Mrs. Fu, please be mindful of the appropriate boundaries.

"Possibly?" Xu Qingcheng shook her head. "Changchang, how did you two meet?"

"Who?"

"Fu Jingting."

"It's all because of... you!"

Song Chang stopped abruptly, turned to look at her, and asked, "Why are you so concerned about him? Are you interested in him?"

"I asked you if Qingyao and him were familiar, why are you bringing this up with me?!" Xu Qingcheng's heart skipped a beat when Song Chang asked her this, and she couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

Song Chang deliberately changed the subject to avoid her asking about Fu Jingting again, never expecting such a strong reaction from her, with her voice rising two octaves.

Song Chang straightened up, this time staring at Xu Qingcheng seriously. "What's wrong with you?"

"What? What happened to me?"

"Are you prepared to tell the truth or be subjected to my torture?" Song Chang raised an eyebrow. She wasn't going to take Xu Qingcheng's reaction lightly after all these years of friendship.

Pressed by Song Chang, who wasn't just anyone, it wasn't unreasonable for her to see through Xu Qingcheng. She shouldn't have lost her composure, but her face suddenly turned red.

Song Chang laughed, "Oh, she's blushing! Has our beautiful and charming Miss Xu fallen for him?"

Xu Qingcheng slapped her directly, saying, "Nonsense."

"Nonsense?" Song Chang scoffed. "Others may not know, but don't I know you too well?"

She thought for a moment, then said, "Wait a minute, didn't you go to see Ye Tinghong today? What did Fu Jingting do that made you do a complete 180-degree turn, shifting your attention from Ye Tinghong to him?"

Xu Qingcheng reached up and touched her chest. "I saw Ye Tinghong. He had a rather lively young girl with him."

"and then?"

"And then, here, I..." Xu Qingcheng tapped her heart, "I don't feel anything."

Instead, there was a sense of relief and wistfulness. Everything from the past had become blurred, except for the name Ye Tinghong, which was still clear but no longer carried any special meaning.

"I told you you two broke up, but you didn't believe me."

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I feel like I've forgotten something important, and you're all keeping quiet about it." Xu Qingcheng stopped Song Chang when she saw him trying to explain. "You don't need to say anything. I know everyone is doing this for my own good. I also know that if I try to think about it, my head will ache so badly I'll lose control. But..."

Xu Qingcheng's eyes reddened, and she raised her face to force back her tears. "I don't know what's wrong with me, but every time I think about it, my heart aches and I want to cry. But I don't know why, this feeling is just too painful."

Song Chang reached out and hugged Xu Qingcheng. "Since it's something sad, just forget about it. You're happy now, isn't that good?"

"But I feel incomplete." Xu Qingcheng shook her head. "Changchang, I feel like I'm missing the most important part, and I want to find it back."

"Take it slow. It's not that I don't want to tell you, but your condition is still unstable. The doctor also said that haste makes waste. Don't worry too much about this. Look, you're doing well now and happy. Qingcheng, can we just let things take their course?" Song Chang advised her. At the hospital, Fu Jingting and the doctor had tried to talk to her about it, but it didn't work; it would suddenly trigger her pain.

Xu Qingcheng took a deep breath and nodded, "Yes, it doesn't affect my life right now anyway."

"Okay. Now that we've reached an agreement, do you want to tell me what Fu Jingting did to make you blush when he's mentioned?"

"Song Chang!" Xu Qingcheng yelled at him helplessly, "That's enough! Where did you meet this guy? He, he, he's just a playboy!"

He's frivolous and always acts like a hooligan.

Song Chang glanced at her, too lazy to expose her.

The two agreed to skip the topic.

……

Cases that seemed completely unrelated were brought together by a dashcam footage found in a car.

When Fu Jingting and Xu Qingyao arrived, Yu Shinan was waiting on the steps outside the police office building.

Seeing them approach, Brother Nan stubbed out his cigarette and went to greet them. His gaze fell on Xu Qingyao, and with just one glance, he could almost guess who it was.

"Xu Qingyao, Qingcheng's younger brother. He's an expert in computers, give him a try," Fu Jingting introduced the two.

"I can see it, he looks a lot like his sister." Yu Shinan smiled, putting his hand on Xu Qingyao's shoulder. "Let's go. We've already borrowed the dashcam from the evidence department. How confident are we in recovering the previous footage?"

"Let me see." Xu Qingyao's temples were tense. "If it's a record overwrite, there's almost no chance of recovery, but if it was manually deleted, then there's no problem."

After Xu Qingyao finished speaking, no one else said anything.

How many people actually delete videos from their dashcams manually? Almost everyone just lets them be overwritten automatically.

The three of them went inside. The image on the TV screen in the room wasn't very clear due to the angle, but they could see a middle-aged woman holding a baby in swaddling clothes. It was a special package from the hospital where Xu Qingcheng worked. Although only half of the baby was visible, it was still recognizable.

The woman was no longer seen in the subsequent videos; she had moved out of the dashcam's field of view and was not captured on camera.

Let Xu Qingyao take a look. First, we need to see if the overwritten video can be recovered. We can see where the woman was holding the child from, or if there are other shots of the woman's face in the foreground. That would make it easier to find her.

Before coming, Xu Qingyao went back to get his laptop. He inserted the memory card from the dashcam into the computer and watched it for a while.

Yu Shinan and Fu Jingting stood to one side and watched as a bunch of programming languages ​​appeared on Xu Qingyao's computer.

Xu Qingyao frowned slightly. "It's overwrite, not delete."

Before he could finish speaking, someone suddenly patted him hard on the shoulder. "Try to see if you can solve this."

Xu Qingyao turned his head, "Aren't there any road surveillance cameras around here at this time?"

"The coverage is incomplete; I've checked it." Fu Jingting had already conducted a comprehensive investigation immediately.

"The video is too blurry, the image of the person is inaccurate, and we can't match the person's real information, so we want to find a technical expert to try it out," Yu Shinan admitted.

Xu Qingyao reached out and pressed his temples. "Give me some time, I'll give it a try."

The system problem is not as simple as it seems; some data recovery is extremely difficult.

But he needs to find a way.

Qinghan is still outside, waiting for them to bring him back.

Xu Qingyao took a deep breath. He was also waiting for that brat to come home. When he grew up, he could call him uncle, and that would be enough.

……

In the middle of the night, Xu Qingcheng suddenly woke up with a scream, which startled Song Chang, who was working late into the night to finish an interview.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Song Chang turned on the room light and saw Xu Qingcheng sitting on the bed, her knees bent to cover her legs, her face buried in her knees.

She broke out in a cold sweat. There didn't seem to be anything in the dream, but she was still filled with fear and dread.