After the Breakup, He Obtained the Krypton Gold Return Shenhao System

173: Chapter 173 If she’s drunk, then I can only take her home.Although she said she wouldn’t be polite, Hao Jinghan ultimately brought Zhao Xiaoshuai to a barbecue restaurant.

”What’s this? We aren’t even married yet, and you’re already trying to save me money?”

”Don’t flatter yourself. The owner of this place used to run a street food stall selling fried skewers. When I was a kid, I loved their grilled sausages the most. I hadn’t been back in many years, only to find out they opened this shop. I’ve come to eat here a few times, and it still tastes like my childhood.”

”You’re quite nostalgic.”

”What about you? Is there nothing worth remembering?”

”Me?”

Zhao Xiaoshuai had rarely looked back on the past lately, because his present days were incredibly exciting.

But if he truly tried to recall, he realized there was actually very little left in his memory.

Aside from attending classes, it was just studying; aside from test papers, it was just homework.

His high school romance ended without a result, and his college romance was a bitter fruit.

What he had a slight impression of were the days back in elementary school, catching dragonflies on the playground with his childhood friends, squatting in the arcade watching others beat The King of Fighters with a single coin, and sneaking into shady internet cafes to play CS.

He drifted off for a moment, then snapped back to reality and continued, ”I was pretty ordinary before, so I don’t have that many valuable memories.”

”Really? I thought a big entrepreneur like you, wealthy at such a young age, must have had a magnificent youth. Don’t tell me you just don’t want to tell me?”

”Because I was always an ordinary person. I just got lucky and inherited a fortune from a wealthy elder.”

”Oh? Is that so? But based on your physique, you really can’t be considered an ordinary person.”

”My physique could be considered something in the military?”

”If we’re talking purely about physique, it’s quite good. But if it really came down to a life-or-death encounter in a narrow alley, a slightly exceptional veteran could kill you.”

It was supposed to be a romantic date, but the topic went a bit off-track, so Zhao Xiaoshuai quickly adjusted to bring it back.

Hao Jinghan ate skewers and drank alcohol with such boldness that for a moment, Zhao Xiaoshuai didn’t feel like he was on a date with a beautiful woman, but rather having a meal with a close buddy.

”You’ve asked me so much, aren’t you going to talk about yourself?”

”Me? What is there to say? I was mischievous since I was little and loved to fight. My dad beat me a few times, but I didn’t change, so he threw me into the military, intending for me to suffer a bit.”

”Unexpectedly, I was naturally suited for the military. I liked it immediately, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight years have passed.”

Hao Jinghan was only 25; it seemed she joined the military right after graduating high school.

”Sometimes you suddenly become very sad. Are you willing to tell me about it?”

”Do you understand the concept of taking things step by step? You’re digging into my painful memories right off the bat. Are we even that close?”

Hao Jinghan said this while smiling and drinking, appearing somewhat tipsy.

”However, you’re quite easy on the eyes, and your body can take a beating. You’re my type, so I’ll make an exception and chat with you more.”

She acted indifferent, but Hao Jinghan downed a large glass of alcohol before slowly speaking again:

”I had a very, very, very close friend. We joined the military together, trained together, and went on missions together.”

”She was even a bit stronger than me—just a little bit. Every day when I woke up, my goal was to figure out how to surpass her, to hit one more moving target than her, to finish a cross-country drill a few seconds faster than her...”

”But during a mission not long ago, she sacrificed herself to save me.”

”It’s just that simple.”

Zhao Xiaoshuai imagined the scene of his best brother dying in front of him to save him, and he could empathize slightly.

”There is no way to call that a simple matter.”

”I’m not qualified to tell you to grieve in moderation, but I think your comrade, since she chose to protect you in her final moments...”

”...then you should also carry her portion and live well, living happily every day. That is likely what she would have hoped for.”

Hao Jinghan slammed her glass onto the table with force, and with a slap, alcohol splattered everywhere.

”I understand the big principles!”

”I understand!”