“Grandpa, I want to marry Regiment Leader Feng!”
As soon as these words came out, the Feng family members, who had been grieving over Feng Xiao’s injury, were all instantly stunned.
Everyone subconsciously turned around and looked toward Qiao Shu, who had suddenly pushed open the door and appeared in the room.
When they clearly saw the seriousness and determination on Qiao Shu’s face, they were all greatly shocked in their hearts.
“Shushu… You just heard what we said… Do you know what you’re saying?”
He Hong, who treated Qiao Shu like her own daughter, hurriedly walked to the little girl’s side and gently shook her head.
“I heard everything.”
Qiao Shu gave the Feng family members a soft smile, her voice gentle but extremely firm as she spoke.
“But I still want to marry Regiment Leader Feng.”
Earlier, when Feng Xiao and the Feng family members were talking about his injury, Qiao Shu had just come up with the prepared spiritual spring water. She had intended to let the injured Feng Xiao drink some to help his body recover faster.
What she hadn’t expected was that as soon as she pushed open a crack in the door—before even entering—she heard Feng Xiao say that he was injured there and didn’t want to delay someone else’s life with marriage in the future.
When she heard this news, Qiao Shu was completely dumbfounded.
After all, Feng Xiao was such a tall, nearly 1.9 meters, very masculine man with a heroic bearing and outstanding looks. Yet he turned out to be impotent???
How could this not shock her?
However, once Qiao Shu came back to her senses, all the shock in her heart turned into—joy!
Yes, joy!
In her previous life, Qiao Shu had been someone with no interest in romance, a firm non-marrier.
The reason she had chosen to marry Feng Xiao in this life was merely a decision after weighing the pros and cons.
She had originally been worried about not getting along with him after marriage. Although Feng Xiao was a soldier who rarely came home—maybe a few times a year—he would still come home sometimes.
What if he wanted to have a couple’s life with her then? If she couldn’t get past that mental hurdle, would she choose divorce or divorce?
So, now that she heard Feng Xiao was impotent, she suddenly felt that all the troubles that had been plaguing her vanished in an instant!
Feng Xiao was simply her destined husband!!!
He was completely the perfect husband candidate in her mind!
Of course she had to hold on tight to him. In this life, it was him or no one!
After all, if she missed Feng Xiao, she absolutely wouldn’t find another marriage candidate who satisfied her so much!!!
Moreover, although she and Feng Xiao had only met today, from the words he had spoken, this man was truly responsible, dutiful, and had a strong sense of morality—a good man.
So—
This man was hers. She was set on marrying him~!
“Shushu, you child, what are you saying? In this situation, how could we possibly let you marry… A Xiao?”
He Hong choked out these words, her mood complex. After all, her son, whom she was so proud of, had suffered such a thing. For them as parents, it was simply a devastating blow.
After hearing Qiao Shu’s words, she felt both gratified and anxious.
Gratified that Qiao Shu was a good child who still wanted to marry her son even in this situation.
Anxious that she couldn’t watch this little girl give up her happiness and jump into the fire pit that was her son!
After all, Qiao Shu was still young and so beautiful and outstanding…
“Yes, Shushu, you’re still young and don’t understand anything. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Facing the little girl’s clear and sincere gaze, Feng Shengli let out a light sigh, his voice full of helplessness as he spoke.
All the Feng family members assumed Qiao Shu was young, still a child, and didn’t know the severity of the matter, so they didn’t take her words seriously.
“Shushu, it’s Grandpa who’s let you down, let your family down. This marriage… just forget it… Later, Grandpa will find you a better one…”
Elder Feng’s words weren’t finished before Qiao Shu interrupted him.
Seeing that the Feng family members were treating her like a child and not taking her words seriously, Qiao Shu raised her voice several degrees from usual, and her pretty little face tensed up tightly, trying to look more serious.
But this appearance, in Feng Xiao’s eyes, was unusually cute, making him involuntarily want to rub the little girl’s head.
However, soon, in Feng Xiao’s eyes, Qiao Shu no longer seemed like a cute little child.
“Grandpa, Mom, Dad, I’m already nineteen, an adult. I understand everything, I know everything. I know what happened to Regiment Leader Feng, but I don’t care. I just like Regiment Leader Feng!”
These words from Qiao Shu not only stunned all the Feng family members but also shocked Feng Xiao, who had been distracted by how cute she was.
He looked at Qiao Shu in shock, completely unable to believe the words coming from the little girl’s mouth.
After all, they had just met, and the words exchanged between them probably didn’t exceed ten sentences.
Yet these two unfamiliar people—she had confessed to him…
“Shushu, you… you’re serious? But… but you two only just met today…”
He Hong, coming back to her senses, still couldn’t believe Qiao Shu’s words.
But it wasn’t just her.
None of the Feng family members in the room could believe it.
However, Qiao Shu nodded very seriously, her unbelievably pretty little face full of earnestness.
“Although in your eyes, Regiment Leader Feng and I only just met today. But… Regiment Leader Feng has accompanied me through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, one after another. From childhood, Grandpa told me about how he and Elder Feng joined the army to fight the Japanese invaders, how amazing Regiment Leader Feng was, graduating from military academy young, earning so many medals after enlisting…”
In Qiao Shu’s slowly unfolding words, the Feng family members’ minds instantly pictured a little loli version of Qiao Shu, listening to Old Master Qiao tell stories (brainwashing her) from childhood, all about the Feng family—especially heroic tales of Feng Xiao.
“In my heart, Regiment Leader Feng is a great hero. I like him, I admire him. From childhood, I decided to marry him. In this life, it’s him or no one!”
Qiao Shu shifted her firm gaze to Feng Xiao, who was dazed and stunned, speaking with sincere tone like taking an oath.
Feeling the girl’s gaze, Feng Xiao’s usually calm heart suddenly felt as if scorched by something hot, waves surging in his chest instantly.
He wasn’t someone who had never been confessed to by the opposite sex, but no one’s confession had been as straightforward and domineering as this little girl’s—like a child’s, so sincere and pure.
This also stalled his original plan.
Facing such a sincere little girl declaring it was him or no one, Feng Xiao felt his mouth go dry, making even him, who was always emotionally stable, restless with scattered thoughts.
Feng Xiao was shocked by Qiao Shu like this, let alone the others. Elder Feng and the rest were rendered speechless by her overly straightforward and passionate confession.
They wanted to say something to persuade the little girl, but facing her clear and sincere eyes, they couldn’t say a word.
“Qiao Shu, thank you for liking me. But…”
Although Feng Xiao was somewhat affected by Qiao Shu’s sincere confession, he understood that she didn’t truly love him—it was just blind admiration for him as a soldier.
So, Feng Xiao was even less likely to irresponsibly delay this little girl who didn’t even understand her own feelings.
However, at this moment, the highly moral and responsible Feng Xiao didn’t realize that in the future, he would have completely different ‘selfish thoughts,’ wanting to monopolize this wonderful girl for himself…
“Regiment Leader Feng, I know you’re thirty this year, eleven years older than me. I know you’ve adopted two children, one twelve and one four. I even know you’re injured, that after marrying you, I can’t be a normal woman, can’t have a normal marriage, can’t have our own children…”
Qiao Shu interrupted Feng Xiao’s words. Her beautiful, clear watery eyes stared straight at him earnestly, listing out all the issues between them.
Then, she smiled brilliantly at Feng Xiao, like winter sunlight or a summer breeze, striking straight at his heart.
“But I don’t care about any of that. What I care about is you as a person.”
“Feng Xiao, I like you. I only want to marry you, become your wife.”
Suddenly, Feng Xiao’s breath hitched. He felt his heartbeat racing excessively, his blood surging in reverse, making his whole body go soft, limbs weak and powerless, his mind blank.
All sounds in his ears vanished, as if his world had paused. In his eyes and ears, there was only Qiao Shu.
He had never experienced such a feeling before and never knew a confession could have such immense power.
At this moment, Feng Xiao knew his heart was in chaos.
From his original firm goal to cancel this unequal marriage, he now felt a shake in his heart. He… thought maybe marrying her wouldn’t be so bad?
If he had to marry a wife in this life, he felt that besides this little girl before him, he didn’t want to marry anyone else…
Seeing the hesitation and struggle in Feng Xiao’s eyes, Qiao Shu knew she had added enough fuel to the fire.
“A-anyway! In this life, I’m marrying you! You can’t shake me off!”
With that, Qiao Shu, as if extremely embarrassed, flushed red and shyly ran off.
Leaving the dumbfounded Feng family members in the room.
“…”
The Feng family members watched Qiao Shu’s receding figure. After He Hong and the others exchanged glances, it was Elder Feng who finally let out a heavy sigh, breaking the silence in the room.
“Sigh, this is my fault… I’ve harmed this child Shushu. But, but that Big Head Qiao talks too much nonsense! What has that old guy been telling Shushu since she was little!”
Hearing Elder Feng’s words, He Hong said somewhat angrily.
“Exactly! This is indeed your fault. If you hadn’t insisted on fulfilling this childhood betrothal, would Shushu have been instilled with such wrong ideas by her grandpa from childhood!”
As He Hong thought of what Qiao Shu had just said, her heart ached.
Where was this like? It wasn’t love—it was clearly brainwashed by Old Master Qiao!
For a moment, the Feng family members’ worry for Qiao Shu even surpassed that for the injured, impotent Feng Xiao.
“So what do we do now? Shushu is dead set on marrying our A Xiao. We can’t just watch her jump into the fire pit. She’s only nineteen, still so young…”
“…” Fire Pit · Feng Xiao suddenly felt like he wasn’t their biological child—Qiao Shu was the Feng family’s real child!
Seeing his parents and grandpa so anxious, Feng Xiao originally wanted to say that his injury down there was fake, a lie to deceive them.
But before Feng Xiao could reveal the truth, Elder Feng and the other two hurriedly left his room.
“He Yingzi is sensible. Let’s hurry and call her back. Our family can discuss this properly.”
“Yeah, hurry and call He Yingzi back!”
“I heard there’s something called a psychologist. Does our Shushu have some psychological issue? Should we take her to the hospital to see a doctor???”
…
Seeing his parents, who had been worried for him, now fully focused on Qiao Shu and hurriedly leaving his room, Feng Xiao truly didn’t know what to say for a moment…
However, he didn’t mind. What he cared about more now was… the image of Qiao Shu smiling brilliantly as she confessed to him kept popping into his mind unbidden.
“…I really shouldn’t have come back.”
Feng Xiao murmured softly, then let out a sigh.
Qiao Shu, the ‘culprit’ who had stirred up the entire Feng Family and left them restless, returned to her study without the slightest burden and leisurely picked up a novel to read.
While reading, she absent-mindedly thought that she seemed to have some talent for acting!
Her confession to Feng Xiao just now surely must have won him over!
After all, it was the ‘passionate confession’ she had pieced together in her mind from all those romance novels she had read.
She felt her confession that day was great!
She refused to believe that with such sincerity, with how much she ‘loved’ Feng Xiao and insisted on marrying no one else, the Feng Family could still cancel their wedding!
“No! This matter cannot be delayed!” She had to seize this opportunity with Feng Xiao’s return and get the wedding done…
Qiao Shu closed the novel in her hand. For the sake of her future happy life, she needed to perform well in the coming days…
Soon after, while the Feng Family waited for He Yingzi to return and offer advice, they discovered Qiao Shu… who had suddenly transformed into an unstoppable virtuous wife and good mother. She donned an apron and bustled about in the kitchen preparing nourishing food for ‘Feng Xiao who needed to build up his health’.
Seeing Qiao Shu like this, the Feng Family felt even more pity for the poor girl, convinced she had been thoroughly brainwashed by Old Master Qiao.
“This damned Big Head Qiao! If I see him someday, I’ll give him a good beating!”
At that moment, no one regretted the childhood betrothal with the Qiao Family more than Elder Feng!
Don’t ask—he was extremely regretful!