"You!" Liu Ying glared at Ji Sheng and said with a laugh, "What kind of father are you?"
"Yes, it was my fault for not doing well in the past. You have worked hard all these years, and you have taken care of Xiaojun all the time."
Liu Ying never expected Ji Sheng to suddenly say such a thing.
"Oh, so the Commander-in-Chief finally has time to spend with his family?"
While making a joke, Liu Ying stood up and cleaned up the dishes. Seeing this, Ji Sheng also got up and followed closely behind his wife.
Liu Ying kept turning her head to look at him, asking with her eyes, "Are you alright?" He first gave a shy smile that seemed out of character, and finally said, "Yes, I have time to go back to my family now. I submitted my retirement papers a couple of days ago after sending Xiaoyuan aboard the starship..."
Upon hearing this, Liu Ying froze, turned around, and stared wide-eyed in disbelief at what she had just heard: "You...you're just giving up on all of this like that?"
"Yes, it's come to this... I don't want to either..."
The sound of bowls and chopsticks falling to the ground with a "thud" interrupted Ji Sheng's words.
The woman in front of him suddenly threw herself into his arms and began to sob.
Liu Ying suppressed her sobs, unable to stop herself from choking back them. After a long while, she finally unleashed her fury and "questioned": "You're only giving up now? Every time you were injured and on the verge of death, I told you to give up, but you wouldn't! And now you want to give up? Do you know how long you've made me worry?"
Her words struck Ji Sheng's heart like a hammer blow.
I have dedicated the first half of my life to my country and people, and the second half to Hualan Star.
I am very fortunate and honored to have witnessed the birth of Hualan Star, but I have also regretted that in my long life, I did not have enough time to spend with my wife, to give my children enough guidance when they were naughty, and to part with them in this way in the end...
I don't think I was born a great person. If I had known everything beforehand, I think I would have given up all of this and sent my child away.
In a daze, Ji Sheng seemed to hear a familiar yet unfamiliar voice. He couldn't help but reach out and gently hug his wife, patting her back softly, murmuring, "I really want to be with you forever..."
This time, he had no regrets.
Zhen Donglai's home,
"Honey, what are you looking at?"
The man with graying temples looked at his wife, who was standing at the window staring blankly at the "giant" overhead, and stepped forward to call out to her.
"Ah! Are you trying to die?!"
Xie Wei turned and glared at her husband, then patted her heart and said, "I'm checking where our son went."
The whole family applied together, but only her son was selected. Now that the conspiracy has been exposed, Xie Wei is afraid of a surprise.
Fearing that their son had almost been sold by aliens, they were overjoyed to find that someone in their family had survived.
She hadn't considered the possibility that Zhen Po might die from a failed memory modification; in her mind, her son was already safely on it.
"What's so interesting about that?"
Zhen Donglai stubbornly claimed that he didn't miss his son, but a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes. How could he not miss his child?
"That brat... he went up there and didn't even say he was safe. Old Sun next door said his son died and the higher-ups sent a message through someone. Oh dear!"
"They only sent the message after they were dead, so stop cursing my son!"
Xie Wei glared at Zhen Donglai, then turned to look at the giant beast overhead, muttering, "Tell me, what kind of place will our son live in the future? Will it be as good as here?"
"That's for sure."
"The water can't be this murky, can it?"
"What are you thinking? Didn't the higher-ups issue a notice that our son and his team will be assigned to a beautiful place to work hard to rebuild their new home?"
"Oh, such beautiful scenery... like the kind described in our textbooks when we were kids?"
"Yeah, that brat is so lucky. He gets all the good things! Unlike us, we were born the year the water war started, and now that we're old... oh dear, it's the end of the world."
As Zhen Donglai finished speaking in a humorous tone, Xie Wei couldn't help but burst out laughing. As the couple laughed, tears welled up in their eyes...
As the starship's propulsion system was activated again, the starship slowly rose and headed away towards Blue Star. Zhen Po watched the ancient Blue Star getting farther and farther away, and suddenly he looked up at his own face reflected in the glass.
I don't know when, but his face was already covered in tears...
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