The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love
Chapter 167: Decoding (1)

Chapter 167: Decoding (1)

The haggard look on her face made Bojing’s face marr with worry. "Are you feeling si-sick?"

"I am fine..." she lightly smiled.

Her gaze then fell upon the file Bojing held. Through the slightly transparent file cover, she read Wan Guanting’s name and froze.

"That..."

Shilin said, "We work for Dr. Yang Mingshen. We just returned from the hospital. You are Miss. Meng from the crew, right?"

"Yes."

She tensely peeked at the file again. "Di-Did you find anything?"

"It’s our guess that there might be another person besides Chow Mey to want to harm Director Wan."

Her heart almost stopped beating. "H-Huh? S-somebody else?"

Bojing nodded. But before he could give a summary, Shilin smiled and intervened. "Yes. Did you know that Director Wan had hypertension?"

She looked taken aback. "Hypertension? No...I don’t know. Director Wan never mentioned it either..."

Shilin believed her. Her reaction was genuine.

"Do you know anybody else who would have known about it?"

She froze.

"Why do you ask...?"

"The knowledge about his medical condition played a huge role in his death. Somebody knew about it," he smiled. "Do you know who could be close enough to Director Wan for them to know about his condition?"

Meng Rin tried hard to maintain her composure. But it was still difficult to find her voice.

"I..."

’Don’t forget what I said, okay? Stay out of trouble. Let things go as they are.’

Her daze broke when she sensed a movement faraway from the hotel’s Wing A building. She recognized Jia, Mingshen, Bai Caishen and Ke Yufei heading out.

"What are they doing out so late?"

"Hm?"

Bojing and Shilin looked back and noticed them.

"Oh! S-sis! Boss! Let’s go and meet them. W-we wanted the m-meet Boss anyway."

"Yes."

Bojing happily hopped away while Shilin walked a little slower, matching Meng Rin’s pace. He glanced at her. "You look worried ever since we told you about someone else’s involvement."

Her heart jumped out of her chest. "Worried? I don’t know what you are talking about."

He said with a courteous smile, "For a talented actress I must say that you aren’t doing a good job in acting to be clueless."

She stiffened.

As they reached closer, Shilin whispered to her. "Hopefully, you do a good job now or that cop over there is very smart in sniffing out lies."

She saw his eyes ever so slightly twinkle in amusement. She cleared her throat and quickly looked away from his discerning gaze. She brought back her chirpy expression and hopped at Bai Caishen’s side.

"Bai Caishen!" She slipped her arm around his. "Are you here to call me out for a late night date~?"

He smiled at her. "Sadly, no."

She pouted. "Party pooper."

Jia, who saw Meng Rin coming, asked, "Are you okay, Miss. Meng? Your eyes...looked really puffed out."

Her smile cracked. She could feel Shilin’s gaze at her as if saying, ’Told you.’

On the other side, Mingshen sneered in disdain as Bojing completed giving him his report. "That’s why you don’t challenge Yang Mingshen. He should retire if his brain cells cannot handle the extra load of investigation at this age."

"..."

"W-why are you out at t-this time Boss?" He tilted his head and asked.

His face shone. "Apparently, my wonderful Spicy has decoded some super tough stuff about this murder case~"

Meng Rin unconsciously squeezed Bai Caishen’s arm tighter as the words fell on her ears. He felt the slight pressure and lowered his gaze at her. Her fingers clenched his coat and her gaze looked disconcerted.

At the same time as Shilin was observing them, he asked Ke Yufei in a low voice, "Does she like Bai Caishen?"

Ke Yufei glanced up at Shilin and for a moment was mesmerized by his beautiful face. He had indeed a camera-shooting worthy face.

"No. She doesn’t like him that way."

"Then Bai Caishen?"

"Same. Not interested in her that way either."

Shilin paused and looked at him with interest. "How are you so sure?"

He shrugged. "Apparently, Meng Rin is already seeing someone. It’s not something anybody knows. But she gets jumpy and fidgety when she gets calls from a certain someone. I noticed this a lot during shooting. She tries to hide something and my best guess is a secret relationship."

"I see."

Jia brought everybody’s attention back to her as she scowled at Mingshen. "I am not your Spicy."

Mingshen waved his hand in dismissal. "Don’t fret with the minor details~"

I should drown him in this pool tonight.

Meng Rin asked with a tinge of hastiness in her voice, "What did Miss. Song has found out?"

"That Chow Mey is most probably not the killer."

Her eyes stretched wide and she trembled.

If Miss. Song could...if she could fi-figure it out then...

Jia asked Ke Yufei to show the pictures of that celebration night. She pointed at one picture and said, "There were two things found mixed in Wan Guanting’s drink. Sleeping pills and a nasal decongestant. Cold medicine in simple terms. It is argued that Chow Mey used sleeping pills to put Wan Guanting to sleep so that she could suffocate him later. But then what about the cold medicine?"

She then pointed closer and said, "Xin Manchu is seen here partially covering the top of the glass and it’s the same glass that Wan Guanting used because only he used a cylindrical glass for scotch while the rest of you were drinking wine in wine glasses. So he slipped in the cold medicine when he thought nobody was looking. Or it could be the sleeping pills. That claim against Chow Mey hasn’t been proven yet. It could be either of the two."

Meng Rin stared at the pictures.

"But there is an odd thing here. This is the last picture clicked at 1.51 AM around the time you left. Here, the curtains of his balcony corridor are drawn."

She tilted her head. "But when we went into his room the next morning and till now, the curtains are partially open. Now Chow Mey did go inside his room but she really didn’t have any reason to open the balcony curtains, did she? Neither did the staff do it. So...the curtains should have been drawn the whole time."

Bai Caishen thought about something and it struck him. "That clicking sound Yufei and I heard."

"Yes. That most probably came from his balcony at the time somebody was climbing in or out of it after suffocating him with the pillow," her eyes narrowed. "Most probably, Xin Manchu."

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