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Published at 7th of August 2019 03:35:19 PM
Chapter 173


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Shen Yuechuan did not expect himself to be witnessing such a . . . shocking image .

Lu Boyan, the man who had sworn off all women and had treated them with nothing but aloofness night and day, was actually kissing a woman right now . If it were not for the fact that he was now witnessing it with his own two eyes, Shen Yuechuan could never imagine how that image would look like .

"Now it seems like . . . Oh, so Lu Boyan is a normal guy, after all!" Shen Yuechuan thought . He then realized that Lu Boyan had not sworn off all women; Lu Boyan had merely sworn off any woman who was not Su Jianan .

Shen Yuechuan rubbed the tip of his nose awkwardly; this was his first time killing the mood for someone . There was a cupboard beside the door, on which Shen Yuechuan set the breakfast food he had bought for them as well as Lu Boyan's gastric medicine . Pressing his hands together in apology, Shen Yuechuen performed a bow . "I didn't know you guys were . . . Ahem . The point is, I didn't do it on purpose . Just pretend that I was never here . "

Su Jianan and Lu Boyan had kissed each other countless times . Then again, this was still the first time where they had their moment ruined by someone they knew well .

The flush on Su Jianan's face was so deep that she might as well be bleeding through the pores of her face . She tilted her head aside and shut her eyes forcefully . How she wished she could just disappear right then and there .

Shen Yuechuan was someone who knew how to take a hint . He quickly made himself scarce, closing the door for the sweet couple on his way out .

Lu Boyan released Su Jianan . "He left already, so why don't we . . . " Lu Boyan said, his tone amused and suggestive .

Su Jianan could tell what Lu Boyan had been about to suggest . She lowered her head and gave him a light shove . "Why don't you leave too!"

Lu Boyan actually stood up and headed towards the door . At the sound of his footsteps, Su Jianan raised her head and stared stupidly at Lu Boyan's back . To her surprise, Lu Boyan was not leaving . Instead, he took the congee and medication from the cupboard before turning around to walk towards her bed .

Lowering her head quickly, she busied herself with pretending that she had not been watching Lu Boyan all this while .

The corners of Lu Boyan's lips lifted slightly . He dragged a movable table top towards the bed and set it up before Su Jianan . He opened the containers to reveal the contents of their breakfast courtesy of Shen Yuechuan .

Two bowls of preserved egg meat congee, a basket of soup dumplings, and two tea eggs .

Due to his unbearable gastric pain, Lu Boyan instinctively reached for the gastric medication first . Su Jianan stopped him . "Your medication is supposed to be taken after meals . "

Then, in a feat of unprecedented acquiescence, Lu Boyan put down the medication and reached for the congee instead . He took a sip and then frowned . Seeing the clear frown on his face, Su Jianan took a sip as well . It tasted mediocre . No wonder Lu Boyan seemed so revolted by it .

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There was a knock on their door . It was Shen Yuechuan again .

He poked his head inside . "I forgot to mention just now that I bought the food from a little store near the hospital . The taste might not be stellar, so you guys will just have to bear with it for the time being . I'm looking for a nice restaurant right now . You have my word that you won't be enduring such coarse food for lunch . "

City Z was merely a small prefecture-level city; finding a restaurant whose food suited Lu Boyan's taste was most likely impossible . Plus, Shen Yuechuan was not someone who was familiar with the area, so it would not be an easy task for him to find a decent restaurant .

Shen Yuechuan obviously knew that, too . After a brief pause, Shen Yuechuan suggested, "Still think that it's best if you guys can return to City A, though . "

Su Jianan lowered her lashes in thought . Lu Boyan had no idea what was going through her mind right now . Lu Boyan gave Shen Yuechuan a look, signaling him to leave .

It was then that Shen Yuechuan finally understood what was going on: Su Jianan was hesitant to go back . Then again, that felt strange to him . "They had been kissing just now . How come Lu Boyan hasn't convinced her yet?" He wondered .

Still, Shen Yuechuan took the hint and left quickly .

After breakfast, Lu Boyan booted up his laptop so that he could manage his company remotely . He was so neck-deep in work that he barely spared Su Jianan a glance .

In contrast, Su Jianan felt more relaxed than ever, lying on her bed with nothing to occupy herself . The only thing she could do was silently watch Lu Boyan work .

Captain Yan and the squad leader came by when it was nearly noon . Xiao Ying and Jiang Shaokai came with them too .

The few of them crowded the single hospital room . The tiny room, which had been quiet for the whole morning, suddenly became lively .

Lu Boyan closed the lid of his laptop and stood up . "You guys chat . I'll step outside for a while . "

"Oh," Su Jianan said in response . Then, she watched as Lu Boyan's tall form vanished through the doorway . All of a sudden, there was an indescribable feeling in her heart .

Jiang Shaokai held out a hand and waved it in front of Su Jianan's eyes . "He's just stepping out briefly . Do you really have to act like it's an eternal parting?"

"Stop joking around," Su Jianan said, slapping Jiang Shaokai's hand away . "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to take over your job," Jiang Shaokai said with a sigh . "If I had known that you would end up getting hurt, I wouldn't have agreed to let you come . "

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Su Jianan thought about it . "Well, it's not like I gained nothing by coming here . "

At least she had heard those three words from Lu Boyan's mouth, even if everything from this morning still felt like a dream .

Jiang Shaokai knew Su Jianan far too well . With that kind of look on her face? Surely, this gain had nothing to do with work at all .

He laughed . "What did you gain? Care to share with the class?"

Su Jianan snapped out of it instantly and schooled her features . The next second, she was back in work mode again . She started relaying her findings from yesterday's autopsy to Jiang Shaokai in detail, including the fact that the location of the victim's body was not the actual crime scene, etc .

Jiang Shaokai took down notes as he listened . "Not bad," he said, nodding . "I heard from the doctor that you had banged your head into something . And yet you still remember so many important details . "

"Just because I was hit in the head doesn't mean I've become stupid . " Su Jianan was not in the mood to bicker with Jiang Shaokai . "Also, I've recovered some samples that need to be analyzed from the body yesterday . I left those samples in my kit, which I place under a tree on my way down . "

"We've already retrieved it yesterday," said Captain Yan . "The labs in this town just won't cut it . Shaokai will borrow the lab in the Municipal Bureau and perform the analysis there . Jianan, your early arrival at the crime scene yesterday to conduct the autopsy proved immensely valuable to us . You shouldn't worry about the rest and just leave the case to us . Focus on getting better . "

Su Jianan shrugged . "It's not like I can do anything about it even if I worry . "

"I bet your Boss Lu doesn't have the heart to let you worry about work . Not when you're hurt like this," Xiao Ying said in a giggly tone . "He went up the mountain to search for you yesterday despite the heavy rain . He even beat the pros by locating you first . That really shocked everyone for quite a while . In the past, we're always so envious about how nice he's been treating you . Now it seems like he's willing to lay down his own life for you . "

Su Jianan cleared her throat awkwardly . "Aren't you guys supposed to be busy? How is it that you guys still had the time to engage in idle gossip?"

Captain Yan glared at Xiao Ying . "Be serious!" He said . Then, turning back to Su Jianan, he said, "Just rest well . We'll head back to the town first . There're still loads of things waiting for us to do . "

The squad leader, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke . "Miss Su," he said . "I'm here on behalf of our entire police station . We wish you a speedy recovery, and we deeply appreciate the dedication you have shown to our case . "

"It's all in a day's work . I'm just doing what I should so . " Suddenly, Su Jianan remembered that the squad leader was a local . "By the way, squad leader . Can I ask you something?"

"By all means," said the squad leader . "I'll answer you anything as long as it's within my knowledge . "


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Su Jianan suddenly felt a bit sheepish . But then she remembered Lu Boyan's picky appetite, so she decided to go all in, "Are there any decent restaurants in town?"

That was obviously not a question that the squad leader had been expecting . It took him a while to recover and give her an answer . "Ah, you've come to the right person for that question," the squad leader said . On a piece of paper, he wrote down the names of a few restaurants including their addresses and handed it to Su Jianan . "I've been to every restaurant in town . These few aren't bad and are worth a try . "

"Thank you . "

"You're welcome," the squad leader said before leaving the room with the others .

Lu Boyan came back into the room not long after . He was speaking on the phone when he walked in, leaving work instructions to his assistants . He was frowning as he spoke, and his forehead bore the signs of exhaustion .

"It's probably a huge inconvenience for him to be in City Z, right?" Su Jianan thought .

When Lu Boyan hung up, Su Jianan asked to borrow his phone . She then used the phone to send the address of the restaurants to Shen Yuechuan . When she was giving his phone back to him, she looked as if she had something to say .

Lu Boyan knew every single one of her facial expression far too well . "What is it?" He asked straightaway .

"Um . . . Do you want to head back first?" Su Jianan asked . "What's going to happen to the company if you keep staying here?"

"What's going to happen to you if I go back?" Lu Boyan stared at her with a blank expression . "I can run the company remotely . Do you think I'll be able to do the same when it comes to you?"

Su Jianan interlaced her fingers together . "My injuries aren't that serious . Plus, my brother and Jiang Shaokai are both here . You don't have to worry about me . I'll head back once this case is solved . "

Her intention was to relieve some of Lu Boyan's exhaustion, though Lu Boyan had completely misconstrued her meaning .

His eyes narrowed dangerously . "Oh, so you think Jiang Shaokai will be doing a better job looking after you, is that it?"

"That's not what I—"

Su Jianan was cut off before she could finish .

"Also, I won't be able to look after you, since I'm flying back to City A tonight . " The door opened and in came Su Yicheng . "I'm your brother . Some tasks will be too awkward to handle if I'm the one taking care of you . How can my care compare to Boyan's?"

" . . . " Su Jianan bit her lips and said nothing .

Su Yicheng gave Lu Boyan a look, signaling him to leave first . Feeling a surge of frustration in his chest, Lu Boyan left with a frown .

Su Jianan and Su Yicheng were the only ones left in the room .

"Why are you refusing to go back with him?" Su Yicheng asked without preamble . "It's impossible for him to leave you on your own at a time like this . "

"I don't know how to face him," Su Jianan said, her head hanging low on her shoulders, and her voice betraying her confusion . "He told me a few things, and right now, I'm still in a state of disbelief . I feel the same way as Xiaoxi did when you suddenly told her that things were possible between you two . I feel like I'm in a dream . I guess I just want to figure things out before I go back . "

"What else is there to figure out?" Su Yicheng laughed . "You said you lacked confidence . But Lu Boyan was the same . He lacked confidence, too . He thought you had feelings for someone else, so he tried to be nice to you without saying anything . In fact, he even had to worry about you feeling burdened if he was too nice to you . It wasn't easy for him, you know? If it were me, I wouldn't have that kind of patience . I will just make the person you like disappear from the face of the earth and then take you for myself . "

"But he said . . . " Su Jianan trailed off, feeling a bit sheepish . After a bout of stammering and stumbling over her words, she told Su Yicheng about Lu Boyan having feelings for her long before they were even married .

Su Yicheng was stunned at first, and then he started laughing .

"I was wondering why he was so nice to you after you two got married . So the truth is that he's got his eyes set on you ages ago," Su Yicheng said, shaking his head . "You two really make an interesting pair . Your feelings for each other were already so obvious from your daily interactions, and yet neither of you realized a thing . At the end of the day, it all boils down to your lack of confidence, the both of you . "

"Jianan, he really does have feelings for you . Otherwise, he wouldn't even bother being nice to you, because that's just not his personality . Look, you should give it a rest even if he really did piss you off this time . A person like him? I'm telling you, his patience and temper are much worse than you imagine . "

"What do you mean, 'a person like him'? I seem to recall you being the same type as well," Su Jianan said, mercilessly having a dig at her own brother .

"Fine, I'm the same . " Su Yicheng raised his hands in surrender . "I'll be heading back to City A tonight . You should go home after two days' rest . Don't mess around anymore, understood?"

"Fine," Su Jianan said grumpily .

Su Yicheng patted his sister's head and left the room . Outside, he saw Lu Boyan smoking at the end of the corridor .

He walked over and took the cigarette out of Lu Boyan's hand . "Stop smoking . She'd probably ignore you again if you go back inside smelling like tobacco . " "That's just how she is . She's headstrong and yet easily moved . If you still can't handle her in two days, just take the hard approach . "

Su Yicheng patted Lu Boyan's shoulder and left the hospital .

Lu Boyan opened the window, and a breeze swept in . The smell of tobacco on his body gradually diminished . . .

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