[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-marrying-the-officer":3,"chapter-after-marrying-the-officer-after-marrying-the-officer-chapter-89":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After Marrying the Officer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},349900,610,"Chapter 89: 89: I Will Write More","after-marrying-the-officer-chapter-89",89,"\u003Cp>Chapter 89: Chapter 89: I Will Write More\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Xia Chuyi thought of a possibility and asked him, “Huo Shiqian, tell me the truth, you didn’t write me a letter today as well, did you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Um, I did.” Huo Shiqian nodded calmly, with an incredibly natural attitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not that you wrote just a few words again, is it?” She was really very curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Shiqian fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi followed suit in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very good, this was a moment where silence spoke volumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Um, maybe you shouldn’t write anymore…” she carefully suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That profoundly Liberation-Army-Uncle style of correspondence, one or two letters might have been okay, but any more than that, she feared she might go insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Shiqian looked at her with a calm gaze, lifted his hand, and touched her head: “I’ll still write. In the future, I’ll write more words.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a promise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi looked at him skeptically and asked, “Are you sure?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why couldn’t she bring herself to believe it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still a little silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi found that Huo Shiqian was particularly interesting; even though the atmosphere was awkward, seeing his innocent yet awe-inspiring face made everything seem calm and collected somehow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll do my best.” After a while, Huo Shiqian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listen to that, even his voice was stern and proper, without a trace of awkwardness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stared at him hard, then stared some more, suddenly feeling an itch in her hand, wanting to pinch his cheek to see if his expression would change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seemed to understand a little why Huo Shiqian liked to be hands-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, give her ten times the courage, and she still wouldn’t dare pinch the face of Uncle Liberation Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she was mulling over this and being silent for a moment, the embarrassment grew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Huo Shiqian reached out, took off the military coat he was wearing, flung it open, and with a 180-degree swing around her, wrapped her in the coat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s cold,” Huo Shiqian said softly, looking down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He buttoned up the coat from top to bottom for her and gently said, “Wear this on your way back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi was stunned, taking a moment to catch up with what Huo Shiqian was doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember to reply to my letter.” After saying that, Huo Shiqian turned around and with long strides, walked away from the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving Xia Chuyi wrapped in Huo Shiqian’s coat, speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t help but want to say something. The warmth from Huo Shiqian’s remaining body heat in the coat suddenly warmed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, she said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi gathered the coat closer and accidentally looked down to see specks of mud on it—stains from when Huo Shiqian had embraced her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait a second, this man couldn’t be expecting her to wash his clothes, could he?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, she couldn’t help but laugh to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After laughing, she took off the coat and stored it in her space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a joke, if she were to wear Huo Shiqian’s coat back home, who knows what Uncle Xia might think!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused in her steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eh, could it be that this was exactly what Huo Shiqian had in mind?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking her head, Xia Chuyi found it amusing in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever she encountered Huo Shiqian, her mind seemed to become overly flexible, imagining too many things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casting off the messy thoughts, Xia Chuyi hurried back home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon arriving, she found Uncle Xia and Aunt Xia sitting by the stove, still enthusiastically discussing Huo Shiqian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huo Commander’s presence… tsk tsk tsk”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spree of free compliments which basically summed up to: saying his every move was impressive, saying he was full of righteousness, saying he seemed like a role model, a fine military officer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also said it was such a pity that there was no suitable match for Xia Chuyi among his subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long discussion, that last statement turned out to be the crux of the matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuyi listened with a mix of laughter and tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She really couldn’t understand how all the preceding praises of Huo Shiqian ended up being linked to whether or not there was someone suitable for Xia Chuyi among his men.\u003C\u002Fp>",705,"2026-05-30T04:16:41.625Z","2026-06-01T04:30:17.337Z",1,"novelbin.me","8daf80f3c8bf44d7d1d0269e4646b908a61800c1c68e77d1dbd54e4d8b3e3cfb","after-marrying-the-officer-chapter-31","after-marrying-the-officer-chapter-30",1366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-marrying-the-officer-cover.jpg"]