Teng Pingmao put his arm around her shoulders, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the sofa, murmuring, "...Hui Hui, are you okay?"
The woman closed her eyes, seemingly resistant to the name, but she didn't refute it, just said with a smile, "I'm fine, I'm fine. Pingmao, you have to be well too..."
She patted Teng Pingmao's chest.
Teng Pingmao held her hand and said, "If we have a daughter, let's name her Teng Xiao Hui, okay?"
The woman finally seemed unable to bear it anymore, pushed Teng Pingmao's hand away, her eyes reddened, and she choked, "Pingmao! Don't treat me like a fool!"
"If you already have someone in your heart, then don't pester me!"
She suddenly stood up and stood in front of Teng Pingmao, looking down at him.
Teng Pingmao lifted the eyelid of one eye and coldly sized her up.
The cold light in his eyes made him seem like a completely different person from the tender and affectionate man just now.
The woman tightened her robe, startled by his gaze, and stammered, "I... did I say something wrong?! You're clearly... clearly using me as a substitute for someone else!"
Teng Pingmao looked at her angry face, but smiled slightly and said, "What are you thinking? Why would I use you as a substitute? A substitute for whom?"
Seeing that Teng Pingmao's coldness had subsided, the woman was not so afraid anymore, and frowned, "Are you still thinking about your first love? But she's already married!"
Teng Pingmao rubbed his brow, frowned and said, "Nonsense, I broke up with her a long time ago, haven't contacted her for many years, what are you thinking?"
Then, without waiting for the woman to answer, Teng Pingmao waved his hand, "Go and rest, it's late, I'll sit for a while, then go up and join you."
The woman turned her anger into joy and said, "Then come up quickly!"
She turned and went upstairs, her footsteps much lighter.
Teng Pingmao folded his arms and leaned back on the sofa, looking like he had something on his mind.
Xia Chujian quietly followed the woman upstairs.
She originally wanted to see if there was any evidence on the woman's side that could help her bring down Teng Pingmao.
As a result, she found that the woman did not go to sleep immediately after returning to the bedroom, but pulled out a virtual display screen and started chatting with someone.
[Hui Ning]: Hong Hong, are you there?
[Hong Hong]: A Ning, I'm here... but it's daytime here, and it's midnight there, right? Why aren't you asleep yet? What time is it?
[Hui Ning]: Hong Hong, I feel so uncomfortable... I gave my heart to Pingmao, but I always feel like his heart isn't with me...
[Hong Hong]: How could this happen! A Ning, you are the one with the best family background and the best grades among our high school classmates. Isn't Teng Pingmao from a commoners background? How could he have wandering thoughts?! Are you overthinking it?
[Hui Ning]: I hope I'm overthinking it too, but he never calls me "A Ning", even though I've told him many times, he always calls me "Hui Hui"!
[Hui Ning]: It sounds like "bad luck"! How can someone keep calling someone else by their surname as a name! I've told him so many times to call me A Ning, but he agrees to my face and forgets it right away!
[Hui Ning]: Today he even said that if we have a daughter, we'll name her Teng Xiao Hui!
[Hui Ning]: Listen to this! Listen to this! If we're going to use both of our surnames to name our daughter, it should be Teng Hui! Not Teng Xiao Hui!
[Hong Hong]: ...Are you overthinking it? Teng Hui and Teng Xiao Hui aren't that different...
[Hui Ning]: Hong Hong, you haven't been in love, you don't understand! Teng Hui is his surname and my surname, putting them together as a name is perfectly fine!
[Hui Ning]: But Teng Xiao Hui definitely sounds like there's a girl named Xiao Hui!
[Hui Ning]: So he keeps calling me "Hui Hui", he's calling another woman!
[Hui Ning]: I'm a woman! And a woman who loves him wholeheartedly! Only I can feel that every time he looks at me, he's looking at another person through me!
Xia Chujian couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth when she saw this, thinking, Did this Hui Ning watch too many CEO substitute romance webnovels?!
And that Hong Hong obviously had the same thought.
[Hong Hong]: ...A Ning, have you been watching too many CEO substitute webnovels? There aren't that many substitutes in real life, and besides, Teng Pingmao isn't exactly a CEO...
[Hong Hong]: Of course, once Teng Pingmao is elected as a Councilor of the Lower House of the Senate, he'll be considered a CEO-level figure. A Ning, our high school classmates are all very envious of you!
[Hong Hong]: You're our academic genius! Marrying well is the most important thing!
Xia Chujian rolled her eyes speechlessly.
A dignified academic genius is only good for marrying well? That's too insulting to the word "academic genius".
Xia Chujian, as someone who was a perennial underachiever and occasional academic genius, also looked down on this kind of thinking.
She was too lazy to listen to these two girls continue to ramble on.
She simply walked around the bedroom.
Upon closer inspection, she realized that the bedroom had too much of a feminine atmosphere, it was just a woman's bedroom, right? It didn't seem like Teng Pingmao lived here too.
Could it be that this couple isn't living together yet? Xia Chujian wondered, and glanced at Hui Ning's virtual display screen again.
Hui Ning had no idea that someone had followed her in, so she had no reservations when sending messages.
[Hui Ning]: "Hong Hong, I've been in a relationship with him for over a month, but he only comes to my room for that. The rest of the time, he stays in his own bedroom."
[Hui Ning]: "I'm not happy. I want to live with him, but he won't let me..."
[Hong Hong]: "Hehe... that, that time... A Ning, you're so shy!" Xia Chujian indifferently looked away.
These Hong Hong and Hui Ning are at least college graduates, yet they still chat using such childish language.
It really makes me uncomfortable.
Looks like I won't get any leads from this Hui Ning.
Xia Chujian's gaze swept over an LCD dynamic double photo on Hui Ning's bedside table.
It was a photo of Teng Pingmao and Hui Ning.
Teng Pingmao was sitting, wearing a Senior Colonel military uniform.
Hui Ning probably wasn't wearing a military uniform, but the color of her clothes was very close to the camouflage color of the First Interstellar Fleet's regular uniform, so it also looked like a military uniform.
Hui Ning stood behind Teng Pingmao, hugging his shoulders, also smiling, but that smile was a bit restrained and forced.
But Xia Chujian found that Hui Ning looked even more familiar like this.
It was as if she was just a little bit away from remembering who she resembled.
But that little bit made her heart hang in the air, like walking a tightrope.
Xia Chujian gently opened the door and quietly walked out.
Hui Ning was sitting with her back to the bedroom door, focused on chatting with her friend, completely unaware that the door behind her had been opened and closed.
Xia Chujian returned to the living room downstairs and found Teng Pingmao still sitting there.
However, he was no longer lying there with his arms folded and eyes closed, but was looking down at something, leaning forward and watching intently.
Xia Chujian's heart stirred, and she said to Seven Lù in her fully enclosed helmet, "Seven Lù, did you take a picture of that woman named Hui Ning's appearance just now?"
Seven Lù's childish voice said cutely, "I took them all! What does Master want to do?"
Xia Chujian said, "Can you help me search and see if I've ever seen a woman who looks like this?"
Seven Lù said, "No problem! Master, please wait!"
Seven Lù went to retrieve its video database.
Xia Chujian quietly walked behind Teng Pingmao.
Teng Pingmao was too focused on watching and didn't notice that there was anyone else in the living room.
Standing behind Teng Pingmao, Xia Chujian saw that what he was holding in his hand was a film print photo.
Xia Chujian curled her lips, thinking, In this day and age, are there still people who print out photos so primitively? This retro mode is rarely used anymore.
Unless it's printing life-size art photos.
Xia Chujian curiously looked at the photo.
It was also a photo of a man and a woman.
The pose was almost exactly the same as the LCD dynamic double photo she saw on Hui Ning's bedroom bedside table! The man was sitting in front, and the woman was behind him, bending over and hugging his shoulders, smiling brilliantly! Compared to Hui Ning's forced smile just now, this woman was truly smiling happily!
Teng Pingmao was also wearing a military uniform, but not a Senior Colonel uniform, but a Major uniform.
The woman was also wearing a military camouflage uniform, not Hui Ning's clothing similar to camouflage, but a real military uniform! This shows that this woman should be a real soldier.
And when she saw the woman's appearance, Xia Chujian was completely stunned! Because she remembered, she remembered who this woman was!
This was the female soldier she met on Senze Star! The one who used her last strength to tell her what happened, and told her the name "Rong Zhongruo"!
The woman who gave her the coordinates and told her where the Longevity Flying Fish's nest was! Also the one who shouted that she would use her "blood and life" to raise the flag for her! At that time, the female soldier's hair was almost gone, but her features were still beautiful and dignified! No wonder she felt that Teng Pingmao's new girlfriend Hui Ning looked familiar, because Hui Ning resembled that female soldier by five or six points! With a little more dressing up and wearing a Starry Sky camouflage uniform, she could probably look seven or eight points similar! Xia Chujian didn't know the female soldier's name, but remembered collecting all the identity badges of the two thousand Starry Sky Marine Corps soldiers later!
Xia Chujian quickly said to Seven Lù, "Seven Lù! Quickly search for me, among the five hundred female Marine Corps soldiers of the First Interstellar Fleet who sacrificed on Senze Star more than a month ago, is there a female soldier whose name has the word 'Hui' in it!"
"Hui, is the Hui of mutual benefit, the Hui of patronage."
Seven Lù had just completed the comparison and had already found the woman who looked very similar to Hui Ning.
Hearing Xia Chujian issue a new order, Seven Lù hurriedly began to search again.
This time, it wasn't using image comparison, but text search, which was much faster.
Before long, Seven Lù said, "Found it. There's a woman named Tong Xiao Hui, and she is one of the five hundred Starry Sky female Marine Corps who sacrificed themselves."
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Seven Lù hadn't told her the results of the comparison yet, Xia Chujian was inexplicably certain that the female soldier who spoke to her last should be Tong Xiao Hui!
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