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“Shen Yanhui?” Pei Xingzhi opened his eyes and looked up at Ye Ci.

Ye Ci held up her phone and showed him the caller ID: "Shen Yanhui".

Pei Xingzhi sat up slightly: "Answer her, see what she wants to see you about."

"Oh." Ye Ci nodded, immediately answered the phone, and also turned on speakerphone.

"Hey?"

"Ye Ci."

Shen Yanhui's voice came clearly from the phone's speaker.

Ye Ci looked at Pei Xingzhi: "Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Is something the matter?"

Shen Yan replied, "Do you know where Pei Xingzhi is? His phone seems to be off. I've called him so many times but no one answers."

Ye Ci: "Brother Pei's phone is dead. Is there something you need from him?"

"..." Shen Yanhui was silent for a few seconds on the other end of the phone, then suddenly said, "Is Pei Xingzhi right next to you?"

“Uh…” Ye Ci frantically winked at Pei Xingzhi, who nodded helplessly.

"Yes, Brother Pei is indeed right next to me."

Shen Yan replied, "I found some information related to Qin Wushuang that Pei Xingzhi might find useful."

"What is that?" Pei Xingzhi sat up abruptly from the bed, his sleepy eyes instantly clearing.

Shen Yan replied, "It's hard to explain over the phone. Give me an address and I'll come find you."

Pei Xingzhi: "I'll stay home with Xiangxiang, you can just come over."

Shen Yan replied: "...It seems you have two homes. Which home should I go to to find you?"

"Hmm..." Thinking about how noisy it was, she frowned unhappily and turned over.

Pei Xingzhi quickly lowered his voice, gently patting the little guy's hand as he said, "I'm at the Xie family's house."

Shen Yan replied, "I'm coming now, it should take about twenty minutes."

Pei Xingzhi: "Hmm."

"Are you alright now?" Ye Ci asked tentatively before hanging up the phone.

Shen Yan replied, "It's alright, hang up now."

After saying that, he immediately hung up the phone.

"Shen Yanhui found out about Qin Wushuang's things?" Ye Ci put away his phone, not quite believing Shen Yanhui's words. "Is she really that kind? Knowing that we are currently looking for Qin Wushuang's weaknesses, she rushed to send you things. Maybe she has ulterior motives."

Pei Xingzhi frowned, and his face looked rather sour after his sleep was interrupted.

"Shen Yanhui seems to have changed a lot. Even Ayuan has started to treat her as a friend. I think she probably doesn't mean any harm."

"You really trust her that much?" Ye Ci pouted. "Brother Pei, you haven't forgotten what she did to you and your sister-in-law before, have you?"

Pei Xingzhi: "I haven't forgotten. I remember what she did to me and Ayuan, and I also remember that she saved Ayuan and Xiangxiang more than once. Although good deeds and bad deeds cannot offset each other, Ayuan is willing to treat her as a friend, so I don't need to keep targeting her. That would put Ayuan in a difficult position."

“…Alright.” Ye Ci raised an eyebrow, not saying anything more bad about Shen Yan Hui, only saying, “Shen Yan Hui has indeed changed a lot, but that doesn’t stop me from still having a prejudice against her. I’m not very confident in her, so I still need to keep an eye on her.”

“Okay.” Pei Xingzhi had no objections.

Shen Yanhui wouldn't be here for another twenty minutes, so Pei Xingzhi took the opportunity to doze off for a while.

[Host, are you alright?]

Shen Yan had just driven her car out of the parking lot when the mechanical female voice mocked her in her mind.

"What is it now?" Shen Yan asked impatiently.

The mechanical female voice sounded somewhat exasperated: "[You bought six points of goodwill from me on credit to exchange for information, and after all that effort, you finally got a useful piece of information, only to so easily give it to Pei Xingzhi? Are you afraid Pei Xingzhi won't be able to find Xie Zhaoyuan?]"

Shen Yanhui rolled her eyes forcefully: "You don't know anything! This is called retreating to advance."

Mechanical female voice: [Where did it go?]

Shen Yan replied: "Xie Zhaoyuan just disappeared, and Pei Xingzhi is obsessed with her right now. If I want to gain favor, the only way is to exchange information about Xie Zhaoyuan!"

Mechanical female voice: [Why?]

Shen Yan replied, "Why do you think that is? Pei Xingzhi just lost his wife. If you don't give him any hope of finding another wife, are you going to immediately run up to him and say you want to introduce him to a new girlfriend? Do you think he'll give you some credit or he'll just beat you to death?"

[...] The mechanical female voice had nothing to say.

Shen Yanhui rolled her eyes at it again: "Can't you use your brain? I did what you told me before, which is why my favorability rating went negative. How come you don't know how to reflect on your actions at all?"

Mechanical female voice: [Host, the system is not a human brain, so please don't have too high expectations of me.]

"..." Shen Yan was too lazy to talk to it.

But it insisted on asking again: "Host, aren't you afraid that if you tell Pei Xingzhi this information, he'll trace it back to Xie Zhaoyuan?"

Shen Yan looked ahead and focused on driving: "All I got was some uncertain information. If Pei Xingzhi can find Xie Zhaoyuan through this information, that's quite an achievement. Even if I lose, I'll accept it wholeheartedly."

[Hmph...] The mechanical female voice suddenly laughed.

Shen Yan asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Mechanical female voice: [I laugh at how magnanimous the host is.]

Shen Yan frowned: "Stop being sarcastic. I'm doing this to reduce Pei Xingzhi's wariness of me. Xie Zhaoyuan is hidden by Qin Wushuang, and the chances of finding her are slim. I'm just playing the good guy. Whether we can find Xie Zhaoyuan through this information is another matter."

Mechanical female voice: [Hmm...that sounds somewhat reasonable.]

Shen Yan rolled her eyes at it for the third time: "Do you think I'm like you?"

Mechanical female voice: [...Host, although I live inside your brain, I can still see you rolling your eyes frequently.]

"..." Shen Yanhui pretended not to hear.

It hadn't snowed for the past two days, and the weather was quite nice today, so most of the snow on the roads had been cleared. Shen Yan drove along in excellent condition, arriving at the Xie family's house in just fifteen minutes.

Pei Xingzhi was already waiting in the living room. As soon as she entered, he couldn't wait to ask, "What did you find out?"

She sat down opposite Pei Xingzhi, and while untying her scarf, asked, "Is there any water? Let me have a drink before we talk."

Pei Xingzhi raised his chin, gesturing for her to look at the coffee table: "Let's drink the freshly brewed hot tea."

Shen Yanhui picked up the teacup in front of her and drank the tea in one gulp. After finishing, she said, word by word, "I found out something from a friend."

"Six months ago, Qin Wushuang bought a house in a villa in Linzhou."

"...Linzhou?" Pei Xingzhi had never heard of this place before.

Shen Yan looked at him and said, "Linzhou is in Jiangcheng, about 180 kilometers away from Yuncheng, just south of Yuncheng."

"Qin Wushuang kidnapped Zhaoyuan, so he definitely needs a secluded place to hide her. I thought about it and felt that Linzhou was a good fit for hiding people."