Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 463 - 334. Why couldn’t the police officer come earlier? (2 updates 2)
"In those moments, I almost saw myself in the mirror from back then. I really wanted to find my mother, really wanted to know who my father was, really wanted to have the warmth of family love... Yet, I always knew that was just a luxury, so I could only hold back myself strongly." Huangfu Huazhang smiled bitterly.
Tang Yanqing didn’t laugh, instead, he nodded gently: "I understand." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
Huangfu Huazhang raised an eyebrow and looked over, couldn’t help but mockingly laugh: "You understand? Mr. Tang, you have both parents, your whole family loves you, how could you understand?!"
Tang Yanqing looked over seriously: "I really do understand. You see me as carefree since childhood, but when I was young, I too lived under my brother’s shadow. My brother was too outstanding, he was also my dad’s eldest son; and me, my mom wasn’t favored by my grandmother at the time, compared to my brother, the whole family said I was like a little Demon King... I also really wanted to earn my dad’s praise, wanted him to value me as he did my brother. Those feelings are essentially not much different from yours and Rosa’s."
Huangfu Huazhang slightly raised an eyebrow, and behind the large glass, Shi Nian and Tang Yanyi couldn’t help but simultaneously feel a pang in their hearts.
Who would have thought that beneath his appearance, he had also quietly tasted such bitterness in his childhood?
Huangfu Huazhang sighed lightly: "...so I disguised as a clown and talked to her, performed tricks to make her happy, then asked her what her wish was? She said she wanted to disappear from such a life, let her parents not find her, let them regret, let them know they should cherish her."
"I can’t forget her stubbornly raising her eyes to look at me, asking: What did we children do wrong? Why did they bring us into this world, but couldn’t give us true happiness and joy? All I wanted was companionship, for the family to be happy together. But they are so preoccupied with their so-called love that they’ve completely forgotten about me, even wanting to abandon me."
Huangfu Huazhang paused for a moment, then spoke softly: "Her question, I actually had it too. At that time, I felt she was similar to me, so I took her away."
"But that was a crime."
Huangfu Huazhang smiled: "But it was originally just a game. Like hide and seek, I was her teammate, I took her to hide, waiting for her parents and the police to come looking. I left too many clues at the scene, as long as her parents were a bit more attentive, and the local police a bit more professional, it really wouldn’t have been difficult for them to find us."
"Unfortunately, her parents didn’t manage to. That’s forgivable, they were frantic. But the local police shouldn’t have failed to solve such a small case."
Behind the glass, Gao Cheng couldn’t help but sigh: "That ultimately was a small town, and it was the International Clown Festival at the time, clowns from all over the world were there, the police were under great pressure, so the manpower for solving the case was limited, it’s understandable."
Across the glass, Tang Yanqing said: "You’re right, I don’t want to defend the police either. When it comes to life safety, there’s no such thing as understandable. Once you don this police uniform, you can never relax, and to combat increasingly upgraded crimes, you must also constantly improve yourself. You can’t be complacent, nor can you give yourself any excuse."
Huangfu Huazhang finally looked at Huangfu Huazhang seriously: "I’ve seen your efforts too. It’s hard to imagine that a playboy young master once lived like a solitary monk during those four years, finally honing himself into an expert in the field of behavioral analysis. I have to say, if every police officer had your consciousness, that would be great."
Tang Yanqing smiled: "I have nothing to be proud of. After all, what led to those four years was the prior experiences. Not every police officer has the opportunity to go through."
Huangfu Huazhang said nothing, his gaze only slid over the large glass.
Tang Yanqing paused for a moment: "Next, we should talk about Rosa’s later experiences. Cousin, are you prepared to continue our conversation with the same openness and honesty?"
Huangfu Huazhang nodded softly, his gaze firmly fixed in Shi Nian’s direction.
"I promised her."
Across the glass, Shi Nian frowned and bowed her head: "...From his perspective, if the police in the small town had found Rosa earlier, then Rosa’s later incidents wouldn’t have happened. So in a certain sense, Huangfu was hoping the police would arrive quickly, to save Rosa; but he was disappointed time and again, forced to watch tragedies happen again."
Guan Liang understood: "Rosa was his second disappointment with the police."
On the other side of the glass, Huangfu Huazhang finally spoke softly.
"You know my situation back then too. I had just officially received the Ford family name, just taken over the Fude Group. At that time, I myself was barely surviving, and simultaneously, my parents’ incidents occurred... That woman and her two sons seized the opportunity to stir up trouble, trying to incite the family to overthrow me, the killer’s son. The only one who could help me was that old man."
"It was also a coincidence, he came to me and discovered Rosa’s existence. She fascinated him. Given the circumstances, I had no way to refuse the old man, so I agreed to let him stay."
Tang Yanqing raised his eyebrows upon hearing this: "Cousin, you only agreed to let Old Buddha move in, not to give Rosa to the old man?"
Huangfu Huazhang laughed: "Of course, I only let the old man move in. As for what happened later at night, it was already beyond my control. That house was originally owned by the Ford family, all the servants listened to the old man. He could get the keys and go wherever he wanted. I worked in the office until midnight every night during those days; I was exhausted and would directly fall asleep upon returning to my room."
Huangfu Huazhang’s face turned severe: "When I found out, it was too late. But fortunately, the old man couldn’t do anything substantial, he only touched her. I later let Rosa go and sent her back home."
Tang Yanqing’s face also turned serious: "Why didn’t you call the police, Cousin?"
Huangfu Huazhang couldn’t help but smile coldly: "Call the police? What could the police do for us? Besides, the old man soon died, he already got the best punishment, why call the police? Furthermore, if I call the police, they would come to Rosa’s house to investigate, tearing open the past that the girl no longer wanted to remember, what’s the point?"
Across the glass, Tang Yanyi suddenly turned around, staring at Shi Nian.
Shi Nian also frowned, bowing her head.
Tang Yanyi couldn’t help but say: "He lied in the end, didn’t he?"
Shi Nian said softly: "He’s protecting himself. I told you, he would downplay and avoid the important."
But across the glass, Tang Yanqing showed no abnormal reaction, he just nodded lightly: "If you count it, Rosa voluntarily left with you, so although you didn’t inform her guardian, it’s considered illegal, but not as severe as kidnapping; moreover, it’s been so many years, the statute of limitations has passed, and Rosa herself and her family may not want to pursue it; what’s more, the old man is dead, so it’s not worth pursuing cousin’s legal responsibility anymore."
Huangfu Huazhang appeared relaxed, nodding slightly.
Tang Yanqing lowered his head, looking at the paper he drew, then wrote down another name.
"Since we’ve talked about the clown for so long, why don’t we talk about Xiong Jie next? Isn’t it really in your view Cousin, that Xiong Jie was no different than a jumping clown?"
Such a proposal surprised even Shi Nian a little. She believed the clown’s figure had appeared in Xiong Jie’s case, but didn’t expect that in Tang Yanqing’s eyes, Xiong Jie herself was the clown.
Huangfu Huazhang laughed: "That’s right, she was the clown. Thinking she was powerful, her words and actions aggressively threatening; believed all her setbacks were caused by competitors, so she blamed her failures on them."
Tang Yanqing nodded: "The ’competitor’ you mentioned was Shi Nian."
Huangfu Huazhang finally laughed aloud: "Xiong Jie actually thought Nian Nian was the one who hurt her and caused her pain. If she thinks like this, she truly deserves some punishment, doesn’t she?"
In his heart, his little girl was such a wonderful person, how could he allow anyone to distort her?
Tang Yanqing couldn’t help but feel a little jealous in his heart, so he coldly snorted: "Exactly, I’ve disliked Xiong Jie for a long time too. Every time I see her, I’ve never been polite to her."
Huangfu Huazhang laughed again: "Never been polite? Yanqing, your so-called never polite is just a few words, what does it count as? Tang Yanqing, you’re a police officer, you have the strong background of the Tang Family, how could you not protect Nian Nian well, how can you only rebut Xiong Jie with words?"
Tang Yanqing was silent for a moment.
Because he’s a police officer, his counterattack against Xiong Jie was also limited by the law and couldn’t do anything excessive. There were moments when he truly thought about breaking the limitations of the law, even if just to go up and slap Xiong Jie a few times! But the police uniform on him, the police badge on his chest, told him: No.
Tang Yanqing sighed: "In fact, I envy you for this."
Huangfu Huazhang’s long eyes gleamed with radiant light, looking towards Shi Nian.
Tang Yanyi whispered: "He’s proud. Another baselines of micro-reaction appeared!"
