70s Military Marriage: Shen Ci'an, You're Blushing Again!

When Gu Qingyin was ten, she rescued a blood-soaked boy on the mountain.

Thirteen-year-old Shen Ci'an was barely conscious. He only had time to remember a pair of clear, shining eyes before darkness swallowed him completely. When he woke, he was in a military hospital, and his savior was nowhere to be found.

Ten years later, disaster struck Gu Qingyin's family. Alone, she headed north to seek help from her grandfather's old comrade-in-arms. Standing outside the Shen family home in the military compound with a rattan suitcase in hand, she looked up and met a pair of dark eyes that suddenly narrowed.

Shen Ci'an recognized her.

At first glance, she was the person he'd searched for over ten years. At second glance, she was the person he wanted to protect for the rest of his life.

But the youngest regiment commander in the Jingbei Military District was a man of few words. Though his heart was entirely set on the girl, he stubbornly insisted, “We're just old family friends. I'm only looking out for her a little.”

Looking out for her a little? The fearsome Regiment Commander Shen now made sure to get home for dinner every day. He used to sleep in the barracks, but now he was always going home. Even when his mother tried to set him up with someone, he said, “I'll start a family after I build my career.”

Everyone could see he liked Gu Qingyin. Everyone except him, who kept denying it.

Gu Qingyin knew it all, but she refused to call him out.

She smiled as she watched him awkwardly try to win her favor, stubbornly deny his feelings, and bring her warm milk every day, claiming it was “on the way.”

At last, one day, Shen Ci'an blocked her path. His ears burning red, his voice hoarse, he stammered, “Gu Qingyin, d-do you know…”

She tilted her head, her eyes curving into crescents. “Know what?”

Shen Ci'an stared at her, ten years of longing rising to his throat. In the end, all he could manage was, “I want to date you!”