In the interrogation room, Li Qiumei and Ruan Dashan squatted in a corner, their wounds already hastily bandaged.
“Officer, why is it that she injured us, and all she has to do is write a guarantee and leave? We have to stay in jail for another month!”
The officer rolled his eyes at them. “You broke into a house to steal, and you still have the nerve to complain?”
Li Qiumei retorted, “We went to our own daughter’s house, how is that breaking into a house to steal?”
“Comrade Ruan endured so much hardship giving birth to three children, and when she was dying in the hospital, why didn’t you say she was your daughter? Bah!”
Besides, Comrade Ruan is a meritorious official in the bureau! She just made a great contribution to the country! Daring to bully Comrade Ruan is truly suicidal!
The officer’s ferocity frightened Li Qiumei and Ruan Dashan, who could only bury their heads and dare not utter another word.
When their own daughter and son-in-law return, they will definitely take revenge on Ruan Tinghe’s family for being such ingrates!
Ruan Tinghe quickly finished writing the guarantee. The police officer glanced at it casually and was amazed.
Everyone in the station knew that Ruan Tinghe was very good at drawing, but they didn’t expect her handwriting to be so good as well, elegant and neat, flowing smoothly.
Such an excellent girl, her parents didn’t cherish her, they were truly blind!
“Comrade Ruan, you can go now.”
The police officer took the guarantee and left first. Ruan Tinghe got up to leave, but behind her came Li Qiumei’s angry voice.
“Ruan Tinghe! How dare you treat us like this? Aren’t you afraid we’ll tell the police about your affair with a stranger and the birth of an illegitimate child? Having illicit relationships is a crime punishable by imprisonment!”
Ruan Tinghe’s face darkened, and she raised her hand to slap Li Qiumei, but then realized her arm was still injured, so she kicked both of them a few times instead.
“Go ahead and tell me if you dare! Do you dare? I can also investigate how I was drugged and who the man was that night!”
Sure enough, Li Qiumei and Ruan Dashan immediately fell silent.
“Hmph! Cowards!”
Ruan Tinghe sneered and left the interrogation room. As soon as she came out, she saw Erbao clinging to Old Chen, acting cute and cuddly.
Upon seeing Ruan Tinghe, he immediately abandoned Old Chen and ran over to hug her leg.
“Mommy, you’re not happy!”
Erbao pouted, scolding Ruan Tinghe like an adult.
“I’m sorry, Mommy made you worry.”
Ruan Tinghe patted his little head, looked around, and asked, “Erbao, where are your brother and sister?”
“Sister is hungry, so Big Brother took her to buy some steamed buns.”
At this moment, on the street, Xiaobao held a huge steamed bun in his hands, took a small bite, and exhaled a puff of hot air.
Dabao held the bow on his clothes, and his short legs followed slowly.
Suddenly, Da Bao stopped. Xiao Bao, unable to brake in time, bumped her head against her brother’s back, her big, dark eyes instantly filling with tears.
“Ah…”
she groaned softly, peeking out to see her brother standing in front of a dirty, wounded, and strange-looking man.
The man’s clothes were tattered and stained with blood, his face unshaven, and a terrifying, fresh scar on his brow—the black stitches resembling a centipede—grotesque, menacing, and menacing!
Xiao Bao only glanced at him before shrinking back behind her brother, her little body trembling with fear.
A ghost in broad daylight!
How come her brother wasn’t afraid at all?!
Da Bao, far from being afraid, tugged at the strange man’s sleeve, tilting her head back and asking him earnestly, “Uncle, do you want a child?”
Shen Yan was bewildered. He was just waiting for his teammates to pick him up by the roadside; how did a child take a liking to him?
But the child was really good-looking, and his features seemed somewhat familiar.
“Uncle, do you want a wife?”
The child asked again when he didn’t answer, but something seemed off about his question.
Was this child trying to sell himself and his mother?
Quite cute.
Shen Yan, having been an undercover agent for too long, had developed a roguish air about him. He merely raised his hand to pat the child’s head, but the gesture looked like he was about to hit him.
Ruan Tinghe, holding Erbao’s hand, saw this and her heart nearly jumped out of her chest. That street thug was tall and big; if he slapped Dabao, he’d be turned into a meat pie!
“Stop!”
Ruan Tinghe spread her arms, standing between Dabao and the man. Her eyebrows furrowed, and she glared fiercely at the man before her.
“Where did this human trafficker come from, daring to commit evil right in front of the police station!”
”Tsk!”
Shen Yan’s hand, which was originally about to land on Dabao’s head, instead grabbed Ruan Tinghe’s chin, lifting it slightly. The two were quite different in height; standing together, Ruan Tinghe only reached his shoulder.
He bent down slightly, getting closer, forcing her to see him clearly.
“We just slept together, and you’ve already forgotten?”
Ruan Tinghe’s face flushed, finally recognizing the man.
How could he have gone from a handsome young man to a disheveled middle-aged man in just a few days?
Covered in wounds and looking battle-hardened, could it be that his undercover identity was discovered and he was being chased all the way here?
Ruan Tinghe instinctively pulled away, holding her child and creating some distance.
She could take the risk, but her child couldn’t!
Those gangsters were no pushovers!
“You, who are you? I don’t know you!”
Shen Yan, knowing her thoughts, explained, “Don’t be afraid, those people have all been sent to eat peanuts.”
Ruan Tinghe was slightly taken aback; this was too fast!
How long had she been transmitting the map information? And she’d already taken them all down?
A car slowly pulled up, and a round, bronze-skinned face peered out of the driver’s side window.
“Brother, let’s go!”
Shen Yan got into the car, closing the window, but his gaze remained fixed on the three children, his eyes gradually turning cold.
Her children with her husband were already so grown up!
And they had three!
“Brother, do you know Comrade Ruan?”
Song Kaiyuan, who was driving, couldn’t help but ask curiously when he noticed Shen Yan staring at the woman.
Shen Yan didn’t answer, but instead asked him, “You know her?”
“Of course, she’s a celebrity, she’s a very talented painter! But she probably doesn’t know me.”
Song Kaiyuan was sent by his superiors to assist Shen Yan’s undercover operation. While Shen Yan was the undercover agent, he was responsible for leading the team and coordinating the operation from the outside.
He had been involved in asking Ruan Tinghe to help transmit information a few days ago, but his identity prevented him from showing his face, so Ruan Tinghe didn’t know him.
“She has three children?”
“Yes,” Song Kaiyuan said with a gossipy look, “I heard they’re triplets! It’s so pitiful. The children’s father died young. It’s really not easy for her, a woman raising three children alone. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have risked her life to help us.”
Shen Yan suddenly looked up. “Her husband died?”
“Yes, I heard it from the police. He’s really unlucky. Such a beautiful wife and three adorable babies, tsk tsk.”
Song Kaiyuan said a lot more, but Shen Yan didn’t hear a word. Only one thought occupied his mind:
Her husband is dead!
“Brother, you’ve done a great job this time, shouldn’t you be getting married soon? Your wife has been waiting for you at the military dependents’ home for years!”
“Have you seen your son’s picture? Tsk tsk, he looks like a little pig, so fair and chubby.”
“If it weren’t for the urgent mission back then, you wouldn’t be so old and still not registered.”
“But you’ve submitted a marriage application, so it counts as being married. You didn’t register because of the mission.”
“Don’t worry, everyone at the military dependents’ home knows about this, no one will say anything bad about you, your wife, or your child.”
Song Kaiyuan couldn’t stop talking. Although the two brothers were on the same mission, they hadn’t spoken a word to each other for years. Now that the mission was finally over, he couldn’t stop talking.
Until…
“She’s not my wife, I have nothing to do with her, and I’m not going back for now.”
“Tsk tsk tsk, they’ve already had a child, and he still says they have nothing to do with each other? What a scumbag!”
“Wait?” With a sudden stop, Song Kaiyuan looked at Chen Yan in disbelief. “Brother, what did you just say? You said you weren’t going back?”
Suddenly, he realized something, and his face turned extremely ugly.
“Brother, tell me honestly, that night, you and Comrade Ruan really didn’t do anything?”