Chapter 34

Zero-Zero-Zero dared not speak out in anger as he watched him accept the task and prepare to keep wreaking havoc on Shi Zhongye.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: Leave this task to me, sir. Rest assured!]

[This Is a Small Account: [smiling soybean]]

When everyone returned to work on Monday, they were astonished to find Shi Jihan actually sitting at his desk.

After Xu Zhiman entered the office, he took two steps back and looked out the window. "Did the sun rise in the west today?"

Shi Jihan adjusted his detective hat. Several tufts of little brown curls poked up beneath its brim. He said disdainfully, "Why don't you say penguins should wear bikinis?"

Xu Zhiman sized up his traditional British-style trench coat, like a walking copy of The Times. "I was going to say I finally succeeded in getting a Pinduoduo discount. What are you doing at the office? Continuing to produce your fashion designs?"

"Doing actual work. No time to deal with you." Shi Jihan told him to move aside, walked straight past him, and slipped into the break room.

He was preparing to stake out Shen Qinghuai.

A super detective, earnestly handling a case!

Zero-Zero-Zero secretly crouched nearby with him. [Host, how could Shen Qinghuai possibly harm the company? He clearly loves his job.]

Shi Jihan disagreed. [How is that possible? I believe every employee has a heart that wants the company to go bankrupt and the boss to die as soon as possible.]

The three great joys in life: promotion, getting rich, and a dead boss.

Nothing else. Just pure hatred.

All dead. Every last one of them dead.

After monitoring Shen Qinghuai around the clock, Shi Jihan actually discovered something unusual.

[Shen Qinghuai isn't human.]

He told Zero-Zero-Zero this firmly.

[Huh?] Zero-Zero-Zero hurriedly flipped through the book, checking whether the original story involved superpowers, fantasy, or Cthulhu.

[How could a human genuinely love working from the bottom of his heart? Shen Qinghuai is a work machine, isn't he?] Shi Jihan was utterly baffled.

Zero-Zero-Zero: .

Zero-Zero-Zero: [Say machine, not "right?" Let's all be civilized.]

But the mission could not fail. Shi Jihan would handle it himself.

Quite confidently, he contacted Shi Zhongye and prepared to send over the photos he had taken today.

Such a tiny mission—wouldn't this be an easy win?

-

Zhou Jingcheng's phone buzzed.

He took it out, saw that Detective Old Wang had sent a message, and tossed the phone to Shi Zhongye, who was loitering in his office and refusing to leave. "A message came in. Look at it yourself."

He was starting to regret using his own alt account to chat with Old Wang.

Shi Zhongye had been haunting him for several days in a row. Even after Zhou Jingcheng said, "You don't come here every day because you still have feelings for Xiao Yuan, do you?" it had stopped working on Shi Zhongye. Though the man had bristled, he still came to report in at his office every day without fail.

Zhou Jingcheng had to resolve his brother's family affairs while also handling the public relations crisis caused by Pei Mingxuan.

No matter how he looked at it, he was the one getting the short end of the stick.

He opened his computer and started applying for double pay, then made another call home, telling old President Zhou to get up and approve it immediately.

Shi Zhongye pretended not to understand his brother's speechlessness. Catching the phone, he saw that the first message was extremely explosive.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: I've found out that Shen Qinghuai not only harms the company, but has also caused it major financial losses!]

Shi Zhongye hurriedly replied: [That serious? Looks like I underestimated him.]

[Send me the evidence. If it involves major financial losses, I'll give you double the bonus after I pay the remaining balance!]

Old Wang quickly sent over the first photo. It showed Shen Qinghuai standing before the coffee machine with a coffee cup in hand, looking down at his phone as he texted.

Shi Zhongye immediately imagined a plausible corporate espionage scenario and was furious.

[This Is a Small Account: Is he secretly meeting with a rival company and conspiring with them?]

[This Is a Small Account: He has no regard for anyone at all! The company cameras are watching him right there!]

[AAA Detective Old Wang: What he's doing is serious, but not as serious as what you said.]

Shi Zhongye waited impatiently to hear just how serious it was.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: Shen Qinghuai drinks three cups of coffee a day, causing the coffee bean consumption to seriously exceed the limit!]

Shi Zhongye's rising fury abruptly hit pause, and his mind went blank.

His eyes were vacant as he tried to understand just how severe a financial loss this behavior could cause the company.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: And that's not all. Look at this photo.]

Shi Zhongye looked at Shen Qinghuai sitting at his desk late at night, typing at his computer. His brain lagged for a long while before slowly starting up again. [Is he secretly transferring company secrets?]

[AAA Detective Old Wang: Wrong. He works overtime until late at night with both the air conditioner and computer on. What does that mean? It means he's making the company's electricity bills skyrocket!]

With a slap.

The phone dropped freely onto Zhou Jingcheng's desk, startling Zhou Jingcheng, who was trying his best to pry money out of old President Zhou.

"What are you doing?"

Shi Zhongye did not answer.

Zhou Jingcheng looked up and was startled by how badly shaken his brother looked. "What, does Shen Qinghuai actually have a problem?" He picked up the phone and looked through the chat history with Old Wang.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: [photo][photo][photo]]

[AAA Detective Old Wang: And he often gets things for free, steals water and electricity in the office, and even uses the bathroom while on the clock!]

Zhou Jingcheng was silent for a long time before saying, "My God. What an enormous financial loss."

It was his first time seeing a loss of such magnitude. What an eye-opener.

Shi Zhongye looked like he had been repeatedly bombarded by grenades. White smoke sizzled from above his head, making him resemble a medium-rare steak. His voice began to tremble. "It's my first time meeting someone like Old Wang."

Truly, what an eye-opener.

Seeing how poorly he handled it, Zhou Jingcheng unexpectedly felt a bizarre sense of superiority. "Then you're still lacking. But it's fine—spend more time with your younger brother, and you'll build up your tolerance too."

Shi Zhongye froze, then instinctively replied, "Shi Jihan? What does he have to do with this?"

Zhou Jingcheng smiled as if watching a show. "Of course, because he and this Old Wang—"

He abruptly stopped halfway through.

Damn, that was right. Meeting even one person like this was rare enough. How unlucky did someone have to be to meet two in a row?

That strange sense of familiarity surged up again. Zhou Jingcheng reopened Zero-Zero-Zero's transfer page. "Shi Zhongye, you were going to pay him the remaining balance, right?"

Shi Zhongye slowly died inside. "Not anymore."

The 18,888 had already made him look like a complete idiot.

"No, you do." Zhou Jingcheng called Secretary Sun over and instructed him, "Go check that card number immediately. Once you find it, freeze the bank card."

He wanted Old Wang to unlink it and change cards.

Shi Zhongye asked, "You can do that? Make the bank freeze someone else's bank card?"

Secretary Sun pushed up his glasses, feeling extremely proud of his own president. "You don't understand. Our boss said that if you transfer money into the card one cent at a time, after several dozen transfers, the bank will immediately flag it for risk control."

Shi Zhongye could not believe it. "What exactly is there to be proud of?"

Zhou Jingcheng did not care. A domineering president had plenty of methods.

After Secretary Sun's operations, Shi Jihan quickly discovered that the virtual account Zero-Zero-Zero had linked for him had been frozen.

By coincidence, Shi Zhongye sent a message at that moment saying he wanted to pay the remaining balance. While grumbling that Zero-Zero-Zero was useless, Shi Jihan gave him his own bank card number.

With his second brother's intelligence, he definitely would not realize it was him ^-^

Chapter 34

When Zhou Jingcheng opened that Zero-Zero-Zero account for the third time, he navigated it as skillfully as if he were back in his own home.

His mind was full of one thought: It was you, wasn't it? It really was you, wasn't it?

He had never encountered a second person with such an unconventional train of thought.

Seeing how much he cared, Shi Zhongye leaned over and asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem with this account?"

Zhou Jingcheng's expression darkened as he shoved his head away. "Get lost."

AAA Detective Old Wang's bank card had indeed been changed.

Han.

Han!!

Zhou Jingcheng clenched his fists at once.

He grabbed Shi Zhongye's head, which had already retreated, yanked it back over, and gave it another hard shove. "Get the hell out of here!"

So it really was someone from your Shi Family!

He enlarged that roller coaster photo with the wide-open mouth again and again. He even paid for a VIP photo-editing app, used its one-click sharpening feature, and let AI optimize it.

At last, he discovered the true identity of that long-haired, wavy-haired beauty.

A blurry dog paw rested on the ground.

Dog. Paw.

Zhou Jingcheng seemed to have been struck by lightning. In that flash of insight, he understood the beauty's true identity.

It was actually his Pizza??

Wasn't that wavy wig on its head the one Shi Jihan had bought?

Having guessed the truth, Zhou Jingcheng looked dazed. You used a dog to spread rumors about your sister-in-law so you could scam money from your second brother?

Was that something a human brain could come up with?

Zhou Jingcheng took a deep breath and put on a professional fake smile. "Heaven really knows how to joke with me."

Shi Zhongye, whose head had rolled around twice, heard this and asked, "What joke? Is it funny?"

Tell him so he could have a laugh too.

Zhou Jingcheng glared at him, then glared at the photo of the two together.

That guy had even photoshopped him out!

Wait. Zhou Jingcheng finally snapped out of the equation that Old Wang was Shi Jihan and that Shi Jihan was the protagonist of the intimate photos, then figured out the most crucial link.

So Shi Jihan had invited him out time and again not because he was inviting him, but because he was inviting Pizza?

He stared fixedly at AAA Detective Old Wang's account. What is it, Shi Jihan? Does your romance plot with Pizza need a narrator? Or do you need a human tripod when the two of you hold hands and watch the sunset?

Why had he photoshopped him out? Zhou Jingcheng was about to question Detective Old Wang on the spot, but then remembered he did not seem to have any standing to question him. He held back and changed his wording.

[This Is a Small Account: Were there other people in the photos you sent? Why didn't you send them too?]

[AAA Detective Old Wang: Huh? Why are you suddenly asking that?]

[AAA Detective Old Wang: There were so many people at the amusement park, of course I cropped them out. They weren't important.]