The military wife is pregnant and the tycoon, who has no heir, spoils her rotten.

Chapter 127 The Forgotten Childhood Sweetheart

Hao Yongsheng's lips curled into a mocking smile, a hint of pain flashing in his eyes. "Does it matter? So many years have passed, she doesn't remember me at all."

"Yongsheng, now that you're back, don't leave again." Hao Dazhuang looked at him helplessly.

Hao Yongsheng looked at his biological parents and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

When he desperately wanted to stay before, they wouldn't allow it, saying they would kick Xia Zhi out and starve her if he stayed.

Now, ironically, they've let him stay.

"Yongsheng, Xia Zhi is already married. There's no chance for you two anymore." Chen Xiuping looked at her son and said this cruel truth.

Hao Yongsheng's shoulders slumped in dejection, his eyes filled with pain, before he looked at them calmly.

"You don't need to worry about my affairs. Let's talk about yours."

Hao Yongsheng walked to the window and looked down. Soon he spotted the figure he had been longing for in the crowd.

Five years. I never knew so much could change in just five years.

Chen Xiuping opened her mouth but didn't know where to begin. Should she say that after he left, they hadn't treated Xia Zhi very well, or that his younger sister had interfered in Xia Zhi and Gu Yunshen's relationship...?

"Hmm? Is there something you can't say?" Hao Yongsheng frowned and looked over.

"Oh, no, no, it's just that your sister married Gu Yun Shen. That Gu Yun Shen is a beast. He took a fancy to the rich girl from the city and wanted to kill the child in your sister's belly so he could elope with that little slut."

Hao Yongsheng walked to the bedside. "Wasn't it a marriage with the Lu family? How did it turn into a marriage with the Gu family?"

"This..." Chen Xiuping stammered, unable to speak, but finally pushed him out, "Oh dear, your sister isn't well, so let's not talk about these things."

Hao Yongsheng paid the medical bills and then came out, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar military region in front of him. He used to think that he would be a member here.

Unfortunately, he couldn't grasp anything.

Hao Yongsheng leaned against the wall, his mind filled with the unfamiliar and distant expression on Xia Zhi's face when she saw him.

My chest suddenly ached.

What a heartless little brat! He used to call Yong Sheng "Brother" all the time when we were kids, but now he's forgotten about him.

Hao Yongsheng left the army camp and headed up the mountain. Soon he arrived at the graves of Xia Zhendong and Su Yuhe.

"Uncle Xia, Aunt Su, I'm sorry it's been so many years since I last came to see you. Uncle Xia, I don't think I can keep my promise to take good care of Zhizhi."

After a few words, Hao Yongsheng's eyes welled up with tears. He liked Xia Zhi, but his parents felt it was against ethics. However, they were not related by blood at all, and their relationship was based on the fact that they were like brothers.

Now he has figured it out, but she has already married someone else.

"Uncle Xia, if you were still here, perhaps you would have agreed to my relationship with Zhizhi. Uncle Xia, if only you were here..."

Hao Yongsheng kept talking by the grave until it got dark before he came down the mountain.

Lu Beiting took Xia Zhi's hand and rubbed it for her, saying, "It's getting cold now, you should wear more clothes, look how cold your hands are."

"Oh, that's normal." Xia Zhi said in a spoiled tone, but a happy smile appeared on her face.

The two stood under the lamplight at dusk, and Hao Yongsheng, who had come down, saw this scene.

Seeing that the man beside her was Lu Beiting, she was stunned for a few seconds before walking towards the two of them.

What exactly happened during the years he was gone?

"Zhizhi, can I ask you about some things?"

Xia Zhi turned around when she heard the voice, and to her surprise, it was Hao Yongsheng, whom she had seen during the day.

"What do you want to know?" Xia Zhi squinted at the man in front of her.

Lu Beiting took her hand and said, "Let's go back inside and talk. It's cold outside." Hao Yongsheng looked at their clasped hands and his gaze darkened.

After entering the house, Lu Beiting poured Hao Yongsheng a glass of water, and then sat down next to Xia Zhi.

Seeing Hao Yongsheng's gaze fixed on Xia Zhi, Lu Beiting felt somewhat displeased and forcefully pulled Xia Zhi into his arms.

"Speak if you have something to say, or please go back."

Hao Yongsheng picked up the water glass in front of him and looked at Xia Zhi with a gentle expression. "Zhizhi, how have you been all these years?"

Lu Beiting squeezed Xia Zhi's hand with displeasure.

"Just one? Hmph, that's quite an affectionate way of addressing you."

Xia Zhi looked at Hao Yongsheng and said, "Before I answer that question, I have a question for you: Are we on good terms?"

Hao Yongsheng dropped his water glass on the table with a thud, then gave the two of them an apologetic look before picking up a handkerchief and wiping it.

"you forgot?"

Hao Yongsheng didn't even dare to look up at her. Were they really that close?
He... didn't know either.

Xia Zhi looked at him with a puzzled expression. Something was wrong with Hao Yongsheng. Could it be that he used to like the original owner of this body?
Xia Zhi bit her lip, but there was no such thing in the original owner's memory. In the original owner's memory, Hao Yongsheng was just a vague figure who secretly gave her delicious food, and then suddenly disappeared one day.

Then, I learned from Hao Liping how much her brother hated the original owner of this body.

Hao Yongsheng composed himself and sat down again. "It's nothing. I just want to know what has happened in the past five years." He then looked at Lu Beiting beside him.

"And why are you with him?"

Xia Zhi twitched the corner of her mouth. This Hao Yongsheng really didn't know anything.

“A few days before the wedding, I caught your sister and Gu Yunshen in bed together, and then I let them be together. As for me and Lu Beiting, that’s my private matter.”

Hao Yongsheng's breath hitched, and his mind went blank. "So you're not doing well? They're not treating you well, are they?"

Hao Yongsheng pinched his thigh, finding it hard to imagine how she had managed these past few years.

"Yes, it really wasn't good." Xia Zhi rested her chin on her hand and recounted the original owner's miserable years like an observer.

Seeing Hao Yongsheng's somewhat out-of-control behavior, she became convinced of the illicit affair between him and the original owner of the body.

Hao Yongsheng couldn't quite describe his feelings. His parents hadn't treated Xia Zhi well as they had agreed, and his sister had interfered.

Then what about all those years he spent away from home...?

Or perhaps, the reason why Mom and Dad treat Zhizhi this way is because of him.

He was really foolish; he just left without a word and stayed away for several years.

"Thank you, I'm leaving now." Hao Yongsheng stood up, somewhat out of control, and then stumbled and ran outside.

A cold wind swept over him, clearing his head a little. Hao Yongsheng squatted down, clutching his head in pain. If this was how it was going to happen, he shouldn't have left in the first place.

Perhaps he should have rushed back despite the objections and checked on her to see if she was doing well.

Perhaps, if he had been a little braver, there would still be a possibility between the two of them.

Hao Yongsheng sat outside in the cold wind, his head spinning, his life of the past twenty-odd years flashing through his mind.

Finally, the scene where he left came to a stop.

The girl grabbed his sleeve, crying and begging him not to leave.

And he stayed behind...