Chapter 31 (2/2)

The lights at the bar last night were too dim for him to make out her face and his attention had been fixated on her twin towering peaks instead. Now that he was sitting in the car with better lighting, he had the opportunity to observe her in closer detail, and he discovered that the lass’ appearance was quite decent.

Her hair was in a short bob that only reached her shoulders, with a perfectly oval-shaped face. Her skin was tanned a healthy shade of brown. An enticing mole was right underneath tender and plump lips, which seemed to resemble fresh cherries.

Alas, a shame. What a shame!

Ling Chen sighed inwardly.

Her outer appearance met all the criteria he was looking for in a perfect woman, but sadly her inner qualities were far too lacking in contrast to her ideal countenance.

As Xia Mutong looked at the rear-view mirror, she sensed Ling Chen’s lustful gaze, and her gaze instantly grew stormy.

“If you stare at me one more time, you best believe that I’ll dig out your eyeballs!”

“Officer Xia, I believe that you’re the one at fault here. With an appearance as beautiful as yours, how can you expect people to not stare at you? That’s not reasonable at all! I think you should stop being so petty and learn about the virtue of sharing.”

“Shut up! If you say one more word, you better believe that I’ll rip out your tongue as well?”

Ling Chen pursed his lips. This lass’ temper was simply too atrocious, worse than that of a female tigress. It could even rival Su Lin’s fiery temper or worse yet, surpass hers.

At the police station, once investigations had concluded, Ling Chen found out that he was in deeper trouble than he thought.

Driving over the speed limit was a two thousand dollar fine, with the revocation of his driver’s license, and adding on the fine for speeding past the numerous red traffic lights, he had to pay a total of five thousand dollars. Moreover, due to the severity of his offences, he had to be detained for seven days.

His pockets only had a few hundred dollars in cash, far from enough to pay off the fine. After struggling with himself, he decided to give Zhong Wei a call. After all, he was caught because he was carrying out his duties, so the company should take responsibility for him. Moreover, he had to warn Zhong Wei regarding news about the killer.

“Hello? Captain Zhong, it’s me, I’m being detained at the police station now. Could you… Hello? Hello?”

Staring blankly at his phone and hearing the long beep, Ling Chen felt a wave of vexation sweeping over him. That bastard actually hung up on me!

Right at that moment, Xia Mutong strolled over to him.

“Follow me.”

“Why?”

“Stop asking so many useless questions!”

Watching as Xia Mutong turned to leave, Ling Chen hurriedly tried to catch up with her, patiently explaining, “Officer Xia, you also know that I’m part of Hongyu Multinational’s security detail. Just now, I was giving chase to a suspicious person. I suspect that he harbours malicious intentions towards Young Miss Nanrong, thus I…”

“I don’t want to listen to your bullshit excuses. I already made a call to your company, and your Captain Zhong had already denied this matter having existed. He said this was a private matter of yours and had no implications with the company.”

Ling Chen was speechless. He could only blame himself for being too lacking in his social skills, to not even have one person who believed him and landing him in such dire straits.

“Release me, release me!!”

After passing an interrogation room, Ling Chen perked up his ears, seeming to hear an almost inaudible plea for help.

“What’s that brat doing here?”

Curiosity overcame him, and he pushed open the door to the interrogation room. The sight that greeted him instantly resulted in his gaze freezing over.

Inside the interrogation room, two policemen were pushing down a struggling Jiang Hao onto his seat, with another policeman holding a large bottle of water. He was forcefully shoving it into Jiang Hao’s mouth and pouring the contents down his throat.

Jiang Hao struggled desperately, with water leaking through his nostrils, looking to be exceedingly miserable and ragged.

“Stop!”

Watching as a raging Ling Chen stormed into the interrogation room, hope reignited in Jiang Hao’s eyes.

“Bro Chen, save me!”

One of the policemen coldly stared at Ling Chen. “Brat, this is none of your business. Get out now.” As he was saying that, he stretched out his hand, as though he wanted to push Ling Chen out.

“Heh!”

Ling Chen curled his lips into a smirk and continued to stand there casually. However, his body was like an ancient oak, immovable despite the policeman pushing him. The policeman was taken aback and immediately exerted all his strength to force Ling Chen back. Right at that moment, Ling Chen twisted his shoulders. All the might that the policeman mustered suddenly seemed to have lost its target, and the policeman lurched forward, crashing on the ground with a loud thud. His two front teeth also came loose from the impact.