Chapter 80 My Dad is a Hero

She pushed away her daughter from her arms, and as if she had lost her soul, she staggered step by step toward Su Yue.

Everyone in the room was stunned by her sudden and violent reaction.

Looking at the distraught noblewoman before her, Su Yue suddenly felt a strange premonition.

She gripped the phoenix hairpin tightly in her hand and answered softly, "This is my mother's keepsake."

"Your mother?" Chen Yaru's breath caught in her throat. She grabbed Su Yue's arm with surprising strength, her voice shrill and distorted, "What's your mother's name?! Is her name Chen Shuting?!"

Chen Shuting!

The moment those three words were uttered, Su Yue felt her heart skip a beat.

She looked at the face that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and the fragments of memories that had been buried in her mind slowly overlapped with the yellowed old photo left by her mother.

It's so similar, so incredibly similar!

Apart from the marks left by time, the woman's eyebrows and eyes are almost identical to those in her mother's photo!

“Yes…” Su Yue’s voice began to tremble, “My mother’s name is Chen Shuting.”

Having received an affirmative answer, Chen Yaru could no longer hold on.

Her legs went weak, and tears streamed down her face like a broken string of pearls.

She covered her mouth and let out a heart-wrenching cry that she had suppressed for more than twenty years.

"Sister...my Shuting...my dear sister!"

She hugged Su Yue tightly and cried her heart out.

"I'm your own aunt! Child! I'm your aunt!"

My dear aunt!

These three words, like a bombshell, exploded in the minds of everyone in the living room.

Gu Beichen froze, staring at the two women embracing and weeping, his eyes filled with undisguised shock.

Chu Jingya covered her mouth, completely unable to speak.

The old lady Chu, slumped in her armchair, had a deathly pale face.

She never dreamed of this!

The "wild girl of unknown origin" that she painstakingly tried to suppress and destroy turned out to be the granddaughter of the Chen family!

The Chen family has disappeared without a trace over the years, and no clues can be found. I never expected that they would meet under such circumstances.

This is absolutely the most absurd and ironic joke in the world!

The entire living room was deathly silent.

Only Chen Yaru's sorrowful cries echoed.

After crying for a long time, she finally calmed down. She held Su Yue's face in her hands and looked at her carefully, as if she wanted to make up for the time she had missed in the past twenty years.

"So alike, so very alike... You and your mother when you were young look exactly alike..."

She trembled, tears welling in her eyes, and grasped Su Yue's hand. As if remembering something crucial, her voice, filled with the last glimmer of hope and boundless fear, trembled as she asked:

“Child, what about your father…”

"Is your father... a soldier codenamed 'Lone Eagle'?"

Lone Eagle!

These two words, like a thunderclap, exploded in Su Yue's mind.

The blood in her body seemed to freeze at that moment.

Looking at the tear-streaked face before her, filled with both anticipation and pain, her throat was so dry she couldn't make a sound. She could only nod heavily with all her might.

"yes."

A single word, light and airy, yet it seemed to drain all her strength.

This also completely shattered Chen Yaru's last line of psychological defense.

"Sister...my Shuting...my dear sister..."

Chen Yaru could no longer hold on. She hugged Su Yue and cried out in heart-wrenching sobs, filled with the longing, regret, and grief that had been suppressed for more than twenty years.

"It's my fault...it's my fault for being useless! I'm the one who lost your mother! And I lost you too!"

She cried so hard she was heartbroken and almost fainted.

Everyone in the living room was so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information that they were unable to think straight.

Aunt?

Is Su Yue's mother Chen Yaru's older sister?

So Su Yue's father, the legendary "deserter" Lone Eagle, is actually real?

Gu Beichen's body was as stiff as a statue.

He looked at the two women who were tightly embracing each other and crying bitterly, and his entire worldview was collapsing and being rebuilt.

An uncontrollable image surfaced in his mind: a faded black-and-white photograph that he had treasured in a hidden compartment of his bedside table.

The photo shows a young man in an old-fashioned military uniform, looking dashing and with sharp, eagle-like eyes.

Beside him stood a smiling woman with delicate, gentle eyes.

That woman, isn't that Chen Shuting when she was young!

Back then, he was on a mission on the southwestern border when he was seriously wounded and fell into a deep valley, almost thinking he was going to die there.

It was "Lone Eagle" who found him.

The man not only single-handedly pulled him back from the brink of death, but also, during his recovery, imparted all his top-notch reconnaissance and combat skills to him.

Gu Beichen will always remember the man who took out this photo from his pocket while treating his wounds, his eyes filled with a tenderness he had never seen before.

The man pointed to the woman in the photo and said with pride, "This is your sister-in-law, the best woman in the world."

Later, in order to cover his safe retreat, "Lone Eagle" lured the enemy away by himself.

That farewell turned out to be a final one.

Gu Beichen only had time to pick up the photo that had fallen into the grass.

This photo became the starting point of his military career, and the two people in the photo became his untouchable "white moonlight" and faith.

He never dreamed of this!

The hero he revered like a god, "Lone Eagle," turned out to be his wife's biological father!

The woman he respected as his "sister-in-law" turned out to be his wife's biological mother!

What's this?

Is it fate?

No, this is simply the cycle of fate!

He looked at Su Yue, his gaze filled with complex emotions: shock, heartache, and an indescribable sense of destiny, gripping his heart tightly.

No wonder he felt an instant connection with Su Yue the moment he saw her.

No wonder he felt such a strong protective instinct towards this "childhood sweetheart" he had never met.

It turns out that everything was predetermined.

"No...it's impossible..."

The old lady Chu, slumped in her armchair, was ashen-faced, her lips trembling as she repeated these words over and over.

The Chu family she was so proud of, the marriage of convenience she had schemed for her entire life—at this moment, it all became a colossal joke.

The "wild girl" she wanted to suppress was Chen's granddaughter!

It's the Chen family, which was a prominent family in Beijing more than 20 years ago!

Although the Chen family later declined due to their class background, their foundation and connections were far superior to those of the Su family, which rose to prominence through speculation!

What terrified her even more was that the girl's father was "Lone Eagle"!

A top-tier soldier who is still being secretly searched for by the military's high command!