Liang Xue, Who Broke His Heart

For a full two hours, Liang Xue kept her head slightly lowered as she told her story.

Lin Fan finally understood the whole chain of events. No wonder this girl had never given me a pleasant look from the start.

Looking at Liang Xue beside him, her eyes moist, Lin Fan felt a pang of heartache and unconsciously pulled her into his arms.

"Sorry, it was my fault!"

The moment Lin Fan said that, he clearly felt Liang Xue tremble in his arms. She then turned around, straddled him, wrapped her arms around him, buried her face in his shoulder, and began to cry.

That left Lin Fan a little flustered.

In Lin Fan's mind, Liang Xue had always been a woman lacking in emotion, cold as ice.

Yet now, this woman was crying into his arms, releasing all the grievances she had endured over the past eleven years in one breath.

Was he ready to accept her? And what about Emma?

For a moment, Lin Fan had no idea what to do. Even his exceptionally high intelligence and highly developed brain could offer him no help.

But then Lin Fan asked himself: could he bear to see either of them with another man in the future?

No. Obviously not. There was no need to even think about it.

Why the hell should I be afraid? Only elementary schoolers have to choose. So what if, as a transmigrator, I wanted them both!

Lin Fan quickly stopped agonizing over it. He was no ordinary person—what was there to worry about, what was there to consider?

Liang Xue was still crying in his arms. Having figured it out, Lin Fan stretched out his arms, wrapped them around her from behind, and held her close.

A few minutes later, Liang Xue's sobs gradually quieted.

Ten minutes later, Lin Fan discovered that Liang Xue had actually fallen asleep on top of him. She must have been exhausted from crying.

Feeling Liang Xue against him, Lin Fan's heart ached for her again.

Gently prying her hands loose, he lifted her in a princess carry and took her into the bedroom, then carefully laid Liang Xue on the bed.

Looking at her beautiful face, streaked with tears, Lin Fan gently wiped them away for her.

However, just as Lin Fan was about to leave the bedroom, Liang Xue's voice came from behind him.

"Don't go. Don't leave me!"

Lin Fan paused and turned back, only to see that Liang Xue had not woken up. It was probably just sleep-talking.

Looking at Liang Xue, so pitiful and lovable now, Lin Fan turned around and returned to the bedside. He sat directly on the floor, rested his head against his hands on the edge of the bed, and simply watched her.

A smile appeared on his face.

This girl clearly wasn't lacking in emotion. Rather, her emotions were too abundant, and she had been suppressing them far too hard.

"Don't worry. I won't let you cry again from now on."

Lin Fan whispered gently by the bedside.

Three hours later, Liang Xue woke up. The instant she opened her eyes, she saw Lin Fan sitting on the floor, asleep with his head resting near her pillow.

Liang Xue was momentarily stunned, but she quickly remembered something and smiled.

At that moment, the smile Liang Xue had once shown on the bridge appeared again. Unfortunately, Lin Fan was asleep, so he could not yet see the smile he had always wanted to see again.

Liang Xue gently stroked Lin Fan's head, just as she had when they were children.

But before Liang Xue could reminisce about their childhood for long, she discovered that Lin Fan had already opened his eyes. Startled, she immediately withdrew her hand.

"Don't stop, honey. That felt pretty nice!"

Hearing Lin Fan open with those words after she withdrew her hand, Liang Xue stared at him with her beautiful eyes wide open, disbelief written all over her face.

Looking at Liang Xue's stunned pretty face, Lin Fan smiled.

"I used to call you that for four years straight anyway. It's not exactly sudden, is it?"

"But you forgot!"

"It doesn't matter. As long as you remember!"

"No, you can't call me that in the military!"

"What does it matter? It's not like we're on a mission. Who cares what I call you in private?"

"You..."

Lin Fan's behavior left Liang Xue at a complete loss.

Yet Lin Fan did not care at all. He raised his hand and checked the time.

"It's already time to eat. Honey, want to go to the mess hall together?"

Looking at Liang Xue, who was still sitting on the bed somewhat helplessly, Lin Fan stood up directly, then lifted her into another princess carry.

"Ah! Put me down."

"Honey, call me hubby and let me hear it?"

"Who wants to call you that!"

"Then I'll carry you to the mess hall like this!"

After saying that, Lin Fan carried Liang Xue in his arms and headed for the door.

"H-Honey, put me down already."

"That's more like it. Come on, let's go eat!"

After Lin Fan set Liang Xue down, he took her little hand and led her outside. Liang Xue tried several times to pull free, but she simply could not break away. In the end, she could only let Lin Fan hold her hand, her face flushed red.

The officers' cafeteria was in the same building as Lin Fan's office. When Liang Xue entered the cafeteria hand in hand with Lin Fan, she even heard someone drop their utensils on the floor. Her face turned even redder.

There were not many people eating in the cafeteria, only around a dozen. At first, no one thought much of seeing Lin Fan and Liang Xue walk in together. But the moment they saw their clasped hands, everyone froze as if they had been hit with a paralysis spell.

This was huge news. The Federal Fleet did not oppose dating—after all, during long stretches of space travel, people needed some form of recreation in life—so the Federal Fleet had never forbidden relationships.

But these two were both prominent figures. One was the Federation's youngest colonel and a Fleet Commander, while the other was the Fourth Fleet's number one beauty and the daughter of the War God, Liang Xingchen.

The two of them getting together was nothing short of blockbuster news.

After choosing a table and sitting side by side, a server came over. Although this was an officers' cafeteria, there was not really any ordering to speak of—just Set A, Set B, and Set C.

After placing their orders, Liang Xue looked at Lin Fan with a flushed face. Her hand was still firmly held in his.

"You can let go now, right?"

"No rush. We can talk after the food gets here. Your little hand feels pretty nice to hold!"

Liang Xue was somewhat speechless. When Lin Fan had been little, he had shamelessly called her his wife all day long, but he had not been this much of a rascal, had he?

Without her by his side these past years, he had really gone bad.

Before long, the server brought over two set meals. Liang Xue had ordered a mixed vegetable set, while Lin Fan had ordered a curry chicken set.

Seeing that Liang Xue's tray contained no meat at all, Lin Fan frowned.

"Why don't you have any meat?"

"I got used to it when I was little."

Right, she had gotten used to it as a child. Lin Fan had nearly forgotten what Liang Xue had just told him about her childhood.

The nanny Liang Xingchen had hired had constantly embezzled the money he gave her, using only a small portion of it to buy Liang Xue some vegetables to cook. As a result, Liang Xue had barely eaten any meat for several years. And because she was so headstrong, she had never told her father about it, so Liang Xingchen had remained unaware all this time.

Fortunately, this era had nutritional supplements. Aside from regular meals, drinking one every day could still replenish all the elements the body required. That was why the nanny had dared to feed Liang Xue nothing but vegetables. With daily nutritional supplements, even without meat, there would not be any major problems.

Thinking of this, Lin Fan's heart ached again. This girl had suffered far too much. He immediately picked up a piece of chicken.

"Open up!"

Liang Xue froze. Looking at the chicken held before her, she unconsciously opened her mouth.

"Is it good?"

Liang Xue nodded lightly, her eyes slightly red.

At that moment, Liang Xue felt a warmth she had not experienced in more than ten years. She chewed that piece of chicken for a full minute before swallowing it.

However, neither of them knew that someone had taken a picture of that scene and uploaded it to the Fourth Fleet's public forum.

What neither of them expected even more was that Liang Xingchen happened to be browsing the public forum in his office at that very moment.