"Can I co to your lab, Mingshen?" Yun asked.
Huojin looked away and controlled his choke.
Mingshen's eyes glead like stars in the night sky. "I will be happy to show you my lab where your pretty sister and I spent such a delightful ti together and where she fell in love with too~"
Jia kicked his knee without a warning and scowled at him. "Don't disturb the investigation with your useless comntary!"
"I was just accepting this kid's pure-hearted request of visiting our love nest, my dear," he innocently explained.
"Go back to that sa love nest. As a dical examiner, your job was done here ages ago."
"I will follow you till the end of the road, Spicy. Partners are supposed to be with each other through thick and thin," he roguely smiled.
Jia took a deep breath and tried to ignore his existence for the hundred and tenth ti now.
Mingshen pouted and looked at Yun. "Your pretty sister is not being fun anymore. Let's head to where the cool grandma with the cool eyesight is. I wanna know how more aweso things she can guess about Spicy and I~"
"..."
Yun said, "I miss Mama."
"I can lend you my phone to call her. Thirty Yuan per minute are the call charges."
Jia looked at him, dumbfounded.
What is this idiot saying?
Yun blinked. "I don't have money."
He smiled. "But your Dada does. He will happily pay for the call charges."
Dai Fengge choked. "Why should I pay for a phone call when Yun can do that for free from my mobile? And what's with the ridiculous charges? Who charges thirty Yuan for a minute! This is daylight robbery!"
Mingshen sneered. "You sure have thirty Yuan to spend on a movie ticket for your lover, but now you are counting numbers when your son wants to call his mother? Quite shallow of you, aren't you?"
It wasn't enough to describe how poisonous Mingshen's words felt to him.
For the first ti in life and albeit with resistance, Jia appreciated Mingshen's sarcasm. As a cop, she had her boundaries to behave professionally in all her cases, but her heart felt extrely satisfied seeing the twisted and embarrassed look on Dai Fengge's face.
What am I doing? I just scolded him to not make any judgntal remarks and here I am actually rooting for him...
She stared at the cheating couple.
I don't know how Dai Fengge and Dai hui's relationship is as a husband and wife and she might be a troubleso spouse for him for all I know, but cheating is never a solution to escape a marriage.
Mingshen whistled and nudged Yun forward. "Let's et the cool grandma with cool eyesight~"
"Hey wait-" Dai Fengge stepped forward to stop them but Jia blocked his way. "Stay back, Mr. Dai. We are not done getting answers from you yet. Yun tried to talk to you too. Now tell us what had gotten you and Miss. Yin - both so agitated to ignore a child's repeated calls for help? Let's start with Miss. Yin."
Yin Xiaoling stuttered. "I-I am telling you there is so misunderstanding..."
She squinted her eyes. "Miss. Yin. I hope you start speaking the truth now because hiding important information will derail our investigation. Don't make take action against you."
Huojin smiled and added. "If need be, we can have a good conversation at the bureau. I think that will surely refresh your mories."
Yin Xiaoling turned white. There was no way she wanted to be escorted to a police station for questioning. Grudgingly, she began to talk, "I rember Yun d-did calling for . But I didn't pay much attention..."
"Xiaoling you-"
"Please don't interrupt, Mr. Dai. You will have your turn too," she looked back at Yin Xiaoling and asked, "Why did you not pay attention to Yun?"
"...I was annoyed."
"By?"
She looked away. "It were so incessant w-work calls by my colleagues-"
"Let's take them to the bureau, Huojin. I had enough of them lying. I know where they will start properly answering our questions."
Yin Xiaoling quickly stopped her and stamred. Tears poured out in full swing. "N-No! Don't take to the police bureau please!"
"Then stop wasting our ti," Jia warned her with a harsher edge to her voice that diminished any hope of lying left within Yin Xiaoling.
She bit her lip and said after so awkward silence, "...I was annoyed at Dai M-ihui constantly trying to call Fengge. I told him to ignore the calls but in the end, he went outside to talk to her and...it ruined my mood."
Jia smiled. "Why were you annoyed at a wife calling her husband?"
Silence. Dai Fengge uncomfortably rubbed his neck, averting his eyes from Jia and Huojin.
Yin Xiaoling found it harder to speak and replied almost inaudibly. "Fengge and I are...indeed...t-that...together..."
"Even after knowing that he is married and has a child."
"That..."
There was nothing left for Yin Xiaoling to defend herself for being a third person in sobody's marriage.
"What did you say to Yun when he approached you?"
"At first I ignored him...but when he didn't stop, I-I just told him not to bother ...But I didn't really s-scold him that much!"
"It's hard to believe a woman who wants to send Yun to a boarding school in order to live a life without any baggage from Mr. Dai's previous marriage if he divorces his wife and marries you."
She froze.
Jia then shifted her attention to Dai Fengge. "Why did you ignore Yun too? I can understand Miss. Yin's side for argunt's sake. She is not Yun's mother. But you are his father. What excuse do you have?"
Dai Fengge looked shaken. "It's like Xiaoling said...ihui sohow ca to know that...I took Xiaoling with today, so she kept calling . We fought, and I got into a bad mood. I returned to my seat but Xiaoling started to get mad at too for talking to ihui and disturbing our ti together..."
Jia inwardly grimaced with disgust.
"I-I just got more irritated. First ihui and then Xiaoling both fighting with ...I think it was at that ti when Yun ca to , b-but I was in no mood to entertain him. I don't rember what he was asking...but he kept on with Dada, Dada and I snapped at him..."
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