Chapter 37 The Truth Revealed!!

She stood up, patted the dirt off her hands, and without raising her head, her voice, neither loud nor soft, clearly reached the ears of everyone outside the courtyard.

"It is only right to repay kindness."

Her voice was clear and gentle, like a mountain stream.

"However, my grandfather taught me from a young age that soldiers repay kindness by either presenting a banner or reporting it to their superiors for commendation. They express their gratitude for being saved with tangible honors."

Su Yue raised her head, her gaze falling on Shen Qingqing's smug face, a mocking smile curving her lips.

"But I've never heard of repaying a debt of gratitude by pulling and tugging and hugging each other on the training field."

"If word gets out, people who don't know the situation might think that Commander Gu and Dr. Shen have some kind of moral problem. Dr. Shen, you have to be careful about the impact. Don't pounce on other women's men as soon as you see them. That's a major taboo in the military."

His words, though without a single vulgarity, were piercingly incisive.

The expressions on the faces of the military wives around them instantly became quite varied.

Shen Qingqing's smile froze, as if she had been slapped in the face in public, the pain burning intensely.

"You... what nonsense are you talking about! My relationship with Brother Chen is innocent!" she retorted angrily.

"Oh? Innocent?"

Su Yue slowly walked to the courtyard gate, leaned against the door frame, and looked at her with a leisurely air.

"Since it was a life-saving grace, Dr. Shen must remember the situation very clearly, right?"

"For example, where was Commander Gu injured? How deep was the wound? How much blood did he lose? And how did you stop the bleeding and treat the wound?"

Su Yue fired off a series of questions, like sharp knives piercing Shen Qingqing's vitals.

"I...I..."

Shen Qingqing's mind went blank; she had no idea about these details!

Xiao Wang only said that the regimental commander was seriously injured and almost died, but she didn't find out the specifics of how he was injured!

"What? You can't remember?" Su Yue chuckled, but her eyes turned cold. "Such a huge debt of gratitude as saving a life, you can't even remember it? Or... did it never happen at all?"

"Of course!" Shen Qingqing shrieked. To save face, she could only bite the bullet and make up a story. "He...he was wounded in the chest! Yes, in the chest! He was shot! Blood was everywhere, and I...I pressed it with gauze!"

"Yeah?"

A deep, cold male voice suddenly rang out behind them without warning.

Everyone turned around at once.

Gu Beichen was already standing there at some point. He had just returned from the training ground, his military uniform still covered in dust. His face was stern, and his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's as he stared intently at Shen Qingqing.

The adjutant had already gathered some information and suspected that Shen Qingqing was not her savior. Coincidentally, he had just overheard everything clearly.

When Shen Qingqing saw Gu Beichen, it was as if she had seen a savior, or as if she had seen a death warrant. Her face turned pale and her body began to tremble.

"Chen...Brother Chen..."

Gu Beichen ignored her and walked straight to Su Yue's side. His gaze lingered on Su Yue's calm face for a moment before turning back to Shen Qingqing.

"I'm asking you, what kind of gun was I shot with? Was the bullet removed? How many stitches did I get?"

Gu Beichen's voice wasn't loud, but it carried immense pressure, each word striking Shen Qingqing's heart like a hammer blow.

Shen Qingqing panicked completely. Her lips trembled, and she couldn't answer a single word.

"I...I was so nervous at the time, I was only focused on saving people, I didn't remember any of this..." she stammered, trying to explain, "It was so dark, I...I couldn't see..."

"Can't see?" Gu Beichen sneered, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, which were filled with frost. "Then tell me, how did you find me so accurately in the pitch black and treat my wounds?"

"I……"

"And another thing," Gu Beichen pressed on, giving her no chance to breathe, "you said that when you saved me, the back of your hand was burned. When was it burned? What burned it?"

Shen Qingqing was repeatedly defeated by the questions, and her back was soaked with cold sweat.

She tried to argue that she accidentally touched the hot cartridge case while saving him.

But Gu Beichen didn't give her a chance to speak and interrupted her directly.

"I wasn't shot in the chest, but in the lower back. The bullet was deformed and lodged in the bone."

"She didn't use gauze, but used a technique I'd never seen before to remove the bullet from my wound without anesthesia and then stitched it up."

"Most importantly..."

Gu Beichen paused, and everyone's hearts were in their throats.

He looked at Su Yue and said, word by word, with perfect clarity:

"The person who saved me had a very faint pink heart-shaped mark on her palm."

"Not that burn scar on the back of your hand from the oil!"

The moment the words were spoken, the entire room fell silent.

Everyone's eyes were drawn to Su Yue as if by a magnet.

Sister Li and Sister Zhang all gaped open, their eyes practically popping out of their sockets.

Shen Qingqing was stunned as if struck by lightning, her face drained of all color.

Su Yue met Gu Beichen's gaze, which was filled with a complex mix of guilt, shock, and overwhelming joy at regaining what she had lost, and remained calm.

Slowly, under everyone's gaze, she opened her right hand.

In the center of her fair palm, a faint pink heart-shaped mark lay quietly.

Clearly visible.

boom!

The crowd erupted in chaos!

The soldiers were stunned!

It turns out that their real savior wasn't Dr. Shen, but their future sister-in-law!

That capitalist's daughter who was misunderstood and pitied by them!

"No! Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

When Shen Qingqing saw that mark, it was as if she had seen something terrifying, and she completely broke down.

She screamed, her hair disheveled, her appearance completely ruined.

"It was you! You stole my credit! You bastard!"

She tried to rush towards Su Yue like a madwoman, but was stopped by the quick-thinking guard Xiao Wang.

The truth has come to light.

The lie was ruthlessly exposed.

Amidst the scornful and disgusted gazes of the crowd, Shen Qingqing's legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground, like a lump of mud that could not be propped up.

Gu Beichen strode up to Su Yue, his tall figure looming over her.

He looked at her, his eyes churning with too many emotions, a thousand words unspoken, but in the end, they all boiled down to a clumsy yet sincere sentence.

"sorry."

He misunderstood her and doubted her.

Seeing his embarrassed and guilty expression, Su Yue's last bit of displeasure vanished.

She suddenly smiled.

For the first time, in this bustling residential compound, I smiled from the bottom of my heart, my eyes crinkling like crescent moons.

"Now, we're even."

The matter was resolved quickly.

Shen Qingqing was found guilty of fraudulently claiming credit, maliciously spreading rumors, and damaging the reputation of military families. She was ordered to suspend her duties for self-reflection and received a major demerit, leaving a heavy mark on her personnel file.

...

Meanwhile, in the office of the military hospital.

Liang Manyun slammed the medical record book on the table to the ground, her face full of jealousy and resentment.

The Shen family's goddaughter!

That country bumpkin, how could she have such good fortune! And that idiot Shen Qingqing! Her fighting ability is really weak!

She refused to accept it! She would never give up!

"Investigate!" she hissed through gritted teeth at a trusted nurse. "Find a way to contact people in Shanghai and dig up everything about Su Yue! I refuse to believe that a capitalist's daughter can be completely innocent!"

She was determined to find dirt on Su Yue and make sure she had nowhere to stand on the island!

...

Meanwhile, Su Yue was at home.

As she walked into the bedroom and prepared to put her clothes in the closet, her gaze inadvertently fell on the bedside table.

There was a glass plate on the cabinet, and under the glass plate was an old black and white photograph that had yellowed.

Su Yue curiously pulled out the photo.

The photo shows a young version of Gu Beichen wearing a military uniform and smiling brightly.

And standing next to him was a woman.

The woman's face has become very blurry due to the age and wear and tear of the photograph, making her features illegible.

But the moment Su Yue saw that woman, her pupils suddenly contracted.

The woman's back view...