Chapter Sixteen: To Live Is Not As Good As To Die

  He Kawaki never dreamed that, after being apart for 17 or 18 years and thinking about her day and night, his first love Sakuraba would meet him in such an environment and in this way?!

  In this life, being able to see the cherry blossoms once more, Kawahime felt that he could die without regret. Ignoring the pain in his chest, he tightly hugged the woman close to him, rubbing his face against hers like a lamb nuzzling its mother's udder, and said: "Sakura, the woman who occupies my entire world, how did you end up in this godforsaken place? What have they done to you?"

  "It's a long story." The woman struggled for a moment, then returned to her usual state and told her experience:

  "After you left, I spent the whole day with tears on my face. Missing you so much, I asked someone to find out about your whereabouts. But unexpectedly, you had a woman at Yokohama Port."

  "Cherry blossoms, I'm sorry to you!" Kawahara interrupted the woman's words, wanting to make an explanation, but didn't know where to start.

  "Don't interrupt, let me finish speaking." The woman stopped Kawaji and said: "I'm really worthless. Thousands of times I wanted to drive you away from my heart, but you wouldn't leave. Years later, I couldn't help but ask again and learned that you followed General Itagaki into China. This was the final blow, and I decided to give up."

  The woman took a deep breath, let go of the reins, and continued: "Recently, hasn't the Imperial Army's Logistics Department been recruiting people to serve in China? I signed up with the Greater Japan Women's Association's Service Team for China and came all the way to Manchukuo after much hardship. After asking around, I found out that you've been serving as a translator under General Itagaki, so I went straight there. Who knew that you'd gone off to Datong in Shanxi Province to participate in some competition?"

  "This is a conspiracy!" Kawahime interrupted indignantly.

  The woman said, "Because you are General Itagaki's favorite, someone bought me a ticket and sent me to take the train to Datong. I didn't expect that as soon as I got off the station, I was hijacked by this group of people to the mountain."

  The woman sobbed and couldn't continue speaking. A man with a loud voice also became impatient and started urging loudly:

  "Stop spouting nonsense, just ask him directly if he's going to confess or not. If he doesn't, then you'll be the one who has to confess to us with your pants down."

  Another man translated this into Japanese and the woman replied: "Hai, shacho."

  The woman stopped sobbing and said, "Ichiro, just tell them the truth. They said that as long as you reveal the purpose and motivation of that special forces unit, they'll let us go home and enjoy family life."

  Chuan Qi said firmly: "I don't know what special forces you're talking about, what did I say?"

  The woman hugged him again, stretched out a hand to stroke Chuanji's face, and sobbed: "You... if you don't say it, they..."

  Before the woman finished speaking, the man who had just intimidated them came up with a hum and scolded. He pulled the woman away, slapped Qian Rui's ear again, and said: "You don't drink when you're offered wine, and now you have to drink punishment wine. It seems that you really won't shed tears until you see the coffin!"

  Chuan Qi guessed that the other side was going to get rough with his own woman. He reflexively struggled forward, but due to being tied up very tightly and the wooden stake behind him being very secure, he ended up laboring in vain.

  The man with the buzzing voice had indeed become rough with his woman. From those cries of surprise, Kawachi could imagine that she was tied to a wooden stake, her upper garment already undone, revealing an enticing expanse of white skin, and a pair of coarse hands were unbuttoning her trousers.

  "Boom!" The river east lion roared, shaking the wall above where two geckos were in love, messing up their formation, and causing bird droppings to fall continuously.

  Chuan Qi had once been knocked unconscious by bird droppings, and had a strange dream in which he saw the woman he loved. Therefore, he hastily tilted his head and opened his mouth, trying to catch the falling bird droppings, hoping to fall into a coma again. Only then could he not feel the pain of his woman being ravaged by others.

  However, Chuanji did not receive a single bird's droppings, but his own woman was screaming in agony under the brutal abuse of the humming man.

  "How about it, Kawahime-san. Is the woman you love important? Or is that broken organization with no relation to yourself important? I'll give you three more minutes, think carefully!" The buzzing man's voice echoed in the cave.

  "Tell them, Ichiro." His own woman begged tearfully: "For the sake of our past relationship, tell them, okay?"

  "River Rider shook his head and said, 'No! Sakura, this is their conspiracy.'"

  The man's anger reached its peak, and he began to tear the woman's clothes. The woman let out another earth-shattering scream, which pierced the hearts of the onlookers like a thousand arrows. Meanwhile, the man sprinkled salt on his wound and said, "Since you value that organization so much, your beloved woman will now belong to me."

  " Ichiro, selfishly yours, Kawaki Ichiro." The woman choked and couldn't continue.

  "My respected cavalry lieutenant, the three minutes are up." The humming man still spoke with a tone of utmost politeness: "There is one thing that needs to be made clear to you. If the lieutenant truly insists on going it alone, then the woman you love will not just belong to me, but to all ten or twenty of us."

  The man's voice fell, and the river knight heard him tearing his clothes again. His own woman was probably completely desperate, with only a faint sobbing sound.

  At this time, Chuan Qi thought of giving up and compromising with these people. So, he made a request to the humming man: "Please take off the cloth on my eyes."

  "What's going on? What's going on?"

  Chen Qi said: "Before I make concessions to you, let me see if these demons are worth my sacrifice."

  The humming man said: "This, we need to ask our leader."

  Chuan Qi said: "Then let's ask for instructions."

  The cave became quiet, even his own woman stopped crying. On the top of their heads, another pair of wall-climbing animals were making love and let out happy cries.

  After a while, footsteps echoed in the cave. Kawahara listened and identified that it was still the humming man.

  "Our head has spoken. Unless Lieutenant Colonel tells the truth, it's out of the question."

  The humming man did not bring good news to Chuan Qi. This made him extremely angry, and he shouted loudly: "How can you be so unreasonable? Even if I die, shouldn't Lieutenant Ben have a 'beheading meal'? If we can eat the 'beheading meal', why can't Lieutenant Ben take a look at his own woman?"

  The man with a menacing tone shouted: "You want to die, Lieutenant? But I'll make you wish you were dead!"

  Having said that, he clapped his hands and said: "Come on, brothers, this woman belongs to you now."

  The river cavalry felt that at least 10 men had come over from the chaotic footsteps, making him feel desperate and hopeless. But strangely, the woman facing the violence didn't make a sound, what's going on?