Chapter 1420: A Life-Saving Coincidence (5)

The female police officer looked like she wanted to say something but held back. Very soon she steadied herself and first asked in a formulaic tone, “Sorry to be rude, but are you two in a relationship?”

Xiao Rou had always been soft-tempered, and she really had been frightened by this whole thing. Her face still hadn’t recovered, and now her reactions were always half a beat slow. Hearing the female officer’s question, she didn’t come back to herself for a moment, then she heard Zhou Qi speak up: “Yes. Is there any other problem?”

Xiao Rou glanced at Zhou Qi in a daze. He actually admitted it?

But now wasn’t the time to fuss over that kind of thing. Once she came back to herself, Xiao Rou also looked at the female officer.

Seeing Zhou Qi answer like that, the female officer didn’t hesitate anymore and nodded. “Yes.”

The female officer took out a black-wrapped bundle from the drawer and handed it to Xiao Rou. “These should be your things too.”

Staring at the black bag in front of her, Xiao Rou suddenly felt tense for no reason. She didn’t dare open it right away. All of a sudden she felt her shoulder sink—someone had put an arm around her.

Turning her head and meeting Zhou Qi’s gaze, Xiao Rou suddenly felt reassured again.

She reached out and opened the black bag. The first thing that came into view was a white bra.

This time Xiao Rou didn’t blush. Instead, her face instantly turned even more deathly pale.

Someone breaks into a home and steals valuables, steals cash—that kind of thing isn’t all that hard to understand.

But stealing a woman’s bra… that’s not just a thief anymore, that’s a pervert, isn’t it?

Then thinking about how that guy had been caught, the lingering fear in Xiao Rou’s heart spiked to the limit.

she was the first home he stole from. If she hadn’t gone to Zhou Qi’s team base last night, if she had still been home alone, then the outcome…

she didn’t dare let her thoughts go any further. Even though she didn’t know whether that girl, who’d suffered such enormous harm yet still managed to save herself with reason, was really that calm, at the very least Xiao Rou was sure she herself didn’t have that kind of courage.

If it had been her, she might already be a corpse by now, right?

First do that and then do that kind of thing—for a pervert, it’s not exactly unusual, is it?

Xiao Rou thought of a lot, and her body started trembling uncontrollably.

Zhou Qi reached out and pressed down on the black bag, at the same time tightening the arm wrapped around her shoulder.

When they walked out of the Public Security Bureau, Xiao Rou’s complexion looked downright awful.

Back in the car, Xiao Rou looked completely out of sorts. Zhou Qi didn’t rush to start the engine. Instead he took a bottle of water from the glove compartment, opened it, and handed it to her.

“Thanks.”

Xiao Rou responded softly, took it, and drank a sip.

“Should I take you back to your parents’ place now?”

Zhou Qi asked, and Xiao Rou gave him a wooden look.

Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao still hadn’t called her yet, probably because they hadn’t seen the news. Xiao Rou pressed her lips together; her own state right now wasn’t great.

And given what she knew of her parents, if Mrs. Xiao found out she’d almost become a victim, who knew how worried she would be, and as for Mr. Xiao, he’d probably feel so distressed he’d scold her for a while. After all, he’d been against her moving out from the very beginning.

Right now Xiao Rou just wanted a safe place to stay. She didn’t want her parents to worry, and she didn’t want to hear their reproaches.

“I… could I go back to your team base with you? I don’t want to…”

At this point Xiao Rou couldn’t be bothered to care whether what she was asking was abrupt or over the line. The fear in her heart still hadn’t dispersed.