Chapter Twenty-Three Officially Appears

  A police station, near a restaurant.

  A thin-looking woman stood firmly, looking at the people sitting at the round table ordering from the menu and said: "Comrade police officers, my son would never commit murder, please investigate again!"

  As she spoke, her thin body bowed deeply, and for an instant the police almost had the illusion that a woman's body might break in two at any moment.

  He slightly put down the menu in his hand. After all these years, he still hadn't gotten used to visits from families of various suspects.

  Looking at the woman's empty hands, his eyebrows moved slightly, this anxious and hopeful expression was no longer unfamiliar to him.

  "We've always handled these cases in a formal and public manner, you don't have to keep hovering around us like this."

  Suddenly, the woman knelt down on the ground.

  In the slightly cool air-conditioned room, her body was very straight.

  She looked at him intently, as if the figure in front of her would disappear at any moment, and said with a sincere tone: "Please understand a mother's feelings..."

  "Auntie!" Cheng Mian and Ren Sheng, who had just come out of the police station with a lawyer, rushed over upon seeing this scene and pulled the woman up.

  "You..."

  "Shao Qi would not want you to be like this, he would rather go to jail himself than have you beg these ruthless people for him."

  "Besides, being accused of murder is no small matter, and Shao Qi is still a minor, so this matter is not yet settled." Cheng Mian looked at her firmly, as if to give her an unshakeable idea.

  Saying that, he glanced at the police officer again: "This matter is not something that can be decided by the police alone. As long as Shao Qi doesn't admit it, we can all sue. My dad is a lawyer, and we can do it for free..."

  The world is perhaps so wonderful, some people you look for them and they will appear, some people you look for them when they are nowhere to be found, and some people you don't look for them when they suddenly pop up.

  Just like some things will always happen, refusing is also useless.

  So when Lin Xiang saw Shao Lian Tian appear, she was still so moved that her whole heart lit up, as if the entire shattered world slowly reassembled itself, and hope reignited in an instant.

  When Shao Qi saw his mother bringing that nominal father of his to see him, he was shocked, but it was only a momentary reaction.

  More so, calmness and indifference.

  At first, when I saw him, I was excited because I thought he was the head of the household and hoped to rely on his strength to prevent that person from finding me and doing something terrifying.

  But now that I've calmed down, I finally understand how ridiculously naive I was back then.

  That man couldn't even handle the situation at home back then, causing his mother and himself to go through all those hardships. Now facing such an opponent, how could he possibly have any say?

  Besides, even if it's a father-son relationship, emotions have never been something that can be restrained from infecting certain people, let alone the most despicable kind of kinship.

  "How have you been all these years?" The middle-aged man's eyes were cautious, and his face, which had already been etched with the marks of time, showed unconcealed concern.

  Shao Qi just smiled faintly, as if facing a stranger, with an elegant mask of composure, the smile not reaching his eyes.

  He also looked at him, seemingly unaffected by his current surroundings, his voice still clean and cool: "It's fine, thanks to you guys!"

  "It's me, I've wronged you all these years, and I don't even dare ask for your forgiveness..." The middle-aged man was about to say something.

  "Slap slap slap......" A crisp and monotonous slapping sound suddenly echoed in this space, interrupting his words.

  "What a touching scene!"

  The voice was full of subtle magnetism, as if beautiful notes were jumping on the piano keys.

  A man slowly walked into them, his skin as white as snow, his nose bridge high and sharp, his lip line slightly raised, his eyes and eyebrows shrouded in a bewitching aura that made him seem somewhat ethereal and indistinct, but his demeanor was extraordinary.

  His figure was tall and elegant, with a well-tailored handmade suit that made him look like a prince who had walked out of a painting.

  Standing before the crowd, he smiled as he gazed at Shao Qi, whom he had not seen in many years, and said softly: "But Father, my dear brother seems to be not very happy about your arrival?"

  Perhaps because the air conditioner was turned on, a hint of coolness lingered in the room's air, but nobody noticed that this room actually didn't have an air conditioner.

  Shao Qi's breathing paused, and his hands and feet felt a chill as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

  "What's...?" Lin Ye's face looked a bit unsightly as he stared at his son's father.

  "He..." felt a sudden surge of anxiety in his heart, and the middle-aged man's tone was slightly angry, but he was actually helpless inside.

  "What, no one welcomes me?" The newcomer's tone was slightly sarcastic, with a hint of unknown danger flashing in his dark and shiny eyes.

  "Shao Qi, he is your older brother, 5 years older than you: Shao Hua!" Shao Lian Tian's tone was stiff.

  The colors flashing in Lin's mind slowly recovered, and she looked at the former lover beside her, asking in a cold voice: "Is he her son?"

  A bitter taste similar to that of Huanglian slowly spread throughout his nearly parched heart, and Shao Lian Tian nodded with difficulty.

  "What did you bring him here for?"

  Lin Yu's voice suddenly rose, she rushed over and shielded her son behind her, just like a mother hen facing an eagle that came to harm her chicks, her hair standing on end.

  "Aren't you tired of harming us yet? I get it, you want us to die, right? No, it's my fault, this must be your conspiracy. Ridiculous that I even called you for help..."

  "No, don't get excited, I..." The middle-aged man tried to explain, but the woman was not listening at all, so he could only hold her in his arms.

  Shao Qi didn't say a word and just stood there blankly.

  He watched as his parents quarreled, and finally, in front of the man she had loved for half her life, his mother burst into tears. Although this scene was completely out of place, there was still a harmony between them that outsiders couldn't understand.

  He looked at the man who was completely disregarding the chaos he had caused, as if he were a powerful demon from outside the world, walking slowly towards him with an eerie gait.

  Clean hands, as if from another world, slowly stretched out in front of him. "Long time no see! My dear, little brother? Do you like the gift I brought for our reunion?"

  He was smiling, that smile though radiant on his face, stunning and captivating, but in his eyes there was still only a chilling coldness.

  Shao Qi just looked at him like that, without the elegant demeanor, without the polite courtesy, like a stone statue, only staring at him numbly, with his eyes also completely numb.

  He looked at him with an air of nonchalance as he withdrew his hand, and then, without feeling embarrassed, raised his hand to pat his own shoulder, his face thicker than the city wall.

  He said softly beside her, his tone as light and elegant as a feather in the air: "Do you still remember what I told you at first?"

  A gust of wind seemed to surge up in Shao Qi's eyes, as if it came from the icy and dark realm. Those cold memory fragments were brought out so lightly and forcefully.

  Sharp fragments rampaged in the wind, cutting him, he felt his entire eyes were sore and icy.