The 1688th Regiment medical office.
A group of enthusiastic little nurses gathered at the entrance, waving warmly at Qin Zhan and Gu Panpan, looking as if they were just one step away from shouting, “Welcome to visit again!”
Gu Panpan supported her “delicate and fragile” husband while waving back at the enthusiastic nurses with her other hand, quickly walking out of the medical office.
She carried the disinfectant solution and gauze that Qin Zhan would need for the next week, grinding her teeth in frustration as she mentally ranted, wishing she could strap on Nezha’s Wind Fire Wheels and escape immediately, leaving that damn man behind in this “Spider Cave.”
Once they turned the corner and confirmed the nurses could no longer see them, Gu Panpan yanked her hand away as if it were some kind of plague, quickly jumping two meters away from him.
Qin Zhan was not angered by her reaction at all. Instead, he looked at her lively expression with a faint smile.
“Qin Zhan, what do you mean by that? Who said I’m jealous? If you want someone to do your wound care, go find them yourself, hmph!”
Gu Panpan shoved all the disinfectant and gauze into his arms and stormed off toward the residential compound without looking back.
She didn’t like this awkward version of herself, but every time she saw that man’s smiling face, she would think of that female doctor and those little nurses, and an inexplicable irritation would rise in her chest.
Qin Zhan took his long strides and quickly caught up to her, grinning shamelessly.
“Wife, what’s wrong? Are you really angry?”
Who was he calling wife? If the original owner were here, would he still call her that too?
Thinking of this, Gu Panpan felt her mind turn into a tangled mess. She had taken over someone else’s body, yet she was getting jealous like this. Was she losing her mind?
Seeing her reaction, Qin Zhan quickly explained, worried she had misunderstood.
“Panpan, I really have nothing going on with Doctor Xiao, you don’t need to be angry.”
Gu Panpan shot him a glare and snorted.
“Don’t flatter yourself. I’m not angry at all.”
Qin Zhan smiled without arguing, slipping one hand into his pocket as he walked beside her at an easy pace.
“Alright, it’s my misunderstanding. But just now, you really did look like you cared.”
“What do you mean I looked like I cared?”
Gu Panpan frowned, staring at him warily. Was he about to bring up that “Brother Zhan” nonsense again? She already regretted it deeply.
“Like when you called me Brother Zhan and got so guarded around Doctor Xiao, anyone would think you actually cared about me…”
Qin Zhan looked wronged, like a little wife who had been teased and then abandoned.
Gu Panpan’s face instantly turned red.
“What nonsense are you talking about? I just couldn’t stand that woman trying to seduce a married man. Stop putting gold on your own face.”
“Oh, a married man?”
Qin Zhan repeated her words, his eyes brightening.
So she had acknowledged his identity.
Seeing her flustered reaction, he found it even more adorable and stopped teasing her. The two continued walking side by side.
…
Residential compound.
“I heard that Deputy Battalion Commander Qin’s wife came to live here last night, she’s staying in that courtyard.”
Military wife A leaned in mysteriously toward military wife B.
“Exactly, and she’s quite pretty. Today she even went to the medical office and slapped Doctor Xiao’s face, the little nurses were all shocked.”
Military wife C, who helped clean at the medical office, had just gotten off work and rushed over to share the explosive gossip.
“She only just arrived last night, why was she already at the medical office so early this morning?”
Military wife B looked puzzled.
“Let me tell you…” Military wife C paused, looking around carefully, “It’s because the young couple was too wild last night. I even heard it myself, oh my heavens, it was so embarrassing.”
She even covered her face shyly as she spoke.
“You weren’t even living next door, how could you hear it?”
Military wife A narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
Military wife C quickly waved her hands.
“I heard it at the medical office. It was Deputy Battalion Commander Qin’s wife who said it herself, something like ‘last night I said no, and you still insisted…’”
“I’m going crazy, this is spicy.”
Military wife A’s eyes lit up.
“Young couples really know how to play, that’s too shameless!”
Military wife B, currently dissatisfied in her own marriage, was green with envy.
Just as Gu Panpan turned the corner toward her courtyard, she heard the entire conversation.
The two sides were perfectly in each other’s blind spots, and she was forced to listen to the entire gossip, unable to advance or retreat.
She silently applauded the military wives in her heart. Their information network was terrifyingly efficient.
She just hoped Qin Zhan hadn’t heard it. Clearly, that was wishful thinking.
Qin Zhan tried to stay calm, but his reddened ears betrayed him.
He glanced at Gu Panpan, and their eyes met.
Her cheeks flushed instantly, and she shot him a resentful glare. It was all because of his ridiculous “romantic entanglements” that she had ever opened her mouth carelessly.
Now she was thoroughly embarrassed.
“So… should we go home now? Or take a walk?”
Gu Panpan asked carefully, pretending she was merely respecting his opinion.
“Let’s take a walk,” Qin Zhan said, scratching his nose awkwardly.
Going home now would only make her even more embarrassed in front of the wives, and then she would be angry at him again.
Just as they agreed and were about to turn away from the residential area—
A loud voice suddenly rang out.
“Qin Zhan, sister-in-law, what a coincidence! Aren’t you going home? Why are you stopping at the door?”
Brother Dazhu, no, Lu Tian grinned widely, greeting the couple who were supposedly “playing wildly.”
“…”
The military wives exchanged shocked glances, then calmly swayed away toward their homes.
Military wife C, still unwilling to give up, looked back one last time. When her eyes met the stunned expressions of the couple, she immediately closed her eyes and pretended she saw nothing, staggering away.
“…”