Transmigrated as My Best Friend's Ex

133. Mu Yinting’s Detective Agency

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Mu Yinting was a person who went in for ostentation and extravagance. His detective agency was located in an office building in the center of the city. It had two floors each of which was 60 square metres in area. Li Qinghao was surprised when he came to the door of the detective agency.

There was a girl at the reception desk. She was manicuring her hands and didn’t notice his approach. When Li Qinghao came up to her, the receptionist raised her head and asked, “May I help you, bro?” She put away her nail clipper and smiled at Li Qinghao in a friendly way.

Li Qinghao thought that the girl was very interesting. Although her face was heavily powdered, she didn’t seem at all vulgar. She was cute and lovely, her big eyes flashing. “I’m here to see Boss Mu. I have an appointment with him,” Li Qinghao said. The unhurried way in which he spoke was in sharp contrast to his appearance of a teenager. The girl was stunned for a moment. But soon she came back to herself and replied, “Boss Mu’s office is upstairs.” Only Mu Yiting’s acquaintances would call him Boss Mu. Since he was an acquaintance of her boss, there was no need for her to lead him upstairs.

The girl had a strong personality.

“Thank you,” said Li Qinghao.

He rounded the reception desk and saw several desks in the office, but no one was there. He came upstairs and happened to see Mu Yinting coming out of his office with a cup. “Oho, you’ve come so early!”

“Do you think your detective agency is posh or shabby?” asked Li Qinghao asked.

Mu Yinting thought for a while and answered, “It’s a very average run-of-the-mill kind of detective agency.”

Li Qinghao could not help laughing. “The girl downstairs is nice.”

“Shall I introduce her to you?”

Li Qinghao gave Mu Yinting a dirty look.

“Alright, no kidding. Come to my office. I’ll give you a simple introduction of my detective agency.” Mu Yinting’s office was less than 20 square metres. There were only two filing cabinets and a desk in it. On the desk was a laptop. “Although it looks very ordinary, it has all the vital organs.”

“Oh?”

“I’m talking about my laptop.” Mu Yinting patted his laptop gently and continued, “As the old saying goes, the sparrow may be small but it has all the vital organs. I think it’s the best description of my laptop.” He was right. Nowadays we can get almost all of the information we want on the Internet. “I run the company by myself. The girl downstairs is called Mia. I first met her when I was shadowing an errant husband. She’s a special girl, so I hired her. Do you know why she allowed herself to be that man’s mistress?”

“Because of the pressure of life?” Otherwise why would a girl allow herself to be a mistress of a married man? But since Mu Yinting asked such a question, there must be a special reason behind it.

“When I first met her, she asked me, ‘Do you know why I allow myself to be his mistress?’ She told me that she was not motivated by money. She was looking for a man who could give her a real feeling of satisfaction. She said that she had slept with many men, but none of them could make her satisfied both mentally and physically. So, she kept on seeking.” Mu Yinting had been surprised at that time. He hadn’t expected Mia, a girl under 25, to say that in an arrogant tone.

“Oh… So why doesn’t she hang round with married men anymore?”

“Because she gets satisfaction from other things, for example, detective games.” Mia was a surprise to his detective agency, as were other members.” In addition to Mia, there are four members of my detective agency. One of them is a racing driver called Acker. You know him, right? One is named Zhang Wei. He used to be a policeman and is very good at tracing. One is a sniper. Although I haven’t asked him about his past, I guess he used to be a killer. He came to my detective agency of his own accord. The last one has no name. He calls himself ‘Spy’. They are all interesting people, right?”

“They are all wolves in sheep’s clothing.” Li Qinghao stood up and continued, “I seem to be useless, compared with them.” He made his way to a filing cabinet, which was unlocked, and opened it. He took out a folder, scanned through it and put it back in the filing cabinet. Then he took out another folder, had a quick scan through it and said, “Don’t tell me these are all divorce cases.”

“We can make a lot of money from those who want to get divorced. After all, only rich people will hire detectives to make inquiries about their spouses. They don’t care how much it will cost, so I can ask a sky-high price. That’s how I make money.”

“You’re not short of money.”

“But I want more money. Come on, let’s go to your office and have a look. We reorganized that room specially for you this morning.” There was a crafty look in Mu Yinting’s eyes when he mentioned Li Qinghao’s office.

When Li Qinghao pushed open his office door, he was stunned because his office walls were covered with pink wallpapers.

“Do you know what? You arouse Mia’s mothering instincts. When I told her that this office is prepared for a boy who is 163 cm tall, she suggested decorating the room in a lovely way.”

The wallpaper was pink; the computer desk was pink; even the computer was pink. Li Qinghao even found that the keyboard was decorated with a Snoopy design. “Er, I think I have to…”

“I came here at six this morning and decorated this room with my own hands. Your office is beautiful, isn’t it?” Just as Li Qinghao was about to refuse, Mia came in with a teacup which was printed with a Snoopy pattern. Seeing that Li Qinghao’s face changed, Mia explained, “Rest assured, Snoopy is male. I thought twice before buying it.”

Hearing this, Li Qinghao’s lips slightly convulsed. “Thank you,” he said. Damn it! Mu Yinting’s employee did have a strong personality.

“My pleasure. I used to have a younger brother. When he was eight years old, we went to the seaside. Later, huge waves came, but my brother was reluctant to leave. As a result, he was swept away by the strong current. When my boss told me that a 163-centimetre-high boy was going to join us, I subconsciously regarded you as my younger brother,” Mia said in a soft tone, as she looked at Li Qinghao with puppy dog eyes. Li Qinghao told himself not to believe what she said, but anyway, he didn’t have the heart to disappoint such a lovely girl.

After Mia left, Mu Yinting looked at Li Qinghao in surprise and said, “In my eyes, you are not a soft-hearted man. It can be seen that you have a good impression of Mia.”

Li Qinghao kept silent. Indeed Mia made a good impression on him.

At noon, Li Qinghao sat in his office surfing the internet. He was trying to adjust himself to the decoration of his office.

Mu Yinting broke in and said, “Qinghao, let’s go. We have a new case.”

“A new case?” Li Qinghao didn’t hear any guests.

“Yes. Do you know why there’s a computer in your office? It’s not meant to handle official business. We’ve created a website to receive orders. Guests can email our detective agency if they need our help. We can choose whether or not to accept them as our clients. If we click the “yes” button, the guests have to pay 80 percent of the total amount as a deposit at once.” Mu Yinting wore a pair of binoculars around his neck. He paused for a second and asked, “Are you going or not?”

“What’s the new case about?”

“It’s about adultery. We are going to catch a person who are in adultery.”

Li Qinghao was speechless. It seemed that all the cases were about marriage.