98 New Homes for All (1/2)

It was an unknown number that sent the message, but Ye Shuang knew it belonged to the workshop that Lawyer Lin represented. Since it was a workshop, it had people who specialized in different fields. However, looking for a missing person was hard to define, so it would normally be given to the person who was most free and convenient.

It just so happened that there was one member of the workshop who was out on a mission near the district that Ye Shuang mentioned, so this case naturally fell on his lap. The minute the contract was signed, the person received the details and hired a cab to go to the location given. By then, the project manager was getting off from work. The man tailed the manager and eventually found Chen He's mistress.

The person from the workshop planned to wait for the manager to leave before intercepting the mistress, but as they waited… they saw the manager enter the bedroom with the mistress. The person was stunned. It was understandable for the manager to be tasked with helping the mistress with some daily needs, but what was the meaning to enter the bedroom together?

Ye Shuang could not say too much in Yao Zhixing's car. Even though the latter was a close friend, this involved the client's privacy. Therefore, Ye Shuang waited until she was home to call back and ask for more details.

It was already 8 pm. It was a spirited young man who answered the call. After chatting with the new agent, he volunteered the surveillance report. ”I suspect that this project manager is having an affair with the mistress. The extended period of interaction probably caused love to bloom; in any case, they share an intimate relationship.”

Ye Shuang sighed. ”Perhaps you don't understand the case. We're looking for someone, not investigating their private lives. After you've confirmed that the target has been found, just send the address back, and the mission will be completed.”

”Don't need me to persuade the target to come back?” The young man cracked his knuckles. ”If we bring her home, we'll get an extra 50,000. If the woman has that intention, we can try to persuade her, but I'm not that good at talking, so I want to ask your opinion…”

Indeed, bringing her home would add 50,000 to the reward. The commission rate for E rank mission was twenty percent, so this meant that Ye Shuang would get an additional 3,000. However, this had a certain risk. If the mistress was willing to cooperate, it would be perfect, but if she refused to and started to run, then the 150,000 would have disappeared along with her.

Ye Shuang thought about it and said, ”The case belongs to your workshop, so I'll leave the decision to you. Personally, I suggest you discuss this with Lawyer Lin; this is his forte.”

”You're right!” It sounded like the man had not thought of that. Then the young man hung up before going to harass Lawyer Lin. Ye Shuang assumed that the young man called her first because she was the new agent, and there was curiosity involved.

Ye Shuang did not know what the suggestion given by Lawyer Lin was, but she did not receive a message with the address of the mistress. She believed that the workshop had changed the plan and decided to try to negotiate. Lawyer Lin told Ye Shuang that the workshop had sent another individual to negotiate with the mistress while the young man would continue to keep an eye on the mistress. If she moved, he would follow her to the new hiding spot.

On the third day, the negotiator arrived at the village to liaise with the mistress, but before that, the negotiator also hid himself for a whole day to fill up his camera with pictures of the project manager interacting with the mistress inside the house.

Even though they did not do anything over the line, it did not look that way in the pictures. For example, one of the pictures framed it in such a way that even though it was just the manager standing up to help the mistress with some dishes, it looked like they were locked in a kissing embrace. There were other pictures that looked like they were hugging or touching and one that created the impression that the project manager was placing his hand on the mistress' chest.

The pictures were time-stamped on the bottom right, and it started from the minute the project manager entered the room, followed by the many misunderstanding-prone pictures, and finally the manager leaving the room. There was a half an hour empty space in the middle for the viewers to fill in the blanks on their own.

When Ye Shuang received the pictures, she asked around and realized that the negotiator's day job was one of the paparazzi.

After getting all the leverage that he needed, the negotiator approached the woman on the fifth day. The woman tried to deny it, and when the project manager heard the news, he quickly arrived to toss the negotiator out. That night, the negotiator went to print out a few of the pictures and slid them under the door, and on the sixth day, he was finally allowed entry.

With the threat of the pictures and the promise of money from the An family, the mistress finally agreed to return to San Lin City to see Mother An. At the same time, she requested that the person delete the pictures and keep them away from Chen He. She was a close relative to the project manager, so they could not have an incestuous relationship. She merely went there to prepare for the pregnancy.

The reason the mistress did not want Chen He to know about this relationship was because the project manager was involved in taking bribes and embezzlement. It was because the mistress had been covering for him that he had not been exposed. If this fake affair was exposed, Chen He might look into the situation, and the many horrible things that the project manager had done and the ways the mistress had benefited from it would be exposed.

The next day, escorted by two members of the workshop, the mistress returned to San Lin City. Ye Shuang called a cab to intercept them at the train station. They arrived at Mother An's place safely, and the case was thus completed.

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