Captured By The Cold Detective (BL)

With nothing better to do, they could only return to the Yuyang City Bureau for the time being. Even before reaching the office, they could already hear the cacophony of chaotic curses and threats.

"This fucking bastard!"

"Damn, why didn’t they just go and become an actor? I’m sure their acting skills don’t lose out to the top-tier actors in this country!"

"Hell yeah, Laozi will support them to the road of stardom and become their number one fan!"

It seemed like the whole day’s effort of scouring through the surveillance footage from Phoenix Ablaze, trying to see if they could discover something about the imposter from their daily working days, ended up going down the drain. Kang Guanyu patted his chest and praised his own luck. Luckily, he was not confined in the office. Well, even though they met with the same dead end, at least he still had the chance to enjoy the scenery outside!

As usual, Kang Guanyu made a showy entrance by drumming his knuckles on the door. After he attracted everyone’s attention, he opened his arms and sauntered in, "Brothers, I am back! Do you miss me?!"

"No!" Everyone answered in unison. "Go away!"

Kang Guanyu made a sad expression and wiped the corner of his dry eyes with the tip of his pinky finger. "How cruel! How can you discard me when I am no longer useful?!"

Behind him, Tak Jung-Hwa burst into laughter and jokingly told him, "It’s okay. Hyung will take you in."

Gasping, Kang Guanyu opened his arms wide to give him an air hug. As if he thought it was not disgusting enough, he even puckered his lips and made kissing sounds, almost causing the other to choke to death from laughter. "Jung-Hwa Hyung is the best!"

His theatrical action managed to dispel the brewing frustration in the air and everyone united to bully him.

The door to Li Zhi’s office would usually remain open all the time except when he needed to have a private meeting. As such, he only needed to raise his head to look at the man’s silly antics. Helpless, he stood up, walked to the door and glowered with his arms crossed. "Still not reporting?"

"Ay, Captain!" Kang Guanyu spun around and gave him a salute. "I, Kang Guanyu, have returned safely from my mission. Over!" With a warning look from Li Zhi, he let out a terrified yelp and started to recount what the team had found so far.

On the other hand, Mu Yuze returned to his desk and pulled out his phone. He had not checked it since he came out from the hospital this morning, less because he knew He Juan needed rest and more because he feared that he would not be able to concentrate on his job once he received news about the Alpha. As He Juan was still isolated in the ICU ward, Mu Yuze had especially gone out of his way to exchange numbers with Su Xieren and asked to be updated of He Juan’s condition.

Five unread messages sat in his inbox, the latest was an hour ago.

Mu Yuze furrowed his brows and spent almost ten minutes reading them.

[He Juan’s CT scan result is out. The swelling in his brain has subsided. We are waiting for the doctors’ decision now.]

[The doctor has decided to go ahead with the detoxification. He needs to have the drug flushed out of his system as soon as possible. He Juan has agreed.]

[He is doing very well. The doctors said that he can be moved out of the ICU ward soon.]

[I have bought him a phone. He insists on it. He asked (begged) me to tell you not to tire yourself out and get a rest in between. He also missed you a lot.]

[I can’t seem to reach Jia Molei. Any news from your side?]

Mu Yuze’s brows smoothened as soon as he read the fourth message. He immediately switched to another chatbox – one he had ignored because it was an unknown number that only contained one piece of voice note with duration of more than two minutes. Now that Mu Yuze found out it was from He Juan, he immediately got his headset out of the drawer, connected it to his phone and placed both buds into his ears.

Heart pounding, he gingerly pressed play.

"Precious..." He Juan’s deep and magnetic voice pierced into his ears, and the soft breathing made it seem like the Alpha was whispering sweet nothings to him. Mu Yuze was glad that the whole office’s attention was currently fixed on Kang Guanyu, otherwise everyone would be able to spot his crimson earlobes. "God... I missed you so much," he let out a faint sexy groan that caused Mu Yuze’s toes to curl up. "I’d better make it short because I don’t want to disturb you. This is my new number. Save it to your phone, okay? Hmm... what else? I have thought of so many things to say, but now that I got the chance to tell you, my brain suddenly turned blank..."

Mu Yuze lowered his lashes to hide the smile on his eyes when he heard He Juan’s embarrassed chuckle.

"Oh, that’s right. I just want to tell you to take some breaks in between. Remember to drink more water and don’t touch the wounds on your neck, okay? If you feel unwell, don’t force yourself to work and just rest at home. I’m sure Xieren has told you about my condition, so there’s no need for me to repeat it again. Everything’s fine with me, so you don’t need to be worried." Another soft chuckle, then silence. Only the Alpha’s light breathing could be heard.

There were still five seconds left from the voice note. Just as Mu Yuze thought that it was the end, He Juan’s voice came during the very last second. "...Love you."

Click. The voice note ended.

Mu Yuze was frozen on the spot. Now not only his ears were burning, even his face felt faintly hot. Goodness... that was truly unfair! How could Juan-gege insert such a lethal sneak attack when he expected it the least? And the fact that he was hearing it through headset reminded him of the time when they snuggled against each other on the narrow hospital bed with He Juan murmuring the same three words to him again and again!

He pulled out one bud of the headset and noticed that Kang Guanyu had just reached the part where they found out about Qin Zhen’s secret lover. Then he put it on again and secretly listened to the voice note three more times. Only then could his longing to see He Juan be soothed.

He opened Su Xieren’s message again and carefully discerned the last one.

Jia Molei could not be reached? Was his fever so severe that he could not even check his phone? Or... had something else happened?

Frowning, Mu Yuze tried to call Jia Molei’s phone only for the mechanical female voice to answer him, "The number you’re calling is unavailable..."

He returned to the chat box with Su Xieren and used the speech-to-text feature to send him a reply. [Send me his address. I will check up on him when I get off work.]

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A/N: happy 200th Chapter everyone! Thank you so so much for your support! <3<3

I didn’t notice much when I wrote the story but apparently He Juan has not appeared at all for the last 20 Chapters! *gasp* I’m so sorry >< but the subsequent investigation process is very important as well (hope you won’t be appalled by the lack of romance). He Juan will return in... a few more Chapters so please wait for him ^^