Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 550 - 398. Dr. Agasa by Conan’s side (Second Update)
Huangfu Huazhang stared fiercely at Tang Yanqing, his heart involuntarily pounding.
Did he actually have suspicions about Jieyou’s background?
Then there was even less time left for him, he couldn’t hesitate any longer.
He glanced up at Shi Nian standing by the roadside. Her small figure stood straight in the streetlight, clearly having thought of something at Du Songlin’s clinic, clearly her thoughts were already in turmoil, yet she still refused to surrender to the chaos.
He shifted his gaze back, sneering as he stared at Tang Yanqing, deliberately raising his voice: "Lies, is it? Mr. Tang, I’m only worried that you’ve told more lies. And after all these years, even though today you so grandly proclaim her as your girlfriend, you still haven’t confessed the truth to her!"
"Mr. Tang, you still keep deceiving her. Deceiving her for so long, deceiving her so painfully, you are clearly the one who’s hurt her the most. Given this, how do you still have the nerve to claim the identity of her boyfriend? What would she say if her father, Shi Haoran’s spirit in heaven, heard this? Wouldn’t he come down to strangle you?"
Tang Yanqing shuddered, instinctively turning his head swiftly to look at Shi Nian.
He could foresee that Huangfu Huazhang would never let him off, this was the last trump card in Huangfu Huazhang’s hand.
Huangfu Huazhang had held onto this card for so long, waiting for the most opportune moment to play it. He thought Huangfu Huazhang would wait longer, but unexpectedly, it was being revealed now.
He himself didn’t mind, he only feared she wouldn’t be able to bear it.
Shi Nian also took note of Huangfu Huazhang’s words, she clutched her arm and walked over, "Sir, what are you talking about?"
Huangfu Huazhang laughed: "Lies. He’s always been lying, always deceiving you."
As Huangfu Huazhang spoke, he stared hard at Tang Yanqing, the blue of his eyes filled with mockery.
— Tang Yanqing, you want to uncover Jieyou’s identity? Then I’ll also make sure you have no place to hide before her!
At this moment, Huangfu Huazhang could no longer be the calm and elegant Huangfu Huazhang he once was. Simply because the hatred in this world, what can compare to that between love rivals?
What Huangfu Huazhang wanted all these years, no matter how long it took to plot, what price he had to pay, he achieved one step at a time. But only the little girl he yearned for all these years, remained as distant as the horizon though she was so near!
And it was all because of the person before him. Only because of his interference!
Because of this person, his little girl was forever blind to his goodness; because of this person, his little girl ultimately left him.
He would never forgive the person before him!
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Shi Nian silently gazed at the two people before her.
She smiled and shook her head at Huangfu Huazhang: "Sir, you must be joking. He wouldn’t lie to me; even if there are things that, for various reasons, he had to temporarily conceal, I understand that his intention was never to deceive, just that the timing wasn’t right."
Because he is a detective, after all, no detective in this world would ever disclose everything related to a case to anyone, not even to their closest family.
"You trust him that much?!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Huangfu Huazhang heard the sound of his heart breaking.
Why, why was she willing to trust Tang Yanqing so much, yet unwilling to give him that same trust?
Just after hearing he was acquitted successfully, she was not even a bit happy, instead showing him a face full of despair... why?!
Shi Nian felt sadness in her heart as well, but she could only speak the truth: "Sir, the encounter between you and me back then... upon reflection now, that connection was only enough to become friends, not worth being the kind of devotion and companionship that you hold so dear in your eyes and heart, isn’t it?"
Even if, as he said, she was the only light in his life... she appreciated his emotions; yet as a 13-year-old girl back then, how could she understand the notion of becoming someone else’s sunshine? She merely happened to pass by that house, smiling politely at its owner, nothing more, she hadn’t thought that far or deeply.
So when she first heard Huangfu Huazhang express his almost obsessive feelings towards her, although grateful, she also found it quite incomprehensible.
But no matter how incomprehensible, they had indeed met. She thought that every encounter in life should be considered a destiny. Out of gratitude and appreciation for this person, she hoped to do her best to bring him back as much as she could.
But this actually led to an even deeper obsession for him.
She sighed and looked up: "Sir, I trust him because he is worth trusting. And I can’t extend the same trust to you because you are truly too deep and impenetrable."
She then turned her gaze to Tang Yanqing.
In fact, as an excellent detective, as a behavior analysis expert, as a scion of a wealthy family, he indeed had plenty of grounds to become deep and inscrutable as well. Yet in front of her, he willingly remained straightforward and simple like a child.
He allowed her to easily discern his emotions, he ensured she could always understand his love for her; even if sometimes it was a deceptive scenario he set up, he would leave her enough clues, allowing her to use her reasoning skills to find the right answer.
In reality, it’s even harder for a person to present themselves in such a seemingly simplified way, isn’t it?
"But it’s truly a pity, you trusted the wrong person." Huangfu Huazhang felt a sticky pain welling up from the depths of his heart, surging to his throat, as salty and pungent as blood: "Nian, he deceived you."
He lifted his gaze towards Du Songlin’s clinic: "I said I would protect you, and not let anyone harm you. Especially a bastard who only gained your affection through lies, I definitely cannot tolerate."
His blue eyes were cold and hard, appearing in the night like a block of ice refusing to melt.
"I’ll tell you now—the one who pretended to be your online friend back then, yet slowly extracted details about your father’s cases from you, is right in front of you, Tang Yanqing, Mr. Tang himself? You still claim to trust him, but he has once again used lies to gain your complete trust. Nian, wasn’t falling for his deception such a big lesson enough? Do you really want to repeat the same mistake five years later?"
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In the end, it couldn’t be stopped...
Tang Yanqing hated Huangfu Huazhang for suddenly revealing everything, yet what mattered more to him now were her feelings.
He turned back amidst the streetlights, looking at her with all his might.
Shi Nian was so shocked she couldn’t believe her ears, staring intently at Huangfu Huazhang’s mouth.
What was he saying?
Huangfu Huazhang, being the one to expose the secret, didn’t feel the sense of accomplishment he imagined, instead, his heart was even more desolate.
"Tang Yanqing, do you dare to deny it to her? After telling years of lies, causing so much harm, do you still want to keep hiding it?"
Huangfu Huazhang’s firm tone left Shi Nian unable to doubt. So she too looked up, staring intently at Tang Yanqing.
She took a deep breath, recalling those critical profile points she discovered from her perspective standing inside Du Songlin’s clinic.
She profiled that the person was male;
She also profiled that the person was a Chinese living overseas, specifically within this state’s radius;
She also realized that the person had extracted information from her about significant cases her dad solved in his decades-long police career!
Furthermore, that person was a genius in reasoning, with meticulous thinking, possessing an extraordinary keen interest in major cases...
Now inserting Tang Yanqing into those profile points, everything matched one by one!
She couldn’t control her shock, feeling as if the blood in her veins froze instantly, she could only stare at him, holding her breath, and asked word by word: "Tell me, what he said, is it true?"
Huangfu Huazhang chuckled coldly: "Mr. Tang, didn’t you hear just how much she trusts you earlier. Can you still lie to her facing such trust?"
At this moment, the world was dim and dark.
The two people gazing at each other were even reacting the same way. He could feel her blood stalling, he knew her breath had stopped, because he himself felt entirely the same.
He took deep breaths, again, and subconsciously slipped his hands into his pockets.
He spoke to her softly, gently, as if afraid of startling her: "I know I was wrong, I shouldn’t have hidden it from you all these years."
Shi Nian was so stunned she backed away, stumbling repeatedly.
She recalled chasing Conan for so long, when someone analyzed that Dr. Agasa was actually the leader of the Dark Organization, she couldn’t accept that the closest person beside her deceived her the deepest, and that night she even bought two cans of beer, climbed alone to the rooftop, and drank in the wind.
But was such a plot not a fictional structure, but rather the most real life?
She stepped back an unknown number of steps until her body was supported by Huangfu Huazhang who quickly rushed up.
Only then did she stand firm, dazedly looking at Tang Yanqing.
Why is it you?
Why isn’t it anyone else in the world, but the one I care about the most, the one I only love?
Her heartbroken look was like a sharp knife, like a whip, making him ache all over.
He hurriedly moved forward too, wanting to support her, but Huangfu Huazhang stepped in first.
Huangfu Huazhang used his body to block Tang Yanqing from Shi Nian, not giving Shi Nian a chance to see clearly into Tang Yanqing’s eyes. His blue eyes flickered coldly: "Nian, do you understand now, he’s not someone worthy of your trust, nor worthy of your feelings."
