Chapter 123

After you gave him the number, he seemed hesitant, but then suddenly admitted it. This contrast is definitely suspicious,” Han Sheng said. “It’s obvious that he knows that person, and they’re probably quite close. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have threatened him and he still wouldn’t reveal the person’s name. Although we don’t know who it is, it’s almost certain that he’s a thug. Han An, how did Xiao Jing get involved with thugs?”

“I don’t know either. I just want to know who that person is.”

“This is a bit tricky.”

“I’ll come back to find Ma Tianle in a couple of days. Anyway, I’m not a policeman, so I can beat him up however I want.”

“Aren’t you afraid he’ll beat you up?”

“Don’t worry, he definitely can’t beat me.”

“Confidence is a good thing, but excessive confidence is arrogance,” Han Sheng said, patting Han An on the shoulder. “In my line of work, confidence is indeed very important, but it must never become arrogance. Like a colleague of mine, that guy was incredibly strong physically, like Wu Jing in ‘Wolf Warrior 2,’ and there weren’t many people in the team who could beat him. In one arrest operation, he got stabbed because of his arrogance. He was still breathing when he was taken to the hospital, but he died on the operating table. He was only twenty-seven years old when he sacrificed his life, which is really a pity.”

“And what about the person who killed him?”

“He’s still in jail.”

“That can be considered a consolation to his spirit in heaven.”

“It’s meaningless,” Han Sheng said. “A dead person is a dead person. It doesn’t matter how much the murderer pays.”

“Um.”

After responding, Han An gulped down two mouthfuls of green tea.

Han Sheng glanced at Han An, who had no expression on his face, and said, “I know you’ll definitely come looking for him again.”

“After tomorrow.”

“I’ll come with you then.”

“If you had been there, you might have been suspended afterward.”

Hearing Han An’s words, Han Sheng laughed and said, “Sometimes, brothers are more important than work!”

“Cousin, shouldn’t you be heading back soon?”

“You have to come with me.”

“I drove here, I’ll take you home.”

“I originally wanted to drive here, but the police cars were too conspicuous, so I took a taxi.”

“Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”

The two then walked towards the parking lot.

Unable to force Ma Tianle to reveal the person’s identity, Han An decided to temporarily put this matter aside and prioritize dealing with Li Fulong.

If his wife really goes to the hotel to find Li Fulong tomorrow, he can directly file for divorce.

As for who the man was who was kissing and touching his wife in the neighborhood, Han An didn’t bother to care.

That’s what Han An thought, but he was still a little annoyed.

It was as if there was a thorn in my eye that I hadn’t removed.

At this moment, Bai Jing, who had just washed her face, came out of the bathroom.

As soon as she entered the master bedroom, she heard a WeChat message notification.

Bai Jing frowned as she picked up her phone and saw the WeChat message.

“If it’s convenient, call me. I need to talk to you about something.”

Because her husband was not home and her son was at kindergarten, Bai Jing, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, sent a WeChat voice message to someone nicknamed “Stone”.

After the other party answered, Bai Jing asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Two policemen came to see my friend today.”

“What does it have to do with me if you go to see your friend?”

“I used my friend’s SIM card for a while, and I even used it to call you. So they went to my friend and asked him if he knew you, and also if he had been to Crystal Garden.”

“How did this get involved?”

“They’re looking for me, but this matter should be related to you.”

“Do you know what those two policemen look like?”

I didn’t ask.

“I think it might be my husband and his cousin.”

“Doesn’t your husband own a hot pot restaurant?”

“But his cousin is a policeman, and a criminal investigator at that,” Bai Jing said. “You came to Jingli to see me in August and even touched me inappropriately. I thought no one knew about this, and I thought my husband would never know, but I didn’t expect him to find out anyway. Yesterday he asked me what happened, and I said I didn’t know you. I wanted to cover it up and pretend nothing happened, but I didn’t expect him to use his cousin’s position to find the owner of that SIM card.”

“Looks like your husband is cut out to be a policeman.”

“At a time like this, you still have the nerve to joke around?”

“I’m not joking, I’m telling the truth,” the man on the other end of the phone said. “I thought they were after what I did, but it seems that’s not the case. Since that’s not the case, I’m relieved.”

“Don’t contact me again, okay?”

“You can bear to part with me?”

“I’m willing to give up,” Bai Jing said. “You’re not the same person you used to be. You’ve been corrupted by money. Sometimes I can’t understand how you could have become like this, when you were so good to me. Last night I had a dream where you were still taking care of me, looking after me, and protecting me, just like before. But when I woke up, I realized it was just a dream. Even though it was a dream, I still cherished it, so I went back to sleep. But when I dreamed of you again, all I saw was a grave without a tombstone, just a pile of stones.”

At this point, Bai Jing’s tears immediately flowed down her cheeks.

“You’re so stupid,” the man on the other end of the phone said. “This is a world where you can’t do anything without money.”

“There’s no need to break the law, is there?”

“Don’t accuse me like a saint. Didn’t what you did in Lijiang back then break the law?”

“Don’t mention it again!”

“Let me tell you, everything you’ve done will leave a mark on you. Do you think you can pretend it never happened just by not thinking about it?”

“I beg you,” Bai Jing said, her tears flowing even more fiercely, “I just want to live a good life now, and please don’t bring up those things that make me sad anymore. As for what you’re doing now, I have no right to interfere, and I don’t want to interfere. Just like I promised you last time, I will definitely keep it a secret for you. Similarly, you can’t go around telling everyone what I’ve done.”

“You don’t want your husband to know, right?”

“yes!”

“Then help me.”

“Don’t you care about me anymore? Are you trying to push me into a fire pit?”

How could I not care about you?

“So you’re going to push me into a fire pit?”

“I just want you to come back; they all miss you.”

“That’s an abyss, I can’t go back,” Bai Jing said. “I just want to be an ordinary woman and live my life in an ordinary way.”