Captured By The Cold Detective (BL)-Chapter 108: How About A Date?

"Xiao Ze, you—" He Juan intended to ask what Mu Yuze meant when the door to the morgue slid open and the officer walked out, followed by Su Xieren behind him. The Beta looked no different from usual aside from the tinge of redness on the corner of his eyes.

He Juan recalled the muffled cries he had heard just now and asked in concern, "Are you done?"

"En," Su Xieren nodded. "I have bid my farewell to Xinya." His gaze shifted to Mu Yuze who was standing opposite He Juan and nodded to him in acknowledgment. "Thank you for bringing justice to her, Officer Mu."

"As I should be," Mu Yuze replied in a light tone. Then recalling something, he hesitated for a second before adding, "...My deep condolences."

Su Xieren murmured his thanks, then turned to He Juan and asked, "I am going back to the hospital. What about you, da-ge?"

"Ah, coincidentally, I have something to do in the hospital as well. Let’s go together?" After throwing that question to Su Xieren, He Juan glanced at Mu Yuze with inquiry in his eyes.

He wanted to ask for Mu Yuze’s plans after this, but there was an officer beside them. He Juan had no idea how well Mu Yuze got along with his colleagues but he did not want to cause any unnecessary trouble for him, especially when his status was an ex-prime suspect of a recently solved case. In the end, He Juan could only use the cover of Su Xieren’s body to make a gesture of ’I’ll call you later’ to Mu Yuze, which earned him a subtle nod.

Relieved, He Juan then trailed after Su Xieren back to the car.

"What do you need to go to the hospital for?" The Beta asked. He scanned He Juan with his sharp eyes, trying to find if there was something wrong with him. Earlier, He Juan had indeed looked a bit sick after finding out a piece of his past. However, he had swiftly covered up any negative emotions on his face and he did it so perfectly that Su Xieren could not even detect a chink in his armor. However, knowing He Juan’s personality, there was a very huge possibility that he was only faking it. Su Xieren’s brows furrowed and his expression became serious. "Are you feeling unwell?"

He Juan realized that Su Xieren had misunderstood and could not help but laugh. "It’s nothing like that." He took the initiative to slide into the driver’s seat to let Su Xieren catch a brief respite. Only after the car drove out of the Municipal Bureau did he clear the Beta’s doubt. "I asked for Miss Er’s help with something. Now, I am going to fetch her."

Su Xieren merely raised a brow, intrigued. He did not ask anything, yet He Juan could sense the confusion and interest radiating off him. He Juan could not help the fondness surging in his heart. Su Xieren was just like that. He never forced anyone to do anything. If He Juan was unwilling to divulge it, then he would just keep mum and deal with the curiosity himself.

Tapping his fingers on the wheel, He Juan decided to tell the truth. After all, this was still related one way or another to Miss Zhao Xinya. "I don’t know if you have any impression of it, but around five months ago... a female teenager was sent to the hospital under the suspicion of being the victim of sexual assault."

Su Xieren’s brows smoothed out as realization dawned on him. "The whole hospital knows it. Sometimes, everyone still brings this matter up during lunch. But why are you—" He suddenly trailed off, and He Juan knew that Su Xieren was smart enough to put two and two together.

As expected, he heard Su Xieren ask in a quiet tone, "...Is it them?"

He Juan hummed in silent acquiescence. When the car came to a stop at the intersection of red light, He Juan carefully peeked at Su Xieren’s face, trying to discern his emotional state to no avail. Su Xieren was not someone who would openly express his emotions, and the quiet cries he let out in the morgue should have been a once-in-a-blue-moon occasion.

"Then it’s fine." Su Xieren leaned against the seat and heaved out a sigh, as if unloading a huge burden from his shoulders. "I am not good at talking so I won’t tag along with you. Asking Miss Er’s help is good. That woman is a social butterfly down to her bones."

The car continued to merge into the streamline of traffic, carrying them to the hospital building. He Juan had notified Er Meilin — Jia Molei’s secretary — beforehand, so the woman was already waiting downstairs by the time he arrived. It’s just that... there was an additional person beside her whom He Juan had never invited.

"Molei... what are you doing here? Don’t you have a shift today?" He Juan asked awkwardly. He was already feeling guilty for not informing Jia Molei about the progress of his relationship with Mu Yuze and adding to the fact that he had been ignoring Jia Molei’s calls these past few days, He Juan could not bring himself to look his doctor in the eye.

"What?" Jia Molei raised his chin in defiance. His voice was filled with suppressed anger as he glared at He Juan’s guilty face like he wanted to drill a hole in it. "You can take my secretary away, but you can’t take me too?"

That sounded quite wrong in a few ways... as if He Juan was bringing Er Meilin to commit a crime or something. He Juan rubbed his forehead helplessly. He had no idea how to answer this question.

Su Xieren got off the car and remarked in passing, "You’d better stay here obediently. Just looking at your ugly face, the target will end up scaring herself to tears."

Jia Molei instantly bristled like a wild cat who had been poked on its tender spot, and he rolled up his sleeves in the preparation to fight. "What did you just say, you bastard?!"

Er Meilin had obviously gotten used to such a scene. She smoothly inserted herself between the two men and showed a bright smile that somehow exuded a great pressure. "Don’t fight, boys. This is the hospital’s lobby. See, all of the patients and doctors are looking at us. We don’t want to attract the Director’s attention, right?"

He Juan shot her a grateful look. Not any ordinary person could become Jia Molei’s secretary and coped with his random temper outbursts throughout the day. In his eyes, Er Meilin seemed to be shrouded in a holy light akin to an angel. Thanks to Er Meilin’s interjection, Su Xieren and Jia Molei lost the will to argue and turned their heads away with a harrumph.

He Juan smiled and beckoned to her, "Come on, Miss Er. We’d better get on our way. It’s getting late now."

"Oh, okay!" Er Meilin grinned, smoothly slid into the shotgun seat beside He Juan and flashed a charming smile at the Alpha. "I can’t possibly make He-xiansheng wait for long, can I?"

He Juan was amused by her antics. Just as he was going to start the car, Jia Molei agilely opened the car door and threw himself into the passenger seat. He crossed his arms and showed the demeanor of ’even Gods and Buddha can’t stop me from coming with you’.

Not even one second later, the door – which had just been closed – opened yet again and Su Xieren squeezed himself beside Jia Molei, his face expressionless.

"Xieren..." He Juan was confused. "Didn’t you say that you are not going to tag along?"

"I changed my mind," Su Xieren simply said. Beside him, Jia Molei let out a disdainful harrumph.

Helpless, He Juan could only comply and drove the car out of the hospital. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"He-xiansheng, are we going straight to Miss Ye Lingya’s house?" Er Meilin asked as she navigated the maps through her phone.

He Juan’s expression turned solemn. "That’s right, we should solve this as soon as possible. This time, I will have to ask for your help, Miss Er."

"Hehe, just leave it to me." Er Meilin flicked her long hair, then batted her lashes at He Juan. Now that they had left the perimeter of the hospital, she discarded her professional ethic and became a very charming, bold and straightforward Beta who did not hesitate to show her interest. Her voice was cloying sweet, almost purring as she proposed, "But how are you going to repay me, He-xiansheng? How about bringing me on a date this weekend?"