Lin Shi smiled.
His smile was always so dazzling. If people did not know what he was really like, they might truly be fooled by that carefully crafted smile.
But the person sitting before him was Yan Yi'an, a man who had carved the words "stay vigilant" into his forehead from the very beginning.
"Why bother brushing me off with that kind of rhetoric, President Yan?" Lin Shi pushed the recorder directly toward Yan Yi'an. "I came here in good faith."
The recorder slid unimpeded across the smooth tabletop toward Yan Yi'an. "Su Su is certainly nothing. You could crush her with one finger, President Yan. But aren't you curious about what she revealed?"
"Even if you are not curious about anything else, about that claim that the Yan Household only has four children... are you really as calm as you look?"
As he spoke, Lin Shi shook his head with the regretful flourish of an opera singer finishing an aria, expressing his disbelief through both his movements and his words.
Yan Yi'an looked at Lin Shi as though he were an idiot.
"Have you never been set up before?"
Lin Shi froze, unsure how the subject had suddenly shifted there.
But out of curiosity, he honestly shook his head.
Yan Yi'an said, "Some fortune-tellers, in order to make a name for themselves and prove how accurate they are, will hire some thugs when they foresee bloody misfortune for a client. They will have them beat up the client at a location they specify."
Yan Yi'an said, "What kind of proof do you think a little girl could arrange?"
"Do you want two pieces of candy today?"
Lin Shi said, "You mean Su Su thinks she is the protagonist because someone around her has been cooperating with that Master, reinforcing