Xie Guanxia quickly led Ji Wuqiu away from the scene. With her years of experience in war zones, she soon found a relatively safe evacuation route. Along the way, although Ji Wuqiu seemed calm, Xie Guanxia still caught the occasional hints of tension in her eyes.
"You've never experienced anything like this before, have you?" Xie Guanxia asked, cautiously observing his surroundings.
Ji Wuqiu gave a wry smile. "To be honest, I'm a businessman. I deal with contracts and negotiations, not gunfire."
Xie Guanxia snorted coldly, "Then how did you end up here?"
"I really don't know," Ji Wuqiu shrugged helplessly. "I was in Country P negotiating a business deal, and when I woke up, I found myself here. Someone must have deliberately brought me here."
Xie Guanxia frowned. She didn't completely believe Ji Wuqiu's words, but she didn't have a better option at the moment. She decided to take him away from the war zone first and then make further plans.
The two stealthily made their way to a relatively safe village at dusk. Xie Guanxia found a secluded inn and arranged for Ji Wuqiu to stay there.
"It's safe here for now, but you'd better not wander off," Xie Guanxia warned coldly. "I'll find out what's going on and see if I can find a way to get you back."
Ji Wuqiu nodded. " Xiexie you, ma'am. I'll wait for you to come back here." He never imagined that one day he would rely on someone in a foreign land, especially a girl!
He guessed that the woman disguised as a man was no ordinary person; after all, she had a very ruthless demeanor, and he had even just seen her pull a gun out of her boot...
After leaving the hotel, Xie Guanxia went straight to the local black market. She knew that only there could she get the most reliable information. After some inquiries, she learned that some unidentified people had indeed appeared in the war zone recently, seemingly looking for someone.
"Looks like this guy wasn't lying," Xie Guanxia thought to himself. "But who exactly is he? And why are we looking for him?"
Back at the inn, Xie Guanxia told Ji Wuqiu what he had learned. Ji Wuqiu frowned upon hearing it. "It seems I'm really being watched. I need to leave here as soon as possible."
Xie Guanxia looked at him. "I can help you, but you have to tell me your true identity."
Ji Wuqiu trusted his intuition; if this girl wasn't a good person, she wouldn't have helped him clear the mines in such a dangerous situation.
Ji Wuqiu then gave a brief account of his background.
Xie Guanxia nodded upon hearing this. "Your vigilance is very weak. Don't do that again next time." People like Ji Wuqiu, when targeted by kidnappers, are always offered more money, with those willing to pay demanding that the kidnappers kill him immediately.
After learning that Ji Wuqiu was from the same hometown, Xie Guanxia was no longer so cold to him, and even brought him an extra ham and a can of food.
Not only was Ji Wuqiu being hunted down, but Xie Guanxia was as well, after all, she had also gotten herself into serious trouble.
The two began a month-long escape.
Xie Guanxia was initially uninterested in Ji Wuqiu, but as they spent more time together, they couldn't control their feelings for each other late one night.
Just when Ji Wuqiu thought he could bring Xie Guanxia back to the country, she woke up one morning to find her gone, leaving only a farewell letter.
Xie Guanxia is a free-spirited person. In the end, she didn't take the 20 million yuan, but chose to leave herself with a beautiful memory of her journey.
Three months later
Xie Guanxia discovered she was pregnant.
"..."
It was discovered during a departmental physical examination.
Although she was suspended for a year, she couldn't escape the routine evaluation.
After this incident came to light, Xie Guanxia's superior was terrified and quickly tried to reason with Xie Guanxia.
Because her boss was a Christian, he persuaded her to keep the child. Although her boss subtly inquired about the child's father, Xie Guanxia did not reveal the answer.
Xie Guanxia really liked Ji Wuqiu's face and hoped to have a child as good-looking as him, but whether or not to abort the child was ultimately up to fate.
Face up, alive.
If the reverse side is facing up, it won't grow.
So she tossed the coin three times, and it landed heads up every time.
Raising a child alone is tough, and Xie Guanxia is still a novice. Although her colleagues help her, she is often overwhelmed.
All sharp objects in the house must be hidden away; only cute things should be present. Also, when colleagues come over, the smell of blood on them must be removed.
Xie Zhuwu grew up in a seemingly ordinary single-parent family until she was five years old.
Despite his young age, he sometimes appears more mature than Xie Guanxia. He doesn't cry or fuss, and he endures pain on his own, worried that his mother will be troubled because of him. He is not very clingy.
Always quietly to the side.
Sometimes Xie Guanxia has to go to work, so he stays at home obediently, playing with his toys. If he wants something, he will ask his mother for it.
But it will be within Xie Guanxia's capabilities.
Ji Wuqiu only learned that he had a son six years after separating from Xie Guanxia, but at that time he was surrounded by assassination attempts and conspiracies, and even his three sons from his ex-wife could only be sent back to the Sheng Family for protection.
At that time, the Ji Family was embroiled in internal strife. The old man valued Ji Wulin, his daughter, and his son-in-law highly and even tried to squeeze Ji Wuqiu out of the company.
Ji Wuqiu's three sons, the eldest son Ji Wangchen alone was kidnapped three times in one year. Even if they are not from the Ji Family, they would be his business rivals.
Therefore, he couldn't bring his youngest son with him. What if something went wrong? How could he explain it to Guanxia?
After much deliberation, he decided to let his youngest son live the life of an ordinary rich kid until he came of age, thus keeping him away from danger.
At that time, he truly believed that Xie Guanxia had married someone else.
He was heartbroken for a long time because that was the person he had been searching for for six years.
Xie Guanxia also gave up on keeping Xie Zhuzhou by her side because it was too dangerous. Before the Black Lizard's people came knocking, she pushed her son away.
Although she was very reluctant to leave, this was her only family left, and perhaps her heart truly belonged where her son was.
But she couldn't let her son be implicated.
Only after she has eliminated all her enemies will she be qualified to stand by her son's side.
But by then, will her son still remember her?
Will I miss her?
Or was it because of resentment that I thought of her?
There are always so many things in this world that we are reluctant to part with and that we cannot do otherwise. On a rainy night, Xie Guanxia passed away.
Five-year-old Xie Zhuzhou pressed his face against the door and window, watching his mother leave, his eyes gradually dimming.
But living alone isn't actually that difficult. He chooses to forget the days he spent with his mother, and by isolating himself, he avoids getting hurt.
If you have no expectations, you won't be sad.
On the first night after being separated from her son, Xie Guanxia was heartbroken.