Listening to Huo Shiqian talk about the mission so lightly, as if it were nothing, Xia Chuyi still felt a faint ache in her heart.

Xia Chuyi thought to herself: When you really went into the dense forest, it must have been very hard, right?

But if she asked Huo Shiqian that, he would definitely only tell her, "It’s nothing."

Huo Shiqian wanted to be a big tree, shielding her from the wind and rain, so of course he would never tell her about the tempests he had gone through.

Xia Chuyi sighed inwardly, thinking: Her Uncle Liberation Army already has it so hard; from now on she’ll be even more careful, and do her best not to drag him down.

Of course, Xia Chuyi only went over these words in her heart; she didn’t say them out loud.

Some things aren’t about saying them, but about doing them.

"So as not to alert the enemy, I pretended to disappear, to confuse them." In her ear, she heard Huo Shiqian continue, "I originally thought that once I got to Beijing, I’d catch Guo Jiumin off guard. Who knew..."

Huo Shiqian looked at his wife and sighed. "Who knew that as soon as I came back, I’d hear you’d been kidnapped..."

These words, even though he’d spoken with little emotion before...

Still, Xia Chuyi could completely imagine how anxious Huo Shiqian must have been back then.

"It won’t happen again, it won’t happen again." Xia Chuyi buried herself in his arms, sniffled, and said to her husband.

"Mm." Huo Shiqian wrapped his arm around his wife and answered softly.

At this moment, because his wife couldn’t see his eyes, Huo Shiqian finally let the gloom in them quietly slip free.

When he learned that Xia Chuyi had been kidnapped, his anger and worry were far more than the little bit he’d shown.

Because, during the investigation into Guo Jiumin, he had already found out that the reason Guo Jiumin wanted to utterly ruin Xia Chuyi’s reputation—what he was thinking was: once Huo Shiqian died, Guo Jiumin could then propose to marry Xia Chuyi.

At a time when Xia Chuyi’s name was in tatters and there would be relatively less resistance.

Plus the secret of Xia Chuyi being the "Prophet", and the contract she had signed.

And on top of that, with Guo Jiumin’s self‑assured belief in the "charm of a hero saving a beauty", Guo Jiumin felt that he would definitely be able to marry her.

Heh!

When he learned this, his rage was uncontrollable; he almost rushed back on the spot to hack Guo Jiumin into minced meat.

But the implications of the matter were too great, so Huo Shiqian suppressed his temper and planned to settle accounts with Guo Jiumin after returning to Beijing.

Who knew that as soon as he got back to Beijing, he would hear that Xia Chuyi had been kidnapped by Guo Jiumin.

How could Huo Shiqian not worry? How could he not be furious?

Fortunately, fortunately, Xia Chuyi was fine.

Otherwise, Huo Shiqian didn’t know how crazy he might have become.

"Chuyi, from now on, don’t ever take risks lightly." Huo Shiqian lowered his head, stroking his wife’s hair, and said softly to her.

"Mm." Xia Chuyi nodded hard, and then said to Huo Shiqian, "Then you also..."

As soon as she started, Xia Chuyi lifted her head from his arms, weighed her tone, and said to Huo Shiqian, "Shiqian, I know that going on missions is unavoidable."

"But you must always remember, you now have elders above and a child below—you must absolutely never take risks lightly either!" Xia Chuyi said to Huo Shiqian with utmost seriousness.

At her words, Huo Shiqian smiled faintly, cupped his wife’s face, looked straight at her, and said, "Mm, I will."

"As a soldier, in protecting our country and our home, we guard not only the big family, but also our little family." Huo Shiqian said just as seriously. "Because I have you, because you all exist, I’ll work harder and be more careful."

"Chuyi, we both have to cherish this." Huo Shiqian said.