The Painful History of Xing Feng

It was the first time in Yun Che's life that he had received the high standard treatment of military vehicles escorting. No one from the Villa Section didn't stare at this weird scene with curiosity. The army of million people surrounded a common black Deluxe Class Car as it drove into Section A. Even after it entered the section, it still attracted extensive attention.

"Did your father worry that we aren't popular?"

Seeing this scene, Yun Che on the passenger seat scoffed.

Xing Feng was blue in the face. God knew how hard he had restrained himself from stepping on the gas capriciously to crash the military cars out of the way. "He's good at nothing but seeking fame, which is hypocritical."

Xing Feng had always been secretive about his father and never talked about him with no reason. Xing Feng was the same at this moment.

"Boss, have you told Che about that thing?"

With Chenchen and Yun Yao in his arms on the back seat, Gu Mingxuan stared at Xing Feng on the rear-vision mirror. In the past, even though Xing Feng had never liked his father's deeds of emphasizing on reputation, Xing Feng had treated Xing Tianyi as his father after all. But now Xing Feng treated his father differently. All this was due to what had happened six years ago. Xing Feng and his friends still found it disgusting at the thought of it even till now. That was one of the reasons why they had abandoned their bright future and resolutely left the army for another job as Xing Feng had done after Xing Feng's words.

"What thing?"

Yun Che leaned to one side to look at Gu Mingxuan. Gu Mingxuan didn't respond, his eyes fixed on Xing Feng on the rear-vision mirror, who was more appropriate to inform Yun Che about that thing.

"The thing that happened six years ago."

Xing Feng's deep voice rang. Yun Che opened the air membrane silently. His intuition told him what Xing Feng was going to say was probably very obscure. Yun Yao who sat on the back seat next to Gu Mingxuan was not stupid either. Seeing this, she stopped Chenchen from making any voice by a gesture and tried to put him in her arms. Gu Mingxuan stopped her and gave her a faint smile, comforting her silently that the thing was not so serious as she imagined.

"Would you like to exchange seats?"

Yun Che said with his eyebrows raised after a glance at the fair fingers of Xing Feng on the steering wheel.

Xing Feng turned his head around and shook it. Finally, he could loosen his hands on the steering wheel. He took a deep breath with his eyes closed. After struggling to regain his composure, Xing Feng then said slowly, "As the youngest among my two siblings, I was raised with indulgence, which indirectly makes me a person scared of nothing and daring to provoke anyone. When I grew older, my parents thought I was too naughty and wanted to lecture me strictly. But my grandpa did so before them because he said I looked like him most. Ever since then, my grandpa had always kept me as his company. He took my to the military every day. Basically, I spent most of my childhood in the military. Although the archive recorded that Wenyang and I joined the army at 14, we had actually treated ourselves as soldiers since we were very young. After I joined the army, I made friends with many peers who shared the same interests with me. Mingxuan was one of them. We had the recruit training together. We were distributed to the same military company. We were then recruited to join the Special Force by my grandpa. Under the lead of the old senior officer, we grew up gradually. We completed every single mission assigned by our leader perfectly. In just a few years, we had become the sign posts of the army and the sharpest weapon in the Xing family. Furthermore, we including the youngest late comer Haoling never felt proud and tried our best on every mission and didn't allow ourselves to make a teeny tiny mistake."

Xing Feng suddenly stopped speaking. Yun Che didn't mean to urge him to continue speaking either. He could feel the complication on the expressions of Xing Feng and Yun Che. It was perhaps true that the relationship of youth was most valuable. Xing Feng and Gu Mingxuan had been together from being nobodies to be famous all over the army. Yun Che thought he could understand that feeling. He started Peak also from the scratch and developed it step by step with his friends.

"However, we received a unique mission six years ago. We suffered great casualties in that mission. Most of our brothers died, including the one Wenyang loved most. At first, we blamed ourselves as we thought the failure was caused by our errors. Later, I accidentally found that we had failed the mission because there had been hidden traitors in our army who had revealed our mission to the criminal organization the traitors had teamed up with. However, my grandpa knew everything but hadn't told me any of it. Then we used our relations to conduct a full investigation. We finally figured out why such a big event had actually been suppressed. It turned out that the ones who had teamed up with the criminal organization were the Long family of my elder brother's wife. We got so mad and worked separately to send all the crime evidences to the discipline inspection. But my father nearly ruined the materials after Long Shan begged him. When I asked my father about that, he retorted righteously that he hadn't done anything wrong since the Xing family was born to protect the faults. Long Shan was the daughter-in-law of my grandpa, so the Xing family had the responsibility to protect her and her family…"

Thinking about the brothers who had died in vain, Xing Feng stopped and took a deep breath before he continued, "My family just cared for Long Shan and her family, but never thought that those dead people were my good brothers with whom I survived life-threatening wars. My family didn't even know that the Long family had hired killers to assassinate me many times. At that time, I told that to my family with naive wishes. But I ended up extremely disappointed after their response. My own parents didn't even believe me and thought I slandered the Long family on purpose. From that moment on, I had had no good feelings for my family. In the meanwhile, my grandpa acquiesced that I could destroy the Long family though, he forbade me from hurting Long Shan. He even used his power to suppress that thing. The country thought the exposure of that thing would blemish the image of the military, so they just raised pension for my dead brothers without offering them other compensation. They didn't even commit their mistakes to my brothers' families. With the complete disappointment at the military and my family, we handed the applications of job changing together. Before being approved, we had left the army. Ever since then, we've seldom visited the capital."

Even until now, Xing Feng still couldn't forgive what his parents had done. That was why he didn't think about going back home after being in the capital for almost a month. As for Xing Feng's grandpa, if Wenyang hadn't persuaded Xing Feng, Xing Feng couldn't possibly have contacted his grandpa. He realized that his grandpa had suppressed the whole thing just for the sake of the army, the country and their family. But Xing Feng just couldn't forgive them because of his dead brothers.

Yun Che reached out silently to hold Xing Feng's hand. He could feel exactly how Xing Feng felt. If that happened to Yun Che and brothers of Peak were the ones who had died, Yun Che couldn't have forgiven anyone, not even his parents. Sometimes, blood relations didn't matter most. How much fortune did it take a person to meet a group of loyal brothers? One could let it go that his brothers had died naturally. But no one could bear it that his brothers died under schemes.

Yun Yao on the back seat held Gu Mingxuan's hands tightly. She never knew that they had suffered so much lung-tearing pain although they appeared tough and determined. It must have been hard for them, didn't it? If not, how would they possibly have rooted in the southwest instead of the capital where their parents were?

"I'm fine. It's all history."

It took Xing Feng quite a while to get calm. He then turned around and smiled awkwardly at Yun Che. How could it be possible that Xing Feng was alright? If he was, he should have told the whole story to Yun Che. Why hadn't he told him until now? Even Yun Che couldn't take the sharp pain in the heart of tearing open the festered wound. The lives of dozens of Xing Feng's good brothers had been ended by those people while Xing Feng couldn't reveal the truth to the world even until now.

"Right. Since you're disappointed at them, just keep some distance from them. We will head back to the southwest after the revenge."

Looking deeply at the side face of Xing Feng for a while, Yun Che said with pain in his heart. Although Yun Che could guess that something must have happened between Xing Feng and his family, Yun Che never dreamed that pain could be engraved in his heart.

"Um."

Afterwards, no one spoke. The fleet which had driven in Section A for a while suddenly split up. Only one of them drove into the big yard. Xing Feng stepped on the gas and followed that car. After passing several large villas, they pulled over in front of a four-story villa at the end. The big iron gate opened slowly on two sides. The leading car drove in but Xing Feng didn't catch up with it this time.

"Boss, we'll get off here. I'll go visit you with Yao and Chenchen later."

They had traveled past Gu Mingxuan's house before. But Gu Mingxuan hadn't told others since he worried that his boss was in a bad mood. Now that the car pulled over, he should go home for a visit and seized the chance to introduce Yao to his parents.

"Sure."

Xing Feng nodded on the driver seat. Yun Che pushed the door open too and took out a small button from the space. He wiped off the divine sense on the button's top and gave it to Gu Mingxuan and Yun Yao. "This is the first space container made by Yun Han. It's not big, just around 20 to 30 square meters. I've put something inside. You can sign the soul contract just by a drop of blood on it. You can take and save whatever you want with your spirit. You can't go home with no gifts. Particularly, it's the first time you have gone back home with my sister."

"It's so considerate of you, Che. Take this, Yao."

Holding his son in his arm and Yun Yao's hand, Gu Mingxuan nodded smilingly. Yun Yao didn't say anything. After taking over the button, she signed the soul contract as Yun Che said. "Che, you…"

"It's okay, sis. Have you seen me scared of anyone? Just go. Meet your parents-in-law. You'll be a part of the Gu family soon."

Seeing the embarrassment on her face, Yun Che took out a brand-new off-road car and pushed them in the car.

"Uncle Che…"

Chenchen didn't want to leave his uncle and was ready to jump off the car. Yun Che had no choice but to persuade him, "Come on, Chenchen. Your dad is taking you to meet your grandparents. Be good, Chenchen. Okay? But if someone treats you badly, don't show him any mercy. Treat him the way I treat the bad guys. No mercy. What matters most is of course to protect my sister for me, okay?"

Chenchen gave it a thought with his head tilted before he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll protect my mom. "

"Huh… Che, do you think my family members are monsters?"

Gu Mingxuan on the driver seat found Yun Che's words amusing. Gu Mingxuan's parents were not that scary. The reason why they hadn't followed Gu Mingxuan to the southwest was because his father wasn't willing to leave his comrade-in-arms after being a life-time soldier. Unlike Che's parents, Gu Mingxuan's parents understood Gu Mingxuan and didn't blame him for giving up the bright future.

"Huh… I count my queen and prince on you, my brother-in-law!"

The word brother-in-law represented Yun Che's recognition and affirmation. Gu Mingxuan understood him and just nodded at him silently. Gu Mingxuan then started the car and drove away.

"Okay. It's our turn."

Seeing their car disappear, Yun Che opened his car door and got back to his seat. Xing Feng twitched his eyes and took a look at Heiyu who was in Yun Che's arms before being noticed. If Xing Feng's memory served him right, Yun Che had put Heiyu into the space at the departure, hadn't he? When had Yun Che released Heiyu? Did Yun Che plan to take his anger out on Heiyu?