"Look at her!"
Bai Yifan suddenly ran to Leng Yebai's side, nudged him with his elbow, and pointed to Zhang Chen's back in the distance.
His face had a gossipy expression on it.
Why are you looking at her?
Leng Yebai didn't look at her, but instead gazed at Bai Xizhu with a doting expression.
Even his own wife can't keep an eye on everyone!
Looking at others can easily affect his appreciation of his own wife!
"She wants to be your stepmother!" Bai Yifan said gloatingly.
Leng Yebai: ...
The barbecue continues.
Leng Yebai and Bai Xizhu were stuffed with a bunch of kebabs by the base leader.
However, Leng Yebai's gaze towards the base commander held a hint of resentment.
If this guy really marries a young girl, his seniority...
It doesn't matter whether he's lowly or not, I'm just afraid that Xiao Zhu's status will also be lowered!
The base commander didn't react at all; he hadn't even considered finding a stepmother for Leng Yebai!
Even when his beautiful wife wasn't by his side, he still stayed with her.
On the other side.
Zhang Chen returned to his residence, dejected and disoriented.
She lived not in a crowded "poor" neighborhood, nor in an apartment building where ordinary people lived, but in a spacious and bright villa area.
The villa was quiet; only her footsteps could be heard upstairs and downstairs, and occasionally the whimpering of a puppy could be heard.
The puppy, held by Zhang Chen, seemed to be expressing its grievances.
Zhang Chen stroked the puppy's fur absently, his face still somewhat dazed.
The man's face seemed etched into her mind, impossible to shake off.
Sitting on the sofa, the puppy stopped whimpering and fell fast asleep in her arms.
The entire villa fell silent.
This place is unlike that other place, where everyone is happy and harmonious, and the whole family is together, making it very lively.
Zhang Chen had a faint smile on his lips.
The base commander, so he was the legendary base commander.
Inside the safe base, she knew that the base commander had neither a wife nor a girlfriend, and although a son had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, none of that mattered.
So what if you become someone's stepmother?
She thought she would try her best.
She can earn crystal cores for her stepson to get married, buy her beautiful clothes and jewelry, cook and make soup for them, take care of their children, and tutor her grandson.
"With a base commander as powerful as him, he certainly isn't afraid of my destiny!"
Zhang Chen spoke softly, his voice so light it sounded ethereal.
In a daze, she vaguely remembered things from her childhood.
Zhang Chen was born in a secluded village, and her birth did not bring great joy to her family, who favored sons over daughters.
For them, a daughter is fine!
If I have several more children in the future, I'm sure I'll be able to have a son!
Although her parents favored sons over daughters, they still had some affection for their first child and weren't too stingy with her food, clothing, and other necessities.
However, her good fortune was short-lived; her father passed away the year after she was born.
The intense back pain nearly devastated the family, but thankfully, her mother was already pregnant.
If they have a son in the future, they will not be considered "without a son."
In the village, only having a son prevents a family from being considered childless.
A year later, she finally had a younger brother. Her elderly grandparents wept with joy, but she was the only one who truly cried.
Because her mother died in childbirth.
No one cared whether she was hungry or not, and she couldn't speak, so she could only express her true feelings by crying.
Within a year, both parents passed away, and this tragedy was just the beginning.
Almost every year, someone dies.
At first it was her parents, then her grandparents and younger brother, and later her uncles, cousins and their families.
Many people in the village were related to Zhang Chen's family, but strangely enough, everyone related by blood died one after another.
By the time Zhang Chen was five or six years old, there were almost no people in the village who were related to him by blood.
Those who are related by blood or marriage are all people who are not even remotely connected and do not share the same ancestor.
They're not really relatives, just nodding acquaintances.
From the time Zhang Chen was born until she was five or six years old, the village held funerals every year, sometimes once a month, sometimes five times a month, and eventually even several times a day.
Almost half the village is gone!
Such a bizarre thing was impossible for the villagers to believe, even if they weren't superstitious, so they found someone to look at the village's feng shui.
Let alone feng shui masters, even ordinary people in the village could see that Zhang Chen was the only child left in the Zhang family!
Unsurprisingly, Zhang Chen was described by the feng shui master as a cursed lone star, destined to be alone, and whoever gets close to her will die.
The villagers were enraged, and many, including some they knew, died.
What's even more terrifying is that they don't know when it will be their turn.
So, the villagers tacitly prepared firewood, intending to burn her alive.
Zhang Chen was born in the 21st century, yet he still had the misfortune of experiencing the atmosphere of feudal superstition.
Whether it was feudal superstition or not, Zhang Chen didn't know; what he did know was that he couldn't die.
But she had no relatives, no friends, and no one to help her.
She had wandered around the village since she was a child, and it was not easy for her to grow up. On the night she was about to be burned to death, she was let go by a kind old man in the village.
They eventually ended up at their maternal grandparents' house.
She was too young at the time and only thought that the adults had gone to another place and abandoned her. She didn't understand what the feng shui master meant by "lonely star".
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