"Old Yu, where are you going?" Yu Honglei encountered a group of people in white coats on his way to the division headquarters.

The leader was an attending physician in the Department of Traumatology at the General Hospital of the Army. He used to be a military doctor at the military hospital and had gone on several missions with Yu Honglei, serving as his accompanying physician. Over time, they became friends.

Yu Honglei was in a gloomy mood the whole way, his mind filled with thoughts of what his mother had done.

Seeing his friend, he managed a weak smile. "Going to the division headquarters? Why did you come here instead?"

My friend said, "I'm here to give a few patients a follow-up check-up."

The fact that he personally brought people here suggests that the patient is not a simple case. Yu Honglei wisely refrained from asking further questions, but instead glanced at the people behind him and recognized several familiar faces among them.

"Then you guys go ahead with your work, I'll be going now."

"Okay, let's have a drink sometime."

"no problem."

Yu Honglei was going to the division headquarters, while the man in the white coat was going to the army headquarters; they parted ways at the crossroads.

In the middle of a row of white coats, a woman with two thick braids nudged the pretty woman next to her with her elbow and whispered, "Didn't I hear that Director Zhao wanted to match you up with Commander Yu? But you said it didn't work out. What was the reason?"

The woman frowned. "It's been so long, let's not talk about it anymore, it's not good for anyone."

It all happened in the first half of last year, almost a year ago. She had long forgotten about it, but she didn't expect anyone to bring it up again.

The woman was also curious. "I think Commander Yu is pretty good. There aren't many commanders under thirty at this level. We can't reach the Lu family's man, and Lone Wolf's personality is cold and doesn't seem like the type to settle down. So, Commander Yu is a hot commodity."

"Tell me honestly, how do you feel about him?"

The two were close friends from school, had fought on the battlefield together, and their bond of life and death was unmatched by anyone else.

The woman and she were very close. When her good friend mentioned Yu Honglei again, she bit her lip, and for some reason, her tone became a little stiff. "I don't have any feelings for him. Even if I did, I wouldn't have a chance. He has a fiancée."

"Huh?" The woman was surprised that Yu Honglei had a fiancée.

It's normal that she didn't know. She works at the General Hospital of the Army and only comes to the military a few times a year. She is also married and doesn't usually pay attention to the situation of unmarried male comrades.

If she hadn't suddenly seen Yu Honglei today and hadn't had a flash of inspiration remembering that her best friend had been on a date with him, she wouldn't have brought it up.

He has a fiancée.

That's a real shame.

The woman sighed, patted her best friend's shoulder, and comforted her, "Men are like that, if one is gone, there's always another. I'll have my husband, Old Chen, find you someone better."

The woman pursed her lips and said, "Forget it, I don't want to think about these things for the next two years."

It's not that she doesn't consider it; she's clearly thinking about others.

She knew her own girlfriend best; the woman could see through her hidden thoughts from just a few words. After thinking about it, she decided to find some time to get to know Yu Honglei better.

fiancée?

If you have a fiancée, why aren't you married yet at almost thirty?

I have a feeling there's more to the story.

After Yu Honglei reported to his superiors that he did not have a fiancée, he went to the communications room and called his hometown village. As expected, he learned from the village head that his mother said he would marry Xiaohong after she came of age.

He was so angry he almost laughed.

As it turns out, his mother's outrageous actions didn't stop there.

When he was three years old, his father was swept away by a flood while building a dam. It took more than ten days to find his body, leaving behind two sick and weak elderly people. His mother was young at the time and naturally did not want to remain a widow, so she quickly took all the family's money and remarried.

She remarried to a widower who was almost twenty years older than her, and became the stepmother of his teenage stepson.

She later gave birth to two more daughters for her husband. Because she hadn't given birth to a son, she couldn't hold her head high in her husband's family and couldn't stand up straight in front of her stepson. After her stepson got married, she not only had to take care of her husband and children, but also her stepson and stepsister-in-law.

She was afraid that her stepson would not take care of her in her old age and see her off when she died.

Yu Honglei was raised by his grandparents. Both of them were ill, but in order to raise their grandson, they worked in the fields despite their illnesses. They were so determined that they died on the very day Yu Honglei received his enlistment notice.

The couple, whom the barefoot doctor predicted would not live more than three years, stubbornly held on for fifteen years for the sake of their grandson.

Now that Yu Honglei has become successful, the two of them haven't enjoyed any of the good fortune. Instead, Yu Honglei's mother wants to bring her second husband and his entire family to the military base to take advantage of Yu Honglei's livelihood.

Indeed, Yu Honglei learned from the battalion commander that his mother was already selling grain, planning to use the money to bring Xiao Hong to the army base to force him to marry her. If he agreed to the marriage, his stepfather's family could come to the army base to join him the next day.

They won't stop until they've drained their son dry.

Yu Honglei was heartbroken.

Last year, his mother cried on the phone, saying that her stepfather beat her and her stepson looked down on her. He thought that his mother had a hard life too, so he softened and let her come to the army to hide for a while.

Who knew she could plant so many bombs in such a short time?

The brigade leader also said that his mother wanted to seize the house and homestead left to him by his grandparents. If the brigade leader hadn't stopped her, they probably would have succeeded long ago.

Yu Honglei slapped himself.

The soldiers in the communications room were dumbfounded. "Commander Yu, are you alright?"

Yu Honglei took a deep breath and hung up the phone. "It's okay, how much is it?"

"Two yuan and eighty cents." Making a phone call in the communications room also costs money.

After paying, Yu Honglei walked out and on his way back to the dormitory, his heart hardened. While he felt sorry for his mother's hardship, did he ever think about his deceased grandparents?

When the elderly couple passed away, they weighed only about 70 pounds and were so thin they looked like skin and bones.

He has never had a single good day, and he often feels guilty and regretful about it over the years.

Since his mother is trying to scheme against him, then don't blame him for being ruthless.

Yu Honglei scoffed inwardly.

After clarifying the rumors about his fiancée in the army, many of the women in the army wanted to arrange dates for him. Yu Honglei did not refuse. He now held a high position and his rank was high, and his monthly allowance was also high, which he could not spend all of.

Over the years, I've saved up a lot of money, which has given me the means to start a family.

It might be a deep-seated obsession for men; once they reach a certain age, they yearn for the simple life of a wife, children, and a warm bed. Seeing his comrades getting married one by one, some even with children already in elementary school, he felt genuinely anxious.

His superior, the division commander, took his personal issues very seriously.

The division commander's wife introduced him to a nurse at the General Hospital of the Army. She was the head nurse of the trauma department of his good friend. She was 26 years old, her family members were all formal employees in the city, and she was well-off in all aspects. Yu Honglei thought her personality was also quite good.

After meeting her and learning her name, he realized that she was the woman the army commander's wife had wanted to introduce to him last year.

The matter eventually fizzled out, probably because he heard the rumors his mother had spread.

After going through many twists and turns, the two still ended up together.