Chen Ziming obviously showed some surprise, but soon his gaze was cast towards Su Yue.
Su Yue watched him say a few more words to the girl before approaching her.
"Let me introduce you, this is my girlfriend, Su Yue." He took her hand and said to the girl.
"No wonder Officer Chen is wearing a ring." The girl smiled faintly and, without making a show of it, sized Su Yue up from head to toe.
Su Yue returned a polite smile, then looked at Chen Ziming with some confusion.
"This is the daughter of that senior," he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice.
So she was the daughter of the sacrificed policeman. She immediately showed surprise and respect, and greeted the other person:
"Hello, Miss Chi."
Chi Yiran maintained her smile, neither too deep nor too shallow, nodded slightly, and turned to Chen Ziming, saying:
"Since your girlfriend is here, let's go for dinner together."
"Yueyue and I have other matters, we won't trouble you." He refused gently and politely.
Then, he put his arm around Su Yue, who was still unaware of the situation, smiled goodbye to Chi Yiran, and turned to leave.
In the car, Su Yue finally understood and asked:
"Did that Miss Chi want to ask you out for dinner?"
"Mhm," he replied distractedly while watching the road.
A bad premonition suddenly surged in her heart, but she didn't dare to disrespect the daughter of her savior. So she sat properly, saying no more.
"Are you angry?" The car stopped in front of a restaurant, and Chen Ziming finally had the chance to look at her expression.
The little face indeed did not look very happy.
"No," Su Yue, who had been lost in thought, quickly came back to herself when he asked, put on a smile, and replied.
If not for that policeman, Chen Ziming would be lying in the martyrs' cemetery today.
How could she dare to be angry with the daughter of a hero? It was just a little bit of annoyance.
He remained silent, staring at her with his familiar inquiring gaze.
"Chen Ziming, can you stop looking at me like you're interrogating a criminal?" Su Yue frowned and said unhappily.
Hearing this, he chuckled lightly, stopped probing, got out of the car, and took her to the restaurant.
It was only during dinner that he finally confessed about Chi Yiran.
"She's been texting you these days?" Su Yue asked incredulously.
"Mhm, but she doesn't talk about her father's matters." Chen Ziming opened WeChat, found the chat window with Chi Yiran, and showed it to her.
In the chat window, Chi Yiran was like an old friend, sharing her daily life and work with Chen Ziming.
Even if he didn't reply, it didn't affect her enthusiasm at all.
And among so many messages, there was really no trace of the sacrificed policeman.
Su Yue looked at the chat records and fell silent.
"Besides this, is there anything else?" she asked softly after a moment.
"She calls every night, but I've only picked up once," he replied in a low voice.
Another period of silence.
Chi Yiran's behavior was clearly an attempt to pursue Chen Ziming, and she felt entitled to do whatever she wanted, relying on her father being his savior.
But Su Yue vaguely felt something was wrong.
Knowing that Chen Ziming had taken care of her because of his father, why didn't she talk more about her father with him, but instead used such a stiff method to pursue him?
And her slightly abnormal emotional response.
Even though Su Yue had never experienced fatherly love, she knew that under normal circumstances, when a father dies, his daughter should be sad and dispirited.
However, through these chats and Chi Yiran's appearance today, there was no sign of her pain.
It was as if the one who sacrificed was someone completely unrelated to her.
"What do you think?" Su Yue didn't want to express her opinion but asked in a muffled voice.
Chen Ziming noticed the change in her mood, reached out, put his arm around her waist, drew her closer, and sighed slightly, saying:
"Normally, if she contacted me, she should be talking about her father or difficulties in her life."
"But from the previous visit to her family, it could be seen that her relationship with her parents was not good, and she didn't seem to have much emotion about her father's death."
"In this situation, she frequently contacts me and talks about irrelevant matters." kuAiδugg
His voice paused, and after carefully choosing his words, he continued steadily:
"I can only assume that she has developed feelings for me."
As expected of a policeman, he had to rely on evidence to analyze matters.
Su Yue's heart sank with his words.