The winter break finally arrived.
After her last exam, Su Yue breathed a long sigh of relief. She returned to her dormitory, packed her belongings, and took a taxi to the Yuluo Street Police Station.
With the Spring Festival travel rush underway, many police officers had been reassigned to the train station, leaving the station severely understaffed.
As a result, she had to wait until eleven o'clock at night before Chen Ziming returned to the station.
The moment he saw her, slumped against a stool and dozing off, his heart softened more than he could express. He asked a colleague to take his personal belongings and walked over to her.
Then, he leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Hold onto my shoulder, and I'll carry you."
"Hmm?" Su Yue was somewhat awakened by his voice. In her daze, she saw his face and obediently followed his instructions.
He carried her away in a koala-like embrace.
It wasn't until he set her down in his car that she fully woke up, her face instantly flushing red with embarrassment.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" she complained softly.
To her surprise, the man beside her chuckled, "We're practically married, and you're still shy about being carried?"
Su Yue: ...
"Did anyone see that just now?" she'd heard someone greet him while half-asleep.
It sounded quite respectful.
"Mhm, I apprehended someone this afternoon and just let them go after mediating," he replied casually.
Just as Su Yue was covering her face in utter mortification, he added, "And the other people in the lobby, and my colleagues..."
"Can you just stop talking!" she exclaimed, her eyes wide with shock as she looked at him.
She saw a smile on his handsome face, a hint of mischief and teasing in his eyes.
He looked nothing like a police officer should.
Back home, Su Yue was still feeling a bit down, thinking she couldn't fall asleep at his workplace again.
The man's tall frame suddenly enveloped her from behind, and he buried his head in her fragrant neck.
His lips, still carrying a hint of the cold outside, touched hers and began a gentle kiss.
Su Yue was startled, then her ears turned red.
She understood his intentions perfectly. She had her period before her exams, and then she'd been studying for two weeks straight.
It had been nearly a month since they had been intimate.
However, she wanted to use this moment to scold him.
But as soon as she opened her mouth to say "You," her lips were sealed by his. He turned her body around as well.
What followed was a long, deep, and breathtaking kiss.
"What were you going to say?" Chen Ziming separated from her in a haze of passion and asked in a low voice.
He was adept at seduction, knowing that after a kiss like that, a young girl's defenses would crumble.
"Mmm?"
As expected, the girl in front of him had flushed cheeks and a muddled mind. She could only let out a soft "Mmm," her eyes hazy with confusion as she looked at him.
"If you're not going to say it, I'll carry you away," he leaned into her ear again, his voice filled with unconcealed amusement.
"Mmm..."
...
It wasn't until the next morning that Su Yue sat up in bed, her body aching all over, that she realized Chen Ziming had seduced her again last night.
She no longer wanted to utter the phrase "male charm is misleading."
The space beside her was already empty. On the bedside table, clipped to the memo holder she had bought, was a small note.
Ever since she got this little flower clip, he had been leaving her notes almost every morning.
Even when he was at home.
Su Yue took the paper, his handsome handwriting clearly visible:
"I've gone to work, darling. If you're bored after waking up, come to the station and wait for me (̀⌄́)."
She looked at the cheeky emoji and fell silent.
She had no idea where he found these emoticons; he had probably searched for them on his phone.
The thought of him earnestly comparing his phone screen to the drawing of this expression made her unable to resist smiling.
But then her brow furrowed. She opened the top drawer, found the memo box, and placed it with the other notes.
She would be damned if she went to wait for him.
She needed to seize the time to make money.
After a quick wash, Su Yue picked up her phone and began contacting the advertising agencies she had previously spoken with.
...
Yuluo Street Police Station.
It wasn't until three in the afternoon that Chen Ziming could finally rest his feet and head to the cafeteria with his colleagues for a meal.
He picked up his phone and immediately checked the message at the top of his WeChat.
It was quiet, empty.
She had likely come to her senses and was still angry.
He let out a soft chuckle and was about to send Su Yue a message when a notification from a group chat caught his attention.
He clicked on it, and the discussion was fervent:
"Now the entire department is talking about how Xiao Mingming is dating Director Su Minghua's daughter."
"My dad said he saw Xiao Mingming taking Director Su's daughter to the department's residential area on the Winter Solstice."
"He even brought a lot of gifts, clearly a prospective son-in-law visiting."
"Director Su's daughter is incredibly beautiful. My dad even wanted to introduce her to me before, but Director Su refused."
A hint of disdain flickered across the young officer's face.
It was time to cooperate with Director Su.
It was time to play along.