Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 495 Investigating Ningning
The old criminal detective has a habit of always being cautious when communicating with people. It is impossible for him to believe everything you say, even if there is no flaw at all.

Zhang Jin kept both Yan Yu's explanation and Chen Lingyun's statement in mind, but he also secretly retained a hint of doubt.

Next, you need to communicate with each girl to get first-hand information.

Zhang Jin's first choice was Lin Ning. While the girl was preparing food in the kitchen, Yan Yu called her to the study on the second floor and asked her to have a private meeting with Zhang Jin.

"Hello." Lin Ning closed the door behind her. "What can I do for you?"

"Oh, nothing much, just a simple interview." Zhang Jin asked her to sit down. "Do you mind if I ask some questions?"

"Ask ahead." Lin Ning responded without any ulterior motive.

"Yeah." Zhang Jin looked at the materials at hand and prepared to start the conversation. "Lin Ning, I heard that you have always been an excellent student since you were young?"

"I can't say I'm excellent." Lin Ning immediately became proud, but said modestly, "I can only consistently rank in the top three in the class."

"That's quite impressive," Zhang Jin complimented. "Although you didn't take the college entrance exam, judging by your mock exam results, you're pretty much guaranteed to be in the top 1,000 in Minyue Province."

"The mock exam is different from the college entrance exam." Lin Ning was even happier after hearing this, and continued modestly, "After all, the mock exam papers issued by the school are not the same as the college entrance exam papers."

"Since you are so outstanding, have you ever been pursued by boys in high school?" Zhang Jin asked with a smile.

"Well, I was just confessed to once." Lin Ning was a little embarrassed. "It can't be considered as pursuit. We were young and ignorant, so we just said it casually."

"Indeed, high school should still focus on academics." Zhang Jin has completed the basic psychological profiling.

This girl has a typical "good girl" personality, and she is also very thin-skinned. Although she is humble in words, her mood is written on her face, and she feels a bit hypocritical - that is, the so-called tsundere.

Once you touch upon her sensitive topics, it will be difficult to get an answer by asking her questions directly. It is best to try to probe her in a roundabout way.

"Is that so?" Lin Ning's liking for her increased significantly, and she said as a matter of course, "High school is all about academics. More than 90% of high school couples break up after graduation. What's the point of having a relationship that has no future?"

"Indeed." Zhang Jin agreed with her and, after formulating his words, changed the subject by asking, "By the way, your captain, Yan Yu, is also single, right?"

"...What's wrong with him?" Lin Ning asked nervously.

Zhang Jin: ………………

It's so easy to understand. Your mood is written all over your face!

"It's because they need me to do a psychological analysis on you," she explained skillfully. "Your description will help me better understand Yan Yu. Speaking of which, your team is full of beautiful girls. As the captain, it's unlikely that he's still single, right?"

"Oh." Lin Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "The captain is indeed still single now. He is too proud and always feels that no girl is worthy of him."

"Is it that exaggerated?" Zhang Jin deliberately frowned, wrote a few words in the notebook, and muttered softly, "Suspected... sexual orientation... indifferent to the opposite sex..."

Lin Ning really fell into the trap and quickly explained:
"The captain isn't gay! I suspect he's just looking for an excuse... I mean, a reason to stay single so he can wait for someone to pursue him."

"Are you sure?" Zhang Jin asked doubtfully.

"I'm sure." Lin Ning said seriously.

"Hmm." Zhang Jin didn't comment on this, but asked, "Lin Ning, when Yan Yu was alone with you, did he show any affection for you?"

Lin Ning subconsciously wanted to deny it, but then she thought, I'm such a beautiful and outstanding girl. If I say that the captain has no interest in me at all, doesn't it prove that there is something wrong with his sexual orientation?
"The captain likes the food I cook the most." She admitted it in a roundabout way.

"Liking your food doesn't mean I like you, right?" Zhang Jin asked calmly, "I like visiting a restaurant, does that mean I'm interested in the chef?" Lin Ning was immediately shocked, feeling frustrated at being completely denied in the area she was best at. She quickly added:

"He also... well, he would occasionally touch me when we were playing together."

"There's also sexual harassment?" Zhang Jin pretended to be serious.

"No, no," Lin Ning said, feeling both amused and helpless. "It's just the two of us playing around, and occasionally there's some intimate physical contact... Of course, this doesn't mean I like him. I just mean he's not averse to this kind of thing, and seems to enjoy it quite a bit... See, doesn't this mean he has a crush on me? If he were gay, he wouldn't be interested in a girl's body, right?"

"Indeed." Zhang Jin showed a somewhat convinced expression, "But this is also very strange."

"What's strange about that?" Lin Ning asked.

"He deliberately stays single, yet enjoys physical contact with you," Zhang Jin analyzed. "Isn't that a complete scumbag? He treats the other girls on the team like this too?"

"Uh, not really." Lin Ning quickly denied, "A scumbag would take the initiative to flirt with girls, but the captain wouldn't."

"I see." Zhang Jin continued writing in the notebook, but he had already come up with the answer in his heart:
Lin Ning of the Zhenhai team has a strong affection for the captain Yan Yu, but the feedback she receives is not enough, so she tries to express her feelings suggestively through active physical contact.

This explains her embarrassed and annoyed expression when she faced her inner demons in the secret realm. Initiating physical contact is usually considered as taking advantage of men. When efforts are not reciprocated, worry and anger are natural emotions that accompany them.

The essence of Lin Ning's defensive weakness stems from the fact that her secret crush on Yan Yu hasn't received the response she wanted. The solution is to end this secret crush as soon as possible, either by demystifying the target or getting what she wants.

"I understand." Seeing that Lin Ning was still looking at the notebook in her hand, Zhang Jin smiled slightly and said:

"Could you please call the others over for me? Let me see, Zhao Yuanzhen, Su Yunjin, and Xie Ruoxi, who among these three is free right now?"

"Yun Jin seems to be reading in the next room. I'll go call her." Lin Ning stood up immediately.

She left the study, came to Su Yunjin's room, and knocked on the door. Seeing that the door was not locked, she pushed it open and said worriedly:
"Yunjin, this is terrible... The captain is suspected of being gay because of me. What should I do?"

Su Yunjin:?

After listening to Lin Ning's explanation, she revealed a look of confusion and said:
"It's okay, Ningning. If they want to do a psychological diagnosis, they can't just listen to your opinion. I'll help explain it later."

She stood up calmly, put the book in her hand aside, and then went to the study.

"Hello." Zhang Jin in the study greeted her, "Su Yunjin, right? Please take a seat."

"Hello." Su Yunjin smiled and sat down.

"Lin Ning should have told you, right?" Zhang Jin explained his purpose and intention. "The higher-ups need to conduct a psychological diagnosis on everyone in your team."

"I understand." Su Yunjin nodded. "It's probably because of the inner demons we encountered in the secret realm before. Our performance back then wasn't very good."

"A momentary performance doesn't mean anything," Zhang Jin said gently. "It's more important to understand the underlying nature."

"In that case, I'll tell you the truth." Su Yunjin clasped his fingers together and placed them on the desk, saying calmly, "The reason I made a mistake back then was because I had a close and intimate image of me and the captain, which caused me to lose my composure for a moment."

"Uh..." Even though Zhang Jin was experienced, he was caught off guard by Su Yunjin's "self-confession". "You mean?"

"I like the captain." Su Yunjin said gently.

(End of this chapter)