Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 328 - 214: Love Hurts (2 updates/1)

Tang Yan Yi fell into deep thought.

Guan Liang suddenly fixed his gaze on the screen. His fingers tapped swiftly on the keyboard, and several windows popped up simultaneously on the screens in front of him, yet the mouse wandered back and forth and ultimately resulted in silence.

Guan Liang furrowed his thick eyebrows. Eventually, he simply threw down the mouse and cursed with a word starting with ’s’.

"What’s wrong?"

Tang Yan Yi quickly got up and went over, also looking at the screen Guan Liang was staring at.

There was only one post on the screen in front of Guan Liang, but when Guan Liang tried searching for the same keywords again, he encountered obstacles. Either related posts had been deleted, or the website’s URLs redirected to chaotic domains.

Tang Yan Yi ignored the error prompts on the screens, fixating on the single open web post.

The content of the post was disjointed, like an excerpt from a fairy tale, or perhaps just a girl’s whimsical self-talk. It didn’t garner many clicks or replies; among the few responses, one said they couldn’t understand it, another commented "crazy, perhaps."

The post talked about an Earl who fell in love with a foreign woman, so deeply he was willing to give up everything for her. For this woman, he abandoned his kingdom and even contemplated eloping with her. Unexpectedly, the woman ended up killing the Earl, turning into a "Black Widow."

Tang Yan Yi squinted her eyes: "What’s so exciting about such a post?"

Solely from the post’s content, nothing substantial could be discerned.

Guan Liang rubbed his hands in excitement, "Didn’t you notice Huangfu Huazhang’s shadow?" he said, magnifying the post and circling the timestamp and web address.

That timestamp, Guan Liang had already verified using technical means, was synchronized with the real-time displayed on the website.

Tang Yan Yi squinted at the distant year: "2000. Is there something special about it?"

Guan Liang’s eyes shone with bright eagerness: "2000, which is 15 years ago; Huangfu Huazhang is currently 35, so 15 years ago, he was 20."

"You’re suggesting that the time the post was made was around the time Huangfu Huazhang arrived in M Country to inherit the Fude Group?" Tang Yan Yi’s heart skipped in sync.

"Exactly!" Guan Liang pointed to the seemingly absurd post: "Look at these two words: Earl, foreign woman. Didn’t anything cross your mind?"

Tang Yan Yi slammed the table: "Their family still holds the Earl title, and his mother happens to be a foreign woman!"

Suddenly inspired, Tang Yan Yi needed no further cues from Guan Liang to comprehend the potential allegorical meaning hidden in the post.

"...Could it be Huangfu Huazhang’s mother killed his father?!"

Guan Liang quickly summoned the records on Huangfu Huazhang’s mother, "The records show Huangfu Xi’an suffered severe postpartum depression after giving birth, and over many years, it fluctuated. All of this was caused by Huangfu Huazhang’s father, Yifan. So, it’s possible that when she saw him later, her depression escalated and she acted out."

Despite Guan Liang’s skills, finding records on Huangfu Xi’an had always been challenging. At that time, Huangfu Huazhang’s grandfather deliberately hid his daughter and grandson, not wanting Ivan Ford to find them, so they used pseudonyms during her hospital stay and spent the first three years at relatives’ homes in a small town. China’s vastness made tracing boys born that year an overwhelming task.

Fortunately, Huangfu Huazhang had his pride, retaining his Chinese name after taking William Ford’s name—and the surname Huangfu came from his mother. Considering how rare the surname is, even in China, combing through the vast array of information led to Huangfu Xi’an’s name gradually emerging.

At that moment, even Tang Yan Yi couldn’t help but gape.

Xi An, the sentiment behind this name was so clear, yet the woman, as beautiful and classic as a serene lotus, never experienced a few days of true peace in her life. That relationship wasn’t a beautiful story for her, but a nightmare, a disastrous love affair.

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Even though the reasoning reached this point, Tang Yan Yi still shook her head.

"No, maybe this reasoning is flawed. 2000 could just be a coincidental year, and the story itself is boundless. Using it as a basis for reasoning is too unreliable."

Guan Liang understood this was Tang Yan Yi’s unwillingness to believe Huangfu Xi’an was the murderer of Ivan Ford.

Ivan Ford’s English name was "Ivan," but while in China, he used a Chinese name "Yifan." This habit developed after his encounter with Huangfu Xi’an, making it clear she gave him the name. In her heart, Yifan was an extraordinary man. As such, it’s evident they truly loved each other—how could it end so brutally?

Guan Liang lowered his head.

Many of Tang Yan Yi’s colleagues in the police department privately criticized her. Even Shi Nian, Jia Tianzi, and Tang Yanqing felt similarly. Yet, he could see Tang Yan Yi’s soft heart hidden beneath her aggressive exterior.

She was just too eager to protect, too eager to prove, too eager to fight for fleeting things, hence resorting to hastily erecting this cold and hard shell.

Others couldn’t see her tenderness because they were hurt by her hardness and thus lacked the patience to explore; yet he was different, having spent more alone time with her lately due to secretly helping her investigate Huangfu Huazhang’s records, giving him patience to study the heart beneath her armor.

Guan Liang put his thoughts away, gesturing to those screens indicating deletion or redirect errors: "If it’s just a random incomprehensible post, then why were all posts from the same address and timeframe on other websites erased? This isn’t typical web behavior; it’s a classic example of organized online public relations maneuver. Someone planned and targeted this action."

Tang Yan Yi squinted her eyes and nodded along: "Just like the information on all key figures of the Fude Group being untraceable online. Their approach is indeed identical."

Online, not only were personal details of Huangfu Huazhang unavailable, but also data on his two half-brothers, George and James. Guan Liang had to exert enormous efforts, giving up local sources from M Country and turning to databases in Asia and Europe, finally dredging up those two exiled individuals.

Tang Yan Yi sat down, re-sketching Huangfu Huazhang’s interpersonal relationship map on paper, ultimately resting the pen on Huangfu Xi’an’s name. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"...What happened to her later?"

Guan Liang repeatedly scoured the vast online realm, and couldn’t find any relevant information in public networks, nor in local police systems. Eventually, with both about to give up, Guan Liang subconsciously hacked into the FBI’s database—sometimes, complex cases unsolvable by local police or major homicide cases were handled by federal agents—and even he didn’t expect to find such relevant information in the FBI database.

Guan Liang opened the page, his fingers trembling and surprised, calling Tang Yan Yi to look.

Tang Yan Yi looked, stunned.

—The FBI had requested cooperation from Chinese police for capturing Huangfu Xi’an on first-degree murder charges, and upon locating her, requested her extradition to M Country for trial.

Tang Yan Yi felt her blood rush to her head!

"So, that explains why Huangfu Huazhang hates the police, doesn’t it?"

Guan Liang couldn’t suppress his inner excitement, "From birth until understanding, his father held no significance for him; his mother was all he had. Between his parents, he’d choose to forsake his father to protect his mother. Even if his mother killed his father, he would assume his mother innocent, and his father deserved to die. However, M Country and China’s police jointly captured his mother and made her face justice, thus he naturally harbors hatred towards law enforcement officers from both countries."

"Does that mean the post’s claims are true?!" Tang Yan Yi hugged her arms tightly, heavy inside.

Discovering such crucial evidence validated many of her suspicions about Huangfu Huazhang, but it contradicted her wishes.

"...Yet I still refuse to believe Huangfu Xi’an actually killed Yifan. I wonder if there may be mistakes in police handling leading to Huangfu Xi’an’s unjust treatment. Moreover, considering her mental state, suffering from postpartum depression, her sentence should be mitigated or should avoid criminal accountability."

Guan Liang also agreed: "Very possible. I believe with Huangfu Huazhang’s intelligence, he wouldn’t hate the police groundlessly; likely police errors happened during handling or somehow hurt his mother in the process."

Tang Yan Yi wrapped her arms tighter, feeling the chill of the night encroaching.

"Then... is Huangfu Xi’an no longer alive?"

Guan Liang dropped his head: "She didn’t wait for sentencing, choosing to commit suicide."

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[Second update this morning]