Chapter 12: You Hit Me
The police officer handling the case said, "Ms. Qiao, we need to take a look at the dog's right paw."
Qiao Xu put the dog on the table: "No need to look at it, the dog is his."
"But I didn't steal it."
Qiao Xu recounted how, four years ago, when she returned to her apartment, she found the door wasn't closed properly and the dog had escaped.
“We were a couple at the time. He bought the dog, but we raised it together.”
"Since we raised them together, it doesn't count as stealing if I take them with me."
Xu Si'an had no idea that she had returned to the apartment four years ago.
At the time, he was immersed in the pain of the breakup, and he was also busy looking for his lost dog, so he never thought that the woman who had heartlessly dumped him would come back.
The police officer was silent for a moment: "Ms. Qiao, the dog was bought by Mr. Xu. According to civil law, the dog must be returned to Mr. Xu."
Qiao Xu nodded: "Okay."
Xu Si'an smiled slightly and tapped his fingertips on the table twice: "Cherry, come here."
The dog, which had been circling around Qiao Xu, suddenly jumped into Xu Si'an's arms.
She nuzzled his cheek and licked his palm.
Qiao Xu was so angry that her eyes turned red.
They abandoned her after raising her for several years.
Qiao Xu stood up: "Can I leave now?"
The police officer looked at Xu Si'an, and the man gestured for the lawyer to handle the formalities.
Qiao Xu didn't even glance at the dog before getting up to leave.
Xu Si'an, holding the dog, stood up and said, "Give me back my things."
Qiao Xu stopped and turned around: "What things?"
"Didn't you want the dog? Here you go."
"I didn't take anything else."
Xu Si'an suppressed his emotions, really wanting to kiss that mouth that only knew how to talk back at him until it was swollen.
"Tether rope".
The pendant above was made by them together.
Qiao Xu felt a tightness in her chest, but she forced herself to remain calm: "I'll call a courier to send it to you."
Xu Si'an strode forward: "No need for that trouble, I'll go with you to get it."
He walked past her with the dog in his arms, and Qiao Xu followed behind him, wiping away the tears that were about to fall.
Qiao Xu didn't get into his car, but instead took a taxi home.
When she arrived at the apartment building, Xu Si'an was standing next to the flower bed smoking, and the dog was circling around his feet.
Qiao Xu walked past him into the stairwell to press the elevator button, while Xu Si'an picked up the dog and went inside.
The elevator went up, and neither of them spoke.
At the door, just as Qiao Xu was about to put her fingerprint on, she heard him say, "Did you come back to the apartment four years ago to make up with me?"
Qiao Xu paused for a few seconds: "You're overthinking it, I was just passing by."
His wrist was grabbed, and he was pinned against the door: "Just passing by? You're really stubborn."
"You pass by and take the elevator upstairs, you pass by our door, you casually take the dog with you."
"When you took the cherries away, did you ever think about how sad or crazy I would be?"
Qiao Xu felt a little guilty and couldn't refute his questions and emotions.
Cherry is important to her, and just as important to Xu Si'an.
"Here's your dog back."
Those three seemingly innocuous words nearly led to Xu Si'an's death by a thousand cuts.
He released her wrist, and the next second he grabbed her chin and kissed her fiercely.
Qiao Xu began to struggle after she came to her senses from the pain.
The more she struggled, the more fiercely Xu Si'an kissed her.
As he forcefully pried open her pearly teeth and probed with his tongue, Qiao Xu bit him in her resistance.
Xu Si'an was forced to release her lips, and a slap followed.
He pressed the tip of his bitten tongue against his cheek: "You hit me."
"You forcibly kissed me and acted like a hooligan towards me, and I can't even hit you?"
Xu Si'an laughed in anger: "I'm being a pervert? What kind of pervert am I being when I kiss my girlfriend?"
Qiao Xu was too lazy to argue with him: "I'm not your girlfriend."
She pushed Xu Si'an aside and opened the door, locking him and his dog outside before he could even enter.
Cherry scratched at the door with her paws, not forgetting to chirp a few times.
Xu Si'an patted its rump lightly: "She didn't make you suffer at all; you even got fatter after leaving me."
The dog got fat, while I lost so much weight.
He raised the meat for two years for nothing.
Not long after, the door reopened, and Qiao Xu was carrying two large bags and a dog cage.
"Everything you need is here: the leash, its bed, blankets, food, toys, and more. I know you have the money to buy it new things, but these are what it's used to. You can wait until it gets used to them before getting new ones."
"This is the dress from yesterday, it's been washed."
Qiao Xu's eyes were red, which made Xu Si'an suddenly feel that he had committed a terrible crime.
Knowing full well that the dog is with her, why insist on fighting for it?
But seeing him being so intimate with other people made him very unhappy.
"Go away, and don't come to my house again."
As Qiao Xu was about to close the door, it was blocked by a hand: "Do you want to be so calculating with me?"
"Didn't you calculate it first?"
"Xu Si'an, I'm returning the last thing we had in common to you."
"Now, please leave my house immediately."
Xu Si'an paused for a moment, then gave Qiao Xu the chance to push him away and closed the door.
When he came to his senses, that feeling of his heart being ripped out, which he had felt four years ago, returned.
"Qiao Xu, I'm not..."
"roll."
Hearing the sobbing voice, Xu Si'an panicked a little: "I don't want Cherry anymore, don't cry."
"Get out, Xu Si'an, get out of here."
Xu Si'an tried entering Qiao Xu's door lock code, her birthday, but the code was incorrect.
"Qiaoqiao, please don't cry, I was wrong."
"Xu Si'an, please leave, I'm begging you."
Just as Xu Si'an was about to put the dog down, he heard Qiao Xu say, "Take your dog with you."
Qiao Xu stood by the window and saw Xu Si'an leave with the dog and some things in his arms.
Stopping in her tracks, Qiao Xu turned back to look at the window on the eighth floor and drew the curtains.
She opened the door and, sure enough, saw the bag containing her dress at the doorway.
Qiao Xu pulled her skirt in, closed the door, and sat exhausted on the sofa. She took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer under the coffee table.
Xu Si'an got into the car carrying the dog.
The dog was so excited to be reunited with its father that it was completely unaware that it had lost its mother.
Xu Si'an suddenly felt a bit disgusted with the dog and gave it a light kick.
"What are you so happy about? Your mother cried."
Cherry was speechless. Wasn't it you who made her cry?
Xu Si'an lit a cigarette and took out his phone to send a message to Qiao Xu.
"Qiaoqiao, don't be angry. I'll put the cherries back at the door and leave."
A red exclamation mark popped up the moment the message was sent.
Xu Si'an was stunned for a moment, then became even more annoyed.
Putting aside the fact that he's her ex-boyfriend, he's also her boss, and he blocked his boss?
Xu Si'an clicked on the WeChat account with the pinned contact name "Qiao Qiao Baby".
The chat history was still stuck on the last time he sent the three words "Steal my dog" late at night.
He was unsure whether Qiao Xu had seen it, and felt uneasy.
"I'm sorry, baby."
"Grass!"
"Xu Si'an, you fucking dug your own grave."
Xu Si'an's world has collapsed again.
Another red exclamation mark. I just found out that she had released my WeChat account, and in less than two days, I'm back to square one.
This is even worse; they even lost the WeChat account obtained through "identity threats."
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