Quick Travel: Save the poor little villain

"Julian is Count Olga's biological son."

The next morning, Jinchen returned to the cylindrical room from outside. He took off his coat and said to Alrick who was sitting on the sofa reading the morning paper.

"I asked a few well-informed beggars who hang around the neighborhood all year round to help me find out."

"They were young and inconspicuous, and they used to run errands for noble ladies or gentlemen with secrets, delivering letters and giving directions."

Jinchen walked over to Alric and sat down on the armrest of the sofa. "For a few pennies, I got a lot of interesting rumors. Taken together, Julian is very likely the child of the Earl's mistress."

Alrick put down the newspaper and looked at Jinchen meaningfully for a while.

He put his arm around Jinchen's waist, gently brought him over, and lowered his head to place a kiss on his blond hair. "Do you think this was also one of Julian's motives? Then, he must have known in advance that Joshua Klein would also poison Vincent on the night of April 10th, and the dosage would not be lethal."

Jinchen leaned into his arms, stretched out lazily, and kissed Alric's chin. "This is how he can shift the suspicion to Joshua."

Alrick leaned back into the sofa, sat with his legs spread out defiantly, and let Jinchen lean on his arms.

He gently ruffled the strands of hair on Jinchen's forehead and looked at him with a smile. "That's a brilliant deduction. How do you plan to verify this guess next?"

"Are we going to talk to that Master John again?"

Jinchen laughed, and his fingers nimbly reached into the open collar of Alric's shirt, touching the warm and firm skin, and his fingertips drew circles neither lightly nor heavily.

"Then we will have to ask our almighty Scarlet Gentleman to take action once again."

"Go to the black market and check if Julian also purchased black orchid poison, and what dosage he bought."

Alric enjoyed his little movements and let out a comfortable hum in his throat, but he deliberately picked on Joe and raised his eyebrows at him.

"The black market is not a safe place, and intelligence is even more expensive. My dear detective, how do you plan to bribe me so that I will be willing to take this risk for you again?"

It was as if the investigation of the case had nothing to do with him.

Jinchen raised his head, a smile in his blue eyes, and his fingertips slid slowly along the slit of his shirt, stroking his firm abdominal muscles. "Do we still need to talk about bribery between us, baby?"

Alric: "..."

He snorted, his ears quietly reddened, but he refused to admit defeat, "Sweet talk."

-

Alrick acted quickly and got what Jinchen wanted without much trouble.

He placed a thin piece of paper with slightly curled edges on the desk in the cylindrical room and pressed it with his fingertips.

"You want the clue, do you want it?"

Jinchen sat behind the table and looked up at him, then put down his pen and said with a smile, "Then lower your head."

After receiving a kiss, Alrick let go of the note and squeezed in with Jinchen to sit on the single sofa, tilting his head to watch him deduce the clues.

Jinchen picked up the note and said, "Sure enough, Julian also bought it."

Miraculously, just two days after Joshua purchased it, everything was just right.

Alric looked at Jinchen and suddenly said, "There's an urgent message from Prince Peg, asking me to immediately cooperate with the action team he sent to take advantage of the chaos to dismantle the Griffin Gang."

"The black market will be very unstable in the future."

This means that he will not be involved in the subsequent investigation into Julian.

Jinchen nodded in understanding and carefully put the note away.

"Don't worry, leave this to me, just be careful."

Alric looked at him deeply, as if he wanted to say something.

"You need to resolve this as quickly as possible, and then... stay away from those dangers."

-

A few days later, a letter with Miss Eleanor's emblem sealed in wax was delivered to Julian.

In the letter, Eleanor wrote in a sad and resolute tone that she was about to be sent to a monastery far in the north by her family. Before leaving, she hoped to meet him for the last time in a "place she often visited and full of memories" to end this relationship that should not have happened and to make things clear.

After receiving the letter, Julian paced back and forth in the room for a long time.

He came to a secluded bookstore in the back street of the post office, which provided confidential services for gentlemen and ladies of the upper class.

There are many cubicles and small reading rooms for private conversations, making it an ideal place for secret rendezvous.

Julian pushed open the door and walked towards the compartment according to the instructions in the letter.

Eleanor wasn't the only one waiting for him inside.

There is also Inspector Cyril, who is leaning leisurely in an armchair and slowly flipping through a book.

Jinchen heard the noise and looked up at Julian.

He closed the book and placed it gently on the table.

"Good afternoon, Master Julian."

Julian turned and tried to leave.

The door behind her was locked from the outside. Doshi held the book and knocked on the door. "You're welcome, Cyril. I really like this new bookstore. The boss's collection of plant illustrations is really beautiful!" After that, she could hear her footsteps humming a song and running away from outside.

Jinchen curled his lips and motioned Julian to sit down.

Eleanor lowered her head, moved aside in fear, and looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"Julian, my Julian... I never thought... you were the murderer who killed Vincent!"

"How can I face you...between us..."

She choked and covered her mouth with a handkerchief, tears welled up in her eyes and her body was shaking.

She obviously didn't know Julian's true background, and just thought that he was trying to compete for her love and killed Vincent out of jealousy.

Jinchen placed the evidence on the round table.

"Miss Eleanor, you don't have to blame yourself too much," Jin Chen said, looking at the sobbing Eleanor. "I think most of the reasons why Julian attacked her weren't because of you."

"More importantly, it's for the power of the Olga family. After all, as long as Young Master Vincent is still alive, how long will it take for this unacknowledged illegitimate child to be legitimately taken back to the manor by Count Olga and become the sole heir?"

Eleanor was stunned and looked at Julian in disbelief.

After a long while, Julian said, "You really did find this out... Inspector Cyril, you are much more capable than I thought."

Jinchen nodded slightly, accepted his praise frankly, and then raised the most crucial question.

"Answer me, then, Master Julian."

"How did you know that Joshua Klein would buy that special black orchid poison on the black market? And how did you determine that his dosage was insufficient, and therefore decided to take action yourself and poison Master Vincent a second time, ensuring his death?"

Julian asked an irrelevant question, strangely calm, "If I admit it, I'm the murderer."

"I will lose everything I have worked so hard to obtain, the position of heir, the name of earl... and I will even be sent to the gallows, right?"

Jinchen shrugged. "Unfortunately, according to the laws of the kingdom, this is indeed the outcome for murdering a noble heir. Yes."

Unexpectedly, when Julian heard this answer, a relieved smile appeared on his face, and he even laughed softly, and his laughter seemed particularly creepy.

"No, you have nothing to be sorry about, Detective Cyril."

Julian raised his head and looked straight at Jinchen, "Because I never poisoned Vincent. Not even once."