A young boy from the 1970s, separated from his family, fled famine and led his younger brother into

Faced with his mother's accusations and his father's furious gaze that seemed to spit fire, Lu Xingzhou stood motionless.

His face still wore that unchanging, icy expression.

But a tidal wave of emotions surged within him!

He looked at the little liar who was hiding in his mother's arms, secretly observing his reaction out of the corner of his eye, and crying uncontrollably.

For the first time, he began to doubt his usually infallible intuition and judgment.

Is it...

Is he really overthinking things?

Is she really just an ordinary, precocious, and intelligent child?

Her calm and composed gaze just now was just the fearlessness of a newborn calf.

But this earth-shattering cry is the true reaction that someone her age should have.

No.

wrong.

Lu Xingzhou immediately rejected the idea.

He trusted his intuition.

This little girl is definitely not simple!

Her sudden tears just now weren't because of fear or grievance, but rather a strategy!

It is the smartest and most effective counterattack she can take when she realizes that her disguise is about to be exposed!

She's using tears as a weapon!

She's using her parents' love as a shield!

She's showing him a sign of defiance!

This realization sent a chill down Lu Xingzhou's spine like never before.

A five-year-old child with such profound cunning!

They can actually manipulate people's hearts to such an extent!

What exactly did she go through?

What exactly is hidden behind her?

Lu Xingzhou looked at the little girl who was still faking tears, and a hint of excitement that he himself did not realize flashed in his cold eyes!

He felt as if he had returned to that perilous border jungle.

And the little girl in front of me is the most cunning and best at disguising herself, the little fox.

interesting.

That's so interesting.

It seems his mission to be urgently recalled this time won't be too boring.

"Dad, Mom, I'm tired." Lu Xingzhou withdrew his probing gaze.

He stopped arguing with his parents.

He didn't provoke that "little liar" again.

He knew he had lost tonight.

A crushing defeat.

In this family, on the scales of his parents' affections, he, the biological son who was rarely home, was clearly no match for the pitiful "adopted daughter" who had only been there for less than a month.

He picked up his luggage and went straight to his dusty room on the second floor.

He stopped in his tracks as he passed Lu Nianci.

He didn't look at her, but spoke softly in a cold voice that only the two of them could hear:

"Little fox."

"Don't let me catch you red-handed."

After saying that, he went upstairs without looking back.

Lu Nianci was left standing there, frozen in place.

Her crying stopped abruptly.

Her back was instantly soaked with cold sweat!

He...he knows!

He knows everything!

He was just playing along with her!

This man!

This man is only one year younger than her in her previous life!

He was the most terrifying enemy she had encountered in both her lifetimes!

……

late at night.

In Lu Xingzhou's room.

He didn't sleep.

Instead, he sat at his desk, wiping his Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, which had been with him for three years, again and again under the dim light of the desk lamp.

The cold gun barrel gleamed menacingly in his calloused hand.

"Knock knock knock".

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Lu Zhenguo pushed open the door and walked in.

He was holding a bowl of steaming noodles with two eggs poached in it.

"You brat, still not asleep?" He put the noodles on the table, his tone still a little harsh.

But his eyes were filled with a father's deep love for his son.

"Thinking about something." Lu Xingzhou put down the gun in his hand and picked up the bowl of noodles.

He picked up his chopsticks and began to wolf down his food.

On the border, they haven't seen a drop of oil for months.

This seemingly ordinary bowl of egg noodles was an unparalleled delicacy to him.

"Still thinking about Ci?" Lu Zhenguo looked at his son's face, which had become noticeably thinner, and felt a pang of sadness.

Lu Xingzhou paused for a moment while eating his noodles.

He didn't look up, but simply said:

"Dad, don't you think she's strange?"

"How could a five-year-old child travel all the way from Henan to Harbin by himself?"

"How can a five-year-old child manage to keep a group of boys seven or eight years older than her completely under her thumb?"

"A five-year-old child can execute military strategies on the chessboard that even Commander Gao praised highly?"

"Don't you think all of this is too illogical?"

Every question Lu Xingzhou asked was like a precise bullet, aimed directly at Lu Zhenguo's deliberately evasive heart.

Lu Zhenguo remained silent.

He had his doubts, too.

Nianci is indeed shrouded in mystery that defies common sense.

but……

"Xingzhou," Lu Zhenguo sighed, walked to his son's side, and said earnestly, "There are always some things in this world that we cannot understand."

"There are always some geniuses who are born extraordinary."

"Nianci suffered a lot; she was just a little more mature and sensible than other children her age."

"But her heart is good."

"She genuinely considered us family, and treated Xiaoshi like her own younger brother."

That's enough.

"As for those so-called 'secrets' about her..." Lu Zhenguo paused, "Let her keep them."

Who doesn't have a few secrets they can't tell others?

Lu Xingzhou fell silent after hearing his father's words.

He put down his chopsticks.

He only ate half of that steaming bowl of noodles.

He looked up at his father's eyes, which were filled with weariness and pleading.

He knew his father was making a request of him.

I begged him not to investigate the little girl's secret anymore.

She asked him to accept her and treat her as real family.

After a long while, he slowly nodded.

"it is good."

I promise you.

"But..." His tone suddenly changed!

His eyes, like cold stars, gleamed with a chilling and obsessive light in the dim light!

"I still don't believe her."

"Until I personally confirm that she poses no threat to this family."

"I will watch her like a most dangerous enemy, 24/7, never leaving her side!"