A Beauty in the 80s Goes on a Blind Date with Her Child, Captivating the Military Compound - Chapter 3

Hearing her mother say that, Niu Niu also understood that the scary uncle was helping them.

Once she figured that out, she wasn’t so afraid of him anymore. Her big eyes widened in curiosity, blinking as she took him in.

How strange. He looked like a big tiger when he was fierce just now, but now the look in his eyes when he looked at her mom was so gentle. He had turned into a big doggie.

Gu Chengfeng chuckled. “How could I let a female comrade treat me?”

“You helped me. It’s only right that I treat you!”

As they went back and forth, the kind elderly woman who had spoken up earlier said, “I think you two should stop arguing. The dishes that man ordered haven’t been touched, so don’t waste the food.”

“That’s right!” Shen Sisi secretly smiled. Although Zhao Changjiang had ordered the dishes, they hadn’t been touched or paid for, so it wouldn’t be taking advantage of him.

Gu Chengfeng lost his appetite when he heard that the dishes had been ordered by that pervert.

“You can have the food if you want. Sisi and I will order again.”

Shen Sisi sighed. Senior Gu was as domineering as ever, and he was quite a neat freak.

“Okay… don’t be wasteful.” Shen Sisi tugged on his sleeve, gesturing for him to sit down.

Gu Chengfeng’s gaze lowered. He subtly glanced at the slightly wrinkled sleeve and couldn’t help but smile. “Fine, I can’t say no to you.”

As soon as he sat down, he reached into his pocket and took out a pack of milk candies that he had been holding the entire way, which were almost melted.

“This is for…” He looked at the sickly little girl.

Shen Sisi was not shy and introduced her openly. “This is my daughter. Her full name is Shen Xingyue, and her nickname is Niu Niu.”

Gu Chengfeng’s expression was subtle. She had the last name Shen. She didn’t have her father’s last name.

He cracked a smile, trying hard to make it warm and gentle. It had been a long time since he had smiled, and he had no idea how strange his smile looked.

Niu Niu was timid and was so frightened that she shrank back into Shen Sisi’s arms, making Gu Chengfeng flustered. He quickly took out the milk candies.

“Uncle came suddenly and didn’t prepare anything for you. This is a White Rabbit milk candy. It’s very sweet. Do you want to try it?”

Gu Chengfeng was a little incoherent. He was very good at scaring children, but coaxing a child… it was the first time in his life.

Shen Sisi stroked the small, round head in her arms. “Niu Niu, what did Mom teach you? You have to be polite. Look, Uncle gave you candy. What should you say?”

Niu Niu timidly looked up. The moment she saw the milk candy, her big, round eyes lit up.

Milk candy! Sweet and soft milk candy!

She was already three years old, but she had only tasted milk candy once and had almost forgotten what it tasted like. She only remembered that it was sweet, very sweet, and the more she ate it, the more her mouth watered.

Niu Niu swallowed hard and looked at Shen Sisi tentatively.

After getting her mom’s approval, she dared to stretch out her small hand and said in a sweet voice, “Thank you, Uncle.”

That one word “Uncle” melted Gu Chengfeng’s heart.

He carefully peeled the wrapper off the candy. Niu Niu took it, but instead of putting it in her mouth, she held it up to Shen Sisi’s lips.

“Mommy, eat!”

Seeing how well-behaved and considerate she was, Shen Sisi’s nose stung with emotion. “Good Niu Niu, Mommy doesn’t like to eat it. You eat it.”

“Mommy eat!” Niu Niu stubbornly pressed the candy against her lips. “If you eat the candy, Mommy’s heart won’t be bitter anymore…”

Shen Sisi’s arms tightened around her. She couldn’t believe a three-year-old child could say such a thing.

Tears, like a broken dam, welled up in her eyes.

“Be a good girl. My heart isn’t bitter. With Niu Niu here, Mommy is just fine!”

He saw her pretending to be strong.

His hand tightened under the table, his knuckles turning slightly white from the effort.

He wanted to ask, but he was afraid of touching on her painful past.

After all, they had just “met” and “reconnected,” and asking for personal details would be too presumptuous.

So, he suppressed his curiosity and asked with concern, “Is the child…”

“She has pulmonary tuberculosis. Niu Niu didn’t have enough milk when she was little, so her health wasn’t good. Once, she had a fever and a cold. There was no medicine in the countryside, and by the time we got to the city, it was too late.”

Every time she mentioned this, Shen Sisi felt immense guilt.

It was her fault for not taking good care of Niu Niu…

That was why she had come to the city this time—to find a father for Niu Niu.

Niu Niu’s pulmonary tuberculosis was getting worse. If she didn’t get treatment in the city soon, she probably wouldn’t survive the winter.

Otherwise, why would she be like a commodity, meeting several men a day, letting them pick and choose, and have them point at her and call her a “fallen woman” and shameless?

Only if she married a man in the city and got her household registration moved to the city could Niu Niu get medical treatment as soon as possible.

Thinking of the purpose of her trip and the humiliation she had endured these past few days, she forced her tears back into her eyes. After swallowing the bitterness, she said calmly, “It’s nothing serious. I will take good care of her.”

A deep, dark shadow passed through Gu Chengfeng’s eyes.

Pulmonary tuberculosis, and it was “nothing serious”?

With the current medical conditions, it was very difficult to cure.

Gu Chengfeng knew that she was very strong and independent, but sometimes, she didn’t have to be so tough.

However, from what she said, he seemed to have uncovered the real reason for her blind dates—for Niu Niu!

“So, you’re going on blind dates to get Niu Niu into the city for better treatment, right?” he asked her directly.

Shen Sisi looked at him in shock, meeting his sharp, hawk-like gaze. “It seems… nothing can be hidden from you.”

“That’s right. I do want to find a father for Niu Niu to get her household registration moved to the city. I didn’t plan to hide this from anyone, as they have a right to know. If they agree, I can live a good life with them, but…”

She laughed at herself. The blind dates these past few days had made her realize that no man would be willing to accept them.

They would rather accept a divorced woman with a child.

But they wouldn’t accept a woman who wasn’t married but had a child.

She hadn’t wanted to talk about these frustrating things with Senior Gu, but since he had figured it out, there was no point in hiding it.

Gu Chengfeng coughed lightly, his heart leaping into his throat. He took a deep breath and said casually, “If you’re in trouble, why didn’t you look for me?”

“You?” Shen Sisi raised an eyebrow. “How can you help me?”

“Marry me!” Gu Chengfeng said, his eyes filled with a warmth as gentle as flowing water, so tender that it made her heart flutter.

It was a good thing she hadn’t started eating yet, or the food would have been sprayed all over. “Stop teasing me. I heard you’ve become a company commander, a promising young officer… There are many girls who want to be with you.”

Unlike her joking tone, Gu Chengfeng was completely serious, his eyes as firm as a vow. “I’m serious.”

“You’re not kidding me?”

“I’m not!”

Shen Sisi’s smile faded. She looked at his handsome and heroic face. Under his sword-like brows, his beautiful eyes were proud and aloof, and his dark pupils held a hidden sparkle.

Compared to before, the current Gu Chengfeng had shed some of his wild, arrogant demeanor and had a soldier’s upright and resolute temperament. With his sharp military green uniform, he would attract countless girls on the street.

Unlike her… she was notorious and despised by others.

They were in two different worlds. How could it be…