Silver Snow Line [Criminal Investigation]

Xi Ming thought, what era is this? Still using such old-fashioned opening lines when picking up girls.

"I haven't seen you." Wei Cheng obviously thought the same thing as Xi Ming. He quietly leaned towards Xie Qingfei and forced himself to show an unyielding character.
Xie Qingfei was also quite confused, and couldn't figure out what the two people could have in common.
Cheng Feng looked at him for a few more times, and said in disbelief: "I really saw you, right in front of our school!"
Wei Cheng was stunned, then remembered something and denied it flatly: "I recognized the wrong person."

"How is that possible! Brother, do you have any misunderstanding about your appearance? How can ordinary people look like you?" Cheng Feng turned his head and said to Xie Qingfei, "Really, really, didn't I tell you that there is often a handsome guy hanging around the door of our school on weekends? I wanted to take pictures to show you, but no matter whether it was me or others, every time we raised the phone, we were warned by the men in black who appeared out of nowhere, so I couldn't get any evidence, and you always thought I was kidding you."

When she said that, even the dumbest criminal investigators in the room reacted.
Xi Ming was both surprised and eager to see the fun, so he bumped into Wei Cheng's shoulder and smiled so hard that his teeth were showing: "No, brother, have you ever been so pure in love before?"
Xie Qingfei silently raised his head and looked towards Wei Cheng.
Wei Cheng looked out the window silently.

Cheng Feng was still in a state of shock. He asked questions like he was seeing a news figure, his mind unable to catch up with his words: "I didn't expect to see you here again. Hey handsome guy, what do you do? Did you really come to our school to pursue a classmate as the rumors said? No, no, since you are here, it means you also work in the public security system, but you are not a student of Gongda... You are not chasing people to the police force, are you? So inspiring? Who are you chasing? Do I know who you are chasing?"

Don't underestimate the reasoning ability of any cop, Xi Ming thought silently. Cheng Feng's few words seemed to hit the mark.

Wei Cheng was caught off guard and publicly executed. His ears were red and almost bleeding. Xi Ming seemed to sense his helplessness and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Hey, Director Cheng, you must be hungry after all the hard work. I'll treat you to a meal. After dinner, we can talk about the details of the work handover."
"But I still want to..." Cheng Feng said halfway when he realized that Xie Qingfei had buried his head in the quilt without him noticing. His professional sensitivity that had been forgotten suddenly came back to his mind, and he looked back and forth between the two of them in amazement.
Xi Ming winked at her frantically, and Cheng Feng realized belatedly and said, "Oh, okay, I am a little hungry, haha. Then Qingfei, you should have a good rest first, I will come back to see you."

Xie Qingfei waved his hand, and the two of them stumbled out of the door.
Then she said, "Really?"
"What do you mean really?" Wei Cheng sat aside weakly and helplessly, but he was stubborn.
"You come to our school every weekend... Is it just to feel the influence of the glory of justice?"
Wei Cheng scratched his hair irritably: "Okay, okay, I just came to see you. I hope I can bump into you by chance one day when I see you go out. Is that okay?"
Xie Qingfei was stunned for a while before saying, "I seldom go out."

Because she seldom went out, and their fate seemed to be very shallow, they had never met each other. Wei Cheng still had hope at first, but after many disappointments, he no longer had any obsession, thinking that at least they could breathe the same air through a door, and they were very close geographically, and his heart had never left her, so what did it matter whether they met or not? Secret love is a personal matter, and she is so dazzling that she doesn't need to look back for him, and he is already very satisfied with just a little thought.

Neither of them looked at each other, but neither of them moved. Strangely, the heating in the room seemed to increase in temperature.

Xie Qingfei rubbed his cheeks and said in a muffled voice: "Why didn't you come to me directly? Although we didn't have any contact information at that time, it shouldn't be difficult to find out."
Wei Cheng said without temper: "Would you be happy to see me? You might even think it was your mortal enemy who came to collect a debt. You wouldn't even bother me."
"I……"
Xie Qingfei wanted to say that he shouldn't be that petty. Even if she had always regarded him as a hated competitor all those years, after all, they studied in the same city. When enemies meet, they should have some affection for each other. How could she be annoyed with him?

But she couldn't give the most fair emotional feedback just by imagining a situation that had never happened. She understood Wei Cheng's decision not to disturb him, but she felt uncomfortable. It was the first time she felt guilty for not being able to give enough love to the person who loved her.

"I don't have anything else to do anyway, so I'm just killing time. I'm not waiting for you on purpose, so don't take it to heart." Wei Cheng saw that she was in a low mood, and added, "Everyone has a severe period of chuunibyou, I just have it a little longer than others, you don't need to be stressed over such a small matter."
"I don't feel this is pressure," Xie Qingfei drank a few sips of water slowly and said in a low voice, "I just feel quite happy."
Wei Cheng didn't hear clearly: "What?"
Xie Qingfei: "Where's my meal?"
"Ah, let me ask." Wei Cheng also felt embarrassed and quickly changed the subject.

Ms. Gu called at a perfect time, probably to talk about Xie Qingfei's meal.
Wei Cheng cleared his throat and answered. After listening to two sentences, he frowned and asked, "You did it?"
Xie Qingfei blinked, not knowing why his expression suddenly became serious.
Wei Cheng put one hand on his waist and said speechlessly: "Mom, do you think Xie Qingfei is too difficult to kill and you can't help but do it yourself?"
Xie Qingfei figured out what this meant, and thought to herself that Aunt Gu actually had cooking skills that were comparable to hers. What a soulmate.
"Can't you let your aunt do it? That's not how you show your affection...
“She’s fine now, but that may not be the case after she eats what you made.
"Compared to being starved to death and being poisoned to death, the former is more graceful.
"…Forget it, I'll go back now."
Wei Cheng hung up the phone, met Xie Qingfei's eyes, and explained: "My mother and you are not on the same track. The last time she wanted to cook on a whim, my father and I stayed in the hospital for three days."
Xie Qingfei: "...Go quickly!"

Watching him close the door, Xie Qingfei looked for a charger and plugged in his phone. While waiting for the phone to turn on, he thought about what had just happened and rolled around in the quilt again.
Obviously, she and Wei Cheng are so familiar with each other, they have been in love, and they have done many bold things, so how could she have an irregular heartbeat because of such a trivial thing as him waiting for her at the school gate when they were in college? Although she knew that he had liked her for more than ten years without saying a word, this love was not verbal, but was presented in such a concrete way in front of her. Xie Qingfei felt that her face was so hot that she could fry an egg.
She rolled over and over on the bed. Her headache and back pain were gone, and her hormones and dopamine began to counteract each other.

Her head went crazy for a while, but a knock on the door outside interrupted her throbbing.
Xie Qingfei sat back down and called out "Come in," then he saw Zhao Chongyun standing at the door with a frightened look on his face. "Master, are you, are you okay?" He ran to the bed and squatted down to look at her face carefully.
"It's okay, how about you?" After all, he also experienced an explosion, and Xie Qingfei estimated that he was pretty scared.
Zhao Chongyun shook his head vigorously: "I'm fine, don't worry about me."
Xie Qingfei smiled, touched his head, and then remembered something, picked an apple from the fruit basket that Xi Ming brought and gave it to him: "Yesterday was your birthday, right? The situation was special, and I didn't have time to celebrate for you, so I'll just make do with it for now. Happy birthday to you."
Zhao Chongyun was flattered: "You really remembered my birthday!"
"of course."
Before he could even laugh, Xie Qingfei said, "Because I've read the files, theoretically I remember each of your birthdays. But sometimes I can't remember the date, and I can't always remember it."

Despite this, Zhao Chongyun was already very satisfied.
"Don't squat, sit on the stool." Xie Qingfei didn't know what was so happy about this. He picked the man up and looked at why the child looked a little silly. He asked suspiciously, "Have you really checked to make sure he's okay? His head wasn't hit, right?"
"I was pushed away by Doctor Wei before I could react." Zhao Chongyun finished speaking, and the answer he didn't get when he questioned Wei Cheng came to his mind again. "If you were the first person he pushed away, you wouldn't be lying here."
Xie Qingfei heard the complaint in his tone and looked at him strangely: "Then do you know why he saved you first?"
Zhao Chongyun shook his head hesitantly.

"You were standing between us at the time, and he knew that I would save you first if anything happened. However, given the distance between you and me at the time, I might not be able to push you away in time. So he judged that he had to take action first in that situation, and then he could protect me at the same time."

Zhao Chongyun only understood the first half of the sentence: "You, me, then why..."

"Because I know he knows I will save you, so he will definitely save you first, so that I can save him without any worries."
And just as she said before, Wei Cheng had considered everything in a few seconds, this was their tacit understanding. And because of the excessive tacit understanding, he only had one thing in mind, that is, her purpose from the beginning was to stand in front of him.

Zhao Chongyun was confused by Xie Qingfei's long string of tongue twisters. It took him a long time to figure out what Xie Qingfei meant. She had predicted what would happen to both of them, so she could focus on saving Wei Cheng at the critical moment.
Zhao Chongyun suddenly felt as if his heart was chiseled, and his voice was a little hoarse when he spoke: "Do you know that it is very dangerous to do this? If the explosion is more serious, you...you will die."
Xie Qingfei didn't have so many feelings of surviving a disaster, and said calmly: "Maybe he knows, so I want to save him even more."
Zhao Chongyun stood up suddenly, looking at her in disbelief with his chest heaving.

He thought that a man should protect the woman he loves, and Xie Qingfei should naturally let Wei Cheng protect her, because it was a life-and-death situation, and she should not be the one who stood up. But he forgot that love is fair, and when love reaches a certain level, no one will care who should pay more for whom, it is determined by the weight of the heart, not by the standard of gender.

Zhao Chongyun couldn't quite accept this reality. His voice trembled slightly: "But you have broken up. You and Wei Cheng are no longer a couple."

Wei Cheng had just received a call from Ms. Gu and left in a panic. He couldn't tell whether it was because he was embarrassed or ashamed of being discovered for the stupid things he had done before. When he walked to the parking lot, he remembered that he didn't take the car keys at all. He turned back to the ward and heard these words as soon as he reached the door.

Because Zhao Chongyun had been making a lot of noise these days, and he was as annoying as Xu Siruo, Wei Cheng had never thought about his thoughts in that way before, but now he understood it all. Captain Xie was really charming and loved by everyone, and he was as popular as a flower fairy, so what could he do?
But this person's competitiveness is nothing compared to Xu Siruo, and he has no doubt that Xie Qingfei will never have any thoughts about Zhao Chongyun. Even so, it would be very embarrassing to go in now, and he didn't want to draw hatred for himself for no reason, and eavesdropping on others is not a gentleman's behavior.

Wei Cheng raised his foot to leave.

At this time, Xie Qingfei's voice came through the crack in the door, with a sense of righteousness in his surprise: "So? I just broke up with him, it's not that I don't love him anymore."

Wei Cheng raised his foot and came back.

(End of this chapter)