Lin Wan ran like the wind, sprinting into the streets. Once she reached a crowded area, she strode straight toward the police station.
This time, she was going to report it!
Report Guo Xuyang for indecent behavior!
Report Jin Cuicui for attempted sexual assault on a male comrade!
She was going to let the police clear her name!
Damn ungrateful wolf!
Go to hell!
“System, immediately, right now—I want all of Guo Xuyang’s information!”
“And his entire family’s social connections!”
Even in a rage, Lin Wan didn’t lose her rationality. She called out to the system for help.
The zombie-faced system little figure popped up, and a prompt appeared:
[Do you agree to deduct 100 points to view all of Guo Xuyang’s social relations?]
Without thinking, Lin Wan agreed.
Only after the deduction did she realize the damn system had overcharged her by 50 points. When she checked Liang Qianjin before, it only cost 50 points.
Now her hard-earned points were nearly wiped out!
The system really knew how to pour oil on the fire.
She angrily questioned it, her mental voice cracking:
“You’re robbing me in broad daylight?!”
The expressionless system replied coldly:
[Guo Xuyang is the male lead. Information retrieval costs double.]
Lin Wan: “……”
Fine.
She accepted it.
She immediately checked the information provided by the system, focusing on the Huacheng section.
One look—and she almost flipped the table.
That bastard’s uncle-in-law was the director of the Revolutionary Committee.
His maternal uncle was the captain of the criminal investigation team.
He even had a cousin and another cousin in the public security brigade…
A bucket of cold water poured straight over her head.
She was instantly sober.
If these people didn’t follow rules and instead protected Guo Xuyang, then reporting him would only backfire on her.
She would be completely finished.
Struggle session, reeducation, everything in one package!
Lin Wan turned at the entrance of the police station and got on a bus to the civil affairs bureau instead.
She was going to call for backup!
Meanwhile, Guo Xuyang, who had been following her, saw her rush to the police station. His heart tightened as he prepared to stop her.
But she didn’t go in.
Heh.
That despicable woman was indeed acting!
She had a guilty conscience and didn’t dare to report anything!
He never should have believed a single word she said.
With a dark expression, he turned and left. He no longer needed to follow her.
His precious time should not be wasted on this woman!
He needed to immediately take Zhang Qin away for military relocation. Once they left Huacheng, Lin Wan would no longer be able to cause trouble.
On the crowded bus, Lin Wan was holding back a burning rage in her chest.
She absolutely could not swallow this!
Endure one moment and you get mastitis; take one step back and you get ovarian cysts!
At the entrance of the civil affairs bureau.
Huo Xiao had already checked his watch for the third time. Lin Wan was half an hour late.
He kept glancing toward the bus stop. One bus after another arrived, but none of the passengers included her.
Had she changed her mind?
He rubbed his brow slightly.
He should have gone to pick her up.
“Sorry!”
“I’m late. I didn’t mean to—”
The moment he saw her, Huo Xiao’s eyes narrowed sharply.
“What happened to your face?”
His gaze landed on the slight abrasion on her cheek, instantly turning cold and sharp.
“I’m fine!”
“I just accidentally fell on the way!”
Lin Wan waved her hands in panic, deliberately avoiding his gaze, revealing a faint bruise on her wrist.
At a time like this, if she didn’t play the victim card, when would she?
If she couldn’t beat them herself, she had to call for reinforcements.
But first—she had to get the marriage certificate!
Once she had it, she would be a military spouse!
And whoever dared to bully her would be bullying a military spouse—disrupting civil-military unity!
Those were two extremely heavy accusations—ordinary people couldn’t easily bear them.
Most importantly, Huo Xiao’s military rank firmly suppressed Guo Xuyang’s.
“We’ll get the marriage certificate first. I won’t waste your time.”
The darkness in Huo Xiao’s ink-black phoenix eyes faded as he turned and strode toward the civil affairs office.
The oppressive gaze on her disappeared, and Lin Wan let out a breath of relief, quickly jogging after him.
Because military personnel had priority, they didn’t need to queue. With all paperwork complete, the marriage certificate was processed very quickly.
When the clerk slammed the steel seal down, Lin Wan’s heart jumped twice.
From this moment on, she was a married woman.
It felt strangely unreal.
Two certificate-like marriage documents were issued, but before she could even take a proper look, Huo Xiao had already put them away.
“I’ll keep the marriage certificate.”
Lin Wan understood.
He was probably afraid that when the three-year agreement ended, she would hide the certificate and delay the divorce.
Since he had been forced into this marriage in the first place, she didn’t bother arguing over such trivial matters.
“Um… if you have things to do, you can go ahead. I won’t hold you up,” she said awkwardly after leaving the civil affairs office.
She deliberately tilted her injured cheek toward him and lifted a hand to tuck her hair behind her ear.
Huo Xiao opened the passenger door. “Get in.”
“No need, really,” Lin Wan quickly waved her hands. “I won’t delay you—I’ll just take the bus.”
Her pale wrist was exposed, a bruise cutting across it in a shocking contrast.
“Comrade Lin Wan, get in the car.”
His voice came again.
Locked under his dark, unreadable eyes, she instinctively fell silent and obediently complied.
After a long pause, Huo Xiao finally spoke.
“Comrade Lin Wan, we are already husband and wife. You must tell me the truth.”
“I hope you understand what it means to be a married couple.”
“Lin Wan, I am your legal husband.”
“If someone bullies you, you must tell me.”
“Unless… you look down on me and think I’m not a real man—someone who can’t even protect his own wife.”
Lin Wan thought to herself that although this man looked cold as ice, he actually had a strong sense of responsibility.
She just didn’t know whether a “legal husband” came with sleeping privileges.
Stop.
No dirty thoughts. That would ruin her performance.
She forced out a stiff smile. “Really… I just accidentally fell.”
After speaking, she began thinking of sad things to build up tears.
Once ready, she lifted her eyes to meet his gaze. Her eyes were already red, misty with moisture, and tears began falling one by one.
They hit his heart like stones.
“But we’re not really husband and wife.”
“I was afraid I would cause you trouble.”
“And I was also afraid you wouldn’t help me!”
“In your eyes… I probably have negative points. I was afraid you wouldn’t believe me!”
Her voice broke into soft sobs.
As she cried, her real emotions surged up uncontrollably, and the quiet sobbing turned into loud, choking wails.
Waaah…
She had originally planned to cry like the delicate, beautiful heroines in TV dramas—soft, pitiful, and elegant.
But now she couldn’t control it at all.
Transmigrating into the 1960s was already terrifying enough, and she had also run into all kinds of mentally unstable people.
Only she knew how frightened she had been when Guo Xuyang dragged her into that alley.
She didn’t even dare use her electric baton, because he was a military officer—not some petty thug she could easily fool. She couldn’t explain where it came from.
She wanted to resist, to beat him up—but in the end, the only one who got hurt was herself.
Lin Wan cried until she started hiccuping.
A clean white handkerchief appeared in front of her eyes, and a faint sigh sounded beside her ear.
His cold voice carried a hint of helplessness.
“Comrade Lin Wan, our marriage certificate is real.”
“It is legally protected.”
“Stop crying.”
“Tell me—who bullied you?”
He had seen her sharp, unyielding side before. She was someone strong-willed—she wouldn’t cry like this unless she had truly been pushed to her limit.
The person who bullied her must not be ordinary. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be hiding it like this.
Thinking of the current political climate, could it be…
Huo Xiao’s expression suddenly darkened.