Chapter 79, New Mission
On the way to the cafeteria, Shen Yao lagged behind by a few steps and walked side by side with Wei Yage.
As they were about to reach the cafeteria door, Shen Yao lowered her voice and said slowly, "Ranran looks silly, but she's actually a smart person. Captain Wei, am I right?"
Not knowing what the girl meant, Wei Yage lowered her eyes and remained silent.
"As for Si Xu, he seems to not care about anything. But you also came from the laboratory, so you must know that he protects his own people."
Wei Yage stopped walking, looked directly at Shen Yao, and said in a deep voice: “Shen Zhu, what do you want to say?”
"Hey, I just like chatting with smart people." Shen Yao yawned, looking half asleep, but her words were sharp. "Wei Ya Ge, if you still have improper thoughts about Si Xu, I advise you to give up as soon as possible. Regardless of how our Shen family treats Ranran, as long as Jiang Ranran has our Shen family blood, the Shen family will not let her be bullied."
Is this to support Jiang Ranran? Wei Yage found it funny and laughed out loud: "Chen Yao, it seems that you are not the one who makes the decisions for the Shen family, right?"
Acting like a hero in front of her without even realizing who you are.
"Haha, Wei Yage, I thought you were a smart person." Shen Yao's eyes were full of sympathy as she cast her gaze at the woman. "Hu Bin died, and Ranran found my eldest brother and told others that she had killed him. Not only did my eldest brother not punish her, he also concealed the matter for her. You should be thankful that my grandfather is the one who calls the shots in the Shen family now. Otherwise, if you had embarrassed Ranran, you would have died a miserable death."
What did that mean? Wasn't Chen Yao telling her that Shen Yang valued Jiang Ranran? Shen Yang? Ha, what was there to care about that low-brow pervert?
Wei Yage sneered, expressing his disdain.
To be honest, Shen Yang was a playboy at best and a frivolous person at worst. No one, including her, took him seriously.
That guy can live like a playboy only by relying on the Shen family's accumulated fortune and Shen Lang's support. Without the Shen family, he is just the scum of society and can be crushed into powder with just a light kick.
"That's all I have to say. Take care of yourself." After saying that, Chen Yao staggered towards the cafeteria.
Wei Yage stood there for a moment, then suddenly lost his appetite and turned around to go home.
The Shen family, Shen Yang, Jiang Ranran… If it was really as Shen Yao said, she should probably deal with Jiang Ranran before Shen Lang abdicated.
…
Jiang Ran discovered that Si Xu had become less and less well-behaved when eating recently, like now.
When she came back after washing her hands, Si Xu didn't pick up his chopsticks. He just looked at the ribs in the bowl and blinked at her.
The slightly raised curve at the end of the peach blossom eyes is more obvious, and the pupils seem to be filled with countless stars, with a faint expectation.
Jiang Ran sat down expressionlessly and stuffed the chopsticks into his hand: "Eat."
Si Xu took the chopsticks, took a mouthful of rice, and said nothing.
Jiang Ran felt that he was just like the stray dog that had been raised in the orphanage. He clearly wanted something, but he just whined and didn't say it out loud.
She picked up a piece of pork ribs and fed it to him: "Seventh Brother, pork ribs are not tasty when they are cold."
This was the first time the little girl called her Seventh Brother. Si Xu frowned slightly and was not very satisfied with the name: "Don't call me that." After saying that, he bit the pork ribs she brought to his mouth.
Jiang Ran was originally teasing, and since he didn't like it, she stopped calling him, "Then what do you like me to call you?" She suddenly became entangled in this question, "Wei Yage and the others call you Seventh Brother."
It would be fine if it was someone else, but when she thought of Wei Yage calling him with such an intimate name, she just wanted to hit someone.
Si Xu finally waited for the little girl to feed him. After chewing slowly and finishing a piece of pork ribs, he casually replied, "What do you like?"
In the past, those people called him by his code name. Later, those who were close to him called him Seventh Brother, and those who were not familiar with him called him Professor Si. Only the silly Gu Yunqing would switch back and forth between "Si Xu" and "Seventh Brother" in a familiar manner.
Before he met her, he had always thought that a name was just a code name, and it didn't matter what he called her. Until the day they returned to the base, when she was locked outside and begged him softly, what had she called him then?
Thinking of this, Si Xu looked at the girl and a smile appeared in his eyes.
Jiang Ran naturally didn't know what he was thinking. After hearing his answer, she nodded and said, "Then let's just call him Si Xu. I also think calling him Seventh Brother is a bit awkward."
Si Xu: “…” The smile in his eyes disappeared and he continued to eat sullenly with his head down.
Jiang Ran continued to mutter, "I once asked Ah Qin why she called you Seventh Brother, and she said it was Captain Chu who started it, and she didn't know why—but now I know." She glanced at the badge on his white coat, "Is the number on this badge your employee number? Why isn't it 0001?"
He's the head of the lab, so shouldn't his ID be number one? Why is it number seven?
"It's not a work number." Si Xu said, "It's a code name."
"Code name?" Jiang Ran knew what a code name meant. "It's the code name of the experimental subject in the laboratory..."
Si Xu: "Well - I'm number seven. In that batch of experimental subjects, everyone before and after me died."
Only he survived.
The laboratory at the Xiling base was originally used to research various virus vaccines. Later, due to the intervention of various forces, it gradually lost its original meaning and became a tool for those people to fight.
Those innocent children had no idea what was waiting for them before they were sent to the laboratory.
What's more, if Wei Yage did not lie, Si Xu was still a baby who knew nothing when he was sent to the laboratory.
Jiang Ranran's father is the surgeon in the laboratory. Whether he did it voluntarily or was coerced, he cannot deny the mistakes he made.
"I'm sorry, Si Xu." Thinking of this, Jiang Ran felt that the ribs in front of her no longer smelled good. She put down her chopsticks, pursed her lips, and whispered, "I shouldn't have brought up this topic."
"Yeah." Si Xu accepted her apology, picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it in her bowl, imitating her tone of voice, "Pork ribs won't taste good when they're cold."
Jiang Ran couldn't help but laugh when he brought the topic back so seriously: "I've eaten, you should eat more."
The tone sounded a little aggrieved: "But you didn't help me pick up the food."
“…”Okay, I knew you were still waiting for me to feed you.
…
The party originally scheduled to be held at Chu Yuan's house had to be cancelled because Chu Yuan received a temporary task notice.
The man kept sighing as he packed his luggage, which made Qi Yuan, who was originally relieved that he was leaving, feel a little distressed.
The fidgeting girl asked for something to talk about: "What's the mission? Why is it so sudden?"
"Suddenly?" Chu Yuan closed the suitcase, sat on the bed, and looked at her with a smile, "You can't bear to leave me?"
Qi Yuan: "..." The girl's smile disappeared instantly, she snorted, and turned to leave.
"Hey hey." Holding her arm, Chu Yuan chuckled, "I was just kidding."
“…”
"We're going to check the blockade." She didn't say anything, so Chu Yuan continued, "Originally, there would be regular reports from the blockade every night, but since the day before yesterday, we haven't received any news from there in two days, so they asked me to take some people to check it out."
"Blockade?" Qiyuan was curious, not knowing the layout of the Xiling base. "What is it?"
"Well..." Chu Yuan's smile faded a little, "It's a defensive line to block something very dangerous."
Qiyuan frowned: "Asking you to take people with you...isn't that very dangerous?"
"Yeah, it's very dangerous." Chu Yuan sighed, "Maybe there's no coming back."
The man didn't care. Qiyuan opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond.
"Look at me, I was assigned to carry out such a dangerous mission. Shouldn't you comfort me?"
"Don't be nervous." Upon hearing this, the girl, who was already a little worried, spoke awkwardly, "I'm sure everything will be fine... You will come back safely..."
"You're really saying it like you're putting a flag in my face."
"I……"
Seeing the girl's helplessness, Chu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Really want to comfort me?"
"……Um."
"Okay." The man grabbed her wrist and suddenly exerted force. Qi Yuan staggered and fell onto his legs. Then she held her cheek and forced her to raise her head.
The harmless baby face suddenly came close to her, and Qi Yuan's breathing stopped. The man's soft lips were already on hers. After a three-second pause, he gently pried open her lips and teeth.
She should push him away. She really wanted to push him away, but the image that suddenly flashed through her mind made her a little dazed, and for a moment she forgot what to do with her hands.
…
She saw her standing in a dimly lit little room on a cold night with heavy rain. He pushed the door open and came in, soaked all over, with a complicated look in his eyes as he looked at her.
Without waiting for her to speak, he took a few steps towards her, grabbed her waist and kissed her fiercely.
It was a ferocious kiss, almost like a beast's bite.
When she struggled, he held her tighter.
Finally, she pushed him away with force and slapped him without hesitation.
"Chu Yuan." She heard her own cold voice, filled with suppressed pain, "You've got the wrong person."
…
Silent tears rolled down her cheeks and she whimpered, startling the man so much that he immediately let go of her.
"Pray..." Chu Yuan hesitated as he looked at the girl crying with a complicated expression. He stroked her cheek with his fingertips and wiped away her tears. "Sorry..."
He smiled bitterly and said in a hoarse voice, "I was impatient."
She had no memory of the two of them being together, and to her, what she was doing now was no different from what a lecher did.
He apologized, but she choked up: "Chu Yuan, I really liked you so much before..."
It's a statement, not a question.
The pounding of her heart when he forced her to kiss her, and the almost desperate sadness when she waved her hand to hit him...all these emotions told her how much she once loved the man in front of her.
The girl's choked confession was like a sharp knife piercing his heart. Suppressing the dull pain in his chest, he gently stroked the top of her head and replied softly: "Qi Yuan, before you lost your memory, you loved me very much."
“…”
"I like you so much that you went against your father's wishes and became my fiancée instead of Qi Yao, who was supposed to be engaged to me."
(End of this chapter)
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