Shen Antu started to clean up the dishes, and Xie Duo followed behind him. Xie Duo also drank a lot tonight, and contrary to his usual calm image, he always tried to sneak attack Shen Antu, occasionally touching his buttocks or biting his earlobe, and almost made Shen Antu smash the dishes several times, so Shen Antu had to drive him out of the kitchen.
The card table in the living room was full, and Xie Duo didn't want to sit and watch alone, so he put his hands in his pockets and walked slowly to the study on the second floor, intending to clear today's mail.
After Shen Antu tidied up the kitchen, he brought a plate of fruit and placed it on the coffee table in the living room: "You can eat as much as you want. If you don't have enough, there's more in the kitchen. I'm going to take a shower upstairs, you guys can play first."
In a blink of an eye, several rounds of poker were over. Xie Wenxuan and Chen Xu were already drunk and unconscious. Xie Wenxuan waited until Cheng Zui came out to sing, and he fell unconscious on the sofa as soon as he finished singing. Chen Xu could still barely keep his eyes open, but his mind was a mess. He did not resist when Zhou Minghui hugged him.
There was no way to play this card game any further. Ji Yuan stared blankly at the pile of cards on the table for a while, and suddenly whispered, "I'll go and call them down." After that, he left the table.
The TV and Xie Wenxuan's snoring were too loud, and Zhou Minghui was busy teasing Chen Xu in his arms, so he didn't pay much attention to Ji Yuan. It took him a few seconds to react to what Ji Yuan said. Xie Duo and Shen Antu disappeared at the same time, which must be "doing something bad". If Ji Yuan went there at this time, he might bump into something. Zhou Minghui wanted to call him back, but he saw that he had already gone upstairs.
Although Zhou Minghui was not familiar with Ji Yuan, there was no reason for him to watch someone die. He put Chen Xu on the sofa and chased Ji Yuan upstairs. As soon as he stepped onto the stairs to the second floor, he saw Ji Yuan enter the study and closed the door. Zhou Minghui sighed and leaned against the corner waiting to see Ji Yuan being driven out. However, half a minute passed and there was no movement in the study.
Zhou Minghui felt strange. He stood up and was about to go over to find out what was going on when he suddenly heard the sound of a hair dryer coming from upstairs.
Zhou Minghui stood there for a moment, then strode towards the third floor.
Shen Antu was washing his hair in the bedroom. The door was not closed tightly, and some light from the dim bed lamp came through the crack in the door. Zhou Minghui knocked on the door several times before he answered.
"What's wrong?"
Shen Antu did not open the door completely. Only half of his face was revealed from the gap. He had his back to the light and his whole body seemed to be made of darkness.
"Chen Xu is drunk, I'll take him away first." Zhou Minghui paused, "When I came up, I saw Ji Yuan entered Xie Duo's study, I think you'd better go and take a look,"
Chapter 40 I want to talk to you about Shen Lin
Xie Duo sat behind the desk. The fluorescent lights in the study were bright, but the alcohol made his thinking slower than usual. He squinted for two seconds before recognizing that the person who came in was Ji Yuan.
"Is there something wrong?" he asked, his voice exuding the laziness of being slightly drunk.
Ji Yuan closed the door and walked slowly towards Xie Duo, with a strange sense of tension in his movements.
"Mr. Xie, I want to talk to you about Shen Lin."
The word "Shen Lin" seemed to be some kind of signal, which made Xie Duo clear his mind in an instant. He emphasized his tone: "What happened to Shen Antu?"
Ji Yuan stood one meter away from Xie Duo, looking down at his toes, his limbs stiff like a prisoner being tortured: "You know I knew Shen... Shen Antu in the past, I know him more or less, I observed him these past few days, he... may have recovered his memory."
"Where's the evidence?"
There was no change in Xie Duo's movements and tone, but Ji Yuan suddenly felt like a thorn in his back and he clenched his fists.
"Yes, there are two things. The first thing was when I first arrived at the villa and played cards with him. He, Mr. Xie, and I played cards together. We played truth or dare to test him and asked him if he had done anything to let you down when he was studying abroad. He said no, but he obviously changed girlfriends in turn at that time. If he didn't remember what happened before, he could say he didn't remember, but he insisted that he didn't. Isn't this suspicious?"
"The second is the incident where he disappeared at Cheng Zui's fan meeting. I suspect he had planned this long ago. He must have taken advantage of this time to meet with Jinsheng's people."
"He didn't." Xie Duo interrupted him.
That night, Xie Duo checked the hotel's surveillance cameras. He saw Shen Antu go to the buffet restaurant with his own eyes. After failing to find Xie Wenxuan in the crowd, he turned around and took the elevator back to the meeting place on the first floor, just missing Ji Yuan who was rushing towards the main entrance of the hotel.
Xie Duo looked at Ji Yuan unkindly: "What do you want to say?"
Ji Yuan raised his head slowly, his face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot: "I think Mr. Xie shouldn't keep Shen Antu by his side. He is not a good person at all. You may not know that he relied on that face to deceive rich ladies to spend a lot of money on him abroad... Later, he followed Yu Keyan, and in order to help that woman get the inheritance, he did a lot of dirty things. He..."
"So?" Xie Duo changed his sitting position and tapped the table impatiently with his index finger. "Ji Yuan, I hope you don't misunderstand. I paid to pay off your debt so that you can make him happy, not to deliberately hurt him behind his back."
"I didn't slander him. I said the truth! Because Mr. Xie helped me pay off my debts, I am very grateful, so I want to tell you the truth." Ji Yuan's speech speed is getting faster and faster. He can't help but get closer to Xie Duo and put his hand on the corner of Xie Duo's table. "Don't be fooled by his appearance. He is not worthy of your love at all."