Chapter 121: A Secret Commitment for Life

Sun Xiaoqing’s expression shifted, her fingers clenched tightly as a wave of dizziness swept over her mind, leaving her feeling unsteady.

No one knew what she had been through. She had once been a low-level employee at a trading company, engaged in a secret office romance with her superior. He was older, mature, and steady, earning well. She had believed they would eventually marry.

Unexpectedly, he already had a family.

His legal wife stormed into the office, yanking her hair and dragging her across the floor, while the wife’s close friends joined in to humiliate her.

She screamed, begging the man, with whom she had pledged eternal love, for help.

But he only kept explaining to his wife, “She seduced me. I really don’t understand why young girls these days cling so desperately.”

“Wife, give me one more chance. I promise I will cut ties with her.”

She became the laughingstock of the company, was fired, and was blacklisted within the industry.

In the depths of her loneliness and despair, she sought refuge from reality by burying herself in novels day and night in her rented room, eventually falling asleep while reading, only to find herself transported into the story.

Upon realizing she was the heroine, Sun Xiaoqing was thrilled. As the protagonist in this uplifting period novel, her mission was to rescue the disheartened and lonely male lead stranded alone on an island, to help him overcome the shadow cast by his fiancée’s abandonment. With her intelligence and foresight, she would join him in winning merits for the military district, gradually forging a profound revolutionary bond between them.

Step by step, she won the male lead’s affections. Together, they became the enviable young couple of the entire Taizhou Island military district, spending a blissful life side by side.

In the book, Song Tingshen resembled Daniel Wu so much that Sun Xiaoqing had been captivated by him.

Now, seeing him in person, she realized it was more than just resemblance—Song Tingshen was the spitting image of Daniel Wu’s character in “Boys’ Love.”

If not for the timeline mismatch, Sun Xiaoqing almost wondered if this was Daniel Wu before his debut.

The only slight difference was that Song Tingshen’s features appeared more profound and resolute.

And because he had spent years on Taizhou Island, his complexion was a bit darker.

Perhaps sensing Sun Xiaoqing’s unabashed scrutiny, Song Tingshen furrowed his brow, his tone growing sterner.

“Sorry, Comrade Sun, military regulations are strict. I have a family now. Unless it’s official business, please do not disturb me without permission. If there’s another inappropriate conversation like today’s, I will request to have my liaison officer changed.”

With that, Song Tingshen turned to leave.

Sun Xiaoqing grabbed his arm.

“Tingshen, I have something urgent to tell you, really!”

Song Tingshen shook her off, brow tightly furrowed, about to walk away, when Sun Xiaoqing blurted out,

“About your wife! Aren’t you curious? Don’t you want to know why she suddenly came to Taizhou Island? I know a secret about her. Do you want to hear it?!”

Without turning his head, Song Tingshen replied, “I don’t need to know why she’s here. The fact that she came is enough.”

Sun Xiaoqing was nearly furious.

Her male lead bowed to another woman—an expendable character who, in the plot, deserved to die a thousand times over.

“Really? You’re that magnanimous? Even if you knew she had secretly pledged herself to another man in the past, you wouldn’t care?”

Sure enough, Song Tingshen slowly stopped in his tracks.