Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 71: Touch My People? Get Out of the Military District!

Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Touch My People? Get Out of the Military District!

The voice outside the door was like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing the warmth that had just risen in the examination room.

Gu Yanshen stopped his movements.

Lin Wan Yi pushed him slightly.

"Go on."

"The commander wants you, it’s official business."

Gu Yanshen didn’t move, he lowered his head and carefully covered her with a thin blanket again, tucking it in snugly.

"Lie down and don’t move around."

His voice returned to its usual cold hardness, yet carried a barely noticeable tension.

"Wait for me to come back."

After saying that, he got up, swiftly opened the door, and walked out.

Outside the door, Wang Xiu’e and Dean Wu were standing.

Wang Xiu’e grabbed him.

"Yanshen, go without worry!"

"I’m here, and so is Dean Wu. Wanwan will be fine!"

"Go tell the commander that this matter requires severe punishment! Handle it sternly!"

Gu Yanshen nodded, said nothing, and turned around, his back exuding a sense of impending storm.

Commander’s office.

The lights were bright, yet the atmosphere was as cold as an ice cellar.

The commander sat in the main seat, his face ashen. Beside him, Political Commissioner Chen frowned deeply.

Gu Yanshen pushed open the door and entered, standing straight without saying a word.

Three women knelt on the ground.

Sister-in-law Qian and Li trembled like leaves in the wind, not daring to lift their heads.

Zhao Xuerou knelt in the middle, her shoulders twitching, crying miserably.

"Reporting to the commander, all of them have been brought here," the security officer reported.

The commander glanced at Gu Yanshen, his voice barely containing his anger.

"Explain, what’s going on."

The security officer immediately read from the report in his hand.

"...According to the confessions of Sister-in-law Qian and Li, they admitted to verbally attacking and slandering Comrade Lin Wan Yi without knowing the facts..."

"It’s not me! It’s not me!" Sister-in-law Qian suddenly lifted her head upon hearing her name and pointed at Li.

"It was her! She was the first to call Lin Wan Yi a vixen! I just agreed a couple of times!"

Li panicked as well, crying out, "I didn’t! We can’t afford to offend her! It was Sister-in-law Qian; she kept cursing!"

"You’re lying!"

The commander slapped the table.

"Bang!"

With a loud noise, the two women immediately fell silent, scared, trembling even more.

The commander’s gaze fell on Zhao Xuerou.

"Zhao Xuerou, what about you?"

Zhao Xuerou raised her tear-streaked face, struggling to breathe through her sobs.

"Reporting to the commander... I am wronged..."

"I... I just saw Comrade Lin Wan Yi sitting alone in the yard and wanted to show concern for her..."

"I really didn’t push her. I just lost my footing and fell myself..."

She cried and looked at Gu Yanshen with a mournful expression.

"Brother Yanshen... Mr. Gu, I really had no intention of harming sister-in-law... How could I possibly harm her..."

"Shut up."

Gu Yanshen spoke, his voice utterly devoid of warmth.

"You have no right to call me that."

Zhao Xuerou’s crying came to an abrupt halt.

Gu Yanshen took a neatly folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the commander.

"Commander, this is the transcript from interviewing other military wives who were present at the time."

He paused, his gaze scraping across Zhao Xuerou’s face like a knife.

"If it weren’t for my wife’s quick thinking, using her own way to resolve the crisis, by now, she would have already been drowned in that dirty water."

"Punishable by death."

The last four words were delivered firmly.

Zhao Xuerou’s face instantly turned pale, even her lips were trembling.

"I didn’t... I wasn’t..."

She still wanted to argue.

The commander slammed the transcript heavily on the table.

"Enough!"

His anger finally erupted completely.

"Zhao Xuerou, where is your awareness?"

"Where is your discipline?"

The commander stood up, pointing at her nose.

"Someone with such impure thoughts and intentions doesn’t deserve to stay in the army!"

Zhao Xuerou was completely stunned, forgetting to cry.

"No... Commander! Please, Commander!" She realized and knelt, trying to hug the commander’s leg.

"I was wrong! I truly was wrong! Please give me another chance!"

The guards immediately stepped forward, holding her tightly.

The commander’s gaze shifted to Sister-in-law Qian and Li.

"You two, write a thousand-word self-criticism and publicly apologize to Comrade Lin Wan Yi!"

"Starting tomorrow, neither of you is allowed to step into the military family compound for six months! Your family affiliation status is temporarily revoked!"

The two women collapsed, ashen-faced.

Once he finished handling them, the commander turned to Gu Yanshen, his tone slightly softened but still stern.

"You, go back and take good care of your wife."

"Any further mistakes, and I’ll hold you accountable!"

"Yes!"

Gu Yanshen saluted and left without looking at the women again.

It was late at night.

Gu Yanshen quietly opened the door to the examination room, moving as gently as a feather landing.

Lin Wan Yi lay on the bed, her breathing steady, seemingly asleep.

He walked to the bedside, not sitting down, just standing there.

In the faint moonlight filtering in from outside, he looked at her face, paler than it had been during the day.

He slowly reached out his hand, wanting to touch her face, but stopped midway and instead gently pulled up the blanket edge.

He bent down, carefully pressing his hand, back first, against her forehead.

Not hot.

He finally exhaled in relief, straightening up to sit down on the chair next to the bed.

He just watched her, motionless, like a guardian deity.

He thought of her lying on the recliner, covered in cold sweat, moaning in pain.

Yet he also remembered her later sitting up in the hospital bed, eyes shining as she told him, "I was pretending." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Smart, calm, decisive.

Also fragile, needing his protection.

After a long time, he bent down once more.

An exceedingly light kiss landed on her forehead.

It carried endless care and fear.

In a voice only he could hear, he made a promise, word by word.

"Wanyi, from now on, I will never leave you alone again."

"Should the sky fall, I’ll hold it up."

In the darkness, Lin Wan Yi’s closed eyes, her eyelashes quivered slightly.

The corners of her lips curved into a silent arc.

It was worth it.

The next day, Wang Xiu’e personally brought a guard, carrying bags full of nutritional supplements.

"Wanwan, how are you feeling?"

"Aunt Wang, I’m fine now, don’t worry."

Wang Xiu’e handed her a piece of paper stamped with a red seal.

"This is the result of the handling of those people and their apology letter, take a look."

"Zhao Xuerou was directly demobilized and sent away overnight."

"Sister-in-law Qian and Li read their self-reviews at the assembly early this morning, now they’ve probably returned home."

Wang Xiu’e held her hand, her eyes full of pity.

"You’ve been wronged. If anyone dares to gossip again, see if I don’t tear out their mouths!"

After sending off Wang Xiu’e, Lin Wan Yi looked at the pile of malt extract, milk powder, and eggs, feeling a bit helpless.

She started organizing, wanting to put these things away.

At the bottom of a bag filled with brown sugar and red dates, she felt a hard square object.

She took it out.

It was an envelope.

The envelope was made of kraft paper, the postmark indicating it was from Beijing.

There was no signature, nor was there a sender’s address.

The addressee was her name.

Lin Wan Yi looked at the familiar and slightly sharp handwriting on the envelope, her eyes gradually turning cold.

It was from her stepmother, Zhou Wenxiu.