By the time Shen Qiang arrived at the restaurant, Qian Shanxue, Ali, and Ye Xiaolei were already there.

After sitting down at the table and casually ordering two dishes, Shen Qiang looked at the charming Ye Xiaolei and couldn't help but smile, asking, "So, did you crack any earth-shattering cases today?"

Ye Xiaolei looked alluringly at Shen Qiang and said with a smile, "No earth-shattering cases cracked recently, but we did discover some people's little secrets. For example, a long-legged beauty and a cool CEO."

Shen Qiang was puzzled: "This sounds like a plot from a romance novel."

Ye Xiaolei giggled charmingly at this.

Ali, sitting beside them, sneered, "Ha, really good at pretending. Even rabbits know not to eat grass near their burrow, yet some people just love to eat it, while hiding and covering up, even arranging for their subordinates to destroy evidence. But as they say, 'Man proposes, God disposes,' paper can't wrap fire, there's no wall without cracks."

Hearing this.

Shen Qiang's brows furrowed as he smiled and said, "It sounds like you're implying something."

Ali looked smug, "Ha, to keep people from knowing, you mustn't do it."

Seeing Shen Qiang's slightly chilly expression, Ye Xiaolei smiled charmingly, "Ali, don't tease him like this, Shen Qiang will get angry."

Then, Ye Xiaolei pleasantly took Shen Qiang's hand and said, "That long-legged sister is really beautiful. Her posture while playing billiards is perfect, and especially that focused gaze is really captivating. So if you like her, go be with her. If possible next time, invite her to eat with us. Xiaolei wants to learn billiards from her."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang was astonished, "Are you talking about Jiang Hanyang? We're as innocent as a blank sheet of paper."

Ye Xiaolei smiled charmingly but her eyes showed disbelief.

Ali sneered, "No wonder people say they'd rather believe in ghosts than trust a man's words. You say your relationship is as clean as a blank sheet, but look how close you stand in photos, claiming there's nothing between you. Hah! Only a fool would believe that."

Shen Qiang was dumbfounded.

Photos?

He seemed to never have taken a photo with the beauty and heroic thief Jiang Hanyang.

Moreover, since the Long Yan Sword Sect incident, Shen Qiang and Jiang Hanyang hadn't interacted much.

If there really were photos of them together, then they must have been taken during the events involving the Long Yan Sword Sect.

It could have come from surveillance or maybe a phone, who knows?

"There's nothing going on." Qian Shanxue smiled slightly and said, "Shen Qiang doesn't want to publicize his intimate relationship with Jiang Hanyang. There might be other reasons, but at least it proves that Shen Qiang sending Shen Bian to infiltrate Jiang Hanyang's office and home wasn't because he took the stolen items from Liu Chengye, but simply because he didn't want others to know his secret."

"So in the matter of Liu Chengye's stolen treasures, Shen Qiang is innocent." Qian Shanxue laughed and raised her glass, saying, "That is more important than anything else."

Hearing this.

Shen Qiang laughed.

"Cheers to my innocence!" Shen Qiang raised his glass and happily glanced at the treasures inside his storage ring.

Qian Shanxue, Ye Xiaolei raised their glasses, and even Ali, who usually liked opposing Shen Qiang, smiled for once and raised her glass, saying, "Alright then, cheers to Shen Qiang's innocence."

The four of them downed their drinks in one go.

Just as they set their glasses down.

With hurried footsteps, a tall, stunningly beautiful young girl, dressed in a way that exuded a pure aura, suddenly burst into the restaurant.

As Shen Qiang turned his head and locked eyes with her, both of them were stunned.

Because this beauty was none other than the Jade Girl of Baihua, Wei Sheng Qian Dai.

At that moment, her expression was anxious. She glanced strangely at Shen Qiang, but then quickly turned her head, urgently asking Qian Shanxue, "Are you Captain Qian Shanxue? I'm Wei Sheng Qian Dai. A female teacher from our Baihua Arts Academy's Provincial City branch has gone missing."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang was slightly surprised.

At that moment, two other rather pretty women entered the restaurant.

"I know about this, but you all are too anxious. She hasn't been missing for even twenty-four hours yet. We can't be sure something happened to her."

Upon hearing this, Wei Sheng Qian Dai became anxious and spoke urgently, "Colonel Qian Shanxue, here's what happened. The missing female teacher is twenty-seven years old; she has a three-year-old daughter whom she adores. Whenever she's not teaching, she'd go to the kindergarten across the school to see her daughter."

"But today she acted very unusually. In the morning, when she went to see her child, she told the kindergartener that she'd step out for a moment and come back to have lunch with her daughter."

"But since then and up till now, no one has been able to contact her, and she hasn't gone to the kindergarten to pick up her daughter in the evening. Something must have happened to her."

Hearing this, Qian Shanxue frowned and said, "You've already filed a police report, and the Dragon Group has passed the message to me. After investigation, we found that she isn't purely missing. At 4 PM, she sent a text to a colleague saying she had something to do and might be late in picking up her child, asking her colleague to help."

Wei Sheng Qian Dai anxiously replied, "Yes, she did send such a message from her phone. But the person who received it is our Go teacher while the number used to belong to the headteacher. That number was given to the Go teacher three months ago, and she's aware of it."

"But the message still refers to the Go teacher as the headteacher, making us believe that something's wrong. The person with her phone didn't know to update the contact names."

Hearing this.

Ali frowned, displeased, and said, "The society is complex. What you said is just speculation. Maybe she went on a date and casually sent messages to others, but made a mistake in haste? We might end up mobilizing a lot of manpower only to find out she's alright. Can you imagine how embarrassing that would be?"

Hearing this, Wei Sheng Qian Dai became anxious and said, "We've already mobilized many from the academy staff to search for her, but there's still no news. Something definitely happened. Her phone is unreachable."

"It might be out of battery," Ali raised an eyebrow.

Wei Sheng Qian Dai became even more anxious, saying, "Impossible, it must have been turned off. She loves her daughter very much and would never leave her at the kindergarten like this. Even if there were an urgent matter, she'd call. "

"Even if her phone was dead, she could borrow someone else's phone. But now there's no news at all, something must have happened. That's why we need the Dragon Group's help."

Qian Shanxue stopped Ali, who was about to speak again, and said, "Alright, I'd like to help, but aimlessly searching is not feasible. Do you have any suspects?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Sheng Qian Dai's eyes turned towards Shen Qiang, saying, "Of course, the suspect is Heshenghe! Shen Qiang!"

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