“Don’t be shy—we’re all military wives here,” the woman said with a warm smile.
“Even if you do end up marrying Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou, you’ll still be living here on the island with us. Let me check your pulse—if something’s wrong, it’s better to catch it early.”
As she spoke, people around them started looking at Liu Wanwan with strange expressions.
Zhou Heshan felt a headache coming on.
He had no idea how things had escalated this badly.
If he had known, he wouldn’t have confronted Liu Qingyue so directly.
He should’ve waited, finished training, and talked to her calmly.
What was he thinking?
He was never like this before.
“Wanwan, just let her check your pulse,” Liu Qingyue said as she stepped closer.
“If this really turns out to be my fault, I’ll apologize again.”
But Liu Wanwan kept shaking her head, backing away.
Liu Qingyue immediately noticed her guilt and smirked to herself.
“You won’t let her check you… is it because you’re actually pregnant?”
“No—no, I’m not!”
Earlier, Liu Wanwan had been so confident.
Now, she looked panicked—sweat dripping down her face and soaking her clothes.
“I… I’m really fine. There’s no need to check. It would just trouble her…” she stammered.
But the military wife had no intention of letting this go.
After watching everything, she was certain something was wrong—and decided to help Liu Qingyue.
With a friendly smile, she stepped forward again.
Before Liu Wanwan could react, she grabbed her wrist and placed two fingers on it.
A moment later, her expression changed completely.
Shock filled her face.
“Did I read that wrong?”
She looked at Liu Wanwan, then spoke clearly:
“You’re the younger sister of his fiancée. He just said he wants to marry you instead… which means you’re still unmarried.”
“But from your pulse… you’re already pregnant. And it’s been over a month.”
The moment she said it, everyone was stunned.
Especially the soldiers who had been confused earlier—now everything made sense.
Even though this was the 1980s and people were starting to accept freer relationships…
An unmarried pregnancy was still a huge scandal.
And worse—
This was a sister and her future brother-in-law.
If this got out, it would be humiliating beyond words.
Everyone immediately connected the dots.
Liu Wanwan must have wanted to marry Zhou Heshan so badly that she pushed her own sister into the lake to take her place.
People began whispering.
“How scheming…”
“To go that far just to marry him…”
Under all the stares and whispers, Liu Wanwan finally broke down in tears.
She felt completely humiliated.
Even if she stayed on the island and married Zhou Heshan, people would always talk behind her back.
Her eyes shifted quickly as she thought of a way out.
Then she suddenly looked at Liu Qingyue, putting on an innocent, pitiful expression.
Tears streamed down her face as she cried out:
“So you already knew all along, didn’t you?”
“You just wanted everyone to find out—you wanted to humiliate me on purpose!”
Then she shouted dramatically:
“If that’s the case… I might as well just die!”
Liu Wanwan clenched her fists and tried to run toward the same spot Liu Qingyue had rushed to earlier, as if she was going to harm herself.
Zhou Heshan quickly grabbed her and pulled her into his arms, gently comforting her.
After a few soft words, he turned and glared at Liu Qingyue.
“You’re so heartless! That’s your own sister. You just stood there—were you really going to watch her die?”
“Ha!”
Liu Qingyue almost laughed from anger.
Was she blind in her past life?
How did she ever fall for a man like Zhou Heshan?
And even after marrying someone else back then, she still couldn’t let him go?
This kind of man…
She wouldn’t want him even if it killed her.
Thinking this, Liu Qingyue suddenly raised her hand—
Smack!
She slapped Zhou Heshan across the face.
Then she sneered.
“And you still have the nerve to call her my sister?”
“She’s my sister—and you still went after her? You’re still engaged to me, and yet you got involved with her… and even got her pregnant!”
She stepped back, looking at the two of them with disgust.
“You’re both in the wrong. The only one who’s not wrong here… is me.”
As soon as she said that, the surrounding soldiers and military wives silently agreed.
They all understood now.
It was clearly the younger sister and her future brother-in-law who got involved.
What did Liu Qingyue do wrong?
At first, people had doubts when she accused them.
But now the truth was obvious.
Not only were they involved—
There was already a child.
“Over a month…” Liu Qingyue calculated aloud.
“That means it started about a month and a half, maybe two months ago—when you went home to visit, right?”
“I remember that trip. You were only home for five days. I only saw you twice.”
The first time, she went to see him, but he barely stayed for more than a few minutes before saying he was busy and leaving.
The second time was when he was about to leave again. She even went to send him off, bringing him all kinds of things—winter clothes, shoes, supplies…
Back then, he wasn’t doing well financially.
Everything she gave him was saved through her own sacrifices.
And in the end… it all went to waste.
The more she thought about it, the more regret she felt.
“So those few days,” she continued with a mocking smile,
“you barely spent time with your own family… and instead spent it all fooling around with my sister, didn’t you?”
“Well done, Zhou Heshan. Really impressive.”
“Enough!” Zhou Heshan snapped, his fists clenched.
In his eyes, Liu Qingyue had always been boring and dull.
So what was wrong with him choosing Liu Wanwan instead?
They had spent time together during that visit…
And things just happened naturally.
Seeing his anger, Liu Qingyue only found it more ridiculous.
She shrugged.
“What did I say that’s wrong?”
“Am I lying?”
Zhou Heshan was furious.
He never expected Liu Qingyue to go this far—she had even slapped him.
“You two messed around—and now I’m not allowed to say it out loud?” Liu Qingyue fired back.
“Fine, you got together—that’s your business. But why didn’t you break off the engagement first?”
“Instead, you humiliated me in front of everyone!”
“If I hadn’t spoken up today, wouldn’t everyone think I was the one who was unfaithful?”
She unleashed everything in one breath.
And this time—
No one could argue with her.