Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 363 - 243 (2nd Update)

The "Diamond 9" behind the mask seemed to raise an eyebrow.

"Although it’s not easy, Yanwu Square can do it. Yanwu Square should be able to fulfill all our wishes, otherwise why would we come to Yanwu Square? If it’s only to find girls of this level, other institutions could satisfy us as well. Why have we been so dedicated to Yanwu Square all these years?"

Tang Yanqing squinted his eyes.

At midnight, the atmosphere at Yanwu Square reached its peak.

The bidding ended, and the few remaining little girls had already been acquired by the highest bidders. Father was arranging for them to be dressed according to the preferences of each guest and then randomly assigned rooms to have the girls sent to their respective patrons.

Everything in Yanwu Square revolved around the word "random," which showed the cunning of those in charge, making everything random so that no one could grasp a stable pattern.

Suddenly, a staff member dressed in black and wearing an expressionless white mask walked in, leaned close to Father, and whispered something in his ear. Father’s expression changed, and he turned his head to confirm with the staff member again.

Then he turned to everyone, sighed deeply, and said, "Dear guests, I am truly sorry. I think all this is my fault, for not being strict enough, which allowed an undercover cop to infiltrate. Our plans for tonight have been leaked, and the cops are on their way here, so we can’t proceed with business as usual tonight."

"But please rest assured, Yanwu Square will never let you down. Please, dear guests, leave for now. Later, we will find a way to deliver each of your auctioned ’goods’ to you through secret channels. Please be patient for a few days, thank you."

As soon as they heard that the police were coming, the crowd became restless.

Some people lost their composure and turned to leave immediately, while others remained calm, seemingly unbothered by the impending police arrival.

Tang Yanqing also walked to the entrance of Yanwu Square, where Father was personally seeing guests off. He whispered to Tang Yanqing, "Mr. 7 shouldn’t come for a while. Since the police have us in their sights, our business needs to be paused temporarily. After this blows over, I’ll contact everyone via coded emails. Mr. 7, please keep an eye on your emails."

Tang Yanqing nodded, chuckled lightly, and with a small leather glove, gently brushed Father’s face: "So even Yanwu Square is afraid of the police. You’re actually shutting down temporarily."

Father smiled: "It’s not fear, it’s about giving each other face. The police have their reputation, and by temporarily suspending operations, we’re giving them face. That way, they won’t overstep their bounds and disrespect us."

Tang Yanqing let out a cold laugh and descended the steps.

Sitting in his car, with Jia Tianzi disguised as the driver, he turned to look: "Why the anger? You should be happy you’ve saved those girls tonight."

Tang Yanqing shook his head: "Saving these girls comes with the cost of alerting the snakes."

His gaze pierced through the night and the dim lights, fixating on Father, who stood at the door, smiling and bowing to see guests off: "What do you think his body language resembles?"

Jia Tianzi squinted: "I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t mentioned it, but now that you say it, he looks like a clown."

"If you paint his face, put a wig on him, and dress him in colorful clothes and pointy leather shoes, his mannerisms would be that of a living clown."

Tang Yanqing nodded with satisfaction and lowered his gaze: "Exactly. But the clown just said he’s suspending his act, supposedly to save face for the police."

Jia Tianzi couldn’t help but "spit": "Does he really think putting on makeup turns him into a big shot?"

Tang Yanqing nodded: "A clown is still a clown; he can’t always laugh, and sooner or later tears will come."

Looking back at the distant lights, Father’s behavior remained composed, without a hint of panic.

"Let’s go. I think there will be gains tonight."

Since becoming "Black Spade 7," Tang Yanqing had tried to follow guests outside since he couldn’t get a guest’s status internally at Yanwu Square. Even if he succeeded once, he could open more avenues.

But even this departure process was firmly committed to the word "random."

All guests left in a certain order, which changed every time. Sometimes it was the numbered Spades leaving first; other times it was the face cards like J, Q, and K. Moreover, each batch left through different doors, with unpredictable time gaps between them, making it impossible for Tang Yanqing to pinpoint a pattern for targeting and timing the departure.

But tonight, the sudden appearance of the police disrupted Yanwu Square’s established rhythm.

At least, the guests’ evacuation couldn’t proceed as smoothly as a school of fish migrating; he just had to wait at the narrow exit to catch one or two big fish.

He instructed Jia Tianzi to drive the car to a key intersection. Turning off the engine, they hid in the shadows of the high walls, remaining silent.

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After waiting for a while, nobody appeared, which made Jia Tianzi a bit anxious.

Then he turned his head to look around and suddenly looked towards the back seat at Tang Yanqing: "Why does this place look so familiar?"

Tang Yanqing let out a "hmm", without any explanation.

Jia Tianzi thought hard and couldn’t help but laugh: "I remember now. The first time you had a conflict with Shi Nian was in this neighborhood. I came to pick you up, and after twists and turns, I found you at that intersection ahead."

Jia Tianzi glanced at Tang Yanqing’s expression from the rearview mirror.

"... Was that the beginning between you and Shi Nian?"

"No."

Although it was not the right time, talking about things related to her always made him feel a bit better.

He propped his brows with his slender fingers: "I knew her even earlier, four years ago."

Jia Tianzi opened his mouth: "But it seems like she obviously doesn’t know."

Tang Yanqing shook his head sadly: "Four years ago, I did something very bad, and I feel deeply sorry to her. So I dare not let her know."

Jia Tianzi turned his eyes: "... Can you tell me? I swear I won’t say anything."

Tang Yanqing glared at him: "I’ve not told anyone about it in the past four years, just kept it inside me. Later... My mom misunderstood her, thinking she was originally Xiang Yuan’s wife, a woman who plays the field, so I told my mom the truth."

"It’s been four years, and that was the first time I spoke of that past... Empress, I didn’t even tell my dad or my brother. If you think you can compare with my mom, then maybe I might tell you."

Jia Tianzi found himself a bit at a loss and could only smile wryly: "Then forget it. I wouldn’t dare compare myself with Aunt either."

Tang Yanqing pressed his thin lips together and said nothing more.

Indeed, in the tranquil night, the sound of cars passing by came faintly from afar.

Jia Tianzi also stopped talking, holding his breath as he tightly gripped the steering wheel, staring at the street shrouded in darkness.

A few minutes later, sure enough, a black Audi drove by. From the shadows, the streetlights faintly illuminated the faces of the two people inside. The driver, like Jia Tianzi, wore a white, expressionless mask; and the main person sitting in the back seat, like Tang Yanqing, was wearing an extravagant court-style mask.

Tang Yanqing’s mask was silver-white, without any colorful floral embellishments, luxurious and elegant. But the people in that car wore masks in various colors, and besides the multicolored metal parts of the mask, even the decorative feathers were also brightly colored.

Tang Yanqing slightly raised his eyebrows.

After the car drove past for about five minutes, Tang Yanqing instructed Jia Tianzi to follow it.

Five minutes should ensure that there was a significant distance between the two cars, preventing the car in front from discovering them behind.

But logically, if the car in front couldn’t find them, they also lost sight of the car ahead from their view.

Jia Tianzi was a bit bewildered: "We can’t even see it, how do we follow?"

Tang Yanqing crossed his arms, his face hidden in the shadows: "The front takes a left, at the second intersection turn right, about 200 meters after, turn right again."

Jia Tianzi was stunned: "How do you know that?"

Tang Yanqing curled his lips, reaching out to tap his temple: "Every map of this area is in my mind. Driving from the place we met earlier, there are a total of eight alleys to choose from. Five of them are too narrow for a car to pass, leaving only three routes to go."

"The first route of the three leads to the interstate highway, and at this time they wouldn’t go that way; the second route leads to the church—you know, after what he did at Yanwu Square tonight, he wouldn’t have the face to go to the church. And people like them have long lost the sincerity to repent to the Lord, so it definitely isn’t there. So the last remaining route is his only path, and we just follow it."

Jia Tianzi could only shake his head with a wry smile.

No matter how profound the deduction seemed, it all turned so simple once Tang Yanqing explained it, yet he could never think of it himself.

Just like Tang Yanqing said: Reasoning has never been anything mysterious, it’s merely more observation, more thinking, and then by the common way of human nature coming to a logical conclusion. There’s no engraving in the sky, nothing miraculous.

But this explanation itself is filled with so much magic.

The two chased the car all the way, and when they finally found that car in a secluded villa area, Tang Yanqing wasn’t delighted, but rather filled with surprise and disappointment.