Hearing that, Gu Yezhou looked toward the information displayed on the monitor.

“Print me a copy. We’ll visit Xiangyun Kindergarten tomorrow.”

“Huh?” Shen Chen muttered, “It can’t really be *that* much of a coincidence, right?”

Even so, his work speed never slowed for a second.

Hua Ming, seeing he no longer had anything to do—and noticing Gu Yezhou’s expression had softened slightly—let his itchy hand act up again.

Smack.

He slapped Gu Yezhou on the ass.

“Old Gu, you’re still the same as back at the provincial department. Pretending to be all proper.”

Gu Yezhou froze.

Then slowly turned around with a sinister expression and grabbed Hua Ming by the ear, dragging him toward the door.

“Ow ow ow—! Old Gu, I was wrong! There are outsiders here, at least give me some face—!”

Hua Ming’s pig-slaughter-level screams echoed through the hallway.

“Give *you* face? What about *my* face?”

Gu Yezhou’s voice drifted into Sang Ning’s ears, and she couldn’t help laughing.

“Serves you right,” Shen Chen scoffed, rolling his eyes.

Sang Ning looked at him curiously.

“Were they always like this before?”

“You should stay far away from Hua Ming in the future,” Shen Chen warned seriously. “His hands may know how to draw, but they’re also shameless.”

Sang Ning found the three of them unexpectedly entertaining.

She honestly didn’t know how Gu Yezhou had managed to convince upper management to poach both of these monsters over here.

The Criminal Investigation Unit had instantly become much stronger.

Though they still lacked manpower.

—

Early the next morning, just as Sang Ning finished getting ready to head out, Gu Yezhou emerged from his room with dark circles under his eyes.

“Let’s go together.”

He yawned lazily.

“You… didn’t sleep last night?” Sang Ning asked cautiously.

Gu Yezhou stretched his arms and shoulders.

“Slept a little. This is the time parents are dropping kids off at kindergarten. The teachers should all be there already. We’ll go pay the victim’s brother a visit.”

The victim’s brother, naturally, was Dong Yunzhou—the kindergarten teacher whose face bore a ninety-percent resemblance to the reconstruction sketch.

According to Shen Chen’s investigation, Dong Yunzhou’s older brother, Dong Ruiyang, had once worked as a security guard at Xiangyun Kindergarten.

No one knew why the younger brother had become a teacher while the older brother became a guard.

Dong Yunzhou was thirty-four this year.

The two were twins.

Which meant Dong Ruiyang had also been thirty-four.

Exactly matching Sang Ning’s estimated age for the victim.

—

On the way there, Gu Yezhou stopped midway to buy breakfast.

They parked less than a hundred meters from Xiangyun Kindergarten.

“Eat first. We’ll go in after the parents finish dropping the kids off.”

Sang Ning nodded and naturally accepted the breakfast he handed her.

She glanced at the soy milk.

The sugar at the bottom hadn’t even dissolved yet.

After rummaging through the plastic bag, she frowned.

“No straw?”

Gu Yezhou checked his own bag.

“They were probably too busy. Or…” He suddenly produced a bottle of milk from somewhere like a magician. “You can drink this instead.”

Sang Ning twitched at the corners of her mouth.

“When did you get this?”

The milk bottle felt ice-cold.

This kind was usually refrigerated, though in winter, leaving it in the car made little difference.

“If it’s from a convenience store, shelf life is usually three to ten days. But if it’s fresh delivery milk, then it might already be bad.”

As she spoke, she turned the bottle over and over in her hands—

Without once checking the expiration date.

Gu Yezhou watched her with amusement dancing in his eyes.

“Relax. Bought it yesterday. Ten-day shelf life. It’s fine.”

“Yesterday?”

Sang Ning paused.

Gu Yezhou had been missing from the station all day yesterday. No one knew what he’d been doing.

“Mhm. Bought it on the way. I was going to bring it back for you, but I forgot.”

“For me?” Sang Ning stuffed a siu mai into her mouth from the foam lunchbox, talking while chewing. “I don’t really drink milk. Don’t tell me some girl gave it to you and you were too embarrassed to admit it, so now you’re pretending you bought it yourself?”

Was this man really that considerate?

Sure, they’d gotten legally married, but aside from discussing cases, they were practically strangers.

“I’m not that bored.”

Gu Yezhou finished his own breakfast in two or three bites.

Then stared pitifully at the food in Sang Ning’s hands.

Sang Ning was extremely protective of her food.

She eyed him warily.

“What are you looking at? If you didn’t buy enough, whose fault is that?”

Gu Yezhou blinked at her.

“Wife. Food. Hungry.”

Sang Ning nearly shivered out of her skin.

What the hell?

Why was this man acting so childish?

Since he *had* bought breakfast, she stuffed the remaining four siu mai into his hands.

There were only eight in the box to begin with.

She’d slowly eaten four.

“Take them. All of them. Just stop calling me that.”

As she spoke, the corner of her eye instinctively flicked toward the pedestrians outside the car.

Thankfully, no one seemed to notice them.

“Wife? Why’s your face red?” Gu Yezhou clearly found teasing her entertaining.

Their relationship was perfectly legal.

What was wrong with calling her that?

“I liked you better when you acted all cold and proper at the station.” Sang Ning glared at him and turned away, refusing to look at him.

Low laughter rumbled beside her.

“Alright, alright. I’ll stop teasing you. Here.”

The siu mai returned to her hands.

Truthfully, Sang Ning never had much appetite in the mornings.

And after drinking milk, her stomach churned unpleasantly.

Milk and siu mai really weren’t a good combination.

“One half each. I can’t finish anymore.”

She glanced outside.

The stream of departing cars had nearly stopped, and the kindergarten gates were already closed.

“That should be enough. Dong Yunzhou ought to be here by now.”

Seeing Gu Yezhou make no move toward the chopsticks she held out, Sang Ning frowned slightly.

“Open your mouth.”

Gu Yezhou turned to look at her in confusion.

He had just been about to say, *I’m full already. I was only teasing you.*

Before he could finish—

A siu mai was shoved directly into his mouth.

Packed full.

His gaze burned into her face.

Then came the second one.

Sang Ning acted as though she noticed nothing unusual.

She casually cleaned up the trash inside the car, checked for passing vehicles, and got out.

Meanwhile, Gu Yezhou remained sitting inside.

Still chewing.

“Pretending to be all serious. He can talk normally, but insists on wearing that sour expression all day like someone owes him millions.”

Sang Ning glanced toward the man inside the car before heading straight toward Xiangyun Kindergarten without looking back.

She didn’t hear the sound of the car door opening behind her.

Instead—

The engine started.

The car slowly rolled up beside her.

“We’ll drive in. Stop walking. Get in.”

“No thanks. I’m full. Walking helps digestion.”

Sang Ning quickened her pace.

Unfortunately, human legs could never beat four wheels.

Whoosh—

Gu Yezhou drove off immediately, leaving Sang Ning alone on the roadside.

“This man… is he seriously this childish?”

Still, she hadn’t expected Gu Yezhou to coax or persuade her into the car anyway.

By the time he finished talking, they would’ve already reached the entrance.

It was only a few dozen meters.

Very quickly, Sang Ning arrived at the security booth.

Meanwhile, Gu Yezhou’s car remained parked directly in front of the kindergarten gate, blocking the entrance.

Sang Ning leaned lazily against the wall with her arms folded.

“Oh? Weren’t you going inside? Go ahead then. If they won’t open the gate, maybe you can just fly over it.”

Gu Yezhou looked both helpless and amused.

In the end, he simply parked the car dead center in front of the gate.

The security guard stared in complete confusion.

He’d just learned this man was a police officer and had been about to notify the principal.

So why had he suddenly stopped the car?

Then again…

Since the engine was off now—

Should he still open the gate with the remote?

…Probably not.