This superpower is unreliable.

The two of them sat in silence, but neither of them was willing to back down.

It was like a fire that started on a field of wild grass at night. The grass did not resist violently, but quietly allowed the flames to spread, without letting the fire damage its roots.

The fire burned fiercely and spread quickly. Soon it had set the entire grassland on fire until it reached the sand. When all the grass was burned out, there was nothing left to burn and the fire gradually died out.

After a while, Wen Guzhi's voice slowly came from the phone.

"I know."

Wen Guzhi lowered his eyes and smiled faintly.

"But it's because I've never felt fatherly love, so I don't want you to end up losing your father like me." He paused, his smile seemed to be glued to his face, and the curve of his mouth didn't change at all. "I've been through it, so I know very well how painful this feeling is, and it's even possible that you won't be able to recover in your lifetime."

"So I know..."

Huang Chiyao was a little at a loss. The smile displayed on the phone screen was clearly the same pleasing smile as always, but she felt that the person seemed about to cry.

She wanted to say something to ease the atmosphere, but Wen Guzhi's previous criticism of her was still stuck in her heart, so that her breath was stuck in her throat, making the atmosphere between the two of them tense again.

However, Wen Guzhi did not seem to intend to let this awkward situation continue. Looking at the screen from the angle where Huang Chiyao was standing, he looked directly into her eyes and whispered the last words softly.

"You must be tired. Have a good rest. Good night."

"I know—"

The phone had been hung up long ago, leaving only a pitch-black screen.

Ugh.

Huang Chiyao threw his phone aside casually, then fell asleep on the bed, recalling Wen Guzhi's eyes before the video call was hung up.

Only when the other person is staring at the camera can you feel like you are being watched. In other words, Wen Guzhi didn't even look at the screen in the end.

He really cares about what she says, otherwise why doesn't he even want to see her face?

Did she really say something too much?

Huang Chiyao raised his arm to cover his eyes and sighed again. Actually, if you think about it carefully, it is really wrong to use Wen Guzhi's father to refute his point. In this way, the refutation becomes an attack.

She clearly knew how painful the word "father" was for Wen Guzhi, so why couldn't she control her brain at that time?

Maybe it’s because the word “father” brings a completely different kind of pain to her.

Never mind, I should go and apologize anyway. Just as Huang Chiyao was about to get up and find her phone, there was a sudden vibration from the bed. She quickly picked up the phone, only to find that it was not a message from Wen Guzhi, but from Xu Keke.

"How is it? Is everything going well? Are the tools in good working order?"

Huang Chiyao felt a little complicated when she saw this sentence, but she felt much better than before. When she realized that no matter how she responded, she was not satisfied, she thought about it and decided to just call Xu Keke.

The call was quickly answered.

I only heard a chuckle from the other side. "What's up? Do you have good news to share with me, or do you have troubles you want to talk to me about?"

"Sister Keke, how come you are so smart?" Xu Keke's contented tone made Huang Chiyao relax. She couldn't help but smile, "You guessed it right."

"That's not right. Don't you think about what I do? In this industry, many people recognize me as the boss."

Although those words were full of smug boasting, Huang Chiyao did not feel that Xu Ke was being conceited at all. Instead, he felt that she deserved the title. While feeling envious, he was also very grateful that he could meet such a gentle and strong person.

"That's why I called to thank Detective Xu Ke for helping me."

In fact, she could not break free from her father's control by herself. Without the tools that were allowed to be lent to her, she would have no evidence to identify her father.

There was also the matter of the Third Grandma. When she went to the Third Grandma's house on the 28th of the lunar year, she had already discovered something was wrong, so she sent a message to Xu Keke asking her to help investigate. After checking, she found that the Third Grandma's fortune-telling business was actually a message for human traffickers. But she couldn't continue to investigate the rest by herself, so she asked Xu Keke to hand over the clue to the police station, and notified the police officers at the police station today to catch them all in one fell swoop.

It was an unexpected gain.

Huang Chiyao first told Xu Keke everything that had happened in the past few days. Although her tone was no longer as excited as when she shared with Wen Guzhi just now, when she told Xu Ke about her experiences in the past few days again, she felt fortunate.

After listening to this, Xu Keke let out a short sigh.

"Chiyao, you are really amazing. I didn't expect that you have completed the mental patricide in such a short time."

"Patricide?" Huang Chiyao couldn't help but think of Wen Guzhi's words that he would regret it in the future, and asked in confusion, "Sister Keke also thinks that what I did was too much?"

"No." Xu Keke answered firmly, "You did a good job. Believe me, if you hadn't completed this step, you wouldn't have achieved anything in the future. Now you are a brand new Huang Chi Yao, and you will definitely go higher and further."

At this point, Xu Keke quickly grasped the point and asked Huang Chiyao, "Who thinks that what you did is too much?"

"So I know... he thinks that I am not being nice to my father." Having said this, Huang Chiyao couldn't help but confide his troubles to Xu Keke. After he finished speaking, Xu Keke only said three words.

"who cares."

"what?"

Xu Ke said as a matter of course: "You are just in a relationship now, why think so much."

Huang Chiyao was choked by this unexpected answer.

It's that simple?

"But I still have to remind you." Xu Keke paused and continued, "For humans, sometimes it is easier to share adversity than to get along with each other in normal times. In times of adversity, you can stick together and support each other, but once you return to your daily life, this relationship can easily be knocked down by trivial matters."

"So, don't think too much and just keep going."

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Things have been almost dealt with, and the New Year atmosphere has almost faded away. It's time for Huang Chiyao to go back to Qing'an.

I remember that after listening to Xu Keke's words a few days ago, she sent the following message to Wen Guzhi:

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say those things. I just got angry because you used the word 'scheming' to describe me. Don't be upset, I really care about you. However, I still don't regret the decision I made."

However, Wen Guzhi just replied, "I'm not unhappy. I was also wrong." Then, the next day, he continued to talk to her as usual as if nothing had happened, but he never mentioned the conversation between the two of them that night again.

Huang Chiyao didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but he had to go back to Qing'an anyway, so he would find a chance to talk things over with Wen Guzhi face to face.

Before leaving, she hugged Lin Qinluo tightly and said in a muffled voice: "Mom, we must continue to work hard and move forward!"

Lin Qinluo hugged her back and answered solemnly: "Okay."

It was just like the pinky promise between mother and daughter, but the difference was that the road ahead was no longer filled with the thorns that had plagued them for many years, but with hope.

"Wow! Mom! Sister! Look, is that a luxury car?" Huang Yaohui's shout made the mother and daughter turn their heads at the same time.

Suddenly, there was a car in front of the house, and a person who looked very familiar to Huang Chiyao got out of the car.

"Chiyao, let's go back together."

"come back to me."