The Last Chapter: Good Things (Part II)

The documentary "Soldier Comes Home", produced by Venus Studios, is the latest work of director Akira Shirasawa after "A New Journey of Mankind".

Although considered by some sharp critics to be too sensational and vulgar, the documentary was still nominated for a number of important awards at the Nebula Awards, but it certainly couldn't break the record of his most famous documentary, but both documentaries were nominated for the Nebula Awards, which is a record that is difficult for posterity to achieve.

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One night, a man and a woman, who have been privately engaged for a long time but have been separated for a longer time, reunite in the woods on the banks of Rabbi Avenue and give each other gifts that represent their hearts. The man's gift was a bottle of paulownia wine, and the woman's gift was a bracelet.

Jian Shui'er took off the bracelet with a smile and hung it on Xu Le's wrist, snuggling up to the bracelet, the silver light reflected each other, and the lines of small characters could be clearly seen.

Xu Le looked at the face that was still beautiful and incomprehensible, unwilling to be playful but more charming, raised the wine bottle with some embarrassment, and said: "I don't know what to send, you said it was the first blind date on the battleship, and you drank several bottles at that time, so I chose this." ”

Jian Shui'er smiled, stepped forward and got into his arms, hugged his strong waist and leaned on his chest, and said softly: "At the time, I thought the red wine was a little lighter, but I like it now." ”

Xu Le lowered his head and kissed her lips gently, and at the moment of contact, he remembered that this love was really dreamy, even as unreal and fleeting as a dream, because of the damn twists and turns of fate, the two of them didn't have time to enjoy the taste of love.

But what is love? Is it the feeling of heartbeat? He was heartbeat, still heartbeat, whether he is hugging and kissing or just looking at it, his heartbeat will accelerate.

It's like when I saw the lonely little nanny on TV for the first time outside the tavern when I was a child, like when I watched the purple-haired girl captain crazy night after night, like when I saw the real her for the first time at a concert at the Linhai State Gymnasium, like when I woke up from a dark dream and saw the sun shine through the white gauze skirt into the bandeau dress, just like when I hugged her for the first time in the dull cockpit.

They led them through the woods along Rabbi Avenue into the still-lit Federal Supreme Court, which never hears cases at night and has no duty to witness marriages, but today the highest federal judiciary waits for a couple.

There were very few people in the Supreme Court, no relatives, friends, no journalists, except for the old man in the chief justice's bench, and only two staff members who were responsible for taking photographs and archiving them.

He Ying, the chief ** officer of the Federal Supreme Court, sat there drowsy like this, which made people feel a certain sense of oppression, and he was really an old man who could use time to suppress powerful forces.

Xu Le took Jian Shui'er's hand and said seriously: "The wedding is simple and can't be made public, and it can even only be held at night, it's really not grand and formal enough, I hope I can have a chance to make up for it in the future." ”

Jian Shui'er smiled and said, "I have experienced too many grand and formal occasions over the years. ”

The old judge on the trial bench suddenly opened his eyes, quickly woke up from his drowsy state, looked at the couple of men and women in the audience and reprimanded unhappily: "Isn't it grand and formal enough to hold a ceremony in the Supreme Court and be married by the chief ** official of the Federation?"

The ** official with a face full of age spots stared coldly at Xu Le's face with a look at the scum, and said in an old voice: "The Supreme Court has never done a marriage witness, so the procedure is a little unfamiliar, of course, if you come to the marriage certificate a few more times in the future, maybe we will be familiar with a lot." ”

This is obviously a severe accusation of someone's moral standards, but Xu Le couldn't refute it, and for some reason he even heard a trace of murderous intent, so he honestly lowered his head like a criminal,

**The official said lightly: "There is another question, one of you is a federal person, and the other is an imperial person, how can this marriage be concluded? The federal marriage law has a supplementary clause for intermarriage with Bermuda, but there is no additional clause for intermarriage with the imperial people. ”

Xu Le was stunned, scratched his hair and said in embarrassment: "Do I still have to find a way to get the Federal Assembly to pass a resolution to allow the Federation and the Empire to marry first." ”

"Fool, wouldn't you say you're a Federal?" The ** officer looked at him like a stupid pig, and reprimanded him unceremoniously: "Where did the IQ of the genius engineer go?"

"But I'm really an Imperial. Xu Le replied honestly.

"You can keep your Imperial citizenship. ”

Xu Le looked at the old judge in shock and said, "Is it okay like this?"

"I said it can be like this, then it can be like this," said the old judge angrily, "who in the whole federation would dare to question my precedents? ”

Xu Le took a deep breath, felt his body suddenly relax, and said silently to the guy in the mansion in his heart, I am still recognized as a member of the Federation after all.

When the ceremony entered the formal part, He Ying**, wearing reading glasses, looked at the template that had just been downloaded and printed from the Internet, and read word by word:

"Xu Le, a federal citizen, are you sure you love Jian Shui'er and want to marry her?"

"Yes. Xu Le took Jian Shui'er's hand and replied, "When I was very young, I told myself that I wanted to gather Jian Shui'er as my wife. ”

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After the court marriage ceremony, Jian Shuier went to the side to take a single file registration photo, only Xu Le stayed in front of the sentencing table, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

There are too few people in this world who can make him nervous, and the chief ** officer on the stage is definitely the first, he himself doesn't understand why, and he remembers a pre-catastrophe proverb that he just learned from the old thing: If you have no desire, you are strong, and the reason why the ** official makes him awe-inspiring is probably because he always stands in a selfless position to help himself?

"Xu Le, come to the table. The old judge said.

Xu Le walked to the table as he said.

"I warn you, if you dare to ask me to hold a marriage ceremony for you and another woman in the future, I will turn my face directly. ”

The old judge's layers of wrinkles revealed undisguised intimidation, but the next moment his expression instantly became complicated, and he said softly: "Of course, I also know that men are not all like this, as long as you don't let me preside over me, I won't see it, why did I insist that you keep your imperial nationality just now?" Because imperial people can marry many wives......"

It is very unfortunate that Jian Shui'er has just come back at this time, and when she heard this, the beautiful bride raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at the banquet and said angrily: "Old man, don't you want to listen to me tell you stories anymore? ”

The old judge smiled embarrassedly, and then said: "Who said that I am more than 100 years old, I am only ninety-five this year, have you ever heard a sentence, seventy-three, eighty-four, ninety-five? ”

At this time, he glanced at his watch, patted his chest with some fear, and said: "It's past twelve o'clock, my birthday has passed, I have officially entered the age of ninety-six, and it seems that it is not so easy to die early." ”

Xu Le looked at the old judge on the table and said very sincerely: "When you judged the Zhong family's property lawsuit, I already wished you a long life. ”

"This blessing is so insincere. The old judge waved his hand and said, "A hundred years is too short." ”

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Some people think that 100 years is too short, and some people think that 100 years is too long.

In the cafeteria of Allure Military Prison, a dark-skinned middle-aged prisoner is teaching other prisoners, waving his arms, and his deep voice is particularly convincing, former Federal President Pabul, who was sentenced to a long prison sentence, is still firmly continuing his struggle.

"We are prisoners, but we still deserve personal rights, such as the right not to wear electronic shackles, which is a serious violation of the federal anti-torture law, and we have the right to meet guests, and we should fight for our own political rights." ”

The old prisoners who were still alive looked at him with indifferent expressions, and some of them mocked: "The people here are either dying, or indefinitely, what's the use of fighting for those rights?"

Pabur looked at the man with a smile and said, "How can it be useless? It's always more comfortable to be without shackles, and now there are more newspapers and magazines that people can read, and I can even stand here and teach everyone, and I always have to fight for my rights." ”

An old prisoner in the corner said in a hoarse voice: "That's fine, Mr. President, you have indeed won a lot of benefits for us, but political interests are useless, it is better to ask the prison management to get us some ** CDs, what is this called? Sexual rights, right?"

There was a shrill burst of laughter in the cafeteria.

Pabul also laughed and said: "Political rights are voting rights, and although our votes are small, they are most likely the most important ones." If we had the right to vote, we could vote for candidates who were in favor of leniency, or who thought that prison funding should be cut and the number of inmates reduced, then maybe one day a magazine would actually be sent to prison, or even one day you would ever get out of prison. ”

The prison gradually fell silent, and the sinister old prisoners seemed to be starting to think seriously.

When the bell rang and Pabur was escorted back to his solitary cell under the watchful eye of the military police, he made twenty push-ups in a row according to the schedule, drank a glass of water, and then sat down at his desk and began to write letters to the councillors at all levels.

His gaze shifted from the fiber letter to the picture frame in front of the table, where Padel was looking at him with a sweet smile, and Pabul smiled slightly, silently calculating in his mind how many more days would be the date of the visit, and how many more young people would be able to get out of prison.

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During the negotiations between the Federation and the Empire, it is claimed that there is a temporary truce, but in fact, there are still conflicts on the surface of some planets, and in order to fight for their own bargaining chips at the negotiating table, no party will choose to sit back and wait in silence at this time.

In a certain military camp, dozens of soldiers surrounded the battalion commander of the major who had just led them through the encirclement and returned home safely, and expressed their gratitude, and a subordinate asked curiously: "Battalion commander, are the officers who have been recruited through the special recruitment plan of the Ministry of National Defense, who are as fierce as you and dare to climb down such a steep cliff." ”

The battalion commander said with a cigarette in his mouth: "I used to be in the FBI, and I didn't receive military training, so as long as you can understand a word on the battlefield, you are considered qualified." ”

"What's that?"

"Except for life and death, it's all his ** business. ”

"Incisive, battalion commander"

I also heard this sentence from others. ”

"Who?"

"Colonel Xu Le. ”

After being silent for a long time, a soldier was shocked and asked, "Battalion commander, do you still know such a big man?"

The battalion commander spit out the somewhat bitter cigarette butt he contained, raised his chin and said proudly: "Nonsense, did I interrogate him and tell you about it?"

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Several of the top courtesans of the Federation, who were extremely arrogant and proud on weekdays, thought of the flattering smile of the logistics director of Sanlin United Bank at the previous moment, and realized that the chairman of the club, who looked like he was dying of his youth, actually had a very deep background.

One of them flattered and said with a smile: "Sister Lulu, I really didn't expect you to be so strong." ”

Sister Lulu, who was wearing a big backless suit, held the cigarette roll between her two fingers, and her eyes suddenly flashed with flattery when she looked at everyone's cold eyes, and said, "Nonsense, do I have to tell you about this group of girls if I slept with the imperial prince?"

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Every once in a while, Dr. Jiang Rui, who would be beaten up for no reason by the group of men, finally could no longer bear this eternal torture, and he mustered up the courage to enter the inpatient building of the Army General Hospital, and pestered a female nurse to cry bitterly.

"My yellow bird, can you eat after work?"

Li Xiaotong, the seventh young master of the Tiesuan Li family, walked over with a large bouquet of golden sunflowers, and he succeeded as the president of Sanlin United Bank from Li Xiuzhu's hands, the cold aura on his body was even more prevalent Back then, between his eyebrows and eyes was becoming more and more calm and sophisticated, but in front of the female nurse named Huang Li, the cold aura on his body would inexplicably fade without washing.

Probably because when he looked at her for the first time in the clubhouse where he forgot his name, he saw her fanning the negative man with her little palm with great pleasure, and tasted his favorite taste from between those palm wind and fingers, so he was unforgettable.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Li Xiaotong's face turned cold again, Huang Li stuck out her tongue cutely, stepped forward to take the sunflower, took his arm and walked towards the elevator, when the elevator door was about to close, she couldn't help but glance at Dr. Jiang Rui with great sympathy.

Brother Zeng, who was standing silently behind Li Xiaotong, did not leave, but slowly walked towards Jiang Rui, his hair was already white, but it was still like a cold gun.

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She is a famous young female congresswoman of the Federation, she is still the charming leaf of Qinglong Mountain, the subordinates in the parliament mountain have heard of that legendary story, but have never heard her mention it, only occasionally after a weekend, the waiter who cleans up the bathroom can see two red wine glasses and a jar of foam, she is Zhang Xiaomeng.

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There is a strange professor from Ewha University, who has messy hair like a bird's nest, always bloodshot eyes, and is extremely thin, like an old rabbit who has slept for too long.

The professor never shy away from admitting that he had lived in an insane asylum for a long time, insisting that the real geniuses of the Federation were all imprisoned in an insane asylum by the government, and insisting that his IQ was higher than that of Xu Le and Shang Qiu, two legendary engineers combined. Because he said that his name was understood in the ancient alphabet, which means better person.

He's Bedman.

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The Imperial forces fully recovered the Ink Flower Planet, and the almost ruined Ferge City regained some breath of life, and the civilians and slaves in the mining area who had been hiding in the cellar attic for an unknown amount of time finally crawled out.

That's because there is a beautiful girl who leads the gendarmerie to patrol day and night in this city that can no longer be harmed, no matter how barbaric the troops are, they are all well-behaved and pure like mice in front of this gendarmerie, because this is the gendarmerie directly under His Highness, and everyone on the emperor knows that the beautiful girl is His Highness's most trusted subordinate.

Feger is her hometown, Shched Kabdanovich is her grandfather, and she is Azra.

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The bullet-riddled battleship landed at a military base somewhere in S3, and a burly young Federation general stepped out, his muscles under his uniform filled with violent power, as if he could stretch the general's uniform into flying pieces at any moment.

The young general unceremoniously refused the invitation to the dinner of the heads of the three military regions, and then drove a military off-road vehicle alone and drove towards a certain deep mountain.

On the road less than 400 kilometers before arriving at the mountain villa, he rushed to a highway toll booth trying to collect money, smashed a vehicle charging station that was manipulating on a counter, kicked and broke the thigh bones of four robbers, smashed 17 expensive mounts of rich children who were racing on ordinary roads, and rescued a girl who jumped into the lake in a wedding dress because of emotional problems on the shore of the lake entering the mountain, and did not hesitate to slap the other party twice, and refused to leave his name and any contact information.

The already extremely dilapidated military off-road vehicle finally drove into the quiet villa in the mountains, the young general knocked on the door, kicked open the heavy and solid alloy door without hesitation, walked up the stairs to the terrace on the second floor, looked at the middle-aged man who was playing the violin and said in a deep voice: "Are you really going to turn yourself into a poor literary middle-aged man?"

Including the invincible Imperial Huai Cao Shi His Royal Highness, there are not many people in the world who dare to speak to that middle-aged man in such a tone, except for the small-eyed officer in the training base back then, there is probably only this young general with a violent temperament.

Because he joined the army at the age of twelve, he fought all over the army, because the Venus on his mecha leg that represents the battle record was mottled and dazzling, because he was the proudest inheritance of the Thirty-Seven Constitutional Federation, because he was willing to sacrifice his life to carry out electric shock stimulation in order to protect this Federation, because his temper has always been so violent, because he is a Li madman.

At the edge of the terrace, the middle-aged man put down the violin in his hand, his expression was still as cold and calm as on the battlefield, as if he was still the famous general of the Federation who was crisscrossing the stars, but today he no longer had the iconic sunglasses and changed into civilian clothes.

He smiled and said: "It's not that I have become, but I have always been a literary and artistic young man in my bones, and now as I get older, I will naturally become a literary middle-aged." ”

Li Feng frowned, glared at him and said, "What are you thinking?"

"I didn't think about anything, or maybe I figured it out, so I came back. ”

Li Feng's brows furrowed tighter and sharper, and he asked in a deep voice, "What have you figured out?"

The middle-aged man looked at him and said lightly: "A few years ago, Xu Le's identity as an imperial person was revealed, in the mountains next to the high-speed railway, when my department was ordered to hunt and kill, Xu Le once scolded me angrily, you *** are the emperor, and you laughed and scolded, if Xu Le is an imperial person, then I am a woman." ”

Li Feng frowned and asked in disbelief: "If you take this grudge, I solemnly apologize to you, but the situation was different at that time, who would believe that he was from the empire?"

"Yes, who would believe it?" the middle-aged man suddenly laughed, "just like who would believe that my mother was really an imperial person, an imperial woman." ”

Li Feng's eyes widened suddenly, completely unbelieving what he had just heard.

"I couldn't figure it out before, but after watching Xu Le return to the Federation, I vaguely understood that she probably didn't want to see me avenge her in this way. ”

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There was a miserable Imperial woman, who was a nobleman who had been brutally purged by the Empire, and was drafted into the barracks at the age of seven, first washing clothes for the stinky soldiers, and then being transferred to the fleet of the Xilin Expeditionary Force at the age of nine.

At that time, it would take nearly seven years for the Imperial Expeditionary Force to arrive in Xilin, Haohan's cosmic journey, the unknown danger, and the long years on the monotonous ship, it was easy to make people feel crazy, and the lower-level soldiers who did not have much culture could rely on iron-blooded discipline and the brainwashing of the royal family training group to support them, while the nobles and even the royal officers who commanded the expeditionary force seriously lacked this kind of self-discipline and other means.

So they needed alcohol, and they needed women, so they would deliberately take very young slave girls with them before they set out on the expedition, and wait for those little slave girls to grow up during the long journey, and the nobles liked this flavor.

Of course, this was a serious violation of military discipline, and the imperial family even used the criminal law of beheading to give a stern warning, but it still could not prevent those noble officers from secretly taking little slave girls into the fleet, and even eventually it evolved into the practice of some extremely powerful nobles.

The Imperial woman was such a little slave girl, who, in the course of seven years of the long voyage, went from nine to sixteen, from youth to bright maiden, and then, unsurprisingly, became the vent of a certain general.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force arrived at the Federation Planet 5460 and after a bitter battle, occupied the northern hemisphere of the planet, and the girl was transferred to the surface.

Almost half of the short teenage life was spent in endless darkness and shame, and the imperial girl has always endured in silence, praying that the Creator can give her a relatively good future, be able to return to her hometown safely, and then marry a commoner who does not dislike her, no, even if it is a pariah slave, as long as you don't beat me, it will be fine......

However, after overhearing that His Excellency the general was about to throw himself into the military camp because he was disgusted with himself like a piece of wood, the imperial girl felt the unbearable darkness for the first time, she stole a pair of cold-proof military boots, wrapped in three layers of blankets, and escaped from the emperor's ** camp with a dozen pieces of pancake, and fled through the long primeval forest in the ice and snow, and fled to the south.

In such a cold and cruel environment, such a terrible and secluded road, the girl actually walked out of the primeval forest in such an incredible way and arrived at a place where there were people.

Among the federal troops stationed at the forefront at that time was the 7th Mechanic Division from the 2nd Military Region, and there was a staff officer surnamed Du in the 7th Mechanic Division, who met the emaciated girl who was freezing and dying in the snowdrift at the edge of the forest.

I woke up but couldn't speak, and I knew that the other party was from the empire but couldn't bear to hand it over to the intelligence agency, because ...... Because she was just a poor woman who was thin and dying.

So Staff Officer Du built a small tree house in the forest for her and moved into a warm futon. Every few days when it was his turn to patrol the defense at night, he would hide the food rations he had saved for several days and send them to the treehouse, occasionally gesturing and gossiping when he had time.

In this way, a low-ranking officer of the Federation and a low-ranking military officer of the empire simply fell in love with each other on a planet full of traces of wandering and gunsmoke, because love was originally simple.

Falling in love is such a simple and beautiful thing.

For the first time in her life, the imperial girl, who was getting better, felt happy, began to hum the little song of her hometown, waited for the figure to arrive in the tree house every day, began to learn a few simple federal words, began to go to the forest to pick straight branches, then peeled off the bark and polished it with stones, ate the mutton that the man called, spun the wool on the sheep and knitted a sweater for the man.

Staff Officer Du was a man with a wooden temperament, he only knew how to find the thickest branches he could carry, so that the little tree house could be stronger, he only knew how to pick those linoleum so that the women could be warmer when they waited for him, he only knew that he had stolen a lot of old newspapers, so that the woman could have something to do when she was bored, but he forgot that she did not understand the federal language.

For a long time he couldn't get out of the barracks, so he kept writing a diary with a pen, writing down the bits and pieces after he got to know her wonderfully, recording the gradual growth of the treehouse, recording the difficult production process of the sweater, and finally he began to record the gradual growth of his first child in her arms, and he kept the diary so well that it was locked so that no one would know.

Ten months passed peacefully, when the child was about to land, the imperial girl had a difficult birth because of the pain and torture she had suffered for many years, looking at the woman moaning in pain in the tree house, with beads of sweat on her face, Staff Officer Du did not hesitate, gritted his teeth and ran towards the barracks, he didn't care that he would be punished by strict military discipline, he only cared that she wanted to live.

However, it was in the middle of that night full of blood and death that the final battle of the Second Federation Defense War broke out, and the three integrated brigades of the Empire attacked the defense line of the Seventh Division.

The headquarters of the Seventh Division was delayed by fighters, which led to a fatal hole in the plan of the federal military, and the Seventh Division itself was surrounded by three integrated brigades of the Empire.

The Seventh Mechanic fought a particularly tragic battle, there was no military doctor, no military discipline, not even a superior, and Staff Officer Du could not find anything, only the corpses scattered all over the mountains.

By the time he returned to the treehouse in the wee hours of the morning, risking his death, the baby had already been born. She bit the bloody umbilical cord with her teeth, and she put the child in Chiluo's arms, but she had closed her eyes forever, so the newborn life cried with great sadness and weakness.

Few people in the 7th Division survived that battle, and Staff Officer Du was one of them, who took his child back to the capital circle on a battleship, and reported that the child was an orphan baby he had picked up in the home of the 5460 pioneer immigrants, and that the baby's parents had died.

Because of the needs of publicity, the Seventh Division became a heroic Iron Seventh Division, but Staff Officer Du chose to retire from the army with his child, and then died a few years later with infinite guilt and fear.

Mixed-race people are often excellent, and even more so in the mixed-race of the Federation and the Empire, that child gradually grew up and gradually showed his excellence, he was admitted to the High School Attached to Capital University with the first place, graduated with the first place, and was admitted to the First Military Academy of the Federation with the first place.

He studied hard and lived seriously, because when he was a child, he heard his father talk about the war, and knew that the honorary title of the Iron Seventh Division was a shame that his father would never be able to bear, and he always thought that his father was depressed because of that tragic victory.

It wasn't until he came home from his freshman year of college that he accidentally saw the diary left by his father, and then read it all night, and wept bitterly because of the words, and never cried again.

He finally knew that the shame in his father's wrinkles back then was because he was ashamed of his dead comrades-in-arms and his mother who died in childbirth, and he finally knew that his mother was a lowly emperor.

He would not, though he had a little low self-esteem since then, but he was even more proud of his mother's ability to cross the primeval forest in the snowstorm with a blanket and a pancake in her army boots.

So he studied harder and harder, and his performance became better and better, and there was a girl on campus who secretly said that he liked him, and he also liked each other silently, but he never responded to the other party's affection, until he saw her holding the hand of another equally excellent man.

He didn't respond because of the little inferiority complex and that little pride in his bones, but also because he knew in his heart that all his life would be dedicated to the dangerous battlefield, and he was very likely to die in the war between the Federation and the Empire.

He wants to correct his depressed father, let the Iron Seventh Division gain true glory, he wants to avenge his mother who has a miserable life, he wants to lead the troops into the empire to destroy the evil world, and turn all the imperial nobles and the dog emperor into a dog under his feet

In order to accomplish this goal, he joined the Trinity Society and began to follow Pabur, he wanted to turn the Federation into a powerful military machine, directly crushing the huge body of the empire, so he was cold and unapproachable, indifferent and no longer emotional.

However, all of this was over, at the hands of an imperial prince whom he should hate the most, but found that he could not hate it a little, and then he suddenly found that the world in his eyes was gradually changing, and on the final battlefield of the Ink Flower Planet, he noticed for the first time the little imperial girl crying and running in the Molotov cocktail between the imperial towns.

Mother must have been such an imperial little girl back then, right?

After the first defeat or the first voluntary evacuation, he chose to leave the battlefield, resigned as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy of the Federation, returned to S3's hometown and bought an ordinary villa in the mountains, playing the melodious violin on the terrace, nostalgic for the ...... that never belonged to him His woman, nostalgic for his father and the imperial mother.

He is Du Shaoqing.

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