The feeling of drowning spread from the soles of the feet, and quickly stepped over the limbs and bones to reach the gate of life. Shen Xia's mind exploded and went blank.
The voices on the phone and the worrying questions of her friend seemed to be dragged to a distant place. There was nothing in her ears, and she couldn't even hear her own breathing in a daze.
Shen Xiashi mechanically opened the door and ran outside, her expression was cold and solemn, her eyes were red and red on her pale face, as if she might cry anytime and anywhere, this appearance stunned countless colleagues who passed by, Wei Xizhou felt that something was wrong with her , frowned and pulled: "What's wrong with you?"
She didn't speak, she stared out the window, tried her best to break free from Wei Xizhou's restraint, and continued to run outside.
Suddenly, a man in black with his head bowed strayed beside her, bumping her body to one side, and Shen Xia had an extra note in his hand.
She opened it and took a look.
If Lu Qiao dies, your mother's ashes are also gone.
There is also a smiley face drawn at the end of the sentence.
Bad, extreme, shameless!
Shen Xia tore the piece of paper into pieces, and ran out again.
No matter what, she wanted to go to the cemetery to have a look in person. Maybe someone was playing a prank, or maybe the enemy deliberately lied to her. With this small expectation, she ran faster and faster, as if she was tireless...
The cold wind blew like a knife inch by inch, every part of Shen Xiashi's body was trembling, and the tears fell without knowing when, and she was thrown into the wind with the speed of her running, her delicate makeup became messy, and the corners of her eyes were covered with tears. Her eyeliner was darkened, and she looked like a crazy woman who ran out of nowhere, running stubbornly and obstinately on the street.
Shen Xiashi only knew to run, she only knew to run forward, she completely lost the ability to think, the phone rang countless times, and she never regained her senses.
Finally, when she was so tired that she couldn't breathe, she finally stopped slowly, leaning on the wall and bending down.
She was covered in sweat, her breath was dry and hot, and there was still a hot sweet smell in her throat. The qi and blood surged up to her forehead, making her eyes dark and almost unsteady, so she hurriedly sat down to adjust her breathing.
Tears and sweat had already stained her entire face. She looked like someone who had climbed out of a quagmire. Her eyes were hollow and her hair was messy. She was wearing a prosecutor's robe and squatting in the corner like a clown.
A car sped by in the distance, and it stopped in front of Shen Xiashi at a fast speed. Because of the speed, the noise raised made people have to close their eyes, and Jiang Xin's hesitant voice sounded in Shen Xiashi's ears: "Xia Xia..."
Shen Xiashi felt faintly disappointed, it wasn't Mu Ze...
She didn't speak, but panted silently, Yang Jin quickly took a thermos cup from the car and handed it to her, and said in a low voice, "Drink it, it's hot."
Shen Xiashi's cell phone rang again, it was from the minister, she pressed the answer button, and said in a hoarse voice, "Uncle Zhou."
Shen Xiashi usually doesn't call her that during working hours. In this way, the minister also knows that she is not feeling well, and he doesn't know how to comfort her while holding the phone for a long time. It's best to just sigh: "I already know, go, don't worry about it." , I will arrange the trial."
Shen Xiashi didn't say anything for a long time, the minister gave her a few words and then hung up the phone, there was a busy tone on the phone, Shen Xiashi just held the phone stiffly in a daze, and took a while to withdraw his hand.
She looked through the call records, and there were more than ten missed calls, some were from friends, some were from Uncle Zhou, and there was still no Mu Ze...
Where did he go
Shen Xiashi pursed her lips, her hoarse voice seemed to be talking to herself: "...Where's Mu Ze?"
Jiang Xin and Yang Jin came over to help her up from the ground: "I've called, but I can't get through, and the same goes for other people. I don't know what's wrong."
After getting her into the car, Jiang Xin drove to the cemetery, when Shen Xia suddenly said, "I'm not going."
"not going!?"
"Yeah." She took out the mirror and tidied herself up briefly: "I can't go to the court today for the time being."
"Xia Xia, if you can't get the trial today, you can change it to another day. Anyway, that pervert Lu Qiao will die sooner or later. Don't make things difficult for yourself, just go if you want."
"So what if we go?" After saying this sentence, countless emotions seemed to surge up, his eyes quickly began to blur again, and tears fell in strings. Shen Xia quickly wiped them off with the back of his hand: "I will never let you go!" People who have dug my mother's graveyard will never let Lu Qiao go, and they have no way to threaten me with this! If the other party really does something to my mother's ashes, I will kill him in the end of the world in Shen Xia!"
Wiping her tears, Shen Xia lowered her head and muttered: "Go back."
She is not an impulsive person, and she calmed down after the energy passed. Lu Qiao's trial will start immediately. The media and those who crusade are waiting outside the court. If there is no trial today, I don't know what kind of bloody rain will ensue. She couldn't let the procuratorate fall into trouble because of her personal affairs.
What moved her the most was the minister. She still remembered that on the first day when she first entered the procuratorate, he once said this to Shen Xia: You are the prosecutor first, and then you are yourself.
But now, the minister indulged her impulse and was willing to bear the consequences. Shen Xia calmed down, and of course she would not do this again. She is a person who understands that she has never escaped from the things that should be borne by her. It was like this before , and it will be the same in the future.
Even if there is something wrong with the mother's ashes, then Shen Xiashi can only accept it, but there will be one more thing in his long life, and that is revenge!
Jiang Xin turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the procuratorate. After getting out of the car, Shen Xia flushed the toilet to remove all the makeup on her face.
The cold water was repeatedly slapped on her face, and she deliberately used a little force to wake herself up.
Looking up, there was a clean face in the mirror, with dull eyes, pale lips, water droplets all over his face, dripping down his chin onto his robe, his chest was wet, Shen Xia stared blankly at , After a while, I came back to my senses, and quickly pulled out the tissue next to me to wipe my face clean.
inhale, exhale...
After repeating three times.
His cold fingers suddenly tapped tightly on the sink, hesitating with his head down...
After leaving the gate of the procuratorate, she is unjust.
Entering the court door, she is unfilial.
How to do
What should I do
Jiang Xin was worried about her, came in for a look and then went out silently.
Shen Xia finally straightened her back, straightened her back and walked towards the court.
Behind him, Jiang Xin asked: "Will you regret it? If Lu Qiao really dies, your mother..."
"No regrets!" Her eyes were red, and she answered sharply, but her voice was visibly trembling.
"Xia Xia..."
"do not talk!"
She cried too many times today, and she didn't know which nerve was provoked. Every time she took a step forward, she wanted to squat down and cry bitterly. no the same.
Standing outside the court, everything was ready, Jiang Xin pushed the door open for her, the sudden sound of the door opening made many people look back, the female prosecutor stood there with a calm expression, straight, slender, with firm eyes, full of anger.
Shen Xia slightly pursed her lips in the eyes of so many people, and walked in calmly.
*
Ersi held up his mobile phone all over the mountain to find a signal, and ran from one mountain to another, but the signal grid in the upper right corner of the phone was still empty: "What kind of broken phone is this, it's been working all day and all night!"
Except for him, many brothers held their mobile phones high, and looked down from time to time, but there was still no signal, frowned and cursed, resigned to their fate and ran all over the hillside.
Mu Ze smoked a lot from last night until now, and he couldn't calm down. When he was full of Shen Xia, he received news last night that someone dug Shen Runqiu's tomb and stole the ashes. people set off.
At that time, Shen Xiashi was still asleep, and he didn't have the heart to wake her up, let alone tell her about it. He originally wanted to retrieve the ashes and put them back in the mausoleum before dawn. If you don't know, you won't be sad.
But the other party has no trace to follow at all, it seems that it is the method of that person, and also, the person who can do such a thing, who else but him
It's already noon now, and the people from the mausoleum must have notified Shen Xia, she must have collapsed when she found out, Mu Ze is now outside the city, and it will take a day to go back, but the mobile phone has no signal, which makes him upset impatient.
He took out his mobile phone and clicked on the only phone number in the phone book. The profile picture was Shen Xiashi's photo, and the note name: baby.
The smoke in his mouth was lingering, so dizzy that he couldn't see Shen Xiashi's face clearly, Mu Ze hurriedly lifted the smoke away, Shen Xiashi's smiling face came into view, the man's rough fingertips gently stroked the girl's face, a little out of place. god.
Xu Cen shouted outside: "Boss, what should we do? Are we still chasing him?"
Mu Ze withdrew his gaze, squinted his eyes and took a sharp puff of cigarette: "You all go back, I will go alone."
"Where are you going, brothers will go with you."
Mu Ze twisted the car key, turned the steering wheel and moved the car: "You will only die if you follow, wait for my news in the ministry, and when you protect Shen Xia, don't let her leave the villa, go back and find her."
The road in the mountains was not easy to walk, and it was uneven and full of fine stones. Mu Ze's armored car drove very smoothly on it. The car drove fast, and the tail of the car was full of dust and smoke, and it disappeared after a while.
Zhan Chun looked at the desolate mountain in front of him and muttered, "What are you doing?"
Ersi patted him on the shoulder: "The past has to be settled. Don't let the boss hold you back. Go back and prepare for the battle at any time."
The Chinese New Year is only a few days away, the weather is getting colder and colder recently, the wind seems to be holding a knife, and it hurts on the face, but Mu Ze doesn't feel cold at all, the car window is wide open, and with At the speed of the car, some raindrops blow in from time to time, and when they fall on the skin, goose bumps can appear instantly.
The car drove in this direction for an hour. Relying on his memory, he found the destination without taking many detours. This place where he had stayed for eighteen years. Even today, he seems to still remember the strong smell of blood. One step later, those memories came to my mind.
Endless fighting, bloodshed, gunshots everywhere, gunpowder smoke, many kinds of pictures, countless sounds, all of a sudden filled Mu Ze's mind, and it almost exploded!
He parked the car not far away, slowly took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth, and looked up at the rows of villas.
It is all in European Gothic style, soaring into the clouds, covered with dark clouds in the sky, it looks like a castle in a fairy tale, mysterious and dark, only from the outside, you think there is a beautiful princess living inside, but it is not, inside It's a real beast.
He is used to chasing and fighting, used to being superior, and even more used to playing with people's hearts.
Although it was far away, Mu Ze could still see the man standing on the bell tower looking at him at a glance, his eyes were probably the same as before, mocking and staring, as if nothing and anyone could escape his control.
After all, Mu Ze didn't light the cigarette in his mouth, pinned it behind his ear, opened the car door, and walked forward without a moment's hesitation.
*
An hour after the trial, all of Lu Qiao's crimes were made public, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the female prosecutor to make the final sentencing.
Shen Xiashi flipped through the pages of information, and his voice was like ice: "Lu Qiao killed two students and a rich man with extremely cruel and vicious means, causing irreparable pain to the victim's family and a huge negative impact on society. , the prisoner has seriously violated our country's punishment for many times, flouted the law, and despised life, so he should be sentenced..."
Having said that, she stopped talking suddenly, looked up at Lu Qiao opposite, and Lu Qiao also looked over, his red eyes were full of mockery, his lips squirmed, and he said three words with his lips: Do you dare
Shen Xiashi withdrew his eyes, closed all the documents, looked directly at the landing bridge, and his words were like a knife: "The prosecution recommends sentencing, and Lu Qiao is sentenced to death, and it will be executed immediately!"
The judge made the final decision and announced the final verdict.
Shen Xia quickly got up and left the court, Jiang Xin and Yang Jin were already waiting outside: "I just contacted the people from the mausoleum, they are still waiting for you to go and see."
"Have you started an investigation?"
"It has already started, but... no important information has been found, and the surveillance has been destroyed..."
Shen Xia walked fast, rushed straight into the dressing room to change his robe, put on his own sweater and went out, Yang Jin hurriedly followed: "I have called Mu Ze countless times, but I can't get through."
These words made Shen Xia suddenly stop.
Lu Qiao, Mu Ze...
The threat of ashes...
The switch in Shen Xiashi's mind seemed to be turned on suddenly: "Mu Ze must have discovered that something is wrong, he..."
... must be looking for that person!
"quick!!"
Shen Xia immediately opened the car door and entered, everyone got in the car, Jiang Xin asked: "Where are you going!?"
"Go to Mu Ze's house first, maybe you will leave me something."
As soon as Jiang Xin stepped on the accelerator, the car drove fast. Shortly after getting off the viaduct, it entered the suburbs. The place has been quiet and there are few vehicles in normal times. Jiang Xin's car was still driving fast. Passing the corner, there was a sound of a horn in front of it.
Jiang Xin groaned in her heart and stepped on the brakes hastily.
! ! ! !
"I rely on!!!"
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Xin almost cried: "The brakes failed!!"
The truck in front turned a corner and drove straight. When the driver saw the speeding car ahead, he was alert and pressed the steering wheel as fast as he could, but the speed of the other car was too fast. It hit straight in an instant.
"boom!!"
There was a sharp impact sound in the quiet suburb, and the winter was quiet and desolate. This sound echoed in the sky and lingered for a long time.
*
Mu Ze felt that the feeling of returning to the old place was a bit indescribable, not nostalgia, not emotion, like a hundred insects gnawed at the heart, every nerve in the body was numb, every drop of blood was frozen, it was not a taste.
If he could, he really didn't want to have anything to do with the people here.
The villa was quiet, and there was no one around, but Mu knew that this place was solid, and it was not easy to get in, let alone get out. He also came here today with the determination to escape death.
If he wasn't afraid of Shen Xia's sadness, he might never have stepped here, but now that he's here, everything seems to be back to the original point.
In the light and shadow, there was the sound of someone walking, the pace was slow and steady, and the creaking sound of the door opening, like an old house in disrepair, the dry sound was very unpleasant, and it made Mu Ze even more irritable.
The man came out, wearing a Tang suit, glasses, a neatly trimmed beard, a cigar in his mouth, and sat down on the sofa with his robe flipped up. AK and Qin Jiang stood behind him on one left and one on the right.
He exhaled a round smoke ring, chuckled lightly, and said in a mocking tone, "Mu Ze? You still know to come back?"
Mu Ze stood up straight, put his hands vertically between the seams of his trousers, and said in a low voice with some respect, "Father."
"Ah."
He sneered: "Remember that I am your father?"
Mu Ze didn't make a sound, and still stood up straight, as firm as a pine, like when he was punished to stand many years ago, he has always been firm and tenacious.
Seeing that he didn't speak, the middle-aged man looked exactly like the silent character back then, and squinted his eyes: "Since you're back, don't leave in the future."
"Where's Shen Runqiu's ashes?" Mu Ze asked in a low voice.
The middle-aged man smoked a cigar and did not answer, while Mu Ze raised his head to look at him. After a few seconds, the other party finally waved, and Shen Runqiu's urn was carried out.
only…
The middle-aged man suddenly ordered softly: "I fell."
Mu Ze narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Master Feng!"
This time, he didn't use the word father.
is warning him.
It was like a tug-of-war between opponents. After the two looked at each other for a few moments, Master Feng said again in a deep voice, "I fell!"
The person holding the urn mechanically let go, and the urn fell straight down...
As the strong wind blew, Mu Ze quickly kicked on a table and stepped over. His body curved down and slid across the ground, firmly catching the ashes urn.
The applause sounded, Master Feng bit his cigar and sighed: "That's right, your skills have improved a lot compared to back then."
He looked at AK: "Zhou Qi, now that the real AK is back, are you going to abdicate to make way?"
That's right, Mu Ze is the real AK.
When he was still following Master Feng, he was the boss of Nightingale and the AK that everyone feared. At that time, there were many talented people in Nightingale, and they were all trained by Mu Ze.
Later, his wings hardened, and he was unwilling to be Master Feng's eagle claws again, and disappeared overnight. Master Feng was afraid that people's hearts would be unstable, so he asked Zhou Qi to pretend to be his name. Anyway, except for the insiders who knew AK's true appearance, everyone else I don't know anything about it, and it's like this, so I can hide it from the world for many years.
These years, Master Feng has been without Mu Ze as his right-hand man, and the glorious days have gradually dimmed. In recent years, the 19 Huaijiang Departments that have flourished have a tendency to catch up. Master Feng understands Mu Ze's strength, and the people he brings out are full of blood. ,real man.
But Nightingale had already existed in name only, and Zhou Qi and Qin Jiang really didn't like it enough. In this way, he played Mu Ze's crooked brain.
As for the land bridge, it's just a throw away.
Next, Master Feng wants Mu Ze to submit to himself again, and let him be grateful to himself as he did when he was given the status of adopted son many years ago.
However, many things always backfired.
Mu Ze picked up the urn and got up, casually patted the ashes on his arm: "Sorry, I'm not interested."
"Young man, think it over before you speak."
Master Feng gave Qin Jiang a look, and the latter turned on the TV on the side, which showed the footage obtained through the surveillance video, Shen Xiashi was tied to a stool, the blood on his forehead stained half of his face, his upper body and There were serious injuries on her legs, and even the rope that restrained her was wet with blood. She was unconscious and did not know whether she was dead or alive.
Seeing this scene, Mu Ze's pain points all over his body reached the critical value, and he felt a sensation he had never experienced before, as if his whole heart had been dug out, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly keep his body steady. Bloodshot, fists clenched, turned to stare at Master Feng, with mad killing intent in his eyes: "What did you do to her!"
"It's nothing, I just did some tricks in their car."
When Mu Ze rushed over—
"Don't worry, look." Master Feng meant something, and Mu Ze immediately looked back. In the surveillance, someone pushed an injection into Shen Xiashi's body.
That is…
"That's right." Master Feng confirmed his conjecture, bowed forward, and faced Mu Ze face to face: "What you inject is poison, and within ten minutes, your beloved woman will turn into a corpse."
Mu Ze's whole face was covered with veins, and he gritted his teeth and stared at him. At first, he was angry, but slowly, his red eyes were full of pleading, and a few words trembled between his teeth: "Father, please..."
"Please?" Master Feng smiled: "You are begging..."
not finished
boom
Mu Ze knelt down straight, and kowtowed neatly: "Please, don't hurt her."
It would be a lie to say that he was not surprised. Mu Ze has been deserted for so many years, and he has never paid attention to anything, let alone someone in his heart. He has traveled all over the world for many years, and has never suffered a loss anywhere. No condescension for anyone.
today,
He actually knelt down and kowtowed for a woman.
Simply shocking!
A more interesting idea suddenly popped up in Master Feng's mind.
He personally helped Mu Ze up and called someone. Someone in the surveillance gave Shen Xia an antidote, and Master Feng ordered: "Wake him up and bring him here."
After smoking one cigar, Master Feng then lit the second one: "You know our rules here, there is no back and forth, if you really want her to live, dump her in front of me, you know what we are doing It's okay, it's best not to get involved with such a woman, as long as you do it, father can guarantee that you will never make things difficult for her in the future."
There was a long silence, and no one answered.
But Master Feng knew in his heart, and Mu knew what to do.
Half an hour later, Shen Xiashi was pushed in from the outside. The force was too great, and she was injured all over. She couldn't stand still and fell to the ground. What she saw was a pair of men's boots. Shen Xiashi recognized it as Mu Ze.
She looked up, but the man didn't look at her.
Shen Xia hurriedly wiped the blood on his face, stood up in embarrassment, stood in front of Mu Ze, took a step forward with a limp leg, put his injured wrist in front of him, and said softly, "Husband, I'm in so much pain."
Mu Ze's heart ached too, and he couldn't stop the pain.
With a cold face, he waved Shen Xiashi's hand away with great force, causing her to shake her body.
Shen Xia was stunned.
Her hand hurt, and she trembled when she stretched it out. After a while, she grabbed Mu Ze's sleeve and shook it gently like she used to act like a baby: "Mu Ze, what's the matter with you, I'm Xia Xia."
Mu Ze waved her hand away again, twisted her chin roughly, clicked his tongue and then shook it off: "Are you fucking annoying?"
"What are you talking about?" Shen Xiashi's eyes quickly blurred. His mother's tomb was dug up, her ashes were stolen, she had a car accident for no reason, and there was an inexplicable life-and-death juncture. Turning around, he said she was annoying
Shen Xiashi took a breath, smiled softly, and said in a soft voice, "Let's go back together, shall we?"
Seeing her like this, Mu Ze also smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, his eyes were full of ridicule and sarcasm, and there was even a bit of disdain: "Listen well, I don't love you at all."
Shen Xia was taken aback by the man's cold tone, she stared at his face carefully, trying to find any trace of lies in his eyes, but there was none, not at all.
All the grievances collapsed in an instant, her tears burst down, she was out of breath from crying, sobbing and unable to utter a complete sentence.
For so many years, no matter how much wind and frost she has experienced, Shen Xia will never cry so embarrassingly. Even if her mother's tomb is dug up, she still endures it, but what Mu Ze said to her is tantamount to throwing her into hell. The bottomless abyss, she felt instantly that the whole world had abandoned her.
She cried tremblingly, but still didn't give up, she pulled his hands and clothes over and over again, with a trembling body and a flustered expression, she repeated over and over again: "I'm Xia Xia, I'm Xia Xia..."
Mu Ze suddenly pushed, and Shen Xia fell to the ground. The man took down the cigarette behind his ear and lit it up, and stared at her fiercely: "Love, love, I'm tired of playing with your mother, hold your mother's ashes and hurry up!" roll!"
Shen Xia lay on the ground in a daze for a while, raised his head, looked at him with misty eyes, and said word by word, "You don't want me anymore?"
Because of this sentence, Mu Ze's eyes turned red.
Suppressing the pain in his heart, resisting the urge to hug her, he said coldly, "From the beginning to the end, I have never fucking wanted you."
good.
Shen Xia nodded knowingly, she got up from the ground, walked out slowly with Shen Runqiu's ashes in her arms, limped and walked very slowly, Mu Ze stared at a pair of red eyes, and shouted at her: "Hurry up!"
Shen Xiashi shivered from his fright, and quickened her pace angrily, but she couldn't walk smoothly, so her whole body was distorted, looking very pitiful.
*
The following days returned to calm, as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
The only good thing is that the three people in the car accident were not life-threatening, and they recovered slowly after a few days in the hospital.
Shen Xiashi didn't send her mother's ashes back to the mausoleum, so she had a shadow in her heart, and kept it in her bedroom all the time, talking with her in the dead of night.
After he and Mu Ze separated that day, Shen Xiashi didn't sleep much. During the day, he lived like a normal person, but at night, he couldn't sleep all night.
Sometimes I wake up from a nightmare. In the past, Mu Ze would hug her and coax her over and over again, but now when I wake up, there is only the boundless quiet night and her rapid breathing.
In the first few days, she cried so much that she couldn't help herself, but gradually she cried less, but she talked less, and her smile gradually disappeared.
Although nothing seemed to have changed, but my friend knew that Shen Xiashi might never be as happy as before, because the person who gave her joy and happiness had already gone simply.
On the night of New Year's Eve, Shen Xiashi rejected all the invitations, and worked overtime in the procuratorate by himself until late at night, and only turned off the lights and left after finishing all the reports.
It wasn't a long distance from the procuratorate to the apartment, Shen Xiashi walked very slowly, and when he got close to the apartment, he could hear the laughter of the neighbors having a reunion dinner together.
At this moment, thousands of lights are on.
Mu Ze, what are you doing
She went upstairs, opened the door, kicked off her shoes and turned on the light, went into the bedroom with bare feet, and fell limply on the bed.
Turning over, Shen Xia saw a finely crafted box on the table, she reached out to take it, and opened it.
A 21-carat custom diamond ring lay quietly inside.
21 carats, the weight of the soul after death...
The ring is from LR, and only one can be customized in a lifetime.
It means whole life, wholeheartedly.
This ring is his heart.
I love you with all my soul and life.
Downstairs, Mu Ze stared at the lighted window in a daze, he didn't take a puff from the lit cigarette between his fingers, the spark gradually climbed up, burned his fingers, and brought him back to his senses.
He turned around and walked into the night.
It snowed a lot today, and the ground was thick and thick, and it creaked under your feet. Mu Ze remembered that Shen Xia once said that she was from the south and rarely saw snow. I know she is not happy.
Unfortunately, he couldn't be by her side.
The farther you go, the closer you get to the busy city. The TV wall on the city office building broadcasts the grand event of this year's party live. When the midnight climax, everyone counts down together.
3-2-1-
Happy New Year!
Mu lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.
Xia Xia, New Year's Eve.
I haven't had time to say what I want to tell you.
He raised his head, facing the swiftly falling frost and snow,
Gently whispered: "Would you like to..."
"Mu Ze!!"
Shen Xiashi's voice came from behind.
Mu looked back.
Fireworks exploded in the night sky behind her.
Fireworks are beautiful, girls are even more beautiful.
She stood there, watching him quietly.