Chapter 9
The special car drove all the way towards Qianshui Road.
Jiang Yun half-closed his eyes, looking at the increasingly unfamiliar scenery outside the window. His thinking was several times slower than usual due to the side effects of the inhibitors.
But he still has a lot of work to do.
He had to report today's events to the Presidential Palace and synchronize the progress of the matter with the Intelligence Bureau;
His colleagues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Marshal Lu at the sanatorium were all waiting for news from him.
And...what else?
Sorry, he couldn't remember.
Perhaps because he was really tired, he didn't even have the energy to use the communicator to contact the twins and tell them that he would not be going home today.
He really couldn't think about work in this state, so could he think about something else?
After he's through his estrus and isn't feeling so bad anymore, I should be able to deal with work and housework... maybe.
Jiang Yun changed his posture and curled up completely on the sofa.
Shallow Water Road… He was on his way to Shallow Water Road.
Jiang Yun had always had a good memory. He remembered the birth of the twins, the first time Jiang Mu called him "Dad," and even Lu Chao's first grade test score.
But he couldn't even remember when he last came to Shallow Water Road.
In fact, he deliberately forgot many things about Lu Huai.
Seventeen years, perhaps it is still too long.
If it weren't for the recent events, if it weren't for those two children, if Lu Chao didn't look so much like his Alpha father, he would have forgotten Colonel Lu long ago.
Children... By the way, he and Colonel Lu have two very cute children.
He loved those two children very much. But over the years, he would occasionally think that it would be better if Lu Huai had left him only a legacy and relics that were speechless and expressionless.
He might have covered his face and cried sadly at Colonel Lu's funeral, amid the sympathetic and regretful gazes of others.
He might be depressed about Colonel Landing's relics for a long, long time, one year, two years... or even three years.
But as time goes by, those relics gradually lose their original brilliance, and memories will slowly be submerged in the depths of the long river of time.
Then, he didn't know when it started, but he no longer looked through Colonel Lu's belongings frequently, and he thought about Colonel Lu less and less.
He sold the house at 5 Shallow Water Road and met a new Alpha through his family's introduction.
After a few short dates, he finally got married again and started a new life with that Alpha.
But... it just so happened that the young colonel who died young left him two children.
A child who can cry and laugh, talk and act coquettishly, and call him dad with bright eyes.
Jiang Yun felt drowsy and simply closed his eyes completely.
His thoughts drifted aimlessly like clouds, going wherever his mind went.
With years of careful maintenance, the road surface of Shallow Water Road is like a luxurious black silk, extending deeper into the road between two rows of plane trees spaced in an orderly manner.
Private cars drove past silently, and the dust brought from outside the wealthy area was immediately absorbed by the special road material, leaving no trace except for the flash of car lights.
Speaking of which, why did he and Lu Huai choose to live in Qianshui Road back then?
Qianshui Road is located in the south of the capital, while the military headquarters is in the northernmost part of the capital. Generally speaking, married officers would not choose to live in Qianshui Road.
In the short two months after his marriage, Lu Huai had to travel across the entire capital every day to go back and forth between his home and the military headquarters.
Traffic on the Capital Star is very congested during rush hours in the morning and evening. Lu Huai has to spend at least four hours on the road to and from the airport, and he sleeps less than before marriage.
The reason why Lu Huai spent a huge amount of money to buy No. 5 Qianshui Road, the villa with a small south-facing garden and swimming pool, was simply because... because his fiancée liked it very much.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yun suddenly opened his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Stop the car."
He couldn't go to Shallow Water Road 5. Just on the way, he remembered so many things that should have been forgotten.
He couldn't... he couldn't go home.
The AI received the command and steered the car to a steady stop: "Mr. Jiang, we're almost there."
Jiang Yun rubbed his brows and took a long moment to calm down before looking out the window. The car had just stopped in front of his and Lu Huai's former neighbor's house, No. 6 Qianshui Road.
Jiang Yun was stunned for a moment, and the rationality he had finally regained disappeared again, and memories flooded back uncontrollably.
He actually still remembered that seventeen years ago, he and Colonel Lu's neighbors were an elderly couple who were nearly a hundred years old;
He remembered that on the first day he and Colonel Lu moved into their marital home, the kind couple came to visit them and gave them a large portion of homemade pancakes.
He even remembered that the muffin was blueberry flavored. He was full after eating one-third of it, and the remaining two-thirds were eaten by Colonel Lu, two of which he fed to Colonel Lu.
...Why is this happening? Why does he still remember?
It’s been seventeen years. It’s clearly been seventeen years.
It was just a small thing about blueberry muffins.
Why can’t I forget?
After moving away from Qianshui Road, Jiang Yun no longer had any contact with the couple.
Number 5 Shallow Water Road was deserted, and a sign for sale was also hung at Number 6.
In the garden of No. 6 Qianshui Road, a white-haired old woman, leaning on a cane, forced herself to support her frail body to show a newly married young couple around her house.
"My favorite thing is this garden. When spring comes, the yard is full of blooming roses. It's so beautiful... but it's a pity that I won't be able to see it." The old woman shook her head sadly. "Once I sell this house, I will go south alone to live with my little daughter."
The Alpha hugged his wife and asked, "How's it going, baby? Do you like it here?"
"Hmm..." The Omega looked at Number 5 Shallow Water Road enviously across the fence and said, "Actually, I prefer the house next door. Although it looks abandoned for a long time, I can imagine how beautiful it must have been when it was carefully cared for. I think its owner must have had great taste and must have loved this house very much."
Alpha immediately asked the old woman, "Grandma, do you have your neighbors' contact information? I want to buy their house, and price is not a problem."
“…Neighbor?” The old woman’s memory was getting worse with each passing year, but she had a deep impression of her former neighbor. Without much thought, she recalled: “Ah, he moved away a long time ago.”
"Why are you moving?" Alpha asked curiously. "Shallow Water Road is a wealthy area, perhaps even the best location in the entire Capital Planet."
But the Omega noticed something else: "'Him'? Was there only one person living at 5 Shallow Water Road?"
The old woman sighed and said, "The owners of No. 5 Shallow Water Road were a newlywed couple just like you. Unfortunately, the husband passed away within two months of their marriage, leaving his wife alone."
The petite Omega exclaimed and covered her mouth with her hands, as if she felt the same way: "How pitiful..."
The Alpha held the Omega in his arms and comforted him for a while, then asked, "What happened next?"
"Not long after her husband died, the young wife moved away on her own and never returned."
As the evening breeze blows, the rose vines in the garden that have not yet bloomed tremble gently, as if pulling towards a sweet dream.
"Alas, it's been so many years, I wonder how that Omega is doing now." The old man squinted his eyes, his gaze seeming to travel through time and space, returning to the distant past: "I still remember the scene of them walking home hand in hand on a snowy winter night... two very beautiful and handsome children..."
The smell of pheromones grew stronger, and the car grew increasingly stuffy. Jiang Yun opened the window a crack and gave himself another shot of the suppressant.
The wind blew away his pheromones and also brought the conversation between the three people to his ears.
Jiang Yun felt that he heard it clearly, but also felt as if he heard nothing.
The side effects of the inhibitor became more and more obvious, his eyelids became heavier, and the images in his vision were sometimes clear and sometimes blurry.
In a trance, the Omega's back gradually overlapped with another figure, and the couple who were looking at the house seemed to have turned into another young couple who were preparing for their wedding.
There was the scent of roses, a spiral staircase, a burning fireplace, a checkered wool carpet, and off-white curtains fluttering in the wind.
The Omega, who was still in school, was wearing the uniform of the Foreign Affairs College and was walking around the sun-drenched villa with a handsome young man in a neat military uniform, excitedly looking forward to the upcoming married life.
"This is the master bedroom, this is Colonel Lu's study, and this is the bakery where I bake cakes... And how about this one being used as the baby's room?"
"...What room? No, Jiang Yun, what are you thinking about?"
"My mind is on the nursery, Colonel."
"I mean, how old are you? You're still growing."
"Huh? Colonel Lu, don't you want to have children with me in the future?"
"Well, I didn't say that..."
"So, Colonel, how many children do you want to have with me?"
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"I think I'll have to reserve a few baby rooms."
"How about this, Jiang Yun should first change his overly polite way of addressing me, and then I'll discuss the question of how many children to have with him, okay?"
…
Why did I think of it again? The more I think about it, the more I think about it.
As expected, he is not qualified to come back now.
Jiang Yun made a confused judgment.
Seventeen years isn't long enough.
Perhaps in another seventeen years, when Jiang Mu and Lu Chao leave his wings and form their own families;
He could only see Lu Chao during holidays;
When he is really old, when he is so old that he can't remember many things.
He would forget that he had spent two months in a dreamlike married life with the young colonel.
By then, he might be able to move back.
Before falling asleep, Jiang Yun used his remaining sanity to give the AI an order: "...Go to the apartment."
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