Chapter 40: Feeling Depressed

“Your mom told me!”

“Impossible, my mom would never talk nonsense,” Bai Jing said on the other end of the phone. “Honey, Li Fulong is just my boss, I have never had any dealings with him.”

“Didn’t you bring him home for dinner?”

“Yes, that’s true, but that was because he was driving me home. It happened to be lunchtime, so I asked him if he wanted to stay for dinner, and he agreed. After dinner, I received a last-minute call from my boss saying that I had to lead a tour group early the next morning, so I took Li Fulong’s car back to the city. Otherwise, I would have stayed home overnight.”

“So you never dated Li Fulong?”

“I can assure you that I have never had any dealings with Li Fulong.”

“So what exactly did you experience in Lijiang during those two or three days?”

“I was just strolling around the old city.”

Hearing his wife’s unchanging answer, Han An sighed deeply.

He was even considering whether or not to reveal that he had already seen the surveillance footage at the Huazhu Inn.

If he were to tell her, his wife would say that he and Li Fulong were just chatting in the room.

As for what happened after his wife left the Huazhu Inn, he had no clue whatsoever, so he had no idea what had happened. But since Li Fulong had taken his wife back to the inn, he assumed that his wife had spent two nights with Li Fulong, and had been pleasured by him like a prostitute. Afterwards, since he hadn’t yet had sex with her, Li Fulong took his wife back to her room and then had sex with her again.

Han An didn’t want to think of his wife in such a dirty way, but because Li Fulong was a womanizer, Han An really didn’t believe that his wife and Li Fulong were innocent!

Without concrete evidence, and not wanting to discuss the surveillance footage with his wife, Han An said, “Fine, then just pretend you were strolling around the ancient city.”

“Honey, there’s really nothing between you and Xu Yina, right?”

“Just a superior and subordinate.”

“Okay, I believe you. So, can you come back tomorrow?”

“It depends on my mood.”

“So where are you spending the night tonight?”

Are you afraid I’ll sleep with Xu Yina?

“I know you’re not that kind of person, honey.”

“Since you know that, why did you just ask me if Xu Yina and I were having an affair?”

“I was angry then, just like you think I’m having an affair with Li Fulong.”

“Let’s leave it at that for now, I don’t want to talk anymore.”

“Honey, come home soon, Binbin misses you a lot.”

Han An didn’t say anything, he just put down his phone.

Seeing this, Xu Yina reached out her hand.

Han An knew that Xu Yina intended to explain to his wife, but he felt that the more he explained, the more complicated things would become, so he simply hung up.

After hanging up, Han An put his phone in his pocket.

“Boss, shouldn’t I explain this to your wife?”

“No need, that would only be superfluous,” Han An said with a sigh. “It’s really annoying that Li Fulong tricked me!”

“It’s all my fault,” Xu Yina said, looking somewhat dejected. “If I had blocked him and prevented him from seeing my Moments, he wouldn’t have known that I’m in cahoots with you, boss. If it weren’t for me, you would have known what you wanted to know long ago, so it’s all my fault. I don’t know how to make amends, so I’ll do whatever you ask, boss.”

“It’s not your fault, I was too careless.”

“Boss, you trusted me, but I have let you down.”

“How could that be?” Han An smiled and said, “If you hadn’t helped me, how would I have seen the surveillance footage? And it was you who reminded me to go to the courier station.”

“None of those are useful.”

“How could it be useless?” Han An said. “Take the express delivery for example. We already know that it was mailed at around 11 a.m. on the 1st. So as long as my wife was with Li Fulong that morning, it means that the person who plucked the feathers should be Li Fulong, and it also means that Li Fulong had his subordinates send the feathers. Yina, let me tell you, the truth is made up of several clues, so I am especially grateful to you.”

“Boss, are you sure those few hairs belong to your wife?”

“I don’t know, but I just want to get to Li Fulong first, so I can find out a lot of things I want to know.”

“We’ve already alerted him, so it’s basically impossible to deal with him now.”

Since they were almost at the Huazhu Inn, Han An said, “Let’s talk about this later.”

“Um.”

At this moment, the driver, who had been silent the whole way, said, “Dude, I advise you not to go looking for Brother Long.”

“You know him?”

“He’s quite famous around here; he’s a gangster.”

“He just kept emphasizing that he’s not involved in organized crime.”

“Would a thief admit to being a thief?” the driver laughed. “Anyway, he’s not someone to mess with, so you’d better not mess with him. Besides, you’re definitely not a local, otherwise you would know who he is. Let me tell you, when I saw Brother Long just now, I really wanted to kick you both out of the car. But this girl looks about the same age as my daughter, so I couldn’t bring myself to do it. So now I can only hope that Brother Long didn’t remember my license plate number, otherwise I’ll be in big trouble.”

“Does he own a travel agency?”