Villa Allure

"Are you going to investigate this case?"

"Yeah!"

"Wait a second, let me shut down the computer..." Miao Ruolan stood up as well.

"...Well..."

"What do you mean, 'well'? Under the current circumstances, I absolutely won't allow you to go out and investigate alone," Miao Ruolan said.

All right then...

Lin Xiaosu could only compromise.

He truly hadn't planned on taking her along. Why? Because this case was special, and it would definitely involve things unsuitable for children. A man and a woman alone in the same room was awkward enough; being alone together while watching porn was a little dangerous...

But she had a point. Given the unusual circumstances, before they were ready to lift the lid, it was best not to go out alone, especially at night...

Outside Red Star Pharmaceuticals, Lin Xiaosu and Miao Ruolan sat by the pond like a young couple out on a spring excursion.

They waited.

They waited for the target to appear.

As the sun set, the target finally appeared. Wang Changfa was in his forties, the prime of a man's life. He had money and was not old yet; the dreams of his youth had become within reach. More fatally, his wife did not keep him in check. If a man like that did not spread his wings now, when would he?

Beside the Speedster outside, his driver bent respectfully. "Boss, heading home?"

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

Then Wang Changfa got into the car, and the Speedster sped away, racing toward the south side of the city.

Behind the Speedster, Miao Ruolan drove quickly, but her engine simply lacked the power. Seeing the Speedster about to vanish from sight, she grew anxious. "We may need to buy a car. We're at too much of a disadvantage investigating cases like this."

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

For the latter half of the journey, he guided Miao Ruolan as she drove, and after twisting and turning through seven bends and eight corners, they arrived at Tashan Lake.

On the side of Tashan Lake closest to Tashan was a villa district.

Phoenix City's wealthy people all liked building private villas here.

With mountains at their backs and water at their side, the place possessed endless elegance. But the villas here were mysterious. Almost no important figure came forward personally; most were represented by others, whether lovers or family members. Land was enclosed and houses built in their names, though they actually belonged to those important figures—of course, important by small-county standards.

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

Miao Ruolan narrowed her eyes and saw it.

That Speedster had just pulled into the garage, and the garage door closed behind it.

Very discreet...

If not for him, she would probably have lost track of it...

Miao Ruolan parked her little electric scooter beneath the shade of the willows as well.

"What now?"

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

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

"That one!" Lin Xiaosu pointed lightly.

It was a great willow beside the villa. At this season, tender willow fluff drifted on the breeze. The vigorous old willow, its branches so tender they seemed ready to drip water, the clear Tashan Lake, the towering Tashan, and the elegantly furnished villas along the shore together formed Tashan's beautiful scenery.

From this old willow, they could see the second floor while sitting in its branches.

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...

"Go!"

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

The next instant, Lin Xiaosu vanished from the spot as well.

They landed on the willow 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 Insight Eye tore through space-time and reversed it!

Day and night rapidly shifted before him. Suddenly, his heart jolted. 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 tracing back, and the most thrilling scene appeared.

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

The room had curtains, but the wind had been strong yesterday. When it blew, Lin Xiaosu still caught sight of half the bed.

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 up, and then...

If he wanted to determine whether she had poisoned him, the best method was to see for himself whether she was infected. If she was infected, there was a high chance she was a victim as well. If she was not infected, the likelihood that she was the poisoner shot straight up, because it meant she had detoxified herself in advance.

During this Temporal Reversal, all he saw was that the two of them had played through a whole pile of mosaics yesterday.

But the curtains obscured too much. He honestly could not see clearly enough and needed a closer look.

Lin Xiaosu withdrew from Temporal Reversal and switched his vision to the present scene.

The target he locked onto was someone bathing at this very moment...

There were no curtains in the bathroom.

Only glass.

Once steam fogged up the glass, ordinary people could not see anything at all.

But how formidable was Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Insight Eye?

The mist automatically cleared beneath the Heavenly Insight Eye. Even though the glass reflected light, it was nowhere near enough to obstruct his view.

With water rushing down in a loud patter, he saw the most exquisite sight.

Everything he should and should not have seen, he saw it all...

She was not infected!

After she finished washing, a new scene unfolded, and Lin Xiaosu's heart gave a violent leap...

Her hand reached toward the small platform in the bathroom where the shower gel sat. Her slender fingers pressed three times in succession. A hidden compartment opened inside, revealing a metal bottle. She opened the bottle, and inside was a pale red liquid. She smeared the liquid somewhere, even carefully smoothing the edges...

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

Someone seemed to knock on the bathroom door.

No sound came through, but Lin Xiaosu could still see the ripples in the airflow at the door with his Heavenly Insight Eye, indicating a knock.

The beauty flipped her hand, moving with extreme 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 bashful smile appeared on her face as she opened the bathroom door.

Outside was naturally Wang Changfa. He opened his arms and embraced the woman before him. She curled up in his arms. Lin Xiaosu stared at her mouth. He could not hear her voice, but he possessed the mysterious skill of lip-reading.

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

This skill was not easy to master, but Lin Xiaosu had been studying diligently lately and had still managed to grasp it.

Why had he insisted on acquiring this skill?

Because it was a major weakness of Temporal Reversal.

Temporal 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 soundless scenes from Temporal Reversal replay the voices from that time within 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 something unsuitable for children happened right there in the bathroom.