The Case of Love

Chapter 99 Pretending to be a boyfriend

Xia Mo had fallen asleep. Su Xiaohan and Xia Dongjun were sitting on chairs beside the bed, both with sad looks on their faces.

Seeing Zhou Yifeng come in, Su Xiaohan stood up and pointed outside the door, indicating that he should go out with her.

"How is Xia Mo?" Zhou Yifeng asked after leaving the room.

"She's fine now. I'll let her sleep for a while, and we'll talk about other things after she's rested. These two days, she remembered some things..." People passed by in the corridor from time to time, and Su Xiaohan didn't say anything else.

"You should also take a rest and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Seeing that she was worried about Xia Mo, Zhou Yifeng felt very uncomfortable.

"Captain Zhou, let's go back first. I'll come see Xia Mo when she gets better." Thinking of Du Peng's case, Su Xiaohan didn't want to delay the investigation of the case because of herself.

"I'll go back, you stay and accompany her." Zhou Yifeng said.

"We don't know when she will wake up. With Uncle Xia here, nothing will happen. I'll go back with you!" Su Xiaohan insisted.

After that, without waiting for Zhou Yifeng to say anything, Su Xiaohan went into the room, greeted Xia Dongjun, and came out. Zhou Yifeng did not insist and left the hospital with her.

On the way, Su Xiaohan and Zhou Yifeng told each other the general situation. According to Xia Mo, the abducted girls were all sent to a villa. Two masked men selected the ones they liked from among them and took turns to rape them. After that, they were sold to the village.

Because the two men were wearing masks, Xia Mo couldn't see their faces, but she remembered that one of the men, who seemed to be the boss among them, had a tattoo on his right forearm. When she said this, Xia Mo was very excited, and the scene that Zhou Yifeng saw appeared. She threw the quilt, pillow and other things around her to the ground.

When Xia Mo wakes up again, Su Xiaohan plans to ask her about the style of the tattoo and ask her to draw it.

In order to get Zhou Bicheng's photo, Su Xiaohan asked her mother to invite Guan Mingshan to dinner at home on the weekend, and specifically asked Zhou Bicheng to come with him. Li Aifang thought her daughter was interested in Zhou Bicheng, and she was happy. She cooked a few dishes herself with her aunt.

Su Xiaohan couldn't explain the reason to her mother, so to avoid her misunderstanding, she invited Zhou Yifeng to her home for dinner. Zhou Yifeng was embarrassed to go, but he agreed when he thought about meeting the suspect.

On Saturday noon, Zhou Yifeng brought a bouquet of flowers and several bags of fruit to Su Xiaohan's house for a dinner. In the living room, he met Zhou Bicheng.

This was the first time he and Zhou Bicheng met, but he felt that Zhou Bicheng looked at him in a very special way, with doubt, confusion, and more surprise, as if he had seen him before. However, Zhou Bicheng quickly recovered and greeted him with a smile.

During the meal, Su Xiaohan kept picking up food for Zhou Yifeng, very enthusiastically. Li Aifang could see that her daughter had a crush on Zhou Yifeng, and she couldn't help but feel a little more worried. She didn't agree with her daughter being a criminal police officer, and she didn't want her to find a boyfriend who was also a criminal police officer.

After dinner, while they were sitting together chatting, Su Xiaohan secretly took a photo of Zhou Bicheng, and then sent a message to Zhou Yifeng: "Captain Zhou, the mission is accomplished, we can call it a day!"

Zhou Yifeng smiled and said goodbye, saying he had something to do at the bureau. Su Xiaohan saw him to the door.

Seeing that no one followed him out, Zhou Yifeng teased Su Xiaohan: "Xiaohan, I can see that Auntie likes Zhou Bicheng very much. The way Auntie looks at Zhou Bicheng is like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law."

"My mother likes him very much, but it's useless for her to like him. It depends on me to like him. I don't like his type." Su Xiaohan said seriously.

"Oh? You don't like his type, what type do you like?" Zhou Yifeng asked curiously. "I like strong and righteous men, preferably..." Su Xiaohan wanted to say that she likes strong and righteous men, preferably policemen. She was afraid that her thoughts would be exposed if she said it, so she didn't say anything more.

"Strong and with a sense of justice. Aren't you talking about me?" Zhou Yifeng looked at her with obvious cunning in his eyes.

Su Xiaohan blushed anxiously, not knowing how to respond. She avoided the question, but he took the initiative to identify her.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Go back and entertain the guests! Send me the photos and I'll show them to Zuo Dafeng." Seeing that she was embarrassed, Zhou Yifeng changed the subject.

Su Xiaohan sent him the photo and watched his car drive away before turning back.

The next morning, Su Xiaohan learned good news as soon as she arrived at the team. After Zuo Dafeng saw Zhou Bicheng's photo, he was sure that he was the big shot he had met before.

Zhou Yifeng told the leader of the Narcotics Squadron, Wang Zecheng, about this clue, and the Criminal Investigation Brigade will jointly investigate Zhou Bicheng with the Narcotics Squadron. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Zhou Yifeng asked Su Xiaohan to treat Zhou Bicheng as usual and not to show any suspicion towards him.

Thinking that her mother had a crush on Zhou Bicheng and that Guan Mingshan was often with him, Su Xiaohan was very worried.

Zhou Yifeng seemed to see her worry and asked with a smile: "Xiao Han, are you worried about Auntie and Uncle Guan?"

Su Xiaohan frowned: "My mother likes Zhou Bicheng very much and has added him on WeChat. I guess they will contact each other often. My uncle Guan is often with Zhou Bicheng, so I can't help but worry."

"Uncle Guan should be fine. Zhou Bicheng won't do anything to him. It's not impossible to prevent Aunt from contacting Zhou Bicheng..." Zhou Yifeng hesitated to speak.

"I told my mother before that I don't like people like Zhou Bicheng, but she didn't listen and still contacts him often. Do you have any good ideas to make my mother stop contacting Zhou Bicheng?" Su Xiaohan looked up at Zhou Yifeng with expectation.

"If you tell your aunt that you have a boyfriend, won't she stop thinking about Zhou Bicheng?" Zhou Yifeng suggested with a smile.

Su Xiaohan looked at him and felt that he was holding back something. After thinking for a while, she pretended to be worried and said, "If I tell her that I have a boyfriend, my mother will definitely ask me to take him back. Who will I take back then? I can't hire someone to pretend to be my boyfriend, right?"

Zhou Yifeng moved slightly closer and lowered his voice, "If you need it, I can help."

"Ah?" Su Xiaohan was surprised. "You mean, you want to pretend to be my boyfriend?"

Zhou Yifeng didn't dare to look her in the eye, avoiding her gaze and said, "Besides me, do you have any other candidates?"

Su Xiaohan was speechless. He was indeed the best candidate. Moreover, subconsciously, she hoped that he was really her boyfriend, not just pretending.

"Junior sister, I heard you and Captain Zhou talking about your boyfriend from a distance. What's the matter, junior sister, do you have a boyfriend?" While the two were talking, Li Zhisong walked into the office and stared at them with a pair of gossipy eyes.

"Brother, were you hallucinating? We were talking about the person in the portrait. We didn't talk about boyfriend or anything like that." Su Xiaohan argued.

"My ears are very good, I definitely didn't hear it wrong!" Li Zhisong said confidently.