Mr.President, Let's Get a Divorce
Chapter 320 - 323, are you coming to... my appointment?

Chapter 320: 323, are you coming to... my appointment?

Wen Nian was just about to speak when Tang Xiaohua had already scrambled in, "I’m here!"

She threw the equipment bag onto the ground. She didn’t have the specialized electronic bomb defusal tools, otherwise, she would have been able to see the circuitry inside the detonator clearly through scanning. Now she could only defuse it manually.

"Tang... Guard? So you came after all!"

Bai Qiantan was utterly shocked to see Tang Xiaohua.

"It’s not safe here, Miss Bai. You should hurry and leave. Go through the door behind you, the emergency exit on the right is secure; someone will clear the way for you."

Bai Qiantan looked at the door behind her, where several people had been trampled on the ground, and a fight had broken out at the doorway,

"We can’t get out..."

Tang Xiaohua glanced at the blocked door and felt a surge of frustration.

"Figure out a way yourself; I really can’t help you right now."

The bomb’s countdown was at three minutes, and she was carefully disassembling the detonator, her hands shaking!

"Is there... anything I can do to help?"

Bai Qiantan asked again.

Tang Xiaohua burst out, "Can’t you see there’s only a little over two minutes left on the countdown?! Do you want to die here?!"

Bai Qiantan was startled by Tang Xiaohua’s shout and gulped. It was at that moment,

"Guard Tang..."

"Miss Bai! What on earth—"

Before the words were fully out, Wen Nian snatched the pistol from Tang Xiaohua’s waist and fired a shot at the doorway, blowing the head off the intruder who had run in!

His marksmanship was astoundingly accurate!

With one villain taken down, the sound of footsteps outside increased!

"You take Qiantan and go! More of them are coming up!"

Tang Xiaohua crouched down and focused on prying open the detonating device, where intricate and complex wiring filled the small, neat box.

Wen Nian grabbed her wrist, stopping her movements, and looked at her,

"It’s too late. Take Qiantan and leave!"

Tang Xiaohua shook off his hand, "I don’t want to."

"Guard Tang, I’m ordering you!"

"I don’t want to!"

Tang Xiaohua yelled back at him, and noticing that Bai Qiantan still hadn’t moved, her fierce gaze swept over again,

"What are you still doing here! If the enemy comes up and shoots the explosives, this place will be blown to ruins!"

"I..."

Bai Qiantan was, of course, afraid to die, but with constant gunfire outside and the agonizing screams of the crowd never ceasing, it didn’t seem any safer outside than inside...

Wen Nian, looking at the stubborn Tang Xiaohua, couldn’t quite express the feelings stirring in his heart. He heard those approaching footsteps getting closer. They were coming!

His gun pointed straight at the doorway, he pulled Tang Xiaohua behind him!

He was not wrong to expect them; three villains came up, their guns poking in first. Just when Wen Nian realized something was wrong, a burst of machine gun fire: "tat-tat-tat-tat" rang out, and he saw the heads of the three villains get blown apart, their blood and brains mixing as they fell to the ground.

The one who had entered sideways was none other than Lu Ziqing.

Lu Ziqing ran over, glanced at the explosives strapped to Wen Nian, assessed the way they were rigged, and frowned, clearly not an easy setup to defuse.

"Commander Lu, I am now commanding you in the capacity of the military commission, take Tang Xiaohua and Bai Qiantan and leave this place! Quick!"

"Your Excellence..."

The countdown had only one minute and twenty seconds left.

"Brother Lu, I’ll stay and defuse the bomb. I can do it, you know my capabilities; I’ve practiced this sort of task thousands of times. Take Miss Bai away, she is really too troublesome to have around!"

After saying this, Tang Xiaohua grabbed Wen Nian and pressed him onto a chair,

"Your Excellence, if you don’t want to die with us, cooperate!"

Lu Ziqing didn’t dawdle, he immediately dragged Bai Qiantan out the door they had come in and tossed her at the stairwell,

"You run upstairs and find a place to hide. Unless it’s me, if anyone comes up, you must stay hidden! Got it?"

The criminals inside the building had not been completely dealt with, and the escape passage was blocked and crowded—it was a gamble for life.

"Oh, okay, then... what about Wen Nian and..."

"Don’t worry about anything else, just make sure you hide well and stay as far from this area as possible."

"Okay!"

Bai Qiantan immediately ran upstairs.

...

"Do you want to die here with me?"

"No."

"There’s thirty seconds left. You can make it if you run now."

Wen Nian looked at her, his tone matter-of-fact.

They were the only two left in Cinema Hall One. Beyond its walls, there were gunshots, shouts, and cries. Frightened screams seemed ready to tear apart the night!

"I can disarm it."

Tang Xiaohua focused on the wires.

"But your hands are shaking."

Tang Xiaohua moved her lips but ignored him. She knew her hands were trembling non-stop because she was truly frightened, truly afraid that everything would abruptly end after these thirty seconds.

She hadn’t even had the chance to tell him everything.

She had only just realized how desperately he had saved her, once, twice, perhaps many, many more times...

She still had so many questions unanswered; she didn’t want to guess on her own anymore, she wanted to hear him tell her personally, word by word.

Only now did she understand that in those thirty-three years, she really didn’t know much about him. She wanted to know more...

She had found the issues between them and didn’t want everything to end here.

"Lili..."

"..."

Tears escaped her eyes, blurring her vision, and fell onto her own hands. She quickly wiped away her tears and continued to carefully inspect the complex tangle of wires on the detonator.

The entire bomb was wrapped around Wen Nian with a fuse wire and a ground wire. Any wrong move could set it off instantly.

She could only disarm the device manually.

"Did you come here... to keep our appointment?"

"..."

Tang Xiaohua’s hands paused, she stared intently at the detonator, "Beep, beep, beep..."

She watched the countdown go from ten seconds to three, two...

In the last moment, Wen Nian grabbed her wrist.

The wire cutter snipped the red wire, and the world seemed to freeze in that instant—the countdown on the detonator forever stopped at the number one.

Tang Xiaohua pursed her lips, took a deep breath to calm her racing heart.

She had done it.

They were the only two left in Cinema Hall One; the turmoil outside continued, its raucous backdrop inconsequential to them.

She went behind Wen Nian and removed the bomb from him. Afterward, she crouched down to organize her equipment. Once done, she slung it over her shoulder and said softly,

"Let’s go."

"Did I ruin your date with Lu Ziqing?"

"..."

Tang Xiaohua clenched her fists, turned around, and landed a punch on his chest, then shoved him hard. The sudden force made Wen Nian stagger back a step,

"Didn’t I tell you?! I told you today would be dangerous! Didn’t I tell you not to leave President Mansion?! Didn’t I say—Why didn’t you listen to me? Why did you run to a place with so many people? Do you not realize you’re the President, do you not know how important your life is?! Do you not know—mmm..."

Wen Nian pulled her toward him, bent down, and covered her cold lips... silencing all her questions and reproaches.