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12.14% The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love / Chapter 39: Spinning out of control

Chapitre 39: Spinning out of control

"No matter how many times you ask me, my answer will still be the same. It was really a coincidence that I met Mrs. Dai in the theater," Wu Yue was increasingly growing more anxious. "I didn't even want to face her because I knew that she would say some shit about my Grandma again!"

Huojin asked, "So was Miss. Yin correct? That she used to bully your Grandma?"

Her gaze turned dark and furious. "I didn't know before either. But after that day when that old hag talked so disrespectfully to my Grandma, I was stubborn to know the answer. Grandma refused to dwell on it much, but I understood that Mrs. Dai was a rotten apple. She had a big gang of arrogant girls she was a part of and they took pleasure in harassing others, even their seniors."

"The school authorities never took any action?"

"One of the girl's fathers was quite influential back then. Nobody wanted to lose their jobs. The gang grew even more cocky and they started harassing their teachers too, my Grandma being one of them. Eventually, she resigned when things got out of hand. She didn't tell me in detail, but she was physically hurt," she clenched her jaw, "That old hag was really rotten! Even a month back, she was acting as if they were such good days. But in reality, she was just enjoying the sadistic pleasure!"

Jia was taking note of her every expression as she asked, "When Mrs. Dai got the attack and you turned to talk to her, was she really not in a serious condition as you had claimed before?"

"W-Why are you asking me that again?"

"Because if you saw her struggling, then you would have felt pleased to see the bully in pain. Maybe you decided to ignore her purposefully and let her condition worsen to punish her for all the harassment she did to your Grandma."

"I swear I didn't!" Wu Yue banged her palms on the desk. "I-I had really dropped my glasses and couldn't see her clearly. It was a dark and loud action scene too. I do admit that I didn't turn all the way back because I didn't want her to recognize me…But I swear she looked to be fine!" she lowered her head, twiddling her thumbs. "Can I please leave now? I will be late for my part-time job if I miss my train."

Jia and Huojin exchanged glances. They had their suspicions, but there wasn't anything concrete to hold her in detention. It was all just speculation at this point.

He nodded to her, and she let out a breath. "You can leave, but you have to be present at all times if we ever need to question you again."

Wu Yue sprung on her feet and exclaimed in relief. "I will!"

She rushed outside, passing from beside a figure whose hawk-like gaze made her shudder.

It's that scary doctor again…Why does he keep staring at me like that?

Mingshen made his entrance, whistling a merry tune and brightening upon Jia's sight. "Spicy!"

"Don't, Mingshen," Jia pressed her forehead. "This supposedly simple case is already spinning out of control. I don't have energy to deal with you now."

Huojin sighed. "Who would have thought that Wu Yue would have a connection to the deceased like that?"

"Even if Dai Yaling had inhaled cat fur, it's all very circumstantial. There is no direct evidence like we found in Yin Xiaoling's case where she threw the inhaler away."

Huojin asked, "But Jia, do you really think that this could potentially be a murder case?"

She leaned back on her chair, releasing a small breath. "I cannot say, Huojin…On first glance, it definitely looks like an accident. But three people had serious qualms with her. Dai Meihui, Yin Xiaoling and surprisingly, now Wu Yue is in the picture too. Dai Meihui and Yin Xiaoling have similar reasons whereas Wu Yue hated her because she harassed her Grandma."

Mingshen yawned. "That wife? Does she have the power to fly from Gucheng to Dongdan?"

"He is right," Huojin flipped the pages of his small notebook. "I had confirmed that Dai Meihui was indeed at her office."

"That leaves Yin Xiaoling and Wu Yue. But even if Yin Xiaoling had thrown away the inhaler, how would she know that Dai Yaling would get an allergic reaction if it was intentional? Was it sheer luck for her that two people with fur on their bodies were seated right beside and opposite her?"

"You mean accomplices?"

"Could be."

"But who are those two? Ma Zhilan was right beside her and the Ma family doesn't even know the Dai family except for the one time that Dai Meihui helped out to find her granddaughter. And honestly, I don't feel she has anything to do with it. She literally got a panic attack. I felt bad for her."

Mingshen wore a proud smirk. "It was serious considering her age too, but nothing would have happened to the cool grandma with cool eyesight as long as I am there. She is all fit and fine now~"

Jia gave him a hard stare. "How come are you acting so humanly towards another human being? Do you have a fever?"

"I like intelligent human beings, especially ones who are sharp to notice our lovey-dovey relationship~"

"Where you are literally out to take my heart."

"Because only I can claim it," he smiled, twirling the scalpel around his finger. "Anyway, personal matter aside, drugs are enough of a reason too to be a motive~"

The investigator duo stared at him. "What?"

He pointed at the empty chair where Wu Yue was seated until a few minutes ago. "She is a drug addict."

The sky had already darkened by the time Wu Yue hastily walked out of the police station as she simultaneously typed on her phone with jittery fingertips.

'Where? The police are suddenly doubting me for that old woman's death! We need to meet.'

She got a response a few seconds later.

'2-5-10-19'

She looked at the numbers and felt a headache coming but replied okay nevertheless.

Wu Yue stuck her hand out to call for a cab. As one stopped before her, she quickly boarded it and said, "Subway, please."


Chapitre 40: Where is the connection?

Back at the bureau, Jia and Huojin couldn't mask their shock. "Drug addict?"

Mingshen stretched his arms lazily. "She was fidgeting a lot, right? She is also underweight. She had a messy appearance too and her eyes looked glazed."

Jia thought back to the time at the hospital where she met her.

Wu Yue indeed looked shaky, agitated and very thin.

"That was because of drugs?"

"For the most part of it. She has just started it recently though it seems because her addiction signs are like a newborn baby. That's why you couldn't tell it. It's hard to decipher until you keenly look at the signs, and they could be confused with any other regular symptoms like depression or other health issues. Anyway, I got my confirmation when I learned what she was doing at my hospital."

"She said it was to take care of some formalities for her grandmother's death certificate."

"Bullshit," he slid a prescription on the desk in front of them.

Huojin struggled to read the handwriting. "Why do doctors have such terrible writing?"

"Excuse me? I feel offended. My entire existence is perfect down to my handwriting. The next time you include ME with the rest of the doctors, I will hang you down from the ceiling and overflow your body with opioids. Which this girl was having by the way."

Jia read from the prescription. "Buprenorphine."

"One of the medications to treat opioid addiction," he smiled.

"So she was there to get rid of the addiction," Jia said.

"And I will get rid of the drug supply chain, my dear Spicy~" Mingshen expressed a sense of pleasure as if he found some new toys to play with.

"You see, Spicy. Drugs cannot flow into or out of the system without my consent. The Yang family highly regulates the supply of them, especially illegal ones. I am informed when people visit my hospitals for drug addiction treatment because it means that there is a supply chain going somewhere. And it seems that some pests have grown wings to challenge my authority in the Underworld, which I highly detest."

"And you are gonna dig them out?" Jia questioned.

"Naturally."

"Feels like this is the work of the police."

"I don't need help in busting a puny drug supply chain."

"Why do you think everything is always about you?" Jia sourly expressed. "The police must be a part of the investigation if drugs are being distributed. It's for the sake of civilians, not you."

Mingshen eyed her with a raised brow and shrugged a moment later. "Whatever, I don't care. In the end, the culprits will be awarded to me, not to the law. They are tiptoeing in secrecy and breaking my rules."

Jia watched him with an acute stare. "They should be punished according to the court."

He chuckled with a villainous ring to it. "The cooperation between the Underworld and the law doesn't say so."

Her brow twitched.

That damn cooperation!

She made a mental note to herself to properly understand what this cooperation meant and how far these powers went.

She parked that issue aside for now and looked at Huojin. "We need to join Mingshen's forces to find these drug suppliers. Wu Yue will be our lead for that. Tracking her can lead us to the ringmaster. But we cannot alert her."

"Excellent idea which is also what came to my mind. Spicy, we are always in such great sync, yet you refuse to acknowledge our special connection~"

Jia would have already squeezed the life out of him, if not for the question that came across her mind which broke his needless flirtatious atmosphere.

"You pointed out Wu Yue's drug addiction as the motivation behind harming Mrs. Dai and not her grandmother? You think Mrs. Dai could have accidentally witnessed her taking drugs when they met before or something related to it?"

Huojin asked, "But isn't Wu Yue trying to get rid of her addiction? Yang Mingshen, since when did she start taking treatment at your hospital?"

"Around three weeks back."

Jia raised her brow. "Seems around the time her grandmother passed away. Maybe her death changed her, but the coincidental meeting with Dai Yaling had already happened."

"Maybe something more happened between Wu Yue and Dai Yaling that she isn't telling. Maybe it's related to Dai Yaling possibly knowing that she is an addict? That could have made Wu Yue feel threatened. If she is trying to change, then she wouldn't want anybody to jeopardize her future."

Jia frowned. "Even if all our guesses are true, it still leaves a question. It cannot be a crime of passion at the last moment. How would have Wu Yue known that she should be having fur on her body and seated exactly opposite Mrs. Dai to-"

She suddenly stopped talking, slipping into a trance.

"Jia?" Huojin called out.

But it was as if her attention was focused on somewhere else.

"Jia?" He tapped her hand.

She abruptly broke out of her reverie, slightly sweating. Huojin stared at her puzzled while Mingshen sent a knowing gaze at her. Though she had no clue what that gaze meant.

She cleared her throat. "My bad. I was thinking about the case…" she slowly went on, "What I was saying about the seat was that perhaps Wu Yue booked the ticket in advance in such a way that her seat would be directly opposite Mrs. Dai."

Huojin gave her theory a thought. "She wouldn't prefer to sit beside her because she didn't want Mrs. Dai to recognize her. The immediate side seat would be too risky. But this plan would fall flat if Mrs. Dai had her inhaler."

"And Yin Xiaoling threw that away very conveniently."

"Not just that, she also ignored Yun's repeated calls to help her almost as if she was doing it purposely. Yin Xiaoling was also seated a row behind Wu Yue, so she could have easily told her which seat to book."

Jia bit the corner of her lip, thinking more deeply about it. "Yin Xiaoling and Wu Yue were very suspicious at the hospital too. Clearly, none of them wanted me to find them together. And Yin Xiaoling…" she asked Mingshen, "was she really sick?"

He laughed. "She reminded me of the little brats that use stomach ache as an excuse to skip school. I am going to charge her dear aunt for this tomfoolery very heavily~ You don't use my hospitals for petty excuses."

Huojin didn't even want to imagine the bill coming Yin Chin's way.

Jia thought about it. "What if she did all this so that Wu Yue could get a chance to meet her? She couldn't text her because her things are in custody, and she couldn't meet her here in detention either or it would have been suspicious. Maybe they planned for a quick secret meeting but didn't expect for me to come so soon."

"Speaking of accomplices, if we go by this theory, then Wu Yue's boyfriend, Wang Lei, comes into suspicion too."

"Naturally. He is in my radar too."

Huojin tried to tie the loose ends together. "I think both could have realized the common enmity they held for Dai Yaling when they met. An enemy's enemy is a friend. Maybe they would have made a plan later. Yin Xiaoling would somehow throw her inhaler away. But I think she couldn't do it in the washroom, which is why Mrs. Dai was already outside when the inhaler fell. Yin Xiaoling knew that she would be caught on CCTV, but she had no choice."

He then added. "What if they met today to talk about her detention? Obviously, Yin Xiaoling wouldn't be so thrilled to be the only one here when she had an accomplice. And all this means that Mrs. Dai somehow probably found her drugs' involvement at the time they met around a month ago in the mall, not at the theater because this required planning."

Jia agreed. "Wu Yue and Yin Xiaoling must have talked to each other to plan all this. Check Yin Xiaoling's phone records for all messages and calls with her. We have her and all her things in custody. Once we establish their connection, we can interrogate Yin Xiaoling harder for the truth," she narrowed her eyes.

"On it."

A whistle sound came from beside Jia which made her glare at Mingshen. "Don't whistle like a hooligan in the bureau."

Mingshen looked at her with dreamy eyes. "What choice did you leave me with, dear? It was so entertaining with your investigation skills just now that my chest overflowed with a tingling excitement all over it."

"Don't make me convert that tingling excitement into tingling pain all over your chest."

A few minutes later Huojin returned after checking the records but with bad news.

"There is absolutely no record of Wu Yue in Yin Xiaoling's contact list. No suspicious messages. No suspicious calls. No information about any planning at all."

"What?" Jia stared at him, wide-eyed. "It's impossible. They must have communicated to plan all this. At least there should be something on the phone."

"None at all."

"Then it must mean that…they met personally at all times to talk about it," she thought slowly. "They didn't leave any digital trail. Which means now we need to find out where that place is."


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