Chapter 9: First Love Lover

  When Chen Yun walked into the ward, Lin Yu felt his brain suddenly crash.

  Is that Chen Yun? What is she doing here again? Just to sympathize with me? Lin Yu smiled self-deprecatingly and didn't think about it anymore. He smiled politely and said, "Please sit down, I'm injured in the shoulder, can't move around, help yourself."

  Chen Yun nodded and sat down in the chair without saying a word.

  She looked as if she had made an effort to dress up today. Her long hair was tied back behind her head, and a white long skirt covered her ankles. She wore light makeup, but it couldn't hide the dark circles under her eyes. However, this small flaw couldn't conceal her beauty, which was just like in high school. Even a beauty like Xiaomei would pale in comparison to her. Since high school, she had always been the focus of attention for many boys.

  Actually, Lin was also very strange, why would such a nearly perfect girl look up to him at that time? He not only didn't have a normal family, but he was also a hoodlum. At that time, Lin only knew how to fool around with Lao San and Pangzi, and was uneducated and unskilled. Even Lin looked down on himself.

  Of course, he was even more puzzled as to why Chen Yun would take a liking to him. Was it because he was very handsome? Lin couldn't help but laugh at this reason himself.

  It wasn't until quite some time later that he finally came back to his senses.

  Chen Yun still sat in front of him, calmly looking at Lin Yu, with a gaze as pure as it was without any impurities.

  "Are you back?" Chen Yun's voice was still as light as it was 6 years ago, she always spoke like this, her voice was as soft as a gentle breeze. However, it had to be admitted that her voice sounded very nice.

  "Ah, back again, arrived in Hannan 3 days ago."

  "Well, you're back now, so it's all good, and I hope you won't leave again."

  "No, I've changed careers." Lin smiled awkwardly at Chen Yun, feeling a bit embarrassed. For some reason, he could talk smoothly in front of Lao San and the others, but facing Chen Yun, he suddenly felt a little shy.

  "Haha, you know me, I'm like this, wherever I go, I cause trouble. No choice, the unit had to send me back."

  "It's better to hurry back, and also avoid suffering so much. You, are not at peace, once you come back, you'll go and cause trouble again." Chen Yun looked at Lin Yu with some annoyance, and Lin Yu could only hehe foolishly smile.

  "I am actually..."

  "I know, you don't have to say it." Chen Yun smiled and interrupted Lin Yu's explanation. "I know that you men always have some things that must be done, I understand, so you don't need to explain. I just want you to be more careful in the future."

  "Chen Yun... you've changed..." Lin Yu looked at the beautiful woman in front of him with surprise, really couldn't believe that she would say something like this. "You wouldn't have said something like this before..."

  "Yes, it's true that I couldn't before. I was the moon in everyone's hands, and I didn't think about others, naively thinking I was right, without realizing I could also make mistakes." Chen Yun smiled dryly. She thought of those unpleasant memories again. "If I hadn't been like that back then, you wouldn't have been driven away by me, and you wouldn't have hidden from me to join the army..."

  "Never mind, Chen Yun... never mind." Lin Yu became somewhat irritated. He didn't care about his injured shoulder and sat up. He picked up the cigarette left by Pangzi, put it in his mouth, but couldn't find a light anywhere.

  Chen Yun looked at her, suddenly took out a lighter from the pocket of her shirt and lit it with a snap. Lin Yu looked at her in surprise, still brought the cigarette to light up. Chen Yun also took one, lit it, and then put the lighter on the bedside table.

  "You can keep it."

  "Chen Yun, you... how could you change so much? How did you start smoking?" Lin Yu looked at the beauty in front of him with a shocked expression. "You used to hate this the most, and we've argued about it countless times..."

  "It's not just smoking, I also drink and do many other things now. Because I want to numb myself, so that I won't think of you. But, Lin Yu, you know, I haven't had a single moment when I wasn't thinking of you." Chen Yun looked at Lin Yu calmly, her gaze as calm as the water in Tianchi Lake. However, behind this calm gaze, Lin Yu saw a different kind of persistence. She lightly flicked the ash off her cigarette, and it floated away like duckweed on the air. This was the first time Lin Yu had seen someone smoke with such elegance.

  "I want you to come back, I want to apologize to you, I want to atone for everything I've done, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my past willfulness, I want to tell you that I'm no longer the Chen Yun of before, I can be a gentle girlfriend, I can care for you, take care of you, do everything a girlfriend should do well. Even thinking about being your wife, being a virtuous helper, always by your side... Six years ago, I was already your woman. You are the first man in my life and will also be the only one."

  "That's enough, Chen Yun, please, don't say any more." Lin Yu finished smoking an entire cigarette, but then lit another one. "Those were all things from 6 years ago, they're all in the past, all in the past..."

  "Is it? Has it really passed? You really won't think of me again?" Chen Yun looked at Lin Yu firmly, her gaze still as strong and persistent as before, but with a hint of sincerity and concern. "How long do you want to deceive yourself? In the past six years, dare you say you haven't thought of me?"

  Yes, it's been six years. Hasn't he ever thought of her? Lin Yu asked himself with a bitter smile in his heart. What Chen Yun didn't know was that when Lin Yu was serving in the A Corps, there was always a photo of Chen Yun hidden in his holographic helmet.

  Every time he carried out a task, Lin Yu would take a look at her in the photo first, as if only then could he have the courage to rush onto the battlefield.

  Lin Yu didn't think of her? Joke, Lin Yu thought of her this morning. Six years, seventy-two months, two thousand one hundred and ninety days, when did Lin Yu ever forget about her?

  But can they?

  He still remembers the scene six years ago, can he be sure that Chen Yun won't treat him like he did six years ago? After being apart for six years, many things will change. In six years' time, the Liberation War could have been fought twice.

  Can they and Chen Yun go back to the way things were before?

  And what about Yao Jing?! How is he going to face her now?!

  Lin Yu's heart was even more disturbed, and he didn't even notice that his fingers had been burned by the cigarette.

  Chen Yun let out a sigh and gently snatched the cigarette butt from his hand.

  "Lin Yu, I know it's really hard for you to accept all this right now, and I'm not asking you to. But there's something I need to tell you." Chen Yun stood up, her eyes fixed tightly on Lin Yu. "Six years ago, when you left, neither of us said the words 'break up', and we never will. So even now, I am still your girlfriend!!"

  Chen Yun turned around and walked to the door of the ward, opened it, and stopped for a moment.

  "You probably don't know, but after graduating from high school, I entered a music academy. Now, I'm a singer. If you still want to find me, come to Tianyu Entertainment Company. I'll come see you, but I'd rather see you come find me."

  Chen Yun turned around and forced a smile as she beckoned Lin Yu over.

  Lin Yu remained sitting there stupidly, not speaking for half a day. Chen Yun sighed and walked out, gently closing the door behind her.

  Lin Yu sat there blankly, even he himself didn't know how long he had been sitting. His mind kept thinking about Chen Yun's words, "I'm still your girlfriend!!" "I'm still your girlfriend!!!" Chen Yun's face kept floating in his mind. After a while, that face would turn into Yao Jing's appearance, mischievously smiling at him. He sat there blankly until Lao San and the others came with the nurse to change his dressing, then he finally snapped out of it.

  "How are you? Have you calmed down?" Old Three chased away the nurse and three old friends sat beside the bed.

  "Well, it's fine..." Lin said with a wry smile, suddenly feeling that he had smiled bitterly so much in the past few days that his face could cramp up.

  "Chen Yun just left in tears. You see..."

  "Alright, Lao San, some things I have a grasp of myself."

  "You have no sense of propriety, you don't even have a bit of sense of propriety!!! Lin Yu, are you or are you not a man? Chen Yun was wrong back then, but can't you just let it go?! It's been 6 years! Are there still things to hold grudges about? Chen Yun wasted the best 6 years of her life waiting for you, do you know how hard she's had it these few years? You actually...you...you're not even a man..."

  "Am I a man or not, it's not for you to say!!!" Lin Yu suddenly bellowed, he yanked out the needle from his hand and tore off all his clothes.

  "You say I'm not a man, what makes you say I'm not a man? Chen Yun has had a hard time for six years, did he have it good?"

  Xiao Mei looked at Lin Yu in surprise, not because of his rage, but because of his body.

  His body was covered with all sorts of scars, knife wounds, shrapnel cuts, two gunshot wounds, not to mention the new gash on his shoulder that had already begun to split open.

  Xiao Mei covered her mouth, unable to utter a word. These shocking scars, each and every one of them was forced out by Chen Yun back then. If it weren't for Chen Yun, how would Lin Yu have ended up joining the army in a fit of rage?

  For these six years, has he been living a peaceful life in the army?

  Xiao Mei silently looked at these scars, and tears suddenly flowed down. She quickly pressed Lin onto the hospital bed.

  "I'm sorry, Lin Yu, I'm sorry, I didn't know...I'm sorry..." Xiaomei cried and hugged him. "I'm sorry, I wrongly blamed you...Really sorry..."

  "It's okay, Xiaomei, I know you mean well." Lin Yu shook his head, his voice sounding so weak. "I need to think carefully about this. Now, there's also Yao Jing. She's still a young girl, not even 18 years old, and she's already given herself to me... Wait!!!"

  Lin's face suddenly changed drastically!!!!!

  "Where is Yao Jing? Where is she? She should have returned long ago!!!! Where is she?"