The moment Wen Zhan, the toughest veteran soldier in the village, pulled her out of the icy river, he felt the soft curve of her waist.
His eyes darkened. This kid isn’t what he seems.
From then on, she became someone he kept under “special watch.”
Testing her in the woodshed, he gripped her slender wrist and sneered, “Your bones don’t feel like a man’s.”
When her rations were withheld, he climbed over the wall late at night to bring her a hot sweet potato, coaxing her softly. “Eat it.”
When someone gave her a hard time, he shielded her in front of everyone and declared coldly:
“She’s mine. You don’t get to lay a finger on her.”
Everyone said Director Wen was stern and impartial, and had no interest in women.
No one knew he was going mad protecting her.
If anyone so much as looked at her for too long, he’d have them transferred to clean the commune’s toilets the very next day.
Only Shen Hang saw through it. “Wen Zhan, the one you’re hiding is a girl.”
Wen Zhan’s temper flared. He pinned him against a tree trunk.
“She’s my life. Anyone who tries to tear us apart will disappear in the Great Northern Wilderness.”
Yao Xi huddled inside his military coat, her heart racing.
She thought she’d hidden her secret, but that slender doctor, Shen, saw right through her at a glance.
She thought she was at a dead end, never imagining he’d cherish her like a treasure in his palm.
She thought all she could do was hide behind him.
But she didn’t know that while this cold-faced soldier king doted on her, she was quietly growing stronger too.
“Stay hidden! I’ll protect you! In this life, you can only be mine!”
[Cold on the outside, secretly unhinged soldier king × Strong yet tragic girl in disguise]
[Girl disguised as a man | Secretly protective | She later gets into university]
