I Am the Only Fertile Woman in the Game-Chapter 190: The Time When You Loved Me

"He’s outside, too scared to come in," Leberli revealed mercilessly.

Qiao Suisui was puzzled, looked at Leberli, then at Zong Fang. Both men remained silent. Finally, Sang Yan stepped forward and patiently explained, "Colonel Sikoses... because he’s worried, and with the recent arrangements of the war, he’s been working nonstop every day, hardly resting well. He probably doesn’t want you to see him looking so disheveled."

It was only after Sang Yan’s explanation that she noticed that Zong Fang, Leberli, and even Sang Yan, had all lost a lot of weight.

Qiao Suisui wanted to get out of bed to find Ruka but was stopped repeatedly by Leberli and Sang Yan. The three men looked tense. They thought she was still very weak from giving birth and wouldn’t allow her to move around.

Zong Fang found a clean piece of clothing for her from the space, then gently picked her up to leave. Leberli followed with a frown, "When did you start spoiling her like Carl does? There’s a draft in the hallway, what if it chills her?"

When Leberli said this, he didn’t remember how he used to spoil her himself, and now he really had no place to criticize Zong Fang.

Sang Yan was anxious, but knew he wasn’t in a position to interfere, so he could only try to persuade on the side.

Qiao Suisui, swinging her snow-white legs, clung to Zong Fang’s shoulders, and turning back to Leberli, she asked, "Is Carl also in the hallway?"

Leberli wanted to say that fellow didn’t know where he had run off to, but fearing that it would upset Qiao Suisui, he simply smiled and said, "No, he is busy with a big mess outside. I stopped him from coming in to see you."

Qiao Suisui didn’t doubt him and nodded. She said to Zong Fang, "I’d like to see Ruka, you..."

"I know, I will go find Anubis for you right now."

Such understanding from Zong Fang really made Qiao Suisui feel a bit unaccustomed at that moment.

Actually, Zong Fang didn’t trust anyone other than himself to take care of her. Although Leberli was meticulous, his possessiveness was not inferior to his own, and he feared letting her get exhausted in a bid for her attention; Sang Yan’s intentions were practically written on his face. While reliable and loyal, he didn’t understand her habits.

Only Sikoses had a strong sense of discretion in handling matters, always prioritizing her, so for now, Zong Fang only trusted leaving her in Ruka’s care.

Qiao Suisui was carried by Zong Fang into the hallway, where she saw Ruka leaning against the wall far away, zoning out in the corridor.

She rarely saw him like this. The man was holding a cigarette in his mouth unlit, eyes downcast as if he was looking at the ground. On closer approach, she realized his gaze actually had no focus.

"Ruka..."

A gentle call made the man stiffen up completely.

Ruka stood stiffly, his first reaction was to turn his back toward her.

Qiao Suisui was slightly surprised by his reaction, but remembering Sang Yan’s words, she felt a surge of sadness.

Zong Fang approached Ruka with her in his arms and said, "She’s still very weak. Are you going to let her stand here in the draft?"

Ruka’s back visibly trembled at that.

The man quickly turned around. The moment he saw Qiao Suisui, all the restraint he had maintained for so long collapsed like an avalanche.

Ruka could even hear the loud crash inside his own heart.

She was right there before him.

How wonderful.

He stared blankly as Qiao Suisui opened her arms toward him. His body, reacting faster than his mind, reached out and took her into his arms. Zong Fang gave the two some time alone, glanced at Qiao Suisui, and then turned and left.

"Ruka, I’m here."

His pupils contracted sharply. He had thought she would hug his neck and whine ’I missed you,’ but instead, she simply said ’I’m here.’

Those two simple words made the usually stoic and composed man silently shed tears down his cheeks.

Ruka’s arms tightened continuously, wanting to embed her into his very bones.

In those days without her, he truly felt that he couldn’t live on...

If he hadn’t thought about her suffering somewhere, if it wasn’t for the belief that he had to "find her," Ruka wouldn’t have had any desire to live, nor could he feel any changes around him. He spent those days like a walking corpse.

He thought he had loved her to an unbearable weight in his life, loved her to his bones, loved her beyond everything... Yet, when he lost her in an instant, Ruka realized that he loved her even more than he had understood or imagined before... Each day without her was nothing but a mere existence.

"Have I never said that I can’t live without you..." his voice was hoarse as if he was just recovering from a severe illness.

Qiao Suisui gently stroked his prominent brow and his deep eye sockets, then across his prickly chin, where a hint of blue stubble was forming.

"You did say that." She kissed the tip of his nose and said, "So I didn’t leave."

The System had already informed her that her points were sufficient to exchange for a Transmission passage, but she chose not to activate it.

"I knew you were waiting for me, and I couldn’t bear to make you wait. Even if one day I’m gone, you would still wait for me... because I know, you’ve loved me for a day longer than I have loved you."

Ruka once again enveloped her tightly in his arms, the two clung together in the long corridor that flickered with cold light.

...

Leberli’s army had fully taken over the entire Federation Base, where not only Auslan’s soldiers were present but also fighters from the Freedom Alliance. Though belonging to different factions, everyone was orderly under their own leader’s command.

Dr. Zong Fang came out and saw Angsi standing at a higher place, talking with someone with a somewhat hesitant expression. He walked over, wanting to inquire about Anubis’s location. The base was too large, he could go through room by room for Qiao Suisui, but that didn’t mean he had the patience to do the same for Anubis.

"Dr. Zong Fang, you’re just in time." Angsi scratched his head indecisively and said, "There’s something I’m not sure how to tell the colonel, he asked us to keep an eye on a young man’s movements after invading the base."

Angsi took out the water dungeon map given to him by Ruka and showed it to Dr. Zong Fang, who silently memorized the location and asked, seeing his troubled expression, "Is the person not there?"

Angsi shook his head, "No, we found him, but it looks like he’s about to die."

Recalling what he knew about the young man and Miss Qiao, and knowing how Colonel Sikoses treasured her, should he wait until the young man had completely died to report back, or do it now? Being a man of the Colonel, he should ease the Colonel’s concerns.

Upon hearing this, Dr. Zong Fang frowned, ignored Angsi, and hurried to the water dungeon.

When he arrived, Anubis was already breathing his last, his injuries blatantly had been simply treated and weren’t fatal. The real killer was the prolonged experimental torment that had exhausted him, using up all his spiritual power and Talent in a state of extremely low energy, which proved to be the last straw.

By then, Anubis had only a breath left, clinging to consciousness by willpower, unwilling to succumb to the darkness.

Dr. Zong Fang realized he couldn’t do much to help and slightly bowed his head, sighed, and said, "Tell me, whatever I can do, I will help you."

With trembling fingers, Anubis scratched four words into the ground: Don’t tell her.

Don’t tell her about my departure, it would sadden her.

Don’t describe to her how I looked in the end, she would blame herself.

Just say I escaped from here and went someplace far, far away.

Just say I left with my father and from now on, no longer care about all that hate and resentment. frёewebηovel.cѳm

I’m so tired...

Really so tired...

Anubis didn’t know if Dr. Zong Fang could hear his heart’s plea from the twisted four words, but he no longer had the extra strength to say more.

Suddenly, an image appeared before him. It was the scene when he had gone to the Interstellar Strategy Academy to seek shelter with Dr. Li and had accidentally bumped into someone at the corner of the corridor.

At that time, he had pulled down the brim of his hat to hide his face as they brushed past each other.

This was their first encounter, yet at that time, neither knew that the fate, the destiny, the preordained outcome was not a matter of luck but of cruelty.