My Crush Also Has a Crush on Me!-Chapter 18 - Falling into the Garbage Heap

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Fu Ying didn't stay out too late with Li Hanyi and the others, and was ready to head home.

As she left, night had fallen, and the street lamps along the road had lit up, the city's night market bustling.

She thought the nighttime Chang'an was lively, but she didn't expect to find places even more beautiful and bustling.

Fu Ying stopped in front of a deep-fried skewers stall, swallowing her saliva.

"What would you like to eat, young lady?" The owner called out to her enthusiastically.

Hesitating, Fu Ying extended her small hand and pointed: "This one, this one, and this one."

Her bright eyes carried a novelty, as if she had never seen deep-fried skewers before, full of curiosity and skepticism.

Not knowing what it tasted like, even doubting whether it was edible.

Fu Ying looked at others, all enjoying their food with relish, beginning to think this must be tastier than the silver fungus and lotus seed soup in the palace.

The owner was very enthusiastic, eyeing the petite Fu Ying, chuckled: "Alright, miss, you go sit over there and wait a moment, it'll be ready soon."

These deep-fried skewers were quite quick, ready in a short while.

Fu Ying took the skewers, paid, and was ready to move forward.

The owner hurriedly spoke up: "Young lady, the area ahead is the red-light district, it's not safe."

Fu Ying paused, thanked him with a "thank you," and turned back.

In this unfamiliar environment, Fu Ying found everything fresh.

She was like a newborn baby, full of unprecedented curiosity about everything in this world.

"Make way!"

"Please move aside ahead!"

Suddenly, someone shouted from the front, and more than a dozen firefighters with equipment were striding forward.

Biting her deep-fried skewer, Fu Ying saw Shen Liguang.

His eyes were sharply focused straight ahead, without glancing sideways, not noticing her.

Fu Ying was stunned for a moment, then followed the crowd towards the red-light district.

Not knowing what happened, a crowd was standing under a nightclub, all pointing to the top floor, chattering nonstop.

"What's going on? Why does this woman want to jump off the building?"

"I heard that this woman suspected her husband of cheating, so she installed a tracker on his phone, and that's how she found out her husband was here looking for prostitutes."

"Is that true?"

"Of course it is. It's been a fuss for over an hour. Her husband is kneeling and apologizing, but she won't forgive him and wants to jump off the building."

"This woman, really, might as well divorce, why go to extremes over a man."

"That's right, no need for that over a faithless man."

"..."

She finished her deep-fried skewers, threw the wrapper in the trash can, and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand.

She looked up towards the rooftop.

The woman stood on the edge of the rooftop, swaying with the wind as if she could fall at any moment, sending chills down the spine.

Her body swayed with the wind, and the people below cried out in fright.

"I'll go up; prepare the air cushion down here."

Amid the crowd, the distinct and serious voice of Shen Liguang entered her ears.

His voice was very recognizable.

Fu Ying looked up, watching him enter the nightclub, quickly appearing on the rooftop.

The building wasn't very tall, four stories, but a fall from there was enough to be fatal.

Fu Ying looked up, her gaze tightly fixed on the woman.

She didn't know why, but she was terribly afraid that the woman might give up and jump.

Shen Liguang climbed upstairs and saw the woman, emotionally broken and dazed; he carefully approached her.

The woman suddenly screamed, pointing at Shen Liguang: "Get lost! All of you get lost! If you come any closer, I'll jump!"

"Don't get agitated." Shen Liguang slowly moved closer, soothing the woman's emotions, "Ms. Sun, calm down a bit. Think about the children and elders at home. If you die, what will they do?"

Shen Liguang watched her feet intently, afraid that she might slip and fall due to her emotional agitation.

Women like her, who choose suicide because of their husband's infidelity, often place great importance on their emotions.

While talking to her, Shen Liguang moved closer: "Ms. Sun, your child is only ten. If you jump, have you thought about your children?"

"Do you think your husband finding another wife will love your children? A man unfaithful to his marriage like him doesn't deserve your life. You can choose to divorce. He cheated during marriage; you can leave with nothing, and you can live a good life with your children."

"You must be a good mother; children can't be without their mother."

The woman covered her face and started sobbing uncontrollably.

"You don't understand, you don't know anything. I gave everything to him, when he was a poor boy, I married him against my family's wishes, I borrowed money everywhere for his business venture, my youth, all I had was given to him! Yet he betrayed me!"

The woman's words made her cheating husband extremely ashamed.

He never considered what his wife had sacrificed for him.

All he knew was that since the child was born, his wife quit her job to become a housewife, and revolved her life around him and the child.

He even despised his wife, thinking her a nagging hag.

The woman knelt down and wept, the sobbing filled with grief.

Seizing the moment she was distracted, Shen Liguang ran over quickly, grabbed the woman's body, and pulled her away from the edge of the rooftop.

Downstairs there was a panic, but seeing the woman rescued, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"If there's a problem, talk it out calmly, if all fails, get a divorce. No need to throw your life away."

"Nothing is more important than being alive."

Shen Liguang knelt down and handed the woman a tissue, then said to Qian Zheng: "Her emotions are unstable now, you and Xiao Wu stay behind."

Qian Zheng nodded: "Yeah."

As Captain Shen led the team to leave, the nightclub manager awkwardly smiled at Shen Liguang: "Captain Shen, about that..."

Shen Liguang glanced at the abrasions on his arm, indifferently shifting his gaze away.

It was common to get injured on duty, he was used to it.

"I'm a firefighter, crackdown on prostitution is not our job."

The manager's face beamed with an ingratiating smile as he offered a cigarette to Shen Liguang: "That... we're not involved in any prostitution, this place is just for entertainment."

Shen Liguang took the cigarette, put it in his mouth, and chuckled: "An entertainment venue? What kind of entertainment? The kind without clothes?"

"No, that can't be."

Shen Liguang exhaled smoke and tugged at the corner of his mouth: "Let the vice squad know."

The nightclub manager's face turned green.

The woman was saved, and the crowd below dispersed.

Fu Ying turned around to leave with the crowd.

Among the noisy crowd, someone bumped into her, sending her petite figure tumbling into a nearby heap of garbage.

The garbage can was already full, and everyone was tossing their trash beside it.

The bin reeked of decay, and the fair-skinned girl fell right into it.

Filthy and in a sorry state.

Fu Ying frowned slightly, turned her head to see who had bumped her, but the crowd had almost completely dispersed.

She struggled out of the garbage heap, sat on the ground smelling the odor on her body, and felt like crying.

Someone approached, a shadow appeared at her feet, and the person knelt down, handing her a tissue.