Chapter 473: Damn it, I can't forget you!

Lin Yuan was completely dazed, his body heavily pressed onto the interrogation table.

Mu Lingxue's tear-filled kiss was fierce and urgent……

She clenched his collar with both hands, as if he would vanish if she let go.

Their kiss was entangled, suffocating.

"Mm…… Lingxue, don't do this!"

Lin Yuan turned his head to avoid her kiss, reminding, "The interrogation room has surveillance; if someone sees us, it's over!"

He tried to push the person off him, but feared hurting her emotionally uncontrolled self, so his movements were unusually stiff.

"I already turned off the surveillance beforehand." Mu Lingxue's breath was ragged, the tip of her nose red, tears still hanging on her cheeks.

She whispered, "Nothing that happens here can be seen by anyone."

After saying that, she moved close again, forehead against Lin Yuan's forehead.

Mu Lingxue's voice trembled as she said, "Lin Yuan, I like you—I've liked you since the first time you shielded me from danger. I want you, no matter how dark your world is, I'm not afraid."

Before her words faded, she kissed him again.

Lin Yuan's heart tightened; his pent-up emotions and reason clashed fiercely at that moment.

He suddenly exerted force, a clean flip…… firmly pressing Mu Lingxue beneath him.

Lin Yuan pressed his hands on her shoulders, sternly: "Calm down! We can't do this; it solves nothing!"

The reversal of their positions made…… Mu Lingxue's movement freeze instantly.

She looked at Lin Yuan's face, so close……

Feeling the strength of his palm……

Mu Lingxue's tumultuous emotions finally calmed somewhat.

Tears welled up again in her eye sockets.

Mu Lingxue spoke with a resentful sob: "Why…… you clearly like me too, yet you insist on pushing me away?"

Lin Yuan looked at her reddened eyes from crying, his heart softened, and he released his hand from her shoulder.

Lin Yuan said helplessly, "I'm not pushing you away; I just don't want you to suffer. My identity, my life, cannot give you stability."

"You're a police officer; you should be standing in the sunlight, not be dragged into the mire by me."

Mu Lingxue fell silent.

She turned her head, looking at the documents scattered all over the floor……

On the documents, the investigation records about the 【Priest】…… seemed to silently remind them of the distance between them.

After a long while, she slowly sat up.

Mu Lingxue wiped the tears from her face, her tone returned to its usual calm, yet with a barely perceptible sense of loss,

"I understand."

She tidied her disheveled clothes, picked up the documents from the floor.

She didn't look at Lin Yuan again, coldly uttering, "From now on, we each go our separate ways."

Having said that, Mu Lingxue turned and walked out of the interrogation room……

Lin Yuan watched her silhouette disappear at the doorway, letting out a soft sigh.

Lin Yuan leaned against the interrogation table, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

……

More than half an hour later.

A police officer opened the interrogation room door.

The officer stepped forward and handed Lin Yuan a release certificate: "Mr. Lin, you may go; Team Leader Mu signed it."

Lin Yuan took the release document, a chill??

He looked at her delicate yet strong signature on it,

Mu Lingxue, she just released him like that?

Lin Yuan stared for a moment, sighed, then quickly walked out of the detention area.

……

Upon exiting the City Public Security Bureau, it was already evening.

Lin Yuan had been detained for 2 days.

From yesterday until now.

He walked out of the Public Security Bureau, letting out a long sigh.

Then Lin Yuan scanned a Meituan bicycle by the roadside and rode home.

……

Night, Lin Yuan returned home; it was already 8 p. m.

After arriving home, he took a shower, about to make dinner.

Lin Yuan had just changed into clean loungewear when his phone suddenly rang.

Lin Yuan picked up his phone and looked? The screen showed the three characters "Mu Lingxue" jumping.

He held the phone, stunned for two seconds…… before sliding to answer.

Then he heard Mu Lingxue's somewhat stiff voice from the other end: "My personal belongings are still at your place."

"Oh, shall I bring them over?" Lin Yuan said instinctively.

These past days, Mu Lingxue has been staying at his house to avoid underworld assassinations.

So her personal belongings, many of them, are at Lin Yuan's house.

"No need." The other end, Mu Lingxue said coldly, "I'll come get them myself."

After speaking, without waiting for Lin Yuan's reply, she hastily hung up the phone, leaving only the "beep-beep" busy tone in the receiver.

……

Several minutes later, the doorbell rang.

Lin Yuan went to open the door.

Mu Lingxue stood at the doorway.

She held two bulging shopping bags in her hands, with fine beads of sweat still on her forehead.

She avoided Lin Yuan's gaze, turned sideways, and walked into the house.

"What did you bring over?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

Mu Lingxue lifted the bag in her hand, her tone icy, "I passed by the market and picked up some ingredients; do you mind if I come to your place and cook something?"

"Um, I don't mind." Lin Yuan shook his head, "Give me the vegetables; I'll cook. You just tidy up."

Lin Yuan said while waist up front.

Mu Lingxue, however, replied, "No, I'll cook, you stay."

Her attitude was very cold.

After learning Lin Yuan's jianghu identity, her attitude toward him changed directly.

She could never go back to the way things were.

Without waiting for Lin Yuan to speak, she walked straight into the kitchen.

Mu Lingxue tied on the gray apron that Lin Yuan often used.

Then she skillfully opened the shopping bag……

Inside were fresh spare ribs, crucian carp, and several kinds of green vegetables.

All were dishes Lin Yuan loved to eat.

Lin Yuan leaned against the kitchen doorway, watching her bent-over back as she washed the ingredients……

The kitchen light poured over her, outlining a soft contour, making him feel a bit dazed for a moment.

Mu Lingxue took out a kitchen knife, ready to chop vegetables.

As the blade just touched the potato…… her thoughts drifted uncontrollably……

In her mind…… were nothing but memories of her past with Lin Yuan:

His focus when he bandaged her wound……

His back view when he cooked noodles late at night……

His reckless charge into the crowd to save her, his decisiveness……

Her thoughts surged like a tide……

"Hiss..." Suddenly a sharp pain came from her fingertip.

Mu Lingxue instantly came to her senses, lowered her head and looked……

She saw fresh blood seeping from the wound on her index finger, dripping onto the cutting board.

In her distraction, she accidentally cut her hand.

The pain instantly brought up all of Mu Lingxue's grievances.

Tears rolled down without warning……

She bit her lip, wanting to continue cooking, but the more she cut, the more panicked she became……

The images in her mind grew clearer, tears blurring her vision.

She cried so hard her shoulders trembled.

She hastily wiped away her tears, wrapped the wound with a tissue……

Mu Lingxue forced herself to finish chopping the vegetables and put them in the pot……

The fumes from the oil made her eyes sting, but her tears wouldn't stop.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan sat in the living room watching TV, unaware of the mess in the kitchen.

……

When Mu Lingxue finished cooking and brought out the dishes.

Only then did Lin Yuan notice her finger was injured.

Lin Yuan quickly stepped forward and grabbed Mu Lingxue's wrist.

He pulled off the tissue on her hand, looking at the wound on her fingertip that was still bleeding?

Lin Yuan's brows furrowed instantly: "How did you get hurt? So careless?"

"None of your business!" Mu Lingxue's attitude icy, she shoved Lin Yuan away.

But Lin Yuan stepped forward again, he pulled Mu Lingxue to the living room……

Lin Yuan carefully examined the wound on her finger.

Then, her finger wound was still bleeding.

To stop the bleeding quickly, Lin Yuan thus took her jade finger into his mouth.

At that moment, Mu Lingxue's delicate body trembled slightly.

Lin Yuan held her finger in his mouth, helping her stop the bleeding.

His movements were gentle, as if he were handling a rare treasure.

The shivering Lingxue looked at his appearance……

The shivering Lingxue's pent-up emotions erupted completely, her tears cried even harder, her body trembling slightly.

"Lin Yuan," she choked out, voice trembling with tears, "Can you give up the jianghu for me? I don't want to worry every day whether you'll get into trouble, I don't want there to be a black-and-white divide between us."

Lin Yuan froze??

He lifted his head…

He looked at Mu Lingxue's eyes, red from crying.

Lin Yuan felt a bit soft-hearted.

Lin Yuan softly sighed and said, "Lingxue, sorry. Once you enter the martial world, you have no control over your fate."

"If I quit now, those hostile forces will kill me."

Lin Yuan felt a bit tired, rubbing his temples.

"The New Faction all want me dead. If I retreat, they'll stop at nothing to deal with me, to take revenge. So I have no choice."

Mu Lingxue looked at him… her choked sobs gradually ceased.

She sniffed, not asking further.

Mu Lingxue silently pulled her hand back, turned and continued working in the kitchen.

After a long while, all the dishes were finally served.

She finally spoke, her voice hoarse and icy: "Eat."

The two sat silently at the table, with no extra conversation.

Only the light clinking of bowls and chopsticks.

Mu Lingxue's cooking wasn't superb; the braised pork ribs were a bit salty, and the crucian carp tofu soup was slightly undercooked.

But Lin Yuan ate very seriously, chewing each bite carefully.

He knew that this table of dishes held her unspoken grievances and reluctance.

The dinner ended in a stifling silence.

When Mu Lingxue cleared the bowls and chopsticks, she had her back to Lin Yuan.

Her shoulders trembled slightly, tears fell silently into the sink, mixing with the tap water and disappearing.

She forced herself to clean the kitchen, then picked up the already-prepared storage bag.

She took her personal belongings, preparing to leave.

Mu Lingxue turned to look at Lin Yuan; her beautiful eyes no longer had their earlier turmoil, only coldness remained.

"After this breakup meal, from now on we sever all ties."

Mu Lingxue said coldly, "From now on you're in the Underworld, I'm the police; if you dare touch the legal bottom line, I'll show you no mercy. Lin Yuan, you're on your own."

Lin Yuan looked at her icy profile, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

He knew that any explanation now would seem pale and powerless.

Mu Lingxue didn't look at him again, turned and hurried toward the door.

At the moment the door was pulled open, the cold wind outside blew in.

The autumn atmosphere was deep; outside, a continuous autumn rain had begun at some point.

Mu Lingxue closed the door, gritted her teeth, prepared to go downstairs.

She had just taken a few steps when she suddenly stopped again.

Mu Lingxue leaned against the hallway wall, tears mixing with rainwater as they rolled down.

"Damn it… I can't forget you, what should I do?" she pressed against the wall, her voice a murmuring self-talk, choked with sobs.

Mu Lingxue covered her mouth, her suppressed sobs drowned out by the rain outside the hallway.

After struggling for a long while, she suddenly turned, ran back to the door, and knocked hard.

When Lin Yuan opened the door, he saw Mu Lingxue with a face full of tears.

Before he could react, a loud slap landed on his face.

Lin Yuan froze, just about to speak…

But Mu Lingxue suddenly rose on her toes, her cool lips… fiercely pressed against his.

"Lin Yuan, I lied to you… I can't sever ties." Her voice was indistinct, tears rolling down again, "Even though we're divided by the black and white paths, I don't want to let go."

Mu Lingxue shoved Lin Yuan back into the room, then locked the door behind her…