Wang Man had been ready to dig in, but at this news, her fingers immediately stopped moving the pen she was using to mark her order.
"Xu Le... came back too?"
Seemingly feeling that calling him "Brother Xu Le" in front of Li Qingcheng was inappropriate, Wang Man settled on Xu Le instead.
"Yes, I ran into him while I was on duty at the Airship Grounds."
A trace of reminiscence appeared in Wang Man's eyes, but she showed little else and merely nodded.
"Really? I thought he wouldn't come back."
Hearing this, Li Qingcheng looked a little puzzled.
"Wang Man? Didn't you and Xu Le use to be on pretty bad terms? You sound like you know something about him."
"As you said, that was before. Things are different now. I've changed, and so has he." Wang Man sounded somewhat distracted.
"Did you run into Xu Le when you went to Lighthouse last time?"
"I did, but we only met a few times." Wang Man wasn't lying.
"Then why didn't you tell me after you came back?"
As a law enforcement officer, Li Qingcheng felt that Wang Man was hiding something from her.
But Wang Man was no longer a child either. Her eyes darted about before she said with a smile:
"Qingcheng, what would you do if your best friend didn't like your boyfriend?"
Li Qingcheng thought Wang Man meant the men at work who had been pursuing her recently, so she smiled and replied:
"My best friend matters more, of course. Since you don't like those men, I definitely won't give them the time of day."
The two were still very close. Hearing Li Qingcheng say this, Wang Man smiled too.
She thought, What if that person were Xu Le?
But she quickly changed tack.
"Ahahaha! Then...