The policemen stood in their way, preventing them from reaching the gate. "Mr. Shao, we have orders to carry out. Your wife is a suspect, and she needs to come with us. You don't want to add the obstruction of justice to her list." One of them took out a pair of handcuffs, and walked towards Ella.
Samuel side-stepped the policeman yet again, pushing Ella behind him. Looking at the two policemen, he asked frostily, "Which bureau do you work in?"
"Municipal bureau." One of the men replied. His voice dripped with smugness.
Samuel frowned. It wasn't going to be a simple matter to solve as he had thought. Retrieving his phone, he made a call, "Secretary Liu, I'm in trouble here. Please ask Chief Liao to answer the phone."
Chief Liao? When they heard their boss' name, one of the policemen drew back from handcuffing Ella.
The flight they planned to take had already taken off when Samuel and Chief Liao were on the phone.
But Ella's attention was focused on what was going on, so she didn't notice that the plane had taken off.
Samuel hung up and looked solemnly at the plane through a window. He felt sad that they weren't going on their honeymoon today.
The two policemen waited impatiently. Suddenly, one of the policeman's phone rang. "Captain Qin... Well, all right. I see."
After the phone call, they left.
Samuel left the airport with Ella. There was an open case that mentioned Ella as a suspect. Therefore they had to call off the honeymoon, to clear her name.
"Samuel, is it true that Catherine died on that day?"
Samuel stroked her long hair gently and said, "We'll be fine, trust me."
Even if they found out, Samuel wasn't afraid. What Ella had done was legitimate self-defence. Self-defence was not punishable by law.
After they emerged from the airport, his phone rang. When he saw the caller ID, he sobered down.
"Hello, Director Xue."
"I see. I'll be my wife's attorney and accept all inquiries."
"Yes. Please relax. Thank you very much, Director Xue. Hope to have dinner with you next time."
"All right. Bye!"
Then they got in a taxi and went back home.
When Samuel was on the phone, Ella logged on to Weibo. As expected, the news had already been posted on the internet. The headline read, 'Ella was arrested by police at the airport on suspicion of murder.'
There was a clear picture of them beneath the headline. Though Samuel was wearing sunglasses, it was not difficult to recognise him. No-one could doubt the photo's authenticity.
Ella perused through her social media, trying to keep her mind off what was happening. A couple of minutes later, she received a call from Eden.
"Ella, what happened?" Eden was on a date with his girlfriend when he saw the news that Ella was a suspect. As her agent, he stopped everything he was doing and contacted her.
"I'm not sure as well. I'll call you later."
"Did you kill anyone?"
"I don't know..."
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