the rescue team, the original male lead, announced a new mission.
“Starting now, we will assist the military in eliminating zombies, gradually expanding from the outskirts of the base to every city. The extermination of zombies must be precise and without any omissions. At the same time, we must try to protect the buildings and natural environment in the cities, reducing the difficulty of post-disaster reconstruction.
In this mission, we cannot use missiles or other weapons with significant impact. We will mainly rely on ground advancement, using firearms and auxiliary measures to eliminate zombies one by one.”
The bodies of the killed zombies were collected and transported to a designated location for unified destruction.
The plan to return to the city has been initiated. Friends, we are going home!”
This was the most eagerly anticipated sentence for the survivors in the post-apocalyptic world. As soon as he finished speaking, the team members couldn’t control their excitement and rushed over, lifting him high.
Inside the office, laughter filled the room. Outside the office, on the big screen, the top leader’s speech was playing, announcing the news to everyone.
People roamed the streets and alleys, rejoicing, and the once lifeless base was now bustling with excitement.
Jiang Miaomiao stood at the office door, looking at the celebrating crowd before her feet began to itch.
A hand rested on her shoulder, and Yuan Mubing said, “I’ve called the laboratory; he still can’t come out.”
“Why?” She couldn’t understand. “Hasn’t he completed his mission?”
“Perhaps there are other things he hasn’t finished yet. Don’t worry, join everyone on the mission, and you’ll have a chance to meet him.”
At that moment, Jiang Miaomiao’s mind became clearer than ever before.
“I want to quit.”
Yuan Mubing looked surprised. “What?”
“When I regretted it, you promised me that I could choose to quit the rescue team. This was the promise you made.”
The next part of the plot was already unknown, and she wouldn’t have much influence on it.
Compared to killing zombies, what she really wanted was to be there when Lu Qiming came out and meet him at the first opportunity.
Yuan Mubing tried to persuade her, but she had made up her mind to quit.
He had no choice but to give in, providing her with a resignation certificate and transferring her records.
Jiang Miaomiao called the laboratory and asked them to convey this message to Lu Qiming. She then took Jiang Rou Rou back to her dormitory and resumed her work as a caregiver.
Reentering the city was a massive project that couldn’t be achieved in the short term.
The government mobilized all available forces and still took almost two years to completely clear the zombies from the country.
During this time, Chen Hong developed a new drug extracted from the cci virus, which greatly enhanced human resistance to diseases, self-healing ability, and lifespan, with no side effects.
In the third year of the plan’s implementation, the survivors were sent to safe cities in batches, and with the assistance of the military, they began the reconstruction work.
Jiang Miaomiao was in the third batch and volunteered to return to the city where she had lived with Lu Qiming for nearly a year.
This batch consisted of seven thousand people, and they were tasked with rebuilding a metropolis that had previously housed over twenty million people, which was an extremely challenging mission.
After arriving, they all lived in the same community, first establishing essential public facilities such as kindergartens, elementary schools, hospitals, and canteens. Then, they restored electricity, water, gas, and worked hard to bring the living standards back to pre-apocalyptic levels.
Due to the shortage of manpower, adults held multiple jobs.
Jiang Miaomiao was promoted from a caregiver to an elementary school teacher, specializing in teaching math to elementary students.
Jiang Rou Rou still worked at the kindergarten and was loved by everyone. She had become a mascot, and her image was used as the school emblem, hung at the entrance of the kindergarten.
After finishing her classes every day, Jiang Miaomiao would go and pick up Jiang Rou Rou, and the two of them continued their part-time job – driving a rusty old car around the city, recording the number of houses and the degree of damage.
Walking on the streets she had once walked with Lu Qiming, although they still couldn’t meet face to face and could only rely on phone calls, Jiang Miaomiao felt incredibly happy and enthusiastic about everything she did.
The person who used to be full of despair and had no attachment to life had become a thing of the past.
One evening, she arrived at a familiar community.
Pushing open the water-soaked wooden door, a photo wall greeted her.
Dozens of photos were plastered on the wall, including her wearing a new dress, Lu Qiming standing on a ladder to repair a window, and her feeding Jiang Rou Rou.
Due to being soaked in water, the photos were all blurry, but the outlines were still discernible.
But she recognized it at a glance – this was their former home.
These photos, the pot rack in the kitchen, and the solar panels on the roof, all cherished her most precious memories.
Unable to take everything with her, Jiang Miaomiao carefully took down the photos and stored them in plastic bags, ready to seek help for repairs once life returned to normal.
She wanted to find some other things, but unfortunately, they were all washed away by the flood.
Jiang Rou Rou sniffed around in a corner covered with moss, suddenly barking loudly.
Jiang Miaomiao thought there might be a zombie left behind and instinctively gripped the gun in her pocket, walking over to check.
Thankfully, there were no zombies, only a plump toad quickly diving into a hole in the wall.
Jiang Rou Rou dug with its claws but couldn’t find it no matter how hard it tried.
She breathed a sigh of relief, unable to help but smile.
How great it was, life returning to the earth, everything flourishing.
At 8 o’clock in the evening, a day’s work was done, and she and her dog drove back home.
There was a distribution point for supplies at the entrance of the community. Jiang Miaomiao received a week’s worth of rations for her and her dog, preparing to cook dinner.
What the new world was not short of was houses – there were more houses than people. Many people lived alone in a large mansion.
However, she didn’t like living in a too large house; it felt too empty and frightening, not to mention the hassle of cleaning. So, she only applied for a 50-square-meter small apartment.
The apartment had full utilities, and the gas pipeline had also been fixed.
The furniture and appliances from before were ruined by water and couldn’t be used. The newly produced ones couldn’t meet the demand.
So, the only furniture in the house was a bed and a set of simple table and chairs, and the only appliance was a light bulb.
After entering, Jiang Miaomiao placed the food on the table and wondered how to prepare it.
In the bag, there was a bag of rice, a bag of coarse grains, a big bunch of hollow-heart vegetables, five eggs, a pound of meat, a pile of potatoes, a few cloves of garlic, a few slices of ginger, and several seasonings.
Eating alone, Jiang Miaomiao was too lazy to spend time figuring it out. Normally, stir-frying potato slices could last for several meals.
Jiang Rou Rou was not picky; it ate anything that could fit into its mouth. Due to being popular at the kindergarten, kids would always feed it snacks, and its belly was never empty.
Following her usual habits, she was going to cook stir-fried potatoes for dinner. But today, Jiang Miaomiao wanted to try a new dish and test her culinary skills.
A few days ago, she had talked with Lu Qiming on the phone, and he said that he had completed all his tasks and would be coming back soon.
Since they were legally married, they naturally had to live together.
After enduring so much suffering, of course, he deserved a couple of days of happiness.
Lu Qiming liked to eat meat, so she decided to make braised pork.
Jiang Miaomiao made up her mind and began preparing the ingredients.
Rock sugar, pork belly, scallion, ginger, garlic… All precious ingredients she usually wouldn’t use.
She cooked while learning, and it took her 30 minutes to barely replicate the taste from her memory.
Just as she was about to taste it, her phone on the living room table suddenly rang.
The phone was distributed uniformly by the government, an old-fashioned phone that was very popular before, with only basic functions like calls and text messages. When there was an incoming call, it would loudly announce the number.
Every survivor had one, and there were hardly any complaints, as currently, only the signal towers had been repaired, allowing for basic communication. As for internet, watching movies, or playing games, those functions would be considered once people’s basic needs were met.
Jiang Miaomiao put down her chopsticks and walked to answer the call.
A familiar voice came through, instantly making her smile.
“Hello.”
Lu Qiming asked, “What are you doing?”
“Preparing to eat. How about you?”
“What dish are you having?”
She leaned on the table and smiled, “I’m having a fantastic meal – delicacies from the mountains and seas, abalones, lobsters. You envy it, don’t you?”
“Is it really that good? I don’t believe it.”
“If you don’t believe me, come and see for yourself.”
He had been saying he would come back, but she never saw his shadow.
Hmph, this guy has no integrity.
Lu Qiming remained silent for two seconds and suddenly said, “Then I’ll come to see it.”
Jiang Miaomiao still thought he was joking. “Come on, if you don’t come, you’re just a little dog.”
Knock, knock, knock – the knocking sound rang.
She suddenly froze, surprised, and asked, “Who is outside?”
Lu Qiming chuckled softly, “You’ll know when you look.”
Jiang Miaomiao’s hands were sweaty with excitement, but she was also afraid that he was playing a prank on her. Holding her breath, she walked over, opened the door.
In the corridor, a tall and handsome man stood there, dressed simply, with a suitcase in his hand, and he raised an eyebrow at her.
Jiang Miaomiao: “!!!”
Jiang Rou Rou rushed over and skillfully rode on his leg.
“… ” Lu Qiming kicked it far away and asked, “Can I take a look at your dinner? I’ve never seen such a good meal.”
She blushed, holding the forgotten phone in her hand.
“This… um…”
Lu Qiming bypassed her and put down the suitcase. He casually walked into the kitchen like an old acquaintance, pinched a piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth.
“Mm, delicious, just not sweet enough.”
Jiang Miaomiao stood outside the kitchen door, still in shock from the surprise, and hadn’t fully reacted yet.
Lu Qiming licked the meat juice off his fingers, turned to look at her, and noticed that she was wearing a lemon-patterned hoodie, with her long hair draped over her head, just like when they first met. He couldn’t help but feel a bit mischievous.
“Is this your home?” he asked, walking into the living room and scanning the surroundings.
Jiang Miaomiao was puzzled, “Yes.”
“How many people live here?”
… Why did that question sound familiar?
She thought carefully and suddenly realized, clearing her throat and said, “Two people, me and my husband, and a dog.”
“Your husband?”
“Yeah, he’s a special forces soldier, super capable. If you dare to bully me, he’ll punch you to the moon.”
“So capable?” he feigned surprise.
“Yes! So, you better leave quickly, or you’ll be in trouble when he comes back.”
Her mouthful of words was incredibly cute. Lu Qiming couldn’t help but smile, squinting his eyes, he hugged her and planted a kiss on her forehead that he had missed for so many years.
“Wife, I’m back.”
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