Tang Wanxing, harboring resentment towards Qing Muye, was driven by a desperate urge to rush to Lancheng and find him.
Two hours later.
Tang Wanxing arrived at the Lancheng police station and met Qing Muye in the detention room.
Qing Muye had been interrogated, but he had not spoken a single word from beginning to end. The police had no choice but to detain him.
Qing Muye was the only occupant of the detention room.
He was dressed in a camel-colored trench coat, arms crossed, with his legs crossed at the knee. He leaned against the wall, eyes closed as if dozing, his calm and collected demeanor exuding an innate arrogance. There was not the slightest trace of distress about him.
Tang Wanxing, who had rushed there in a hurry, had only hoped to see Qing Muye in a state of disarray. Seeing him still looking well-groomed and at ease, a surge of inexplicable anger rose within her.
Standing outside the detention room, watching him, Tang Wanxing clenched her fists by her sides. However, due to a recent surgery, her little finger lacked strength.
"Qing Muye!"
She spat out the man's name through gritted teeth.
A police officer walked over and opened the detention room door. "Miss Tang, you may go in."
As the door opened, the man inside slowly opened his eyes. With a slight glance, he saw Tang Wanxing standing at the doorway.
Qing Muye's sword-like eyebrows subtly arched, his gaze indifferent, without a word.
"Don't you have anything to say when you see me?"
Tang Wanxing stormed into the detention room and stood before Qing Muye, aggressively questioning him.
Clearly...
Clearly, the man before her was the man she had loved deeply for many years, but why had their relationship deteriorated to this point?
Enemies!
This was perhaps the outcome Tang Wanxing never wished to see in her lifetime.
Yet, it had all come true.
Anger.
Overwhelming anger.
Before seeing Qing Muye, she felt resentment and reluctance towards him.
But now, after seeing Qing Muye, Tang Wanxing's emotions were dominated by disappointment and heartbreak.
"Do you know how I got through that period after I thought you were dead?" Tang Wanxing's eyes suddenly reddened. Pointing at Qing Muye, she choked out, "I am Tang Nian's daughter. In the capital, and even in the country, whatever I wanted, as long as it wasn't the stars in the sky, my father would grant me. But it was only you, because you were married with children, that my father never agreed to let me be with you. However..."
She paused, raising her hand to cover her mouth, and sobbed, nearly letting the tears welling in her eyes spill over.
"It was because during that time I was so distraught, I ate as if chewing on wax, and was dejected, that my father became very worried, fearing I might do something rash. Consequently, when it was discovered that you were still alive, my father no longer obstructed me and finally agreed to let me come find you. However... I didn't know where you went after that. I searched for you for a very, very long time without finding you, which is why I've only arrived now."
Tang Wanxing felt a greater sense of unwillingness. "If I had confessed my feelings to you earlier, would it be me standing beside you now?" Her love for Qing Muye was something others might not know, but her father and mother had witnessed it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have allowed her to travel such a long distance to find him.
The reason she was willing to come find Qing Muye was also based on her family's agreement. Otherwise, even if she found Qing Muye, she wouldn't have stayed with him. But why, why wouldn't the man she deeply loved give her a chance?