Xu Shishuang opened her eyes in a daze, meeting at once with a stern face. Sharp eyebrows, twinkling eyes, a high-bridged nose, lips pursed tightly. He was dressed in something resembling a military uniform from the '70s or '80s, with a repressed, angry expression on his face.
Struggling, Xu Shishuang asked, "Who are you, let me go!"
The man in the military uniform looked down at her with a chilling gaze.
"XU! SHI! SHUANG! What madness have you conceived this time!" his deep voice was suppressed with raging anger.
Xu Shishuang had accidentally bumped her nose into his rib just a moment ago, causing her to see stars from the pain.
Now hearing the man speak, she was somewhat bewildered.
Did this man know her?
"Xing Jian, don't worry about this now, quickly take Sister-in-law to the medical room to take a look. I think she injured her leg just now." Beside the man in the military uniform stood a bald man, appearing somewhat laid-back.
Xu Shishuang looked around and saw a high wall and a cage in the distance. On it hung a red sign that read "Revolutionary Army, the Loyal Guards of the People."
Inside the cage, there were rows and rows of cylindrical buildings. You could barely make out people in green uniforms patrolling. Looking farther away, there were many military-green trucks parked.
Looking down at herself, she found that the suit she had specially prepared for the seminar was gone, replaced by a yellow dress with patches at the hem, unlike anything she had ever seen before. Her hands were more delicate than hers, lacking the calluses from holding surgical tools for a long time.
Remembering the name "Xing Jian" she had heard earlier, Xu Shishuang swallowed, "Is your surname Lu?"
The man in the military uniform gave a sarcastic smile, "What, planning to play the amnesia game this time?"
Without denial, it was acquiescence.
Xu Shishuang suddenly blacked out.
The distinctive tube buildings of the sixties and seventies, unfamiliar environments, the uniformed man Lu Xingjian, a body that didn't belong to her... No matter how she looked at it, it seemed like she had traveled to the time period of the book "Endearing Love" she was reading before the plane crash!
Xu Shishuang saw her silver surgical kit fallen not far away and instinctively wanted to get it. Regardless if she had really traversed, her kit was essential to her and it absolutely must not be lost.
The man, however, gripped her wrist tightly, coldly saying, "Stop acting crazy! Wasn't falling from the wall earlier enough? The electric net above is enough to electrocute ten adults. You're lucky to have survived after climbing it."
The male protagonist, Lu Xingjian, in the book is characterized as a military and political second-generation, the perfect gentleman.
Righteous, stable, kind, loyal, responsible, and being an only child, his qualifications are perfect in all aspects.
The only blemish in his life was his imprisoned ex-wife.
She initially started reading out of curiosity because a supporting character shared her name. Who would have thought that this namesake was the most loathed and malicious woman in the whole book?
In the novel, the supporting character, Xu Shishuang, in order to avoid going to the countryside, coerced her parents into fulfilling a marriage agreement with the Lu family. She thought her life would be set, but only to find out after marrying that Lu Xingjian had adopted a comrade's son. As a fresh high school graduate, she became a stepmom overnight.
After marriage, Lu Xingjian was often away from home and their interactions were limited to cold words. She became increasingly dissatisfied and started abusing Lu Xingjian's son to vent her anger. She constantly demanded Lu Xingjian retire from the military to spend more time with her, causing lots of trouble, ended up being divorced, with tragic consequences.
The most ludicrous part of the story that Xu Shishuang wanted to ridicule was when the original character tried to push Lu Xingjian towards a non-military career by plotting with foreign spies to steal and sell military secrets.
Because of this, the original character ended up in prison and got executed, with an ignominious death.
Lu Xingjian, because of his wife's actions, had his promising future destroyed and lost his legs in a bomb explosion during a battle with the spies. He became handicapped and had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
But once the female antagonist was defeated and exited the scene, the male protagonist surely wouldn't hang around.
Despite being disabled, Lu Xingjian chose to venture into business. He carved out a place for himself in the world through sheer determination and eventually established himself as a business titan. However, in his midnight dreams, he would always see the malicious face of his ex-wife and wake up covered in cold sweat.
In the end, of course, the female protagonist, Xia Xiaomei, transforms him with her affectionate care. Along with their adopted son, Xie Yelin, they live a happily fulfilled life as a family.
Xu Shishuang closes her eyes in pain, "..."
She only hopes that this is all a dream, and when she opens her eyes again, she can return to the modern world.
She is still the Xu Shishuang who owns a house and a car, with countless suitors. She will safely reach abroad, deliver a successful patent speech, return home with honor, promote the new oral medical technology developed with her senior brother, pioneer a global initiative...
Instead of being the wicked Xu Shishuang from the book, who committed all sorts of evil deeds and was finally about to go to prison.
Lu Xingjian thought that Xu Shishuang was showing signs of pain because of her wounds.
He lowered his head this time to take a careful look at Xu Shishuang's wound, but her fair skin hit his eyes.
"Xu Shishuang" appeared here because she wanted to find Lu Xingjian's superior, sabotage his work, and achieve the aim of getting Lu Xingjian to retire and return home. However, the military base is in the deep mountains; she lost her way without a guide. At night, hearing the roar of wild animals, she ran away in panic.
In the darkness, she accidentally touched the military base's electric network and was electrocuted to death.
During the escape, her beige coarse cloth underskirt had been snagged, and it was now ragged.
As soon as Lu Xingjian spotted it, his gaze sprung away. He immediately released her as if afraid of being infected by some disease.
Caught off-guard, Xu Shishuang was thrown onto the muddy ground, shellshocked.
"Hisss... It hurts so bad," she tearfully clutched her sore left leg.
What on earth did she do to deserve such agony?
Lu Xingjian took off his military coat, throwing it onto her with a "whoosh".
"Put this on," he ordered.
Xu Shishuang looked down to see that she had accidentally exposed a considerable amount of her chest. Ignoring her anger towards Lu Xingjian's attitude, she quickly put on the coat to conceal herself.
The clothing was clean, without any particular smell, except for a faint scent of soap.
Lu Xingjian looked at the woman, whom he despised, sitting on the ground with his coat draped over her, her eyes red, putting on an appearance of being greatly wronged. He felt inexplicably frustrated.
Never mind.
There was nothing worthy of asking.
The reasons for her appearing here couldn't be anything other than typical few.
To extort money, to make a scene, to go crazy, and to sabotage his career.
Lu Xingjian had never seen such a despicable and shameless woman, who took pleasure in ruining him.
This time, she had run all the way to this military important area, presumably with the intention to force him to retire and go home.
Over and over again, she violated his bottom line! He was truly at his wit's end.
Thinking that he would have to divorce this she-devil after today no matter what, Lu Xingjian commanded coldly, "Get up, follow me!"
Xu Shishuang tried, but found that she had no strength in her left leg.
"I can't stand up…” she whimpered in a soft voice.
The young man with a buzz cut looked at Lu Xing Sword, "You carry your wife!"
Lu Xing Sword silently, with an expressionless face, squatted down in front of her, turning his broad and straight back towards her, like a trooper standing tall as a pine tree.
"Get on."
Xu Shi Shuang hesitated for a moment, "You're carrying me?"
He replied impatiently, "Hmm."
Xu Shi Shuang immediately climbed onto his back with both hands and feet. As Lu Xing Sword stood up, she tightened her arms around his neck, panicked she might fall off. An intense masculine hormone scent was close at hand, but she had no time to take notice of these things. All she cared about at this moment was the silver surgery box that landed with them.
If it's damaged, that could possibly be the only thing that could save lives.
"I still have other things down there, don't forget!" She pointed to the ground.
"I know." Lu Xing Sword's face was calm, unexpectedly feeling a soft and warm ripple on his back. His arm muscles tightened instantly, making him seem a bit rigid.