Although Tang Tao found out the cause of Ma Jinlong's death during his trip to the Northeast, it had nothing to do with Zheng Long, and he never understood Zheng Long's true intentions.

Qingzhou in the middle of the night is completely quiet, the whole world seems to be asleep, the moon is very round tonight, and the moonlight spills on the floor of the living room through the floor-to-ceiling windows like a thin layer of green veil.

Tang Tao's eyes were bright, he was like a nocturnal animal lurking in the dark, he was waiting for someone.

A burglar who sneaked in through a window.

During this time, Professor Lei kept staring at Tang Tao's room, but the thief never appeared again, as if the world had evaporated.

A few hours ago, Tang Tao checked the entire room again, and was sure that nothing was missing.

The thief searched very carefully, and he barely missed anything, every drawer, every book, and it seemed that the thing he was looking for was small and inconspicuous.

Tang Tao couldn't figure out what he had to steal if he wanted to break his head.

From the perspective of his profession, Tang Tao is just a psychological counselor, but he does not prescribe prescriptions or medicines, and the memos about patients are also recorded in his mobile phone and mailbox, and there are no valuable things or secrets at home.

The only possibility is Xia Yuqing!

To be precise, it's something from Xia Yuqing.

The memory is once again pulled back to four years ago.

It was a snowy afternoon, Tang Tao was invited to Harbin to participate in an offline detective fan salon, the person who initiated the party was Ma Jinlong, Tang Tao took the stage as a guest to talk about some criminal psychology knowledge.

The participants are all WeChat friends in the WeChat group, from all over the country, and even friends from abroad, and the scale of the party is not large, only dozens of people.

Just when Tang Tao was talking, the door opened, and a girl walked in in the wind and snow, she was wearing a thick windbreaker, a light-colored long scarf around her neck, and thick leather gloves on her hands.

Because it was too late, the girl had no seat, so Tang Tao gave her the seat very gentlemanly.

The girl apologized again and again, saying that she was late for the traffic jam just now, and she pulled over the chair and sat next to Tang Tao.

Tang Tao stood up and continued to chat with everyone.

Maybe it was because he was too engaged, Tang Tao said it for a whole hour, and everyone listened very attentively, Tang Tao reminded him again that he had finished speaking, and everyone came back to their senses and applauded again and again.

Everyone was also enthusiastic in the question session, and Tang Tao took the trouble to answer them one by one.

"Anyone else want to ask?" Ma Jinlong asked with a smile.

At this time, the girl raised her hand, she looked at Tang Tao and nodded slightly, and asked a question that Tang Tao still remembers.

"Mr. Tang, have you ever felt the real fear?"

This is a deceptively simple but interesting question.

Fear is innate, whether it is a human or an animal will have fear emotions, unless the mind is abnormal, but everyone's definition of fear is different, fear of parting, fear of death, fear of losing something, fear of those ugly unknown things, such as snakes, spiders and so on.

There are also people who are afraid of something more special, such as their parents, children, or even a cat.

For a child, there is nothing more terrifying in this world than a mad father.

And Tang Tao's greatest fear was fire, which burned his parents to death, causing permanent psychological trauma to his psyche.

But he can't tell, it's his secret.

Tang Tao hesitated.

The girl seemed to see Tang Tao's thoughts.

"What you fear most is not the shadow in your heart, but being known, you don't want to mention it to anyone, and you are even more afraid that others will know about it, what you fear is not the unknown, but exposure."

The girl's words sounded a little awkward, but she said Tang Tao's thoughts, this is like a thief, is he afraid of being caught by the police? Afraid, but he was more afraid that he would be exposed to the sun, afraid that relatives and friends would know his true identity, because then he would never be able to raise his head.

Tang Tao is the same, he is afraid that others will know that he is afraid of fire, and he is afraid that everyone will laugh at him.

He couldn't speak, his hesitation betraying his heart.

Everyone looked at Tang Tao, but Tang Tao, who was still talking about it just now, showed a surprised expression at this moment.

"I said I'm afraid of cockroaches, do you believe me?" Tang Tao said with a smile.

Everyone burst into laughter, and it was indeed a bit embarrassing for a big man to be afraid of cockroaches, but it was not surprising.

"No, you're lying, you don't dare to look me in the eye, his heart is empty, and your laughter is a cover-up." The girl stared at Tang Tao deadly.

She seems to have come to dismantle the stage today, and she intends to have trouble with Tang Tao.

Tang Tao was not angry, but smiled faintly, and suddenly asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”

Afraid?

The girl was stunned, and everyone showed a confused expression, no matter how this girl looked, she looked like she was here to make trouble, and she wouldn't do it if she was afraid.

"Am I scared?" The girl shrugged her shoulders with a relaxed expression.

"You're here specifically for me, aren't you? You just said that it was snowing outside and you were late in a traffic jam, in fact, you were lying, as you said then you must have walked through the open space in front of the hotel, the water in the open space is serious It stands to reason that your boots should be wet with snow, and your head and body will be covered with snow, but there is no snowflake on your body, and your boots are even cleaner, which means that you have already arrived at the hotel, your lips are purple and your face is blue, indicating that you have been staying in a place without air conditioning, and I just came on stage and you came, If my guess is correct, you've been eavesdropping at the door, you're doing this because you're afraid of me, you're afraid you're going to goof ups, so you've been hesitating, you've been adjusting your emotions, and the root of all this is because you're afraid of me, so you're going to take revenge on me, provoke me, and embarrass me, right? ”

Revenge because of fear may sound contradictory, but in reality such people abound.

Some people don't dare to break out when they are wronged, he is afraid of being violated twice, so he will try his best to vent his revenge, and he will deliberately disguise it for his own safety.

To use a simple analogy, someone who is beaten and does not dare to fight back, so they can only play yin behind their backs.

The girl's face changed, she didn't expect her to hide it so well, and she was easily exposed by Tang Tao after making enough preparations.

The scene was a little embarrassing for a while, everyone looked at the girl, and she became the target of everyone.

She instantly turned into a nasty troublemaker, and the security guards quickly stepped forward and were about to surround the girl.

At this moment, Tang Tao suddenly laughed, and applauded while laughing and explaining.

"Hahaha, a joke to everyone, thank my friend for his cooperation, no matter what we encounter in our future life, we must be calm, especially when we are targeted, this is the real application of criminal psychology."

Everyone suddenly realized that they stood up and applauded.

The girl stood in the crowd embarrassed and grateful, looking at Tang Tao's face was red, and she could only nod and say nothing.

This was the first meeting between Tang Tao and Xia Yuqing.

After that, Xia Yuqing found Tang Tao and had an official showdown.

It turned out that Xia Yuqing had a psychological shadow when she was a child, like Tang Tao, her parents divorced when she was very young, she lived abroad with her father most of the time, and returned to China a few years ago because of the funeral.

Playing Xiao Xia Yuqing has developed a competitive character, she not only wants to surpass girls, but also surpasses boys, no matter what she does, she will never admit defeat.

It wasn't until her grandmother committed suicide because of depression that she changed, and in order to understand depression in depth, she began to study and contact psychology frequently.

By chance, she saw Tang Tao's video, she was very curious about this man who always had a confident smile, and the more she understood, the more she felt that Tang Tao was a bombastic hypocrite, who had no real talent at all. For this reason, she joined Tang Tao's WeChat group and even disguised herself as Tang Tao's patient.

To test her judgment, she orchestrated the raid.

Unexpectedly, it was exposed by Tang Tao in public.

If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that they would fight back mercilessly if they were so rudely targeted, but Tang Tao resolved the embarrassment with a gentlemanly demeanor and saved enough face for Xia Yuqing.

Xia Yuqing is grateful to Tang Tao, and Tang Tao also has a good impression of this honest and strong girl.

In the end, they developed into a couple, Xia Yuqing became Tang Tao's girlfriend and lived in Tang Tao's house.

Memories are always good, the reason why Tang Tao is reluctant to leave here is because there is a shadow of Xia Yuqing here, and he is afraid that Xia Yuqing will not find him when he comes back one day.

About Xia Yuqing Tang Tao has never doubted, he has been to Xia Yuqing's home in Pennsylvania, Xia Yuqing's father Xia Boyuan is a shrewd businessman, her family is very rich, there are countless people who pursue her, she really likes Tang Tao to be with Tang Tao, her identity background is almost transparent, there is nothing worth stealing at all.

Trade secrets?

But Xia Yuqing's family's business has always been taken care of by her father, and her family is engaged in a very ordinary candy business, and there seems to be no secrets at all, even if Xia Yuqing has it, she will not bring such an important thing to her home, and she doesn't need it.

So what exactly is this person looking for?

Tang Tao thought of Xia Yuqing's father, the gentle man in a white suit.

After Xia Yuqing's accident, he entrusted his lawyer to stay in China for nearly half a year, and the disappearance of his daughter hit Xia Boyuan very hard, saying that he would never forgive Tang Tao.

It's been two years, more than 700 days and nights, Xia Yuqing has completely disappeared, and there is no trace of her anymore.

When Zheng Long mentioned Xia Yuqing, Tang Tao's dead heart jumped again, for Xia Yuqing, he was teased by Zheng Long several times, and this time he fell into Zheng Long's trap.