My online dating circle has millions of followers, why would she put a collar on me?

An airport in a military region of Shanghai.

Wang Jianguo's car passed through the gate with all green lights and arrived at the airport.

When Xia Anmian arrived at the military airport, it was already completely dark.

On the tarmac, the door of a military transport plane was open, and ground crew were conducting final checks. Orange lights shone from inside the cabin, casting a warm orange hue over the gangway.

Wang Jianguo personally escorted her to the bottom of the gangway.

He answered three phone calls along the way, speaking in hushed tones for a long time each time, occasionally glancing at Xia Anmian with a heavy look in his eyes, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Xia Anmian didn't ask him anything. She dragged her suitcase and walked ahead quickly. The wind blew past her ears, making the hem of her trench coat flutter.

She didn't call Jiang Yi; some things were better said or asked in person.

"Anmian," Wang Jianguo called to her from below the gangway.

Xia Anmian stopped walking, but did not turn around.

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A night breeze blew in from the end of the tarmac, carrying the scent of aviation kerosene and metal, making her shrink her neck slightly from the cold.

"Your father... he has already arranged for people in Kyoto to arrest him."

Xia Anmian's body stiffened.

She slowly turned around and looked at Wang Jianguo.

"Send someone? What do you mean?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but every word seemed to be squeezed out of her throat, carrying a tremor that she tried her best to suppress but couldn't.

Wang Jianguo paused for two seconds, as if he was carefully considering his words.

"This matter seems to be out of control; your father is extremely angry."

"What about my grandfather? Didn't he stop him from doing this?"

Xia Anmian countered with a question.

Wang Jianguo lowered his head in silence, then whispered:

"Anmian, what you did last night might have gone a bit too far."

"If it were just that one thing, it would be easy to resolve, but unfortunately, something like this happened after the two of you."

"Your grandfather is worried that you will be bullied."

Xia Anmian knew things were going badly, and quickly said:

"Tell my grandfather that this wasn't Jiang Yi's fault, it was all her sister's doing."

"Sigh, Anmian, why don't you understand?"

Wang Jianguo continued.

"Even if it was his sister who did it, that photo clearly shows him hugging the Su family's daughter."

"If he really didn't know anything, how could he possibly have gone to meet that girl?"

Xia Anmian bit her lip tightly, her two feet rubbing together incessantly.

"I want to meet him; I want to hear him speak for himself!"

"Uncle Wang, please tell my dad to have his people treat Jiang Yi better. I'll handle things..."

Watching Xia Anmian's retreating figure, Wang Jianguo let out a long sigh.

Then I quietly made a phone call.

……

Meanwhile, at Su Xiaoyue's home.

Su Xiaoyue held her phone and kept typing on the pinned contact labeled "Baby".

"Baby, what did Qinghan say to you?"

"Baby, Qinghan has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. What she said about not taking it to heart?"

"Baby, do you think we can stay together forever after school starts?"

"I'll rent a place off-campus, and you can move out so we can live together, and then..."

Upon reaching this point, Su Xiaoyue was extremely excited, seemingly already envisioning a scene from her dreams. She excitedly slammed her phone face down on the sofa.

However, just as the phone was put back on, it rang.

It must be my husband~

Su Xiaoyue picked up her phone with a flushed face, but the contact name on it was "Dad".

She was dejected almost instantly when it wasn't the person she had been longing for.

My dad is so busy every day, he didn't even come when I was discharged from the hospital after my surgery, how could he have time to call me?

When she was little, she stayed in a cold hospital room, holding a brand new iPhone in her hands.

Later, as her cell phones became more and more advanced, she received very few calls from her parents.

Later, as I grew up and made Gu Qinghan my best friend, I became less dependent on my parents.

After falling in love with Jiang Yi online, everything she had revolved around him.

She simply cannot imagine what life would be like without Jiang Yi.

As for her parents, she had subconsciously ignored them.

The last time we spoke was...

Last time.

After a silence of about half a minute, she finally answered her father's call.

"Yueyue, have you arrived in Kyoto?" The voice on the other end of the phone was a little hoarse, with a deliberately softened and cautious tone.

"We've arrived." Su Xiaoyue held the phone between her ear and shoulder. "Dad, is there anything else? I'm a little busy here—"

"Yueyue, Dad wants to talk to you."

Su Xiaoyue's fingers stopped.

She sensed something different in her father's tone.

"What are you talking about?" She picked up her phone again, held it to her ear, and slowly leaned back into the sofa.

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.

"Yueyue, are you in a relationship?"

Su Xiaoyue's heart skipped a beat.

Her fingers unconsciously gripped the edge of the phone case, her knuckles turning slightly white.

She didn't answer immediately; her mind raced. Her mother had asked her that before, and she had brushed it off.

Now her father is asking too, and not in the casual way he mentioned it on the phone, but by calling specifically and asking in a serious tone she hasn't heard in a long time.

"No," she said, her voice lower than usual. "Who told you that?"

"Yueyue, Dad isn't trying to control you." The voice on the other end of the phone didn't lighten because of her denial; instead, it became even deeper. "Dad just wants to ask you, how much do you really know about that boy?"

Su Xiaoyue's heart pounded even faster. She sat up straight, her fingers gripping her phone tightly, her voice clearly wary: "Dad, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Yueyue, Dad doesn't want to lie to you." A soft sigh came from the other end of the phone, as if he had finally made up his mind after a long period of preparation.

"That boy, his name is Jiang Yi, right?"

Su Xiaoyue's breath caught in her throat for a moment.

"You've been chatting online for almost a year, and you've transferred a lot of money to him."

Her father's voice remained steady, but each word seemed to come from a great distance, carrying a sense of unfamiliarity that chilled her to the bone.

"Yueyue, Dad had someone investigate, this person—"

"You investigated him?!" Su Xiaoyue's voice suddenly rose as she sprang up from the sofa, her bare feet stepping onto the cold marble floor.

Her voice trembled with a mixture of offense and anger, "Dad, what right do you have to investigate him?! What right do you have—"

"Yueyue, listen to what Dad has to say. He's not a good person."

"I won't listen!" Su Xiaoyue's eyes instantly reddened, and her voice was so sharp it seemed to pierce the receiver.

"You don't know him, you've never even seen him, what gives you the right to investigate him?!"

"Do you know how good he was to me? Do you know who was with me during my surgery? Do you know who talked to me on those sleepless nights? Was it you? Was it Mom? Where are you?!"

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

"Yueyue."

After a long while, the father spoke again, his voice even hoarser than before, as if there was a wad of cotton stuffed in his throat.

"Dad knows, Dad is sorry. Over the years, Dad and Mom haven't spent much time with you, and Dad knows you're upset."

But this is different, Yueyue. This concerns your safety, and Dad can't ignore it.

"He lied to you." The father's voice suddenly became very soft, as if he were afraid of startling something.

"Yueyue, that boy, he has a girlfriend. They've been together for over two years. The girl is in Kyoto, and she goes to the same school as him."

"Moreover, he was also having online romances with several people at the same time."