CH 131.1

Chapter 131: One Year Promise

By the time Xing Mo came out of the military headquarters, it was already dawn. He hadn’t slept all night and was so sleepy that he wanted to die. Just as he was about to take the suspension car back to the hotel he had previously chosen to rest, he saw a familiar figure standing at the gate.

“Xiao Luo?”

Hearing Xing Mo’s shout, Lin Luo turned around and gave Xing Mo a sweet smile.

In Xing Mo’s eyes, only his lover’s smile remained. He ran over quickly, took the person into his arms, and gently kissed the lovely dimple on his cheek, “When did you come?” Have you waited a long time?”

“It hasn’t been long…” Lin Luo said with a reddish cheek.

“In what way have you not been waiting very long? As soon as he received the news, he immediately dropped what he was doing and rushed over. He knew that you were in a surprise interrogation and has been waiting outside the whole time. If you didn’t come out, he would keep standing here like the Amah Rock[1].” Yin Ye, who had been completely ignored, said coldly from the side.

“Ah, you’re here too?” Xing Mo saw that Yin Ye had also come at this time.

Yin Ye rolled his eyes speechlessly. The three of them stood around to talk and laugh for a while, then got on the suspended vehicle and left.

Gu SiYan, who happened to have also walked out of the military headquarters, looked sadly at the direction they were leaving.

It seemed that some things were better let go of.

Under the operation of Yin Ye and the military, a public trial for the assassination was held not long after. In addition to the wanted criminals and Li Tian who were hired, the defendants also included the powers of several major families, including Gu ChangYing.

In this assassination attempt a total of seven soldiers were killed, and the impact was extremely bad. It was already a felony that these hired criminals had fled for many years. In addition, they had committed multiple murders and several crimes other crimes which all together lead to them being sentenced to death. They knew that this time they couldn’t avoid persecution one way or another so in order to prevent Gu ChangYing and the others from being able to escape sentencing, they finally confessed Gu ChangYing and others as the main people behind the scenes and surrendered evidence that could convict Gu ChangYing and others.

The evidence showed that in addition to this assassination, these hired assassins were also appointed by Gu ChangYing and others to help them eradicate their enemies many other times, and there were a number of unsolved cases that were related to them.

Under the conclusive evidence, these guilt of these elites was indisputable, and they were also sentenced to death. These people also included Xing Shang and Xing ZhengYuan. They had repeatedly tried to attack Xing Mo and Lin Luo to no avail. After being suppressed, they not only did not reflect on themselves, but also continued to harbor murderous intentions. This time they also numbered among the people who paid for the assassins. The evidence was conclusive and unforgivable.

Xue Ning, the fiancee of Xing Shang, took advantage of her position to sell confidential military information to Xing Shang. Although she did not participate in this vicious incident, she still could not escape punishment. She was given a dishonorable discharge from the military and assigned to a barren planet for three years of labor reform.

As for Li Tian, he was a soldier who knowingly violated the law, betrayed his comrades for profit, and tried to evade arrest afterwards. His behavior was extremely bad. He was also ultimately sentenced to be given a dishonorable discharge and escorted to a remote galaxy for two hundred years of labor reform in various harsh environments every day.

For some people, life would be more painful than death.

In addition, the military department was also able to follow the evidence to find other traitors who were inextricably linked to these people from within the military. All of them were expelled from the military and sentenced accordingly based on their respective crimes.

As the biggest contributor to resolving this incident, Xing Mo received a reward for his meritorious deeds. He was unanimously recognized by the military’s upper echelons and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, which made him the youngest officer at the field level. It took just over a month from him to go from captain to lieutenant colonel, making his speed of promotion nothing to scoff at.

The other members of the patrol team also received various awards for their outstanding performance in this incident, including Gu Siyan.

Although Gu SiYan was a member of the Gu family and had a very close blood relationship with Gu ChangYing, he made the right choice at the critical moment instead of trying to cover up for the guilty people. Therefore, he also won the affirmation of the military and was promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant.

On the day of the awarding ceremony, Xing Mo was wearing a straight military uniform with wide shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs. He looked extremely handsome, making people who looked at him blush and causing their heartbeats to quicken.

Those people who specially came to watch the awarding ceremony shouted Xing Mo’s name loudly, and there was endless warm applause.

After the award ceremony, Gu SiYan quietly went to Xing Mo. “Lieutenant Colonel Xing… may I have a word with you?”

Seeing Gu SiYan, Xing Mo felt a headache coming on, but due to the occasion he had to patiently say, “Lieutenant Gu, what’s the matter?”

“I’m sorry that my improper behavior caused you trouble before.” Gu SiYan said sincerely and bowed to Xing Mo.

Xing Mo didn’t expect that Gu SiYan would actually apologize to him, so his attitude eased a lot, “It’s okay.”

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 望夫石 – Wàng Fū Shí – lit. ‘Wife Rock’, English name is ‘Amah Rock’, it’s a natural person-shaped rock in southwest Sha Tin District, Hong Kong that has a legend surrounding it that a fisherman’s wife who would wait on the hilltop everyday for her (unknowingly deceased) husband was turned into this rock by the Goddess of the Sea as a reward for her faithfulness.