Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 551 - 399. Sleeping Beauty, sleep (First Update)

For Shi Nian, today is indeed an unbearably difficult day.

It feels like after the day five years ago when Dad died in the operating room and Mom went insane outside its doors, today is her most troubling day.

Even during the four years of marriage with Xiang Yuan, finding out Xiang Yuan was with Rosa, and being neglected by Xiang Yuan’s family, she never felt she couldn’t endure it like today.

Today, Huangfu Huazhang schemed to evade guilt, officially announcing that he gave up on his promise to her.

Today, with Du Songlin’s help, she remembered that she was actually an accomplice to that person back then.

It was also today that the truth was revealed to her unexpectedly! The person she would rather forget but deeply despised was actually Tang Yanqing!

At this moment, she somewhat didn’t want to live anymore.

It’s so hard, reality is really so hard, making her unsure how to get through the night, not knowing how to live under such a truth.

But even though it’s so hard, she knows she can’t escape, and she can’t let him misunderstand too.

If she only thought of herself today, choosing the simplest way to collapse and escape, then all the pressure would be left for him to bear alone.

Although she doesn’t understand why he did that back then, yet... looking back from today’s perspective, she still chooses to believe he had his reasons.

She takes a deep breath, looks up at Huangfu Huazhang, but withdraws her arm from his hand.

"Sir, I don’t know how you knew about this matter; but I think, at least, this is between him and me. I would rather wait for him to choose the right time, to tell me himself, rather than through you, sir."

Huangfu Huazhang is stunned.

He thought, judging by the weight of this matter, under normal circumstances, she should be immediately desperate and even hateful towards him.

She should be unable to bear facing him; she should have chosen to turn around and run, and then he would wait by her side, ready to take her dashingly away from Tang Yanqing’s gaze.

And after tonight, she should return to him and Jieyou.

Aren’t all women supposed to react this way? But why didn’t she?

He couldn’t help but laugh, as if trying to hide his disappointment and embarrassment with laughter: "Nian, what are you saying? I said I would protect you, not allow anyone to hurt you. But actually, he hurt you the worst of all, so of course, I want to protect you from further harm by him. Isn’t that right?"

All the indignation and pain surged forth, making her cry out in surprise: "But this is my own matter. I didn’t ask for your involvement, sir!"

Huangfu Huazhang squints his eyes, staring fixedly at her.

"What are you trying to say?"

Shi Nian also takes two steps back, standing between Tang Yanqing and Huangfu Huazhang, not beside either one.

She turns her head to stare at Tang Yanqing: "Tell me, were all the subsequent cases done by you?"

Tang Yanqing closes his eyes, nodding sadly: "I said before, back then I was a scumbag."

Shi Nian shakes her head with tears: "Before my dad passed away, those series of cases started three years prior to that incident. Thinking back, it was also around the time you and I met online... so you committing those cases, all the information was actually sourced from me, so I was your accomplice. And also because I’m my dad’s daughter, I was very well-informed about those cases, and therefore, you were equally well-informed about my dad’s past cases, that’s how you could effectively target my dad’s pride, destroying his confidence and calm bit by bit."

Tang Yanqing is at a loss for words, only able to lower his head deeply: "Yes... back then I was just a scumbag, knowing my talent for reasoning, yet unwilling to follow my family into the legal field. I was a troublemaker back then, enjoying challenging others hither and thither. When I heard a pioneer genius like your dad emerged in China, without formally incorporating criminal psychology into daily casework, I was curious and somewhat indignant, so I wanted to challenge him."

"That’s why I gradually discovered you online, paying special attention to you. Initially, I didn’t even know you were the daughter of that pioneer, I thought you were his colleague or student..."

He only deduced who she was with his reasoning skills years later.

He knew his words made sense, and she later deduced on her own that those cases were virtual cases, resembling deduction games, and didn’t involve real personnel or property losses... But still, how could that matter, Dad still died because of what happened later, and Mom went insane!

She couldn’t hold back her tears, shaking her head crying aloud: "Yet because of your challenge, you completely destroyed my Dad’s calmness and confidence, leading to his death in the subsequent incident! All you wanted was victory in the reasoning game, but my Dad paid with his lifelong pride and his life!"

Tang Yanqing stood in the night, as if being slapped repeatedly and loudly, one after another.

He clenched his fingertips inside his pockets: "I know, I know I can never atone for my sins. So later, I thought it was better for you to forget me; that was my deserved consequence, what you should have forgotten; a punishment from the heavens. So I watched you marry Xiang Yuan, but I didn’t dare to approach you, even less bring up the past with you."

Shi Nian’s tears fell like rain: "I’m so tired, I want some peace. Please don’t follow me tonight, I want to think alone."

Tang Yanqing immediately took out his phone: "Okay, I’ll call Ye He now to have them come pick you up."

Fortunately, she was not alone, fortunately she had the companionship of Ye He and Xiao Mai.

But Shi Nian shouted: "Don’t notify her either. I said I wanted to be alone and quiet!"

"Then I’ll take you." Huangfu Huazhang reached out and grabbed Shi Nian’s elbow.

Shi Nian flung it away again, raising her gaze to fix on him: "Sir, this is between me and him, and you don’t need to interfere, okay?"

Tang Yanqing stepped forward, coldly warning Huangfu Huazhang with her gaze, then lowered her eyes like a child with no way to admit wrongdoing, lowering her head and trying hard to find her eyes.

Fingers stopped in mid-air, originally intended to hold her hand, but ultimately didn’t dare.

He said lowly and hesitantly: "Don’t get emotional, I will comply with whatever you say. Just don’t drive yourself tonight, I’ll call a driver or get you a cab home. I can listen to you in anything, but in this matter, just listen to me once, please?"

She lifted her eyes to look at him, her eyes again couldn’t help but feel sour.

Finally, she slowly nodded: "...Tonight it’s not that I resent you so much; I really just want to be alone and quiet. As for things from back then, I hope tonight you can sort them out yourself well and then find an appropriate time to tell me."

His eyes turned red: "Okay. But remember what I say: all the mistakes back then were mine alone, you were just deceived by me and used. Everything that happened later had nothing to do with you and was not your fault."

Her heart felt bitter and sweet, and she nodded: "I understand."

The two of them were like two children, just had an earth-shattering argument, but immediately inexplicably walked back to each other, both lowering their heads, almost touching at one point, quietly, as if no one was around, speaking words that only concerned the two of them.

The height difference, both lowering their heads towards each other, made the streetlamp cast their silhouette on the ground, forming a downward curve on either side. Looking from the side, it seemed like a tiny heart on the ground.

They were the curves on either side of that heart, but the observer was Huangfu Huazhang. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

He stared at them, heard his own heart shattering, then breaking into pieces.

He knew he could no longer endure.

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Tang Yanqing called a taxi for Shi Nian, and worried, he left his car at Du Songlin’s clinic entrance and personally drove her green Beetle all the way following the taxi.

Under the pretext of naturally returning her car, but in fact, he couldn’t bear to let her go.

He sat outside her house, personally watched her walk into her home, then as the lights came on, Ye He, Xiao Mai, and Rosa came downstairs to meet her.

The four girls went upstairs together, only then did his heart quietly settle.

He parked the Beetle, then walked alone along the long road back to Du Songlin’s clinic entrance to retrieve his car.

He didn’t call a taxi, nor did he ask Du Songlin for help, he just walked over alone, traversing nearly half the city, through the long, long night.

Because getting the car was just an excuse, he also needed a night like this to reflect and think clearly.

Why back then, he did such hateful things;

What happened afterward;

And during the before and after of that incident, how did he meet her, and how did they stay together.

And ultimately, how did they lose each other again.

This night, she needed alone time, and he did too. He didn’t even want his own family to know about such matters, so he chose solitary walking, solitary reminiscing, solitary—regret.

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Ye He and Xiao Mai secretly discussed, then quietly put two sleeping pills in the milk.

Shi Nian drank the milk and fell asleep.

As long as she could sleep, she wouldn’t be bothered by worries.

In her dreams, she smiled serenely, dreaming she returned to China, back to that perfect home where Mom and Dad were.