Mu Chenyan should have known much earlier that he had already harbored ill intentions when he prepared sleepwear like that for her.

That much was expected!

The entire night was spent with the man’s thrusting motions that completely exhausted her. He had said that she only needed to moan but the actual situation was nothing like that.

The sore feeling lasted until dawn. This woman had finally exhausted all of her strength and could not get up from the bed.

Early morning

Yuan Xuan went out to exercise as usual. He showered after he returned and changed into a pair of casual long pants that he paired with a medium-long styled beige windbreaker which made him look spirited and cheerful.

Various types of breakfast were already prepared in the kitchen. Sister Liu came over to report to him, saying, “Sir, Mistress hasn’t gotten up yet. Should I go and wake her?”

Yuan Xuan glanced upstairs before he faintly smiled and said, “Let her sleep and turn off the signal blocker.”

Sister Liu briefly responded in acknowledgement. Ten minutes later, Liu Li Villa regained its communication signal. Unfortunately, Mu Chenyan’s cellphone was still turned off…

…

Yan Jun’s phone rang. When he saw his boss’ honorific title flashing on the screen, Yan Jun got serious and answered the call, saying, “Young Master!”

“How’s everything going?”

Yuan Xuan sank into the sofa and turned on the laptop on the coffee table. He picked up his teacup and drank a mouthful from it before he asked his questions while staring at the computer screen.

“Everything is going smoothly. Captain Wu took his men to the gang’s lair. He’s even investigated their telecommunication devices and he’s going to take it back to the station to put it through technical appraisal,” Wu Ze accurately reported.

Yuan Xuan’s tone was flat and deep when he said, “I brought Mistress to stay at Liu Li Villa these few days but we won’t be returning yet. We’ll discuss this again once the case is almost over. You should keep a close eye on the activities in Luo Hai.”

Yan Jun had a panoramic view of all the signs of disturbances keeping watch over Luo Hai.

Meanwhile, trouble would not arise in Zhong Heng International either because Kang Yu was overseeing it.

Although he had to go into hiding with his wife for several days, that was not necessarily a bad thing. It was an opportunity as well to strengthen their relationship and prevent her from throwing a tantrum every day because he had forced her to stay in a specific place.

Yuan Xuan hung up after giving Yan Jun his instructions. Next, he turned his head towards Sister Liu and asked, “Are you sure that there was no signal within a 15km radius?”

Sister Liu quickly answered, “Yes, I’m sure. Please don’t worry, sir!”

…

Mu Chenyan’s disappearance from the face of the earth got Su Qingcheng and Zhang Xin panicked.

When she discovered that the hacker was caught, Su Qingcheng initially wanted to inform Mu Chenyan as soon as possible. However, she found out that other woman’s cellphone was out of coverage area the whole time and it ended up being turned off completely.

Those hackers had said not long after they were caught that they were instructed by someone called Mr Shadow. They went to hack Zhong Heng International’s intranet first but were unsuccessful, and their task the second time around was to hack Zong He’s surveillance networks.

Wu Huai hurriedly dispatched people to check the bank accounts of these hackers. He discovered that there were other accounts that successively transferred significant amounts of money to these people numerous times.

The hackers only knew the other party as “Mr Shadow” because they only contacted each other through the phone every time while their transactions were completed through online banking transfers. Everything else truly resembled a shadow in the sense that nothing about him had come to light at all.

Wu Huai’s heart burned with impatience as the investigation reached a standstill.

Before he left, Yuan Xuan mentioned that this might be related to the Mu Family. However, why were the leads cut off again once they had reached this point?

Moreover, Third Young Master Yuan was not contactable now and they had also lost communication with the young lady of the Mu Family as well. The members of rich and influential families were certainly headstrong enough to skip work just because they felt like it. Wu Huai seethed with anger while the staff in the criminal police department were as anxious as ants in a hot pan.

Wu Huai suddenly realized that if this was related to the Mu Family, the Mu Family’s case would involve other financial cases. Thus, the other branches would perhaps have information on that.

He sent Little Dong and Jiang Bian to probe the other departments. As expected, they found out through the information from the other branches that a secret little treasury was stolen from the mansion where the Mu Family was previously placed under house arrest. Since the prosecutor merely sealed off the mansion at that time, they did not know about the existence of this underground treasury. Thus, the outside world was unaware of the exact number of assets that were hidden inside.

Wu Huai’s mind understood this better now. However, he was worried that the Mu Family’s exiled son had returned and taken the money from this private treasury.

It was highly likely that even Mu Chenyan was unaware of this treasury.

The other branches had immediately contacted several of their spies on the black market at that time. After numerous investigations, they discovered that the person who was doing these transactions in the black market was a woman. The people in the black market said that she was probably a young lady of a wealthy family because she had a large number of gold bars which she used for her transactions.

Upon hearing this information, Wu Huai pondered for a while before he quietly said, “The person who’s controlling the flow of such a large amount of money and goods is definitely someone that Mu Chenwu trusts the most. Could that mysterious young lady be Mu Chenyan?”

When his colleague Captain Zhang Cheng from the public security sub-bureau heard this, he laughed and said, “If it’s Mrs Yuan, couldn’t we just visit her at her home? At that time, we suspected her at the first instance as well. Later, we secretly questioned some of the pimps and they determined that it definitely wasn’t her.

“Thus, we never dared to visit Miss Mu at her doorstep to avoid getting into trouble with the Yuan Family.” Zhang Cheng spoke frankly and Wu Huai inwardly understood that.

When Su Qingcheng overheard this information by the side, she interrupted, “Could that woman be Feng Rao, the young lady of the Feng Family?”

Mu Chenyan had previously told Su Qingcheng the whole story about the people that she came into contact with several years ago and the things that happened to her. Su Qingcheng remembered that Mu Chenyan had mentioned that her brother previously had an illicit lover named Feng Rao.

Although Mu Chenyan covered up certain parts of the incident where Feng Rao told her to meet her brother in the cemetery, Su Qingcheng still remembered the name of the woman who previously argued with Mu Chenyan during the Yuan Family’s banquet.

Zhang Cheng had initially assumed that this was a common burglary case. That year, there were numerous other similar cases like the Mu Family’s where people died, got hurt, and people who went missing later returned to steal their own family’s possessions. Thus, he did not handle it as a serious case. However, he had never expected that it would be linked to the Zong He poisoning case today.

“Captain Zhang, I’m sorry to trouble you but I’d like you to investigate and see if the people at the black market can recognize if that woman is Feng Rao.”

…

Mu Chenyan was unsure whether there was a problem with her own phone or if Liu Li Villa was too far from the district of Luo Hai City. Since there was no signal for several days, she simply ignored it in the end and switched her phone off.

Although she could no longer receive information from the outside world, it was still alright because Yuan Xuan would take her around the scenic spots during the daytime. They even went boating and fishing at Wintry Lake.

The two of them wrestled in bed with all their might at night. Mu Chenyan finally discovered that this man was simply inhuman in bed…

Third Young Master Yuan personally taught his pretty young wife various positions to achieve release. The man whose stamina was excessively exceptional was constantly full of demands. Moreover, the carefree and sweat-inducing love-making completely exhausted her, leaving her with no time to analyze the cases.

Aside from Yan Jun who came over to deliver clothes while they were there, Mu Chenyan only seemed to see a few interchanging maids.

Liu Li Villa was seemingly cut off from the rest of the world. Their surroundings were so quiet that the birds seemed extra careful when they flew around as well. The plants in the mountain villa’s garden were picked according to Yuan Xuan’s preference. It resembled a completely tranquil earthly paradise that was secluded from the noisy and bustling city.

Just like that, Mu Chenyan cast aside her worldly luxuries and peacefully lived a leisurely life.

She was not used to it at first but later became at ease with it. Additionally, this woman had also become significantly plumper due to the care of Liu Li Villa’s chef.

Yuan Xuan really liked her current docile manner. He half-jokingly said, “I should just retire at Liu Li Villa. You’ll cook and I’ll fish. We’ll lay off all the maids here so the both of us can live leisurely. When the children are on vacation, they can come over and accompany us during their holidays!”

Mu Chenyan repeatedly rolled her eyes at him upon hearing that.

She thought to herself, ‘Dear Third Young Master Yuan, you’ve really let your imagination run wild!’