Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 653 - 486, Epilogue 13: Lulling You to Sleep (3 updates 3)_2

Chapter 653: 486, Epilogue 13: Lulling You to Sleep (3 updates 3)_2

Xia Zuo was startled to hear this and cautiously asked, "Sir, do you mean... is Xiang Yuan involved in this as well?"

Huangfu Huazhang intertwined his ten fingers and slowly said, "It just depends on the form of his involvement."

"If it’s as a student of Shi Haoran, helping to solve the case, then it’s a good experience for him, a good thing."

"But if... he’s acting on his own to help Shi Haoran find Shi Nian, then he’s overestimating himself!"

If he gets mixed up with Yan Qi, then in the future he’s bound to run into his line of fire, and that would be Xiang Yuan courting death!

Huangfu Huazhang instructed, "Tell the people in China to keep an eye out and see if they can find his whereabouts."

Xia Zuo took the order and left, while Huangfu Huazhang drew seven ’Y’-shaped swallows on a blank piece of paper.

He had been paying attention to these "Seven Swallows" for a long time, ever since he met [10], and they began to mutually observe each other.

The "Seven Swallows" thought they could use such a name to avoid leaving traces online, but in his eyes, it was actually quite simple.

Because the two brothers actually both liked playing the "name guessing" game. For example, Tang Yanxi always called himself Yancy, doing those things that walked the line of black and white under the name of "benevolence," which was basically still a pun on his real name; whereas Tang Yanqing uses the image of his own name.

This shows that the two brothers actually take pride in their own names. Even in situations where they need to be invisible, they can’t help but deliberately or unintentionally reveal their family symbol.

So he knew long ago that Yan Qi was Tang Yanqing.

And Xiang Yuan, coincidentally, is one of Tang Yanqing’s childhood friends. If Xiang Yuan dares to stand recklessly by Tang Yanqing’s side, he is asking for trouble.

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In the darkness, Shi Nian gently pressed down on Tang Yanqing.

"Get some sleep."

Tang Yanqing couldn’t sleep and tapped two fingers on her arm.

Shi Nian shook her head, "You have to sleep. At times like this, it’s mostly about fighting with yourself, challenging your psychological limits, and your ability to maintain your own routine."

"Only by maintaining your routine in such a strange and involuntary environment can you ensure your health. If the opportunity arises, you can leave here healthily."

She reached out and patted his shoulder again, "So eat well, sleep well. Don’t think too much, don’t worry too much; first, take care of yourself as much as possible, and then be patient and wait."

He smiled in the darkness.

She was right, and she was even more resilient and optimistic than he expected. Her resilience and optimism not only supported her but also helped those around her.

She was the light, the light that could illuminate the hearts of those around her in the darkness.

So he closed his eyes, trying hard to listen to her words and sleep for a while.

But in the end, he still couldn’t sleep, worrying about things outside, and also feeling a strange excitement and tension because of her presence, making it even harder to sleep.

Couldn’t help thinking, what if he fell asleep and snored?

Or worse, drooled, or sleepwalked?

So he would rather not sleep.

He tapped her arm with two fingers again.

Shi Nian nodded knowingly, "I know, you can’t sleep. When I first came, I couldn’t sleep either, always worrying that if I fell asleep, they might come in and kill me, or..." she paused sadly before continuing, "I don’t even know."

His heart twisted with another pang of pain. He understood what she was trying to say.

She was a girl, and he believed a smart and beautiful girl, and with Gu Yong and those desperadoes, it was really possible they could harm her...

This was also the reason he had to come in and stay with her. He absolutely could not let her suffer any form of harm.

She forced a smile, "But even if it’s hard, you must ensure proper sleep."

She pulled him closer, "Why don’t I tell you a story? You’ll relax and fall asleep."

He couldn’t help raising an eyebrow.

She said she was going to tell him a bedtime story?

Hmm... did she take him for a child to coax?

Although he thought this, he still couldn’t help but smile in the darkness.

She didn’t know what kind of child he was when he was young, one who never needed bedtime stories, only needed to bully someone before-bed. When he was young, if he didn’t bully his cold and grumpy older brother one night, he couldn’t sleep; and once he did, he could fall into a deep sleep without needing any story.

Besides, with his intelligence... what kind of fairy tale bedtime story could deceive him? It would be strange if he believed it.

His thoughts were unknown to her, and seeing that he didn’t tap his fingers to refuse, she wrapped her knees and slowly began to tell a story.

She was seriously treating him as a child, earnestly starting a bedtime story.

Those flawed fairy tales... ugh, he gritted his teeth listening. But strangely enough, while grinding his teeth, he really fell into a slumber.

He fell asleep, soundly and sweetly like never before.

He heard her in his dream, softly humming a wordless tune, accompanying him deeper into the dream...

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Just as Tang Yanqing predicted, when Shi Nian’s phone signal was detected three days’ car ride away in Town A, all the members of the task force couldn’t help but cheer.

After days of searching, they finally found a clue, and everyone felt victory was on the horizon.

Unfortunately, in less than three minutes, the phone signal disappeared. Not enough time to accurately locate, they could only roughly pinpoint it in that town. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

However, everyone remained optimistic, believing this was a good beginning.

Only Shi Haoran lowered his head, gripping a teacup, coughing more heavily.

Qi Xiuqi cautiously approached, took the teacup from his teacher’s hand, poured out the tea that had accumulated to almost half a cup, and refilled it with relatively fresh new tea.

He carefully comforted, "There’s new clues now, we must be close to finding Shi Nian. Master, please don’t worry."

But Shi Haoran shook his head, "Don’t forget our ’profiles’ of the suspects. What income level are they, what educational background do they have, how would they know the phone can’t be on for more than three minutes or it would be technologically located?"

Qi Xiuqi’s heart sank, "Maybe their three-minute shutdown was just a coincidence. Or maybe the phone just happened to run out of battery?"

Shi Haoran coughed more violently, "We couldn’t find them within the set range, and I was already worried our initial profiles were wrong. With the appearance of the phone signal, I feel even more that we are mistaken... Xiao Qi, Master is old, and might not be able to help you much. With this case, you have to trust your own intuition more."

Qi Xiuqi was taken aback, "Master, please don’t say that! You’re not old, your experience and intuition are still the keys to solving the case. Please don’t doubt yourself, or deny yourself. We all believe in you, please set down all your burdens."

Shi Haoran coughed again, "Okay, then let’s wait and see. If the phone signal appears again and still shuts down within three minutes, then this proves it’s another trap laid by the suspects."

Qi Xiuqi personally led a team to investigate Town A, and then pursued potential next locations based on highway and railway networks after suspects leave Town A.

Naturally, they found nothing.

Shi Haoran fell into waiting at the police station, an empty, desperate waiting for the next appearance of the phone signal.