“What else is there? Sheng Xiao had Huang Yao lost six and a half billion dollars to by a lot of land only worth one point three billion.”


  Mu Qiqi glared at Sheng Xiao after Mama Sheng’s explanation. “Are you… getting revenge on Huang Yao?”


  “All is fair when it comes to competing in business. How am I getting my revenge here?” Sheng Xiao answered very innocently.

  Nonetheless, Mu Qiqi felt that his man absolutely did that on purpose.

  “Why are you so late tonight?

  “Another tough case…” Mu Qiqi told Sheng Xiao and got up from the sofa. “I’m going upstairs to wash up. Rest early, Mom, Dad.”


  “Go on, then.” Papa Sheng told her cheerfully.

  Ever since he had left the Sheng family, Papa Sheng was becoming more and more satisfied with his daughter-in-law. Before, he had thought that she was young and since the family did not stay together, he assumed that Mu Qiqi had been poisoning Sheng Xiao and held much misunderstandings against her.

  However, after they started living together, he learned that the girl never put on airs. In fact, she was understanding, intelligent and thoughtful when it comes to family, and never targets the shortcomings of others.

  No wonder his own sun would be caught so utterly.

  “Well, we had our laughs. Time for bed… and son, the right moment is at hand.”


  Sheng Xiao watched as his parents returned to their room, and only then did he pick up his reports for a read.

  Certainly, it was the right moment.

  Hasn’t there been a big shot who had proposed a gathering amongst top-level businesses of Jianchuan?

  It was supposed to be this month.

  ***

  After her bath, Mu Qiqi went downstairs to her man, but her phone rang just as she settled on his legs.

  And the moment she saw the number, she knew that the call must be about another murder.

  “We found another one in a sewer. Come and help, Qiqi.”


  Mu Qiqi hung up and turned helplessly to Sheng Xiao. “I might have to work overtime, Xiao Xiao!”


  “It’s raining out there.”


  Sheng Xiao told her after a glance outside the window.

  “There are a lot of murders that take place on rainy days.”


  Mu Qiqi got off his legs then and went upstairs for a change of clothes, and Sheng Xiao stood up too and told her, “I’ll take you there…”


  “But you have work to attend to…”


  “It’s the same when I read it in the car.”


  With that, Sheng Xiao picked up his car keys and took Mu Qiqi into his arms. “I’m spanking your butt until you break if you work midnight shifts again.”


  “Haven’t you heard about the serial cases where women were being dismembered, Xiao Xiao? All their limbs were chopped off and they were left to die miserably in the sewers. Only we could help them claim justice.”


  What could he say since his little one had put it that way?

  His usual overbearing was useless in such moments.

  “What if they call you out for work while I’m sick?”


  “Tch. I’ll go out after caring for you, of course, since they would always have people. Feng Shanshan is actually trying very hard to achieve something, and it’s not like they can’t work without me. On the other hand, you can’t bear to live without me—right?”


  There was glee all over Mu Qiqi’s face.

  Of course, Sheng Xiao simply smiled and sent Mu Qiqi to the location where the corpse was found.

  The professor, the forensics team, and Feng Shanshan were all there—all of them were holding black umbrellas and standing by the entrance of the sewers, and the corpse had already been carried out.

  “Take a look.” The professor told Mu Qiqi.

  She nodded, and crouched under a canopy.

  “Still fresh… time of death is less than eight hours from the condition of livor mortis.”


  Like the other two corpses, the limbs were chopped off with a sharp object and there were no other scars on this corpse. It was basically identical with the others, with the cause of death being the loss of blood.

  “Were there red high-heels in the sewers too?”


  “Yes.” Another forensic doctor nodded. “A bright scarlet.”


  In other words, the victims were women living alone. They have clean backgrounds, likes wearing red high-heels, and were ordinary office ladies. They have no enemies or relationships, and their social ties are normal.”


  “That means it’s either a fetishist, or someone having a gender crisis. Choice of victim are women between twenty-three to twenty-seven years of age, possessing great strength from the wounds of the corpses.”


  “The problem is that the police had investigated their backgrounds, but did not find any deviants they were in touch with.”


  Mu Qiqi thought about it. “We need to find more things in common between them aside from the high-heels.”


  In the night and amidst the rain, Mu Qiqi’s dainty figure in the canopy left Sheng Xiao astonished.

  His little one was not afraid of the gruesome corpse at all.

  Still, the cold winds were cutting into the bone, causing Mu Qiqi to sneeze.

  Sheng Xiao promptly gave Xu Che a phone call when he saw that. “Come over with some warm beverages.”


  All the forensic doctors on duty immediately thanked Mu Qiqi when they learned that they would get some hot drinks despite the cold weather.

  Meanwhile, Feng Shanshan had seen Sheng Xiao’s car nearby.

  It would be lying to say that she was not jealous.

  Even if she did not know that Sheng Xiao is the CEO of Zhongteng, her own boyfriend had kicked her off bed impatiently when he heard that she had fieldwork in the middle of the night, and even locked her out.

  “I thought that forensics doctors were a cool job before, but now I know how disgusting it is.”


  Feng Shanshan said nothing, and merely headed straight to the crime scene.

  “I think we can start investigating from the high-heels. There was only a single shoe in all three cases and the other shoe wasn’t found in the women’s homes… I’m convinced that the murderer still has it.”


  Feng Shanshan suggested then. “We can keep digging from that trail.”


  “I’m just afraid the fourth or fifth corpse would be found by the time you got a match on the shoes.” Mu Qiqi retorted.

  “Then what do you suggest?”


  “Look for the murder weapon. We haven’t found the exact murder weapon yet, but we could deduce the scope of his occupation when we know what the weapon was, as well as project his weight. It’s just more realistic than searching for the shoes.”


  “We’ll prioritize the murder weapon, then.” The professor said. “We’ll return to the lab and test for a weapon that has the closest match.”


  Feng Shanshan snorted coolly.

  “That being said, we should bring the shoe back with us to write a detail report, compiling in detail the labels, place, and date of manufacture.”


  “And the rain’s getting heavy. Go home, you two. I’ll work through the night with the forensics team.”


  Feng Shanshan and Mu Qiqi traded a look then and brushed past each other.

  “You’re always so despicable.”


  “The feeling’s mutual.”


  “Is the man you ruined inside the car? Is he too shy to come greet everyone?”


  “Is the son-in-law of the Shen family someone a mere mortal like you meet, just because you wanted to?” With those words, Mu Qiqi took off her raincoat and quickly got in her car.