When Sha Zelong heard this, his heart ached.

  Yan Nuo turned her head and looked elsewhere, but he did not look at Yan Yu.

  Yan Yu was in so much pain that she could not sleep. Her brows were furrowed. She did not sleep. Both Shazelong and Yan Nuo did not sleep.

  That night, Yan Yu suddenly called out Long Long.

  Sha Zelong looked at her with concern in his eyes. His lips quivered, but after a long time, he still did not say anything.

  Instead, she said softly, “Long Long, hug me.”


  Sha Zelong looked at her.

  Yan Yu bit her pale lips with her pearly white teeth, and large beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

  Her training uniform was drenched in sweat again.

  Sha Zelong finally leaned over and hugged her.

  She hadn’t changed her clothes in two days. They were stained with blood and sweat, and they smelled pungent but Sha Zelong didn’t mind. He pressed her head into his arms and said to her, “If it really hurts, you can bite me.”


  Yan Yu was still putting up a brave front. She said, “I can only bear to bite you when I fuck you.”


  “You’re silly.”


  “Not silly. A fool wouldn’t fall in love with you.”


  At this, Sha Zelong repeated, “You’re really stupid.” Loving him was really stupid.

  She did not have the energy to argue with him.

  The person in his arms was in so much pain that she was trembling.

  Sha Zelong hugged her, his heart clenching.

  “What can I do to make you feel better?” Sha Zelong asked.

  Yan Yu surprisingly said, “Give me a shot and give me a quick death. I’ll feel better.”


  Hearing this, Sha Zelong and Yan Nuo were both angry. “Don’t talk nonsense.”


  The two men she valued the most in her life threw a tantrum at the same time, but Yan Yu felt warmth.

  Perhaps she could show weakness.

  Then she said, “My stomach and lungs are hurting, Long Long. I can’t quite… bear it.”


  Sha Zelong’s heart ached.

  She was such a tolerant person. She had already said that it hurt. The degree of pain was definitely unimaginable.

  Sha Zelong said, “Then I’ll sing you a song?”


  “Okay.”


  Sha Zelong started to sing. “Unity is power! Unity is power! This power is iron, this power is steel…”


  This song was a little silly.

  Yan Yu could not take it anymore. “Can we move to the next song?”


  Sha Zelong also knew that he was a little stupid.

  He thought about it for a long moment before saying, “I don’t know many songs.” He was 41 years old this year. He had been in the army since he graduated from the military academy. He didn’t know any popular love songs so he thought about it before saying, “I only know one song that I remember the lyrics.”


  Yan Yu said, “I’ll listen.”


  Sha Zelong nodded but did not sing immediately.

  There was a short silence before Sha Zelong began to sing an old love song that was not in tune.

  Ever since you left, all the warmth is lost.

  Waiting for this long snowy mountain road.

  Hearing the cold wind whistle.

  …


  Remember when you promised me.

  You wouldn’t go away.

  But you flew so far with that southward waiting bird.

  Love is like a kite with a broken string…


  Sha Zelong realized that the woman said nothing.

  He looked down at Yan Yu and realized that she had closed his eyes and her head was resting on his thigh. Her breathing was very weak.

  The singing stopped.

  Sha Zelong shouted the name of Yan Yu in a panic.

  “Yan Yu.”


  “Yan Yan!”


  Yan Yu had fainted from the pain.

  Yan Nuo quickly walked over and checked if she was breathing. He realized that she was still breathing. His heart sank.

  At this moment, Hei Moke’s voice came from the small speaker on the wall of the imprisonment room. “Major General Beauty, don’t be so nervous. Don’t worry, your sweetheart won’t die so soon. She can still suffer for another seven to eight days…” With that, Hei Moke cut off his speech.

  Sha Zelong said to Yan Nuo, “Smash that speaker.”


  Even without him saying it, Yan Nuo felt that the sound of the speaker was annoying.

  He kicked his foot against the wall and his body shot into the air. He plucked the speaker with his bare hands and threw it to the ground. He stomped it to pieces.

  Yan Yu woke up forty minutes later.

  She woke up from the pain.

  She realized that she was lying in Sha Zelong’s arms. Sha Zelong’s head was slightly lowered, and there was stubble on his chin. His pleasant face looked a little more masculine. She thought regretfully that she had missed his singing.

  Sha Zelong woke up from his nap and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Yan Yu had woken up.

  “How are you?”


  The corners of her lips curled up, and her smile looked a little arrogant. “Couldn’t be better.”


  She did not know if it was morning.

  Yan Yu said, “Actually, I’m a little hungry.” She wasn’t actually hungry. She just wanted to find something to talk to Sha Zelong about.

  Sha Zelong said, “There’s nothing to eat.”


  After being locked up for so long, no one had sent them food.

  “Are they planning to starve us to death?”


  Sha Zelong did not say anything.

  He knew that Hei Moke would not let him die because his status was not ordinary. His country would not let him die. Hei Moke would take the opportunity to make a request to his country. This was also why Sha Zelong would rather commit suicide when he realized that he might become a prisoner.

  He would not die, but Yan Yu would.

  Sha Zelong knew that Yan Yu’s condition was terrible. Every day, her organs would fail even more.

  The longer it was delayed, the more dangerous her condition was.

  Yan Yu leaned on Sha Zelong’s shoulder. She suddenly said, “I’m 39 years old.”


  Sha Zelong nodded.

  She added, “I was thinking that when I was forty years old, I would be out of singlehood. If I didn’t find someone I loved, then I would find the best-looking man in the world and force him to marry me. Anyway, I’m rich and powerful, so I can raise a man as a toy.”


  Sha Zelong could not help but correct her. “This is not the way to force someone into prostitution.”


  “Anyway, you know what I mean.”


  He was silent.

  “In the end, I found the best-looking man in the world.” After a pause, she added, “I also found the person I love the most.”


  Sha Zelong was stunned.

  This was not the first time Yan Yu said she loved him.

  He had heard her say this many times. In the past four years, Yan Yu had been like a ghost, swaying around him from time to time to make her presence known. The first time she said that she loved him was when the end of the year was near last year.

  She disguised herself and went to Binjiang City to ask him out for a drink.

  She had arranged food and drink in the half acre garden restaurant and waited for him for a day and a night. He did not go.

  The next day, she ran to his small apartment and cornered him at the door. She smiled at him. “Don’t fool around with me just because I love you, Long Long.”


  At that time, he thought he had heard a joke.

  He did not think that Yan Yu would love him.

  She was just a greedy girl. When she saw beautiful things, it was like snatching them and collecting them. Just like how little girls wanted to buy the Barbie dolls at the mall to collect them……