Back when we were in Taihang Village nestled in the mountains, due to the physique of the Liang family brothers, they were considered leftovers in the eyes of the secular world.
Tall and strong, they were not the least bit delicate or dainty, failing to match other women’s aesthetic standards.
But Hong Xiangjun didn’t care about this at all.
The reason is simple. Her adoptive parents’ ancestors had come from Dajin, which is why the men in the Hong family were tall with brothers growing up faster than others, especially Hong Wenbin.
In Hong Xiangjun’s memory, the young Wen Bin had a face of youthful greenness, but his appearance was already quite upright. However, because of his pale complexion and the constant gentleness between his brows and eyes, he seemed even more like someone of weak constitution.
But now, reunited with him, it wasn’t just her that had changed.
Wenbin had changed as well.
He was a few inches taller than before, about as tall as Lao Si from the Liang family. His figure was not muscular but rather tall and slender. Yet, the harsh life in The Outside had added weathering to his form, his skin roughened, no longer tender and pale like in the past, but instead taking on some of the rough flavor of the people from The Outside.
However, no matter what, this man had always been the most important person in her heart. Even if his appearance had changed slightly, she would recognize him instantly, even if he were reduced to ashes.
She plunged into Wenbin’s arms. Before that great fire, she had been pampered by her adoptive parents and older brothers. But after the fire, with the dead gone and the living missing, she had to stand on her own two feet.
Originally, she was just an innocent young girl with a single belief to find her missing adopted brother, not knowing his whereabouts. She suffered countless hardships and fell countless times, which forged the person she had become today.
Even with tears, she had to hold them back, because a lonely person’s tears, even if it blinded them, wouldn’t be tenderly wiped away by anyone, no one would care, and there wouldn’t be anyone to embrace and comfort her.
But this time, it was like the floodgates had opened.
She couldn’t control her tears at all and cried with snot and tears, completely ruining her image.
But why did she need an image?
In front of her brother, she never had an image. When she was little, her brother bathed her and even held her as she peed!
Wenbin’s heart had been empty for a very, very long time, but now his sister from the past, this moving woman before him, suddenly crashed into his arms.
Her head against his chest seemed to also crash into his heart.
The emptiness in his heart was filled all at once.
He slowly raised his arms and gently embraced her, but then the force of his hug grew stronger and stronger, as if he wanted to crush her.
On one side, the Hong’s siblings’ joyful reunion, but on the other, the husband and wife of the Dong family wore faces of misery.
The two of them disregarded the occasion and were oblivious to the atmosphere, completely forgetting the dangers amidst the blood and violence.
She silently criticized in her heart, feeling fortunate for having come along. Otherwise, given the state of the Hong’s siblings, they might have been chopped into meat mush before they could have even a few words of heart-to-heart conversation.
The young wife might have been sulking inwardly, but the imminent threat still needed to be dealt with.
So, she and Liang Haoming played the role of fighters together. Watching each others’ backs, one with incredible strength and the other with ruthless moves, they fought until the women from The Outside were sent scurrying in defeat.
Before much time had passed,
it was already a scene of corpses across the desert, blood flooding the sands!