Zhuang Mengdie's Resolve

Miao Ruolan's body trembled slightly. More precisely, her legs were trembling a little...

"You can call Zhuang Mengdie now!"

"Now?"

"Yes!"

Miao Ruolan's phone lit up faintly as she dialed a number far away.

The call connected.

Miao Ruolan lowered her voice and gave an address.

Then she hung up.

The phone's glow faded, and silence returned to the surroundings. Only the bathroom ten meters away still held an endlessly stimulating show.

Though Miao Ruolan couldn't hear or see clearly, what she imagined was downright lethal.

She couldn't stand such a scene.

What about Lin Xiaosu?

She slowly raised her head and looked at Lin Xiaosu. From this angle, he was actually rather handsome, but the young man's brow was clearly furrowed.

"What's wrong?"

"Our Sister Zhuang is ruthless. She actually brought the police directly here..."

"The police? Are they here? I didn't see any police cars..."

"Look over there!"

Miao Ruolan's gaze shot toward Tashan Lake, where she spotted a black sedan with the license plate 212563.

"Zhou Mei's car!"

"Yeah, Captain Zhang is here too! What reason did she use to report this? If she reported drugs, then she's truly ruthless!"

Ordinary moral misconduct wasn't serious enough to involve the police.

Ordinary sexual impropriety definitely wouldn't bring out Captain Zhang, the head of the criminal investigation division.

But if drugs were involved, that was another matter entirely.

Zhuang Mengdie was catching her husband cheating, yet she actually dared to report a drug case?

Three cars stopped in the distance. More than a dozen plainclothes officers got out at once, all targeting the villa. Once outside it, they sprang into action simultaneously!

With a hand on the wall and a heave of their bodies, they vaulted over the five-meter-high perimeter wall.

In modern society, police officers fighting on the front lines were all highly skilled, especially criminal investigators.

Captain Zhang was even more formidable. He approached soundlessly like a hunting dog, reached out, leaped up, grabbed the edge of the second floor, and climbed onto it cleanly.

There was a brief pause inside the bathroom. The next moment, the bathroom door was shoved open. Lin Xiaosu didn't need to look to imagine the absolute mess inside.

"Hands up!"

Captain Zhang's voice was incredibly steady.

"Officer, we..."

"Cut the crap! Stand against the wall!"

The room door opened, and Zhou Mei entered the villa with several other officers. What they saw was simply... unbearable to look at.

A naked man stood facing outward against the wall, while a woman wrapped in a bath towel squatted on the floor, clutching one corner of it desperately.

Captain Zhang pointed a jet-black pistol at the man's back.

The two of them trembled, completely at a loss as to how to deal with the situation before them.

"Search!" Captain Zhang ordered, and fierce police dogs appeared, searching the first floor, the second floor, the third floor...

"Report! No drugs found on the first floor!"

"Report! No drugs found on the second floor!"

"Report! No drugs found on the third floor!"

Captain Zhang's face darkened. No drugs? What was going on with the informant? A false report? The scene before him truly didn't look like a drug den. It looked more like the standard scenario of a man keeping a mistress.

I'm the dignified captain of the criminal investigation division, and you dragged me out in the middle of the night for this?

Just as he was in an awkward position, Zhou Mei suddenly took out her phone. A message popped up on the screen: "Under the bathroom mirror, third compartment, press three times in a row!"

The sender was "A Bit of a Scoundrel Detective."

Zhou Mei put away her phone and headed into the bathroom.

Two officers were still searching the bathroom. In truth, it was the easiest place to search, since there wasn't much there.

They had found no useful clues and were about to leave when Zhou Mei entered. She carefully examined the small shelf holding the various body washes, reached out, felt around the third compartment, and pressed it three times in a row.

Without a sound, a hidden compartment flipped open, and a metal tube appeared in her hand. She opened it to reveal red liquid inside.

Zhou Mei's heartbeat quickened. Carrying the metal tube outside, she saw the beautiful woman crouching against the wall suddenly change color.

That change was the greatest surprise in Zhou Mei's eyes.

"What is this?" Zhou Mei asked.

"It... it's for enhancing pleasure, lubricant..." the woman cried. "I have the receipt! It's in the bedside table... I'll get it for you."

Wrapped in her bath towel, she ran into the bedroom and really did pull out a receipt from the bedside table. It was for an overseas purchase, product name: Oudu Shenyou. Its description matched the metal tube and the liquid inside perfectly.

Captain Zhang's brow tightened. Was there really something wrong with it? Why hadn't the police dogs reacted even when they were so close?

"Take it back for testing," Zhou Mei said, looking toward Captain Zhang.

Captain Zhang hesitated for a long while before nodding lightly. "You two, get dressed and come with us."

"Captain, th-this isn't necessary, is it? At most, it's just moral misconduct. It's not against the law..." Wang Changfa said.

"Whether you've broken the law isn't for you to decide! Take them away!" Captain Zhang waved his hand, signaling the operation was over.

As she left the villa, Zhou Mei looked around, her gaze sweeping over the willow trees. When it passed over the willow tree where Lin Xiaosu had been, she left behind a meaningful look...

She had clearly guessed that someone had been in that willow tree.

But she couldn't tell which branch they had been hiding behind.

In fact, she was wrong. There was no one in the willow tree now.

Lin Xiaosu and Miao Ruolan had already left.

Other than Zhou Mei, no one knew they had been there.

Not even Captain Zhang.

Miao Ruolan rode her little electric scooter back to the detective agency with Lin Xiaosu behind her. The May night breeze was cool, but it couldn't dispel the heat on her face, much less the mess in her panties...

Once back at the detective agency, she immediately took a shower. Afterward, she lay in bed, tossing and turning, her mind full of restless thoughts.

She was especially sensitive to every little sound coming from next door.

Perhaps now that she had reached a mature age, she truly couldn't handle such stimulation...

After suffering through most of the night, she finally fell asleep. The next morning, Miao Ruolan washed her face with cold water and felt refreshed. She washed her underwear, and last night's absurd affair flowed with the water into the Yishui River. She returned to normal.

Nothing happened that day, and another sunset arrived...

As the sun sank behind the peak of Dangjiashan in the west, and the spire of the ancient stone pagoda at Tashan Lake was bathed in the fading glow...

A black sedan came from the west and stopped outside the detective agency.

Lin Xiaosu and Miao Ruolan exchanged a glance. Miao Ruolan got up to make tea.

Zhou Mei, dressed in casual clothes and looking elegant, entered the detective agency. By the time Miao Ruolan turned around, she was already holding a cup of tea for her.

"Have a seat." Lin Xiaosu pointed at the sofa beside him.

Zhou Mei sat down. "You were in the willow tree last night."

"Yes. It was a client's commission," Lin Xiaosu said.

"So you saw that little bottle and where it was hidden with your own eyes."

"It's a little embarrassing to say, but that's the truth."

Lin Xiaosu showed no expression when he said it, but Miao Ruolan's cheeks reddened. The memories she had barely suppressed became poisonous weeds in her heart once more...

Zhou Mei lifted the teacup and took a small sip. "Why were you certain there was something wrong with that bottle?"

Lin Xiaosu said, "If it only contained an ordinary pleasure-enhancing product, she wouldn't have needed to hide it in such a secretive way. It would have made perfect sense to leave it openly on the bedside table."

This was modern society. Many things had become more open.

In ordinary hotel rooms, instant noodles, condoms, and products like Shenyou were often placed together for guests to use. That woman was a mistress being kept by a man, so why would she need to hide a pleasure-enhancing product so carefully? As Lin Xiaosu said, it wouldn't have been strange to place it directly on the bedside table.

On the contrary, she had hidden it in a bathroom compartment. When Wang Changfa came in, she had even stashed the bottle away with astonishing speed, hiding it from Wang Changfa as well. There was clearly something wrong.

"I really have to admire a detective's eye." Zhou Mei set down her teacup gently. "It contained a genetic toxin that was only recently added to the police database, code name P39! This genetic toxin is extremely unusual. It spreads through sexual contact, and the most remarkable thing is that it infects women but not men..."

Her voice suddenly stopped, because the two people before her showed no surprise whatsoever. Lin Xiaosu quietly drank tea, while Miao Ruolan sat quietly holding a book.

"You... you know about this toxin?"

Lin Xiaosu smiled. "You forgot to ask why my client hired me to investigate her."

"Your client was infected with this toxin?"

"Yes. She's Wang Changfa's legal wife. Not only was she poisoned, she also has a family doctor whose understanding of this toxin is probably no less than that of your police department. She told us everything you just said. What we wanted was merely confirmation!"

"Now it's confirmed! You've completed her commission!"

Miao Ruolan smiled, delighted.

A commission worth one hundred thousand yuan, completed in a single night!

This one job had earned more than the previous half month combined!

Lin Xiaosu smiled as well. "Did that woman confess?"

"No," Zhou Mei said.

Miao Ruolan was slightly startled. "You caught her in the act, and she still won't admit it?"

"We caught her fooling around with Wang Changfa. Of course she admits that. But she won't admit that the bottle contains a new toxin! She insists that it contains Oudu Shenyou, which she bought through an overseas proxy to enhance pleasure. She has a receipt, and the purchase trail checks out. We even caught the proxy buyer in the south and tested all the Shenyou in that person's inventory. They were all normal Shenyou, with no toxins added."

"It's precisely the receipt that's suspicious!" Miao Ruolan said.

"Hm?" Zhou Mei stared at her.

Miao Ruolan said, "Under normal circumstances, who would keep the receipt for buying something so embarrassing in a bedside table for inspection at any time? She put the receipt in the bedside table so she could produce it whenever necessary. Isn't that suspicious?"

Zhou Mei smiled. "Mm, that makes sense. Go on..."

"There's only one possibility!" Miao Ruolan said. "She deliberately set up that proxy purchase route, using it as cover for deliberately adding the toxin. She had clearly been preparing in advance for the day things were exposed."

Zhou Mei nodded lightly. "Not bad. You, a little detective who switched careers halfway through, are starting to get somewhere under Detective Lin's guidance!"

Miao Ruolan felt a little pleased. "Even I can see it, so you can see it even more clearly. No matter how she argues, she won't escape the law in the end!"