Chapter 2

She arrived at the ward.

It was around four in the afternoon.

Zhu Suisui finally broke her fever.

Looking at Zhu Suisui lying peacefully on the hospital bed, sleeping soundly.

The coldness in Lu Lanxu’s eyes melted away, leaving only an unyielding tenderness.

He leaned down slightly, lowering his head.

Gently kissing her smooth, full forehead.

After completing the procedures,

Lu Lanxu took off his military overcoat and draped it over Zhu Suisui, wrapping her in his arms.

She was light.

He furrowed his brow slightly, wrapping her tightly in his coat before striding out.

By the time they reached home, it was already six in the morning.

Zhu Suisui was carried to the bed in the room.

Seeing that she was still unconscious, Lu Lanxu didn’t try to wake her. He tucked the blanket around her and heard noises coming from outside, so he went out.

He walked to the front gate of the courtyard, opened it, and found his orderly, Xiao Pan, standing there.

Seeing Lu Lanxu, Xiao Pan saluted.

“Commissioner Lu.”

Lu Lanxu nodded to him.

At this moment, Lu’s parents, who lived directly across from them, also came out of the house.

Lu’s mother saw Lu Lanxu and couldn’t help but worry, “What happened? Why did you go out in the middle of the night and only come back now?”

Lu Lanxu explained.

“Sui Sui had a high fever.”

Hearing it was Zhu Suisui, Lu’s mother furrowed her brow slightly but didn’t say anything else.

Lu’s father, on the other hand, asked with concern, “How is she now? Is she feeling better?”

Lu Lanxu nodded, “Her fever has subsided, but the doctor said she needs to rest well.”

“That’s good. Otherwise, your grandfather would be worried.” Lu’s father replied.

Lu Lanxu didn’t continue the topic.

He looked at Xiao Pan, “What happened?”

Otherwise, Xiao Pan wouldn’t have come over for no reason so early in the morning.

Seeing this,

Xiao Pan glanced at Lu’s parents, looking hesitant.

It was inconvenient to talk about certain things in front of Lu’s parents.

Lu Lanxu naturally understood.

He said, “Let’s talk in the front hall.”

After his son left,

Lu’s mother finally couldn’t help but complain, “If it wasn’t for the old man, how would Lanxu have married her? There are so many people in our Lu family, why did she have to set her sights on our Lanxu?”

Thinking about it made Lu’s mother heartbroken.

After all,

Lu Lanxu was the most outstanding member of the Lu family’s generation, with a promising future. Everyone knew that he would eventually become the head of the Lu family.

But such a perfect being, had actually married a rural woman!

If it was just a difference in family background and status, that would be fine.

Lu’s mother wasn’t someone who cared about family background. As long as the person had good character, it wouldn’t matter.

But the problem was,

Zhu Suisui was a premature baby, her body was weak, and she often had to go to the hospital. What kind of family would want such a daughter-in-law?

Seeing Lu’s mother say this, Lu’s father reprimanded her.

“Your daughter-in-law has been in the house for a year, why are you still saying these things? The debt that the old man owes is a debt owed by our entire Lu family. As a member of the Lu family, Lanxu is fulfilling his duty by repaying this debt.”

Lu’s mother sneered back, “What do you mean, your son Lu Taining can only be born by you? I don’t have the Lu surname, why should my son suffer this way!”

The two of them were at odds, and their morning started with a stomach full of anger.

…

Zhu Suisui slept very soundly.

It wasn’t until the sunlight shone in and made her uncomfortable even with her eyes closed that she instinctively reached out to block it, but she felt her hands were weak and her legs were like they weren’t her own.

How could this be?

Zhu Suisui furrowed her brow.

But before she could figure out the state of her body, when she opened her eyes and saw the surrounding environment, she was stunned.

The room was not small.

It was about thirty to forty square meters. She was sleeping on a large kang bed, with thick, soft sheets and a silk quilt embroidered with mandarin ducks on top.

Because the kang had been heated, the entire room was warm.

She dazedly lifted the quilt and got out of bed, looking at everything in front of her, feeling unreal. It was a clean and cozy little room, with a happy character pasted on the window, but it must have been a while, the red color had faded.

A red double-happiness washbasin was placed on a wooden rack, and there was a wardrobe and a dressing table with happy characters pasted on them.

It was full of a sense of time.

Actually, Zhu Suisui didn’t need to look, she was familiar with every inch of this place.

But it was precisely because of this familiarity that Zhu Suisui felt shocked.

At this moment, as if she had thought of something,

Zhu Suisui immediately looked towards the top of the kang, where a calendar was hanging, clearly showing –

December 22nd, 1980.

“1980…”

Zhu Suisui clenched her fingers, and long-forgotten memories flooded back like a tide.

She married Lu Lanxu in 1979.

The Zhu family had a debt of gratitude to the Lu family.

At that time, her grandfather had just gotten married and then joined the army, becoming Lu’s old man’s orderly. The two of them had a good relationship.

Later, in a cruel war, he died to protect Lu’s old man.

He died without a whole body.

Even now, only a cenotaph stands on his grave, because his remains were never found. Even if they were found, it would be impossible to know who they belonged to, because there were simply too many people who died that time.

At that time, Zhu’s grandmother was pregnant with Zhu Suisui’s father when she received the news of her husband’s death.

Zhu’s grandmother was heartbroken and almost miscarried.

If it wasn’t for the sake of leaving a single descendant for the Zhu family, she might have followed him.

After Zhu’s grandmother gave birth to her child, the times were still turbulent, and the mother and son were forced to flee, finally settling down in a rural village. When her father was eighteen years old, he married Zhu Suisui’s mother through an introduction from a fellow villager.

Zhu Suisui’s mother was also a poor soul, her own parents were unknown, and girls were unwanted in those times, so it was highly likely that she was abandoned. Later, she was adopted by a childless family in Xujiacun.

After adopting her mother, the adoptive mother’s womb was blessed, and she gave birth to one child after another. Zhu Suisui’s mother became the eldest sister, taking care of her younger siblings.

Even though she was beautiful, her circumstances meant that no one wanted to marry her.

At that time, the Zhu family had few laborers, and it was just a mother and son, with no brothers or sisters, and they were outsiders.

Under such conditions, it was already good enough to have someone willing to marry her. So, they were quickly married.

The next year, they had a son, Zhu Lesheng. The year after, they had a second son, Zhu Lechen. Then, she was born.

When she was seventeen years old,

Lu’s old man finally found them. Seeing how poor the Zhu family was, he wanted to help them and proposed marriage to Zhu’s grandmother.

The Lu family was a prestigious and influential family in the capital.

Even for an engagement, they weren’t very willing to let their daughter marry into the Zhu family.

Of course, if the Zhu family had proposed, Lu’s old man would have agreed.

But the Zhu family knew their place. They couldn’t afford such a precious family. If they did that, their favor would turn into resentment.

It was better to marry their youngest daughter.

After this decision was made,

Lu’s old man made the final call.

He told Zhu Suisui to choose whoever she liked from the Lu family. As long as she agreed, she could marry whoever she wanted.

It was that year that she met Lu Lanxu, who was like a gentle breeze, a jade-like flower, like a lofty mountain.

From that moment on, she was smitten.