Yibo slowly walked out of the house and into the garden. He couldn't stop grinning and kept looking around sheepishly at Zhan, who was walking a few steps behind him. When Zhan caught up with him and asked, "Well, do you want to dance with this beauty again?" Yibo looked at him questioningly.

"What beauty?" He wanted to know. He had no idea what Zhan was talking about.

"Anna Wong. You danced with her earlier and had so much fun, didn't you?"

"I was? Mhhh, oh sure, now I remember. The blonde."

"Right. So, do you want to go back to her?"

"Why? Do you want me to? Does she have any information that might help us? Because the conversation we've heard isn't going to help us if we don't have proof of any of this. Right?"

"Uh I rather thought you wanted to have some more fun with her."

"Huh?"

"You guys were having so much fun dancing earlier, weren't you?"

"You really believe that?"

"Well, I saw it."

"I'm not just a dancer and a musician, I'm an actor too!"

"I know."

"I have..." Yibo didn't get to finish his sentence and tell Zhan that he was just playing the joy. For indeed, Anna Wong came up to him again and asked him to dance with her again. She put her hand on his arm and smiled sweetly.

"I'd be happy if we continued where we left off earlier. Dancing, in other words." She said.

Yibo looked at Zhan and saw the latter's less than friendly look. He swallowed hard and hastily searched for an answer for Anna Wong. "I'm afraid I'll have to decline. My friend here is not feeling well and I want to be there for him. After all, he only came with me today because I didn't want to go alone."

"Oh oh well, too bad. But well, I understand." She replied and left again.

Yibo clung to Zhan's arm and asked him, "Well, was that a good excuse?"

"Why did you use an excuse? You could have danced with her if you wanted." Said Zhan.

"Yeah right. And your look told me that if I dared to dance with her, you'd kill her first and then me."

"No, I would never do such a thing."

"Like hell you wouldn't! I saw exactly how you looked."

"I was looking normal."

"Sure, like someone who's planning a murder right now in his head. And as a special agent, you have enough ways and means to just make my body disappear."

"Hey, I would never hurt you."

"Are you sure about that? Because that I-kill-you look you gave me was really scary."

"I sure didn't look like that."

"You didn't? And how do you think you looked?"

"Well, I looked normal, like I always do."

"No way!"

"Yes, really!"

"Why don't you admit that it bothered you when she danced with me?"

"I'm not admitting anything."

"So if you say you don't mind and that you don't care, then I can go back to dancing with her after all."

"Do that and I'll really kill you!"

"Ha, I knew you were jealous."

"No."

"Sure, ZhanZhan."

"I vehemently deny it."

"Come on, even if you haven't forgiven me yet, feel free to admit that you were jealous."

"I'm not admitting anything. Mhhh, maybe I will find a cute woman and ask her to dance."

"You can try ZhanZhan. But I don't think you'll make it. Because I'll have killed you long before then."

"And you say again I looked like a killer."

"You looked like a killer too."

"Sure I did. And the way you're looking right now, all you need are those red eyes and you'd pass for a demon."

"Because just the thought of you asking a woman to dance drives me crazy. You're my ZhanZhan!"

"Since when? As far as I know, back then you... No never mind. I don't want to start that again."

"Thanks."

"Hey Yibo, are you going to let go of my arm at some point too?"

"I don't know. Maybe later or not at all."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because I think it's so nice right now."

"Ah yes."

"ZhanZhan. I want to just stand there and cling to your arm for a while longer. May I?"

"Whatever. But don't get any stupid ideas."

"What kind of stupid ideas?"

"That there's more going on."

"We kissed. So... well... that's been more."

"True. But that's all that's going to happen."

"You sure?"

"Yes."

"What if I ask you something like that?"

"Excuse me?"

"Well, for example, what would you do if I asked you to spend the night with me and sleep with me?"

Zhan had to cough violently when he heard this question. "What?" That was all Zhan could say. For he was almost speechless.

"It's like this. I love you and you still love me too. Yes, okay, I made a huge mistake 5 years ago and I hurt you more than just a little. I know I deserve to be punished for it. But do you want to punish yourself by trying to suppress your feelings for me?"

"I didn't..."

"ZhanZhan, I don't understand why you suppress your feelings like that? This hurts you more than it hurts me. Who are you trying to punish? Me or yourself?"

"I don't want to punish anyone. But I also don't want to just forget what happened five years ago and how bad I felt about it."

"But do you feel better now when you suppress your feelings for me?"

"How do you think I'm feeling?"

"Not good. You know my ZhanZhan, I really love you a lot and I'm willing to wait until you forgive me and allow your feelings for me again. Or you can listen to your heart right now and give me another chance. Either way, we'll get back together in the end."

"What makes you so sure of that?"

"Because you're the only one for me, just like I'm the only one for you. We were separated for 5 years, but neither of us fell in love again or had anything with anyone else. Because I carried my love for you in my heart and you carried your love for me in your heart. No one can destroy the bond that unites us both. And do you know why I know that? Because I fell in love with you at first sight when I saw a picture of you on Cheng's phone. And I know that you also fell in love with me at first sight. That doesn't happen as often as you might think. And that's why this love is special. A love that doesn't just stop."

"That came to you pretty early, didn't it? You only brought five years to it, didn't you?"

"I knew that then. But you know, back then I was young, stupid and naive and panicked. I really wanted to marry you. But I wasn't ready for it. I wanted to achieve everything I had set out to do all my life first. It all suddenly happened way too fast for me, and I was afraid that if I married you, I wouldn't achieve my goals. Because I know once you were my husband, I would only want to be by your side and everything else would have become unimportant to me."

"Why didn't you just talk to me then and explain?"

"Because I was afraid."

"Of what?"

"Of you trying to hold me back. Or of you giving up everything you've created here just so you don't lose me. I don't know, I was just afraid that we might regret something later and then you'd hate me. I knew I could never bear it if you hated me."

"Yibo..."

"ZhanZhan, I know I don't deserve another chance from you. But I hope you can still give me one last chance. I'm really terribly sorry for what I did to you."

"Do you know that this apology is the first time it has sounded really sincere?"

"Every apology I've ever made has been sincere."

"Yes. But this apology really came from the heart this time. And for the first time, you explained to me what was going on inside you at the time and what you were afraid of. That must have been very difficult for you. Because nobody likes to talk about their own fears."

"Mhhh..." Yibo nodded. He actually wanted to ask Zhan something else, but another question came to his mind. "Where did your partner go, by the way?"

"Yea, right, I haven't seen her since earlier."

"I saw her go into the house and followed her. She went upstairs and listened at a door. Then you came and pulled me into the room where we kissed. So the last time I saw her was upstairs at that door."

"Maybe we should go see where she is."

"ZhanZhan, I think there's something wrong with her. She's strange and didn't tell the truth yesterday."

"What exactly do you mean?"

"Well, you called me because you needed my help to get into this party. You had no other contacts you could have asked. And suddenly she supposedly finds someone to take her here?"

"Do you think she has something to hide Yibo?"

"Yes. She's been acting strange. And she's very dismissive of you, and that's even though you're her partner. Aren't partners, even with agents, supposed to stick together and look out for each other?"

"That's right yes."

"But she doesn't. She's doing her own thing and lying."

"We should go find her. Before she really screws up our mission."

"Maybe that's her plan." Yibo replied. Zhan looked at him thoughtfully, but said nothing in response. Probably because he had been thinking exactly the same thing as Yibo at that moment.

When the two wanted to go to the front door to get into the house, there were 3 tall men with broad shoulders standing in front of it. A fourth man just came out of the house and asked one of the guests who wanted to enter the house to stay outside. "Respected guests, please have a little patience. There is a technical problem in the house right now, but it is being fixed. You can go back inside soon." Shouted the fourth man to the round of confused guests.

"Tell me ZhanZhan, can't we just arrest the politician and his wife? We heard exactly what they said, didn't we? Maybe we'll find evidence when they're in custody or being interrogated."

"Without evidence of what they said, we can't just arrest them. Unfortunately, circumstantial evidence is not enough. We would have to let them go in 48 hours at the latest. And if they get their lawyers involved, they'll be out within an hour."

"Damn."

"You said it." Replied Zhan. He took Yibo by the hand and led him away from the other guests, walking with him to the garden fence. From there they could see part of the house from the side and part of the driveway from the house.

The wall of the house that Zhan and Yibo were looking at was in total shadow. There was no light there, so there had been little to see. Nevertheless, Zhan and Yibo could clearly see a woman in a dress, climbing out of one of the windows, hastily looking around, and then disappearing into the bushes. "That was Agent Xian, wasn't it?" Yibo asked, frowning.

"I think so." Replied Zhan. He and Yibo walked with quick steps to the garden gate and across the driveway from the house to where they last saw Agent Xian Chu. Fortunately, no one from security had been there at that moment, so they were able to walk unhindered to the bushes. Zhan quietly called out to Xian Chu, who came out of the bushes after calling out the second time.

Xian Chu walked up to Zhan and Yibo and pretended to talk. For the man who parked the cars for the guests had returned to his place. "I didn't find anything in his office that could help us." Whispered Xian Chu.

Yibo shook his head. "He's hardly going to be stupid enough to keep evidence of his illegal activities at home."

"Why are you interfering again? You have no idea." Snarled Xian Chu.

"Shut your mouth Xian Chu. Let's better go back to the party before anyone else gets suspicious." Scolded Zhan.

Yibo clung to Zhan's arm again and the three of them went back to the garden as if nothing had happened. Xian Chu went to her acquaintance who took her to this party, Zhan and Yibo continued to watch the guests and the house. So far, they have only overheard one conversation for which they have no evidence. So, they urgently need to find something else that they can use as evidence against the politician and his wife. Most importantly, they need to find out who kidnapped their son and where they took him. But at that moment, it seemed that they were not making any progress.