Be in low spirits

"Xiao Li has always been worried about this, so he wanted to put the house in your name so that you wouldn't cut off contact with him all of a sudden." Li's mother confessed to her and sighed, "He did think about marrying Cheng Xi before, but his father and I disagreed because we thought Cheng Xi was weak."

Why did he suddenly tell her about his son's past love? Was he trying to persuade her to convince her son to take the house back?

"He doesn't actually like Cheng Xi, he just feels that as a brother, he has an obligation to take care of her." Mother Li spoke with more emotion, wondering if she was feeling sorry for this marriage.

"Mom, what are you doing?" She didn't even understand what he was saying to her. To make her divorce his son?

"I know you don't mind, but the less you mind, the more Li Li feels he can't hold you. That's why he wanted to write your name on the property title." She clapped her hands, hoping she could understand her son's intentions.

She felt relieved, and really thought that Li Li had a deep affection for Cheng Xi. "But that was your hard-earned money after all."

"That's also earned by you. I know it's inconvenient for you to live together. You have worked hard over the past six months. You also took care of Xiao Li after he was discharged from the hospital. He was busy with work and didn't earn much money, but you never argued with him about anything. We have seen all this. Only when the family is harmonious can everything prosper. You deserve this." I used to think that this old lady was very versatile, but it turns out she has a big picture.

"No, I just feel that, he and I are busy with work, and if we live together, we'll have to find time to do housework and so on, so I don't think there's anything inconvenient about living with you guys." She actually had simple thoughts.

"Hey, these are all small matters. At worst we can just hire a part-time worker. Mom wants to ask you, you have been married for more than three years, do you really not want children?" She was talking about the house, how come she suddenly brought up the topic of children.

"We..." She was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say, "We just want to let nature take its course."

"Well, just let it go. Don't force it. Don't force it." Mother Li also knew that talking too much would make people bored.

In the evening, Li's mother packed the meal and asked Kong Zhixi to deliver it to Li Li. She didn't want to go there at first, as she should be angry at the moment. However, it was difficult to refuse her elders, so she reluctantly agreed to go.

Meng Yiran called a girl and made an appointment to meet her at a hotel, where he indulged himself over and over again on the hotel bed.

After the lunch box was delivered to the door of the security room, she went back, took a shower, hid in the room to play games, and went to bed on time. She was quite free and easy by herself.

In the early morning, Li Li seemed to come back, touched her forehead in a daze, and said something to her.

When she got up in the morning to go to work, she still didn't want to talk to him. After breakfast, she went to work at the office.

At noon, she received a notice from the detachment saying that they suspected that Zhang Xiaotang's body had been found, and asked her to notify the family to go and identify the body. She had no choice but to call the two elderly people and take them to the detachment to identify the body.

The corpse had been soaked in the sea for a long time and had already grown into a gigantic form, so its face could not be seen clearly. However, the two old people immediately said that it was their daughter. Watching them crying heart-wrenchingly in the morgue, she and Kong Zhiting stood by. Kong Zhiting could not bear to watch and went forward to comfort them.

Li Li passed by and saw his wife, walked up to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Bring Zhang Xiaotang's parents to identify the body." She didn't even look up at him, but just answered him numbly.

He also came here today to get Zhang Xiaotang's autopsy report. "It's hard to tell whether it was suicide or homicide at this point."

She rolled her eyes at him, and he continued, "The case is still under investigation, so I don't think it will be that fast."

"That's all the business of your criminal police team. You need to explain it to the victim's family."

He inched closer to her and asked quietly, "Am I really that annoying?"

She frowned at him, not understanding what he was talking about. Seeing that the two old people had almost stopped crying, she dragged them to go through the formalities.

When they returned to the police station, they held her hands and said with red eyes: "Officer, you must catch the murderer. My daughter can't die in vain."

"Don't worry, we will contact you as soon as there is any progress." She could only try her best to comfort them. Looking at their backs as they walked away, she didn't know when the murderer would be caught.

The people on the fishing boat were taken to the detachment for questioning, followed by the gambler, and then Zhao Zhiting.

The house-viewing trip was postponed because of Li Li's overtime work in the past few weeks. When he returned home every night, Kong Zhixi was either on duty or asleep. They even had less time to talk. When he was in the detachment, he had to rely on painkillers to support himself.

Fu Yan made an appointment to meet, and he no longer left in a hurry after dropping the clues like he did in the beginning. From time to time, he would talk about his time as a policeman and also mention Xin Qi.

Because of Fu Yan, Kong Zhixi had to deliver lunch to Li Li. When she saw the box of painkillers on his desk, she was still angry from before, and now she was even angrier. She sat in the office waiting for him.

He returned to the team and looked at the food that everyone had shared. With Xiao Liu's reminder, he realized that it was his wife who had brought them food. He ran to the office and shouted, "Wife?"

Looking at her expression and then at the box of painkillers on the table, he roughly understood. "Oh, I'm starving, let me see what delicious food my wife brought me." He began to confuse concepts and divert attention again.

"What does this mean?" She tapped the painkillers on the table and asked seriously.

He pushed the painkillers into the drawer and said, "It's just... painkillers. You know, I can't see the fragment of you and me...right."

"If I don't come to see you, you won't come to see me, right? And you won't go home either?" The more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged. Why was it that every time he got angry, she had to find a way for him to avoid the blame?

"No, I've returned. Don't I still send you to work every day?" He squatted in front of her and wanted to reach out and hug her.

She threw the clue Fu Yan gave her on the table, stood up and wanted to leave, but Li Li hugged her and stopped her, "I was wrong, I was wrong, wife..."

Who was so tactless that someone knocked on the door at this time? He rolled his eyes and shouted at the door: "Get lost!"

Liu Yanjun at the door didn't get angry. He just said, "Boss, we've eaten all the food my sister-in-law brought, so we won't leave any for you." After that, he left.

"Don't be angry. It's been more than half a month and you haven't talked to me. I'm so depressed. Can you stay with me and go home together after dinner?" When he smelled her scent, the fatigue and pain in his body from the past half month disappeared completely.

"Isn't your body your own? Why should I be angry about this?" She also felt wronged, as if she was so magnanimous.

"Yes, yes, I was wrong. I was wrong. I shouldn't have made you angry." He rubbed her back back and forth, fearing that she would get angry.

"Who did I play a trick on?" The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She had done nothing wrong, yet she ended up being the worst one.

"No, those were just words I said in anger in bed that day, please don't...ah..." Before he could finish his sentence, he was elbowed in the stomach.

She broke free from his embrace, sat down again, knocked on the food on the table, wiped her tears, and said, "Eat your meal well!"

Li Li came over and wiped her tears, lifted her chin and kissed her. She frowned and pretended to hit him, but he let go and sat aside to eat. She smiled and said, "Psycho."

After finishing the meal, the two walked home hand in hand. Liu Yanjun teased him from behind: "I was wrong..." Li Li came back and gave him several work tasks, asking him to hand them in tomorrow.

After returning home, Kong Zhixi lay on the bed and counted the days. They had not slept together since her last period, so it was unlikely that she would get pregnant. She turned off her phone and prepared to go to bed. Li Li took a shower and climbed onto the bed, hugged her and said, "Zhixi, how about I coax you tonight?"

"It's time to go to bed. I have to go to work tomorrow." She wanted to turn over and sleep. She was really tired these days.

"Then why don't you coax me?" He missed her so much that he wanted to be closer to her all the time.

"Good night, honey." She kissed him on the cheek and went to sleep.

He no longer forced her and hugged her to sleep. Kong Zhixi turned around and said to him, "Mom told me that you wanted to marry Cheng Xi before?"