There is always a crossing that suits you

The First World War happened suddenly.

It was not because Qiao Mu didn't know that there would be a war suddenly, but because Qiao Mu didn't expect the war to be brought forward.

World War I started at the end of 1913, half a year earlier than what Qiao Mu remembered.Even in the past six months, Qiao Mu was caught off guard.In Qiao Mu's plan, he planned to take his parents to Berlin in the spring of 1914. He had even arranged a residence and discussed a new job with his father.But the advance of the war made all the plans come to nothing in an instant.He couldn't even go back to Alsace to pick up his parents, because he had to go to Russia with the Breslau—oh no, it should be renamed the Midirie by now.He is a soldier, and a soldier's bounden duty is to obey orders, and he has no choice.

Qiao Mu once thought about whether to ask Gellert to smuggle his parents into the wizarding world. After all, the Muggle war did not affect the wizarding world. In the smoke of gunpowder all over the world, only there can be regarded as safe.Although Anna's mother and Emmel's papa are both Muggles, as long as they pretend to be Squibs, they can live a stable life in the wizarding world. After all, there is no difference between Squibs and Muggles unless they check carefully.

Of course, this idea was only an idea in the end. When the 17-year-old Qiao Mu came to the hut with a beautifully packaged gift box to start the door key, when he piled the gift box with the other nine unopened boxes, when he nestled Tossing and turning on the unpopular and cold big bed, he told himself in his heart that it was time to give up.

After the telegram notified his parents to leave Alsace quickly, Qiao Mu left the land with the troops and rushed to the Black Sea.

Qiao Mu is worthy of the war experience he has accumulated in several worlds, and his performance in the Black Sea naval battle can be described as amazing.He provided the German Navy with many creative and practical strategies, which constructively opened up a new situation for the German naval warfare.What's more important is that such an excellent young man is also humble and polite. The officers appreciate his talent and hard work, his colleagues like his witty conversation and elegant personal charm, and the soldiers are deeply impressed by his iron-blooded wrist and strong style. Deeply impressed.For this outstanding young man, promotion seemed to be a matter of course. In just two years, Qiao Mu was promoted to captain and became the most potential elite of the German Navy.

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But now Captain Dönitz, who should be full of ambition and enjoy a good reputation, has a pale face and tight lips.

"Carl, what's wrong with you?" Weber asked worriedly, looking at his friend's ugly face.

"Huh..." Qiao Mu's right hand tightly clutched the telegram he had just received, the fragile paper curled up from his fingers, and his nails turned pale due to too much force.

Qiao Mu felt as if a layer of black cloth was covered in front of his eyes, the humming sound kept echoing in his ears, and waves of unspeakable sadness rose from the depths of his body, heart-wrenching pain.

"Carl!" Weber raised his hands, trying to help the guy in front of him who was barely standing still.

"..." Qiao Mu shook his head, stood firm, and rejected his friend's hand, "I'm fine."

The German officer in uniform has a straight and straight posture, with a tight jaw, revealing a firm arc, while Weber, who has known him for many years, can clearly see the flickering sadness in his blue eyes.

"I want to be alone." Qiao Mu patted his friend on the shoulder and walked deep into the street.

Wei Bo looked at the tall and straight figure, and he was sure that the eyes that were shining with water just now were not his hallucinations.After thinking about it, he still decided to follow up. After all, he was worried about Carl's situation.

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Qiao Mu walked slowly on the streets of Rostock alone, his heavy leather military boots making a rattling sound on the ground.Handsome officers, streets covered with thin snow in winter, and the beautiful afterglow of the sunset make up a strange oil painting.At this moment, the officer's slightly sad eyebrows add a melancholy atmosphere to the oil painting.

Qiao Mu walks to a bar with a very common name - Lan.Came to the bar, ordered a cup of tequila, didn't take a sip, and started staring at the transparent glass in a daze.

Qiao Mu recalled the contents of the telegram, and felt anxious again.The telegram was sent by Emmel's father. Unlike history, Alsace fell in advance, Anna's mother died of a cold while fleeing, and Fried's brother was also drafted into the army.

Qiao Mu suddenly felt that he was a waste. He had started preparing early when he came here, but he still couldn't protect his family.The mother's death is like a mockery of fate. An ordinary navy captain is too insignificant in this era-changing war.

When Alsace fell, he was fighting on the Black Sea. When his mother was seriously ill, he endured the severe cold and fought the Russians in the ice and snow. Sneak attacking the enemy's merchant ship, and now he can't even go to his elderly father to comfort him, because he will soon be dispatched with the army again.

He is a German soldier, and it is his bounden duty to obey orders.

He hates war, but there are some things he can't help himself.

Determined to stand up for what is right, he now seems to be an accepted member of evil.

He has become what he once hated the most.

This world is definitely the most difficult for him to live in. No matter how Qiao Mu tells himself to let nature take its course, he is still inevitably confused.He became a German who had been cursed by his past self, a future Nazi fascist.He couldn't imagine that one day he would meet his former comrades-in-arms on the battlefield?Would you like to meet them in battle?Will you see their strange and hateful eyes?There was even a voice in his heart that was crying softly, and there was a guess that he didn't dare to touch that made him so heavy that he couldn't breathe-will he meet Rafe?Will he be hated and hated by him?

He doesn't want to do this, but he doesn't want to be treasonous, and he can't. There are too many things he cherishes in this country, his hometown, relatives, and friends. Even for them, he will not back down.

If in the past days he still dreamed of taking his family and escaping to the world of wizards, after all, how could the time traveler in HP's world not be a wizard?He was even more confident about it after meeting Gellert.

But reality gave him a slap in the face, he was just a Muggle after all, and his mother died of typhoid and there was nothing he could do.

Ah……

From the moment the task was completed, he, Qiao Mu, became dispensable to this world.

"If you don't complete the task so early, you might still have a chance." Qiao Mu lightly stroked the glass, his eyes blurred, "I'm such a fool."

If he hadn't completed the task early, the law of the world would definitely give him a wizard status as a golden finger in order to get him to help.Now that the employer's entrustment has ended, he only needs to wait to get paid after leaving, and the law will no longer pay attention to him.

"Are you fighting alone?" A mouthful of icy-cold liquid suffocated, and a burning sensation rose in his stomach.

He thought he would never dream again.

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When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day.Qiao Mu frowned and sat up, the quilt slipping down to his waist.There was a dull ache all over his body, and his head was aching from the hangover.The windows of the room were not closed tightly, the winter sea breeze blew up the curtains with floral prints, and the sunlight cast large spots of light in the room through the glass.It was also fortunate that the fireplace in this room was burning brightly, otherwise he would have been sick with the cracked windows.

"Carl..." A hoarse male voice sounded, and Qiao Mu noticed the naked man beside him.So, a certain wood realized belatedly—it seemed that he himself was naked.

"We..." Looking at the marks on his body, well, needless to say.

The tall blond man propped up his upper body, and gave the young man who was still a little dazed a gentle kiss, his eyes focused and affectionate, "I'm sorry, but I don't regret it."

"Wei Bo, you... I haven't realized that you still have this side." Qiao Mu was slightly sarcastic, he was indeed an idiot, and he hadn't noticed that his friends who had known him for many years had such thoughts towards him.

"I've liked you for many years. I've liked you since I was in the military academy." Wei Bo didn't care about the thorn in Qiao Mu's words, he hugged Qiao Mu tenderly, and bit the tip of his nose lightly. "That day you were wearing a gray military uniform and an iron blue bow tie, and your smile was like a pink rose in full bloom. I couldn't take my eyes off the first time I saw you."

"My mother died of dystocia when I was born. I was the eldest son of the family. I grew up beside my father and was raised by him as his heir. That family was very cold, and I often wondered what my mother would be like. She would be very gentle. Will you cook for me and my sister? Will you tell me bedtime stories and kiss me goodnight every night?"

Qiao Mu was quietly hugged by him, neither responding nor resisting.

"It wasn't until later that I discovered that my father's lover, that seemingly virtuous Jewish woman, was gentle with us but only used us as a tool for profit. That Jewish watch with a warm surface was full of filth inside. Greed." There was sarcasm in the lake's blue eyes, and the young man's thin lips curled up in a contemptuous arc, "From then on, I no longer expect such things as maternal love."

"My mother is fine." Qiao Mu's voice was muffled.

"I know." Weber gently kissed the hair of the man in his arms. "us……"

"I don't want to be with you!" Qiao Mu hurriedly interrupted.As a time traveler, he was well aware of the Hitler government's attitude towards homosexuality during World War II.Even though it was still early, he still didn't want to take any chances.It doesn't matter whether he is selfish or timid, he really likes Weber, but not to the point of being desperate.

"Is that so..." An obvious disappointment flashed across the young man's handsome face, "Then can I pursue you?"

"Better not." What's the difference between being pursued by Weber and being known to be with Weber?

"..."

Seeing the injury on the young man's face, Qiao Mu ruthlessly broke away from the young man's embrace, "Let's go."

"I won't let others know." The tall young man got off the bed naked, and put a shirt on Qiao Mu from behind, "It's just the two of us." Weber probably knew Qiao Mu's concerns. His identity and family will definitely not let him marry a man, so keeping it secret is a common choice for both of them.

Qiao Mu put on his clothes one by one, without saying a word, as if he didn't hear what Weber said at all.

The last button of the military uniform was buttoned up, and the captain's epaulets reflected dazzling light in the sun.

Qiao Shu's gaze moved out of the window, pedestrians were hurrying on the gray street, the bare branches were lifeless, and the tall masts were faintly visible on the dark sea in the distance.

"I don't want to be with you, publicly or privately." He hated being a secret lover, especially the type who risked his life doing it.

After finishing speaking, Qiao Mu left without looking back, he didn't see the obscure light in the eyes of the young man who had been lingering with him last night.