"Not a big deal." Qin Shen shook his wrist. He had used all his strength in each of those punches he threw at Luo Junli, causing his knuckles to ache slightly. However, this was nothing compared to the pleasure he felt in his heart, so he didn't feel anything at all. If that bastard was still in front of him, he might have hit him a few more times. "I taught that bastard a lesson and I felt relieved. That's the good result. I don't care about other things like dismissal or investigation."

After saying this, he turned and left the interrogation room, no longer paying attention to Shen Donglei's shouts behind him, walked out of the hall quickly, and drove away from the detachment.

He was driving his own car, and the starting speed was several times faster than the police car that came when he came. He almost rushed out as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, and ran through three red lights in a row before he managed to calm down a little. He stopped at the fork in the road leading to the hospital, waiting for the red light to calm down.

It was at this time that he discovered that there were two unread messages from Xu Man on his phone. The first one was "Captain, have you arrived at the detachment?", and the second one was "I suddenly thought of something just now. You drank a whole bottle of wine in the restaurant. Is it okay to drive now? It's only been three hours..."

The two messages were sent one after the other, only a dozen seconds apart, and were very much in the style of Xu Man. Just by looking at them, Qin Shen could imagine her facial expressions as she typed these words: her eyebrows slightly furrowed, concerned and worried, and perhaps her finger hovered over the send button for several seconds before she made up her mind to press it to send it to him, and then held the phone nervously and shyly waiting for his reply...

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously, and the anxiety in his heart was slowly soothed, as if a sweet and refreshing spring water was flowing through his heart, making him completely calm down. He didn't even notice that the red light turned green.

Fortunately, the road was very empty at two o'clock in the morning. There was no car on the road, and no driver honked behind him. He just continued to stay at the intersection, unlocked the phone screen, and sent a reply message.

[Are you asleep?] 】

These two messages from Xu Man were sent half an hour ago. Calculating the time, he was probably on his way to the detachment by car. Qin Shen was not sure if she was still awake, so he just sent her a greeting and did not expect her to reply. He had already edited the next message and was ready to send it as a message. Unexpectedly, a new bubble popped up on the screen, carrying Xu Man's reply and jumping into his eyes.

Xu Man: [Not yet]

As soon as he saw the message, Qin Shen frowned. His previous thought of "it would be nice if she could see it" immediately changed. It was so late and he was still not sleeping. Didn't he take his health seriously?

He quickly brought up the dial-up interface and made a call.

The phone rang twice before it was answered. Xu Man's gentle greeting came out: "Hello? Captain?"

His voice sounded very awake, with a hint of subtle nervousness, but he didn't seem sleepy at all, and it didn't seem like he was woken up by the ringing of a phone call in the middle of a sleep.

Qin Shen's frown deepened: "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"

There was silence on the other end. When he spoke again, his words were more cautious: "I was about to go to bed, but when I saw the phone screen was lit up, I took it and took a look..."

lie. How could I see my phone light up when I was about to close my eyes and go to sleep? Even if I saw it the moment I lay down and closed my eyes, it was too late. It was almost two o'clock. How could I be cultivating immortality?

Qin Shen: "Didn't I tell you to go to bed early? Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"I really need to sleep." Xu Man replied softly, "I just replied to your message after seeing it, and you called me..."

Perhaps she herself did not realize that there was a lot of coquettishness in her words, and a hint of anger, as if she was complaining about her lover's inconsideration. Qin Shen laughed dumbly after hearing this, and his worries and complaints disappeared, leaving only joy.

How could she be so likable? As sweet as cotton candy.

"Okay, I'm wrong about this. I'll hang up first, and you go to bed early." He deliberately said this and paused for two seconds. Sure enough, the voice on the other end of the phone became louder and a little flustered. "You... you wait a moment, don't hang up yet. I have something to ask you."

He suppressed a smile and replied, "What is it?"

"Did you see those two messages I sent?"

“Yes.”

Xu Man: "Then you...?"

Qin Shen couldn't hold back his smile any longer, he leaned against the back of the driver's seat, and smiled, "I just came back from the detachment and am on my way to the hospital." He answered her two questions in one sentence.

"Are you okay?" Xu Man asked him with some concern. "I checked online before, and it said that it takes at least eight hours to metabolize all the alcohol in the body after drinking. It's only been three hours-"

"It's okay. I can drink a lot. I drove all the way here without any problems." He smiled nonchalantly. "Besides, it's almost two in the morning. There are not many cars on the road. Even if I hit someone, I won't have anywhere to crash into. Don't worry."

"You can't say that..." The lover's soft voice came through the airwaves, "It's not that everything will be fine if nothing happens. What if the traffic police catch you while checking for drunk driving?"

"Then I'll make the headlines, with the captain of the criminal investigation team leading the way in drunk driving, shocking the general public." Qin Shen laughed, "Okay, I know what you're worried about, but I'm already on the road now, and it's too late to talk about this, so don't worry. I'll go to the hospital to get your test report and then go home and not drive."

"Are you going to the hospital?" Xu Man asked him.

Qin Shen looked at the road and realized that he was still stopped at the intersection. He looked up at the traffic light and saw it flash from red to green again. Obviously, he had missed at least two green lights. Fortunately, he was not in a hurry. He stepped on the accelerator slowly, steering with one hand and drove out. He answered her while driving: "Almost. What's wrong?"

"I want to wait for the test report to come out." Xu Man said.

"No." Qin Shen rejected it outright. "Go to sleep first. I'll get the test report for you. Then go ask the doctor if there's any problem."

"I'm just afraid there might be a problem," she said, "so I want to stay awake and wait until the results come out before going to bed."

Qin Shen: "If there is any problem, I will come to pick you up and take you to the hospital."

As he said this, he clenched the steering wheel tightly, thinking that there had better not be any problems, otherwise he would definitely beat that Luo guy so hard that he would regret being born into this world.

Xu Man still couldn't rest assured: "I'd better wait until the report comes out before going to bed, otherwise I won't be able to rest assured now."

Qin Shen frowned and turned another corner: "It won't take me long to get to the hospital now, but I may not be able to get the order immediately after arriving. If the order comes out late, will you wait? Go to sleep, I'll come to see you tomorrow, everything will be fine."

Hearing his lover trying to say something else, he added, "Be good and listen."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds. When it rang again, Xu Man's voice was obviously a little more shy: "...Yeah."

The soft and gentle voice was like willow catkins dancing in the air, circling and flying into Qin Shen's heart, making him itchy. He wished he could hold the owner of the voice in his arms, rub and love him, but unfortunately, due to geographical barriers, he could only respond with "Okay, go to sleep". He didn't even bother to check the road conditions and almost ran a red light again.

But it made no difference whether he ran the red light or not. After running the red light three times in a row, his driver's license points had already become negative, and there were no points to be deducted. It was funny to think about it. He violated the rules and beat people in the detachment, and he drove illegally outside the detachment. He violated more regulations in this night than in the previous year combined. That grandson was really amazing.

Qin Shen drove to the hospital, while Xu Man, on the other side, lay on the bed with her eyes open, half curled up, looking at the floor-length curtains that shone a slightly cold light, killing time in the darkness.

It wasn't that she didn't want to sleep, but she really couldn't sleep. Qin Shen's words "be good" made her dizzy and her heartbeat was completely messed up, pounding. How could she possibly sleep?

The reason why she hadn't slept until this point and saw the message and phone call from the other party all at once was for a similar reason - she didn't feel anything when he was around, but once he left, especially when she was lying on the bed wrapped in a quilt and was the only one left in the quiet and dark room, all kinds of emotions flooded her heart, shyness, sweetness, expectation, disbelief... all kinds of emotions made her unable to calm down no matter what.

She tried many ways to fall asleep, such as lying down, closing her eyes and slowing down her breathing, and even counting sheep to count the seconds, but none of them worked. Her mind remained excited the entire time and was completely out of her control.

There seemed to be still some warmth on her lips from the touch of Qin Shen an hour ago, which lingered for a long time and lingered in her heart.

Confession, kiss, hero saving the beauty... these three things happened in a chain, just like the plot in a movie. She was really afraid that this was a dream, and nothing would have changed when she woke up tomorrow. Qin Shen was still her captain, boss, and friend, but not her lover.

There was a faint sound of a car horn outside the window, which quickly disappeared at the other end, and the room fell silent again.

Xu Man took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

If - this was just a dream she had -

Then tomorrow, she will be the one who takes the initiative and confesses to Qin Shen——

…

At six o'clock in the morning, Xu Man woke up to a loud noise. She covered her dizzy head and felt dizzy for a long time before she realized that the noisy sound came from her cell phone alarm. It seemed that she forgot to turn off the weekday alarm last night, so it woke her up from her sleep at this moment.

She reached out her hand and fumbled to take the phone from the bedside table. She turned on the screen to turn off the alarm. She saw a message bubble in her sleepy eyes. She barely opened her eyelids and focused her eyes to see it carefully. She found that it was a message sent by Qin Shen at 2:30 in the morning:

[I showed the test results to the doctor, and he said there was nothing abnormal and nothing to worry about. Are you feeling well? If you feel uncomfortable, tell me, don’t hide it.]

Not a dream.

It's true.

She and Qin Shen really became lovers.

As if injected with a shot of cardiotonic, Xu Man suddenly woke up from her drowsiness, sat up with her back against the pillow, edited a message and sent it.

[Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry]