Li Yanfeng’s brows and eyes were sharp and cold, and there was an inexplicable sense of pressure whenever he looked at someone.
Lu Xinran met his gaze for two seconds before quickly lowering her eyes.
She said, “I heard Lu Manling say that you were injured while carrying out a mission before, and that your injuries were quite serious. I wanted to ask if that was true.”
As for the rumors that he was impotent, she didn’t bring them up. It would have been rather presumptuous.
Li Yanfeng frowned slightly when he saw the concern in her eyes.
“If you already know I was seriously injured, why did you still come?” Instead of answering, he asked her a question.
A delicate young woman had come all the way from Shanghai alone. She certainly had some courage and wasn’t even afraid of being kidnapped and sold.
“My… my mother is a medical professor. I learned nursing from her. If you were injured, I could take care of you.”
“I won’t marry you for nothing!” Lu Xinran said firmly, looking as though she was ready to face death without flinching.
Li Yanfeng looked at her exquisite, beautiful face and the seriousness in her expression. She was obviously a little frightened, yet she had still bravely said it.
He lowered his eyes, the corners of his lips curling slightly.
“I was indeed injured, but it was only a superficial injury. You came too late. It has already healed.”
“Uh—”
“What? You seem disappointed?”
“Absolutely not! It’s better that you weren’t injured!” she hurriedly explained, a faint blush appearing on her pale face.
Li Yanfeng could tell that she was still wary of him. He had no intention of making things difficult for a young woman.
“Anything else?”
This time, Lu Xinran shook her head. She had already cleared up the doubt in her mind.
Li Yanfeng really did leave.
When Lu Xinran heard the door click shut, she immediately collapsed onto the bed.
She stared blankly at the ceiling.
Everything felt like a dream.
She had originally thought she would have to spend quite some time persuading him. After all, men usually cared deeply about their careers and futures.
She never expected him to agree so readily—
After lying there for a while, she got up and walked toward the bathroom.
It was time to enter her space and rest for a while.
She was exhausted and hungry, and she felt as though she had blisters forming on the soles of her feet.
She washed her face and drank some spiritual spring water.
By now, she already knew that time inside the space passed at a ratio of two to one compared with the outside world.
In other words, half an hour inside the space was equivalent to one hour outside.
The fruit trees, vegetables, and various crops she had planted earlier had already grown very well.
Only then did she discover that irrigating them with spiritual spring water could accelerate the growth of plants and crops.
Controlling everything in the space had also become much simpler and more convenient.
There was a control panel inside that allowed her to accomplish almost anything with a single click.
One-click cleaning, one-click cooking, one-click slaughtering—there were all kinds of functions. As long as she could think of it, there was almost nothing she couldn’t do.
Lu Xinran inspected everything once before taking a shower.
When she heard some movement outside the door, she immediately left the space.
She had originally wanted to eat a proper meal, but she could only eat two candies first to tide herself over. Otherwise, if her low blood sugar acted up, it would be troublesome.
She had only eaten two steamed buns that morning and had somehow held out until now.
It turned out to be Li Yanfeng returning.
He had brought a key, and there was also a plastic bag in his hand.
“Come over and eat.”
Seeing that she had already changed clothes and let her hair down, making her look even more gentle and beautiful, Lu Xinran stared at him in surprise.
She hadn’t expected that he had actually gone out to buy food for her.
She quickly grabbed a hair tie and tied her hair up.
Li Yanfeng moved the cabinet beside the bed aside and took the things out of the bag.
There were four cornmeal buns, an aluminum lunchbox, and a metal water flask.
Inside the aluminum lunchbox were two dishes: stir-fried shepherd’s purse with minced meat and amaranth. There wasn’t much oil in either dish.
Seeing her stare at the food for a long time, Li Yanfeng assumed she probably wasn’t used to eating it.
After all, she was a capitalist’s daughter from Shanghai who had lived overseas for years. Her standard of living must have been quite high.
Just as he was about to say something to reassure her, she had already picked up a cornmeal bun and her chopsticks. Lowering her head, she silently began eating.
She didn’t show the slightest sign of disgust.
After eating for a while, she finally asked, “Have you eaten?”
It was already noon, right around lunchtime.
“No. I’m not hungry yet. You eat first.”
“There isn’t much food in the guesthouse cafeteria. Just make do with this for now. I’ll bring you something from the army cafeteria tonight.” He eventually said it anyway.
“But I can’t finish all of this.” Lu Xinran normally didn’t have much of an appetite.
One cornmeal bun was enough to fill her up.
“Eat first. Eat as much as you can.”
“Okay.”
Lu Xinran continued eating.
People in this era might not have been fond of wild greens, but to someone from the future like her, they were practically a treasure.
They actually weren’t that difficult to swallow.
After eating one cornmeal bun and some of the greens, she put down her chopsticks, picked up her own cup, and drank some water. Then she took out a handkerchief and wiped her mouth.
Everything about her was exceptionally refined.
“Are you full?”
“Mhm.” Lu Xinran nodded.
Li Yanfeng’s thick brows furrowed slightly.
Her appetite wasn’t even as big as the cat back home.
No wonder she looked so delicate.
It was also possible that the food simply wasn’t to her liking.
He had been worried that she wouldn’t have enough to eat, so he had deliberately brought two extra cornmeal buns.
In the end, he ate the remaining three buns and all the vegetables himself.
The speed left Lu Xinran dumbfounded.
In less than ten minutes, he had completely devoured everything.
Afterward, he cleaned everything up and moved the table back to its original place.
He wiped his mouth with his hand, then stood up and reminded her, “Rest well at the guesthouse this afternoon. Get some sleep.”
“I’ll probably come over around six. Don’t go wandering around unless you have to.”
“Oh, got it—”
After making sure she understood everything, Li Yanfeng left.
Lu Xinran thought to herself that he should really be gone this time.
Li Yanfeng hurried straight back to the military camp.
Once he returned to his office, he filled out the marriage application.
Half an hour later, he took the marriage application, the application for his fiancée to join him at his post, and the housing application to the office of the military division commander.
“What did you just say? You’re getting married? Who are you marrying? Is there really a woman willing to marry you?” Commander Liang was stunned.
Li Yanfeng’s marriage had always been a major headache for him.
Every girl who saw his intimidating face would run away, and he was hopelessly clueless when it came to romance.
“My fiancée. She came today and is staying at the guesthouse.”
“The one your family arranged for you back home? Didn’t that fall through?”
There had been some news about it a few years ago, and they had thought he was about to get married. But afterward, there had been no news.
He hadn’t heard Li Yanfeng mention it in years.
“No. But there is a connection. They’re from the same family.”
“You’re saying the girl came looking for you herself?” Commander Liang frowned, his face full of disbelief.
“She came alone, carrying a large suitcase.”
How could such a thing happen?
“Then what’s her background?”
Li Yanfeng took out the documents Lu Xinran had given him, along with her letter of introduction.
The letter of introduction was indeed in Lu Xinran’s name.
Commander Liang looked through her documents and immediately felt a headache coming on.
After a long pause, he finally said, “Yanfeng, I don’t recommend that you marry her—”