The ward door closed quietly, leaving only the sound of the on-duty doctor flipping through medical records in the nursing room across the street.

As Chen Rou closed the door to the nursing room, the ward fell silent.

She pulled up a chair and habitually grabbed the notebook and pen from the table: "Mr. Nie, please go ahead."

Because of the injury to his collarbone, Nie Zhao could only lie on his back. But he slowly turned his head, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down for a moment. Just when Chen Rou thought he was going to talk about serious business, he stretched out his hand: "Give me your hand."

Chen Rou subconsciously put her hands behind her back, but after a moment of silence, she slowly reached them out again.

She was wary of this cheap husband because he had been studying and working in Europe since Han Yuzhu's death, and like many ABCs, his primary language was English. Meanwhile, the Nie family in Hong Kong had secured 90% of the government's engineering projects. To put it bluntly, the Nie family was a close confidant of the current Hong Kong management, a highly sought-after family.

He will lead the entire Nie family to rejoin the cause in the future, and he will also receive the Grand Bauhinia Medal.

However, even the major renovation of Xiangjiang International Airport, which involves military industry, is currently being handled by Nie Zhao. This shows that his relationship with the management team is, if not inseparable, at least five stars.

Chen Rou has already traveled through time and is no longer a special police officer or special forces soldier. Even her mission no longer exists, but the sense of mission and responsibility in her bones drives her to be curious about Nie Zhao's attitude towards the local government and his views on the mainland.

She also wanted to know how deep his cooperation with the military was; she was itching to find out some military secrets.

But of course, that would only happen after the existing crisis is resolved.

Nie Zhao isn't stupid; sooner or later he'll realize she's been replaced and is no longer the new wife he once knew.

As expected, when the truth comes out, the two will definitely get a divorce.

Even though they were divorced, Chen Rou still hoped to maintain a friendship with Nie Zhao, a friendship where they could help each other. After all, everything she was doing now, apart from avenging the original owner of this body, was to help him.

...

Nie Zhao was male, with large hands and long, slender fingers. He must have worked out regularly and liked weight training, as there was a thin layer of calluses on his palms. He took Chen Rou's hand and lifted it up, first rubbing it around her palm, then hooking her thumb with his middle and index fingers and shaking it: "This is broken. It must have been cracked when you were holding the knife. Let's get it bandaged in a bit."

Unlike Chen Rou, who trained every day, she had a pair of rough, thick hands covered in calluses. The original owner of this body had been dancing ballet and playing the piano since childhood, with slender, delicate, and boneless fingers. To use such hands to wield a knife and cut someone's legs and arms, because the knife was sharp enough, she managed to cut them off, but the area between her thumb and forefinger was also shattered.

Chen Rou has a straightforward and decisive personality. She had never been in a relationship in her previous life and was not used to physical contact with people. Nie Zhao was stroking her hand, tickling her and making her feel uncomfortable with goosebumps.

Just as he was about to shake her hand back, she abruptly pulled away, saying, "Okay." Then she added, "If there's nothing else..."

Since he didn't have anything important to say, she prepared to leave.

But Nie Zhao immediately put his hand on her knee and said, "Sorry!"

Chen Rou knew that he grew up abroad and was used to speaking foreign languages. Moreover, the language environment in Hong Kong also meant that those who spoke foreign languages ​​were considered superior. So, anyone who knew a little bit of a foreign language was used to speaking it. But she couldn't stand it and wanted to correct him.

However, before he could speak, Nie Zhao immediately switched to Cantonese: "I'm sorry, because of me, you and Ah Han have suffered a lot."

Although he wasn't solely responsible for their kidnapping and suffering, the incident did originate from him, so he should apologize.

The original owner suffered the most terrible torture in the park in his previous life: he was tortured to death and then chopped up and fed to the crocodiles.

Thinking of the original owner of this body, Chen Rou couldn't help but choke up.

A girl from a humble background, whose parents were employees of Han Yuzhu, tragically died in an accident. Although the Nie family offered assistance and never missed out on her tuition and living expenses, she boarded at school year-round and could only return to the Nie family home on holidays. However, she was not the head of the household, making her life very uncomfortable. Her only support, her fiancé Nie Zhao, would only return to Hong Kong once every year or two to see her, and his relationship with him was rather cold.

Even so, she still longed to get married and have her own little family.

She often overheard Mei Lu mentioning Nie Zhao, intentionally or unintentionally, when she visited the Nie family. Mei Lu talked about how carefree and comfortable Nie Zhao was living abroad, and how she could never get him to answer her. She listened intently, analyzing Nie Zhao's preferences from every word Mei Lu said.

She knew he liked gentle, virtuous, and well-educated girls, so she carefully tried to live up to his expectations.

She had his phone number abroad, but never dared to call it.

It's because Mei Lu always says that men, especially ambitious men, hate being followed and restrained by women.

She was afraid he would dislike her clinging to him and would despise her.

In this day and age, people can get divorced even after marriage, let alone a marriage contract, which is even more fragile than paper.

The original owner carefully guarded that marriage contract, which was more fragile than paper, year after year.

When she received Nie Zhao's call and heard that he wanted to take her to register for marriage, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night. Lying in bed, she planned ahead, even thinking about how many children she would have and what names to give them.

Such a kind and loving girl, if she hadn't been involved with the Nie family and Nie Zhao, how could she have been kidnapped to the park and tortured to death by a bunch of dirty and despicable pirates, and then chopped into pieces to feed the crocodiles?

Chen Rou herself certainly didn't need Nie Zhao's apology, but the original owner of this body did, so she said, "I accept your apology."

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