Chapter 31: Hm, a shirt clip? ……

Compared to the embarrassment of Tang Man and the others, the two middle-aged police officers were obviously much calmer. After all, they had been in the police station for a long time and had seen everything. They had even encountered cases where a son killed his parents in order to marry a wife.

They were all people who had seen big scenes, so this small matter of two men fighting over a woman was not a novelty to them.

So they were able to ask questions with a calm expression.

By the time they left the police station, it was already late at night. Summer had not yet arrived, and the sky was still a bit cold. The streets were empty, with flickering neon lights, but not many people.

Xie Li’s car was parked not far away. The four of them stood outside the door awkwardly for a while. Tang Man looked around, rubbed her nose, and smiled embarrassedly. She looked at Xie Li and said, “Sorry for the trouble, coming all the way here in the middle of the night.”

Xie Li’s gaze fell on Tang Man, then swept over Si Jiahe, who had been clinging to Tang Man, and Du Henian, who had been walking behind without making a sound.

Both men had bruises on their faces and looked very disheveled.

Du Henian had a sense of calmness about him. The usual gentleness seemed to have turned into a ray of light that could not penetrate the deep ocean bottom. His entire temperament had completely changed, becoming silent, gloomy, and decadent.

This was the change brought about by this woman.

Xie Li once again felt the terror of Tang Man as a person, but even so, he was still like a moth flying towards that cold fire. Some flames looked blue, as if they were giving off a chill.

But when they pounced on it, they found that the fire was scorching hot, turning the moths to ashes, causing blisters on the skin, and burning the heart with pain.

Du Henian had already pounced on it uncontrollably. Si Jiahe had been in and out of the fire several times, still like a moth to the flame, bringing about his own destruction.

Perhaps even the flames themselves did not know the terror of their own temperature.

Xie Li suddenly smiled at Tang Man, “If you felt it was troublesome, you wouldn’t have called me.”

Si Jiahe lifted his head when he heard this sentence. Even though his face was now covered in bruises, the superiority of his features could still be seen. The delicacy between his eyebrows could not be concealed in any way.

He looked too unlike an ordinary person. This kind of appearance easily attracted the attention of others in life.

When Xie Li sometimes thought about this, he couldn’t help but sigh. Why didn’t this person enter the entertainment industry? As long as he entered that circle, no matter how much Tang Man liked this man, she would not touch him a bit.

Sometimes people’s luck was really unpredictable.

Si Jiahe’s attitude towards Xie Li was not so good. He remembered what the other party had said to Tang Man in front of the hospital.

Now that he thought about it, asking this question in that situation in front of him was by no means a friendly gesture. Men all had an intuition, especially when it came to rivals in love.

Millions of years of biological evolution had made males extraordinarily gifted in their possessiveness of their mates, as if they had radar installed, and their sixth sense was instantly activated, detecting rivals within a hundred meters.

He leaned against Tang Man and acted coquettishly, “Man Man, my head hurts a bit too.”

He really did have a bit of a headache, but it was a dull ache, and this kind of pain was already very familiar. Mentioning it now was just to divert Tang Man’s attention, so that she wouldn’t focus on Xie Li. He hated it when Tang Man’s gaze lingered on anyone other than him.

He didn’t want Tang Man to have too much entanglement with this Xie Li. Back in college, he had seen this name appear a few times in Tang Man’s phone, but at that time, Tang Man directly said that Xie Li was her father’s special assistant, so Si Jiahe didn’t pay much attention.

How proud he was back then.

The naive and carefree style of a young man, with his heart completely devoted to Tang Man, and believing that Tang Man was the same.

Tang Man turned her head to look. Si Jiahe’s face was almost close to hers, and he was particularly scheming, using the side of his face with fewer injuries.

However, the bruise on the corner of his mouth ruined that beauty.

Tang Man raised a hand and poked Si Jiahe’s mouth corner, her expression unchanged. “Knowing it hurts, just behave. I don’t like people who hit others.”

Si Jiahe hissed. He lifted his head and wanted to say something, but he met Tang Man’s gaze.

Cold and casual.

Facing such a gaze, his words suddenly got stuck in his throat, and he couldn’t say anything.

He could only hold Tang Man’s arm, leaning his entire body against hers, using intangible body movements to replace words, to convey a certain idea to Tang Man.

This kind of behavior had always been tactful, not easily arousing Tang Man’s disgust. He was already familiar with this process, and it felt extremely familiar to do so.

However, at this moment, Du Henian stepped forward, pulling Si Jiahe several steps away from Tang Man, directly causing Tang Man to stagger several steps as well.

Si Jiahe’s expression changed. He was about to say something when he met Du Henian’s gaze, but then he saw Du Henian maliciously leaning close to Si Jiahe’s ear and slowly saying a sentence.

And this sentence directly made Si Jiahe freeze in place.

Tang Man heard it vaguely, but still captured some of the words.

She glanced at Du Henian, met his gloomy and smiling eyes for a moment, then looked at Si Jiahe, frowning. “Jiahe, what medicine are you taking?”

Si Jiahe seemed to be trembling all over, his face turning pale in a very rapid manner. His lips trembled a few times, and his eyes were occupied by a kind of despair.

Du Henian had almost torn off the last layer of pretense on his face. He knew that once this layer was torn off, Tang Man would definitely not be with him again.

Definitely not be with him again.

Si Jiahe fell into a state of despair. He was trapped by his own speculation, and his entire being quickly withered on the surface. He did not respond to Tang Man’s question.

Du Henian stood aside and laughed lightly, even smoothing his somewhat disheveled collar and sleeves.

The man met Tang Man’s gaze and smiled, like a suppressed stormy sea. “Man Man, don’t look at me like that.”

“Didn’t you wonder about what I said about his life in the past two years? This is that Si Jiahe, no longer innocent and carefree, now stuck in a mess, worthless except for a pretty face.”

“Didn’t you sleep with him before?” When Du Henian said this sentence, he smiled, a smile filled with hatred, but he didn’t dare to hate Tang Man. He could only vent this desperate emotion weakly on Si Jiahe. “Didn’t you notice anything wrong with this man’s body?”

Tang Man remained silent.