Chapter 140 - 140 119

Words : 1991 Updated : Sep 17th, 2025

140: Chapter 119 140: Chapter 119 I was too tired, my body was somewhat overtaxed, so I couldn’t update my military makeup. I typed out a chapter of a pre-marital release, and I’ll make it up tomorrow. There will be three updates before dawn, and you can expect one more chapter around noon tomorrow. You can check for it around 12 o’clock. ———————————————————– Seeing the blood streaming through Yuan Mengmeng’s fingers, Sun Shangmei’s mind went blank, and she just froze there. The punch she threw only had seventy percent of her strength. How could this happen? If... if Yuan Mengmeng’s eyes were blinded... Qi Jihong rushed to Yuan Mengmeng’s side immediately, “Mengmeng, don’t move around, Xiaoyan has gone to find Doctor Jing. Just wait a moment, hold on a little longer...” By this time, Qiao Ningyi had already approached, bending down and gently patting Yuan Mengmeng, “Don’t cry now, first feel if you’ve hurt around the eye socket, or...” She couldn’t bear to continue speaking, the bloodstain on the bedsheet was just too distressing! Chuxia, Luo Xiaoqiong, and Liu Meijun also gathered around, looking at Yuan Mengmeng with faces full of pity. Regardless of how unbearable she usually was, she was after all a comrade. If... in case... Seeing that pool of blood, nobody was thinking positively. “Mengmeng, don’t be afraid... the doctor will be here soon, just don’t move, don’t move at all...” Half of Qi Jihong’s body was practically pressing down on Yuan Mengmeng. “Woo... Am I... going to be blind? I’m so young; I don’t want... to be blind, woo...” Qiao Ningyi interrupted her anxiously, “Stop crying, your eyes are injured and you still cry, do you really not want your eyes anymore?” “She was already scared enough, and you’re scaring her!” Qi Jihong glared at Qiao Ningyi angrily, “If anything happens to her, it’s all your fault! If it weren’t for helping you, Xiaoyan wouldn’t have needed to talk to Sun Shangmei, there wouldn’t have been a conflict, and Mengmeng wouldn’t have been unable to stand it and fought with Sun Shangmei. It’s all your fault!” “You...” Qiao Ningyi looked at her speechlessly. What did that have to do with anything? Qi Jihong turned to look at Sun Shangmei, who was still in a daze, “If there’s something wrong with Mengmeng’s eyes, I bet Mengmeng’s mother will gouge your eyes out!” “I... I didn’t mean it...” Coming back to her senses, Sun Shangmei stuttered in defense, “I... I didn’t use much strength...” At that moment, Yang Xiaoyan rushed in anxiously, “Mengmeng, Captain Zeng is here.” Following closely behind, Zeng Meili approached Yuan Mengmeng directly and said gently, “Mengmeng, don’t be afraid, slowly lift your head and let me see exactly where you’re hurt.” “I don’t know, my eyes just hurt so much, but I can’t tell exactly where...” Yuan Mengmeng slowly raised her head, blood had dried in the crevices of her fingers, it looked particularly terrifying. “Remove your hand, don’t be afraid...” Like comforting a child, Zeng Meili gently patted her. As she released her fingers one by one, Yuan Mengmeng’s tightly closed eyes were revealed. Looking at a wound at the corner of her eye, Zeng Meili breathed a sigh of relief, “It seems you’re only hurt at the corner of the eye. Try to open your eyes and see.” Yang Xiaoyan on the side stretched her neck anxiously, “Mengmeng, be good, open them slowly...” With her eyelids fluttering, Yuan Mengmeng said in a tearful voice, “It hurts, Captain, it’s painful.” “You’ve been covering them for such a long time, and with the psychological effect, of course it would feel painful. Listen, you’ve got to open them slowly, let me see...” Lin Mengran and Qu Xiaojing, who had not moved from their spot to gawk, came closer now. Feeling a nudge, Qi Jihong turned back and glared at them both, “What are you doing? Ah... What are you up to!” “What do you think?” Lin Mengran teased with a wicked eyebrow lift, “Don’t you know what I’m doing? Do you want me to tell everyone what I just did?” Qi Jihong’s gaze flickered quickly, and she got up, putting on a smiling face, “If you wanted to come over to see, you could’ve just asked me nicely. Look at you, giving me such a scare.” “What’s the time, and you’re still fooling around!” There, Yuan Mengmeng’s eyes had not yet opened, and here, the two began to tussle again, Zeng Meili felt like her head was about to explode. This third squad, why so much trouble? It hadn’t even been ten days, and they’d had two fights, both times with injuries, really impressive! Without a word, Lin Mengran spread her hands, and in her palm lay a small blade, the kind used in utility knives, thin and small. “What do you mean?” Zeng Meili looked at her, sensing that the situation was definitely not as simple as she imagined. Girls love beauty, so why would she... “The captain must have guessed what I mean already, right?” Lin Mengran smiled as she looked towards Yang Xiaoli. “The three of you, aren’t you bored? Is it really worth it to fight over a Squad Leader position?” Yang Xiaoli’s face turned pale when Lin Mengran brandished the blade, and now it was outright ashen: “Lin Mengran, what nonsense are you spouting? What grudge do I have against you for you to frame me like this?” Ever since Captain Zeng entered, Sun Shangmei, who had been shrinking in the corner as if she wanted to squeeze into a crevice in the wall, finally came to life. In a few quick steps, she was in front of Yang Xiaoli. “So it was you who framed me!” she exclaimed, then turned to Captain Zeng. “Captain, I used very little force just now, and I felt that I couldn’t possibly have injured her eye. It was Yang Xiaoli who set me up. She pretended to be nice to me these past few days just to trap me...” Commander Zeng gestured for her to be quiet and turned to Lin Mengran: “Tell us what really happened.” “She...” Lin Mengran pointed at Qi Jihong. “When she took the blade from Yuan Mengmeng, I happened to see her, and before that, I heard a few sentences they whispered in the restroom. Connecting the dots, I naturally understood the whole truth.” Captain Zeng looked towards the three Yang Xiaoli women: “I am very democratic, if you have anything to explain, say it now.” “She’s slandering me!” Yang Xiaoli, red in the face and neck, pointed at Lin Mengran. “She had the blade in her hand all along. Just now, when she got close to Jihong, it was to make a cut in the palm of her hand!” Lin Mengran looked amused as she stared at her: “By your account, her reaction just now was very strange, wasn’t it? Can you tell me why she, with a freshly cut palm, would pretend nothing happened? Don’t tell me she and I are friends and she is deliberately helping conceal the truth – even fools wouldn’t believe that.” Saying this, she grabbed Yuan Mengmeng’s hand, pried open her fingers, and there, sure enough, was a thin cut in her palm! “You’re not going to say that I gave her this cut too, are you?” Yang Xiaoli’s face turned deathly white. Clenching her teeth, she looked at Lin Mengran with eyes full of resentment: “Why are you so determined to target me?” “My grandfather taught me that while we should not harm others, we also should not stand idly by while others do!” Lin Mengran shrugged. “If you hadn’t gone too far, I wouldn’t have bothered to meddle.” “This matter isn’t related to Xiaoli, it was my idea. I didn’t want Qiao Ningyi to continue as Squad Leader, and I didn’t want Sun Shangmei to become Xiaoli’s assistant. After these few days, I’ve gotten a feel for Sun Shangmei’s character, so I deliberately provoked her into a fight. Then, while I was covering my eyes, I deliberately cut my palm and the corner of my eye. Originally I wanted to make the cut near the eye heavier, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it because I feared the pain. Captain, Lin Mengran clearly wants to be the Squad Leader and is deliberately dragging Xiaoli into this. The three of us are always together, and she thought that by doing this, Xiaoli wouldn’t be able to clear her name, but in fact, this matter really has nothing to do with Xiaoli!” Chuxia cast an unexpected glance at Yuan Mengmeng; surprisingly, when it mattered, she was quite loyal. But as her thoughts spun, she understood the motive behind her actions—to strike at Yang Xiaoli. If everything was in vain, her injuries would have been for nothing. She believed that she and Qi Jihong must have come to the army with some kind of mission. If Yuan Mengmeng took the blame for this incident alone, at most she would be punished by herself. Correspondingly, the Yang family would likely compensate the Yuan Family, making all her efforts meaningful. She’s truly the child of a political family, cunningly playing the game, but in the end still a bit naïve. Did she not consider that even if Lin Mengran didn’t discover the truth, Captain Zeng is a doctor and would be suspicious upon seeing the cut on her face? Who could punch someone and leave a fine, neat cut? No, maybe they were originally planning to blame Sun Shangmei for the blade incident. In that case, Sun Shangmei really did turn her luck around this time. That Lin Mengran... As Chuxia looked over, her eyes met Lin Mengran’s directly. Lin Mengran smiled at her, then turned to Yuan Mengmeng: “Are you sure Yang Xiaoli didn’t know anything?” Yuan Mengmeng nodded earnestly: “Of course! Qi Jihong was also forced by me. Just now, when she tried to persuade me, I forcibly put the blade in her hand. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gotten hurt.” “Now I’m puzzled; when you fell on the bed earlier, your head was towards me and your back was to Yang Xiaoli, who was behind you. How did you see blood?” Lin Mengran blinked in confusion. “Yang Xiaoli, do you have a special ability? Do you have x-ray vision?” “I...” “Mengmeng, no need to say it...” Yang Xiaoli interrupted Yuan Mengmeng, turning to Captain Zeng, “Captain, it was indeed all my doing. I couldn’t stand letting Qiao Ningyi be the Squad Leader. How is she better than me? The endless problems of the third class prove this point. The capable should lead, is it wrong for me to want the third class to be the strongest? I know, Captain, you’ll say, if I wanted to be the Squad Leader, why didn’t I use normal means of competition? But the people in this room naturally reject me and Mengmeng and Jihong, simply because of our family backgrounds. Yet, can we be blamed for that? There’s not enough time; they could never understand me, so I had to resort to some strategies. As for Sun Shangmei, I have no interest in dealing with her. In short, that’s what it is. If you wish to deal with me, I am at your disposal. But, I won’t submit so easily; in war, deception is not shunned, using some strategies to achieve the goal is acceptable!” (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation.)

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