CHAPTER 68: 67, ALMOST CRIED FROM HIS BULLYING... (4 MORE 1)_2

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The car drove onto the highway. After checking the mirrors all around, he said softly, "First tell me, who is your fifth suspect?"

"Didn’t I tell you already, I haven’t decided yet, that’s why I didn’t write it down." Shi Nian tensed up again, gripping the seatbelt.

"That’s not right."

He placed both hands on the steering wheel, his expression calm and determined: "If you really hadn’t decided, you wouldn’t have written down a fifth item at all, or even if you wrote it, you would have crossed it out. The fact that you resolutely kept a fifth item shows there’s actually someone clear in your mind."

He turned his head: "You actually started writing that name. But then you didn’t want me to know."

Shi Nian’s heart was in chaos, and she turned her head away. The wind from the highway blew in, lifting her hair at the temples.

"Mr. Tang, I really don’t know what you’re talking about."

Tang Yanqing suddenly swerved the steering wheel, driving the car off the highway, and it hastily fell onto the grassy roadside.

He stepped on the brakes and turned around to grab Shi Nian’s arm.

"Still want to lie to me? To protect that person, you’re willing to lie to me and even lie to yourself, hmm?"

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Shi Nian was shocked, shaking her arm desperately: "Mr. Tang, don’t be like this. I really don’t know what you’re talking about!"

Tang Yanqing brought Shi Nian’s hands together in one palm, pulled out the list she wrote from his pocket, and spread it out to show her.

"You wrote a question mark on the fifth item. But look at your original starting stroke; it’s clearly from the upper right to the lower left, which can never be the start of a question mark. This question mark was just used as a cover-up later."

He actually saw through it...

Shi Nian trembled slightly: "I, my hand slipped at the time."

Tang Yanqing laughed with anger, pinching her right index fingertip hard.

"Still telling me such a low-level lie, hmm? I’ve always said you like to use the heavy-handed ’Hero’ pen, and when you’re emotional, you write with enough force to penetrate the paper. How could you, being like that, have a hand slip when writing such a critical name?"

He packed the list again and used his free hand to pinch Shi Nian’s jaw, gently lifting it.

"I want to hear from you who the person you suspect in your heart but dare not say is."

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Tang Yanqing before her seemed to transform into a patient yet evil hunter. Clearly having the upper hand, yet forcing the poor prey to walk into the trap themselves.

Shi Nian pulled back hard, her back already against the car door of the passenger seat.

This situation had happened once before with Xiang Yuan in the car. At that moment, she was panicked and confused, feeling as if she had fallen into a deep, icy pool, unable to breathe.

So at this moment, she quietly waited. Waiting for that terrifying moment to come. Then she could escape from this problem.

She would rather face that fear again than tell this relatively unfamiliar Mr. Tang about her concerns!

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But strangely enough, the fear from last time did not come as expected. Without the help of fear, she could only face him defenselessly.

Her wrists were still in his palm; it was only then she realized how big his hand was, capable of controlling her hands single-handedly.

And his other hand, the one previously freed to take out the suspect list, was slowly approaching her from above—

Shi Nian let out a low cry, subconsciously closing her eyes tightly and turning hard to the side.

For a moment, she almost thought he was going to lean forward and kiss her...

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Her fear was all seen by him, Tang Yanqing sighed lightly, his fingertip landing on her cheek. He didn’t overstep but gently traced her delicate jawline. She was so nervous she couldn’t breathe, yet through his fingers, what she felt more than flirtation was—comfort.

She suddenly turned her head back, glaring at him fiercely.

"Let go!"

He took off his sunglasses and squinted at her.

"Sleeping Beauty, see, you are not afraid of me. And I swear, I will never hurt you. So unlock your defenses and tell me the suspicion in your heart, okay?"

His gaze was straightforward and intense, like sunlight pouring down from the sky. Shi Nian had nowhere to hide and could only close her eyes again.

So strange, she completely didn’t understand where this sense of trust in front of this fairly unfamiliar person came from.

Compared to him, she should obviously trust Xiang Yuan more, shouldn’t she?

She shook her head with eyes closed: "Sorry, Mr. Tang, I really didn’t mean to write anything for the final item on the list. Can you let me go, please? Or I’ll admit I was wrong, I shouldn’t have interfered with your work. I’ll listen to you raise your suspicions again, how about that?"