Protect the witness

Chapter 15: A call and a little bit of treatment

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Xiao Zhan's POV

Yibo and Xuan Lu behaved differently as usual. Somehow I had the feeling they fought and I was the reason for it. Maybe it was just my guilt talking to me but I felt terrible. I didn't want to go and ask Yibo because that meant I had to talk to him. And asking Xuan Lu was also not an option.

After some time I thought whatever the reason was they fought, it couldn't be me because Xuan Lu treated me as usual. Maybe even a little better than before. Yibo on the other end tried to keep a distance but now and then I would feel his eyes on me.

"Xuan Lu?" I called Yibo's wife after talking to Zhou Cheng on the phone. The Officer seemed to be fine so far which meant that Haikuan was behaving. For now.

"Hm?" Xuan Lu smiled at me. After dinner, we both were sitting in the living room together watching a movie while the little boy was fast asleep.

"Do you.... I mean, is there something wrong? I somehow...." I stopped and tried to find the right words. "I have the feeling you and Yibo are... in dispute?"

She sighed but then chuckled. 'Maybe I saw wrong?'

"No, we are not. We have only a small disagreement. Don't worry." She answered.

"W-what happened?" I wanted to know.

"Yibo happened."

"O-okay?" I said and she laughed.

"How should I say it? Yibo is a good man. He is perfect. His life was not always easy but he managed to sit through. And he is very righteous. He hates it to owe someone something. That is why he never borrowed money from anyone during his school life. Not that his family is poor. Not at all. His parents gave him a monthly allowance and when he used it up, he had to wait until the next month. But he never complained." Xuan Lu said and then laughed. "Well, except once. He wanted to go to a concert but had no money left. His parents didn't want to give more so he borrowed it from me. He complained about himself borrowing money and it almost made me go nuts."

I listened to her and smiled at her laugh.

"Anyway, he is very righteous. But sometimes he is just far too stubborn and even I can't bring him to his sense. I don't think anyone can except himself. That is the only bad thing I can say about him." She shook her head in amusement while stroking her son's head. "I am worried about my little sunshine. I fear he is going to be exactly like his father. He is already a daddy boy. I don't mind him taking after Yibo but this stubbornness.... might be a problem. And him being a troublemaker, of course. I don't want to boast but when I was at FanXing's age I was a little angel. This means the part about making trouble he has from his father. But obviously, I still love him."

I watched her and even when I told myself I would forget about Yibo and everything that had something to do with him, I couldn't prevent myself from being hurt seeing the love between Yibo and Xuan Lu. But being the idiot I was I always did something to torment myself with. My next sentence, for example. "You and your husband seem to love each other a lot."

She smiled and then looked at me curiously. "Hmm.... Xiao Zhan, do you love someone?"

"No." I shook my head and Xuan Lu stared at me for a long time before she frowned.

"You are lying." She said and watched my reaction. She smiled shortly after. "Why are you lying?"

"How did you know...?" I asked her and she chuckled.