Late at night, the two of them sat in the restaurant to dine. Cao Yixuan occasionally glanced at Tang Ze, as if there were still questions unanswered, "Didn’t you say you had a lot to tell me?"
"It seems there is not much to say, it was all in the action just now," Tang Ze replied with a smile.
Cao Yixuan blushed and lowered her head, thinking about the intimacy they had just shared, she felt like she was burning up.
"Those rumors outside will be clarified soon, so you don’t have to worry about me."
Knowing that this was a ploy set up by Tang Ze, Yixuan remained silent; what she hadn’t expected was that Tang Ze had involved himself in it as well.
"Eat up, and I’ll take you out for a walk to digest later."
Tang Ze, aware of the woman’s superficial front, changed the subject to get her to eat first.
Regardless of whatever he was thinking, feeding her was the priority.
Considering his next move, Tang Ze thought that Cao Yixuan’s apartment appeared to have no more space for a man. It seemed that finding a new place should be on the schedule.
The food on the table quickly disappeared, with most of it gone. Cao Yixuan, who feared gaining weight, stopped eating once she was seventy percent full and went to the dressing room.
Tang Ze started to clear away the dishes, but before he could finish, he received a call from the police—the scumbag surnamed Lü had been found, hiding in his father-in-law’s orchard, and it was his father-in-law who had discovered and reported him.
"Xuanxuan, you go to sleep first; I have to go to the police station," Tang Ze called out in the direction of the dressing room.
"Can’t I go with you?" Cao Yixuan, who had only changed half of her clothes, hurried out again.
"There’s no need to go there to stir up excitement..."
"I’m not trying to stir up excitement; it’s just that..." Cao Yixuan began but then stopped, looking down with a lack of confidence, "I’m just afraid that all of this is my illusion, and when I wake up, you will still be avoiding me at a distance; I just don’t feel secure."
"When you were on the radio show, you were full of aggression towards your career, so you don’t have to accommodate me in everything," Tang Ze said, feeling somewhat distressed for her.
"In terms of emotions, I wish I could be more carefree too, but... I tried, and I can’t do it."
"Go change," Tang Ze said, guilt-ridden, "I’m not pushing you away on purpose; I just don’t want to see you escape from hell only to fall back in."
"I understand, but it’s all in the past," Cao Yixuan decided not to dwell on this matter any further and turned to go back to the dressing room. When she came out, she was fully equipped and had put on sunglasses, "Let’s go."
Tang Ze drove Cao Yixuan to the police station. After parking, he turned to her and said, "Will you wait for me in the car?"
Cao Yixuan shook her head, "I can stay with you."
"I’m going there for revenge and to settle scores; I won’t be mistreated."
"I still want to come with you."
Tang Ze, caught between laughter and tears, thought it must be his fault for making Cao Yixuan feel so insecure and agreed to take her with him.
They both entered the police station together, and the police officer handling the case came up to them and said, "We caught the guy, but he can come up with more nonsense than your sister; we had no choice but to call you to come over." Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
"How could he have swindled three million if he wasn’t good at fabricating stories?" Tang Ze sneered.
Following the police officer to the interrogation room, they found the man surnamed Lü inside, spinning yarns to the police. However, everything came to an abrupt halt with Tang Ze’s entrance.
It was clear that the man hadn’t expected Tang Ze to arrive so quickly, and after showing an expression of shock, he could only shift his guilty gaze towards the table.
"Do you recognize me?" The first thing Tang Ze asked upon sitting down was this question.