How dare Chen Can do such a thing? No wonder Shen Liya was able to blackmail him.
But how did these things end up by the window? She didn’t remember them being there before she went to sleep.
Spotting a feather underneath, Ye Zhiqiu guessed a little bird must have carried them over.
“Ya Ya, look, isn’t this feather pretty?” Ye Zhiqiu held the feather up for Ya Ya to see.
Ya Ya nodded, reaching out to grab it. Ye Zhiqiu pulled her hand back. “Mommy needs to put it in the sterilizer first before you can play with it, okay?”
Ya Ya waved her little fist. Ye Zhiqiu wanted to touch Ya Ya’s cheek but pulled her hand back, remembering it wasn’t clean.
“Wait for Mommy to go wash her hands, okay?”
Ye Zhiqiu first put all the evidence away safely, then went to wash her hands meticulously several times. Still not daring to touch Ya Ya directly, she put on a pair of gloves before picking her up.
“Ya Ya, look at all the stars. Aren’t the stars beautiful?” Ye Zhiqiu carried Ya Ya to the window.
Ya Ya wore the sachet given by Elder Dong, making it perfectly safe by the window like this, without fear of mosquito bites.
Every late night, Ye Zhiqiu couldn’t help but miss Yue Mingyuan.
He hadn’t called home in so long. Could he really be on a mission? She wondered how dangerous it was.
——-
At that moment, in a jungle in the southwest.
Yue Mingyuan and Ling Hang led a team of three men. They formed a triangle with two other five-man squads.
One kilometer ahead of them was our nation’s boundary marker.
Local armed police had received intelligence that a group of foreign drug traffickers would cross the border here tonight, armed and carrying three kilograms of heroin.
Yue Mingyuan unconsciously touched his chest. He used to keep that family photo there, and touching it had become a habit.
Ling Hang noticed his movement and couldn’t resist teasing him. “Missing Sis-in-law and Ya Ya again?”
A trace of melancholy colored Yue Mingyuan’s gaze. “We’ve been out a long time this time. Your sis-in-law has probably guessed I’m on a mission. I worry she’ll be anxious.”
“Once we finish this fight today, we can go home.”
Ling Hang pinched his own thigh hard. “When I get back, I’m sleeping for three days and nights straight. Don’t you dare call me!”
From the time they rushed over from the capital until now, they hadn’t had a proper sleep for nearly four days. Just before this, they were on a military exercise battlefield, having just completed a decapitation strike that directly destroyed the Red Force’s command center.
He’d only managed to doze for a bit on the helicopter. Ling Hang felt he could fall asleep the moment he closed his eyes now.
“You get one day. I’m going home. You’re in charge of training.”
“You’re serious?” Ling Hang glared at Yue Mingyuan. “Where’s your humanity? You get to go home to your wife, daughter, and warm bed, and I have to stay behind for training?”
Yue Mingyuan gave the reason. “In a while, Zhiqiu is going for advanced training. It’ll be at least six months.”
Ling Hang suddenly understood. “No wonder you fought so fiercely this time.”
In previous military exercise activities, Yue Mingyuan always led them in circling the enemy, like a cat toying with a mouse.
He’d drive the other side crazy, yet they couldn’t do a thing about it.
In Yue Mingyuan’s own words, their existence, aside from missions, was to push other military units to improve.
Fortunately, he only said that within their own brigade. If the brother units heard it, they’d probably come over and gang up on them.
Honestly, even they thought Yue Mingyuan sounded quite punchable listening to it.
But this time, he led them straight to the Red Force command center. The military exercise was originally scheduled for a month, but Yue Mingyuan ended it in a week.
He remembered the Red Force commander’s face turning absolutely awful. He’d raged about taking out his gun to shoot Yue Mingyuan, but Yue Mingyuan, with a cold, deadpan expression, said, “You’re already dead. You can’t shoot me.”
He almost gave that Red Force commander a heart attack on the spot, while their other teammates nearly died stifling their laughter.
That Red Force commander was still cursing Yue Mingyuan as he was led away.
But their own Blue Force side was extremely pleased with their performance. Old General Yue’s smile was practically plastered on his face.
In previous Red vs. Blue confrontations, the other side, boasting advanced technology, had often suppressed them.
Even with their team, the larger forces were at a disadvantage.
The other side had mocked them plenty. This time, they thoroughly washed away that shame.
Ling Hao snapped out of his thoughts and patted Yue Mingyuan’s shoulder. “Then take a few extra days off this time.”
“By the way, if Sis-in-law goes for training, what about Ya Ya? She’s still so little.”
“Ya Ya is very good. The family can take good care of her. Besides, there’s that brat Huo Jiusi.”
Yue Mingyuan ground the name ‘Huo Jiusi’ out between his teeth.
He hadn’t thought much of it before, but later, every time Zhiqiu called, she’d talk about how good Jiusi was with Ya Ya. He couldn’t help feeling a bit jealous.
He was really afraid that when he got back, Ya Ya wouldn’t recognize him as her father, but would only recognize Huo Jiusi.
Last time Ye Zhiqiu visited Yue Mingyuan, she told him what Master Qingfeng had said: that Huo Jiusi and Ya Ya had a predestined connection from a past life, and their fates in this life were intertwined.
Even so, Yue Mingyuan still didn’t like Huo Jiusi hovering around Ya Ya all the time.
That’s his daughter!
His sweet, soft, fragrant daughter. No one is good enough for her.
Ling Hang sighed. “I wanted a daughter too initially. But just thinking about the possibility of some brat taking her away one day makes me think a son is better. At least with a son, you don’t have to worry about that.”
Yue Mingyuan shot Ling Hang a glance. “Whether a daughter gets bullied depends on whether her family will back her up. If her family has her back, who would dare bully my daughter!”
“When Ya Ya is a bit older, I’ll teach her martial arts for self-defense. Even when I’m not around, she can protect herself.”
He’d thought of this since Ya Ya was born. In the future, Ya Ya won’t marry out; she’ll have a husband move in. He absolutely will not let his daughter suffer the slightest grievance. Not even the Emperor of Heaven himself would be allowed!
“You, don’t overthink it. If you and Sister Jiawen have a child, with Sister Jiawen’s personality, any daughter she raises definitely won’t be one to suffer losses.”
Ling Hang thought about it, and it was true.
Ye Jiawen’s temperament was something even his own father praised endlessly.
And with Yue Mingyuan’s example right here, if he didn’t know how, he could just copy. They’d been like that since childhood—following Yue Mingyuan was never wrong.
“They’re here!”
The aura around Yue Mingyuan suddenly shifted. He was like an unsheathed sword, his entire being radiating a sharp, formidable energy.
Ling Hang also shed his easygoing manner, his handsome face now etched with cold severity.
When half of the drug trafficking squad entered the encirclement, they launched a fierce attack.
Seeing some traffickers trying to flee, Yue Mingyuan pursued alone.
Since they dared to set foot on our nation’s soil to commit such heinous acts, they shouldn’t expect to leave alive!
Yue Mingyuan’s marksmanship was a combination of natural talent and relentless effort. He’d been deadly accurate with a slingshot since childhood. After joining the army, in any shooting competition he entered, others could forget about first place.
