Chapter 146 You Dead Scoundrel

"Miss, if you keep doing this, someone is going to get killed!" Kang Ning finished speaking, shook his head, and sighed, still feeling a lingering sense of terror in his heart over what had just happened.

The female police officer struggled fiercely, attempting to break free from Kang Ning's embrace. Helplessly, her right wrist and Kang Ning's right wrist were tightly locked together by the handcuffs, leaving her with no leverage, and she fell heavily back onto Kang Ning's lap once more.

In her panic, she used her only free left hand to push blindly against Kang Ning in an attempt to straighten herself up. To her dismay, this random shove landed squarely on Kang Ning's fully aroused groin, and the swollen sensation instantly caused the color to drain from her lovely face.

Seeing this, Kang Ning shook his head once more, then used his only free left hand to quickly lift her up, supporting her by the armpits so she could sit in the front passenger seat.

Kang Ning looked at the tearful, exasperated female police officer for a long moment before offering a gentle suggestion: "Little hero, could you please unlock the handcuffs on us first? Tossing around like this is making them tighter and tighter. Look, your delicate and fair wrists have already been chafed until they're bleeding."

The female police officer lowered her head to glance at her painfully abraded right wrist, then stubbornly raised her head, her pretty eyes brimming with tears as she stared fixedly at Kang Ning. Her delicate, alluring lips resolutely spat out three words: "I won't!"

Kang Ning broke out in a heavy sweat, killed the engine, and turned off the headlights.

Seeing this, the female police officer panicked and cried out in alarm, "You... what are you going to do?"

Calmly, Kang Ning switched on the interior dome light, looked into her terrified eyes, and laughed heartily: "Is this any way to arrest someone? Good grief... hurry up and take out the key! You can't even protect yourself, and you still want to arrest me? Besides, if we don't unlock the handcuffs quickly, your pretty wrists are going to be scarred."

"I won't... ouch..."

Subconsciously, the female police officer leaned back, only to be jerked by the handcuffs into a sharp cry of pain.

Unable to whether laugh or cry, Kang Ning could only speak to her softly, "If you don't take out the key now, I'm going to have to search you!"

"You wouldn't!"

Kang Ning really did not want to continue this pointless conversation. Extending his left hand, he wrapped his arm around her slender waist and pulled her lithe body right onto his lap. With his right hand—linked by the handcuffs—he skillfully grabbed the female police officer's free left hand and held it high, freeing up his right hand to unceremoniously search her for the key.

Unable to move, the female police officer burst into tears with a loud wail, while still hurling defiant, pretty insults:

"You scoundrel... sob... I'll beat this scoundrel to death. I'll make sure I execute you by firing squad myself... sob..."

After searching her all over, Kang Ning still could not find the key. He had no choice but to stop and ask in a soothing tone, "Please don't be like this. I mean no harm; I simply want to unlock the handcuffs. Can you tell me where the key is?"

Realizing that Kang Ning had no intention of violating her—and seeing instead the apologetic look in his eyes and his polite demeanor—the female police officer calmed down. Her face flushing red, she answered truthfully, "The key is in my bag."

"Where is your bag?"

Embarrassed, the female police officer replied, "My bag is in my colleague's car. I forgot to take it."

***

Kang Ning looked incredulously at the increasingly blushing female police officer and shook his head helplessly. "As a cop... I truly admire you! Don't move around wildly; help me move to the back seat with you. I have another key in my bag. Come on, push the backrest down... slowly... it's pinching you, isn't it?"

"Mm..."

The two of them moved laboriously to the back seat. Kang Ning grabbed a military canvas duffel bag from the trunk, took a ring of keys from the side pocket, carefully unlocked the handcuffs, and then pulled out a roll of medical gauze.

After putting away the keys and the canvas duffel bag, Kang Ning took the female police officer's injured, scraped right hand and skillfully bandaged it with the gauze.

The female police officer quietly watched the handsome Kang Ning carefully tending to her wound. In her heart, she was truly reluctant to believe that this man who had captured her heart could possibly be a fugitive. Yet the arrest warrant and internal reports stated it clearly: he was a fugitive wanted nationwide for murder—and a highly educated, highly intelligent fugitive with immense aggressive potential at that!

"All right, I estimate it won't leave a scar. Just make sure not to get it wet with tap water when you go back."

With that, Kang Ning quickly bandaged his own right wrist, shaking his head and giving a bitter, helpless smile as he worked. "What a mess this is!"

The female police officer's panicked state subsided, replaced immediately by a surge of curiosity. Timidly, she asked, "Did you... did you really kill someone?"

Kang Ning looked up, his eyes filled with melancholy, but he quickly realized his emotional lapse. Recovering his composure instantly, he offered the female police officer a faint, gentle smile of explanation: "I did kill someone, but not in the way the arrest warrant claims. I was violently hijacked and forced to defend myself, which resulted in the injury. You've probably read my file, though I don't know if you're aware that the man I was forced to kill was named Lan Tao. His father is the mayor and municipal party secretary of Lanning City, and I hear he's about to be promoted to the higher-ranking Standing Committee."

The female police officer gasped in astonishment. "Really? We didn't know about that. If that's true... you are in massive trouble!"

"Isn't that the truth? Even an pampered young lady like you from a thousand miles away has come to arrest me. That just shows how terrible my predicament is! Ah, enough of that! Later, I'll drop you off near that bus stop in the East Suburb. I only ask that you give me half an hour to run for my life, okay?"

Kang Ning made his earnest plea, then looked into her beautiful eyes, awaiting her decision.

With a pained expression, the female police officer shook her head. "No! I cannot let you go. It is my duty."

Looking at her with sorrow, Kang Ning said, "I truly don't want to hurt you. Your temperament is so much like... so much like my girlfriend back home. What a pity that I... I don't know if I'll ever get to see her again in this lifetime."

"Come back with me. I will surely treat you well, and I will never let my colleagues make things difficult for you. If you have been wronged, you will definitely be able to clear your name. My father is the deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission; I give you my word I can make that happen!"

The female police officer looked at the melancholic Kang Ning with deep emotion, yet she still had not forgotten her duty.

Kang Ning's face darkened as he said coldly, "You're being far too naive! If things could be cleared up simply, I'd be quietly doing my job as a surgeon at home right now, rather than running for my life like a stray dog today. No more nonsense, get out of here!"

Kang Ning was about to move back to the driver's seat when, through some unpredictable twist of fate, the female police officer suddenly launched an attack, balling her fist and aiming a punch straight at the side of Kang Ning's head.

Annoyed, Kang Ning tilted his head slightly forward, letting her punch miss completely as he swiftly pinned her to the seat. With his left hand, he grabbed both of her wrists, turned to sit squarely atop her voluptuous thighs, and pressed two fingers of his right hand together like a sword, halting them precisely over the *Qimen* acupoint on her chest.

Seeing the female police officer close her eyes in terror as tears fell, Kang Ning sighed and raised his right hand. "Why put yourself through this?"

***

"I... I can never let you go!" the female police officer replied softly with her eyes closed.

Seeing how stubborn she was, Kang Ning was once again reminded of his first love, Liu Yiqing. He found that their facial features and temperaments were strikingly similar, right down to their identical stubborn streaks. Before he knew it, Kang Ning found himself staring dazedly, and, acting on a sudden impulse, he lowered his head to gently kiss her beautiful face.

Alarmed, the female police officer turned her face in vain and weakly kicked with her slender legs, but her entire delicate body was pressed tightly beneath Kang Ning.

Her cries and pleas did not stop the out-of-control Kang Ning. On the contrary, under the influence of his complex emotions and growing agitation, he continued to kiss her pretty face, her delicate eyebrows, and her exquisite earlobes...

Gradually, the female police officer's protests dissolved into ragged breaths, helpless pleas, and shy tears. When Kang Ning kissed her graceful, delicate neck, she finally stopped struggling and crying, her face flushed red as she moaned heavily with panting breaths...

Her flat stomach rose and fell in waves beneath Kang Ning's caresses. The buttons of her blouse were undone by his mouth, and her full, resilient, snow-white breasts heaved erratically under his fervent kisses. By this time, her hands—which Kang Ning had released at some point—had moved to wrap around Kang Ning's neck and waist, scratching and rubbing fiercely. The extreme stimulation and temptation caused her entire body to go limp of its own accord.

When their scorching lips fused together, the formerly adversarial pair naturally and tightly embraced one another. The primal urge dispelled the last remaining shreds of reason, and their athletic waists twisted and rubbed together with mounting intensity...

Yet at that exact moment, the innocent tears on the girl's face abruptly snapped the feverish Kang Ning back to reality.

He cursed himself mentally a few times, then lifted himself off the girl, helped her up as she panted for breath, and sighed, "I'm sorry! I temporarily lost my mind."

The beautiful girl was still unwilling to open her eyes; she seemed to still be immersed in the lingering heat of the kiss. Wrapping her arms around Kang Ning's neck, she asked shyly, "Is... is this a dream?"

Tenderly, Kang Ning helped her straighten her clothes and couldn't resist giving her a light kiss. "Probably. It feels like a game and a dream all at once."

"Mm, I... I'm so scared..."

"All right, don't be scared anymore. What I did just now was wrong. I don't know why, but I suddenly..." Kang Ning shook his head, then continued, "Here are your pistol and handcuffs. I'm handing them back to you right now. Either you shoot me dead, or I'll drive you back right this instant."

With that, Kang Ning placed the gun and handcuffs into the girl's hands, sitting quietly by her side as he watched her with a soft and tranquil gaze.

Seeing the blushing girl frantically put away her pistol and handcuffs, cast a shy glance at Kang Ning, and then lower her head in silence while her high chest continued to heave erratically, Kang Ning smiled faintly.

"You mustn't be willful on the way back to drop you off. We're both young; dying in such a confused way would be a terrible waste. How about this? I let you off the hook just now, so we're even. If you really want to arrest me, how about we start tomorrow?"

The girl kept her head lowered, not daring to meet Kang Ning's eyes. Affectionately, Kang Ning reached out to stroke her flushed, charming face—only for her to open her mouth and bite down hard on his hand. Kang Ning winced in pain, baring his teeth, but he didn't dare to forcefully pull his hand away. When the young miss finally showed mercy and loosened her pearly whites, the edge of Kang Ning's palm was covered in blood and bore a neat, semi-circular set of bite marks, looking especially vivid against the backdrop of fresh blood.

"Are you part dog? Good grief, it looks like I need to rush to the hospital for a rabies shot right now... ouch..." Kang Ning cradled his hand, groaning in pain.

"You damned wretch! I swear, one day I'm going to bring you to justice... ugh... help me up already, you hopeless scoundrel..."