PWE – Chapter 115 Love at First Sight

But not long after he left, he ran into a leopard. The leopard charged straight toward the woman.

Worried that she might be in danger, he returned to her side.

After driving the leopard away, he saw that the woman’s condition was getting worse and worse.

Although he was suspicious of her, seeing her like that, he couldn’t bring himself to stand by and watch her die.

So he lifted her onto his back, intending to carry her out of the forest and take her to a hospital.

However…

He had only taken a few steps with her on his back when she tapped him once, and he immediately became unable to move.

What followed became very strange.

She set up a barrier. Inside that barrier, there were only the two of them.

She took off her own clothes, then stripped him bare as well.

He didn’t know how he ended up entangled with her, nor did he know when she removed the restriction placed on his body.

All he knew was that by the time he came back to his senses, the two of them had already done the most intimate thing in the world.

After it was over, she broke the barrier, tossed him a single word—“Thank you”—and then left quickly.

At the time, he wanted to stop her. He wanted to take responsibility for her. But she had magic. In less than five seconds, she completely vanished from his sight.

He thought that his fate with her had ended just like that. Unexpectedly, a year later, that woman appeared before him holding a child.

She said the child was his son, whom she had carried for ten months and given birth to. But she couldn’t take care of the child, so she could only entrust him to him.

After handing the child over, she left without looking back. At the time, he had many questions he wanted to ask, but none of them were ever asked.

Because he suddenly had a son, the army conducted an investigation into him. They feared his conduct was improper and his thinking unsound.

Later, the investigation results showed that he had no problems at all.

Even so, the army still imposed punishment on him. After all, having a child without being married—anyone would find that abnormal.

And since he couldn’t care for the child while in the army, he sent the child back to the village for his mother to raise.

He never expected the neighbors to be so ruthless, to actually harm his mother and cause her death.

With his mother gone, there was no one left to take care of the child.

Later on, at the urging of the Xiao family, he married Xiao Wange.

At the time, it was the Xiao family who主动 approached him about the marriage. Although he knew they wanted to gain benefits from him, for the sake of the child—so that someone could care for the child—he still married Xiao Wange.

Moreover, he had heard some things about Xiao Wange back then, that she hadn’t been living well in her natal family. He thought that by marrying her, it would at least help her escape that suffering.

Now, he was truly grateful that he had married her back then. If he hadn’t, then in this lifetime… he really would have had no romantic fate to speak of.

“Go on—why aren’t you continuing?” Seeing him suddenly freeze, as if he’d gotten stuck, she frowned tightly and urged him on with some dissatisfaction.

Zhan Zeyan came back to his senses from his thoughts. He glanced at her, cleared his throat, and said, “A year later she came to find me and brought me a child. After handing the child to me, she left immediately. From start to finish, she didn’t say more than ten sentences to me.”

Xiao Wange: “……”
She could tell that Zhaozhao’s biological mother had no feelings for him. But if there were no feelings, why would she give birth to the child? Wasn’t that contradictory?

“In fact, I don’t even know her name. Our meeting was very sudden. After we met, we did that kind of thing. Then she disappeared, and after disappearing, she suddenly appeared again. Every time we met face to face, she was the one speaking while I listened. I wanted to ask her name, but I never even got the chance to say it.”

Sometimes, when he thought about this, he felt an inexplicable sense of regret. After all, she was the woman who bore his child—yet he didn’t even know her name.

Xiao Wange looked at him steadily for a moment. “I don’t want to ask about anything else anymore. Right now, I only want to know—what kind of feelings do you have for her? Do you like her? Back then, toward her… was it love at first sight?”