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Ling Wenchen stopped smiling and asked her, puzzled, "Was my smile strange?"

He wasn't a person who smiled often to begin with.

In the past, when Ling's mother took her two children out to visit relatives, she always liked to make them laugh.

However, he was cold by nature and didn't like to fake smiles.

From then on, Ling's mother never dared to take her two children out again.

Ling Wenchen touched his face awkwardly. Did he really look strange with that smile?

Every time he sees Jiang Yuyan, or sees news about her, or hears that she has once again criticized that person, he can't help but smile.

Sometimes he smiled without even realizing it himself.

Jiang Yuyan wanted to laugh again.

"Wow, how come I never realized you were so funny before?"

"I was just kidding, just kidding. Don't take it seriously, or you'll become serious, you know?"

Ling Wenchen didn't understand but respected the gesture, and obediently nodded.

The two looked at each other in silence for a while, neither of them speaking first.

He looked expressionless, his hands clenched tightly on his lap, seemingly unaware of his own nervousness.

Jiang Yuyan thought about it and decided that it would be better for both of them to talk to him openly.

"Ling—Deputy Commander, I'm saying this not because I have any issues with you, but simply because I know and have seen the facts."

Ling Wenchen still found the title grating.

However, at the border, no matter who it is, except for outsiders, everyone in the base can only address each other by their titles or code names; they can never call each other by their real names.

Jiang Yuyan didn't know exactly why she couldn't shout; she could only obey.

Ling Wenchen nodded, looking at her quietly, indicating that she should speak her mind and that he was listening.

"Uh, Vice Commander, do you have a fiancée? Even if it wasn't someone you were betrothed since childhood, or someone your family arranged for you, you should understand what I mean, right?"

Ling Wenchen looked blank and subconsciously shook his head.

"I don't have a fiancée, and no one has ever arranged a fiancée for me without my knowledge. Where did you get this information?"

Ling Wenchen really had no idea when or where his fiancée had suddenly appeared.

Although his family was also anxious that he was so old and still not dating or getting married, they scolded him and said whatever they wanted.

But she would never secretly arrange a fiancée for him whom he had never met.

This is absolutely impossible.

Ling Wenchen looked at Jiang Yuyan and shook his head firmly.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. If anyone says she's my fiancée, then she must be sick, delusional."

He had encountered similar strange and crazy women before.

She said she liked him, loved him very much, and that only by marrying him could she experience the beauty of this world.

Almost everyone urged him to marry that crazy woman, but Ling Wenchen stubbornly refused.

He pointed at the crazy woman and launched into a tirade.

"If you really can only experience the beauty of this world by marrying me, then you were living a perfectly good life before you married me, weren't you?"

"If you feel like you can't go on living right now, that's fine. See that river over there? You can fall, you can have any kind of accident, as long as you're determined to die."

He directly made that crazy woman cry, howling and screaming, saying that he was cold-blooded, ruthless, and heartless.

Ling Wenchen ignored him and left.

From then on, rumors circulated in the military that he disliked women and was a ruthless and cold-blooded man.

Jiang Yuyan's expression was blank.

This... it shuts her up from the very first sentence, how is she supposed to respond?

"Ahem, that nurse I saw in the East District last time, right? The people behind her said she's your fiancée, and you didn't refute them, did you?"

"Given your personality, if she really wasn't your fiancée, how could you possibly let others spread rumors about her?"

Ling Wenchen was completely bewildered.

"What? In the East District? Which woman claims to be my fiancée?"

How come he didn't know?

Ling Wenchen pondered for a while,

Suddenly remembering which woman Jiang Yuyan was referring to, he felt a little embarrassed and speechless.

"You mean Wu Jiaojiao, right?"

Seeing a glance from the person opposite him, Ling Wenchen quickly explained.

"Wu Jiaojiao is a member of the Wu family. Old Wu and my grandfather were comrades-in-arms, and they had a very close relationship."

"When we were little, the kids from my family and the Wu family all played together. We knew very well who was on good terms with whom and who wasn't."

"This Wu Jiaojiao has some connection with the Wu family, but we're not actually very close. In fact, I'm not very familiar with most people in the family compound."

"She's always been clingy to me since we were little, which I don't like. Aside from the fact that she lied to my sister to get closer to me, I don't like the scheming in her eyes, as if I'm not an important person to her except to get what she wants."

"If I weren't the son of the Ling family, given her personality, she probably wouldn't even want to look at me."

At this point, a flash of disgust crossed Ling Wenchen's eyes.

"When she saw that I ignored her and my sister wouldn't play with her, she would secretly go to my mother and say ridiculous things like I liked her and wanted to marry her."

Jiang Yuyan clicked her tongue in amazement.

Wow, I never would have guessed that Wu Jiaojiao would go to such lengths to become Ling's daughter-in-law, throwing all her dignity away.

Ling Wenchen said to her earnestly,

"If you encounter a lunatic like Wu Jiaojiao who doesn't understand human language and only cares about her own interests, stay as far away as possible and never talk to them."

"They're mentally ill. They don't understand human language at all, and it's pointless to talk to them. They'll just do it anyway."

"Therefore, it can't be Wu Jiaojiao who will be my fiancée."

"Also, last time I was so focused on wondering if something had happened to you that made you unhappy that I didn't pay attention to what they were saying, which led you to misunderstand."

Ling Wenchen felt increasingly distressed the more he thought about it.

He thought he had done something wrong that caused Jiang Yuyan to distance herself from him.

I never expected it was Wu Jiaojiao who caused this trouble; it's that crazy woman again.

Jiang Yuyan understood.

In other words, all of this was a play orchestrated by Wu Jiaojiao herself, designed to demoralize Ling Wenchen and prevent her from getting close to him.

If it's a woman who has just met Ling Wenchen, or another woman who is too shy to ask,

Wu Jiaojiao's scheme will likely succeed in sowing discord between them very easily; she may have done this many times before.

but--

"Why is Wu Jiaojiao also at the East District base? Did she deliberately follow you to the border? Isn't she going to great lengths?"

With this belief, you'll succeed at anything you do, so why cling to one man?

"So, she's out of her mind, she's sick, and seriously sick at that." Ling Wenchen hit the nail on the head, his words incredibly venomous.

Jiang Yuyan fell silent.

Uh, how should I put it?

The biggest problem between her and Ling Wenchen has been resolved clearly and unambiguously.

Should she tell Ling Wenchen that she is pregnant now?

"Yan'er, now that we've made things clear, what do you want to say about my confession?" Ling Wenchen asked nervously.