Can't Take My Eyes Off You

If it had not been for the two girls attacking them, Lu Xingzhi and his men would never have understood how the people of that small town were so convinced by that heresy.

"It must have hurt, right?" Jiang Yao's heart ached so much that she was about to cry. The scythe was not flat but triangular, like a wavy line with sharp edges. How painful had it been when it stabbed into his body?

Lu Xingzhi did not try to hide it.

"It hurt so much that I wanted to kill the two of them."

Then, Lu Xingzhi panicked when he saw Jiang Yao's tears. He quickly changed his words. "It's been so long. It doesn't hurt anymore. Feel it. I don't feel anything now."

"My heart aches for you." Jiang Yao pouted.

Lu Xingzhi looked at her. Oh, no! He had made Jiang Yao cry.

So, he immediately said something else. "At first, I thought they were scared out of their wits. In fact, they were waiting for us to die in the desert so that they could save their messenger. They grew up in that place, and naturally, they knew how to survive the desert. However, they chose not to tell us, and even prayed that we would die."

It was so cruel. The soldiers sacrificed their friends' lives to save the girls, but they had prayed for them to die.

When Lu Xingzhi was angry, he did think of killing them. However, he was even hesitant. What was the point of being a soldier to protect someone who did not know gratitude and had no sense?

"When we were in the desert, we were really desperate for those few days."

Lu Xingzhi patted Jiang Yao's head. "Do you know how I survived those few days?"

"How?"

Jiang Yao thought that Lu Xingzhi would teach her desert survival skills, but he unexpectedly kissed her.

"I constantly convinced myself that I had a wife at home who said she would wait for me there. Therefore, I had to return. I would not die there. I can't make her wait in vain. I can't let her keep waiting for me, so I have to stay alive."

Jiang Yao was utterly stunned. She looked at Lu Xingzhi as if she had lost her soul.

She did not expect that the words he forced her to say would become his greatest desire to survive the first time they were separated after their marriage. It would become the belief that supported him in walking out of hell.

"I was afraid that you would be sad and that you would be widowed at such a young age, so I stayed alive."

Lu Xingzhi patted Jiang Yao's back and smiled a little ostentatiously. "Just like that, you're sad again?"

Jiang Yao nodded and sniffed. Her heart ached, and she was so upset that she wanted to slap herself twice.

How could she bear to treat him like that back then?

"Why didn't you tell your family after your mission ended?"

Jiang Yao had never heard Mr. and Mrs. Lu mention Lu Xingzhi's injury.

"I hid it from my family and didn't dare tell them." Of course, he was afraid that he would not know how to comfort her after she found out about it. He was also fearful of her indifference.

Therefore, his family did not know that he had gone to Lanning and experienced such a long journey to hell.

"What mission is it this time?"

Jiang Yao did not forget that Lu Xingzhi had been texting nonstop since he arrived at the hotel.

"It's not a mission. At most, it's cooperation and assistance," Lu Xingzhi explained. "After we came out of the desert, we were sent to the hospital in an emergency. The rest of the work was handed over to someone else."