Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 645 - 480, Epilogue 7: I want to talk to you

The reason he couldn’t help but smile was: Despite being trapped, she spoke to those outside so politely.

What a good girl.

Honestly, he was a bit afraid of those women who claimed to be "tough girls," in reality, just "tough," with no "girl" left in them.

Having grown up abroad, he actually preferred the subtly graceful traditional Eastern girls.

As he was slightly distracted, Shi Nian inside hurriedly said, "I know you’re not a bad person. You’re different from them."

Though separated by the large door, without knowing the identity of the visitor, Shi Nian just knew he wasn’t a bad person. Even the sound of his footsteps differed from those people; those calm and orderly steps were nothing like Gu Yong’s gang’s noisy footsteps. His footsteps revealed his silent approach and simultaneously reflected his temperament.

Shi Nian took a deep breath and said, "I know this place is dangerous, I don’t ask you to rescue me. Just talking to me is enough, okay?"

She paused in the darkness, shaking her head with a lonely smile, "It’s just me here, I’m going crazy. I just want someone to talk to."

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Outside the door, his heart was fiercely twisted, painfully tangled.

And all of it was his fault.

He simply sat down against the door panel, completely giving up the idea of safely returning to his room, unnoticed.

At that moment, Shi Nian inside was pressing her cheek to the ground, peering through the crack under the door, trying to determine the person’s state outside through the light.

When she saw a large shadow merging into the gap, roughly a person’s width, she could guess that person had sat down at the door.

This meant that person agreed with her idea!

She smiled happily but thoughtfully reminded in a soft voice, "Thank you! But for your safety, there’s no need to wake them up, so you don’t have to speak. You just need to tap your fingers against the light through the crack below the door. One finger means ’yes,’ two fingers mean ’no’."

He raised his eyebrows, his gaze falling on the narrow crack, and his smile widened.

Clever indeed.

He followed her set rules, tapping one finger against the light at the door seam.

A clear, joyful laugh came from inside.

She suppressed her laughter, her voice lowered to the barest whisper, audible only through the door panel. She asked, "Are you male?"

He tapped one finger.

She tilted her head, "Were you also captured?"

Though they hadn’t met, she knew another person had been brought into the bunker with her that day. They slammed the door, and the tone of the conversation, and the way they treated her was identical.

He tapped two fingers.

Though he was also technically Gu Yong’s hostage, he hadn’t been captured by Gu Yong; he had come voluntarily.

Knowing the person wasn’t the one locked up with her, Shi Nian felt a bit disappointed.

She paused for a while before pressing closer to the door panel and saying, "Since you’re not captured by them, nor are you with them, are you with the police?"

She had fainted during the process, so she couldn’t accurately estimate the time, but she knew a few days had likely passed. She believed Dad would certainly find her, wondering if the police had already infiltrated.

Alas, the outside person still tapped two fingers. Through the dim light, she could see the shadow width was two fingers...

Shi Nian couldn’t help feeling sad.

After all this time, she finally encountered someone different from the kidnappers, someone willing to talk to her, but... not the person she had hoped for.

Unable to control her sorrow, she gently sniffled.

She missed Dad, Mom, and her former ordinary yet safe life.

All that she hadn’t cherished before, she now knew was truly precious.

The wooden panel amplified sounds, so despite the inside voice being very low, he could vaguely hear her soft sobbing. His heart was immediately twisted into a knot, wanting to tell her, "Don’t cry." So he carefully crouched down, bringing his mouth close to the door seam.

But before he could speak, he heard a sudden loud bang, followed by a cold voice asking, "Little brother, staying up all night not sleeping, are you sleepwalking?"

Tang Yanqing sighed inwardly and then simply sat up straight, looking up to meet Gu Yong’s fierce eyes: "That’s right, just sleepwalking."

Gu Yong signaled with a glance to Gun Si, and Gun Si and Xiao Mao came forward, lifting Tang Yanqing from both sides and bringing him back to his room.

Gu Yong turned the desk lamp over, focusing all light on Tang Yanqing’s face.

In the darkness, the light exerted a fatal pressure on the nerves.

Gu Yong stared at Tang Yanqing in the light circle, "Little brother, beating around the bush is meaningless. If I were you, I’d speak the truth. Maybe you could exchange it for a glimmer of hope."

Tang Yanqing laughed, "Alright, then I’ll tell the truth. I’m Yan Qi’s friend, and Yan Qi instructed you to capture a girl, so naturally, I must first see this girl."

"I asked you this before, you said the girl wasn’t here, how could I not see through your ruse? Da Yong, you should know what kind of person I am. I can lead Shi Haoran by the nose; how could I be fooled by you?"

"So I went to find her myself. And I found her. That girl is locked in that room, Da Yong, if you’re still a man, don’t play tricks with me!"

Gu Yong stared at the young man before him, both guarded yet pleased.

He knew only such a person could help him fight against Shi Haoran; the recent actions also reconfirmed that this person was indeed bold and meticulous.

If he hadn’t lingered too long at the door earlier and had returned early, even Gu Yong wouldn’t have noticed.

Gu Yong then feigned a move, "Little brother, please forgive me. You say you’re Yan Qi’s friend, but I don’t know you. With Yan Qi not around, I can’t be sure if you’re truly his friend. So the girl he asked me to capture, I naturally can’t let you see. What if you’re a cop or have other motives? Even if I’m not thinking for myself, I must consider Yan Qi, wouldn’t you agree?"

Tang Yanqing smiled, "Truly loyal."

Gu Yong nodded, "Since we’ve said so much, I couldn’t hide it from you anymore. Yan Qi hasn’t come yet, so I’m worried he’s been caught by the cops."

"Oh?" Tang Yanqing also found Gu Yong quite imaginative; even thinking up such words, he nodded, "Why do you think so?"

Gu Yong snorted lightly, "What else could it be, naturally because of the virtual cases over the past three years. We always thought Shi Haoran was a defeated general, not knowing who we were. But I think perhaps we’re wrong, maybe Shi Haoran has long known about our BBS through some means, and knows about Yan Qi."

"In the past, he couldn’t do anything to Yan Qi in M Country, but now that he knows Yan Qi is coming to China, he must have already arranged manpower, and the moment Yan Qi arrived in China, he would be detained."

Tang Yanqing raised an eyebrow, holding back dissatisfaction, "Theoretically speaking, it’s possible."

Gu Yong snorted, "Moreover, do you know whose girl we captured?"

Tang Yanqing feigned ignorance, "Who is it?"

In fact, throughout nearly four years of online interaction, Shi Nian had never revealed her true identity to him. He deduced it himself, from the cases she described, matching with real cases handled by the Chinese police, it wasn’t hard to pinpoint the person she described was Shi Haoran.

Furthermore, from her unconscious choice of words and tone in daily matters, it wasn’t difficult to ascertain she was Shi Haoran’s daughter. That’s why he had consecutively devised a series of virtual cases over the three years.

Perhaps just because she said before, her dad once squashed a high school boy’s pursuit of her. Even though their conversation on BBS was in the tone of virtual characters and events, he could infer she spoke the truth.

In other words, to a father who dearly loves his daughter, the standard for future son-in-law can be said to be simple and crude: to have to surpass him as her father.

He knew he must surpass Shi Haoran, hoping that when the day came they met officially, he could bring a bit of arrogance to tell that father, "You were my defeated general long ago, so your daughter is mine. Even as her father, you have no right to stop it."

Gu Yong observed his expression, speaking unhurriedly, "It’s Shi Haoran’s daughter."

Tang Yanqing exclaimed, "Oh."

But in reality, it was also genuine surprise at finally confirming her identity.

"So what?" He squinted at Gu Yong.

"So?"

"So, I just want to know, is your fight with Shi Haoran for Yan Qi or against Shi Haoran?"