Chapter 117
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Chapter 117: Assisting The Investigation
As they saw Liu Nanxi getting busy, Ye Xiao and Lu Shiqing exchanged a glance.
Lu Shiqing was a bit curious about how Ye Xiao knew Liu Nanxi.
Could it be that Ye Xiao and Liu Nanxi also had some unclear relationship?
Suddenly, Lu Shiqing felt that her guess might actually be on point. After all, Ye Xiao was bold and fearless—there was nothing she wouldn’t dare to do. Turning Liu Nanxi lesbian? Just a piece of cake for her.
Ye Xiao, on the other hand, felt like a cat was scratching at her heart. Liu Nanxi, a police officer, had somehow become a server at a crayfish restaurant after not seeing her for over ten days.
She didn’t believe for a second that a policewoman would quit her job to run a restaurant.
Even if Liu Nanxi wanted to, her parents probably wouldn’t allow it.
Honestly, this place was pretty out of the way—it took almost an hour to drive here from the city center. If Ye Xiao were opening a restaurant, she definitely wouldn’t choose such a remote location.
So the existence of this crayfish restaurant was more than a little suspicious.
What’s more, Ye Xiao recalled that one of the waiters who took their order earlier looked like someone she had seen at the station.
But for now, the priority was to devour the crayfish in front of them. After all, they were both hungry. Once Liu Nanxi wasn’t busy, the truth would naturally come to light.
So the two sat peeling crayfish, chatting and laughing on the surface while each harbored their own suspicions inside.
They had arrived relatively late and waited over half an hour for a table. By the time they finished eating, the previously packed crayfish shop had emptied out a bit.
Liu Nanxi was finally less busy. After handing off her remaining tasks to the male waiter, she made her way over to Ye Xiao and Lu Shiqing.
“You two, come upstairs with me!”
Liu Nanxi approached their table and called out.
The two exchanged a glance and followed Liu Nanxi upstairs.
“I assume you’ve already guessed—we’re currently executing an extremely sensitive operation. This crayfish restaurant is our undercover base of operations.” Liu Nanxi said seriously.
Ye Xiao was speechless. Why did this feel like the plot of something she’d seen before?
“Sis Nanxi, the target you’re monitoring… it wouldn’t happen to be that courier station across the street, would it?”
Ye Xiao pointed across the road through the window.
Liu Nanxi stood up immediately, staring seriously at Ye Xiao. “How did you know that?”
“Let me guess—your mentor insisted on solving the case, so you all set up shop here under cover of the crayfish restaurant?”
Liu Nanxi: ……
“And the money to open the crayfish place—was that fronted by that kinda-handsome errand boy?”
“No, the restaurant was funded by a special appropriation from the bureau,” Liu Nanxi explained.
Ye Xiao was a bit shocked. They could get official funding to open a restaurant just to crack a case?
“You don’t know this, Ye Xiao, but your Sis Nanxi is the niece of the city party secretary.”
Well, that explained it. With connections like that, getting budget approval didn’t seem far-fetched at all.
“Sis Liu, weren’t you a dispatcher? How come you’re suddenly going undercover?”
“Well, dispatch duty rotates. Everyone in the criminal investigations team takes shifts.” Liu Nanxi explained.
“I see. But judging by how booming your restaurant is, you seem kinda addicted to it, don’t you?”
Liu Nanxi blushed, wanting to refute her, but couldn’t find anything wrong with what Ye Xiao said.
They really had started to forget their original mission—business was just too good. Their hands ached from counting cash.
Though her family had some influence, they were at most upper-middle class. They never lacked food or clothes, but she had never experienced so much cash rolling in.
In just over ten days, the restaurant had already made a net profit of tens of thousands.
They were busy from morning till night—especially with Meituan orders coming in non-stop.
Even the old detective in charge of frying crayfish, who was about to retire, was seriously considering opening a crayfish shop after retirement.
Judging by Liu Nanxi’s reaction, Ye Xiao knew she’d hit the nail on the head.
“In any case, you two stay out of this. Just make sure not to go near that courier station across the street!”
With that, Liu Nanxi was ready to send them off.
Just then, a man in his thirties came upstairs.
“Master, what are you doing up here? Isn’t it busy downstairs?”
“Xiao Li can handle it.”
The man, whom Liu Nanxi called Master, looked toward Ye Xiao.
The porcelain-doll-like girl left a strong impression.
“You’re Ye Xiao, right?”
“Uncle, you know me? What’s going on?”
“I’m Zhang Cheng, captain of the Binhai City Criminal Investigation Division. There’s a case we need your help with. Did you happen to see the news fifteen days ago?”
“He’s the former CID captain now,” Liu Nanxi added playfully with a wink to Ye Xiao and Lu Shiqing.
“What news?”
“Fifteen days ago, some fishermen found a corpse while fishing in the Binjiang River. It made the news.”
Ye Xiao shook her head. She hadn’t been paying attention to local news. Fifteen days ago, wasn’t that when she had just saved Qin Yunxi?
“Because the body was badly bloated from being in the river, and severely mutilated, it took a lot of effort to identify the deceased. Once the identity was confirmed, the investigation showed the last call the victim made was to you—about a month ago. You also transferred 100,000 yuan to him.
The bureau was already planning to summon you for questioning. Since you’re here, it saves us the trouble.”
Zhang Cheng shot a look at Liu Nanxi.
Liu Nanxi immediately pulled out a small notebook and a recording device from her bag.
“No way…”
Lu Shiqing frowned. They were just here for some crayfish—how had Ye Xiao gotten caught up in a homicide?
“This man’s name was Liao Jin. Do you know him?”
Zhang Cheng asked, showing a photo on his phone.
The man in the photo had shifty eyes and a shady face—not someone who looked trustworthy.
Ye Xiao found him vaguely familiar but couldn’t quite place him.
But thinking about the timeline Zhang mentioned, old memories started to resurface.
About a month ago—right around when she had first transmigrated.
What happened when she transmigrated?
She had slept with Gu Tingyuan’s wife, Su Ruoxue.
As the memories came back, it all became clearer.
Liao Jin was the man that original body Ye Xiao had originally arranged to be Su Ruoxue’s lover.
Now this man had ended up dead in the Binjiang River.
This was a society governed by law—how could someone just randomly end up dead?
Ye Xiao suddenly felt like she had plunged into an ice cave.
A chill crept up from deep within her.
All along, she’d thought of herself as just a cute flirt, playfully disrupting the destinies of the chosen ones by seducing their women. She never imagined it could lead to something this dangerous—something that could cost lives.
