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🕑 Added 2024-06-01 13:09:26 +0000 UTCChapter 366: I Understand
This also meant that Xiao Cheng, who was in his growth period, now had the most suitable and powerful backing.
There is a difference between overt strength and covert strength.
Your opponents all have umbrellas to protect them. If you don't, no matter how powerful your hidden forces are, you'll still take a fall.
Xiao Cheng naturally understood this logic.
Before Bai Lu mentioned it, his understanding of Liu Zhenguo was limited to knowing him as the director of the Pingcheng Police Bureau.
Authority-wise, he seemed no different from other county police directors.
Their unspoken agreement was to collaborate when necessary and stay out of each other's way otherwise.
Now that he thought about it carefully, it wasn't that simple.
Liu Zhenguo had been transferred to Pingcheng six years ago and had always turned a blind eye to certain things.
His ineffective efforts made it seem like he was afraid of getting involved.
In reality, he was lulling his enemies into a false sense of security, preparing to root them out when the time was right.
That time, according to Bai Lu, was when the Criminal Investigation Team arrived to coordinate internal and external actions.
Starting from dismantling peripheral hideouts, they would gradually erode the main base and finally strike at the heart of the enemy.
So, it seemed...
Liu Zhenguo wasn't an ordinary director but someone dispatched from higher up, much like the Criminal Investigation Team.
Xiao Cheng's original plan was to collaborate with people he knew in the Nanshi Bureau when necessary.
However, from Bai Lu's information and the actions of Liu Zhenguo and the Criminal Investigation Team, it seemed that Nanshi had been corrupted beyond recovery.
Even its core had been thoroughly corrupted.
Otherwise, Liu Zhenguo and the Criminal Investigation Team would not have chosen Pingcheng, the closest place to Nanshi, as their investigation point.
The four major forces in Nanshi, Li Chengbin's father-in-law in Nanshi—if Liu Zhenguo and the Criminal Investigation Team directly entered Nanshi, they would face insurmountable difficulties and be suppressed both openly and covertly.
Pingcheng, being the closest to Nanshi, was the best cover point for their gradual covert investigation.
It was also a more suitable collaboration partner.
But Xiao Cheng had never considered deep cooperation.
"Ah Cheng, have you made your decision?" Bai Lu was a bit nervous.
She knew Xiao Cheng understood her meaning, but making such a choice was difficult.
Sigh...
"I've decided." Xiao Cheng tightened his embrace around the girl and kissed away her silent sigh.
Bai Lu was a bit stunned.
She still had a lot of persuading words in her head, but they were all swept away by the tender kiss.
Wait...
Weren't they discussing serious business...
How did it suddenly... end like this.
Bai Lu realized her hands were somehow wrapped around Xiao Cheng's neck.
She was very close to him.
Almost nestled in his arms.
She could clearly smell his faint, crisp scent, like the cool fragrance of a snowy mountain, lingering around her lips, leaving only a slightly quickened heartbeat.
And his gaze from top to bottom, as dark as ink, enveloping her completely, unwavering.
"Want you."
Bai Lu: "???!!!"
What nonsense was he talking about!!!
"Want you, not the whole world." Xiao Cheng held Bai Lu, his head resting on her shoulder.
She was only wearing a light, knee-length nightdress, with a round neck, light color, and a gentle fragrance emanating from her fair, snowy neck, brushing against his face and breath.
Feeling the strong, steady heartbeat in front of her, Bai Lu seemed to understand what Xiao Cheng meant.
She embraced him with her left hand and reached to touch his soft hair with her right hand.
"I don't want you to make a choice between two things."
A deep voice came from his neck: "I understand."
Bai Lu continued to stroke his hair and said, "We're just working with good people to defeat the bad guys and eliminate the evil forces... We're not abandoning the world; we'll be fine, entering a better tomorrow and a brighter future together with the world."
"So, do you agree?"
Xiao Cheng: "Yes."
One word, clear and strong.
Bai Lu's mind was a bit slow, still unable to believe that the serious and cautious matter she had prepared a long speech for had been agreed to by Xiao Cheng before she could even get through a tenth of it.
This serious, careful decision that needed thorough consideration, he agreed to it without hesitation?
"Yes... means you agree?" Bai Lu felt the need for a true, explicit confirmation.
Word-for-word confirmation.
Xiao Cheng raised his head, looking into the girl's clear, pure eyes, and answered word-for-word.
"I agree."
"Agree to cooperate with Liu Zhenguo and the Criminal Investigation Team, to betray... to join forces against the big boss and the other three major forces?" Bai Lu looked at him without blinking.
He didn't hesitate: "Correct."
"Thank you, Ah Cheng!" Bai Lu hugged Xiao Cheng tightly: "I knew Ah Cheng was the best!"
"Brilliant and unmatched, I like you so much, I want to kiss you!"
This familiar line echoed in Xiao Cheng's memory, again and again.
Finally, it came true immediately.
Even though it was just a light touch, he didn't deepen it because warmth would linger.
Like the clear warmth of her embrace at this moment.
Xiao Cheng didn't think much; as long as Bai Lu spoke, he would agree.
Her world was bright.
If the embrace required breaking away from the past, washing away the darkness inside and out, he would gladly do it.
If joining her required stripping away the bad parts, he was willing.
As long as she was by his side, he could do anything.
Bai Lu, feeling deeply moved, suddenly remembered something and looked up instantly.
"!"
A crisp snap sounded.
Xiao Cheng's chin was nearly sent flying by her headbutt.
"Cough... cough cough... I didn't do it on purpose, listen to my excuse... no, listen to my explanation!"
Bai Lu hurriedly rubbed the boss's chin.
Poor thing, his chin was bruised.
How did she not know she had an iron head?
Even though her forehead hurt, her head was dizzy, and her vision was dark.
Like mosquito coils circling.
It made her feel like sleeping.
Xiao Cheng, looking at the person in his arms fighting to stay awake, felt the increasingly lighter touch on his chin, the pain instead of lessening, spreading a bloody taste to his tongue.
He pursed his lips and carried her back to bed.
Holding her fallen wrist: "Rub it well."
The soft pillow under her head, the gritted voice by her ear, Bai Lu's eyes instantly opened wide: "Okay... got it..."
Seeing the man's dark face, dangerously approaching eyes, her groggy brain instantly cleared up.
"Right, I have something to tell you!"
"Just now, I suddenly looked up because I had something to tell you, listen to me!"
Xiao Cheng propped himself on both sides of her, his body above hers, but without putting weight on her.
Only his dark red eyes locked onto her.
"Speak."
Bai Lu felt the boss was a bit dangerous, one hand rubbing his chin, the other quickly pointing to the door.
"Last time you got drunk, the bank card and money you gave me are in my bag, I'll go get them and return them to you."
She wanted to get out of bed.
He grabbed her ankle.
