Hello, Mr. Major General

The road to the Senate building was considered an internal path for the Senate since it was flanked by Senate offices on both sides.

Reinitz leaned against a sturdy-looking black Cadillac. He looked down to light a cigarette.

His blonde hair appeared to be surrounded by a faint halo under the glow of the street lamps, and his deep-set Germanic features were nothing short of perfect.

He glanced at his watch to see that it was already almost 6:30pm, so he became a bit agitated.

He frowned while looking ahead and when he saw that Gu Nianzhi was finally walking over, a smile appeared on his solemnly beautiful face.

He strode over and arrived in front of Gu Nianzhi, then naturally bent over to help her with her laptop bag.

Gu Nianzhi stopped his arm and said with a smile, “No thanks, this bag isn’t that heavy.”

Reinitz didn’t insist, but nodded politely, “That’s fine. It’s already so late, are you guys always working overtime?”

“It depends on the situation.” Gu Nianzhi looked at Reinitz’s car as she answered him vaguely.

Huo Shaoheng dropped her off this morning, so she didn’t drive her own car.

She originally planned to hail a cab home, but it looked like she didn’t need to anymore.

Reinitz opened the car door, “I’ll take you home. You live in Hepingli, right?”

Gu Nianzhi smiled, “Haven’t you been there before?”

“Right, but I can’t go if you are going back to Major General Huo’s.” Reinitz gave a dazzling smile.

When he got into the car, there was a moment of darkness. However, Reinitz’s eyes were as blue as a clear stream, so he looked at people with deep affection.

Gu Nianzhi sighed helplessly, “Reinitz, do you have a gf?”

“…Gf?” Although Reinitz was very fluent in Chinese, he couldn’t immediately understand such modern internet slang.

“It means girlfriend.” Gu Nianzhi explained to him in English, “You probably aren’t married yet.”

Reinitz didn’t wear a ring on his finger.

He started the car and soon drove off the road that cut across the Senate buildings before merging onto the highway.

He said with a smile, “I’m not married and I don’t have a gf. But I do like someone, so I’m currently pursuing her.”

“That’s great, good luck!” Gu Nianzhi slyly indicated her support while establishing herself as an outsider. Finally, she keenly changed the topic, “You said something about Hong Kangquan this morning. How did you know about that?”

Reinitz cocked his head, shooting a glance at Gu Nianzhi and smiling, “I’ll tell you when you get home. What do you want to have for dinner? I brought my last few Bavarian Weisswurst sausages, as well as the famous German smoked pork hocks. I went to the supermarket to get Japanese Kobe steaks, the freshest bamboo shoots and sashimi-grade salmon.”

Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help but salivate while smiling, “I like everything except for the sashimi-grade salmon.”

“You don’t like to eat salmon?”

“No, I don’t.” Gu Nianzhi shook her head, “It’s too unsanitary to eat raw salmon, I heard that there are a lot of parasites.”

Sashimi-grade salmon was actually very rare now and even fish caught deep in the ocean needed to be flash-frozen several times to kill parasites.

But no matter what, flash freezing probably couldn’t kill the parasites since they had tenacious survival capabilities.

So while Gu Nianzhi chose to not eat salmon sashimi, she would be willing to eat cooked salmon.

Reinitz didn’t like sashimi himself, but he did some research to learn that Gu Nianzhi loved sashimi the most when she was a child. She especially loved Norwegian salmon sashimi, so he didn’t expect her tastes to change already…

Reinitz pursed his lips. After some time, he replied, “…Huo Shaoheng doesn’t let you eat it?”

He thought about it over and over again—Huo Shaoheng was the only person who could have such a strong influence on Gu Nianzhi and make her change her eating habits.

Gu Nianzhi broke into a smile, “I think so. I was a very picky eater when I was younger and back then, I was very selective about what I liked and disliked. But Huo Shao didn’t let me get my way. I can’t even remember when I stopped being a picky eater.”

In short, Huo Shaoheng actually trained her like a soldier ever since she fell under his care.

If she was picky and refused to eat dinner, she would starve. There would also be intense training afterward, so she was exhausted and hungry to the point that she had no energy to be picky about food.

But she didn’t remember liking salmon when she was young.

Perhaps this was part of her memories…

Gu Yanran once mentioned she liked all food prepared with lotus root, like steamed spareribs with lotus root, fried lotus root cakes, lotus root slices with sticky rice and Osmanthus. She couldn’t recall that either, so it was like she never ate those things before.

But when she actually tried it one time, she realized it really suited her tastes.

But she had no appetite for salmon, nor did she want to try it at all.

When she thought about it, it was quite interesting.

Gu Nianzhi became a chatterbox as soon as she started talking.

Reinitz listened to her in silence.

He had always disliked using fragrances inside the car, so his car only ever carried the natural scent of leather. But this time, he actually smelled the scent of chocolate in his car. It was sweet and fragrant, yet contained a trace of bitterness. It was this bitterness combined with sweetness that amplified the sweetness, making it even harder for him to let go of such a beautiful scent.

Love must taste like chocolate.

Whenever he listened to her speak or watched her move, he always felt a trace of bitterness amidst the sweet charm.

Every word she said was enough to make his heart tremble madly, the aftershocks echoing inside for a long time.

Reinitz’s mind drifted for a moment, so his car also began to accelerate as well.

Someone was able to detect this slight change in speed.

With a roar, two trucks suddenly sped up from behind them. Flanking Reintiz from both sides, they quickly caught up to his lane.

Reinitz quickly focused himself and shouted at Gu Nianzhi, “Put your seatbelt on! Lay down!”

As he said this, he freed one hand to press down Gu Nianzhi’s shoulder to force her to lay down.

Gu Nianzhi was shocked for a second and before she even reacted, she was pressed flat on the seat by Reinitz.

As soon as she laid down, she heard shots being fired at their windows!

The car windows instantly cracked, like a dense spiderweb had suddenly appeared on the glass.

Reinitz quickly slammed his foot on the accelerator and his car bellowed as it instantly sped up. Like an arrow being released from its bow, it lurched forward and instantly left the two trucks far behind!

He accelerated too quickly and Gu Nianzhi was being pressed flat on the seat. Her body leaned between their two seats so she almost sprawled onto Reinitz’s lap.

Although Gu Nianzhi tried her best to hold it in, she almost threw up from the violent movements of the car.

“What happened?” Her face was ashen as she asked. She was still lying still on the seat.

She heard the gunshots just now, but she didn’t dare to look up at all since she didn’t know what direction the shots were fired from.

Reinitz replied gruffly, “Someone is trying to kill you, but you’re ok now.”

From the rearview mirror, they could see the two trucks had already exited the highway.

Gu Nianzhi supported herself up from the seat before turning to see the dense “spiderwebs” on her window. She was shocked, “Your car has bulletproof windows?”

Reinitz curled his lips into a smile, “You know your stuff.”

If Gu Nianzhi and her colleagues hadn’t happened to work overtime till so late, Reinzit believed they could perfectly avoid the enemy’s assassination attempt.

There were many cars on the road when people came off work, so it would be too congested for them to even squeeze their car from both sides. Also, with that many other cars, the enemy wouldn’t be able to escape even if they could fire shots.

So Reinitz originally had everything planned perfectly. He was going to take advantage of the congested Imperial Capital roads at rush hour to avoid the enemy, but he didn’t expect Gu Nianzhi to coincidentally be working overtime. In the end, they ended up perfectly avoiding rush hour.

It could be said that the enemy failed because Gu Nianzhi and Reinitz were lucky enough and he was able to think quickly on his feet.

If Gu Nianzhi had been driving her own car or in a cab, Reinitz didn’t dare to imagine the consequences…

It was nearly 7pm. The number of cars on the highway was decreasing, so Reinitz drove even faster and quickly exited the viaduct. He drove into Hepingli, where Gu Nianzhi lived.

This was a densely populated area since both sides had residential communities.

Rows of shops lined the streets—restaurants, cafes, hair salons, beauty salons, bookstores, video stores, as well as all sorts of barbecue stalls were laid out on the path. They sparkled with multicolored signs and overflowed with the liveliness of humans.

After experiencing the sudden scare on the highway, Gu Nianzhi especially appreciated the liveliness of the area.

Inhaling deeply, she felt even more hungry and her stomach grumbled twice.