Can We Say No to Divorce?

Chapter 839 - 589: Extra - Tenderness Like Water

"How could I ever outplay you?" Qiao Xiaoyan immediately said, "Every time, isn’t it me pleading with you?"

As she spoke the last part, she bit her lip, her voice tender enough to overflow with emotion.

Those enchanting eyes seemed to accuse him of having some truly formidable abilities!

Damn it! Song Xuyao cursed himself, truly feeling bewitched!

He knew it was during work hours, and bringing her out for some affection contradicted his usual work ethic.

When she had him enthralled, he felt the urge to grab her and give her a good smacking!

Yet, when she spoke to him so softly, her expressions filled with affection and laughter, he found himself unable to do it!

He lowered his head and kissed her lips...

Soft, like a gummy candy.

Qiao Xiaoyan chuckled, "Aren’t you worried there might be something wrong with the coffee on my lips?"

Song Xuyao paused, then tightened his grip on her nape—how dare she mess with him?

When she was in his arms, like a little kitten, her big watery eyes looked up, pleading for affection!

Song Xuyao, being tall, suddenly realized the car was a rather confined choice.

Just as he was busy working up a sweat, his phone rang.

As a policeman, when the phone rings, the first instinct is to answer the call.

After all, no one knows when a villain would strike again.

He angrily grabbed the phone, only to see a message—his half-naked photo was posted online...

And not just his; there were also photos of him and Nian Enxi together...

Qiao Xiaoyan saw those photos too, and she pushed him away, "Song Xuyao, you’ve gone too far!"

She swiftly dressed, then pushed the car door open, standing on the beach, taking a deep breath as she gazed at the blue sea.

Song Xuyao not only had his joyful moment interrupted, but now his half-naked self was shared online, and with Nian Enxi’s too—he couldn’t recall having such intimate photos with her!

The key was, he never even touched Nian Enxi; even if she had asked him to stay over, he never spent the night.

These must have been photoshopped!

He looked out through the car window at Qiao Xiaoyan’s back—just moments ago, she was tenderly curled up in his arms, compliant to his every move, but once she saw those photoshopped images with another woman, she got out of the car immediately.

Song Xuyao intended to explain, but explain what?

Wouldn’t explaining just highlight that it was Qiao Xiaoyan he actually cared about?

He found it amusing—since when did he start caring about her feelings?

He stepped out of the car, allowing the sea breeze to blow away his desires, and walked up to her, "Come on, I’ll take you back!"

"No!" Qiao Xiaoyan turned her back on him.

"Why?" Song Xuyao looked at her stubborn silhouette, "Aren’t you going back to work?"

"I can take a ride myself," Qiao Xiaoyan still refused to face him.

Song Xuyao gazed at her back, "Qiao Xiaoyan, you better not have taken those photos! Or I will be truly harsh on you!"

Qiao Xiaoyan immediately turned around, "What do you mean, Song Xuyao?"

"Just what the words mean! Why drug me with wine last night? And then conveniently, this morning, there are photos of me with Enxi?" Song Xuyao regained his composure, "These photos don’t use my frontal image, but the side is me, while Nian Enxi’s is a front image!"

"Do you think I’ve nothing better to do? Do you think I took them? Then how do you explain Nian Enxi? I’ve never even met her alone! And where was she last night? You’re a cop—tracking her whereabouts should be your specialty, shouldn’t it?" Qiao Xiaoyan scooped sand and threw it at him, "Whatever you do with that woman, what does it have to do with me? Haven’t you always been infatuated with your little sister? Didn’t you treat her as a stand-in? It’s only normal for you to be close with her, but then don’t come looking for me!"

She finished and left!

Song Xuyao watched her disappearing back, sand still on his head, not having the chance to shake it off when his phone rang again.

"I’m coming right away!" Song Xuyao said.

Back at the police station, he indeed found that Nian Enxi was on duty last night.

"Officer Song, the phone’s signal came from the hospital," one of the staff said.

Song Xuyao fixed his gaze, "There’s also the possibility that someone used the hospital’s Wi-Fi to upload them!"

"Why couldn’t it be Nian Enxi exposing your scandalous photos?" Zhuo Yufeng mocked.

Song Xuyao squinted, "The key is, there were never any scandalous photos between me and her!"

"Then maybe she photoshopped them and sent them out, to force you to comply!" Zhuo Yufeng suggested.

Song Xuyao, however, firmly stated, "Impossible! She’s not that kind of woman!"

Zhuo Yufeng refrained from saying more, realizing that no matter what they said, Song Xuyao wouldn’t believe it.

"Suit yourself!" Zhuo Yufeng snorted.

They used the small incident with the photos to test if Song Xuyao believed it was Nian Enxi.

...

In the office.

Qiao Xiaoyan was organizing her things when she saw Zhuo Yufeng coming to her, knowing what it was about.

Zhuo Yufeng punched the air: "That damn... bastard, he doesn’t believe us!"

"In his life, the most important person is Song Chenxi!" Qiao Xiaoyan understood, "Just like if someone said something about Bai Ye, I would instinctively resist and of course not believe it."

"But if he continues like this, he’ll die!" Zhuo Yufeng said angrily.

Qiao Xiaoyan replied calmly, "Everyone will die, some deaths are as significant as Mount Tai, others as light as a feather. He can do whatever he wants!"

"Forget about him!" Zhuo Yufeng said.

Qiao Xiaoyan sighed, "I’ve tricked him twice already, he’s alert now! So I don’t know what approach to take!"

"What if you use tenderness to move him?" Zhuo Yufeng suggested.

Qiao Xiaoyan rolled her eyes, "If he was going to be moved, he would have been moved already, why wait until now? Stop joking!"

Zhuo Yufeng stopped persuading her: "Let’s go! I’ll give you a ride."

"Sure!" Qiao Xiaoyan got into his car.

...

The old building outside the train station.

Tonight, there is an illegal transaction happening here, Song Xuyao has already brought people to stake out.

"Everyone, keep on high alert!" Song Xuyao said, "We’ve received information, they will trade here, and we need to capture them all during the transaction."

After one in the morning, Song Xuyao led the team inside to make arrests.

Two groups were exchanging money and goods.

"Don’t move!" Song Xuyao raised his gun.

Both sides engaged in a firefight, and gunfire erupted loudly.

These suspects never feared death, some grabbed money, some took goods, scattering everywhere while shooting at police.

One of them quickly escaped, Song Xuyao chased after him!

They reached the hospital entrance, where people getting off night shifts waited for taxis.

A familiar figure stepped out, and Nian Enxi was about to hail a taxi when suddenly she was taken hostage.

Seeing this, Song Xuyao shouted, "Let her go!"

"Don’t come any closer, or I’ll kill her!" the desperate suspect held a gun to Nian Enxi’s head.

Nian Enxi screamed, "Xuyao, save me..."

"Don’t worry, I won’t let him hurt you!" Song Xuyao had already lost Song Chenxi, he couldn’t allow anything to happen to Nian Enxi.

The suspect furiously demanded, "Drop the gun! Or I’ll shoot her!"

Slowly, Song Xuyao lowered his gun, placing it on the ground when the suspect began shooting at him, the sound of gunfire continuous...

"Xuyao, watch out..." Nian Enxi shouted.

Song Xuyao dodged the bullets while seeking cover.

Nian Enxi was dragged by the suspect for quite a distance; Song Xuyao followed, until suddenly everything went black and he collapsed...

"Chenxi..." the last name he called was his sister’s, "Chenxi, don’t leave... don’t leave..."

He felt overwhelmed by a thick fog, so dense it couldn’t be cleared, and the image of Song Chenxi was gone forever...

Nian Enxi was missing!

Taken hostage by the suspect!

When Song Xuyao awoke in the hospital, he jumped up immediately.

Song Chenxi was already dead, he’d accepted that outcome, but now Nian Enxi was missing!

No, he had to find Nian Enxi right away.

As he stepped out, Qiao Xiaoyan walked in.

"Doctor said you need rest, where are you going?" Qiao Xiaoyan asked.

"To find someone!" Song Xuyao replied, adjusting his clothes and striding out.

Qiao Xiaoyan stared at him: "Your health is important too!"

"It’s fine!" Song Xuyao had long disregarded life and death, he didn’t look back, yet knew Qiao Xiaoyan remained standing there.

Just then, Aunt Tian was coming upstairs, she stopped Song Xuyao: "You can’t be reckless again, Nian Enxi is just like Song Chenxi, you’ve already spent many years grieving for Song Chenxi, and now for a woman who resembles Song Chenxi, you’re repeating the same mistake, Xuyao, why can’t you cherish those around you, Xiaoyan is such a good woman..."

Song Xuyao coldly replied, "Step aside!"

"I won’t!" Aunt Tian refused to let him put himself in danger again, unwilling to see him suffer the same pains of the past, "You’ll have to kill me to get past!"

Song Xuyao’s expression turned icy: "What I want to do, what I’m doing, is none of your business! Thirty years ago, when you lost me, it was also none of your business!"

The hurtful nature of these words was apparent.

Aunt Tian’s eyes welled with tears, she’d never meant to lose him, it had been her heartbreak for years, the thought of her missing son was extremely painful.

But in this moment, for her son’s sake, she would endure the harshest words.