Chapter 34

000 was furious but dared not speak, watching him accept the task and prepare to keep tormenting Shi Zhongye.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: Leave this task to me. 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 curly brown hair sticking out from beneath its brim. He said disdainfully, "Why not say penguins should wear bikinis?"

Xu Zhiman sized up his traditional British-style trench coat, like a walking copy of The Times. "I was about to say I successfully got a Pinduoduo bargain. Why are you in the office? Still producing your fashion designs?"

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

He was preparing to stake out Shen Qinghuai.

A super detective, seriously handling a case!

000 quietly crouched beside him. [Host, how could Shen Qinghuai possibly harm the company? He clearly loves his work.]

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 drop dead as soon as possible.]

The three greatest joys in life: getting promoted, getting rich, and watching the boss die.

Nothing else. Just pure hatred.

They should all die. Every last one.

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

[Shen Qinghuai isn't human.]

He told 000 with absolute conviction.

[Huh?] 000 hurriedly flipped through the book, checking whether the original story involved superpowers, fantasy, or Cthulhu.

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

000: .

000: [Say robot, not bot. Civility starts with you and me.]

But the mission could not fail. Shi Jihan would take action himself.

He confidently contacted Shi Zhongye, preparing to send over the photos he had taken today.

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

Zhou Jingcheng's phone vibrated.

He took it out, saw that Detective Old Wang had sent a message, and tossed the phone to Shi Zhongye, who had been lingering in his office without leaving. "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 days. Even when Zhou Jingcheng said, "You don't come here every day because you still have feelings for Xiao Yuan, do you?" it no longer worked on Shi Zhongye. After jumping to his feet in outrage, Shi Zhongye still showed up here as reliably as ever.

Zhou Jingcheng had to deal with his brother's family problems while also handling the PR crisis Pei Mingxuan had caused.

No matter how he thought about it, he was the one getting the short end of the stick.

He opened his computer, began applying for double pay, then called home and told Old President Zhou to get up and approve it immediately.

Pretending not to understand his brother's speechless expression, Shi Zhongye caught the phone and saw an explosive first message.

[AAA Detective Old Wang: I found out. Shen Qinghuai is not only harming the company, but he has also caused enormous 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 the first photo. Shen Qinghuai was standing in front of the coffee machine with a coffee cup in hand, lowering his head to text.

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 colluding with them?]

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

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

Shi Zhongye waited to see just how serious it was.

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

Shi Zhongye's rising anger meter was abruptly paused, and his mind went blank.

His eyes were vacant as he tried to understand just how severe a financial loss this could possibly 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 time before slowly beginning to work again. [Is he secretly transferring company secrets?]

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

Smack.

The phone fell freely and slammed onto Zhou Jingcheng's desk, startling Zhou Jingcheng, who was trying hard to squeeze money out of Old President Zhou.

"What are you doing?"

Shi Zhongye did not answer.

Zhou Jingcheng looked up and was startled by the devastated expression on his brother's face. "What, does Shen Qinghuai really have a problem?" He picked up the phone and looked at 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 such an enormous amount of losses. It was truly eye-opening.

Shi Zhongye looked as though he had been bombarded by grenades in succession, white smoke hissing from above his head. Like a medium-rare steak, his voice began to tremble. "This is the first time I've met someone like Old Wang."

Really, it was eye-opening.

Seeing how poorly Shi Zhongye could handle it, Zhou Jingcheng somehow felt a bizarre sense of superiority. "Then you still have a long way to go. But it's fine. Spend more time with your little brother, and you'll improve your tolerance too."

Shi Zhongye blanked out and replied on instinct, "Shi Jihan? What does this have to do with him?"

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

He suddenly stopped halfway through.

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

That strange sense of familiarity began rising again. Zhou Jingcheng reopened the **Zero transfer page. "Shi Zhongye, you were going to pay him the remaining balance, right?"

Shi Zhongye slowly died inside. "I don't want to anymore."

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

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

He was going to make Old Wang unbind it and change cards.

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

Secretary Sun adjusted his glasses, immensely proud of his own president. "You don't understand. Our boss said to transfer money into the card one cent at a time. After a few 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 worked his magic, Shi Jihan quickly discovered that the virtual account 000 had linked for him had been frozen.

By coincidence, Shi Zhongye messaged him at that moment to say he wanted to pay the remaining balance. While grumbling that 000 was useless, Shi Jihan gave him his own bank card.

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

Zhou Jingcheng opened the account that had received the transfer for the third time, as familiar with it as if he had returned home.

His mind was filled with one thought: It was you, wasn't it? It really was you, wasn't it?

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

Seeing how concerned he was, Shi Zhongye leaned over and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong 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.

** Jihan.

** Jihan!!

Zhou Jingcheng clenched his fists at once.

He grabbed Shi Zhongye's head, which had already retreated, pulled it back, 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 one-click sharpening, and let AI optimize it.

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

A blurry dog paw was resting on the ground.

A dog. Paw.

Zhou Jingcheng felt as though lightning had struck him. In a flash of revelation, 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 and earn money from your second brother?

Was that even 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 twice, heard this and asked, "What joke? Was 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 edited him out!

Wait. Zhou Jingcheng finally snapped out of the equation where Old Wang was Shi Jihan and the lead in the intimate photos was Shi Jihan, and understood the most crucial link.

So when Shi Jihan repeatedly invited him out to play, he had not actually been inviting him—he had been inviting Pizza?

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

Why edit him out? Zhou Jingcheng wanted to confront Detective Old Wang on the spot, but realizing he did not really have grounds 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 ask that all of a sudden?]

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