Return of the Antagonistic Lady Boss

Chapter 1218: Chapter 1190: Closely Intertwined (Monthly Ticket 2100+ Update)

”Are you sure? What exactly happened?” Yu Minglang asked seriously.

”I’m actually not too sure myself, because the situation was quite urgent back then. I might have been mistaken, because the time I interacted with her was just a matter of seconds. The situation was like this...”

Qian recounted in detail to Yu Minglang about the stampede incident she encountered in the mall and how someone reached out to help her.

The more Yu Minglang listened, the deeper his frown became.

Earlier, Qian hadn’t told him in such detail. She only mentioned that she went shopping with her mother-in-law, encountered a stampede, and narrowly escaped.

Listening to her detailed account now, it sounded more and more terrifying. Yu Minglang was so startled that cold sweat appeared on his back.

He thought the incident with the car being smashed was already scary enough, but didn’t expect there to be such a nerve-racking moment before that! If no one had helped Qian, it would have been terrifying!

”...That’s how it happened. Because the situation was really chaotic, I was also bewildered by the sudden incident. I don’t even know if what I saw was truly Mu Xiaofeng. By the time she had pushed me down and I looked up again, she was nowhere to be seen, so it can’t be confirmed.”

Because she wasn’t sure if she’d made a mistake, she hadn’t told anyone else about it.

”If it was her, it could be possible, because if a woman hadn’t trained, she wouldn’t have such strength, and an average person wouldn’t think to pull you out from that position. But if it was her, the information that just came in must be problematic. If Mu Xiaofeng put in so much effort to save you, even risking being discovered, she wouldn’t need to send someone to hit you after saving you.”

Yu Minglang’s analysis made a lot of sense.

Qian thought for a moment, ”I also think it wasn’t Mu Xiaofeng who sent someone to hit me. Those people weren’t telling the truth; there must be a mastermind behind them!”

”How can you be so sure? What if the person you saw in the mall wasn’t Mu Xiaofeng?”

”I trust my professional judgment. Even if it wasn’t Mu Xiaofeng herself I saw in the mall, based on Mu Xiaofeng’s character, she wouldn’t hire someone to kill me, because she isn’t that despicable.”

Yu Minglang is someone who greatly trusts his intuition, but Qian is different. She trusts her professional judgment more often.

Previously, Mu Xiaofeng rarely showed emotions, and Qian couldn’t pin her down. But after a conversation with Mu Xiaofeng since her arrest, Qian basically understood what kind of person she was.

”Purity emerges from filth; light from darkness. A dung beetle climbs out of filth, transforms into a cicada, and faces autumn wind. Rotten grass without light transforms into a firefly, and leaps with the summer moon.” Qian wanted to express that although Mu Xiaofeng had done many bad things, she was still quite righteous regarding personal matters.

Yu Minglang snorted coldly, ”You don’t seem to hold a bad opinion of her.”

For Mu Xiaofeng, who once hurt his friend, Xiaoqiang holds no favorable impression.

”I’m just looking at the matter objectively. She will pay for her actions; that’s inevitable. But I believe the person this time wasn’t sent by her.”

”They can’t extract any valuable information over there, and our guesses are just subjective. What the objective truth is, still needs to be uncovered.”

In this society, which emphasizes facts and reasoning, the information Qian provided is valuable for reference, but it can’t settle things decisively.

Who exactly sent someone to attack Qian, whether it was Mu Xiaofeng or someone else, remains an unsolvable Rashomon, as the few culprits caught refuse to speak.

”How about this, take me there. I’ll try to question those three people. I’ve been acknowledged as external assistance by you now, and these matters are closely related to me, so me questioning doesn’t violate the rules.”

”No!” Yu Minglang felt sorry for his wife, who had been through such an unsettling day; she should go home to rest and relax, not stand by his side in battle.

”The problem now is even if I want to avoid it, I’m caught up in it. There’s help from the spiritual medium this time, but what about next time?”

”I’ll protect you.” Yu Minglang would never allow today’s events to happen again.

”Can you stay by my side 24/7?”

Yu Minglang pursed his lips; staying together day and night is difficult for ordinary couples, let alone someone with his special status.

”Admit it, Xiaoqiang, our best defense now is an active offense! We’ll drag out the people in the dark and defeat them completely; that’s the best way to protect me!”

Yu Minglang looked sideways at Qian, who was eating ice cream. He was really at a loss.

Why couldn’t he persuade her? Eventually, he still brought her along!

Not only complying with her on this matter but also, when passing KFC, she wanted ice cream. Yu Minglang initially firmly refused, ”Pregnant women don’t eat ice cream in winter!”

But when Qian gave him her starry-eyed look, pitifully tempting him with her beauty and promising to only eat a few bites, Xiaoqiang couldn’t help but go buy it for her—strawberry sundae.

”Hubby, you’re the best!” Qian said happily as she took a spoonful into her mouth. Her taste indeed changed after becoming pregnant.

”Hmph, sweet talk.” Yu Minglang was still upset at how easily persuaded he was.

”Here, have a bite!” Qian handed over the spoon. They were already entering the hall, and Yu Minglang initially wanted to stubbornly refuse to maintain his male dignity, but seeing her big eyes, his heart softened. Once softened, his actions didn’t listen to his brain.

Hmm, it’s a bit sweet even in winter!

The person coming out to greet Yu Minglang thought they were seeing things. They rubbed their eyes, then saw Yu Minglang swiftly swallowed the ice cream his beloved wife fed him, with an expression that couldn’t be more serious, as if what just happened was a hallucination.

Qian casually tossed the partly eaten cup into the trash can, ”This thing is only good for a few bites to curb a craving; too much isn’t good.”

”Finally, you’re here.” The newly appointed chief detective warmly greeted Yu Minglang.

”Have the suspects confessed?”

”Confessed” is slang, meaning to have spilled the beans.

”They insist on saying a woman named Mu hired them. They’ve also insisted they didn’t know this Mu woman before, just that they took money to do a job, and they swear she only instructed them to smash the car, not to harm anyone. You know the penalty standards are different.”

Only smashing the car, without causing casualties—without uncovering a bigger motive, it’s just vandalism, compensation made, and they’re out soon.

There’s no other evidence indicating these people have other offenses either, and they can’t get anything out of them.

”How can it only be about smashing a car? If no one came to interrupt them, my mom and I would be a couple of bloodied victims by now.” Qian said angrily.

Hearing her say this, Yu Minglang’s grip tightened, and his anger was immediately stirred up.