Arranged marriage, love blossoms; a fiercely devoted soldier dotes on her alone.

"Cough, cough!"

Xiao Zhan coughed twice and almost choked on his own saliva.

"Su Zixing, don't talk nonsense, okay? Xia Keke and I have a pure friendship, we are the best partners who can entrust our backs to each other."

Su Zixing smiled calmly and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. I'm a woman, and I can tell what a woman is thinking just by looking at the way she looks at a man."

Do you have a girlfriend?

Xiao Zhan answered truthfully: "I'm married."

Su Zixing exclaimed in surprise, "You're married? Xia Keke has fallen for a married man, haha, how interesting. The Xia family just loves being other people's mistresses."

Xiao Zhan quickly said, "Miss Su, you can't talk nonsense. Director Xia and I are really as innocent as scallions mixed with tofu, completely innocent and clean."

Su Zixing smiled and said, "Perhaps you haven't noticed it yourself, but I'm absolutely not making this up. Only women understand women best. Once a woman falls in love with a man, the way she looks at him will unconsciously reveal that deep affection."

"squeak!"

The car then stopped in front of a low office building, surrounded by many fully armed soldiers on guard.

Tony Jaa opened the car door and said, "Instructor, Miss Su has arrived. Please get out of the car."

After getting out of the car, Xiao Zhan looked around and asked, "Tony Ja, who's looking for Miss Su?"

Tony Jaa hesitated for a moment before saying, "Colonel W, he is the highest-ranking commander here."

Xiao Zhan frowned and said, "Colonel W, if I remember correctly, he was the captain of the T country's special forces who participated in the joint military exercise between the two countries two years ago."

Tony Jaa: "The instructor knows Colonel W."

Xiao Zhan continued, "I remember W was only a lieutenant colonel back then, and he's already been promoted to colonel so quickly, and even became the head of T's elite special forces. That's quite a rapid advancement."

Tony Jaa looked around and then whispered, "Colonel W's father is a high-ranking government official, a powerful figure."

Xiao Zhan nodded thoughtfully.

Xiao and Su Zixing followed Tony Jaa and soon arrived at the door of an office upstairs.

Xiao Zhan saw two armed guards standing at the door and guessed that they were Colonel W's bodyguards.

Tony Jaa went in first to report.

Su Zixing looked at Xiao Zhan with unease, biting her sexy lips, and whispered, "Xiao Zhan, you promised Deng Zhi you would protect my safety, right?"

Xiao Zhan paused for a moment, then said, "Yes."

Su Zixing: "As long as you can protect me through this crisis, I will hand over the information I have to you, and then you can go back and report."

Xiao Zhan raised an eyebrow and said, "Explain myself? Explain myself to whom?"

Su Zixing smiled and said, "Besides Deng Zhi wanting to get back the information I have, there are probably many other people who want it too. Don't deny it. I won't ask you or care who you're working for, because I can feel that you're genuinely trying to save me. No wonder my cousin likes you."

"You are a very pure person."

Xiao Zhan was a little confused!

When did I become a truly pure person?

The key is what constitutes a truly pure person?

At this moment, Tony Jaa came out and said, "Miss Su, you go in. Instructor, you can't go in."

Xiao Zhan's face suddenly darkened, and without saying a word, he grabbed Su Zixing's hand and strode into the office.

Tony Jaa shook his head with a wry smile and quickly followed.

He knew this would happen.

Because Xiao Zhan is that kind of person.

at this time,

The office was filled with smoke, and the atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like water could drip from it.

Colonel W sat behind his desk, smoking, his sharp, piercing eyes fixed on Xiao Zhan. Xiao Zhan, in turn, stared intently at Colonel W. Their gazes met in mid-air…

Tony Jaa was about to speak when Colonel W stopped him with a gesture.

Tony Jaa stood awkwardly to the side...

Colonel W is known in the T country's military for his ruthlessness and is a hawkish figure in the military, always decisive in killing...

The attack launched by Country T against Country J, and the beheading of the lieutenant general commander of the J military in the early stages of the battle, was a special operation personally planned and commanded by Colonel W.

Colonel W withdrew his gaze, stubbed out his cigarette butt in the ashtray, then stood up abruptly, walked up to Xiao Zhan, and punched him hard in the chest.

Xiao Zhan punched him back hard.

Tony Jaa was stunned!

Su Zixing was terrified.

Immediately,

"Hahaha."

Colonel W and Xiao Zhan burst into laughter simultaneously…

Then the two of them hugged each other tightly again.

This scene left Su Zixing stunned.

Even Tony Jaa was completely baffled...

What's going on?

Do the two people seem to know each other?

"Slap! Slap!"

Colonel W and Xiao Zhan patted each other on the back a few times before parting ways.

Colonel W: "Xiao Zhan, how have you been?"

Xiao Zhan: "Colonel W, you're still the same old jerk."

Colonel W sneered, "Old habits die hard, and I'm not going to change my ways."

Xiao Zhan: "Congratulations on your outstanding achievements this time, successfully beheading the J country's lieutenant general commander on the front line."

Colonel W: "Thank you for sharing the intelligence with our allies."

Xiao Zhan: "I don't know anything."

Colonel W immediately realized: "Yes, yes, you don't know anything."

Xiao Zhan pointed at Su Zixing and said, "Colonel W, what should we do about her?"

Colonel W: "What can I do with your men?"

"Take it with you."

Xiao Zhan: "I won't put you in a difficult position?"

Colonel W smirked and said, "A bunch of politicians are always scheming against each other, and behind the scenes they do nothing but break the law. Ignore them."

"If I had known it was you, I wouldn't have agreed to the Godfather's request."

"I fucking hate doing this kind of crap!"

"Tony Ja, you're in charge of getting Instructor Xiao and his group to where they need to be."

Tony Jaa slammed his heel down and replied, "Mission accomplished."

Xiao Zhan extended his hand and said, "Thanks, I owe you one. I hope we can have a drink together sometime."

Colonel W grasped Xiao Zhan's hand and said, "There will definitely be a chance to drink together. We agreed to drink at your table."

Xiao Zhan smiled and said, "No problem."

Xiao Zhan took Su Zixing's hand and walked towards the door.

Su Zixing asked, bewildered, "That's it?"

Xiao Zhan: "What else?"

Su Zixing then returned to normal: "You scared me to death. I thought I'd be lucky to escape with my life, but you resolved it so easily."

Xiao Zhan smiled calmly: "Haha, I've run into an old acquaintance."

Once on the bus,

While driving, Tony Jaa asked, "Instructor, I didn't expect Colonel W to be so familiar with you?"

Xiao Zhan: "When W was studying at the Special Operations Academy of the Army University of China, I taught them a few classes. Later, in the special operations unit of the military exercise between the two countries, W's team lost to the team I led."

Tony Jaa: "Oh, I see. That was a relief."

Su Zixing asked, puzzled, "Why did Colonel W let me go?"

Xiao Zhan: "You must know the story of Zhuge Liang's Empty City Stratagem, right?"

Su Zixing was slightly taken aback. How could she not have heard this well-known story?

Xiao Zhan: "The novel portrays Zhuge Liang as an almost supernaturally intelligent figure. The Empty City Stratagem vividly depicts Zhuge Liang's wisdom and courage in psychological warfare, bringing the entire image of Zhuge Liang to life on the page."

"But looking at it from another angle, was Sima Yi really that incompetent?"

"I don't think so."

Su Zixing asked, completely bewildered, "What does this have to do with us?"

Xiao Zhan continued, "What appears to be a game between Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi is actually quite different. It's the forces behind them that are making their own plans, which go beyond the scope of the war itself."

"Sima Yi knew that Zhuge Liang could not afford to fail for the time being. Wei needed Zhuge Liang as an enemy; otherwise, Sima Yi would be of no value."

Su Zixing, with his exceptional intelligence, instantly understood and said, "There's also a power struggle between W and that godfather."

Xiao Zhan: "It should be a game between the forces behind both sides. The Empty City Stratagem is about the game of courage and psychology in a desperate situation. That is the key to success or failure."

"W knows what kind of person the Godfather is, so W is willing to let you go. This saves me face and also implicates the Godfather. Besides, we have powerful backers."

"So Colonel W made his choice quickly."

Su Zixing sighed and said, "There's too much information in this. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would be in grave danger."

Xiao Zhan: "Then you should keep your promise to me."

Su Zixing smiled slightly and said, "I will keep my promise when I meet up with Deng Hai. To be honest, this experience has helped me grow. You remained calm even when Mount Tai collapsed in front of you. You are a true man."