193 Surveillance Camera (1/2)

Chapter 193: Surveillance Camera

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Realizing the TAG Heuer watch was missing, Liu Miao’s first thought wasn’t the fact that the watch was stolen, but instead that Shaoyu was playing a joke on him. He laughed, ”You silly kid, why would you play a joke on me like that… Look at my watch all you want. Let’s have lunch together.”

Shaoyu was confused, ”What are you talking about?”

”The watch.”

”Where is it?”

Liu Miao laughed, ”Stop your joke! I put it on the desk. Feel free to take a look. Don’t scare me by hiding it.”

Looking at the desk, Shaoyu was even more confused, ”What? I didn’t see it.”

Liu Miao’s smile froze. He realized something was wrong. Rushing back to his desk, he opened his eyes, searching carefully. He lifted up the keyboard hoping it was under there. He pulled up the files to check if it was in between the pages… he pulled out all the stuff in all four drawers in his desk.

Two drawers out of four had documents and other paperwork so it was easy to go through. Another drawer was random stuff such as a knife, stapler, some pens, hand cream, scarf… the last drawer was a picture of him and his wife as well as the receipt of the watch. Nothing was found.

Liu Miao’s face turned pale. He pulled Shaoyu aside and said, ”Brother, don’t joke around like that. If you hid it, just tell me. I don’t like this kind of joke.”

Shaoyu was nervous, ”I didn’t hide it. I haven’t seen a watch on your desk since I came.”

Liu Miao’s forehead started sweating. His heartrate raced. This watch was a gift to his wife. The purchase didn’t have his wife’s approval. If he lost the watch like that, he could not imagine how mad his wife would get. It was also impossible to hide it from his wife because it was quite a large expense. His wife would find out sooner or later.

”Brother, are you serious?”

”I am serious. I am not stupid. I won’t joke around like that.”

They were getting louder and louder. The other staff members didn’t know what was going on so they glanced over from time to time. It was about lunchtime, so people were hungry and they couldn’t really focus on work. It was too difficult to hide it from the crowd. Almost everyone in the department gathered and watched what was going on. Some were murmuring to each other.

Shaoyu looked impatient. It was understandable. He had planned a short visit but was now involved in a thievery case. Now Liu Miao thought he hid the watch.

Someone smart said, ”You guys keep searching. I will go to the control room to find the surveillance video.” He left in a rush.

News travelled fast in the office. A few minutes later, people from other departments also came over to look at the show which made it even more crowded than before. Some jealous people murmured, ”Look how he showed off his luxurious watch. Now it is missing. It was karma!”

After a little while, the guy came back.

”What happened? Did you see the thief?” Several people asked at the same time.

The guys looked undaunted and said, ”It was too bad…” He pointed at the surveillance camera on the ceiling, ”The camera only caught half of the desk, the half that was close to the door. We can confirm that no one entered this office when he was gone.”

Liu Miao’s desk was an add-on after the expansion. The camera was pointing at the central area of the office and half of his desk was in the blind area. Unfortunately, this blind area made the whole story much more complicated than it should’ve been.

Shaoyu knew that he had to clear the suspicion on him. Otherwise, he would have a bad reputation. He called the police.

The police arrived in no time. The first thing they did was get the surveillance videos.

Captain Sheng’s voice started to turn low at this point. He cleared his throat. Zhang Zian gave him a bottle of Evian mineral water. That was expensive! Fina would be jumping up and down if she knew that her water was being offered to a normal guy!