The sunset on the holiday island is golden and the coconut trees are rustling.
On the pure white bed, the girl closed her eyes tightly, listening to the waves outside and the hoarse calls of seabirds, and slowly clenched the sheets.
Baru personally cooked seafood porridge and brought it to the dining table outside. He put out his cigarette and pushed open the bedroom door.
"Xixi, you've slept all afternoon, get up and eat something."
He leaned over and hugged her into his arms along with the quilt, pressing his chin against the top of her head.
"Be obedient, I know you're awake."
Nanxi didn't say anything, pushed his arm away, put on her shoes, got out of bed, walked to the dining table, ate the porridge obediently, drank some water, and lay back on the bed.
"Baby, let's go for a walk on the beach outside, okay?"
The person on the bed still didn't speak. He lifted the quilt, put on slippers, and walked towards the door.
"Xixi." Baru Junxian's face was extremely tense as he stared at the slender figure. "Are you going out in your pajamas?"
The girl turned around mechanically and opened the wardrobe next to her. Her clothes were already hung there. She randomly found a goose yellow dress, took off her white suspender pajamas in front of him, put them on, and continued to walk out.
In the past, she was always too shy to let herself see when she changed clothes.
Today, I'm risking my life.
Baru instantly lost interest in going out.
He took two steps forward, took her arm, sat on the sofa, squatted in front of her, picked up her little hand, put it to his mouth, and kissed it.
"Angry?"
The girl felt a sore nose and tears welled up uncontrollably.
The man smiled bitterly, stretched out his rough fingers, and wiped her tears.
"Why are you crying? My wife almost ran away and I didn't cry, so why are you crying?"
"Baru~" Nanxi pouted, feeling indescribably pitiful.
"You said you like me and that I'm your wife, so my grandfather is your grandfather, right?"
Even the coldest and most heartless man would be moved by the heartbroken look of a beautiful woman crying, not to mention that this is his little wife whom he has betrothed with his life.
Balu lowered his head and exhaled a few times.
"Xixi, you always say that I treat you as a pet. But no matter how precious a pet is, I can't live without it. But today, when you said you wanted to leave, I really wanted to kill people in the police station. I wanted to die with them. I didn't want to live anymore.
You said you only came into my life for a while, but I will remember this time for the rest of my life.
I know that if I let you go, your family will never let us be together again. They look down on me as a soldier and think that I, a Southeast Asian soldier, am not worthy of the eldest daughter of the Nan family."
The man who had never feared death in battle, now had a sob in his throat, his eyes bloodshot and filled with bitterness, and he struggled to move his brows.
"But baby, I love you so much, I really love you. I may not come from a good background, but my feelings are not cheap."
He held her waist, buried his head in her arms, and smelled the faint sweet and cold fragrance that made his soul intoxicated, and remained silent for a long time.
After a long time, the girl inserted her white fingers into the man's short hair, and her voice was like spring rain moistening the earth.
"Balu, let me go back. I can't hold on any longer." Her voice was so soft, so soft that it seemed as if she would float away with the wind in the next second.
"Nan Xiaoxi, you really have no conscience." The man tightened his grip on her waist.
"Maybe! Baru, just think of me as a heartless person who ruined your feelings. You can hate me, and it doesn't matter how long you hate me..."
The girl sobbed hard, tears welling up in her eyes, "You have a kind of heroism in you, standing tall and upright. You are very good, Balu, really.
If I hadn't met you against my will, if it was in China, I might have really liked you. But there are no ifs in reality, and we were destined to be a mistake."
"No! No! Nan Xiaoxi." The man suddenly raised his head, his eyes red, and shook his head lightly.
"I'll go back with you. When you finish your studies, we'll come back and stay like we are now, okay?" The man held her little face with his big hands, with an unprecedented frustration in his handsome eyes.
Nanxi pursed her lips and spoke with difficulty after a long time.
"I could have lied to you and promised you to go back with me, and then I could have found a way to get rid of you once we got to China, but I don't want to do that, Baru."
For the first time, she took the initiative to hold his face.
"My father is a very stubborn and difficult person. He won't agree to us being together. If he knows about your existence, he will definitely try every possible way to deal with you, and my brother will help him.
My family is very complicated. Although I have been spoiled and willful since childhood, there is one thing I am very clear about: who I will be with in the future is not up to me. I can date a boy because I like him, but the person I marry must be beneficial to the interests of the family.
This is the price for everything I enjoy, and it is also the responsibility that has been instilled in me since I was a child. Most girls in our circle are like this.
That’s the real reason why I said we’re not a good match.”
Nanxi himself didn't know why he told Balu all this.
She had never told these words to anyone, not even to Nan Suzhi.
"Then why did you go back?" Baru suddenly stood up, pulled her into his arms, and gritted his teeth, "Am I not as good as a strange man? Nan Xiaoxi, are you mentally ill?"
"You don't understand. The interests of the old and new families in Yuncheng are intricately entangled. Our family may seem prosperous, but because my father is in business and not politics, the Nan family has actually declined. We can only maintain the Nan family's status by marrying into other families and forming a deep bond. There are only three families in Yuncheng that can do this, and all three of them have boys. My father has long planned to marry into any of them. I have no choice, Baru, this is my responsibility. I can't be a coward."
"Is Nan Suzhi's mother a waste? She lets a girl like you charge into battle?" Baru was so angry that he felt dizzy.
"Nan Xiaoxi, you are mine. Don't even think about marrying another man. Dream on!"
Balu didn't have the patience to listen to what she said anymore and dragged her out the door.
There were not many tourists on the beach, but the atmosphere was very good. It was already dark and the colorful lights were flashing with lively lights.
The two walked barefoot on the beach, one in front and one behind. Nanxi walked in front, her long hair blown messy by the sea breeze. Her goose yellow floral ankle-length skirt was slightly lifted up by her hands, revealing half of her calves that were so white that they were transparent.
Balu followed behind her, wearing a black shirt and black shorts, looking like a young and heroic man, his dark eyes never leaving his little wife in front of him for even a second.
They walked like this until the last bit of blue in the sky was swallowed up by the thick black.
Balu even thought, how nice it would be if they could just keep walking like this, until they reach the end of the sky, until both of them have white hair.
Lively singing could be heard not far away; a bar was holding an open-air party.
"Balu!" Nanxi suddenly stopped, turned around, smiled brightly, and his eyes were like the sea of stars.
With just this one glance, Baru threw away all his depression and extended his hand lovingly, "What's wrong?"
"There's someone singing over there, let's go over and take a look!"
The boy rubbed the top of her head and said, "Okay!"
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