Chapter 60: You Really Were Starving

I’ve figured out a way to save Xiaowen!

It’s just that I’m not sure yet if it will actually work, so I haven’t told Sister Yan.

Early in the morning, Chen Yinan and I arrived at the Haizhou First People’s Hospital. We originally planned to check on Xiaowen first, but the administrative building was quite quiet at this hour, so we headed straight to the president's office.

Little Monkey had been here last night and didn't find anything, so today I was going to take the final step with Wang Qinghong.

If even the Qi-Observing Eye failed to find any evidence of his infidelity, this case could be wrapped up.

I would only need to make up some random excuse to catch a glimpse of him, use the Qi-Observing Eye to take a look, and save myself all the trouble.

Leaving Chen Yinan waiting nearby, I went to the office alone. Outside the door, I took off my glasses, and just as I was about to knock, with a click, the door opened by itself!

A middle-aged woman wearing a bronze-colored cleaning uniform walked out. She froze when she saw me standing at the door and asked softly, "Who are you? Are you looking for President Wang?"

The woman was in her forties, with wrinkles on her face and an utterly ordinary appearance—the kind of person you wouldn't even notice if she were standing in a crowd.

Her right hand, which had just opened the door, was very rough, clearly belonging to a laborer accustomed to heavy physical work.

From behind her came a man's voice: "Who is it? Xiao Zhang didn't say there was an appointment this morning!"

Immediately following, a tall man walked over, stood behind the woman, glanced at me, and asked with a slight frown, "Do you need something?"

I recognized him instantly; this was Wang Qinghong himself.

Glancing at the woman still standing in the doorway, I said to Wang Qinghong, "President Wang, I have a personal matter I'd like your help with!"

Without saying much, he simply put on a stern expression and told the cleaning lady, "Sister Mei, hurry up and clean the conference room. Don't just stand here."

"Understood!" the woman replied, turning to walk away.

The president's office didn't look particularly luxurious; it was furnished simply and neatly.

There were no commendatory banners or anything of the sort; instead, it looked more like a study, with bookshelves lining the walls, completely filled with books.

The reception area didn't have a large sofa, just a small round table surrounded by four simple armchairs.

"I don't have much time; I have a meeting shortly, so I won't invite you to sit down. If you have anything to say, please get straight to the point!" Wang Qinghong glanced at his wristwatch and told me.

I looked around the room and said, "President Wang, I just wanted to ask if someone currently undergoing radiotherapy can be discharged. Does our hospital allow them to leave?"

Wang Qinghong stood to the side, looking at me as he replied, "For matters like that, it's better to ask the doctor in charge. I don't get involved in those details."

I smiled and said to him, "Doesn't it really just take a single word from you, the president?"

An expression of annoyance appeared on Wang Qinghong's face as he frowned and asked, "Did the Jin family send you?"

"Huh?" I was still looking around the room, but that single question completely baffled me!

Maintaining my composure, I tilted my head and looked at Wang Qinghong. "What is President Wang talking about? I don't understand."

"Sigh!" Wang Qinghong sighed, shook his head, and gave me a disdainful glance. "Ever since you walked in, you've been observing this place.

I've already seen several batches of people like you coming here to investigate me!

The Jin family has really gone to great lengths just to make me leave with nothing!

Go back and tell Jin Shuiyun to stop playing these messy little tricks. Everything she's done, I know it all, and I have never once thought about taking a single penny of her money!

As long as she agrees to a divorce, I don't want anything else!"

Well, this was awkward...

I hadn't expected him to see through my identity and my purpose here at a single glance.

However, I didn't lose my footing and merely asked with a smile, "How did President Wang know I came here to investigate you?"

Wang Qinghong said with a gloomy face, "Haven't you people been investigating me around here for the past two days? You've asked many of my hospital colleagues about me, haven't you?

And besides, you people came to my office last night too, didn't you? Did you find anything?"

Great!

It turned out everything I did was right under his nose!

Wang Qinghong looked at me and said, "Alright, get out of here. Don't let me see you people again, or I won't be polite!"

I frowned and gave him a look. "President Wang, these are all just your guesses. I haven't admitted to anything, so there's no need to speak so harshly!"

"You people sell your consciences for money without a single pang of guilt, and now you complain that my words are harsh?" Wang Qinghong glared at me irritably.

"Do you know you're breaking the law? It's already the utmost restraint on my part that I haven't had the police arrest you!

People like you have zero bottom line when you work! To finish an assignment, you resort to any and all extremes!

You chase shadows, quote things out of context, throw dirt on me, and spread rumors about me!

Weren't you all slapped hard in the face afterwards?

You kept a low profile for a while, and now you're making a comeback! You might not be sick of it, but I certainly am!"

In my heart, I greeted the entire family of Jin Shuiyun thoroughly!

As it turned out, this wasn't her first time hiring people to investigate her husband; I had no idea which wave of investigators I was.

The crucial problem was that the previous batch of peers had absolutely no professional ethics, using every dirty trick in the book on the man, which had given poor President Wang an acute stress response!

In our line of work, the thing we fear most is an opponent with high defensive awareness.

When the prepared face off against the unprepared, one can gather plenty of genuine information.

But once someone is on guard against you from the very beginning, everything you see and hear is concealed by them. What is there left to find?

Still, having someone point at your nose and scold you is hard for anyone to take, let alone the fact that our YanHui Company was completely different from those private detective agencies—we had professional boundaries!

"President Wang, I admit it—I am here to investigate you!" Since he had already figured it out, there was no point in hiding my identity anymore; otherwise, it would only be humiliating.

He gave a cold sneer and waved his hand. "So, what kind of rumors are you planning to fabricate about me this time?

Fine, I can't be bothered to talk nonsense with people like you.

I, Wang Qinghong, walk straight and stand upright; I'm not afraid of you using such lowly tactics against me.

It's just that blind tolerance has only made the Jin family think I'm a pushover.

Since you keep coming back to my door over and over again, I'll start by making an example of you!

How many of you are there? None of you need to go back—let's take a trip to the police station together!"

He pulled out his phone, preparing to call the security guards.

I wasn't in a hurry. I looked at him and smiled slightly. "Walk straight and stand upright? Does that include forcing the hospital cleaning lady to satisfy your urges for infidelity, President Wang?"

"You..." Wang Qinghong's complexion turned pale in an instant, and he looked at me with a shocked expression. "What—what are you talking about?!"

To be honest, I hadn't really believed that a mature, somewhat dashing president could have any intimate involvement with a completely unattractive cleaner.

However, under the Qi-Observing Eye, both of their bodies contained traces of each other's Qi, and much of it had been left very recently!

This also meant that their relationship had been going on for more than a day or two!

Good grief, this President Wang was truly starving; he wasn't picky at all. He would even go for a woman like that?

No wonder all my predecessors had returned empty-handed. After all, any normal-thinking person would find it impossible to suspect someone as ordinary and plain as that woman!

Wang Qinghong glared at me with a pale face. "What are you saying? Are you making up rumors about me again? You're even more foolish than the ones before you. I doubt even the Jin family would believe such ghost stories from you!"

I pointed at the trash can beside the desk and said, "Whether they believe it or not, wouldn't it be settled just by taking those few tissues to get tested?"