Su Momo looked utterly shocked, covering her mouth as she stared at Lin Qingqiu sitting in the sports car.
“Momo, don’t talk nonsense. Nothing happened. There was an emergency at home, and I was in such a rush I lost a shoe,” Lin Qingqiu explained.
However, her words clearly lacked conviction.
“Tsk tsk tsk~ Looks like our campus belle has already been picked~” Su Momo teased, shifting her gaze toward Mo Cinian.
To be fair, Mo Cinian’s looks were outstanding—his face handsome like jade, his eyes bright like stars, with a constant faint smile that gave him the air of the elegant second male lead from a female-oriented novel.
“Campus belle?” Mo Cinian raised his eyebrows.
Indeed, in these urban fantasy novels, authors loved this kind of flowery setup. The female lead was either a campus belle, a police flower, or a cold CEO.
But in real life? Campus belles weren’t that common.
He had only ever seen them in local web forums.
…
Though Su Momo spoke bluntly, she was sharp enough to notice Lin Qingqiu’s mood wasn’t good.
As Lin Qingqiu’s best friend, she was one of the few who knew her true background.
“Qingqiu, put your shoes on. Let’s go back to the dorm. I just received a big snack package I ordered online. Let’s binge on it tonight~”
After getting out of the car, Lin Qingqiu quickly followed Su Momo like she was fleeing, not daring to look back even once.
…
“Tsk tsk tsk… This female lead runs fast!” Mo Cinian sat in the driver’s seat, the smile on his lips looking particularly sly.
In his previous life, Mo Cinian had been through many battles—cool beauties, legal lolis… he had seen them all.
Lin Qingqiu’s figure and appearance easily scored ninety points by his standards.
Moreover, she was exceptionally… ahem!
Of course, Mo Cinian hadn’t done anything inappropriate, and he didn’t have x-ray vision either.
It was all valuable experience.
“Sigh~ I wonder how Ye Chen’s doing now! Your little female lead is way more useful than you. She’s given me almost ten thousand collapse points in half a day, and you’ve only given me three thousand? So stingy!”
Mo Cinian complained.
But then…
???
What was going on?
Mo Cinian was puzzled.
…
At this moment, Ye Chen was completely losing it.
“Get lost! Believe it or not, I’ll kill you! If you keep staring, I’ll gouge your eyes out!”
Ye Chen shouted, pointing at a thin man in the bathroom.
Yes, a man.
After entering the detention center, Ye Chen had easily subdued the rowdy young guys, and he thought everything would be fine.
But the real trouble came from this seemingly quiet, harmless man.
When he ate, the man watched him.
When he slept, the man sneaked over to his side—and sometimes… even touched him!
The most outrageous part—this guy followed him to the bathroom too!
Even with his eyes closed, Ye Chen could feel the creepy gaze burning into him.
If it were a beautiful woman, maybe it would’ve been tolerable.
But—this was a man!
At first, Ye Chen had ignored him, giving a contemptuous look. After all, wasn’t he well-endowed? Just seeing it should’ve made the other guy feel inferior, right?
But when he saw the excitement in the guy’s eyes, he started to panic.
Later, he heard that this man was in for molestation… of other men… and not just one victim.
Ye Chen truly panicked.
Could he fight?
If violence worked, those young punks wouldn’t have been so afraid of him. Beating this guy might only make him more excited.
Even though Ye Chen was a ‘Little Miracle Doctor,’ healing minds wasn’t his specialty.
He couldn’t cure perverts.
So he tried to stay far away from this weirdo.
Ye Chen pleaded, thinking back to the words his master had told him before he left the mountain—’The people outside are complicated.’
Now he understood. ‘Complicated’ didn’t even begin to cover it.
This was just insane!
Luckily, his begging worked a little. The thin man hobbled out, closing the door behind him.
But… Ye Chen could still feel that chilling gaze.
Through the door crack, he could see a pair of eyes—twisted, sick, crazed.
“Ahhh!!!”
Ye Chen had a feeling he wouldn’t be getting any sleep tonight.
…
“Qingqiu, I’m really sorry. I didn’t know about what happened at home today,” Su Momo apologized sincerely in their dorm room.
Thinking back to her teasing earlier, she felt guilty—she had unknowingly rubbed salt into Lin Qingqiu’s wounds.
“It’s fine,” Lin Qingqiu forced out a smile.
Su Momo fell silent. She knew no amount of comfort could truly help—only time could heal the pain of losing a loved one.
Lin Qingqiu returned to her desk, pondering for a moment before pulling out a sheet of paper.
She picked up a pen and began scribbling.
“Mangyang Street corner bank… no, no, security footage there only keeps for about a month. But how did Mo Cinian get those recordings?”
“And that guy with the username ‘Xiao Laodi’—there are so many people with that username. It’s impossible to filter through them one by one unless I can get Lin Hua’s chat history… but that’s impossible too.”
“If it wasn’t an accident… could I get the police to reopen the case? Have them reinvestigate the crash? Since it was a murder-for-hire, there must be traces!”
“But… it’s been three years. Even if there was evidence, it would’ve disappeared by now. How did Mo Cinian get that stuff?”
Clearly, Lin Qingqiu hadn’t given up on bringing down Lin Hua with her own strength.
She still wanted to try one last time.
“Yes! Tomorrow, I’ll go to the police station and see if I can get them to reopen the investigation into the accident. If it was hired murder, there must be some clues.”
Her expression grew increasingly determined.
She had a good memory. Even though she only glanced through the evidence Mo Cinian showed her for a few minutes, she remembered many key details, names, and terms.
She was ready… to make one final desperate gamble!