As soon as Wang Chunni saw Chen Shuning return, she greeted him with a smile: "Shuning, did you go to the restroom? Are there many people washing up over there?" As she spoke, Wang Chunni took out a towel, toothbrush, and toothpaste from her bag. She was already hungry and wanted to hurry up and wash up so she could have dinner.

"Ah, there are quite a lot of people here right now. Why don't you wait a bit before you go?" It wasn't until Chen Shuning saw the toiletries in Wang Chunni's hand that she realized she had been overlooking something. Although she had already washed up in her spatial dimension, no one knew that. Luckily, she hadn't eaten anything yet, otherwise she would have left a bad impression of being unhygienic.

"Oh no, I'm starving! I have to go even if there are a lot of people." With that, Wang Chunni grabbed the toothbrush cup she had just found, brushed her teeth, and ran toward the washroom.

Yang Xiaohong, on the other hand, made a sarcastic remark about being pretentious, and without even washing up, she took out a multigrain steamed bun and some pickled vegetables from her bag and started eating.

Upon seeing Yang Xiaohong's actions, Chen Shuning quietly moved her seat back towards the car window. After thinking for a moment, she took off her shoes and retrieved the enamel basin from the luggage rack, planning to wash up again in the washroom when there were fewer people around.

The toiletries weren't heavy, and they were all things that were obviously needed, so Chen Shuning didn't put them in her storage space. Instead, she just threw them on the luggage rack, which made them convenient to carry around now.

Just as Chen Shuning's hand touched the net bag containing the enamel basin, the train swayed for some reason, and Chen Shuning, who had lost his balance, fell off his seat in a flash.

When He Chaoyang returned from the restroom, he witnessed a scene that nearly made his heart stop. Seeing the little girl fall straight off her seat, he instinctively reached out to catch her. Only after he held her in his arms did his heart, which had almost jumped out of his throat, finally settle back into his stomach.

But when he looked down and saw the little girl's fair and tender face, He Chaoyang's heart started pounding wildly again, and he unconsciously tightened his grip on Chen Shuning's arm.

Chen Shuning did not feel the pain from her body hitting the ground. Instead, she felt a suffocating tightness in her waist and abdomen, which almost made her unable to breathe.

She hurriedly opened her eyes, only to see the collar of a military uniform with red collar tabs and the man's sexy Adam's apple, while her own hand was tightly gripping the man's shirt.

Realizing her current predicament, Chen Shuning's pretty face suddenly turned red. She quickly let go of the man's clothes and whispered, "Um, comrade, thank you for saving me."

The soft, sweet voice that reached his ears instantly brought He Chaoyang back to his senses. He quickly placed the person on the train seat, covered his mouth with his fist and coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment, then silently took a step back and whispered, "You're welcome."

With his head down, He Chaoyang immediately noticed the girl's snow-white socks. Unlike the colorful polyester socks that girls liked these days, these were pure white cotton socks, which looked so clean and beautiful on the girl's small feet, which were no bigger than his palm.

Just as He Chaoyang was engrossed in watching, a slightly shrill voice came from beside him: "What are you doing? Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch each other? What kind of behavior is this, hugging and cuddling in public?"

Yang Xiaohong had just taken out a mixed flour steamed bun and taken a bite when the soldier knocked it away. It wouldn't have mattered if it had fallen; she could have just picked it up and eaten it anyway.

Just as she reached out to pick it up, the soldier inexplicably took a step back, and his foot unfortunately stepped on her steamed bun, which instantly made Yang Xiaohong's anger surge to the top of her head.

She looked up, ready to curse, but then she saw Chen Shuning being held in the arms of a soldier. Although the man quickly put her in a seat, she could still clearly see that the two were hugging. Faced with such an opportunity to embarrass Chen Shuning, whom she disliked, Yang Xiaohong naturally didn't hesitate to shout on the spot.

Chen Shuning was genuinely startled. He had just caught his breath when he heard Yang Xiaohong's words. His face immediately turned cold, and he turned to glare at Yang Xiaohong, asking in a cold voice, "Yang Xiaohong, I'd like to ask you what you're doing? You're sitting right next to me, can't you see me?"

I almost fell off my seat. This comrade was just trying to help me, how did you come up with that as hugging and cuddling?

Comrade Yang Xiaohong, your thinking is very dangerous. This is the new China we live in now! How can you still hold onto outdated ideas about men and women not touching each other? Are you still nostalgic for feudal society, and that's why you cling to those old ideas?

"Yes, I saw it very clearly just now. Shuning lost her balance while holding the things, and it was this PLA comrade who reached out to help her. Otherwise, Shuning would have fallen. Yang Xiaohong, how can you slander Shuning and this PLA comrade so baselessly just because you had a small conflict with her?"

Xu Laidi was on the last shift and was feeling sleepy and didn't want to eat, so she didn't rush to wash up with Wang Chunni. That's when she saw what had just happened.

Although in her opinion the PLA comrade did hug Shu Ning, it was only for a moment before he politely put her in a seat. Besides, it was to save her, so it was really inappropriate for Yang Xiaohong to call it hugging and kissing in public.

The reason she downplayed it by saying that He Chaoyang had only reached out to help Chen Shuning was because, in her mind, their actions were still somewhat intimate. After all, Chen Shuning was a woman, and it wouldn't be good if any negative rumors spread.

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