Chapter 191 Father and Daughter Reunion: The War Continues

Su Yue was completely dazed. She was half-supported and half-carried by Gu Beichen as she walked unsteadily toward the door.

Her mind was still a mess.

Countless thoughts were clashing.

Is it a scam?

Is this a new plot by the enemy?

But... neither my father-in-law's expression nor the encrypted phone could be faked.

It's true...

Her father is indeed still alive.

The group walked to the gate of the courtyard.

Su Yue stopped a few meters away.

She saw the man.

The man standing next to the Hongqi sedan, wearing an old Zhongshan suit, was thin but had his spine ramrod straight.

He looked much older than in the photos; the years had etched deep lines on his face, and his temples were streaked with gray.

strangeness.

It's so unfamiliar.

But when that man raised his head, his gaze pierced through twenty-three years of time and space, and met her eyes.

Su Yue's heart skipped a beat.

It was those eyes.

Just like in the photo, deep and bright, as if it holds the stars and the sea.

But at this moment, in that vast sea of ​​stars, turbulent waves surged, waves she could not comprehend.

There was guilt, longing, regret, almost humble pleas, and overflowing tenderness and love that nearly drowned her.

The connection of blood is a mysterious sensation that cannot be explained by science.

The moment Su Yue saw those eyes, all her doubts, confusion, and resentment vanished.

Only a deep sorrow, originating from the depths of her soul, instantly overwhelmed her.

He looked at her, his lips trembling, wanting to call her name, but unable to utter a single syllable.

She looked at him, tears blurring her vision, her heart feeling as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, the pain making it hard to breathe.

Time stood still at this moment.

Everything around me became a void backdrop.

In the vast world, only this father and daughter, separated for twenty-three years, remained, gazing at each other from a distance that seemed both near and far.

In the end, it was Su Yue who made the first move.

She broke free from Gu Beichen's embrace and took a small step forward.

This small step seemed to have exhausted all her strength.

She looked at the man who was both strange and familiar, at the tears welling up in his eyes, a thousand words stuck in her throat, and in the end, they all turned into a single, trembling, off-key syllable.

"……dad?"

This tentative call, filled with endless grievances and confusion, was like a key that instantly unlocked the emotional floodgates that Huo Shouzheng had kept sealed for twenty-three years.

Like the last straw, it completely broke the defenses he had built with his iron will.

He could no longer control himself; it was as if all his strength had been drained away, yet he was also injected with boundless energy, and he suddenly rushed forward.

He opened his arms and embraced the daughter he had longed for for twenty-three years tightly and fiercely.

This embrace was devoid of any tenderness.

It was despair, it was the joy of regaining what was lost, it was the madness of wanting to meld her into my very bones.

Scalding hot tears slid down from the deep lines of his eyes, dripping onto Su Yue's neck, the heat astonishing.

"My daughter... my daughter..."

He murmured it over and over again in a hoarse, barely audible voice.

"Dad, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

"Dad's home!"

Su Yue was almost suffocating from his embrace, her ribs aching, but she greedily savored this fatherly love that was twenty-three years overdue.

She could no longer hold back and buried her face in her father's not-so-broad but incredibly strong shoulders, bursting into tears.

All the taut nerves, all the forced strength, collapsed at this moment.

At the courtyard gate, everyone in the Gu family watched this scene silently, their eyes reddening.

Gu Zhengfeng walked to Huo Shouzhen's side, said nothing, but raised his hand and punched his shoulder hard.

Huo Shouzheng, holding his daughter, also punched his old comrade-in-arms on the back.

Everything is understood without words.

Gu Beichen stood aside, watching the father and daughter embrace, then looked at his own empty arms, and a strange sense of loss welled up in his heart.

But he was mostly happy for Su Yue.

However, his professional instincts made him notice that although Huo Shouzhen's embrace was full of irrepressible emotions, his body always maintained a vigilant posture unique to soldiers.

His head wasn't completely lowered; his gaze occasionally swept across the dark corners around him.

It's an instinct that takes decades to develop, ingrained in one's very being, by placing oneself in perilous environments.

In her father's arms, Su Yue cried for a while. Her doctor's keen sense of smell allowed her to detect a faint yet extremely complex scent.

The smell was a mixture of some herbs she had never smelled before, a hint of disinfectant, and an extremely faint odor, similar to a mixture of gunpowder and chemical agents.

This kind of smell is something that people living in a normal environment would never experience.

The smell instantly reminded her of some extreme, struggling environment for survival.

While everyone's attention was drawn to this deeply moving reunion.

In a corner where no one is paying attention.

Huo Shouzheng tightened his grip on his daughter's arm.

He spoke rapidly in her ear in a voice only Su Yue could hear, in a tone that was both fast and extremely low.

“The list is incomplete, the ‘boss’ is still hiding, he knows I’m back.”

"Beware of the Zhou family's final counterattack."

These three sentences, like three steel needles tempered with ice, instantly pierced Su Yue's eardrums.

Su Yue, who was just immersed in the great joy of reuniting with her father, suddenly stiffened.

The warmth of her father's embrace was still there, but a bone-chilling coldness instantly shot from her tailbone to the top of her head!

The war is far from over!

Inside the Gu family study.

The initial excitement of the reunion gradually subsided, replaced by a more somber and somber atmosphere.

Huo Shouzheng's eyes, which carried too many stories, slowly swept over Gu Zhengfeng, and finally settled on his daughter Su Yue.

The emotions that had been suppressed for twenty-three years were still surging, but he forcibly suppressed them.

Now is not the time for reminiscing.

"Back then, I led the Lone Eagle Squad on a mission, but we were ambushed and the entire team was wiped out."

Huo Shou-zheng's opening remarks were dry and direct, without any preamble.

"I was shot three times and fell off a cliff. I thought I was going to die."

His words were calm, yet they sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.

Gu Beichen unconsciously tightened his grip on Su Yue's arm.

Su Yue's heart clenched. Behind her father's seemingly casual remark lay a horrific story of bloodshed and fire.

"The person who saved me was the head of the 'K' organization in the area at that time, a woman."

The moment those words were spoken, the air in the study seemed to freeze.

enemy?