Chapter 215 - Meet Wang Xiaoman By Chance (1/2)

Huo Yunqi’s eyes darkened as he placed the cooked meat on Xia Luobing’s plate, “Let’s eat first.”

He believed in Charlotte’s judgement and her alertness as a criminal policeman. Since she felt that there was something wrong with the two of them, it must be abnormal.

“Luo Bing, it’s really you!”

Above his head came a surprised laugh. Xia Luobing put down the chopsticks in his hand and looked up at Wang Xiaoman, who was staring at him. “What a coincidence.”

Wang Xiaoman actually took the initiative to greet her?

Could it be that she was thinking too much?

No!

Just as this thought flashed through her mind, Charlotte firmly rejected it. She trusted her own judgment. That man’s back was very familiar. She must have seen him somewhere … but where?

“Ice?” Huo Yunqi held Charlotte’s ice hand across the table and said, “Everyone’s gone.”

Only then did Xia Luobing regain her senses. Wang Xiaoman had already returned to her position. She looked very calm as she chatted and laughed with that man.

“Let’s eat.” Xia Luobing pinched her eyebrows and smiled apologetically at Huo Yunqi. “Probably an occupational disease.”

Huo Yunqi’s eyes flashed and he did not say anything else. He gently advised Xia Luobing to eat more.

When she returned home at night, Xia Luobing was still thinking about meeting Wang Xiaoman in Hotpot City. She squatted on the sofa with her hands crossed over her knees and her brows knitted tightly.

“Bing Bing, what’s wrong with you?” Yunqi poured a glass of water into Xia Luobing’s hand and said worriedly, “What happened?”

Xia Luobing put his hands in his hair and rubbed it a few times. “I must have seen that man! I must have seen him!” He said irritably.

There was a blurry outline in her mind. A man’s facial features were not clear, as if they were separated by layers of thick gauze. No matter how hard she looked at them, she could not see them clearly.

“Ice.”

Huo Yunqi rarely saw Xia Luobing like this. Her eyes tightened. She sat on the sofa and placed her shoulders on top of Xia Luobing’s. She put her head on her lap and pressed her temples with her fingers.

“I can’t remember.” Xia Luobing murmured, her voice filled with deep frustration. “Where exactly did you meet him?”

Huo Yunqi stopped moving his fingers and lowered his head to kiss Charlotte’s forehead, “Be obedient, don’t think too much.”

“But … alas, alright.” Xia Luobing sighed and tried to get rid of the weeds in his heart. He tried to calm himself down and muttered for a long time, “Yunqi, I miss my mother.”

At the age of sixteen, her mother’s accidental death sent her world from heaven to hell. The appearance of Wang Xiaoman and Xia Luoxin caused her father’s trust to collapse completely.

Even though many years had passed, it was still very sad to think about it now.

Huo Yunqi was stunned. The two of them had known each other for so long, and the people in his arms had never mentioned these things before. Therefore, he did not interrupt her and just listened quietly.

“My mother is very beautiful and proud.” Xia Luobing smiled softly, her voice filled with helplessness and desolation. “But similarly, she’s very fragile.”

Otherwise, she would not have chosen to commit suicide regardless of her young daughter after learning about Wang Xiaoman and Charlotte’s existence.

“Ice” Huo Yunqi gripped Xia Luobing’s slightly cold fingertips. His heart suddenly ached. He and her son had been together for so many years, but he had never discovered that there was such a deep wound in her heart.

Xia Luobing laughed softly, “I’m fine, but I suddenly remembered this matter … Am I very strange today?”

She had never been a sentimental person, but today she always thought of the past. At that time, she was as simple and happy as a transparent butterfly. She had never thought of the coming storm.

“Heavy rain … heavy rain …” Xia Luobing’s eyes suddenly tightened. His fingers unconsciously gripped Huo Yunqi’s arm and her body trembled uncontrollably. “It was raining heavily that day … Mom jumped down from upstairs …”

She pushed away her mother’s room and saw her mother in a lavender dress jump down from the second floor like a ragged butterfly.

All of the memories that had been deliberately sealed in dust surged over like a tide. They were surging and fierce, as if a man-eating ferocious beast was about to devour Xia Luobing.

“Ice!”

Huo Yunqi looked at the confused and helpless woman. His heart ached uncontrollably. He didn’t know how to calm her down. He held her shoulder tightly with both hands, allowing her to feel her existence in the endless confusion.

“Bing Bing, wake up! It’s all over!” Huo Yunqi said in a deep voice. The power and temperature in his palm were transmitted to Xia Luobing’s body. “Wake up.”

The pitch-black night sky seemed to have been torn apart by someone. Light and warmth slowly seeped in. Xia Luobing’s chaotic eyes gradually became focused. He looked at Yunqi Ho, who was gradually becoming clear in front of him, and said, “I remember now.”

She remembered the man’s back.

She saw the man’s back the day her mother died.

“I stood on the balcony on the second floor and watched as the paramedics hurriedly carried my mother to the hospital. The man also left.” Xia Luobing tried to calm himself down and recall the situation. “He was wearing a grey trench coat and left with an umbrella.”

Huo Yunqi’s brows furrowed. Was it really just a coincidence that a man related to Wang Xiaoman appeared at the scene of Xia Luobing’s mother’s suicide? Is there something else