A moment later, two members of the Qi family and a dog sat facing two people from the firm and a dog, forming two distinct camps.
Qi Dian stood in the middle.
Yue Wen looked at the two people opposite him, still feeling a little awkward. "So you're the uncle and younger sister. I'm really sorry about that."
Zhao Xing'er gave an awkward smile. "How did this even happen?"
Qi's father looked at the two young people opposite him, his expression rather displeased. "So these are the chivalrous hero and the refined young lady you mentioned? What a unique way to pay New Year's respects..."
Qi Dian rubbed his temples. "There must have been some misunderstanding. Brother Yue, Xing'er, explain what happened." Yue Wen told them how he and Zhao Xing'er had investigated the gold thefts. After getting the address from the three little ones of Meow Meow Meow, they had hurried over. The security in the villa complex was no obstacle, and when they reached the Qi family's villa, they spotted Qi's father and daughter with the canine suspect. They had assumed that the two were behind the spirit beast thefts.
They hadn't expected to pin down Qi's father and daughter instead.
Qi Dian's father was a fairly well-known entrepreneur in River City. He certainly wouldn't have spirit beasts steal money for him.
After hearing the whole story, Qi's father's expression softened a little. "So the key to this case is this spirit dog."
He looked at the golden spirit dog in his daughter's arms.
The golden spirit dog didn't know whether it could understand human speech or had simply felt everyone's gaze turn toward it, but it suddenly grew frightened and burrowed deeper into Qi Jingxia's embrace, trembling.
"Little Gold?" Qi Jingxia stared at her spirit dog. "I