Having said all that, there was no point in continuing the argument. Qin Zheng remained silent, closed the car door, and without giving Liu Xiaoyun another glance, walked around to the driver's seat and got in.

The car started and drove away.

Only Liu Xiaoyun and her companion remained by the roadside.

Looking in the direction the black sedan had left, Liu Xiaoyun heard a sigh, and a deep sorrow appeared between her brows.

"Are you unhappy again?"

The man beside her spoke, raised his hand, and gently stroked her brow with his slender fingers.

Liu Xiaoyun snapped out of her daze.

Seeing the man's gentle eyes behind his glasses, she smiled, but there was a hint of weariness in her expression.

"No, I just don't know when this matter will be resolved."

Looking up at the warm sunlight, she smiled weakly. "Brother Jiaming, living with a lie on my back is so tiring. It feels like I'm carrying a huge mountain on my back. Every day is so heavy that I can hardly breathe. I want to go crazy and shout my crimes out to the world through a megaphone..."

Don't say that.

Xie Jiaming covered her mouth.

He held Liu Xiaoyun's shoulders, his eyes behind his glasses looking at her with unusual seriousness.

“Listen, Xiaoyun, you did nothing wrong. Given her situation, what could she have done even if she had a student status? She got married. If we don’t use her student status, someone else will, or she’ll be expelled from school. You’re just making use of her.

Liu Xiaoyun was speechless.

She knew those words were just meant to comfort her.

The truth is, she did make a mistake.

Regardless of Ye Yun's circumstances at the time, it was not a reason for her to occupy a student's place.

She used to think the same way as Xie Jiaming: Ye Yun was an excellent student, and even if she didn't use her, someone else would take her place.

Since I'm being used by anyone, I might as well be used by her.

If Ye Yun hadn't appeared, perhaps she wouldn't have realized her mistake. But who would have thought that Ye Yun, who was married and should have lived a miserable life in the mountains, would one day discover that her school registration had been sold?

"Right now, all we can do is help her find Ye Xue's accomplices, and maybe we can get her forgiveness..."

Liu Xiaoyun fell into deep thought.

Xie Jiaming looked at her deep in thought, gently took her hand, and said in a low voice, "Don't rush, take your time. You didn't mean any harm by taking her place. I believe she's a person who clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment, and she will understand you."

Liu Xiaoyun nodded.

Suddenly, she noticed that Xie Jiaming's left hand was wrapped in layers of white bandages and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Are you injured?"

Xie Jiaming was taken aback.

He glanced at the bandage on his hand and smiled helplessly. "Yeah, there was nothing I could do. A while ago, I was with the team catching a robber, and who knew he was carrying a knife? I accidentally got cut."

"Is it that serious?"

Liu Xiaoyun quickly grasped his hand in return, gently touching the dense bandages, a hint of worry appearing in her eyes.

As a frontline police officer and an outstanding young man, he was always prone to injury.

Xie Jiaming, on the contrary, didn't care.

He felt even more sorry for Liu Xiaoyun's distress, gently patted the top of her head, and said tenderly, "It's okay, I need to work hard and get promoted as soon as possible so that I can marry my Miss Liu."

Liu Xiaoyun looked slightly taken aback.

She felt a little uncomfortable with Xie Jiaming's declaration of love and awkwardly removed his hand from her head, saying, "You know, our obstacles have never been social status."

He was also a member of a prominent family.

Their fathers were of equal standing.

She and he were childhood sweethearts.

She just doesn't want to get married.

She did not have a good upbringing, does not know how to get along with people, and is not ready to start a family.

Moreover, she has a stain on her record.

If one day her stains were to surface, she didn't want to smear Xie Jiaming with her own.

After all, he was the only one who was good to her.

"Forget it, I'll investigate the person who helped Ye Xue deal with Ye Yun..." Liu Xiaoyun looked at the intersection again and made up her mind.

The man next to him: "..."