She had told Leng Qiuzun about her child in hopes of him not trying to hit on her any further, but she didn’t expect him to bring it up in front of Gu Mingchen.
He seemed to have done it on purpose.
Gu Mingchen looked at her and she was at a loss for words.
Leng Qiuzun smiled, “You weren’t lying to me, were you?”
Bai Rong munched on her watermelon as she stared at Leng Qiuzun and tried to think of an answer to stop him from prying about this without arousing suspicion from Gu Mingchen.
But she was too nervous and couldn’t think of anything.
“Mr. Leng, are you that free?” Bai Rong avoided the question.
“I just want to know, that’s all. You keep acting all ladylike with me but act like a teen girl with other guys. What’s with that?” Leng Qiuzun asked.
“I felt that you liked me and didn’t want to give you any false hopes, so I came up with something that you would find unacceptable.” Bai Rong said.
“What?” Leng Qiuzun was shocked and quickly denied it, “Me? Like you? How could I possibly fall for someone as pretentious as you? You sure have an overactive imagination.”
“So it was a misunderstanding on my part then? Because you seem to have been picking a fight with me ever since we’ve met.” Bai Rong stared at him suspiciously.
“I picked a fight with you because I wasn’t used to you being around. If that counts as liking someone, then I would have a long list of people I liked.” Leng Qiuzun said sarcastically.
“Is that so?” Bai Rong deliberately put on a doubtful tone, “If I’m not used to someone, I would stay far away from them instead of making my presence known to them all the time. Besides, I don’t think there are many that you are used to, Mr. Leng.” Bai Rong raised an eyebrow and gave him a provocative smile.
“Don’t smile.” Gu Mingchen ordered suddenly.
Bai Rong was dumbfounded as she looked at him.
“Her smile is ugly, isn’t it? Ms. Bai, you shouldn’t try to imitate others blindly.” Leng Qiuzun said.
“You two enjoy your meal, I’m full.” Bai Rong grabbed her handbag as she stood up.
Gu Mingchen saw that she had barely eaten her food and looked at Leng Qiuzun.
Leng Qiuzun had been observing Gu Mingchen and asked, “You like her?”
“That’s none of your business. Have all of your men gather at your room at 10:30 a.m..” Gu Mingchen stood up.
“Why my room and not yours?” Leng Qiuzun stood up as well.
“In that case, have them gather at the hotel meeting room.” Gu Mingchen turned and left after saying that, leaving no chance for Leng Qiuzun to protest further.
Leng Qiuzun frowned as he was very displeased with Gu Mingchen’s bossy attitude.
He saw that Bai Rong had not eaten much of her food and was too lazy to get his own food, so he ate hers instead.
At 10:30 a.m., Bai Rong was the first to arrive at the meeting room after receiving the notice.
As she sat down on the chair, Gu Mingchen came in and placed a plastic bag in front of her.
She peered curiously into the bag and saw that he had bought her some bread and cake.
He didn’t say anything and just stared at her as he sat in front of her.
Even though no words were said, she could feel his message very clearly.
She was hungry indeed, so she took a bun out from the bag and wolfed it down.
Apart from bread, he had also bought her a bottle of yogurt.
Gu Mingchen was still as attentive as before.
Soon, everyone came into the meeting room with Leng Qiuzun being the last one.
He saw Bai Rong munching on the bread as he sat next to her and sneered, “You women sure are pretentious. There’s a buffet breakfast being provided, yet you choose to eat bread instead?”
Bai Rong ignored him.
“We have gathered everyone here to analyze the information we have on the case together.” Gu Mingchen’s subordinate, Mr. Cheng, said.
“Forensics sent the information to you?” Leng Qiuzun was unhappy.
“Yes.” Mr. Cheng replied.
Leng Qiuzun laughed, “You sure have quite some reach.”
He was referring to Gu Mingchen and everyone there had heard him.
Bai Rong found it surprising that someone as annoying and rude as Leng Qiuzun had not been killed off by his adversaries yet.
“Keep going.” Gu Mingchen ordered.
Mr. Cheng continued, “For the first body, the cause of death was determined to be strangulation by some form of metal wire. Because her genital was blocked by the foaming agent, we were able to recover the DNA of four deceased males, namely Xiong Jinping, Xiong Zhiqing, Xiong Changan, and Zhang Hai from her. She was gang-raped before her death.”
“Who is Zhang Hai?” Leng Qiuzun interrupted.
“One of the missing teenagers. He was the first guy that was drowned in the glass tank.” Mr. Cheng explained.
Leng Qiuzun nodded to show that he understood. “Whose baby is that?”
“According to the DNA comparisons, the infant, who had died from a fall, belonged to Xiong Jinping. The woman in the same tank as the infant is the mother.” Mr. Cheng said.
“There was a secret compartment in the room. What did they find in there?” Leng Qiuzun pressed on.
“They found the ID and luggage of the three dead women as well as a diary that belonged to Wang Xiahe. Wang Xiahe was the woman in the first tank. The diary stated that the three women had come looking for jobs and were tricked by Xiong Jinping and subjected to this inhumane treatment.”
The female voices that the people heard from the outside were most likely from them. The other two males are the teenagers that went missing previously. According to their bone growth, they were most likely 18 years old during their death. Xiong Jinping, Xiong Zhiqing, and Xiong Changan are the murderers.”
“How many years have they been missing?” Leng Qiuzun asked.
“Twenty-five years.” Mr. Cheng replied.
“My goodness, could it be that the vengeful spirits of the dead are getting their revenge?” Assistant Leng guessed and went pale after thinking about it.
“If that was the case, these three would’ve been dead twenty-five years ago. They wouldn’t have lived till now.” Bai Rong said.
“The murderer was probably related to Wang Xiahe.” Leng Qiuzun said and looked at Bai Rong, “They’ve all logged onto a pornographic site and watched the same video. The woman in the video looked similar to Wang Xiahe.”
“Mr. Leng, have you seen the video?” Assistant Leng asked innocently.
Leng Qiuzun was speechless and Bai Rong was amused at how his assistant had put him in such a tough spot with an innocent question like that.
“I did it to solve the case.” Leng Qiuzun explained to Bai Rong, his face burning bright red.
“Sure.” Bai Rong replied sarcastically.
Leng Qiuzun was blushing even harder now and placed his hand on her chair, “Why would I lie to you? Besides, isn’t it common for men to watch these things? Don’t you watch them too?”
Bai Rong felt that he was getting too close to her and his question was too inappropriate, so she looked away.
Leng Qiuzun leaned closer towards Bai Rong as he took a deep breath, “You’ve probably watched them too, haven’t you? That’s why you aren’t shocked at all when I’m talking about it right now.”
Bai Rong kept quiet and Gu Mingchen couldn’t bear to watch their interaction any longer, “She watched it with me.”
