The wealthy military officer spoils his wife excessively

Just as Hao Haiyun was about to go inside, the pattering sound suddenly returned. (Pinshu.com)

Suwen stood in front of him, spreading her hands: "I have no money."

Hao Haiyun walked into the inner room, casually placed his teacup on the table, bent down to open the cupboard, and pulled out the three bottom drawers. The three drawers were filled with neatly stacked pink banknotes, piled high, probably several million. Su Wen was speechless, not expecting so much cash to be stored in the drawers like that.

Hao Haiyun casually pulled out a stack of banknotes and said indifferently, "There are several boxes of cash under the bed. Take as much as you want."

Suwen was completely stunned. She never dreamed that she would be sleeping on so much RMB every day.

She paused for a moment before saying, "I don't want your money."

“This money was originally yours,” Hao Haiyun said. “Back then, I said that as long as you took care of me when I was injured, this money would be yours. Later, you stayed with me for more than half a year, and you didn’t take a penny when you left. I left it all here for you.”

She hadn't expected him to still remember what he'd said back then. Su Wen felt her head spinning: "Anyway, I don't want to." She put her hands behind her back, turned around, and left.

Xiao Liu returned that evening, carrying a large leather bag. He turned to the side and mysteriously handed Hao Haiyun two things.

Suwen glanced at them and, seeing that they were avoiding her, went into the room and sat on the windowsill to eat fried noodles.

After a while, Hao Haiyun came in and knocked twice on the door as a symbolic gesture. Suwen turned around and saw that he was holding two brown notebooks.

He handed one of them to Suwen as if it were a routine matter: "These are your passport and visa. Get ready, we're leaving tonight."

"Go? Where to?" Su Wen took it in a daze and saw that it was a passport! Her passport was still at home!

She casually flipped it open and saw that it was really well made; it could absolutely pass for the real thing.

"Xiao Liu went to do this all afternoon?" Su Wen thought of the money in the drawer and under the bed. It turned out they had planned to run away all along.

Hao Haiyun remained silent.

Suwen looked at the passport booklet for a while, then asked, "Where are you going?"

"The Golden Triangle".

At the same time, a vast sea of ​​poppies appeared in Suwen's mind.

The Golden Triangle, a place said to be filled with poppies.

It was a source of rampant drug abuse, a breeding ground for drug trafficking organizations, and a chaotic place where local armed groups and the government clashed.

She looked up and smiled, but it was a rather forced smile: "Don't tell me you went there for tourism?"

Hao Haiyun said, "You can treat it as a trip. We can stay a few more days wherever you like, and you can buy as many souvenirs as you want."

Nie Suwen couldn't guess why Hao Haiyun was going to the Golden Triangle. She suddenly shuddered and murmured, "Will she come back?"

Hao Haiyun honestly said, "The police are keeping a close eye on us now. It's best not to come back for the next three to five years."

Who are we going to buy souvenirs for then?

Suwen remained silent. In truth, she wanted to escape reality, ideally to flee this place forever. But not in this way…

Would you like to come with me?

In the darkness, Suwen couldn't see the expression on his face, but darkness can hide many things. She heard her own voice murmur, "If I say I don't want to, will you let me go?"

"will not."

"Heh...then why are you asking me?"

"I hope you are doing this willingly."

His voice was soft, as if floating in the air, but he spoke with great determination.

Suwen blinked, then unconsciously looked out the window. After a long while, she said, "I don't know either."

Hearing this answer, Hao Haiyun, though not what he had hoped for, smiled silently, a sense of relief on his face. At least, it wasn't the worst possible outcome.

Xiao Liu hurriedly packed her things in the outer room, her voice rustling like the night breeze brushing against the window. The crescent moon cast a faint glow through the window. Su Wen sat on the edge of the bed. She didn't have anything to pack. She had been picked up by Hao Haiyun in the first place, and now she was just being taken away by him again.

She thought about it a lot. Hao Haiyun was now the police's number one surveillance target. He had been firmly entrenched in Beijing for over a decade, but now he had to abandon his stronghold, which showed how serious the situation was. Hao Haiyun wanted to take her with him, simply to smear her reputation and ensure she could never return to her former world and her former position.

Speaking of ruthlessness, this man's heart is truly ruthless.

Ke Suwen felt a strange sense of relief. Was it revenge on Lu Zheng? She couldn't say for sure.

If you go to the Golden Triangle, then goodbye might mean never seeing each other again.

She was shocked by the idea, and at the same time, she felt an urge to try it out.

She would probably never forget how she felt that night. She, Xiao Liu, and Hao Haiyun—none of them slept a wink.

Suwen sat on the bed in the inner room, lost in thought. Xiao Liu kept pacing back and forth in the living room, as if he always had something to do. Hao Haiyun sat in a spot that could be seen from outside the door, smoking one cigarette after another. Eventually, a ring of ash accumulated around where he sat.

At dawn, he finally got up to call her, and Suwen saw that his eyes were bloodshot. She feared her own condition wasn't much better.

As she went downstairs, she thought, "Life is truly amazing. You can never predict what will happen next. Just like before, I never imagined that one day I would follow a person who was half black and half white to the drug kingdom of the Golden Triangle. My life may have changed from then on."

Xiao Liu drove around the city on the elevated highway, and Su Wen had no idea where he was going.

At the fork in the ring road, Xiao Liu suddenly made a beautiful drift turn, and Su Wen, who was sitting in the back seat, was almost thrown against the windshield. Fortunately, Hao Haiyun was prepared and grabbed the roof with one hand and held her waist with the other, pulling her back.

"I'm sorry, Miss Nie, I didn't let you know beforehand." Xiao Liu turned around, his voice filled with excitement. "Brother Yun, we've spun off the big fish. Shall we head out of the city now?"

Hao Haiyun hummed in agreement and put Suwen back on her seat.

Su Wen turned around and looked back at the car, speechless. The highway was nearly empty at dawn, and there was nothing unusual about it. Had they been followed the whole time?

As the car drove out of the city, it was just getting light, and a pale white tinge began to rise on the distant horizon.

This wasn't her first time seeing a sunrise; the most beautiful sunrise of her life was on Mount Yala Xiangbu in northern Tibet. She and Lu Zheng were trapped halfway up the mountain, embracing each other for warmth as they welcomed the new day together.

At that time, she thought that life would last forever, and what she believed in would never change.

It turns out that it's not that people's hearts are fickle, but rather that life is unpredictable.

When Lu Zheng returned, the attic was already empty.

The old wooden door opened with a forceful shove. No one was inside. A newspaper lay on the dining table. A long woman's dress hung to dry outside the attic window, tucked into a bamboo pole and fluttering in the wind. Suddenly, a figure appeared before Lu Zheng's eyes. Nie Suwen, wearing that dress, ran towards him with a charming smile.

bang——

He slammed his fist on the creaking wooden bed, filled with both hatred and regret.

Why didn't he think of that? He was almost certain that Nie Suwen was in this room when he arrived at noon! But he just didn't!

When he saw the three sets of bowls and chopsticks, his first thought was that Xiao Liu, Hao Haiyun, and Renren lived here. He lingered there all night, without even considering looking up. But if he saw that piece of clothing hanging outside the window, he would never miss it—

He slumped down on the edge of the bed, holding his head in his hands, as if he were under a nightmare. His consciousness was awake, but his body was not. He just sat there, every cell screaming and struggling, but he couldn't move at all. Even breathing gradually became difficult.

He finally realized that one wrong choice he made might push her away from him forever.

He began to feel afraid, a premonition that the nightmares that had seeped into his bones during the three years she was gone were about to return. Like a helpless child, he looked up at the sky outside the window, which was gradually turning white, and pleaded plaintively, "Susu...where are you? Where are you?!"

In the old wooden attic, only the dusty air answered him.

A long time passed before he heard his phone vibrate in his pocket. Looking down at the screen, he realized a tear was streaming down his chin. He had been crying without even realizing it.

Tears fell onto the phone screen, slowly spreading around the caller's name.

Lu Zheng stared at the words "Gu Huai'an" for a long, long time before answering the call.

"Hao Haiyun is running away, you'd better come back quickly!" Gu Huai'an's voice was tinged with anxiety.

Lu Zheng paused for a moment before he understood what he was saying, and then slowly and hesitantly asked, "...Go back where?"

"I don't know, we've lost track of him. He looks like he's trying to run away, I'm leading men there now."

Lu Zheng didn't say a word, just listened quietly, until Gu Huai'an said, "There are three people in the car, I'm afraid... your sister-in-law is also in the car."

Lu Zheng suddenly sprang out of bed, sliding down the stairs like lightning while holding the phone in one hand and saying, "Where did we lose them? Where are they?!"

Gu Huai'an gave Lu Zheng a street name, and Lu Zheng hung up the phone and jumped into the car. Hao Haiyun was probably going to leave the country! Active military personnel cannot leave the country without an application, and ordinary local police couldn't catch him. He didn't know where the panic in his heart came from; he was clearly awake, but it felt like a nightmare was going on... His hands gripping the steering wheel were trembling, almost unconcerned about crashing through every red light.

I should have realized that, given Suwen's temperament, if she were determined to take revenge, she would use the most ruthless and decisive method. Was she truly going to sever all possibilities between them in this way?