Chapter 14

The car window was open, the spring-turning-to-summer wind carried the scent of flowers, and a butterfly, unafraid of humans, flew into the car with the breeze, landing on a wild rose petal, gently flapping its colorful wings.

Sheng Tunan sat in the driver’s seat, the long sleeves of his white shirt rolled up, revealing arms with smooth muscle lines, full of strength.

“Are you really so unwilling to marry me?” Sheng Tunan tapped the steering wheel, his voice tinged with a hint of grievance.

“No, no, it’s not that I’m rejecting you, I’m really sick!” Zhan Xinyue hurriedly waved her hands.

The rose was in Zhan Xinyue’s hand, and as she waved it, the butterfly on it was startled and wanted to fly out. In its panic, it bumped into the glass in front, dizzy for a while before finally finding its way out, flying along the car window into the embrace of nature.

“What kind of sickness?” Sheng Tunan asked.

Zhan Xinyue lowered her head, burying her flushed face in the rose, stammering for a long time without giving an answer.

Another silence ensued…

After a long time, Sheng Tunan seemed to have thought of something, turning to look at Zhan Xinyue, his gaze sincere, “Is it infertility? I don’t mind, I don’t like children. I just want to be with you for the rest of my life. No other conditions, as long as it’s you. Of course, if you like children, we can adopt one. I’ll look for one among the children of my fallen comrades. Children like that inherit the good genes of their parents, and they won’t go bad in the future.”

Zhan Xinyue looked up, hurriedly explaining, “It’s not that, I don’t know if I can have children.”

After all, she hadn’t tried in her previous life.

“I don’t want to raise someone else’s child either.”

“Then what kind of sickness is it?” Sheng Tunan pressed on, leaning slightly towards the passenger seat.

Sheng Tunan’s aura was very strong, especially the faint scar from a shrapnel injury on his brow, the kind you could only see up close. Now, the distance between them was less than ten centimeters, the pressure was immense.

Zhan Xinyue blurted out the truth, “I’m allergic to saliva, I can’t, I can’t have marital relations.”

In her previous life, after marrying Li Jian, Liu Ru Yan always instigated Jin Yan and Shen Xing to sabotage them, preventing them from consummating their marriage. Later, Zhan Xinyue’s business grew, and she had many excellent suitors outside. Liu Ru Yan was afraid that Zhan Xinyue would divorce, so she asked Li Jian to consummate their marriage with her, hoping to have a child to tie her down.

Li Jian listened to his child bride, and that night, he slept in the same room with Zhan Xinyue. However, before they could even take off their clothes, they just held hands and kissed twice, and then something happened.

Less than two seconds after Li Jian’s mouth touched Zhan Xinyue’s hand, Zhan Xinyue felt like she had been poisoned. Her face turned purple, she vomited uncontrollably, her breathing became labored, and she was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment before she could be saved. Later, after examination, it was found that Zhan Xinyue was allergic to other people’s saliva.

Actually, you don’t have to use your mouth to do it. You can still complete the process of procreation without kissing. But after that incident, Zhan Xinyue had a conditioned reflex. Whenever Li Jian was within a meter of her, she would feel like vomiting.

Zhan Xinyue had no feelings for Li Jian to begin with. Besides, that kind of thing is something you only know the taste of after you’ve done it. Zhan Xinyue was a blank sheet of paper, she didn’t have that kind of need, so not having marital relations was just fine, it was peaceful.

Moreover, Zhan Xinyue genuinely treated Jin Yan and Shen Xing as her own sons, and she didn’t have an obsession with having a biological child.

“It’s true. I’m not lying to you. If you don’t believe me, just try kissing me. I’m really allergic to saliva.” Zhan Xinyue looked at Sheng Tunan’s unpredictable expression, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable, and stretched out her hand, which was rough from years of labor.

She dared to stretch it out because she thought that Sheng Tunan, as a battalion commander, wouldn’t really kiss her.

But in the next second, a pair of large hands grabbed her small hand and held it in front of him. Seeing the calluses on it, he said with heartache, “After you marry me, you won’t have to work.”

Zhan Xinyue, “I really am allergic to saliva. I can’t get married. Commander Sheng, if you marry me, wouldn’t you have to be a monk for life?”

Sheng Tunan didn’t let go, “I’d be happy to be a monk.”

He didn’t know what he was thinking, but a look of surprise appeared on his face.

He loved Zhan Xinyue, he didn’t care that she had been married to Li Jian in her previous life. He didn’t have any so-called “issues” about that, but now he knew that Zhan Xinyue hadn’t consummated her marriage with Li Jian in her previous life because of her saliva allergy, and Sheng Tunan was happy about it.

The reason was simple. In his heart, Zhan Xinyue was a moon in the sky, pure and noble, not something that a mediocre man like Li Jian could defile!

“Actually, I came back this time just to stop you from marrying Li Jian. I’ll find a way to get you to go to school. The college entrance exam will be restored in the second half of this year. You’re smart and studious, you’ll definitely be able to get into a good university in a few years, and you’ll have a bright future.”

Zhan Xinyue’s hand was sweating from being held. Sheng Tunan took out a white handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat off her hand, as if she were a priceless treasure.

After wiping her hand, perhaps fearing that Zhan Xinyue would be uncomfortable, Sheng Tunan didn’t hold it anymore. He turned his head to look ahead, his hand casually resting on the steering wheel as he continued, “But when I rushed back, I saw a scene that was different from my previous life. I knew that you were reborn with me. From that moment on, I thought, no matter what, I have to marry you, I have to keep you by my side. To protect you all the time.”

When he heard about the college entrance exam being restored in the second half of the year, Zhan Xinyue was certain that Sheng Tunan was also reborn. Therefore, when he said that he was reborn, Zhan Xinyue wasn’t surprised, she just asked, “Why?”

Why did he want to get married after knowing she was reborn?

She didn’t say it out loud, but Sheng Tunan understood. He replied, “If you weren’t reborn, then Zhan Xinyue would just be the Zhan Xinyue of this world, not the one who grew up with me in my previous life, the Zhan Xinyue I loved.”

Now that he had opened up, Sheng Tunan no longer hesitated. He told her everything about his previous life, “In my previous life, my grandfather and Zhan Ye Ye did indeed arrange a betrothal, but they didn’t specify who it was. When I was ten years old, my grandfather asked me if I wanted the Zhan family girl to be my wife. I said I liked Zhan Xinyue. He then made tumbler dolls for Zhan Ye Ye and arranged for us.”

It wasn’t long before both grandfathers passed away, and then came the era of famine. Everyone was thinking about how to fill their stomachs, so no one mentioned the matter.

Later, Sheng Tunan joined the army, fought bravely, and earned a First-Class Merit. He became a battalion commander. Chen Ju Xiang, in order to ensure that Zhan Hongyan could successfully marry the high-ranking official, took advantage of the fact that Sheng Tunan was in the army, and Grandma Sheng’s eyes were bad and she didn’t go out much, so she married Zhan Xinyue to Li Jian.

When Sheng Tunan returned from the army, everything was already settled. Chen Ju Xiang even told Sheng Tunan that it was Zhan Xinyue who liked Li Jian and wouldn’t marry anyone else.

Sheng Tunan lost Zhan Xinyue, so he fulfilled his grandfather’s wishes and married the other daughter of the Zhan family.

However, Sheng Tunan didn’t love Zhan Hongyan, and he never touched her in his previous life.

“Zhan Xinyue, I’m sorry. In my previous life, I thought you were living happily, so I didn’t bother you. I devoted all my energy and time to the army. Later, I learned that you were sick, and I found out the reason. When I rushed over, you were already gone.”

Sheng Tunan turned his head again, his deep eyes looking at Zhan Xinyue, “So, this time, I must protect you by my side.”