[Period Setting, Yandere, Regiment Commander, Fleeing While Pregnant]
For five years, Shen Nian'an thought she had fled far enough.
Back then, she had caught her fiancé cheating with her own eyes. Just as her heart died, the quiet, taciturn man offered her a marriage contract: “Marry me, and you won’t have to go to the countryside.”
Xu Renzhou was the youngest regiment commander in the military, and her fiancé’s uncle. Everyone said he was cold-blooded and merciless, but after they married, he washed her feet, cooked for her, and took her on walks, treating her as tenderly as if she were a fragile lamp.
She thought it was gratitude repaid, a marriage in name only.
Until he locked her to the bed, madness surging in his eyes. “A marriage in name only? I want every part of you to belong to me.”
The gentle man disappeared. In his place was a madman who saw her as both his salvation and his prisoner.
She ran, fleeing a thousand miles away with her body covered in scars.
Five years later, at the Yun City Army Command Center.
As she presented a joint border operations plan, she looked up and froze.
The man in uniform stood on the steps, his shoulder boards rigid, his eyes red as if they might bleed.
He stared at her and walked closer, one step at a time.
“Five years.” His voice was hoarse. “I’ve been looking for you for five years.”
She tried to run, but he grabbed her by the wrist.
“Nian'an,” he said, lowering his head. His eyes held the familiar madness, along with a plea so humble it felt foreign to her. “I was wrong. Please come back.”
In the distance, two children called out brightly, “Mom!”
He looked up sharply and saw two little faces exactly like his own.
In that instant, he was struck like lightning.
“Are they mine?”
