Forbidden Love?!

It was so obvious, and he still claimed he was not wearing them!

Incensed, he snapped, “Do you think everyone here is blind? It’s staring you in the face, and you still dare say you aren’t wearing lenses!”

Xiao rolled her eyes skyward, then pointed at her own eyes. “Please look carefully. This is my natural eye color, all right? I am not wearing any colored contacts at all.”

As she spoke, she even pulled down her lower lid to prove that everything she said was true. The instructor stared at her gesture, then at her eyes. He found it hard to believe; people with purple eyes were truly rare.

Shangguan Xiao rubbed her forehead and explained helplessly, “I’m half-blood. I inherited this from my mother. If you don’t believe me, you can look it up. It’s written there.”

This time, not only the instructor but even the students in the class believed her. Looking at her more carefully now, the more they looked, the more she seemed unmistakably like a mixed-race girl. They were like weeds on a rooftop, swaying whichever way the wind blew.

One moment they had been full of contempt; the next, they were all obsequious smiles. However you looked at them, they were annoying to the eye. Hearing her explanation and seeing the students’ reactions, the instructor finally realized that this student must have been wearing colored contacts before, which was why none of these children had known she was mixed-race. Realizing he had just misunderstood her, he felt deeply awkward.

He scratched his head and coughed lightly. “Ahem. Then change your clothes and return to the ranks for training.”

Then he turned and barked at the others, “What are you staring at? Get back to training!”

Xiao raised an eyebrow, took the uniform, and headed to a room off to the side. Once inside, she was momentarily stunned. More than a hundred beds were crammed into the room, though that was not the real issue.

What troubled her was this: were they really going to live here in a dormitory with over a hundred people? Merely thinking about it was unbelievable.

She had no time to dwell on it and quickly changed into the camouflage uniform for military training. After pulling it on and adjusting it, she found that the fit was exactly right. That could be said to be the only redeeming feature of the place.

She tied up her hair, put on her cap, and walked out.

The sun was blazing with astonishing heat, and outside, the students were drenched in sweat. They shouted slogans, and then—huh? Why did it sound stranger and stranger the more she listened? “I am a rookie!”

What kind of slogan was that? I am a rookie? Hmph, how utterly foolish.

She ran quickly back into formation and trained alongside the others.

Meanwhile, Han carefully treated Kevin’s wounds. Afterward, he dressed him and covered him with a blanket.

By then Kevin was already exhausted and fast asleep. Looking at his sleeping face, Han felt deeply guilty. To have done that to him under those circumstances... He was truly unforgivable. And yet Kevin showed no sign of blaming him at all.

On the contrary, he seemed terrified that Han might leave him behind and never bother with him again. But how could that be? How could he possibly abandon him? He was his only friend.

And yet now, he had ruined everything between them.

A forbidden love—one did not need to think to know how it would end. People nowadays instinctively rejected love between two men, and some even went so far as to harm those same-sex lovers.

Many considered such love disgusting, and the fate of same-sex couples had remained unchanged to this day. Same-sex lovers could not, like ordinary couples, walk hand in hand down the street in broad daylight.

Nor could they proclaim their love to the world.

Setting aside whether he could even be with him, if they truly did become a couple, what awaited them would be the insults and incomprehension of countless people.