"Weren't you a bit too impulsive just now?" Song Jiamin was led out of the stairwell by Ye Xiao, and she looked at him and said.

Ye Xiao turned his head to glance at Song Jiamin and said with a smile, "But, I clearly saw that he had unsavory intentions towards you, and you are my wife."

Hearing Ye Xiao's words, Song Jiamin's face immediately turned a delicate shade of red, and looking a bit miffed, she said, "What are you talking about? When did I become your wife? If you keep spouting nonsense, I won't be polite."

Although Song Jiamin said this, for some reason she felt a trace of joy when she heard Ye Xiao's words—a sentiment even she didn't understand.

When Ye Xiao heard what Song Jiamin said, he had an innocent look on his face and said to Song Jiamin, "Did I say something wrong? In a year's time, you're going to be mine, doesn't that make you my wife? Heh heh."

Song Jiamin rolled her eyes at Ye Xiao and huffed, "Who wins after a year is still uncertain."

Even though she said this, Song Jiamin also lacked confidence because she truly didn't believe that she could win against Ye Xiao.

Regarding Song Jiamin's tough talk, Ye Xiao merely smiled slightly. At that moment, he saw a fruit stand outside the Guard Bureau and said to Song Jiamin with a smile, "To thank you for coming to my rescue from so far away today, I've decided to give you a reward."

"Cut it out, 'rescue.' Who do you think you are, the Emperor?" Song Jiamin said with a hint of disdain.

Ye Xiao let out a chuckle and said, "My Empress, what would you like to eat?"

Hearing Ye Xiao's words, Song Jiamin immediately glared fiercely at him and said, "Don't make jokes about me anymore, or else..."

"Or else what?" Ye Xiao looked at Song Jiamin, a proud expression on his face.

"I'll arrest you and take you back to the bureau," Song Jiamin said angrily.

"But, haven't you forgotten? I am now very good friends with your top brass. I believe that even if I were taken to the station, I'd still be treated well—good food, good drink, good fun."

Ye Xiao's words were not in the least bit wrong, and naturally, Song Jiamin understood this too. However, hearing Ye Xiao's words reminded her of something.

"How exactly did you get Yang Ming to submit to you?" Song Jiamin looked at Ye Xiao. Sometimes she too was puzzled—Yang Ming had always been Han Zhimin's man, but in the blink of an eye, how did he become Ye Xiao's man? And he dramatically went from being the captain of the Criminal Police Team directly to the head of the Guard Bureau. The speed of his promotion was just too fast, wasn't it? And most importantly, her father had helped in the matter. Could it be that Yang Ming had bribed her own dad? Song Jiamin immediately dismissed the thought—her dad was an upright official and would never do anything inappropriate, much less accept bribes.

Thus, Yang Mingde's rise must somehow be linked to Ye Xiao, but how had Ye Xiao managed to snatch Yang Ming from Han Zhimin's grasp? Digging out such a cornerstone was definitely not an easy task.

Seeing the puzzled look on Song Jiamin's face, Ye Xiao smiled slightly and then said to Song Jiamin, "Perhaps we have the same aspirations."

"Don't make it sound so nice, I think it's more like a match made in bad taste," Song Jiamin retorted.

Ye Xiao chuckled and then said, "Maybe so."

After that, Ye Xiao pulled Song Jiamin and headed directly towards the fruit stand.

The fruit stand wasn't very large, offering only apples, pears, and bananas.

"What would you like? The fruit here is absolutely fresh," the fruit vendor said to Ye Xiao and Song Jiamin with a smile.

"What's good for a girl to eat?" Ye Xiao asked.

"Of course apples. Young man, buy some fresh apples for your policewoman girlfriend," the fruit vendor said with a smile to Ye Xiao.

Hearing the fruit vendor's words, Song Jiamin immediately turned with a darkened face towards the vendor and snapped, "What are you talking about? How could I possibly be his girlfriend?"

"Miss, even though you're a cop, cops are people too. Besides, if you aren't his girlfriend, why has he been holding your hand the whole time?" the fruit vendor said with a smile.

Only then did Song Jiamin realize that Ye Xiao had been holding her hand all this time. Flustered by the vendor's comment, her face blushed even redder than a ripe apple.

Song Jiamin promptly broke free from Ye Xiao's hand, glaring fiercely at him. She wanted to speak but feared that other people might misunderstand and think she was flirting with Ye Xiao.

With a grin, Ye Xiao turned to the vendor and said, "Weigh out three pounds of apples, make sure they're the freshest ones."

"Alrighty," the vendor immediately began weighing the apples with skilled hands.

Ye Xiao gazed at Song Jiamin, who seemed rather displeased at the moment, with a mischievous smile on his face.

Seeing a clean fruit knife at the vendor's stand, Ye Xiao asked the vendor with a smile, "May I use the fruit knife for a moment?"

"Of course."

Ye Xiao then reached out to take an already weighed apple in one hand and the fruit knife in the other, gave Song Jiamin a glance with a smile, and then tossed the apple up into the air. His knife-hand shot out like lightning, peeling the apple in mid-air. Each peel sent the apple spinning upwards again, and simultaneously, the peels began to fall like rain. In less than ten seconds, he thrust the knife upwards, and two heart-shaped apple slices fell from the sky. Astonishingly, the slices were heart-shaped, and it appeared they had been carved into a heart beforehand, now split into two.

One piece landed in Ye Xiao's hand, while the other flew towards Song Jiamin. She instinctively caught the apple slice and, staring at the heart-shaped piece, was a bit taken aback.

Sometimes romance is just a momentary thing.

Song Jiamin had never imagined that Ye Xiao had such a skill to carve a heart shape out of an apple in mid-air.

At this moment, not just Song Jiamin was surprised, so were the onlookers. Ye Xiao was just like a magician.

"Young man, that's pretty impressive," the fruit vendor stood stunned by Ye Xiao's display.

Ye Xiao chuckled and took a bite of the half-heart-shaped apple, said to Song Jiamin with a smile, "Try it, it's very sweet."

Initially, Song Jiamin felt too embarrassed to eat the heart-shaped apple slice in front of so many people, but looking at Ye Xiao's radiant, innocent smile, Song Jiamin eventually put the heart-shaped apple slice in her mouth and took a bite. She wasn't like Ye Xiao, who didn't care about appearances. After all, she was still in her police uniform at the moment, so maintaining a good image of a cop was essential.

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