Street Hustler and His Policewoman Wife

Chapter 512: Chapter 512: The Shadow!

It’s clear that Chen Yan is overly apprehensive of Liu Dayou.

Or perhaps just fed up with him.

Whenever he hears Liu Dayou’s voice, Chen Yan’s expression immediately falls.

"Chen Xiao, if you’ve come to see me for something, then let him get out. Otherwise, this meeting is bound for nothing."

Upon hearing this, Liu Dayou snorted, "I said I didn’t provoke you, right? Didn’t I see through you last time, and now I’ve seen through you again today?"

"Oh yeah, you’re the type who’s guilty-conscious when you’ve done something wrong, not afraid of pain but afraid of having your thoughts seen through!"

Chen Yan got up and walked up to the guard:

"Reporting to the guard, I request to return to my cell!"

The guard sternly commanded, "Follow orders, sit down!"

Chen Yan helplessly sat back down.

At this moment, Chen Xiao gestured to Liu Dayou to leave, and the latter departed reluctantly.

Seeing Liu Dayou gone, Chen Yan’s demeanor slightly eased, and he asked:

"What is it that you want from me?"

Chen Xiao didn’t answer but silently took out the Sacred Heart Church symbol he drew for Qi Wei.

When the drawing was spread out in front of Chen Yan, he frowned at it and asked:

"What is this?"

Chen Xiao still didn’t respond and instead took out a pen to write four words on the drawing:

"Sacred Heart Church."

Chen Yan raised his head, staring directly at Chen Xiao and asked, "What exactly are you up to?"

Chen Xiao again took the pen, but this time he wrote a line:

"Zuo Shu, one of the twelve top leaders of the Sacred Heart Church!"

Chen Yan still appeared confused, finally folded his arms and said:

"You can write whatever you want, but instead of playing these pointless games, why not just be straight with me."

Chen Xiao chuckled, and then straightened his expression, saying seriously:

"The real Chen Yan has always been very close to me, right!"

Chen Yan just looked at Chen Xiao, smiling.

But then Chen Xiao pointed to the corner of his eye, saying:

"What’s twitching here?"

As Chen Yan was about to speak, Chen Xiao continued: "Also, just now, when I showed you the Sacred Heart Church symbol, you frowned immediately? Without even seeing anything, you showed an expression of suspicion and confusion?"

"I was just curious as to what you were going to show me."

"No, the real answer is that the Sacred Heart Church symbol has already penetrated deep into your heart. So even if you didn’t see what I drew, you understood what I was drawing from my every stroke!"

"So during the time I was drawing, you already knew what I was here for. Thus, in this brief time, you adjusted your mindset, but in the end, you were still a bit anxious."

"People are curious about the unknown, but they won’t frown as deeply as you did without seeing anything!"

Chen Yan squinted at Chen Xiao.

But what was the real reason Chen Xiao came here today?

Was he really waiting for Chen Yan’s words to verify if his inner suspicions were correct?

No!

If Chen Yan really said Chen Xiao’s guesses were right, Chen Xiao would actually have doubts.

That’s why he didn’t need Chen Yan to say anything but rather observe his reaction!

Seeing Chen Yan speechless for a moment, Chen Xiao paused for a second or two, then smiled and said:

"Surely by now you can see, Dayou isn’t the expert I first described him as when you met him. But in reality, he does have special skills in bone reading and fortune-telling."

"Aside from these, Dayou is completely unruly. But today, he got one thing right: when we first met you, there was resentment in your eyes!"

"That resentment naturally wasn’t caused by us for your incarceration; so much time has passed already, it seems like you’ve been forgotten. The feeling of being abandoned is quite painful, isn’t it? The longer the time, the deeper the resentment!"

"Just who has forgotten you? Who has abandoned you? I’ll still consider you as Chen Yan, thank you... Today you finally resolved the mystery that’s been troubling me for so long!"

"You’re not Chen Yan! Chen Yan may not even be an organization! He’s just a person, but Chen Yan may not be a name; it could very well be a code name? Similar to Zuo Erlang, Three Eyes!"

Chen Xiao continued speaking sentence by sentence.

The state presented by the Chen Yan in front of him appeared extremely singular at this moment.

He was not shocked.

Nor excited.

He just blankly and quietly looked at Chen Xiao.

Yes... even until this moment, he hadn’t reacted from the previous words.

Chen Xiao had already stood up, as was his intention for this visit.

Not to hear Chen Yan admit it in person, but to gauge Chen Yan’s response to his words.

The current answer, Chen Xiao was quite satisfied with.

Having obtained a satisfactory answer, Chen Xiao saw no point in continuing the entanglement with the purported Chen Yan.

And this time, seeing Chen Xiao about to leave, Chen Yan instead became anxious.

"Do you think you’re right by leaving? Do you think you guessed it right? In front of me, what makes you so confident!"

Chen Xiao ignored him, while Chen Yan, emotionally agitated, waved his handcuffs and shouted:

"You get back here!"

Chen Xiao stopped, turned back, "I should indeed be wary of you people, but it’s not you that I should beware of. Now it seems you might not even be a high-level person. Otherwise, why would you be abandoned so easily?"

"Besides, don’t try to salvage this, we haven’t met much yet. But perhaps our guesses about each other have crossed paths countless times already. So you know me, and I kinda know you. If it’s just nonsense, we don’t need to continue debating."

Chen Yan stared at Chen Xiao’s face, his expression constantly changing.

Finally, in this moment, Chen Yan uttered the first sentence that Chen Xiao was willing to hear.

"Indeed, being your opponent, whether it’s words or an expression, can’t go wrong. Once wrong, it’s like getting stripped naked!"

Chen Xiao turned around, "So, what’s the meaning of your words?"

Chen Yan weakly sat back in his chair, closing his eyes in agony and said:

"I truly am not the Chen Yan you’re looking for, I just play the role of Chen Yan because I’m just someone’s shadow. In fact, everyone has a shadow."

"But shadows have their own awareness too. When the shadow disappears, can that person still be called a person?"

"You’re the shadow of Chen Yan; the real Chen Yan is either beside me or has been around me, right?" Chen Xiao asked.

Chen Yan silently nodded.

However, regarding specific information about the real Chen Yan, he didn’t say a word.

Just like he said, when the shadow is gone, a person cannot be called a person.

But a person’s shadow will always follow the person.

So, the shadow will never betray its master.

No matter how much resentment and grievance there is, it won’t!

Once Chen Xiao understood his meaning, he left the detention center with Lin Xi.

He needed to find a quiet place to properly sort through who among the people he knew could truly be Chen Yan!