Chapter 001: Crossing Over and Becoming Tai Gong Gong

  Dong Li Mao drifted in the endless, icy darkness. He was not afraid of the dark, but he hated the cold, a chill that emanated from his very marrow. Apart from this unbearable, extreme cold, he had no other sensations.

  In extreme cold, even a slight bit of warmth can feel doubly warm.

  Dong Li Mao felt this warmth, he sensed that his face was warm first, then the warmth moved to his neck, gradually moving down, just like he was slowly falling into a hot spring with his head down. He also felt a pair of warm and soft hands sliding over his body, although it was very brief, but he clearly sensed it, even his nostrils smelled a faint fragrance of orchid, this scent was exactly the same as the one he smelled from Bai Ruxue's body. When the warmth that started from his face moved to his lower abdomen, Dong Li Mao let out a humming sound in extreme pleasure, unfortunately, just as he hummed lightly, the warmth disappeared immediately, which made him somewhat annoyed, and he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

  "You... woke up... just now... that... I..." A beautiful woman wearing a white coat and nurse's cap blushed, her lips moving as if she had done something wrong and was eager to explain herself, but couldn't find the right words.

  “Like frost…” Dong Li Mao smiled, because the face he saw was exactly the same as the one that had slapped him last time. The peach blossom-like blush made her look even more charming and lovely. He grabbed the woman's hand: "Ruxue, have you forgiven me? Hmm... you've graduated and become a doctor, no, wait, you're wearing a nurse uniform..."

  The woman struggled free from Dong Li Mao's hands, shyly turned her face away, then turned around, put the towel in a basin, and rubbed it with both hands while saying: "Dong Lian Chang, you finally woke up. For five whole days, you were in a coma. These past five days, your brothers have been waiting outside the hospital room..."

  "Dong Lian Chang?" Dong Li Mao muttered in confusion, and then looked around, seeing that almost everything was white. It wasn't a very large room. On the left side, there was a bamboo rack with an IV bottle hanging from it. He focused his gaze again on the back of the woman wearing a white coat, and suddenly remembered that he had fallen while chasing after the old man's faded photo, which had been blown away by the wind when the ancient pine tree fell. Now, he realized he was in a hospital.

  Thinking of this, he wanted to sit up, but his whole body was weak and his chest still transmitted intense pain, which made him cry out in agony.

  "Don't move! The wound hasn't fully healed, I just changed the dressing for you." The woman heard the noise and quickly turned around, pressing Dong Li Mao's shoulders with both hands and pulling the quilt up a bit. "When I was changing the dressing, I saw that your body was a bit dirty, so...so I used a hot towel to wipe...wipe it clean..."

  Dong Li Mao gently lifted the quilt with his right hand, and smelled a pungent smell coming from his own body. He was stark naked: "Ru Xue, thank you..." he said, somewhat embarrassed.

  "Dong Lianchang, don't move, I'll go call Dr. Li Jun..."

  "Wait a minute!" Dong Limao, as if worried that she would disappear from his sight, hastily called out to her: "Ruxue, don't you remember me? I'm Li Miao, Dong Li Miao."

  The woman seemed somewhat displeased, the smile on her face gone, speaking word by word: "Dong Lianchang, I don't know who this Ruxiang you're talking about is. I'm a nurse at the Fifth Army Field Hospital, my name is Dāo Lánxiāng." As she spoke, she walked to the foot of the bed and picked up a card hanging from the bed frame with a piece of string: "You are Dong Jiacheng, a lieutenant and company commander of the newly formed Ninth Company, First Battalion, Third Regiment, 200th Division, Fifth Army... five days ago you were severely injured in the Donggua battle and transported from the front lines to this field hospital..."

  Dong Li Mao Yue listened more and more felt that something was not right, Dong Jia Cheng was his great-grandfather, how could he become the great-grandfather himself? Moreover, he clearly remembered that the military rank in the photo of his great-grandfather was Shang Wei, how did it become Zhong Wei? What East Gourd Battle, what Zhong Wei Lian Zhang, in the past, he had never heard his great-grandmother mention before. And the person in front of him, who was alive and kicking, was Bai Ru Xue, the school flower, how could she become Diao Lan Xiang?

  "It's all wrong! You must have gotten it wrong, Rong. My name is Dong Limao, and I'm not a company commander or anything like that. And I wasn't seriously injured in the Donggua War, but fell from a big pine tree..." Just as Dong Limao was explaining with his right hand slapping the bed, a man wearing glasses and a white coat walked in.

  "Lan Xiang, I bet you're here... Oh... Dong Lianchang woke up... What a miracle!" The male doctor who came in quickly walked to the bedside and reached out to lift Dong Li Mao's eyelids.

  "Doctor Li Jun, how is he?" asked a woman named Diao Lanxiang with great concern to the doctor who had just entered.

  "What's wrong?" Dr. Li Jun looked at Dong Limao's eyes and then grasped his right wrist to take his pulse.

  "He seems to have lost his memory, doesn't even remember his own name, and says he fell from a tree." Dao Lanxiang gazed into Dong Limao's eyes, but her words were directed at the military doctor.

  Dong Li Mao also stared at her in a daze, finding it amusing in his heart because he too thought she had lost her memory.

  "It's impossible, he didn't get shot in the head, just the chest. If the bullet had been two centimeters to the left, he wouldn't be lying here either." Li Jun, a military doctor, finished taking his pulse and jokingly said: "Comrade Dong Lianzhang, you'll be able to return to the front lines and kill Japanese devils in no time. You've become a hero of the Fifth Army! If it weren't for you leading the ninth company's brothers to break through the first line of defense at Dongguan, our army might not have taken over Dongguan City yet. During your coma, Commander Du and General Dai even came to visit you personally. Commander Du gave us a strict order: no matter what methods we use, we must save your life... Look, this is a ward that only team leaders and above can stay in. Moreover, the hospital director has specially assigned Lan Xiang as your 24-hour special nurse..."

  Dong Li Mao became even more confused, what era is this? We've long been friendly neighbors with Japan, and yet you're still fighting the Japanese devils. He chuckled: "I'm saying, you two... are you guys acting or something? Haha... have you watched too many war movies? You're killing me... haha... oh no..." His laughter brought another wave of tearing pain to his chest.

  "Dong Lianchang, what's so funny? Be careful with your wound, if the stitches come undone..." Dao Lanxiang scolded seriously, her face stern.

  Dong Li Mao couldn't help but want to laugh, but the wound on his chest was too painful. His facial expression looked like he was both smiling and in pain. After a pause, he asked: "Where are my dad and mom? Where is Grandma Tai?"

  "Your hometown is in Shandong, but now we are in Ruili, Yunnan, on the Sino-Burmese border. How did your parents and great-grandmother follow the troops to come here?" Dao Lanxiang replied.

  "Shuili? Sino-Burmese border?" Dong Li Mao was completely stunned, and it wasn't until then that he noticed the bespectacled Dr. Li Jun wearing a military uniform under his white coat: "What army are you?"

  "National Revolutionary Army's Fifth Army, you don't even remember that?" Dao Lanxiang replied with wide eyes in surprise.

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