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

Gu Qinghan was stunned for a moment, then ran out as well.

As she ran, she pulled out her phone, her fingers flying across the screen as she dialed Zhao Jianmin's number.

"Miss Gu, is there any chance things might change?"

Zhao Jianmin answered the call quickly.

However, Gu Qinghan cursed loudly.

"What the hell are you doing?! Who told you to move Jiang Yi?! What the hell are you trying to do?! I'm warning you, call them and tell them to stop the car!"

The driver of the white van on the other side clearly saw the woman running towards him in his rearview mirror.

His first reaction was to step on the gas, not the brake.

The bread truck's engine let out a deep roar, and its speed suddenly increased.

Su Xiaoyue ran even faster.

She didn't know she could run so fast, nor did she know how far she had run.

Her lungs felt like they were about to explode; every breath carried a metallic, metallic taste. The gauze on her wrists was soaked with blood, and drops of blood dripped down her fingers, falling one by one onto the gray asphalt road.

But she didn't stop.

She can't stop.

Because if that car leaves, she might never see him again.

The face behind the car window grew farther and farther away, becoming increasingly blurry, until she could barely make out his features.

Her tears finally welled up.

"Jiang Yi——!"

The moment she uttered that name, she suddenly felt it was absurd.

She had called out this name countless times.

In the messages she never sent, in the drafts she wrote and deleted repeatedly, in every scene of her dreams.

But this was the first time she had said it aloud.

On this gray street, bustling with traffic during rush hour, behind a police car speeding away, in the still-bleeding wound on her wrist.

The van's brake lights came on.

The glaring red stood out starkly against the hazy skylight, like two flames burning at their brightest.

The tires screeched as they scraped against the asphalt, the car jerked abruptly, and then came to a stop.

Su Xiaoyue's legs went weak, and she knelt on the ground.

Her knee hit the rough asphalt, and the pain made her flinch, but she didn't care about the pain.

She used her hands to push herself up, the blood from her hands smearing onto the gray pavement, leaving a dark red mark.

She staggered toward the bread truck, step by step.

The car door opened.

Two young men in police uniforms jumped out of the car, their faces...

They watched as the girl, covered in blood and with tears streaming down her face, walked towards them step by step, and for a moment they didn't know whether to stop her or not.

"Who are you?" the younger officer spoke first, his voice wary. "This is a police car, don't—"

Su Xiaoyue didn't look at him.

Her gaze went over his shoulder and landed on the open door of the bread truck.

Jiang Yi sat in the back seat, his wrists handcuffed, his body leaning to one side, his forehead pressed against the car window.

Hearing the noise, he slowly raised his head, his bloodshot, unfocused eyes slowly and extremely slowly focusing on Su Xiaoyue.

For a fleeting moment, his lips moved.

There was no sound, but Su Xiaoyue read the lip movements.

"Su Xiaoyue".

He was calling her name.

Su Xiaoyue's tears flowed even more fiercely.

She reached out, trying to touch his face, her fingers hovering in mid-air, only centimeters away from his cheek, but she just couldn't reach him.

Because the young policeman finally realized what was happening and grabbed her wrist.

"You can't touch him! He's a suspect!"

Su Xiaoyue did not resist.

She simply looked at Jiang Yi, at his face, just a few centimeters away.

"Jiang Yi." Her voice was very soft, so soft it seemed like a breath could dissipate it, "How are you?"

Jiang Yi's lips moved again. This time she saw it clearly.

He said, "I'll sign it, I'll accept whatever comes my way."

Su Xiaoyue was dumbfounded.

What do I need to sign?

Seeing the blood at the corner of Jiang Yi's mouth, Su Xiaoyue seemed to realize something in an instant.

"You, how dare you?"

She was pushed away by a young policeman before she could finish her sentence.

"I'm warning you, miss, we're on our way to the prosecutor's office. If you dare to stop our car again without cause, I can arrest you!"

After saying that, he was about to close the door.

However, at that moment, the phone rang.

When the police answered the phone, Zhao Jianmin's tired voice came through.

"Bring the car back."

The young policeman's expression changed.

"Chief, if we drive it back, we'll have no room for maneuver. Only by making this an ironclad case can we have a chance of survival."

"Sigh, who do you think they are? None of these people are easy to mess with. It was my mistake to be so foolish. There's no need to say more."

Zhao Jianmin didn't say anything more and hung up the phone.

"Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue, are you alright!"

The young policeman looked up and noticed that there was another woman next to the girl.

He recognized the woman; she was none other than the woman the bureau chief had been following around yesterday.

"This...this..."

His body was trembling almost physically.

Just then, Gu Qinghan noticed him and looked over sharply.

"You pushed Xiaoyue?"

"No...no..."

He reflexively and vehemently denied it.

However, Gu Qinghan ignored him completely and walked over directly.

"Snapped!"

It was a slap.

He was completely stunned by the blow.

He wanted to fight back.

If he wanted to fight back, the woman in front of him would have no ability to resist at all.

However, reason prevented him from taking action.

After all, even Director Zhao, whom he admired, was bowing and scraping before this woman.

All he could do was grit his teeth and slam the car door shut.