Xiao Beichen felt the hand that had been gently patting his back suddenly stop moving, and he immediately looked at Zhou Chuan nervously:

"Do you think I'm too incompetent, too cruel? No, I had no choice. For the sake of the organization, for the sake of the people, I had no choice."

Zhou Chuan came to his senses: "I know, I know, I'm not blaming you. I was just thinking, how could I have misunderstood you just now? You're such a good person, and you're so good to me, why wouldn't I trust you?"

"I was wrong. I think I'm still young and inexperienced. My understanding of things is too superficial. I apologize to you again. I promise I will never doubt you again. Even if the whole world doubts you, I will still believe you."

Xiao Beichen stared at Zhou Chuan, tears welling up in his eyes again. But this time, they were not filled with guilt and fear, but with boundless happiness. He felt that with her words, his life had not been in vain.

Zhou Chuan had never seen him so vulnerable before. Perhaps the arrogant person he used to be was just a cover for his inner unease and fear.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes again: "I still like your carefree and arrogant way of speaking, your sharp and sarcastic words, and your tendency to rub salt into people's wounds, but you can still drive people crazy and no one can do anything about it."

"I'm sorry!" Xiao Beichen gripped Zhou Chuan's hand tightly.

"I know I'm an annoying person. The families of soldiers don't like me, and my comrades can't stand me either, but please don't hate me, okay?"

Zhou Chuan shook his head and chuckled: "If I hated you, why would I still live with you? I would have kicked you out long ago."

Xiao Beichen laughed too: "If you want to kick me, I'll let you kick me!"

"roll!"

Zhou Chuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was finally getting better.

"Sigh, I also have to apologize to you. I didn't know anything back then and said a lot of bad things about you. Actually, you are a good father, and I believe Xiao Ran must know that now."

Xiao Beichen shook his head: "You're right to scold me. I was too careless. I should have brought the child here sooner, and after bringing him here, I should have shown him more care. I didn't do any of that."

“We couldn’t bring him over earlier,” Zhou Chuan now understood his predicament, knowing the truth. “The military region hadn’t been established yet, and it wouldn’t have been easy to settle him down.” Besides, there was still the matter of Xiao Ran’s mother to deal with; it was a complete mess, and there was really no way to resolve it.

Xiao Beichen lowered his head slightly: "No matter how difficult things are here, it's still better than Xiao Ran's situation back home. In the end, it's because I'm his father who has let him down."

"Alright, alright, let's stop talking about it. Let's all be nicer to the child from now on." Zhou Chuan stood up and pulled the person up. "Come on, let's go out to eat."

"Sigh, I have a bad temper. I believe everything I hear, and now you guys don't even have lunch."

Xiao Beichen muttered to himself, "I told you not to associate with Li Dazui next door..."

Zhou Chuan pushed him out, saying, "I think you should thank them this time. If it weren't for their help, we wouldn't have been able to talk things out."

Thinking back on what had just happened, Xiao Beichen suddenly lost all his anger: "Thank you is out of the question. At most, I won't stop you from seeing each other anymore."

Hearing that the person was stubborn, Zhou Chuan angrily punched him and went out. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Xiao Ran with tears streaming down her face. Zhou Chuan quickly went to her side.

"What happened? Did you get into a fight? Don't cry, Xiao Beichen, come quick, your son got beaten up!"

"Who's so bold as to dare to take my child!"

Xiao Beichen reverted to his usual arrogant self, striding up to Xiao Ran and saying, "You're a young man now, stop crying all the time and talk to me!"

Looking at the two people in front of him, Xiao Ran suddenly didn't want to say anything. He stepped forward and hugged his father tightly. Just holding him like that, he felt that all the bad things from the past had disappeared.

Xiao Beichen wanted to scold the child. What was wrong with a boy crying like that while hugging him? But before he could scold him, Zhou Chuan stopped him with a slap. Fine, the child was wronged, so let him hug him for a while.

Zhou Chuan roughly understood what was going on. Xiao Ran had grown up and understood the difficulties adults faced, and she had also learned to let go. After watching for a while, Zhou Chuan felt a little sore. She patted the shoulders of the father and son respectively, then made way for the narrow space in front of the study door and turned to go to the living room.

She looked at the little girl who had fallen asleep again, and her heart pounded with a strange feeling.

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