"Misunderstanding?" She seemed puzzled, murmuring those two words to herself.
Lieutenant He's gaze was conflicted, and in fact, he didn't know if he should speak, but he couldn't bear to see Ning Xia heartbroken. That bright, lively girl was just too different from her current state.
Well, if I'm going to die, so be it!
Taking a deep breath, Lieutenant He parted his lips, "Just now, I, um... was eavesdropping around the corner on your conversation with the colonel, so I wanted to explain on behalf of Colonel Siyan..."
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When Ning Xia returned to her hotel room, Su Zaozao was sitting on the sofa with a laptop on her lap, her fingers dancing quickly across the keyboard as she replied to work emails one by one.
"Back already?"
Su Zaozao lifted her eyelids for a brief glance at her, then returned her gaze to the computer screen, "Where did you go? You took so long to come back."
Ning Xia drifted to the bed like a ghost, then collapsed powerlessly onto the soft mattress.
