Ancestors, I told you to seduce the villains, not to turn evil.

Seeing Li Meng's pitiful appearance, Li Wu couldn't utter a single harsh word.

He patted Li Meng's head, a doting smile on his lips.

"Silly girl, you were raised by your older brother, and you've been closest to him since you were little."

“It’s just a jade pendant, I’ll get it for you.”

Li Meng was the youngest child in the family. After she was born, her parents had to earn work points, so there was no one to take care of her. Li Wu was the one who always looked after her.

It can be said that Li Meng was raised by Li Wu. Although there is an eight-year age gap between the two siblings, Li Meng can find the feeling of a father in Li Wu.

She felt both reassured and a little scared. She knew Li Wu wouldn't hurt her, but she didn't want to share her feelings with him.

Li Wu didn't ask any more questions; he loved you all wholeheartedly.

Fei Huainan harmed his second brother, and paying with a jade pendant was too lenient a price for him.

In the evening, Xu Manman was drawing in her room, wearing all her thick clothes.

The temperature difference here is large, and the air is quite cool at night. However, in the past few days, it has become obvious that the weather has turned cooler.

For the next five days, Xu Manman stayed at home drawing comic strips.

She drew quickly, completing two picture books, including several covers and illustrations.

My days were incredibly fulfilling.

Fei Huainan can move around in the yard in his wheelchair by himself and even helps Xu Manman tend the vegetable garden.

After finishing her work, Xu Manman stepped out of the courtyard. The sun was shining brightly, but the temperature had dropped considerably.

She calculated the days and realized it was already August.

In another month, it will be harvest time.

Once the autumn harvest was over, the weather turned completely cold. Come to think of it, she didn't seem to have any winter clothes or quilts, while Fei Huainan did have two, which he brought back from the army.

Winter clothes and quilts need to be prepared.

Unfortunately, she didn't have any cloth coupons.

Xu Manman was lost in thought when Fei Huainan returned from the vegetable garden and found her standing there in a daze.

Just as he was about to speak, Fei Huainan sensed something was amiss and his sharp gaze suddenly turned toward the doorway.

Xu Manman only realized it then.

A strange man was standing at the door.

Fei Huainan's eyes immediately turned cold when he saw the person who had arrived.

"What are you here for?"

Liu Boyu's eyes were complicated, and his face was full of astonishment.

Once the most skilled individual soldier in the army, he now sits in a wheelchair, holding a few handfuls of muddy vegetables in his hands.

He looks like an old farmer from a rural village.

He had completely lost the pride and sharpness of a former elite soldier.

His eyes showed sympathy.

Fei Huainan, however, seemed like a beast instantly enraged, his voice filled with ferocity: "Don't look at me like that, get out."

Xu Manman was startled; she had never seen Fei Huainan so angry.

Even if the original owner had schemed against Fei Huainan and forced him to marry her for three hundred yuan, she was still not this angry.

But the man in front of him, with just a glance, ignited Fei Huainan's anger.

Liu Boyu didn't leave; his eyes were fixed on Fei Huainan's legs.

Xu Manman didn't know who the person in front of her was, but staring at someone with a leg injury was very impolite.

She stepped forward and said, "Comrade, please leave my doorway."

Liu Boyu then turned his gaze to Xu Manman and frowned.

"You are... the daughter of the eldest uncle of the Fei family?"

How could he not remember that Fei Huainan had a bad relationship with Fei's eldest uncle and had no contact with his cousins?

Before Xu Manman could speak, Fei Huainan had already made his move.

He grabbed a stick and swung it at Liu Boyu, who was startled.

He tried to dodge awkwardly, but Fei Huainan still managed to hit him on the calf, causing him to stagger and almost fall.

Liu Boyu looked grim; he had come to visit Fei Huainan with good intentions.

Fei Huainan, however, was ungrateful and attacked him.

Xu Manman seized the opportunity to speak up: "Comrade, you should leave quickly! His personality has been unpredictable since he injured his leg. If he really hits you, I can't do anything about it."

Seeing that Fei Huainan was about to make a move, Liu Boyu immediately put down his things and ran away.

"I'll come back tomorrow."

After Liu Boyu disappeared from sight, Xu Manman stepped forward, took the wooden stick from Fei Huainan's hand, and pushed him into the house.

Then he spoke.

"Tell me, who is this person? What's going on between you two?"

Fei Huainan is not someone who gets angry easily, but just now, he almost lost control.

Fei Huainan remained silent.

Xu Manman wouldn't let him off the hook: "We're in this together now, and this matter is also related to me. You should at least give a brief explanation as to whether this person is a friend or foe."

She didn't like being kept in the dark, especially since Fei Huainan himself was still under that curse.

These things might be related to that curse.

She really had a problem with her hands; why did she have to look at the jade pendant? If she hadn't looked at it, she wouldn't have owed Fei Huainan a jade pendant, and she wouldn't have had to worry about so many things.

Xu Manman was furious.

"If you don't tell me, you can forget about going to bed."

Fei Huainan looked helpless; this seemed to be his bed.

Moreover, sitting all night was hardly a punishment for him.

When he led his men on training exercises, it was common for them to lie in the snow for days and nights.

That kind of environment is the best way to train willpower.

However, he didn't dare to provoke Xu Manman's anger.

"I am good friends with Liu Boyu and Meng Mingxuan. During a mission, I unexpectedly discovered that Meng Mingxuan was a traitor."

"He discovered me and, to cover up the secret, wants to kill me to silence me..."

"I dodged it, but he accidentally injured my leg. When I ran back despite the pain, I fainted."

Fei Huainan spoke slowly, only picking out the important points.

He didn't mention that he was being hunted by Meng Mingxuan and had spent more than ten days on the run, dragging his injured leg through mountains and forests and underground rivers, almost getting swallowed by crocodiles.

"When I woke up again, Meng Mingxuan had become the hero who completed the mission, and I had become the subject of the investigation. Liu Boyu believed that Meng Mingxuan was innocent, and he also believed that I was innocent."

He was in a coma for five days. After he woke up, he was taken away from the hospital and interrogated.

Until the investigation results are released, he can only stay in solitary confinement. Although his leg injury has been treated, the environment in solitary confinement is not good.

He was detained for more than ten days, his innocence was cleared, but he suffered irreversible damage to his leg and was forced to retire from the army.

Meng Mingxuan was investigated because of his identification.

He, Meng Mingxuan, Liu Boyu, and more than a dozen brothers were on the mission.

In the end, only the three of them survived.

Meng Mingxuan was investigated, and although there was no direct evidence to prove that he was a traitor, he would not be reinstated to his original position.

It was Liu Boyu who stepped forward and gave false testimony for Meng Mingxuan.

This proved Meng Mingxuan's innocence.

When Fei Huainan was discharged from the army, Liu Boyu came to see him off, saying that there was a misunderstanding between them, and that he believed Meng Mingxuan and Fei Huainan.

Fei Huainan's smile was chilling.

"He probably still thinks there's a misunderstanding between us..."

Xu Manman looked at Fei Huainan's forced smile and silently rubbed her arms.

“Since Liu Boyu is your comrade-in-arms and you have been together for several years, he should know your temperament very well.”

"But the moment he appeared, he was clearly deliberately trying to provoke you."

"There's no point in provoking you; he's more likely up to something."

Fei Huainan gave Xu Manman an appreciative look: "He's testing my leg to see if it's really ruined."

Since Liu Boyu wanted to test him, he would play along.