Chapter 1190: Truly a Good Best Friend

With her career gone and her family destroyed, the emotional breakdown nearly drove Hai Xue to suicide.

Later, when she discovered she was pregnant, she chose not to end her life for the sake of her child. Gui Xiaofeng visited Hai Village to see her once and gave her encouragement, which helped her survive.

After that, Gu Ming sent Gu Dongxing to her, and Old Sir Ye came to see her, even arranging a childhood engagement between Gu Dongxing and Ye Qing. With her son by her side, another child on the way, and with Old Sir Ye’s esteem, she felt she had regained her sense of direction.

For so many years, she had been bearing the cross of being dismissed from the military, suffering the disdain of others. But now, Gu Ming actually told her that she was not dismissed, but retired?

She heard her own voice ask, "Are you sure I wasn’t dismissed, but rather retired?"

Maybe Gu Ming misspoke?

Gu Ming said, puzzled, "Although you were found to have overseas connections, you were adopted by the people of Hai Village at the age of five; you never had contact with overseas people and did nothing wrong. How could you be dismissed?

As for letting you retire, it’s because you do have overseas connections, making it unsuitable for you to remain in the military, so you were retired. Of course, this was thanks to Old Sir Ye speaking up for you back then, leading to this outcome."

It was true. She wasn’t dismissed from the military but was retired!

As it turned out, the result of Old Sir Ye helping her was that she wasn’t dismissed but retired!

Hai Xue nearly ground her teeth: "Wasn’t it said that Old Sir Ye helped me avoid being marked as a spy?"

Gu Ming said, puzzled, "You were raised by poor and lower-middle peasants; how could there be talk of being a spy?" He felt a stirring in his heart: "Was it Old Sir Ye who told you this?"

Hai Xue recalled those years and shook her head: "No, it was Gui Xiaofeng who said it."

Suddenly, she thought of something: "Since I retired, I should have a veteran certificate. Who collected my veteran certificate?"

Back then, Gui Xiaofeng told her she was dismissed, and she didn’t have the courage to return to the camp to retrieve her discharge decision. Being pressured by the Gu Family Elders, Gui Xiaofeng also advised her, "Go back to Hai Village first. After this matter calms down, you can come back." So, she returned to Hai Village. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But once she went back, there was no chance to return. Even her divorce with Gu Ming was finalized when the Gu Family brought the divorce agreement for her to sign.

If it hadn’t been for Gu Ming mentioning it today, she wouldn’t have known that she wasn’t dismissed, but retired.

Gu Ming said, puzzled, "Wasn’t it your good friend Gui Xiaofeng who collected it and personally brought it to Hai Village for you?"

Yet again, Gui Xiaofeng, she truly was her good friend!

At this point, how could Hai Xue not know that Gui Xiaofeng had been harming her all along? How could she do this? She was supposed to be her best friend!

Gu Ming realized this too and suddenly asked, "Back then, was it because you found out you were supposedly dismissed and nearly branded as a spy that you left me so hastily?"

To be honest, it was because Hai Xue left him voluntarily that he became so dejected, giving Yang Meiyin the opportunity to take advantage. Moreover, not only did she leave home on her own accord, leave him and their child, but even the divorce papers were signed by her first and sent to him.

Consequently, at that time, he felt very dissatisfied with Hai Xue’s departure, even resentful. Did he really not deserve her trust?