Chapter 22 is a game

Can we not talk about this?

“Of course,” Han An said. “Just call the front desk and ask them to call the cleaning lady over.”

After making the call, the two continued chatting.

Five minutes later, there was a knock on the door.

“Please come in.”

After Xu Yina finished speaking, the door was pushed open, and a woman in her forties stood outside.

“You mean this area still needs cleaning, right?”

No.

“I knew it! I cleaned it up thoroughly this morning.”

“I’m sorry,” Xu Yina said, “my boss had something he wanted to ask you, so I told the front desk that I needed to have the house cleaned.”

Upon hearing this, the cleaning lady’s eyes looked somewhat strange.

Clearly, the cleaning lady thought the young and beautiful Xu Yina was a mistress.

“Auntie,” Han An said, “when you were cleaning this room, did you think it was for one person or two people living here?”

“There used to be only one woman living here.”

“It’s registered that way, but is it actually true?”

“How would I know that!”

“You’re the one who cleaned this place, so you should be able to tell,” Han An said. “Assuming a man and a woman lived here, there would be traces left by the man in the room, like cigarette butts.”

No cigarette butts were found.

“It doesn’t have to be a cigarette butt; other things are fine too.”

Why are you asking this?

“That woman is my wife, so I need to know these things.”

“You brought your mistress to a hotel room, and you still have the nerve to care about your wife?”

Hearing the cleaning lady’s words, both Han An and Xu Yina were startled.

Coming to her senses, Xu Yina quickly explained, “Auntie, you’ve misunderstood. I didn’t come to a hotel with the boss. I booked this room; it just so happens to be the room the boss’s wife used to stay in, so the boss came to check it out. He’ll be leaving in a little while; there’s absolutely no way he’ll be staying here overnight.”

“Is it really such a coincidence?”

“It’s just such a coincidence.”

“Since you’re so well-behaved, I’ll trust you this once,” the cleaning lady said. “I really didn’t find any cigarette butts, but I did find something in the trash can.”

Upon hearing this, Han An hurriedly asked, “What is it?”

“A pair of torn underwear.”

“Do you keep it safe?”

“I’m not crazy, why would I keep someone else’s underwear?”

“So where are those underwear now?”

“It was taken away by the sanitation workers along with other garbage a long time ago.”

Was it torn or cut?

“It must have been torn; the tear isn’t smooth.”

What style of underwear is it?

“The front is ordinary, but the back is lace.”

“Purple?”

“Um.”

His wife wouldn’t be so bored as to tear her underwear, and besides, she didn’t have that much strength.

This means that the purple lace panties must have been torn by a man.

As for the reason he tore his wife’s underwear, it was obviously because he wanted to have sex with her.

If his wife’s hands were tied behind her back at the time, then the other party would have definitely succeeded!

Thinking of this, Han An became extremely depressed.

He kept telling himself that he was mentally prepared for his wife to have been with one or even more men, but in reality he wasn’t.

The thought that his wife, whom only he could touch, had been taken by another man filled Han An with extreme resentment.

“Auntie, thank you,” Xu Yina said. “I’ll tell the front desk later that the place is very clean and that I misjudged it.”

“Thank you for your help then,” the cleaning lady said as she walked out. “Girls must learn to take care of themselves.”

Xu Yina knew that this was said to her, but she never thought about having an affair with her boss.

After the cleaning lady left, Xu Yina said, “Since the cleaning lady didn’t find any cigarette butts while cleaning, it means either only the landlady lives there, or the man doesn’t smoke. As for the cleaning lady saying there was a torn pair of underwear, I guess it belonged to the landlady.”

“It’s hers, I remember having a pair of underwear like that.”

Is it easy to tear?

“Even if you asked me to tear it, I might not be able to.”

“Boss, you suspect that your wife was tied up by her lover before her underwear was torn, right?”

“I have that idea.”

“I don’t think it was torn directly.”

“Go ahead and tell me, I’m listening.”

“Unless it’s a very poorly made pair of underwear, it’s generally very difficult to tear,” Xu Yina said. “Just like when criminals want to assault female victims, they wouldn’t be foolish enough to tear the victim’s underwear; they would simply rip it off. Ripping it off is actually a million times easier than tearing it. So I thought of two possibilities: either they first used a sharp object to slit the landlady’s underwear, and then tore it; or the landlady’s underwear was already damaged, and it tore easily. Of course, there’s another possibility, but I don’t know if I should mention it.”

“Ina, just say whatever comes to mind, don’t hold back.”

“You said before, boss, that the boss’s wife and her lover might be playing a game, so this might be part of that game.”

“Sexual malaria games?”

“I expanded upon your ideas, boss.”

“She shouldn’t be the kind of woman who enjoys being malaria.”

“Can you tell which woman likes to be maltreated just by looking at her?”

“That’s not what I meant,” Han An said. “I’ve known her for over four years, and I know her very well.”

“If you knew, would you still suspect him of cheating?” Xu Yina said. “I can sense that you are very confused, so you keep wondering if you have misjudged him.”

“You think it’s a sexual malaria game?”

“It’s hard to say, but the proprietress is probably in Lijiang to see someone. If she wants to relax, there’s no need to come all the way to Lijiang; she can go anywhere.”

“That’s what I think too. I even think that the person she met kidnapped her,” Han An paused, then added, “Kidnapping isn’t quite accurate. It should be called binding. As for whether the binding was for adding spice or because of a conflict, it’s hard to say.”

“Let’s go to the front desk.”

“Yes, we need to get a picture of that man.”

After they finished talking, the two of them walked out of the guest room one after the other.

When the two of them walked down to the first floor, the receptionist looked particularly conflicted.

Reaching the cashier, Xu Yina said, “Hello, I’m a guest here. I’d like to tell you something. After I arrived, I went downstairs, and when I went back to my room, I found that someone had touched my suitcase and stolen my jewelry box. I estimate the loss is over 100,000 yuan. I’d like to see your security footage to see who entered and left my room.”

“Are you kidding me?” the receptionist said. “I know it’s not you who wants to see the security footage, it’s the gentleman next to you.”