On the second floor of the mall, inside Tianhai Teahouse.
Ren Ye stood before a display case of premium goods, picked up an exquisitely packaged tea cake, and softly read its label aloud. "Thousand-year Wisdom Source Tea, harvested from the Fourth Grade Mount Tuo Secret Realm. One sip takes you through the gates of immortality; Wisdom Source grants eternal life. A unique divine tea for enlightenment in the Yin-Yang System. Two thousand Star Source per gram."
Xiao Shuai stood beside him, looking at the tea cake. "The fragrance seeps right through the oiled paper. Just smelling it revitalizes you. Good stuff."
"Heh."
Ren Ye gave a cold laugh and turned to look at him. "Your family's pretty well-off, isn't it...!"
"We do all right." Xiao Shuai blinked. "Why?"
"Nothing."
Ren Ye said nothing more and simply returned the tea cake to the display case.
A short while later, a middle-aged man in a suit hurried out. "Who's looking for me?"
A staff member pointed at Ren Ye and Xiao Shuai and said quietly, "The building's inspectors."
"These people just won't leave me alone."
The suited man muttered irritably, then walked over to Ren Ye. "Look, Inspector, why are you here again?!"
"Is there a problem?" Ren Ye looked at him.
"Not exactly." The suited man replied with a slightly impatient expression, "But you've already come three or four times about Old Yan, and I've told you everything I can. There really aren't any new leads. If you keep questioning me like this, it'll affect my business... people will think I've done something wrong."
"All Old Yan did that day was sit in a private room and drink a pot of tea. He stayed no more than twenty minutes, and nobody saw when he left or who he left with. Besides,