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Quan Shaoqing smiled tenderly, maintaining a serious demeanor towards Gu Xiaoxi, and said, "Of course we need to be polite. In the future, our Liuli Country will still be relying on you to make a good impression at the International Alliance and win glory for the nation. You’re now the leader of a small team at the International Alliance; if you were to return to the troops, you’d be looking at a position at least at the rank of major general. "

"Really?" Gu Xiaoxi suddenly felt like she could breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, she had a somewhat prestigious identity.

No longer afraid of Young Master Quan and his Commander of Eight Divisions title.

"Alright, hurry up and pack. I’ll come to find you in an hour. Be good! I’m busy and need to hang up now," Quan Shaoqing urged, as if he was truly busy on his end.

Gu Xiaoxi always felt that there was something odd about Quan Shaoqing, so she hung up the phone with mixed feelings.

At that moment, Quan Jinling was hugging her thigh, asking her to play with him.

So, she put aside her thoughts and picked up her precious son.

Imperial Capital.

Deep in the night.

If Gu Xiaoxi had been more attentive, she would’ve wondered why Quan Shaoqing was busy in the middle of the night?

This didn’t make sense, did it?

Or rather, at such a time, he should be by her side.

Instead of being alone in the Imperial Capital busy with work, what kind of work requires attention in the middle of the night?

Military district compound.

Song Xu, wearing her clothes, stood outside Quan Shaoqing’s door feeling anxious.

Inside the room, Quan Shaoqing and Ai Xiang had been in there for an hour without coming out.

Quan Shaoqing and Ai Xiang had only recently returned, and when they did, they were covered in blood.

When asked what had happened, they didn’t speak, just closed the room door and said they were healing.

It left her, the old woman, unable to sleep, yet unable to inquire about their business.

All she could do was worry!

In the room, Ai Xiang was stitching up Quan Shaoqing’s wounds.

The man lying on the bed was sweating profusely, his sturdy chest, arms, and legs covered in wounds everywhere.

Some had been treated, while others were still bleeding profusely.

And at this moment, he was still holding the phone he had just hung up.

Ai Xiang looked at Quan Shaoqing’s wounds and sighed, "Why didn’t you let her buy a plane ticket to go to Lan State Country by herself? I’m worried about you in this condition."

"Stop it, just do your job well. No need to worry," Quan Shaoqing lightly moved his arm, a searing pain making him inhale sharply.

Ai Xiang glared at him and complained, "Is it worth it, doing all this for her? Traveling all the way to the Primitive Forest to find medicine for her injuries. Then you end up hurting yourself badly, for what? And in the end, not even letting her know. You surely don’t need to be so earnest to charm a woman. "

Hearing this, Quan Shaoqing raised his eyebrows and explained, "The situation is urgent right now. She’s finally established herself in the International Alliance, and people like Kate and Feng Shuo have high hopes for her.

So, she must recover quickly. If it’s delayed by half a month, and she rushes back before she’s healed, it could be even more dangerous. "

"All that sounds like just your excuse! I see you just can’t bear to see her hurt," said Ai Xiang, looking at his wounds and continuing coolly, "You will need at least half a month to recover. If you run into a Nascent Soul in this condition, I doubt your odds are good."

"Am I really that unlucky?" Quan Shaoqing was speechless.

Finally, he said sternly, "Can’t you be a bit more hopeful for me? Tighten up the stitches on the wounds a bit; I still need to go out later."

"Bringing calamity by being too charming!" Ai Xiang huffed, "Last time you nearly lost your life for her. And now recklessly..."

"Enough talk! You don’t have much time," Quan Shaoqing urged.

Ai Xiang took a deep breath and continued to sew up his wounds.

Previously, while searching for healing medicine for Gu Xiaoxi in the Primitive Forest, they encountered a Green-Scaled Snake that had cultivated to a semi-human state. It took a considerable effort to kill the creature and steal the Spirit Grass it was guarding for Gu Xiaoxi’s healing.

After healing her, they hurried back to sew up Quan Shaoqing’s wounds.

All this back and forth was quite the ordeal.

He didn’t know if Quan Shaoqing was tired, but he was exhausted.

An hour later, Ai Xiang finished with the gauze, having wrapped all of Quan Shaoqing’s wounds tightly with bandages.

This was to prevent the wounds from cracking open and bleeding again.

"Go and come back quickly; don’t take more than ten minutes. If you take too long, she might notice the smell of blood on you," Ai Xiang instructed.

Quan Shaoqing, unconcerned, took a bottle of perfume from the cabinet and sprayed a lot of it on himself.

Ai Xiang was speechless, "That’s for women!"

Quan Shaoqing, unconcerned, held the bottle with a faint smile, his eyes dazzling as he said, "I was planning to give it to her."

"Cunning!" Ai Xiang, as a close friend, was speechless too.

She was all the more convinced of the notion ’a beautiful woman brings trouble.’

Gu Xiaoxi was holding Quan Jinling and ate many boiled eggs.

"These are all from our farm’s own chickens, pure and natural. Xiao Xi, take some with you when you leave later, for your new colleagues," Lin Shu offered, carrying a small bamboo basket filled with eggs.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at them, speechless, but unable to refuse her kindness, she agreed.

She looked at her watch, all ready to go, just waiting for Quan Shaoqing to come and pick her up to leave.

Moreover, she had discussed with her beloved son for quite a while.

Only then did Quan Jinling agree to let her leave.

At the moment, her son clung to her, refusing to let go no matter how she coaxed him.

Quan Shaoqing suddenly appeared on the lawn outside the farm, one hand hanging by his side, the other pressed to his chest. Clearly, he was exhausted.

From a distance, the vineyard bathed in the afternoon sunlight.

This place was like a paradise, surrounded by boundless vineyards and a European-style building at its heart.

From inside the building came the soft sounds of a woman and a child.

Everything seemed so beautiful and peaceful.

All this happiness and laughter belonged to him.

The woman and the child were his everything.

Therefore, no matter how tired or how many hardships he faced, he would always stand tall to protect it all.

Because he was a man.

Quan Shaoqing took a deep breath, a hint of relief showing in his smile, then, bearing his pain, he strode towards the villa.

Everything seemed as normal as it could be.

Gu Xiaoxi was originally playing with her child.

Suddenly, a pungent scent began to waft over.

She thought it was some woman.

Looking up, she saw Quan Shaoqing walking slowly from the doorway.

She stared at him, puzzled, giving him a quick once-over. Her expression immediately turned cold as she said sourly, "Who were you with just now? The smell is so strong!"

Quan Shaoqing raised an eyebrow and smiled without a word, lightly pinching her nose and said with a laugh, "Is my wife feeling jealous?"

"Not at all!" Gu Xiaoxi turned her head away, ignoring him. Clearly jealous, but she wouldn’t admit it.

Quan Shaoqing pulled out a bottle of perfume as if by magic and handed it to Gu Xiaoxi, "For you! You’ll be working with the International Alliance, and this will make you even more charming."

Gu Xiaoxi eyed Quan Shaoqing suspiciously, sensing something was fishy. "Something is definitely off when things don’t add up!"

Quan Shaoqing was not the type to be romantic.

Still, she accepted the perfume with great pleasure, sprayed a little, and sniffed it. Indeed, it was exactly the same as what Quan Shaoqing wore.

But why would he spray on women’s perfume?

Before Gu Xiaoxi could ask, Quan Shaoqing immediately explained, "I was just trying it out for you! Wanted to see if you’d like it."

Gu Xiaoxi lifted her chin, handing her son off to Lin Shu, "Good boy, mommy will come back to play with you after work is done."

With that, she put the perfume into her pocket.

Quan Jinling pouted, his large dark eyes looking like black grapes, gazing at Gu Xiaoxi and Quan Shaoqing, wanting to cry but not daring to.

Seeing this, Gu Xiaoxi felt a twinge of reluctance in her heart, but what could she do?

She stepped forward, pinched her son’s cheek, and said, "You’re just getting too clingy. Behave, and mommy will spend a few more days with you next time she comes back."

The more she spoke, the more distressed her baby son looked, his eyes brimming with tears, then he reached out for Quan Shaoqing to hold him.

Quan Shaoqing’s heart softened at the sight, and even in pain, he held his child, "Man up, no crying! Mommy will be back, she’s just busy with work. You have to eat well, grow up, then mommy can take you out with her."

They took quite a while to console him.

Finally, Quan Jinling stopped crying.

Afterwards, Quan Shaoqing took Gu Xiaoxi away immediately.

On the way to Yatang City.

Which is to say, because of his injury, Quan Shaoqing had not teleported Gu Xiaoxi directly to her destination in one go.

Midway, they landed in a grassy plain teeming with greenery.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at Quan Shaoqing, puzzled, "What’s wrong? Did we take a wrong turn?"

Quan Shaoqing coughed awkwardly, "Perhaps! Let me see which way to go!"

"You can take a wrong turn with Spatial Teleportation?" Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t help but sneer, "Don’t you have something on your mind you’re hiding from me? It’s because you’re distracted that we took a wrong turn."

"Absolutely not, it’s just a minor mishap," Quan Shaoqing explained.

Afterwards, Gu Xiaoxi looked at him with a strange expression on her face.

Quan Shaoqing, at this moment, was also having second thoughts.

He needed to rest for ten minutes before he could continue taking her to Yatang City.

After all, the injury and the exertion had taken a toll on his spiritual power, making it somewhat difficult to take her with him.

He didn’t want her to know he was injured.

But suddenly, he thought of her Spiritual Energy and its healing abilities...