Reborn on My Wedding Night: This Time, I Won't Fail My Soldier Husband
The look in his eyes was very strange.
Since Lu Yuzhou disliked Jiang Xiaochun so much, why would he be with her?
Realizing this, Dong Shuyao felt even better. She tucked her arm into his and asked, "Is Big Brother alright?"
As her soft curves pressed against his arm, Lu Yuzhou's hot-blooded body stiffened abruptly, and a suspicious flush crept from his neck up to his earlobes.
Dong Shuyao pretended not to notice, hugging him tighter while staring straight at him.
Lu Yuzhou was walking with his left arm and left leg moving in sync, answering like a shy young bride: "It's fine, just a strained back. Sister-in-law asked us to bring back some bruise medicine."
"Then what are we waiting for?"
Dong Shuyao hopped onto the back of the bicycle, startling Lu Yuzhou, who quickly grabbed the handlebars to steady the bike.
Urged on by her, Lu Yuzhou swung his long legs over the bike and pedaled his wife straight to the state-run store.
Along the way, they inevitably ran into a few neighbors from the courtyard: "Isn't that Dong Shuyao, the one who's been so thick with Shen Zhinian? I heard she married the Lu family's second son yesterday?"
"She was so reluctant at the wedding yesterday, and now they're already as thick as thieves after just one night?"
"Once a woman gets married and consummates the marriage, she settles down."
"What nonsense are you spouting? That girl from the Dong family and Yuzhou were childhood sweethearts; they were always a perfect match."
Lu Yuzhou was someone these neighbors had watched grow up. He was upright and kind, and now, as a deputy battalion commander in the military, he risked his life for the people of China. They shouldn't be gossiping about the young couple behind their backs.
Regardless of the past, as long as Dong Shuyao lived a good life with Lu Yuzhou after marriage, that was all that mattered.
The social atmosphere in the 1980s was simple and honest. While there were those who loved to gossip, the good people were in the majority.
People's hearts were generally simple.
At the state-run store—
"I'll go lock the bike, you wait for me here."
Lu Yuzhou steadied the bike with one hand while using the other to smooth out the stray hairs blown across Dong Shuyao's face by the wind.
Dong Shuyao nodded with a smile, feeling sweeter than if she had drunk honey.
In her past life, the night Shen Zhinian tricked her into eloping, he tore off his hypocritical mask. On the train, he tried to force himself on her, but she resisted him fiercely.
Later, on the way to selling her to Hong Kong, he tried to force her several times. If she hadn't fought to the death, she would have been tainted long before reaching the red-light district.
Back then, she just thought all men were like that—they stopped cherishing you once they got what they wanted.
But Lu Yuzhou was different...
From beginning to end, even when everyone speculated that she had been sold and was no longer 'clean,' Lu Yuzhou had always respected, cherished, and protected her just as he always had.
And now, he was even better to her than before they were married.
"Dong Shuyao, why are you here?"
A sharp female voice rang out. Dong Shuyao turned her head to see Shen Zhinian's younger sister approaching with a group of girls who didn't look very kind.
"You came to the state-run store to buy things?"
"You must have brought a lot of money with you, right?"
Shen Pingping smiled maliciously and held out a hand: "Give me twenty yuan. I need to take my friends out to eat."
"Who do you think you are?"
Dong Shuyao crossed her arms: "Why should I give you money? If this is robbery, I'm going to report you to the police."
Shen Pingping was clearly stunned, as if she hadn't expected Dong Shuyao, who had always fawned over her, to dare speak to her like that.
She frowned: "Dong Shuyao, have you lost your mind? If you don't give me the money, I'll tell my brother to break up with you."
"Break up?"
"I was never together with your brother in the first place."
Dong Shuyao's mischievous thoughts began to swirl in her eyes: "The person your brother likes is Jiang Xiaochun. I was just covering for them before."
She didn't explicitly say Shen Zhinian and Jiang Xiaochun were dating, but left it ambiguous enough for those delinquent girls to guess for themselves.
"And another thing!"
The woman's expression was cold as she spoke: "I'm married now. Don't mention me and your brother again. I'm afraid my husband won't be happy if he hears it."
Married?
Shen Pingping spent her days hanging out and rarely stayed home, so she had no idea that Dong Shuyao had gotten married.
"If you don't want to give me money, just say so. Who are you trying to fool by making up a husband?"
At first, Shen Pingping had been a bit hesitant, but now she didn't believe it at all: "Everyone knows you're head over heels for my brother. How could you have married someone else?"
She impatiently poked Dong Shuyao's shoulder: "Hurry up and give me the money, or I'll take it myself."
As she spoke, she reached out to grab the small leather bag hanging from Dong Shuyao's shoulder.
Dong Shuyao twisted her hand backward, making her shriek in pain.
The group of delinquent girls with Shen Pingping saw this and prepared to jump in to help.
"Stop!"
When Lu Yuzhou saw Dong Shuyao surrounded, he felt even more nervous than when he encountered danger during a mission.
His figure rushed over like a cheetah, pulling Dong Shuyao behind him, his muscles tensed: "Who gave you the nerve to commit robbery in broad daylight?"
When did the public security in Beijing become so poor?
The delinquent girls were also startled by the sudden appearance of this fierce man, especially Shen Pingping, who was shoved to the ground by Dong Shuyao's forceful push.
"Are you alright?"
Lu Yuzhou held Dong Shuyao, checking her over with a very serious expression.
Dong Shuyao smiled and shook her head: "You've already played the hero saving the beauty, what could possibly happen to me?"
Her tone was light; she hadn't been scared at all.
Only then did Lu Yuzhou relax, glaring at Shen Pingping and the others: "What were you trying to do, surrounding my wife just now?"
That fierce, menacing look terrified the teenage girls: "N-nothing."
A girl with braided hair behind Shen Pingping said: "Sister Yaoyao, are you really married? Is this your husband? You two are really... what was it... a perfect match?"
"A perfect match."
Only after Shen Pingping prompted her did the girl nod obsequiously: "Yes, yes, a perfect match, hehe..."
Dong Shuyao tucked her arm into Lu Yuzhou's, calculating in her heart as she replied: "You've all seen it. The man I married is Lu Yuzhou. I really don't like Shen Zhinian."
Who was Lu Yuzhou?
He was the famous 'son of someone else's family' on these streets.
He got into Beijing University at eighteen with the top score, was specially recruited into the military right after graduation, and in just four years, he was already a deputy battalion commander.
Most importantly, almost everyone knew that Lu Yuzhou had been Dong Shuyao's protector since they were children.
Shen Pingping and her friends were young, but they had heard vague rumors.
So, the person Dong Shuyao married was this legendary figure!!
Shen Pingping's brother really couldn't compare to him.
Could it be that everything Dong Shuyao said was true?
Was it actually Jiang Xiaochun who had been dating Shen Zhinian all along?
And because Dong Shuyao was close to Jiang Xiaochun, she had been covering for them!!
This was truly a bombshell of a secret.
Dong Shuyao was, at the very least, the only daughter of two professors in Beijing, a refined young lady from a scholarly family.
What was Jiang Xiaochun?
How could she possibly be worthy of Shen Zhinian?