Chapter 35: I'm coming clean, I'm here to marry you!
Su Yue's heart skipped a beat for a moment, but her face showed no sign of panic.
She even curled her lips into a self-deprecating smile.
She raised her left arm, which was wrapped in gauze, and waved it in front of Gu Beichen.
"Commander Gu, those bandits are no ordinary people. Should I just crane my neck and obediently wait to be killed by them?"
Su Yue's voice was clear and cold, with a hint of self-righteous sarcasm.
“My maternal grandfather’s family is a well-known family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Shanghai. From a young age, my grandfather forced me to learn self-defense and medicine. If I didn’t learn, I would be punished with a ruler.”
"Otherwise, why do you think I saved Old Master Shen on the train? Because I'm good-looking?"
Her words were half true and half false, yet perfectly logical, attributing all her skills to that fabricated "family tradition."
Gu Beichen was speechless after her sharp retort.
His mind flashed back to the rumors in the intelligence report about Su Yue using silver needles to save people on the train, and her amazing performance at the free clinic today.
Coupled with the almost doting attitude of the Shen family grandfather and grandson towards her, this reason was impeccable.
But his intuition was screaming.
Things are definitely not that simple.
Especially her wound-treating techniques—the deft cleaning and bandaging—were completely outside the realm of traditional Chinese medicine; it was clearly…
Su Yue looked at his ever-changing expression and knew that he still had doubts in his heart, but she was not afraid.
That's exactly the effect she wanted.
She changed the subject, took a step forward, and gazed directly into Gu Beichen's deep eyes with her clear almond-shaped eyes, then smiled sweetly.
"However, instead of figuring out who I am, shouldn't Commander Gu be more concerned about what our relationship is right now?"
As she spoke, Su Yue slowly took out a small red book from her cloth bag.
A brand new household registration booklet.
She gently waved the household registration booklet in front of him; the writing on it was clearly visible in the moonlight.
"I came all the way from Shanghai to marry you with the utmost sincerity."
"Commander Gu, is this how you welcome your fiancée?"
She directly shifted the focus from the "mystery of his identity" to the "marriage," putting Gu Beichen in a difficult position with just one sentence.
The man's tall figure seemed to freeze for a moment in the moonlight.
A savior, a mysterious expert, a highly skilled doctor, a charming fiancée...
Countless seemingly unrelated labels were suddenly superimposed on the woman before him.
This feeling made him experience what it meant to be out of control for the first time.
An intense, almost irrepressible curiosity entwined his heart like vines.
He wanted to delve deeper and get to the bottom of things, but when he met Su Yue's eyes, which were both frank and cunning, all his questions got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't find a way to ask them.
Su Yue was unaware of the turbulent emotions churning within Gu Beichen's heart at that moment.
She assumed he was stunned by her and planned to tell him, once they were back in their room and settled in, that she was the one who had happened to save his life in Shanghai.
Now is not the time.
The air between the two seemed to freeze.
In the end, Gu Beichen was the first to be defeated.
He was silent for a moment, his taut jawline relaxed slightly, and his tone softened a bit.
"Come inside, your wound is more important."
As he spoke, he reached out and took the heavy bamboo basket from Su Yue's back, his gesture seemingly acknowledging her as the mistress of the house.
Su Yue's smile deepened.
She won this silent confrontation.
...
Meanwhile, at the military hospital.
Shen Qingqing was publicly reprimanded by Old Master Shen Congwen and then forced by Gu Beichen to treat Su Yue's wounds. She felt utterly humiliated and on the verge of madness.
She hid alone in the changing room, trembling with anger, and threw her white coat hard on the ground.
"Su Yue! Su Yue! You bitch!"
She gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with resentment and malice.
Just then, hushed voices came from a corner of the corridor outside the door.
Shen Qingqing paused, immediately perking up her ears.
It was the voice of Gu Beichen's adjutant, Li Hu, and his bodyguard, Xiao Wang.
Xiao Wang lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Brother Tiger, do you think the regimental commander is still thinking about that thing in Shanghai? He's clearly acting strangely since he came back."
Li Hu's voice was gruff: "Don't try to guess what the regimental commander is thinking, just do your job."
"I was just curious!"
Xiao Wang's voice was even lower, almost a whisper.
"I've heard that the regimental commander was on a secret mission in Shanghai last month and was seriously injured. He almost didn't make it back! It was all thanks to a mysterious woman that he was pulled back from the brink of death."
"The commander has always wanted to find that savior. He even mentioned to us that the woman seemed to have some special mark on her hand..."
In the changing room, Shen Qingqing was struck dumb, her whole body frozen in place.
A savior?
Shanghai Stock Exchange?
Imprint?
Several keywords exploded in her mind, and then a flash of inspiration struck her!
She quickly recalled that Gu Beichen had indeed gone on a business trip to Shanghai last month!
On what grounds?
That country woman named Su Yue only has the backing of the Shen family. Why does she steal everyone's attention as soon as she arrives, and even make Brother Chen look at her differently?
She was unwilling to accept it!
Just then, the guard Xiao Wang walked around the corner carrying a stack of documents. Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up, and a wicked idea instantly formed in her mind.
She calculated the distance carefully, and just as Xiao Wang was about to pass by, she "accidentally" twisted her ankle, and the medical record in her hand scattered all over the ground.
"oops!"
She exclaimed and crouched down to pick it up, deliberately lifting her hair to reveal the back of her fair hand.
On the back of my hand, there was a faint pink mark, barely visible.
"Dr. Shen, are you alright?" Xiao Wang, being a kind-hearted person, quickly squatted down to help.
Shen Qingqing picked up the last medical record, rubbed the back of her hand as if in distress, and sighed.
"Sigh, I got a perm last month, I don't know if it will leave a scar, especially for a girl like me..."
Her voice wasn't loud, but it was just enough for Xiao Wang to hear clearly.
Xiao Wang suddenly stopped moving.
His gaze froze on the pink mark, and his mind went blank as he immediately recalled the commander's private instructions.
The regimental commander was seriously injured in Shanghai last month and was rescued by a mysterious woman. That woman had a special mark on her hand!
Xiao Wang's heart skipped a beat. He asked casually, "Dr. Shen, this injury... is it recent? I remember you went to Shanghai for an exchange program last month, right?"
Shen Qingqing was secretly delighted; the fish had taken the bait!
Her face showed just the right amount of surprise, with a hint of panic at having her secret exposed: "Yes, how did you know? Oh well, let's not talk about this anymore, it's all in the past."
She hesitated to speak, her expression suggesting she was concealing some enormous secret or grievance, which successfully aroused Xiao Wang's suspicion and curiosity.
Watching Shen Qingqing's hurried departure, he felt he had discovered a shocking secret, and carrying the documents, he headed straight for the regimental commander's office.
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