My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 461: Owe You an Apology

Chapter 461: Chapter 461: Owe You an Apology

"What does ’cripple’ mean?"

Lin Xue immediately seized on the key word in Qin Aotian’s speech, asking in confusion.

"Heh, you don’t know yet? Tang Ming’s cultivation is gone, and now he is just an ordinary person," Qin Aotian said, laughing coldly and taking pleasure in Tang Ming’s misfortune.

"Such a severe car accident, I guess he must be dead by now," Qin Aotian added with a smirk, knowing that Lin Xue had a close relationship with Tang Ming and was present during their confrontation. Now that Tang Ming was missing, upsetting Lin Xue seemed fitting.

"His cultivation is gone? Impossible, you must be lying to me. I saw him just yesterday, and he said..."

Lin Xue’s first reaction was disbelief, but she stopped mid-sentence, thinking with a troubled expression, "He suddenly wanted to leave Songlan City, and he left so hastily. Could it be because he lost his cultivation and was worried about the Qin Family’s retaliation, so he decided to flee?"

At that thought, Lin Xue suddenly felt a pang of heartache. Tang Ming, having lost his cultivation, had not forgotten to bid her farewell before leaving, while she had treated him so coldly...

"Dad, the car rolled over several times. The driver must have been thrown out. We don’t know where he might have died. It’s just so pitiful!"

Qin Haitian said with a face full of malicious glee.

"This is called retribution. Who asked that kid to be so arrogant? Now that he’s a cripple and can’t even drive properly, he deserves to die."

Qin Haitao said through gritted teeth, "It’s a pity I can’t seek revenge personally. He got off too easy."

"You all shut up, Tang Ming couldn’t possibly be dead,"

Lin Xue shouted, enraged upon hearing these words.

"Little cop, do you know whom you are talking to? We are people from the Qin Family. Do you believe I can strip that uniform off you?"

Qin Haitao looked at Lin Xue with a cold sneer. Although he knew of a formidable police officer who had injured Qin Aotian, he didn’t realize it was the person standing before him.

At the time, he was hospitalized and did not accompany Qin Aotian and Qin Haitian to the Liu Family villa to settle scores with Tang Ming, only watching the scene through a smartphone livestream, and he couldn’t see clearly when Lin Xue appeared.

"Click!" Without hesitation, Lin Xue drew her gun and aimed it at Qin Haitao, saying,

"You are obstructing police work. Believe it or not, I can shoot you right now!"

"Officer Lin, you must not disobey the law yourself!"

Qin Aotian quickly pulled Qin Haitao behind him. As soon as Qin Haitao spoke, he sensed trouble but was too late to stop him. He ended up angering this woman from the Lin Family.

"You want to die, younger brother? She is the cop who injured our father," Qin Haitian scolded, his face ugly.

"She, she is that cop?"

Qin Haitao swallowed hard. This was someone even Qin Aotian dared not provoke. If she really took action, she might indeed kill him.

"Shut your mouth!" Qin Aotian glared fiercely at Qin Haitian and then turned to Lin Xue, saying,

"We won’t disturb the police work further. Please go ahead."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Aotian quickly retreated into the crowd.

"He couldn’t possibly be unharmed, absolutely not,"

Lin Xue holstered her gun and said to herself.

"Can’t get through. Tang Ming’s phone is switched off, completely unreachable,"

Xia Wei’er, who had been frantically calling Tang Ming, looked at Lin Xue despairingly.

"Don’t panic yet. So far, no casualties have been discovered nearby, which means Tang Ming wasn’t injured in the accident,"

Lin Xue forced herself to remain calm, as she was a police officer and could not afford to lose her composure. She advised, "You should ask Tang Ming’s relatives and friends to see if they have any news of him. I’ll hurry to investigate the specific details of the car accident."

"Yes, yes!" Xia Wei’er nodded repeatedly, then realized that Tang Ming had no relatives or close friends in Songlan City.

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Wei’er dialed Liu Mengting’s number, suspecting Tang Ming might have already returned to the Liu Family’s residence where he had been living before.

"Hello."

Once the call connected, Liu Mengting’s voice came through hoarsely.

"Liu Mengting, I want to ask if Tang Ming is at your place."

Xia Wei’er asked weakly.

"He’s dead!"

Liu Mengting coldly replied and then hung up the phone directly.

"What? Dead?"

Xia Wei’er’s face turned pale immediately, almost throwing the phone away.

"Yes, he resigned. Who knows where he died off to!"

Liu Mengting said, huffing with anger.

"You..."

It was then that Xia Wei’er realized what Liu Mengting meant, her whole body quivering with rage!

Tang Ming had been so good to Liu Mengting, he had even lost his cultivation to save her and Li Xiaoli, but now Liu Mengting was treating him like this, too heartless.

Afterward, Xia Wei’er called Zhou Dafu, and the answer she got was that Tang Ming had to leave due to some matters, but these people still didn’t know the news of Tang Ming’s accident, so Xia Wei’er didn’t say much.

After making rounds of calls with no clues at all, Xia Wei’er finally bit her lip and could only leave the scene by taxi.

"Dad, who do you think did this?"

Within the crowd, Qin Haitian asked Qin Aotian with curiosity:

"Looking at the scene’s traces, it indeed appears someone deliberately hit Tang Ming’s car because they wanted to kill him!"

"That bastard Tang Ming had offended so many people, I don’t know who got ahead of us to act against him."

Qin Aotian shook his head and said dejectedly, "But if it really was for revenge on Tang Ming, why is there no body?"

"I got it. The other party must have thought the same as us, planning to capture Tang Ming and torment him to death; otherwise, it would be too easy on him."

Qin Haitao said, glaring and grinding his teeth.

"That’s indeed possible." Qin Aotian nodded and said, squinting:

"Staying here is meaningless now. Let’s go back and wait for further news while figuring out how to split the benefits Tang Ming has left behind."

Afterward, Qin Aotian led the Qin Family members away from the scene, preparing to create a detailed plan for absorbing Tang Ming’s assets.

Lin Xue couldn’t leave, suppressing her sorrow and worry while directing work at the scene.

After the examination, the police concluded that this was a case of intentional grievous harm; the marks left on the car from being struck with a blunt object showed that the vehicle had been attacked prior, and the owner had encountered a car crash after escaping an assassination attempt.

Hearing this, Lin Xue clenched her fists tightly, almost drawing blood from the palms of her hands.

The cultivation-deprived Tang Ming had gone through so many dangerous ordeals, and she, as a police officer and his friend, had remained completely unaware.

If she had known earlier that Tang Ming’s cultivation was scrapped, she would have taken him to the Lin Family’s place even if it meant that she would never let him suffer any harm!

"Tang Ming, you have to stay alive, I will find you...and apologize to you! You truly are a good person, I have always wronged you!"

Suppressing the sadness in her heart, Lin Xue secretly vowed in her mind.