Chapter 36: You're Nothing but a Liar

She didn’t know how much time had passed before she slowly turned her head.

He was standing right in front of her.

Dressed in a police uniform, his face was still handsomely chiseled, but compared to the past, the youthful innocence had faded, replaced by a new maturity and a steely determination.

“Officer Bo,” the person who had just spoken with Su Wan greeted him respectfully.

It was only then that Su Wan seemed to come to her senses. She bowed her head, murmured a quick thank you, and began to wheel herself away.

Her movements were a little too hurried; the wheelchair tilted uncontrollably to the side. Bo Yezhou immediately stepped forward to steady her.

The moment his hand touched her fingers, Su Wan recoiled as if burned, swiftly pulling her hand away.

She drew a deep breath. “Thank you.”

With those words, she acted as if nothing had happened, turning the wheelchair and moving ahead.

He didn’t follow, but Su Wan could feel it—a gaze fixed steadily on her back, intense and unrelenting.

Her breathing grew heavier.

“Sister-in-law, maybe you should call Shen?”

It wasn’t until the person behind her reminded her that Su Wan snapped out of her daze. She fumbled for her phone, but before she could dial, she caught sight of the people sitting opposite.

They sat side by side on a bench, the floor at their feet scattered with open bottles of antiseptic and bandages. She was gently pressing a bandage to his face, her movements soft and careful.

He sat quietly, the picture of tranquility, as if the two of them were a painting come to life.

Su Wan slowly lowered her hand and said to the person behind her, “Let’s go back.”

——

That night, Su Wan couldn’t sleep.

Whenever she closed her eyes, Bo Yezhou’s face kept appearing before her.

She still remembered the words he had spoken to her with chilling clarity.

He had said, “Su Wan, if not for your father, do you really think I would have approached you? In the end, you were nothing more than a stepping stone in my life.”

Then he had left.

He had walked away with such finality, without the slightest hesitation.

After that, Su Wan never saw him again.

But soon enough, Bo Yezhou’s face blurred, replaced by Mu Yunshen’s.

She saw him, standing protectively in front of her in moments of danger; she saw the irrepressible boyishness in his eyes when he smiled at her.

And then, as suddenly, she saw him and Gu Yan sitting together, so intimate, so perfectly matched.

Su Wan opened her eyes.

Mu Yunshen was standing before her. “You’re awake?”

The fringe of hair on his forehead fell over his wound, concealing it. He smiled at her as if nothing had happened. “I bought some soy milk. You should get up and have a little.”

Before he’d even finished speaking, Su Wan reached out and tore the bandage from his forehead.

Beneath it was a deep gash.

Her hand trembled. “Mu Yunshen, you’re such a liar.”

“I’m fine, I just slipped and fell, that’s all.”

“I went to the police station last night,” Su Wan said calmly.

Mu Yunshen froze, his expression darkening. “Which idiot told you?”

“You dare to do things but won’t let me know?” I looked at him.

He hesitated, then said, “No, I…”

“I saw it too.” Su Wan stared at him, enunciating every word. “I saw you with Gu Yan. This bandage—she put it on, didn’t she?”

Mu Yunshen’s face grew colder as he looked at her. “Su Wan, what are you trying to say?”

“What do you think I’m trying to say? Mu Yunshen, you’re a liar. You told me you wouldn’t get into fights, yet you nearly beat someone to death! You said you wouldn’t see her again, and what do you call this?”

Su Wan struggled to contain her emotions, but as the words left her lips, she could feel the ache in her chest growing unbearable.

Mu Yunshen took a deep breath. “Su Wan, calm down first…”

“Get out,” Su Wan said, pointing at the door. “I don’t want to see you. Get out!”

She had thought he wouldn’t listen—that at the very least, he would try to explain.

But he didn’t.

He merely nodded, said “alright,” and walked straight out.

As the door closed behind him, Su Wan tried to hold back, but her eyes reddened anyway.

She pinched her nose hard, biting her lip. “Idiot… idiot!”