Chapter 718: Being a Human Being Is Difficult
If Natalia's feelings are like a gentle lake, which can temporarily calm Malashenko's tired heart.
Then when Anya reveals her true feelings, Malashenko feels like a flame attacking him, which is enough to catch him off guard without any preparation.
All the persuasion words prepared before are useless now. Malashenko never thought that Anya, who was very timid in front of so many people, would be so bold and unrestrained when they were alone.
Originally, he planned to persuade Anya to retreat with a few words, but now it seems that Malashenko really thought everything was too simple.
After thinking about it, he still didn't know what to say. Malashenko, who was a little confused, slowly turned around and looked at the distant place in the rain and the foggy city. His whole mood was like the earth washed by heavy rain, "full of tears".
"I don't want to have a battlefield romance, who can help me, damn!"
Just as Malashenko was looking at the distance in the rain, he was wailing in his heart. Suddenly, the soft touch from behind made Malashenko tremble violently as if he was electrocuted. Anya, who suddenly hugged Malashenko from the waist, once again exceeded Malashenko's expectations.
"Please give me a chance, comrade commander. I just want to see you often and feel that you are very close to me every day. As long as this is done, I can feel at ease and give me the strength to move forward. Can you promise me?"
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Malashenko is not a saint. The soft touch from behind is enough to make every normal man who is not in a Buddhist state feel unable to stop, and Malashenko himself is no exception.
Reason and emotion are fiercely competing in the blank brain.
Reason, which has a slight advantage, tells Malashenko that he should not accept Anya's feelings.
How could a girl of this age know what love is? In the future, she would be at an age where she would have stars in her eyes when she saw someone she liked. To pour out her feelings blindly is not love at all.
Let alone whether she would be worthy of Natalia who was still waiting for her lover to return home, the last trust given by the original owner of this body before leaving made Malashenko feel the burden from the soul.
In his previous life, Lin Jie was romantic and unrestrained, but he was not a vulgar and shameless person.
Malashenko had a clear understanding of what he could and could not do.
Besides, he was a guy who pinned his head on the armored plate of a tank. To put it bluntly, even Malashenko himself did not know when the armor-piercing bullet that ended all causes and effects would penetrate the armored plate of his vehicle.
If he died now, at most one good girl would be sad. Malashenko did not want this number to double to two.
After weighing the pros and cons, Malashenko finally made up his mind to blurt out his decisive words, but Anya, who was very intuitive, seemed to have noticed something in an unusual moment, and instantly hugged her arms more tightly and was even more unwilling to let go.
"I don't accept the answer of rejection, comrade commander, and I don't even dare to think about what to do next after being rejected."
"My life may stay in this city forever. If possible, I want to hear a promise that makes me feel at ease before leaving this world. Do you understand what I mean?"
Not only Malashenko, who is a time traveler from the future, but Anya, who is young but smart, also has a clear understanding of the entire cruel battle of Stalingrad.
The number of wounded sent from the front line is increasing day by day, and the bombing of German planes and artillery is becoming more and more fierce day by day. The whole city seems to be caught in an ongoing destruction and is about to face eternal damnation.
Anya has never seen such a terrible scene, but she has also become stronger little by little in the initial fear and tears, and began to slowly understand and understand this cruel war that she has never seen or even dared to think about.
In the city shrouded in hellish war, hundreds of people died in the streets and ruins every day, and some even had their bodies buried in the dark bricks and stones and forgotten.
Anya didn't think she was any different from those Red Army soldiers who fought bravely to defend their motherland. She was not the kind of person who was indispensable and could never die.
If Malashenko hadn't rescued her from the ruins that day, Anya even felt that she might be just a corpse buried in the ruins, slowly rotting and stinking, forgotten by the whole world without anyone paying attention.
Ostrovsky's book "How the Steel Was Tempered" recorded the story of Paul meeting the girl who wanted to devote herself to him in prison, but was finally captured by the White Bandit jailer with a grin.
Would those Germans be as cruel as the White Bandit jailers described in the book?
Regardless of the truth, Anya, who has never seen what those brutal Germans who invaded her motherland look like, was indeed influenced by the story in the book and thought so.
Rather than going through the same experience as described in the book, Anya wants to be with the one she loves and live her life to the fullest.
Anya doesn't know what love is, but she sets the ultimate goal of this inexplicable feeling on the man who lingers in her heart: Malashenko.
The story is very simple, but the simpler the story, the more real it is. Malashenko can now deeply feel this from the tight embrace from his waist.
"Alas, fighting is hard, being a human being is even harder. It's so tiring, comrade political commissar, I don't want to be a human being anymore."
Blindly avoiding reality will not solve the problem. Malashenko must face Anya's passionate feelings and give a safe answer that will not make the girl heartbroken.
The sparse sound of rain in his ears made Malashenko quickly realize that rejecting Anya's feelings at this time may not be a wise choice or the right time.
The human heart has the most fragile softness, just like Malashenko, who always looks carefree and reckless, will only show his most vulnerable side in Natalia's gentle embrace.
Anya, who is far less strong than Malashenko, needs a refuge for support and a safe haven for the soul, and what exactly this refuge for support and soul is, it is obviously no longer necessary to say more at the moment.
All Anya needed was an answer that would make her feel at ease.