The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

After three nights of little sleep, Lanni finally had significant progress in her search so she gave Lin Jian a call.

"I know where Li Xiyan is." She reported.

"Do you have evidence that she is Li Xiyan?" Asked Lin Jian. His implication was that she could have followed the wrong lead or worse, Li Xiyan could have set her up to find the wrong person.

"Yes. I'm sure of it." She would never mistake anyone else for the woman who harmed her best friend and almost ruined her sister's life.

He was satisfied by her response. "Let's go and confirm it. Meanwhile, call the police."

"Why are we involving the police?" Lanni asked. It wasn't that she didn't know, but she preferred to deal with Li Xiyan personally. The last time they involved the police in dealing with that woman, the woman was helped out of prison.

Who knew, there might just be another Han Xichen to help her out a second time. However, she knew that saying this would not do anything to sway Lin Jian. Since three days ago, she had found out that he drew a significant line between work and personal matters. She could only do as she was told.

"She lives in an apartment complex in the east outskirts of the city. Shall I send you the address?" She asked.

"No need. We are going there together. Where are you? Come over to Lin Media Group." As he spoke, he called his assistant over the intercom and asked him to arrange for bodyguards.

About twenty minutes later, Lanni arrived at the company building. When she saw the fleet of cars awaiting them and the bodyguards outside the cars, she shot a look at the man beside her. "What the heck? Do you think we are supposed to make a grand entrance like mafia bosses of some sort?"

"You do not expect us to go unguarded, now do you? Li Xiyan is not your everyday thug." He countered.

"Yes, it is exactly because she isn't your everyday thug that we shouldn't make such an appearance. What makes you think she will sit back and wait for us even while knowing that we are going there for her?" She frowned at her boss's strange logic.

"We can all hide and proceed carefully." He shrugged as he made his way to the third car on the queue. He opened the back passenger door and waited for her to get in.

She got in reluctantly but still had something to say. "The more we are, the harder it is for us to hide. Li Xiyan's late husband was a programmer and the nation's proclaimed top hacker. Heaven knows the kind of security measures he put in place for her to avoid her getting caught."

"Speaking of that, where is your sister?" Lin Jian asked as he instructed the chauffeur to start driving. All the bodyguards entered the cars and they drove off.

"Nope. We are not going to involve my sister in this. She is pregnant." Lanni rejected the idea sternly. It was already bad enough that they had made Luna work so hard during this period. The more danger they involved her in, the higher the risk that she would be emotionally unstable.

"Okay. We can still do without her." Lin Jian compromised, and Lanni guessed that he probably knew a talented hacker.

When they were close to the apartment complex, the car stopped and Lin Jian instructed Lanni to get off. When they were out, she finally realized that they were the only ones who had arrived, and the other cars were nowhere in the vicinity.

"What are you looking for? I told you my men are pros in hiding." He smiled with a tease.

"Okay. Then let's go." She knew there was no time to waste. Lin Jian had already contacted one of his friends who was a police officer, and he arrived soon after they did.

The man greeted Lanni and shook her hand. "Did you say you knew where Li Xiyan is?"

"Yes. I will show you to her unit." Lanni so badly wanted Lin Jian to change his mind but she knew that it would never happen so she gave up on the thought.

"I've been wondering, why would Li Xiyan live in an apartment even while knowing that she is a wanted criminal?" Lin Jian wondered aloud.

"Because she knows that no one would think of such a highly populated apartment when looking for her. She is rich and under the eye of the police, so anyone would imagine that she lives in a secluded villa or bungalow." Lanni answered him as they made their way up the stairs. They had avoided the elevator because of possible security measures that Xia Hanchen might have put in place for Li Xiyan.

She lived on the eighth floor, so the three were out of breath by the time they made it up.

They carefully walked towards the unit that Lanni had stated. To prevent her from running away, there were several policemen stationed on every floor, and they were in casual clothing so Li Xiyan would never guess their identity before she got caught.

Lanni rang the doorbell under the guise of housekeeping staff. However, after waiting for a while, there was no movement on the other side, much less anyone to open the door. The policeman was preparing to break in when the door swung open on its own.

He frowned and walked in, then searched all the rooms in the house and returned while shaking his head. "She is not here."

"What? I am sure that this is where she lives. It couldn't be wrong." Lanni was baffled by the outcome.

"She lives here." The man took a picture from a side table and showed it to them. It was Li Xiyan's picture without a disguise. "However, it is also possible that she rented this apartment to create confusion but lives somewhere else."

"Can I look around?" Lanni asked.

"Be careful. Never mind. Let me come with you." The man slid a pair of gloves on and gave her a pair so she would not leave any fingerprints behind.

"Thank you." Lanni made her way towards the corridor.

"Stay behind me." The man ordered. "Where do you want to check?"

Lin Jian took out his phone to ask his men to check for any traces of Li Xiyan as Lanni walked around the house with the policeman.

She entered the bathroom when he let her and checked around.

"She was here recently." She pointed at a bottle of shampoo.

The man looked at it and nodded when he realized that the shampoo had been used before. He then touched the faucet and found that it was still warm. "She was here a few minutes ago. She took a shower."

Lanni was relieved that she had not gotten the information wrong.

"She must have run away. Stay away from this place and let my colleagues and I handle it." He instructed, and Lanni left to go back to the living room where Lin Jian was waiting.

"Did she run away?" Lin Jian guessed.

Lanni was about to nod when she noticed a fallen vase along with a broken floor lamp near the window. Her eyes narrowed. "Looks like she was kidnapped."

...

Lanni's final guess was right because the next week, Lin Jian's friend called him to report that Li Xiyan's body had been found. From the modus operandi, the police concluded that the murderer was probably the same person who killed Ji Feifei.

Lanni was in disbelief when she heard the news. She didn't need to make a guess and directly made a call.

"You did it, didn't you?"

"Don't worry, no one can trace it back to me." Flynn chuckled on the other end. "I deliberately used Xia Hanchen's method, and there is no way to prove that I was close to that psycho."

"How funny it is for you to call anyone a psycho." Lanni berated him.

"Now, now. I thought you would be happy about it. If it makes you feel better, I did not let her off easily. I tortured her for longer than I did with Xia Hanchen and by the time she died, she had spent two days begging me to kill her."

Lanni was still speechless so he added, "Sis, I will get rid of everyone who has tried to hurt you in the past and is still alive. No matter who they are, I will drag them out and show them what happens to people who mess with my family."

When Flynn hung up, he finally got down the car as he had arrived at his destination. In his mind, he thought back to his mother who had suffered for merely existing. 'Mother, I made them pay for it. Are you happy?'

…

Li Yuming was about to leave the house when the doorbell rang. She opened it and almost fainted when she saw who the incomer was. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to say hi." The man smiled as he ran a hand through his hair down his brown ponytail."