Zhuang Mengdie's Resolute Decision

Miao Ruolan's body trembled lightly. To be precise, her legs were shaking a little...

"We can call Zhuang Mengdie now!" A voice slipped into her ears.

"Now?"

"Yes!"

Miao Ruolan's phone lit up faintly, and a number was dialed into the distance.

The call connected.

Miao Ruolan lowered her voice and gave an address.

Then she ended the call.

The glow of the phone vanished, and the surroundings fell silent. Only the bathroom ten meters away still contained an endlessly thrilling scene.

Though Miao Ruolan could neither hear clearly nor see clearly, her imagination was deadly.

She could not bear such a scene.

What about Lin Xiaosu?

She slowly raised her head and looked at Lin Xiaosu. From this angle, he was rather handsome, but the little handsome guy's brows were clearly furrowed.

"What's wrong?"

"Our Sister Zhuang is ruthless in her actions. She actually brought the police straight 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. Its license plate was—

"Zhou Mei's car!"

"Yes, Captain Zhang is here too! What reason did she use to report this? If she reported it on drug grounds, then she really is vicious!"

Ordinary moral misconduct did not warrant calling the police.

Ordinary sexual impropriety certainly would not bring out Captain Zhang, the head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade.

But if drugs were involved, that was a matter on an entirely different level.

Zhuang Mengdie had caught her husband cheating, yet she actually dared report a drug case?

Three vehicles stopped some distance away. More than ten plainclothes officers got out at once, all targeting this villa. Once outside the villa, they sprang up together with a whoosh!

With one hand braced against the wall, they lifted themselves up and vaulted over the five-meter-high 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 hound, stretched out one hand, leaped up, grabbed the edge of the second floor, and climbed onto it in one clean, efficient motion.

There was a brief pause inside the bathroom. The next moment, the bathroom door was shoved open. Even without looking, Lin Xiaosu could imagine the complete mess inside.

"Hands up!"

Captain Zhang's voice was extremely steady.

"Officer, we..."

"Cut the crap! Stand against the wall!"

The door opened, and Zhou Mei entered the villa with the other officers. What met their eyes was truly... unbearable to look at.

A naked man stood facing outward with his back against the wall. A woman, wrapped in a bath towel, clutched one corner of it tightly as she crouched on the floor.

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

The two of them trembled like leaves, utterly at a loss over how to deal with the situation before them.

"Search!" Captain Zhang gave the order, and fierce police dogs appeared, searching the first floor, second floor, 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 found? What was wrong with the informant? Had they made a false report? The situation before him truly did not look like a drug den. It looked more like the usual drama of keeping a mistress in a golden house.

I am the dignified captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and you dragged me out in the dead of night to do this?

Just as he found himself riding a tiger with no way to dismount, 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 message came from: "A Bit of a Bastard Little Detective."

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

Two officers were still searching the bathroom. In truth, the bathroom was the easiest place to search, since there was so little inside.

They had found no useful clues and were preparing to leave when Zhou Mei entered. She carefully examined the small platform holding the various body washes, extended a finger, felt around the third compartment, and pressed it three times in succession.

Without a sound, a hidden compartment flipped open inside. A metal tube appeared in her palm. She opened it, revealing red liquid within.

Zhou Mei's heartbeat quickened. Holding the metal tube, she walked outside, and the beautiful woman crouching against the wall suddenly changed color.

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

"What is this?" Zhou Mei asked.

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

Wrapped in her bath towel, she trotted into the bedroom and truly did take out a receipt from the bedside table. It was an overseas purchase; the product name was Odu Aphrodisiac Oil. Its features matched the metal tube and the liquid inside perfectly.

Captain Zhang's brow furrowed tightly. Was there really a problem with this? Why had the police dogs shown no reaction despite being so close?

"Take it back for testing," Zhou Mei said, turning her gaze toward Captain Zhang.

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

"Captain, this... this isn't necessary, is it? At most, this is a moral issue. It's not illegal..." Wang Changfa said.

"Whether it's illegal isn't for you to decide! Take them away!" Captain Zhang waved his hand and withdrew the team.

As she left the villa, Zhou Mei swept her gaze around the area and past the willow trees, leaving a meaningful look on the willow tree where Lin Xiaosu had been...

She had clearly already guessed that someone was in that willow tree.

But she could not see exactly behind which branch they were hiding.

In fact, she had guessed wrong. At this moment, no one was in the willow tree.

Lin Xiaosu and Miao Ruolan had already withdrawn.

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

Not even Captain Zhang knew.

Miao Ruolan rode her little electric scooter back to the detective agency with Lin Xiaosu behind her. The May night wind was cool, but it could not blow away the heat on her face, much less the complete mess in her panties...

The moment they returned to the detective agency, she took a shower. Afterward, she lay in bed, tossing and turning, her heart a restless monkey and her thoughts a racing horse.

She became extraordinarily sensitive to every tiny sound coming from next door.

Perhaps now that she had reached a mature age, she truly could not withstand such stimulation...

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

Nothing happened all day, until another sunset arrived...

As the setting sun sank behind the peak of Dangjia Mountain to the west, and the spire of the ancient stone pagoda on distant Tashan was soaked in the afterglow...

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

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

Zhou Mei entered the detective agency in casual clothes, graceful and elegant. By the time Miao Ruolan turned around, she was already holding a teacup for her.

"Sit," Lin Xiaosu said, pointing at the sofa beside him.

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

"Yes. It was at the client's request," Lin Xiaosu said.

Zhou Mei said, "So you saw that little bottle with your own eyes, as well as where it was hidden."

"Though it's rather embarrassing to say, that is indeed what happened."

Lin Xiaosu showed no expression as he said this, but Miao Ruolan's cheeks flushed. The memories she had worked so hard to suppress once more became poisonous weeds in her heart...

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

Lin Xiaosu said, "If the bottle only contained an ordinary mood-enhancing product, she had no need to hide it in such a secretive manner. It would have been perfectly reasonable to leave it openly on the bedside table."

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

In ordinary hotel rooms, it was common to see instant noodles, condoms, and things like aphrodisiac oil placed together for anyone to use. That woman was a mistress being kept by a man, so why would she need to hide a mood-enhancing product so secretly? Just as Lin Xiaosu had said, there would have been nothing strange about leaving it directly on the bedside table.

On the contrary, she had hidden it in a bathroom compartment. Even when Wang Changfa came in, she had used extremely swift movements to put the bottle away, hiding it even from Wang Changfa. There was clearly something wrong.

"I truly have to admire a detective's eye." Zhou Mei gently set down her teacup. "It contained a Genetic Toxin, one that was only recently added to the police database, codenamed P39! This Genetic Toxin is extremely strange. It spreads through sexual contact, and its most marvelous trait is that it passes to women but not men..."

Her voice suddenly stopped, because the two people before her showed no surprise at all. Lin Xiaosu drank tea quietly, while Miao Ruolan sat quietly with a book in her hands.

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

"Now it has been confirmed! You completed her commission!"

Miao Ruolan smiled, delighted.

A one-hundred-thousand-yuan commission, completed in one night!

The earnings from this single job were greater than everything from the previous half month combined!

Lin Xiaosu smiled too. "Did that woman confess?"

"She didn't," Zhou Mei said.

Miao Ruolan was slightly startled. "You caught her red-handed, and she still won't admit it?"

"We caught her fooling around with Wang Changfa. Of course she admits that. But the issue is this new toxin—she won't admit to that! She insists that the bottle contained Odu Aphrodisiac Oil, purchased through overseas resellers to enhance the mood. There's a receipt, and the entire purchase trail checks out. We also caught the reseller in the south and tested every bottle of aphrodisiac oil in that person's stock. They were all normal aphrodisiac oil, with no toxin added."

"The receipt is precisely what makes it suspicious," Miao Ruolan said.

"Hm?" Zhou Mei stared at her.

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

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

"There is only one possibility!" Miao Ruolan said. "She deliberately set up that overseas purchasing route and used it as cover for deliberately adding the toxin. She had long prepared for the day when the truth would come to light."

Zhou Mei nodded lightly. "Not bad. You little detective who switched careers halfway through are finally getting 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 ultimately won't escape the net of the law!"