Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 320 - 211: Four Years Ago, Owe You a Lifetime (Fourth Update)

Shi Nian remembered, she indeed used to be like that. At that moment, she worried she had gone mad.

"They said they wanted me to go, to exchange myself for you." He reached out and gently caressed her cheek, his fingertips silently expressing his affection.

He took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling: "Even though I knew I couldn’t give in, and all my subordinates begged me not to act rashly, I still abandoned everything, bypassed the blockades of my subordinates, disguised myself, got a fake passport, bought a ticket and flew back to the country alone. I didn’t stop, went straight to find them..."

Hearing this, Shi Nian’s body trembled, she jolted awake from the nightmare, turned her head and stared at him in astonishment: "How could you risk so much for me?!"

He smiled, raised his hand to cup her cheek: "Why not? For you, there’s nothing I can’t do!"

It was only then Shi Nian felt his fingertips, her body trembling slightly.

But she didn’t pull away.

She looked steadily into his eyes: "And then?"

His palm, initially cool, warmed gradually because of her acceptance. He couldn’t help but move closer to her.

"After that, I negotiated terms with them. Of course, I wouldn’t just sit and wait for death. I only agreed to their terms in stages. My only condition was to be with you. They were afraid of your father being a renowned detective in China, so they dared not let me reveal the truth to you. They struck a deal with me, banned me from speaking, and especially from telling you the truth, or else they would... hurt you."

Getting closer and closer, the answer to the mystery from four years ago was almost within reach!

Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was too much anticipation, perhaps it was recalling past events that frightened her... In any case, at this moment, she couldn’t discern her emotions, her whole body uncontrollably shaking, trembling.

He also sensed her tension, breathed softly, reached out and held her tightly in his arms, her head resting against his chest, his palm sliding across her hair, as if comforting a frightened child.

"... Yes, my Nian, the one accompanying you in the darkness, writing in your palm, holding you and comforting you to sleep, is me."

"I told you: Never forget, there will always be a reverb. I told you, I would protect you. I would never let anyone harm you..."

An enormous sorrow, like a volcanic eruption, surged from her heart, overwhelming her emotions.

She threw herself into Huangfu Huazhang’s arms and cried out loudly: "Sir! Why did you just come, why did you just tell me?! Why didn’t you come sooner, why..."

If the sir had come earlier, would none of this have happened? Dad wouldn’t have died saving her, Mom wouldn’t have fallen ill from the shock...

Then she wouldn’t have lived like a walking corpse for four years, wouldn’t have been in an undeserved marriage with Xiang Yuan.

She would have been like any girl loved by her parents, quietly completing her university, then finding a man who loved her, living a simple yet happy life.

Rather than crossing the ocean, living in fear and regret, and being kept in the dark!

Tears welled up in Huangfu Huazhang’s eyes too. He held her tightly, kissed the top of her head.

"It was my fault, all of it. If I had been stronger, if I had anticipated that matter implicating you... if I hadn’t been so arrogant, none of this would have happened."

He held her tear-streaked face, made her meet his gaze.

"I know what I owe you: I owe you your parents, owe you love, owe you marriage, owe you... a lifetime."

"Let me make it up to you, okay? Nian, I will love you as much as your parents, love you as passionately and devotedly as a first love, give you a grand wedding, I will— accompany you forever in this life, live for you, die for you, okay?"

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Shi Nian cried for a long time, exhausted, she fell asleep in his arms.

Huangfu Huazhang removed his wool coat, covered her with it, then signaled to Xia Zuo with his finger, quietly got up, intending not to wake her from her dream.

Xia Zuo approached to take Shi Nian, but Huangfu Huazhang raised his eyebrows high, refusing.

Xia Zuo quickly ran to the car, opened the door.

Because of his leg, Huangfu Huazhang was slightly sluggish, yet still calmly carried her small, sleeping form out of the cabin, into the car.

During the entire drive, he held her in his arms without letting go.

Xia Zuo worried about Huangfu Huazhang’s leg, couldn’t help but glance back, wanting to remind him. But saw the sir embracing Shi Nian tightly, tilting his head with his cheek against her hair, closing his eyes with a smile...

Xia Zuo was stunned. At that moment, the sir seemed to have broken out of his hard shell completely.

Or perhaps—reborn.

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[Fifteen thousand today, nine thousand in the morning.]