Villa Affairs

"Are you going to investigate this case?"

"Yeah!"

"Wait, let me shut down the computer..." Miao Ruolan rose to her feet as well.

"...Well..."

"What do you mean, 'well'? Given the current situation, I absolutely won't allow you to go out investigating alone." Miao Ruolan said.

Fine then...

Lin Xiaosu could only compromise.

He really hadn't intended to bring her. Why? Because this case was unusual and would definitely involve adult content. A man and a woman alone in the same room was awkward enough; watching porn together in the same room was a little dangerous...

But she had a point. Given the special circumstances, before they decided to blow the lid off everything, it was best not to go out alone, especially at night...

Outside Hongxing Pharmaceutical, Lin Xiaosu and Miao Ruolan sat by a pond like a young couple out on a spring outing.

They waited.

They waited for their target to appear.

As the sun set, the target finally emerged. Wang Changfa, in his forties—the prime of a man's life. He was wealthy and not yet old. The dreams of his youth were now within reach, and more importantly, his wife didn't keep him in check. If a man like that didn't cut loose now, when would he?

Beside a Feichi car outside, his driver bent respectfully. "Boss, are you going home?"

"You go home. Leave the car for me!"

Wang Changfa then got into the car, and the Feichi car sped away toward the south side of the city.

Behind the Feichi car, Miao Ruolan drove as fast as she could, but her engine was simply too weak. Seeing the Feichi car about to disappear from view, she grew anxious. "We may need to buy a car. We're at too much of a disadvantage handling cases like this."

"It's fine. He can't get away!" Lin Xiaosu said.

For the latter half of the trip, he guided Miao Ruolan as she drove, and after several twists and turns, they arrived at Tashan Lake.

The side of Tashan Lake near Tashan was a villa district.

Fengcheng's wealthy all liked to build private villas here.

Nestled against the mountain and beside the water, the place was endlessly elegant. But the villas here were very mysterious. Hardly any prominent figure handled matters personally; most had others act for them—mistresses or family members—using those people's names to acquire land and build homes, though the properties truly belonged to the prominent figures themselves. Of course, "prominent figures" here was by small-county standards.

"There!" Lin Xiaosu pointed at a villa on the side near Tashan Lake.

Miao Ruolan narrowed her eyes and saw it.

The Feichi car had just pulled into the garage, and the garage door closed behind it.

Very discreet...

If not for him, she probably would have lost the trail...

Miao Ruolan parked her little electric car beneath the shade of a willow tree as well.

"What do we do next?"

Lin Xiaosu raised his gaze. "Climb the tree."

Miao Ruolan was a little excited. "Which one?"

"That one!" Lin Xiaosu pointed lightly.

It was a large willow beside the villa. At this time of year, tender willow catkins drifted in the breeze. The sturdy old willow, its fresh branches soft and lush; the clear Tashan Lake; the majestic Tashan; and the elegantly decorated lakeside villas combined to form Tashan's beautiful scenery.

From this old willow, they could see the second floor.

If they jumped down from the tree, they could even reach the rooftop of the third floor.

It was truly the ideal place for peeping.

Miao Ruolan looked around...

"Let's go!"

The two moved along the lakeshore. In the deepening night, no one noticed them. When they were only three meters from the old willow, Miao Ruolan sprang from the ground and vanished from sight.

The next moment, Lin Xiaosu vanished from where he stood as well.

They landed in the willow tree at the same time. The old tree shielded them from behind, and pressed close together, they could feel each other's body heat.

Even if someone deliberately watched for them, they would not discover their presence.

Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye tore through space-time and began to reverse time!

Day and night flashed rapidly before him. Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat. Late last night, this car had started up. What did that mean? It meant Wang Changfa had been here last night.

So had anything happened between him and someone in the villa?

He continued retracing time, and the most exciting scene appeared.

The mistress of the villa, a seductive woman, entered a room on the second floor.

The second-floor room had curtains, but the wind had been strong yesterday. A gust revealed half the bed to Lin Xiaosu.

Wang Changfa lay on the bed wrapped in a bath towel. The woman entered the room and smiled sweetly, bringing spring to the whole room. Her own bath towel flew away, and then...

The best way to determine whether she was the one poisoning people was to see with his own eyes whether she was infected. If she was infected, she was most likely a victim too. If she was not, the odds of her being the poisoner rose sharply, because that would mean she had detoxified herself in advance.

This time, through Time Reversal, he saw only a little. The two had played through a whole pile of mosaic censorship last night.

But the curtains obscured his view, and he truly couldn't see clearly. He needed a closer look.

Lin Xiaosu withdrew from Time Reversal and shifted his vision to the current scene.

His target was someone bathing at that very moment...

There were no curtains in the bathroom.

Only glass.

Once the glass fogged up with steam, ordinary people could see nothing at all.

But how extraordinary was Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye?

The mist automatically cleared beneath the Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye. Even though the glass reflected light, it was nowhere near enough to interfere with his vision.

Amid the splashing water, he saw the most exquisite sight.

Everything he should and shouldn't have seen, he saw it all...

She wasn't infected!

After she finished bathing, a new scene appeared, making Lin Xiaosu's heart leap...

Her hand reached for the little platform in the bathroom where the body wash sat. Her slender fingers pressed it three times in succession, and a hidden compartment opened inside. It contained a metal bottle. She opened the bottle, revealing pale red liquid. She applied the liquid to a certain place, even carefully smoothing the edges...

Lin Xiaosu was too embarrassed to keep watching and turned his gaze toward Miao Ruolan. Miao Ruolan was not looking at him; she was looking at that window, but even her chin had turned red.

Someone seemed to knock on the bathroom door.

No sound reached him, but Lin Xiaosu could still use the Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye to see the disturbance in the airflow around the door, showing that someone was knocking.

The beauty flipped her hand, moving with incredible speed. The little bottle was quickly put away and returned to the hidden compartment. With a light sweep of her hand, the compartment seemed to vanish into thin air.

A coy smile appeared on her face as she opened the bathroom door.

Naturally, Wang Changfa stood outside. He opened his arms and embraced the woman before him. She curled up in his arms. Lin Xiaosu stared at her lips. He couldn't hear her voice, but he possessed the mysterious skill of lip-reading.

Lip-reading meant that without hearing someone's voice, one could determine what they were saying merely by watching their lips and the movement of their tongue.

This skill was not easy to master, but Lin Xiaosu had been diligently practicing it these days and had managed to learn it.

Why had he insisted on acquiring this skill?

Because it was a major weakness of Time Reversal.

Time Reversal could only show images; it could not transmit sound.

That was why he had painstakingly trained in this skill. Now, he could make the silent scenes from Time Reversal convey the voices from that moment into his mind.

The woman said, "No... you bad man, wash up first..."

So they washed up first. But as they washed, things gradually went off track, and adult activities began right there in the bathroom.