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Jiang Nian felt uncomfortable because of the sting in her eye. She closed her eyes to relax, but was covered by a strong sense of sleepiness again, and a voice came to her ear again.

"Nian Nian"

"Open your eyes and look at me."

Such a familiar voice.

In a chaotic state of consciousness, her hand was lifted and held. The other person's palm was soaked with a thin layer of sweat. The warm and moist hand pressed against the back of her hand. The numb wrist also felt warm. The next moment, her skin felt a slight stinging pain, which was the dull pain of teeth hitting the skin/flesh.

She was bitten!

Jiang Nian frowned angrily, and the words that had been stuck in her throat finally came out.

"Don't bite me—"

As soon as she said this, the heaviness on her eyelids and the sleepiness in her body disappeared in an instant. She opened her eyes and saw Lu Yu, who suddenly stood up and approached her. The man's hot breath hit her face, with a faint smell of blood. He changed his shirt into a clean one, not the one in her dream. His cold and handsome face looked much more haggard, with a lot of stubble, and his short hair had grown a little longer.

It was Lu Yu, but he looked much more haggard.

"Jiang Nian."

Lu Yu held her hand tightly in surprise, and stroked her cheek with the other hand. Looking at Jiang Nian's confused eyes, the joy in his heart was suddenly covered by panic. He moved his Adam's apple nervously and spoke carefully: "Niannian? Is that you?"

Jiang Nian didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.

Gradually, the hand that was stroking her cheek began to tremble slightly, and the surprise in the man's eyes gradually faded. Jiang Nian watched with her own eyes as the light in Lu Yu's eyes faded. The warmth on her cheek and the grip on the back of her hand brought her back to her senses. The moment before her eyes became dead silent again, Lu Yu finally made Jiang Nian wake up completely.

Lu Yu was still alive!

He was not dead, he was right in front of her.

The hand holding hers gradually loosened, and the hand stroking her cheek also moved away. Before his hand pulled away, Jiang Nian twisted his fingers in his palm, and when he saw Lu Yu's stunned expression, he said, "Why are you old?"

Lu Yu held Jiang Nian's hand tightly, and his thumb kept stroking the corner of her lips. Their lips were very close, and they could feel each other's breath, which was fresh. With the vitality of Lu Yu, he suppressed the panic in his heart and asked carefully again: "Niannian, is that you?"

Jiang Nian put his other hand around Lu Yu's neck and pressed down. Their lips touched, and Jiang Nian bit the man's lower lip retaliatory: "Who else could it be if not me? Did you bite me just now?"

Lu Yu laughed out loud, and the panic suppressed in his heart disappeared in an instant.

He turned defense into offense and touched Jiang Nian's lips. His fiery tongue pushed open her teeth and traced the tip of her tongue in a delicate and lingering way. Lu Yu was greedy for her breath and felt the warmth from her body. The person in front of him was no longer a lifeless shell, but the lively and vibrant Jiang Nian.

"Oh!"

Xu Yan's voice suddenly rang out in the ward, followed by Shu Xue's surprised cry: "Captain Lu, Sister Jiang is awake?!"

The tenderness of the young couple was interrupted. Lu Yu let go of Jiang Nian, looked at the moisture on Jiang Nian's lips, his eyes darkened a lot, he coughed lightly, turned to Xu Yan and Shu Xue and said: "She's awake, I'll go call the doctor." After Lu Yu

left, Xu Yan and Shu Xue ran to the bedside, the two of them held Jiang Nian's hands on the left and right, and talked about their worries about her during the days she was in a coma. Xu Yan cried again, She cried and said, "I thought you would never wake up. I was scared to death. If something really happened to you, we would be so miserable."

Shu Xue was also wiping her tears and crying, "Sister Jiang, don't lie to me next time. If you catch a cold again, you must go to the hospital in time. Don't delay."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "Okay."

From their conversation, Jiang Nian learned that she had been in a coma for eight days. She had been relying on intravenous drips to maintain her life during these eight days. She had lost a lot of weight. No wonder Jiang Nian felt so weak. She felt like she had used all her strength to raise her hands to hug Lu Yu just now.

Jiang Nian glanced at the ward. Lu Yu went to call the doctor, but she still couldn't believe it, so she asked again: "Was it Lu Yu just now?"

Xu Yan: ...

Shu Xue: ...

Xu Yan patted the back of her hand: "Of course it was Captain Lu, didn't you two kiss just now?"

Jiang Nian's hanging heart finally fell.

Lu Yu survived the five-year cycle of torture, and she and Jiang Nian did not return to the starting point. Everything returned to the normal track. They both survived.

Jiang Nian cried. Shu Xue and Xu Yan didn't know why she was crying when she was fine. It was not until Lu Yu came over and hugged her that Jiang Nian whispered in his ear, "We are all fine."

Lu Yu kissed the tip of Jiang Nian's ear and smiled, "It's okay, we are all fine." The doctor examined Jiang Nian and found that she was fine. She would stay in the hospital

for observation for another day or two. If there were no other problems, she could be discharged. Jiang Nian didn't know about Lu Yu's injury until the next day at noon. She leaned in Lu Yu's arms and smelled a faint smell of blood again. She forcefully unbuttoned his two buttons and saw the bandaged wound on his shoulder. Jiang Nian's face changed and asked, "Is it a gunshot wound?" Lu Yu said, "Well, it's okay, don't worry about me." Jiang Nian pursed her lips and lowered her eyes to glance at the collar of Lu Yu's shirt. He changed into another shirt with a small green leaf embroidered on it. She raised her hand and pinched the collar, thinking of the scene in her dream. She raised her head to meet Lu Yu's dark gaze and whispered, "Lu Yu, I dreamed of you again." Lu Yu raised his hand and held Jiang Nian's hand, motioning her to continue. Jiang Nian said, "It seems that you are the present one in my dream. In the dream, you were wearing the shirt I made for you and caught two criminals in the woods. Then there was a gunshot. I wanted you to hide, but I don't know what happened afterwards." Then she looked at the wound on Lu Yu's shoulder: "How did you get the gunshot wound?" She was eager to know whether the things in the dream overlapped with reality? Was the Lu Yu she dreamed of real? Were the things he was doing also happening in reality?

Lu Yu shuddered for a while, kissed Jiang Nian on the forehead, felt the warmth of the person in his arms, and said with fear: "I was shot by the criminals lurking at the fracture of the cliff."

He seemed to hear Jiang Nian's voice at that time, and just turned his head to the side. The bullet did not hit his heart, but only hit his shoulder. He felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart at that time. After the doctor bandaged his wound, he called Jiang Nian first. It was Chen Yao who answered the phone. He said that Jiang Nian was sick and had been in a coma for four days.

Lu Yu didn't care about the severity of the wound and insisted on rushing back. He thought of the voice of Jiang Nian he heard when he was shot. It was not an illusion, but real.

He still dared not recall the first time he saw Jiang Nian when he rushed back to the hospital.

She was pale, fragile, and much thinner. The smile on her face was gone, only coldness and numbness, just like when he rushed back to his hometown to see his widowed sister-in-law in his previous two lives. Lu Yu stayed by the bed for three days, talking to her day and night, hoping that she would wake up, hoping that she would open her eyes.

He was afraid all the time. He

was afraid that Jiang Nian would never wake up again, and he was even more afraid that Jiang Nian would not be herself after waking up.

Jiang Nian listened to the throbbing heartbeat in her ears, recalled the things in her dream, the gunshots behind her, the muffled groans after being shot, all matched up one by one.

She was a little scared when she thought about it.

This ward is a single room, with only her and Lu Yu in it. Jiang Nian thought for a long time before she told Lu Yu about her dream about 'Jiang Nian' and everything 'Jiang Nian' had told her. After hearing this, Lu Yu did not speak for a long time. After an unknown amount of time, he said, "It turns out that she also resisted two lifetimes."

Jiang Nian said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Lu Yu rubbed her head, "Telling you would just make one more person to worry."

Lu Yu was indeed surprised that the widowed sister-in-law knew that she was a character in the book. Although she knew that he was reborn twice, she didn't know that he carried the memories of his previous two lifetimes in his third life.

In his first life, he came back to take care of the Xu family's funeral and was shocked to find that he had always been the protagonist in a book. The book arranged a heroine for him, a future for him, and a large family, and he lived a happy life until old age. He had no empathy for what "Lu Yu" in the book had experienced. He hated a life controlled by others. He tried his best to get rid of the shackles and invisible clamps that bound him, but invisibly, every plot was forcing him to move forward.

Lu Yu used his own flesh and blood to resist the world consciousness in the book. He avoided Sun Ying and everything related to the plot. At first he thought he had succeeded, but five years later, on the day of the mission, a bullet appeared out of nowhere and pierced his chest. The moment he closed his eyes, a cold mechanical voice in his head told him: It's time to go back.

Lu Yu was like a puppet controlled by consciousness, and in his second life he returned to five years ago.

In this life, he has no memory of his previous life, and still repeats the plot of the book. When he returns to Xu's family to take care of the aftermath, he finds that he is the protagonist of the book. He once again fights against the consciousness of the world in the book, resisting with his flesh and blood, and finally repeats the same thing.

Lu Yu wakes up again, not in the plot of taking care of Xu's aftermath, but on the second day after Xu Chenggang's death. He has the memory of his previous two lives in advance, and after asking for leave, he quickly returns to his hometown, guessing that perhaps the key point of this book is in the Xu family. As long as the damned person is not dead, perhaps the consciousness of this book can disappear.

He rushed back to save the widowed sister-in-law who should have died after hitting the wall, and took her to the army. He gradually discovered that with her presence, the originally planned plot was actually collapsing step by step, and the previously silent, self-abased and cowardly widowed sister-in-law also changed her temperament in the details of life.

Lu Yu knew at that time that she was not the real Jiang Nian, and there was already a different person in the widowed sister-in-law's body.

The experiences of these five years are completely contrary to the plot in the book. It is different from his previous two lives when he fought alone. In the previous two lives, when he fought against the consciousness in the book, all kinds of pain would appear in the joints of his body, forcing him to get the plot back on track. In this life, his body is normal, and he even feels that he is actually a real person, not a character in the book.

For five years, he has been thinking about that node five years later.

When he married Jiang Nian, he also wondered if that experience would disappear.

But he didn't dare to gamble. He was afraid that he would return to the starting point and leave Jiang Nian and the child in this time and space. What should he do?

Lu Yu hugged Jiang Nian tightly, looking at Jiang Nian's pale little face, and his heart was filled with deep heartache and pity.

Fortunately, everything is over.

Jiang

Nian is fine now, but Lu Yu needs to be hospitalized for recuperation.

The two lived in a single ward. Jiang Nian was supposed to take care of Lu Yu, but in the end, it was Lu Yu who took care of her. They stayed in the hospital for half a month before they were discharged. On the day of discharge, Gu Shizhou and Chen Yao drove to pick them up.

Gu Shizhou watched Lu Yu walking out holding Jiang Nian's hand. His gaze lingered on Jiang Nian's thin cheeks for a few seconds. He pursed his thin lips for a few seconds, then looked at Lu Yu, walked up to him and patted him on the uninjured shoulder: "Congratulations on being discharged from the hospital."

Lu Yu smiled and said, "Yeah."

Chen Yao opened the car door and said happily, "Captain Lu, sister-in-law, let's go home!"

It didn't take long to get from the county town to the army. The car drove to the family building. Tian Mai stopped the car first. She cooked a large table of food at home to welcome Jiang Nian and Lu Yu. Deputy Captain Kuang even took a leave of absence. Gu Shizhou, Chen Yao and Shu Xue also went with them.

At the dinner table, Deputy Captain Kuang said, "Captain Lu, you are going to be promoted this time,

right?" Chen Yao said, "Of course!"

Lu Yu smiled and said, "I have been in the hospital for some time, so I am not sure."

Kuang Xiu and Teacher Ji went to Hong Kong City, and Kuang Qian stayed at home. She was especially attached to Jiang Nian. During the days when Jiang Nian was in a coma, she cried in front of Tian Mai every day, hoping that Aunt Jiang would get better soon.

Jiang Nian touched Kuang Qian's head: "How is your study going?"

Kuang Qian said: "I got the second place in this exam."

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "Qian'er is great."

It was already afternoon when they left Tian Mai's house. When they walked out of the stairs, Gu Shizhou said to Lu Yu: "Let's go out for a walk?"

Lu Yu nodded: "Yes."

Jiang Nian knew that Gu Shizhou had something to say to Lu Yu. She wanted to go back by herself, but Lu Yu insisted on sending her home in person. Through a door, Lu Yu grabbed Jiang Nian's neck and kissed her on the lips greedily: "I'll be back soon."

Jiang Nian blushed and nodded gently: "Okay."

Lu Yu closed the door and went out. He went downstairs and went to the training ground with Gu Shizhou. When they met other people on the way, they all greeted the two of them.

Lu Yu looked at the road ahead: "What's the matter?"

Gu Shizhou said: "The organization called yesterday and your promotion documents have been sent down. They will arrive in a few days."

Lu Yu nodded and asked: "Are you transferring or staying here?"

Gu Shizhou said: "Still in the original city."

The two chatted about some things in the group in the past six months. After a while, Gu Shizhou took out the A letter was handed to Lu Yu. Lu Yu lowered his eyes, and was stunned when he looked at the familiar envelope and the mailing address on it. He raised his eyebrows and

said, "You didn't send it?" Then he took the envelope, which contained a letter. It was the letter he wanted to send to Song Bai. Because of some things in the group, he was delayed, so he entrusted it to Gu Shizhou and asked him to help mail the letter. He didn't expect that the letter would be stuck in his hands until now.

Gu Shizhou put one hand in his pocket, turned around and looked at the shaded path in front of him and said, "I believe that nothing will happen to you with your strength. I'd better keep a suicide note like this for you. You can decide how to deal with it when you come back."

He looked at a lonely bird on a branch not far away, and a faint trace of loneliness passed across his brow, disappearing in a flash.

Lu Yu twisted the letter paper with his fingers, raised his eyelids and glanced at Gu Shizhou. He keenly noticed that something was wrong with Gu Shizhou. He narrowed his dark eyes for a moment, and then looked away after a moment of stasis: "Thank you for taking care of Niannian for me in the past six months. I'll be busy these two days." Finished, thank you together with Niannian."

Gu Shi?zhou smiled and said: "Okay."

After leaving with Gu Shi?zhou, Lu Yu tore up the envelope and threw it into the trash can. He went to the food station and vegetable station to buy meat and vegetables and went back. Jiang Nian had already cleaned the house and boiled hot water for bathing.

Jiang Nian put on his apron and wanted to cook, but Lu Yu stopped him.

The man hugged her from behind, kissed her on the cheek, gently held her cheeks and kissed her lips, the burning hot breath lingered, Jiang Nian's breathing gradually became heavier, half a year had passed, not only did Lu Yu miss her, she also missed Lu Yu. Her waist felt

heavy, she was held by Lu Yu and placed on the cabinet, the man stood between her legs, following her lips and gradually moving down.

The buttons were unbuttoned, and the small vest was thrown on the table. The wet and hot touch spread from the collarbone to the chest. Jiang Nian's breathing was tight, and she had nowhere to put her hands. Finally, she put her hands on Lu Yu's shoulders pitifully. She looked down and saw the dark head on the chest. The shame and the extremely fast heartbeat made Jiang Nian a little breathless.

"Nian Nian"

Lu Yu raised his hand and held Jiang Nian's hand, and carried her back to the house.

Jiang Nian was startled by the deep emotion in Lu Yu's eyes. The man's hand fell along her shoulder and on her waist, and his eyes were full of pity for her: "You have lost weight."

Jiang Nian's heart softened, and she held Lu Yu's face with both hands: "You have lost weight too."

After

Lu Yu's promotion documents came down, he was given a half-month vacation.

The first thing they did was to go back to their hometown. They first went to see Professor Ling and burned some paper for Uncle Xu. Finally, Lu Yu took Jiang Nian to his father's grave. When they returned home, Aunt Zhao came to find Jiang Nian with her grandson.

Aunt Zhao said a lot, and also talked about how after she and Lu Yu left last time, many people in the village gossiped about her and Lu Yu, but those gossips have disappeared in the past two years, and now everyone is happy to see her and Lu Yu back, but there are still some people who gossip behind their backs.

Jiang Nian doesn't care about these, let alone what others think.

Aunt Zhao said, "How many days will you stay this time?"

Jiang Nian said, "Two days. Let's go to the Jiang family tomorrow and pay back all the debts we owe."

Aunt Zhao paused and said, "Something happened in your mother's family. Didn't they send you a letter to tell you?"

Jiang Nian was stunned: "What happened?"

She only knew that Lian Qin couldn't stand the suffering and ran away.

Aunt Zhao saw that there was no worry or anxiety on Jiang Nian's face, so she said, "It happened three months ago. The news spread in the surrounding villages that Cao Lan ran off with a wild man. I heard that Cao Lan was tired of the whole family's laziness and didn't want to serve them anymore. Jiang Hai was so angry that he had a stroke and died. Now only Jiang Hai and Jiang Fu, father and son, are left in the family."

Jiang Nian had no sympathy for the Jiang family, but seeing that the Jiang family had ended up like this, she didn't plan to take the money. What happened to Jiang Hai and Jiang Fu in the future was their own business.

On the day Jiang Nian left, she sent some more things to Professor Ling. She and Lu Yu went to see Ge Mei. Ge Mei's position was not as high as Yuan Shi's, but her salary was still considerable. She worked while taking care of her grandson, and her children were also with her. Jiang Nian found that Ge Mei smiled more often than before.

For her, perhaps being with her family was the best thing.

Although she envied Deng Ke, she valued her family more.

After leaving Ge Mei's house, Jiang Nian went to Xiuzhuang to see Zhai Peipei and Lu Xiaojing, and talked to them for a while before leaving. Before leaving, the two returned to the army to see Lu Yu's old comrades. Zhu Jun and Zhang Xiao are getting better and better now. Zhang Xiao is pregnant again. She asked Jiang Nian when she planned to have a child. Jiang Nian smiled and said, "This year." After

leaving the army, the two took a car to the city and met two unexpected people at the train station.

It was Wu Youshan and Sun Ying.

The two looked much more haggard than in previous years, and there was a three-year-old child beside them.

Jiang Nian didn't expect to meet her again. Seeing Sun Ying again, Jiang Nian didn't know what she felt in her heart. Thinking of the scene when Sun Ying talked about her meeting Lu Yu on the train, Jiang Nian recalled and guessed that Sun Ying might be like her, obtaining some fragmented memories through dreams.

Wu Youshan and Sun Ying also saw Lu Yu and Jiang Nian. Sun Ying was stunned and her eyes stayed on Lu Yu in a daze. Lu Yu walked past them holding Jiang Nian's hand. Sun Ying lowered her head and looked at the child's ignorant and innocent eyes. She bent down and picked up the child, and said to Wu Youshan who was looking at her: "I want to eat dumplings." Wu Youshan

breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Let's go home. I'll make dumplings for you when we get home."

May

20, 1977 was the day Jiang Nian gave birth.

She had seen Guan Lu and Yue Qiao give birth, and Shu Xue give birth. Hearing their miserable screams, Jiang Nian was terrified both physically and mentally. If Lu Yu hadn't been outside with her and kept talking to her, Jiang Nian would have wanted to retreat.

Tian Mai and Shu Xue were also waiting outside the delivery room. They couldn't help laughing when they saw Brigadier General Lu was worried about his wife. Everyone in the family building knew that Brigadier General Lu was serious and cold on weekdays, but he was a gentle and considerate good husband in front of Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian gave birth to a son, and Lu Yu had already named him Lu Fan.

The child was brought out by the doctor. Lu Yu took a look and went into the delivery room. Tian Mai brought the child over and took care of the child with Shu Xue. Jiang Nian lay weakly on the bed with sweat on her forehead. When she saw Lu Yu coming in, she smiled weakly.

Lu Yu leaned over and hugged Jiang Nian, kissed her on the lips, and rubbed her cheeks with heartache: "Niannian, we won't have children anymore, not anymore in the future."

Hearing Jiang Nian's screams, Lu Yu felt as if his heart was cut by a knife. She was in pain, and he was also in pain.

Jiang Nian said: "No, I want to have another child."

"I want to have another daughter."

She looked at Lu Yu, and a happy smile appeared on her pale face.