Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 582 - 429, Human or Ghost (1 more update)

Yan Jian desperately tried to endure, attempting to think about those models backstage at the runway. Fortunately, she studied fashion design herself, so she had witnessed many scenes of models changing clothes backstage. To save time, the models didn’t have any hesitation or shyness, even when facing male designers and assistants, they could calmly undo their clothes.

She considered herself as a model. At this moment, she was not Tang Yanjian, but simply fulfilling a responsibility and carrying out a mission.

James squinted, staring at Yan Jian, watching her go from initial shyness and slight trembling to gradually having a determined look in her eyes. Finally, she calmly let go of her hands which wanted to cover, and then lifted her chin proudly under his gaze.

He frowned instead.

He wanted to see a shy, mysterious Eastern girl, not a female soldier ready to sacrifice herself.

He gritted his teeth and said to the phone, "I’m really sorry, the child is not with me."

"What did you say?" Tang Yanqing was anxious on the other end of the phone, and Yan Jian’s eyes widened, looking as if she wanted to rush over and tear James apart.

James squinted his eyes at Yan Jian, arrogantly saying to the phone, "It’s not that I wanted the child, it was George. Children are so troublesome, what am I going to do with one? So after getting the child, my people handed her over to George’s people."

Tang Yanqing listened on the phone and suddenly asked, "Who is by your side?"

James was also slightly startled, his gaze swept over Yan Jian, and then he tried to say calmly, "No one."

He immediately countered, "Why, worried about George’s men by my side? Then why did you call so recklessly? Shouldn’t you have checked first?"

Tang Yanqing sighed softly, "You’re right. But the child’s safety is more important than anything."

James squinted his eyes, "More important than your own life?"

Tang Yanqing responded without hesitation, "Yes. For her, I wouldn’t hesitate even if it costs my life."

James burst into a strange laugh, "It’s not even your daughter, it’s that illegitimate child’s, so why bother?"

Tang Yanqing’s voice was calm, "That child is Shi Nian’s daughter; that’s enough. Besides, no officer asks who the child belongs to before rescuing her."

James raised his eyebrows slightly.

He couldn’t help but recall his past. Back then, after being harmed, he knew he couldn’t cry to his mother nor could he tell George, but he also never thought about calling the police. Hearing Tang Yanqing say this now, he couldn’t help making an assumption: if he had called the police back then, would the police have protected him, would they have helped him deal with that old man?

He thought for a moment and then laughed. So many years have passed, what meaning does such speculation have?

Tang Yanqing pursued, "In your view, where is George’s people most likely to take the child?"

Since George and James could still communicate well, perhaps James’s opinion would be more valuable.

James squinted again, his gaze falling on Yan Jian, and said word by word, "I, don’t know."

Yan Jian was infuriated, bent down, picked up her shoe, and threw it at him.

She truly didn’t hold back, the shoe heel aimed straight at his face. James frowned, dodged slightly, barely avoiding it.

Tang Yanqing also heard, and asked again, "James, who is with you?!"

Behavior analysis is not just about observing with eyes, listening to sounds can also make judgments. At this moment, as he discussed such important issues with James, he himself was fully focused, but it was clear that James was distracted.

This distraction didn’t come from James’s arrogance and contempt, but from an objective circumstance. He could imagine James’s current scene by the sound of James now: James’s eyes were constantly fixed on something.

The focus James had for that person was clearly more than what he had for him.

Tang Yanqing unconsciously thought of Yan Jian.

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During the investigation, Yanyi advised not to relax vigilance against James, and the people sent out did not find anything unusual about James. When the police couldn’t muster more manpower to monitor James, Yan Jian silently handed him a portable hard drive one night. He opened it and found it filled with numerous audio files. As he played them, he realized they were all the words James had said in his office. The recordings were extremely detailed, almost covering 24 hours a day, and as long as James appeared in the office, everything he said was recorded.

Yan Jian quietly helped him immensely. Sometimes in the castle, it was George, not Huangfu Huazhang himself; the name Mo Ya Village was learned by him this way.

He was overjoyed and carefully asked Yan Jian how she got them, and she simply said that it was by coincidence when helping James renovate his office that she planted the bugging devices there. As for how Yan Jian and James met, Yan Jian wouldn’t say much, only claiming it was a chance meeting in a shop.

Knowing this, Tang Yanqing sensed something amiss but had too many things going on during this period and couldn’t find a separate time to talk to Yan Jian clearly. He just carried a sense of guilt in his heart, which started from when he was handling the matter of Little Sound.

At that time, the eldest sister was suddenly involved in the case, and everyone sympathized with her, trying to rescue her. As a result, in the love triangle between the eldest sister, Little Sound, and Yan Jian, everyone without exception sided with the eldest sister, unable to help but blame Yan Jian.

Now, thinking back, Yan Jian falling in love with Little Sound was also the most straightforward emotion, unrelated to any scheme, and fundamentally wasn’t wrong. Moreover, she was the youngest sister in the family, accustomed to being pampered by elders and siblings. How truly sorrowful she must have been when she was isolated and helpless...

But she didn’t become despondent; instead, she took on the responsibility of her sister’s store and quietly came up with James’ recording. This made him, as her brother, feel deeply inadequate.

Instinctively, he was very worried that there might still be deals between Yan Jian and James in private. James, also a child of the Ford family, wasn’t someone Yan Jian could easily deal with. His greatest fear was that Yan Jian might be deceived by James. Under no circumstances did he want his family, especially this youngest sister, to pay some heavy price for his own case, for his own matters.

He then asked in a deep voice, "Was it Yan Jian?"

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James also jumped in shock, involuntarily staring at Yan Jian, giving a cold laugh at the phone: "Are you crazy?"

Tang Yanqing shouted loudly at the phone, "Yan Jian, is it you?"

The room was quiet, although James didn’t have the speaker on, yet Yan Jian could still hear her brother’s stern shout.

Like a heavy hammer striking down, her tears instantly flowed.

She didn’t want her family to discover it, even though her brother wasn’t directly in front of her, but only guessing through the phone, she still felt thoroughly ashamed.

She was truly useless, unable to hide it from her brother. Now in such a life-and-death situation, how could she still cause her brother to be distracted by her?

With tears in her eyes, she vigorously shook her head at James.

Her brother must not find out.

James coldly laughed at the phone with a sneer: "Mr. Tang, you really have had enough. There’s someone by my side, a woman, the type you pay for. Just when things were going well, you disrupted me with your sudden call, but how could you randomly guess it’s your sister?"

He paused for a moment and said something harsh: "Is it possible that, in Mr. Tang’s mind, his sister could be that kind of person who goes out to sell herself?"

After saying that, he hung up the phone and immediately turned it off.

He threw down the phone, only to see Yan Jian looking at him in despair, her gaze shattered.

He frowned.

What he had just said was only to dispel Tang Yanqing’s suspicions, to stop Tang Yanqing from continuing to guess it was Yan Jian... He really didn’t intend to humiliate her.

But whether intentional or not, she still misunderstood at the moment. What use was there in explaining?

He gave a cold laugh: "What, do you feel aggrieved again? If you felt aggrieved, you shouldn’t have agreed to me initially. Since you agreed, you must bear the grievance and fulfill it. I have no interest in a woman who only knows how to cry and whine. Being with a man should originally be a happy thing; if you’re like this, it becomes meaningless."

Yan Jian grabbed another shoe and threw it at him: "Go to hell!"

James slightly tilted his head and easily avoided it. Yan Jian paid no heed to herself being undressed and cried in despair: "You took away Shi Nian’s child! You’re not human!"

James squinted his blue eyes and stared at Yan Jian: "What does it mean to be human? I want to know too. Maybe it’s someone like you: complete parents, harmonious family, siblings who care for each other; and not like me, where having a Dad is equal to not having one, a Mom who is completely unreliable, a brother who I’d rather clash minds with..."

There was one more sentence he didn’t voice, which rushed to the tip of his tongue. He swallowed it hard, startled himself.

What he wanted to say was: "To have someone I want to love but instead have to harbor hatred for each other"...

He startled himself too. Did he just think of the word "love"? Did he really think he had fallen for this little girl in front of him?

Was he crazy? This was the Tang family’s smallest granddaughter!

He frowned, quickly stepping back, covering his mouth and turning his head away.

No way.

Even if... he would never admit it to anyone.

Squinting his eyes, he gazed at the night outside the window. His expression and the night equally deep and enigmatic: "So maybe you’re right, I shouldn’t exist as ’human’, or maybe better suited as a ghost."

As a ghost, he wouldn’t need to worry about whether she’d be sad, as a ghost, he would only need to devour her completely.