Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 111: Just Returned to Beijing, Enemies Meet!
Lin Wan Yi stood up, holding her child, and looked out the window.
The land she had left for so long.
She had returned.
In her gaze, there was nostalgia, emotion, and a strong determination to make her mark.
She turned her head, wanting to share this moment with Gu Yanshen.
But she saw the man still standing there.
The train came to a complete stop.
The people in the carriage started to stir, gathering their luggage and finding children, creating a cacophony.
Gu Lan jumped up excitedly.
"We’ve arrived! We’ve arrived in Beijing!"
"Sister-in-law, let’s get off the train quickly!"
Lin Wan Yi held Gu Ning but did not move.
Her gaze fell on the silent man opposite her.
"Yanshen."
She asked again.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Gu Yanshen seemed to just come back to his senses.
He stood up, his tall figure instantly blocking the light from outside the window.
"Nothing."
He began to gather luggage, his voice devoid of emotion.
"It’s crowded, let’s prepare to get off the train."
Gu Lan had already eagerly opened the compartment door.
"Brother, sister-in-law, hurry up, hurry up!"
Lin Wan Yi did not move.
She just held the child, quietly watching him.
Watching him lift two large suitcases, the muscles in his arms taut like hard rocks.
Gu Yanshen turned around with the suitcase.
He met her gaze.
Those eyes, clear and persistent.
As if without giving her an answer, she could see until the end of time.
He swallowed hard.
"Let’s get off the train first."
He repeated, his voice deeper than before.
He was the first to walk out of the compartment.
Lin Wan Yi, holding Gu Ning, and Gu Lan, supporting the drowsy Gu An, followed behind.
The train station in Beijing was teeming with people.
Accents from all over, everyone hurrying on their way.
Gu Yanshen made a path through the crowd, carrying a heavy suitcase in each hand.
His back was straight, yet exuded a sense of remote isolation.
Lin Wan Yi followed behind him and suddenly spoke.
"Gu Yanshen."
The man’s footsteps didn’t stop.
"Stop."
Lin Wan Yi’s voice was not loud.
Gu Yanshen’s tall figure suddenly halted.
He stopped in the middle of the bustling platform, like a tree rooted to the ground. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
Lin Wan Yi walked up to him, raising her head.
"You still haven’t answered me."
All the surrounding noise seemed to fade away.
Gu Yanshen looked at her.
Looked for a long time.
He finally spoke, his voice terribly hoarse.
"Beijing."
"Is your home."
He paused, every word squeezed out from deep within his chest.
"Not mine."
Lin Wan Yi’s heart was lightly pricked by this sentence.
She did not rush to explain or comfort as he had imagined.
She just steadily looked at him.
Seeing the unease and stubbornness hidden deep within his eyes.
Then, she asked.
"And what about you?"
Gu Yanshen was taken aback.
"Whose home do you want it to be?"
Lin Wan Yi asked again.
Her voice was calm.
Yet like a key, it pierced directly into the core of his chaotic heart.
Whose home do you want it to be?
Gu Yanshen’s heart was struck hard.
He didn’t have time to answer.
A cold, hard voice rang out not far away.
"Chief!"
The crowd automatically parted.
A young man in a brand new military uniform quickly approached.
He stood straight, his eyes sharp, and there was an air about him that warned strangers to stay away.
Gu Lan was so intimidated by this aura that he shrank back behind Lin Wan Yi.
"Brother..."
The officer stopped in front of Gu Yanshen and snapped off an impeccable military salute.
"Officer Xiao Yang, ordered to come pick you up!"
Gu Yanshen returned the salute.
"Thank you for the hard work."
Xiao Yang’s gaze then fell on Lin Wan Yi, who was behind Gu Yanshen.
Before coming, he had heard about the "legendary military wife" and her story.
A young lady from a capitalist family who ranked first nationally in the delivery room.
He had imagined her in many ways.
Perhaps delicate, perhaps shrewd.
But he hadn’t expected this.
A long train journey, and bringing two young infants.
The woman before him showed no signs of disarray.
She stood there holding the child, calm and composed.
In a simple cotton dress, washed until it was nearly white, yet clean and tidy.
Her face bore no trace of weariness, only a clarity after the rain.
When his gaze swept over her, she neither evaded nor sought favor.
But simply nodded slightly, calmly.
It was a demeanor possessed only by those in power, unhurried and poised.
Xiao Yang’s heart skipped a beat.
He quickly withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, lowered his head, with even more respect than before.
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
"The car is outside, please follow me."
A military jeep was parked in the most conspicuous spot at the exit.
Xiao Yang opened the car door.
"Chief, sister-in-law, please get in."
Gu Lan got in first, holding Gu An and curiously looking around.
Lin Wan Yi, holding Gu Ning, also got in.
Gu Yanshen placed the luggage securely and sat in the front passenger seat.
The car started smoothly.
"Where to?" Xiao Yang asked.
"Back to the Gu Family Mansion, or to the temporary quarters assigned by the National Defense University?"
Gu Yanshen watched the fast-retreating street scene outside the window.
He was silent for a few seconds.
"Not yet."
His voice was calm.
"Go along Chang’an Street."
Xiao Yang gave him a surprised glance in the rearview mirror.
"Yes."
Gu Yanshen added another sentence.
"Pass by the Heping Hotel."
The car became instantly quiet.
Gu Lan blinked in confusion, wanting to ask why.
But was stopped by a look from Lin Wan Yi.
The jeep merged into the traffic.
The streets of Beijing were wide and familiar.
The plane trees on the road were exactly as they were in Lin Wan Yi’s memory.
The car drove steadily.
Soon, a grand building with Soviet-style architecture appeared outside the window.
"Heping Hotel."
The four characters were somewhat mottled under the sun.
The car unconsciously slowed down.
Gu Yanshen turned his head, looking towards Lin Wan Yi in the back seat.
Lin Wan Yi was also looking at him.
Four eyes met.
There were no words.
The beginning of everything.
That absurdity caused by fate, that orchestrated destiny.
All at this place.
Now, they returned here with two children.
The past didn’t seem so unbearable anymore.
Instead, it became a tacit secret shared only between the two of them.
Lin Wan Yi’s lips curled slightly.
Just as the jeep was about to accelerate and turn the corner.
"Screech—"
A piercing sound of emergency brakes.
A black "Hongqi" sedan stopped almost grazing their car’s front.
Xiao Yang’s face turned white as he slammed on the brakes.
The rear window of the "Hongqi" sedan was slowly rolled down by someone.
A face heavily powdered, with meticulously groomed thin, sharp eyebrows, appeared.
She was about to curse.
But her gaze swept over, landing on Lin Wan Yi in the back seat of the jeep.
She was momentarily stunned.
Then, as if discovering the most astonishing gossip.
Her eyes widened, voice sharp and loud, filled with exaggerated malice.
"Oh!"
"Isn’t this the eldest daughter of the Lin Family who was thrown out?"
"What, after all these years, have you climbed some high branch and are back in style?"
