Captured By The Cold Detective (BL)-Chapter 402: Hunters Become Hunted

Despite his high expectations, Mu Yuze was bound to be disappointed for the end result did not turn out the way he’d imagined it to be. He peered up at He Juan who had just taken a bite of the egg roll, feeling so nervous that his heart was jumping on his throat. "H–How is it...?"

He Juan let out a hum and gave him a thumbs up, beaming from ear to ear, "It’s so good, Xiao Ze. The best egg roll I’ve ever eaten my whole life! How can you be so talented? Look at how delicious, soft and—"

"Enough," Mu Yuze covered his burning face with a hand to get over the embarrassment. He had been distracted when frying the egg and it ended up a little burnt. At one glance, he could tell that the taste was passable at most. So how could He Juan be so shameless to sing empty praises without even batting an eyelid?

"Why? I am telling the truth!" To prove his words, He Juan took another big bite together with a spoonful of warm rice. "Your egg roll is soft and sweet. Hmm... it suits my taste perfectly!"

’Isn’t it because you have a sweet tooth?’ Mu Yuze grumbled inwardly. He had added a little more sugar with He Juan’s preference in mind, even though he himself was not a fan of it. And seeing He Juan’s positive reaction, he felt like it had been the right choice to make.

Next, He Juan sampled the other two dishes and just like the previous one, he also sang praises to them. "The stir-fry vegetables are so flavorful! You have no idea how I despise the vegetables served in restaurants because they will have a bitter aftertaste sometimes, but yours is perfect, Xiao Ze! And this potato curry is—"

"Stew," Mu Yuze corrected him with a deadpan face. "It’s potato stew."

He Juan continued smoothly without a pause. "And this potato stew is to die for! Look at how creamy and—wait, did you just laugh at me, Xiao Ze?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Mu Yuze pressed his lips tight and assumed an oblivious look, but the subtle tremble on his shoulders had given him away.

"Ha!" He Juan was delighted when he saw this. "You’re laughing, aren’t you?"

"Am not," Mu Yuze said flatly. He stared at the rice bowl in front of him and told He Juan after a second deliberation, "I made the stew too thick. It’s a total failure, I know. You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want to."

"What do you mean a total failure? Okay, it is indeed a little thick, but it’s so creamy and delicious!" He Juan defended the dish righteously, even sounding a little offended that Mu Yuze had labeled it as a failure.

In the end, Mu Yuze could only watch helplessly as He Juan wiped out all the dishes without leaving anything at all. The man’s relentless praises notwithstanding, Mu Yuze had kept today’s potato stew failure in his mind. Next time, he was determined to cook the perfect stew!

After eating, they put the dirty plates into the dishwasher, and as Mu Yuze returned to his room to wash up, He Juan went to the living room terrace to make a call.

"How is it?" he asked while chewing on sugar cubes as dessert. "Have you found her address yet?"

"Not yet, Boss," the man on the other side replied in an apologetic tone. For fear that He Juan would get angry, he hastily explained, "I swear on my life, that girl really can’t be trifled with! She always knows when we’re following her like she has eyes behind her head. And then, she will lead us around and shake us off in the middle of the crowd. It’s really not because we are slacking, Boss!"

"I know," He Juan said, a little amused at the man’s lengthy explanation. "I don’t hold much hope to begin with, so you can relax."

If this was any ordinary girl, He Juan would have meted out severe punishment for his men’s inability to track down her address. However, this was a mutated Alpha they were talking about – one who had been on run for quite some time to boot. He Juan had only sent his men on lookout, half because he feared that she would run away and half because of impatience because he still had not received the call he was waiting for.

Wasn’t she the one who had reached out to He Juan first to ask for help? So what was she still waiting for?

The man cleared his throat, a little ashamed of He Juan’s low expectations for them. He wrecked his brain to say something more, and in the end he really recalled a strange occurrence that had happened during his stakeout. "Ah, that’s right. I spotted a few unusual people, Boss."

"Oh?" He Juan’s gaze turned sharp. "Tell me more."

The man proceeded to describe the appearance of those people, and He Juan could immediately tell that they were mercenaries. Moreover, they had not hailed only from one company, meaning that there were more than one forces lingering around the area where the mutated Alpha was.

Why would there be so many mercenaries? Unless...

"Is she using the opportunity to draw out her enemies and get rid of them at once?" He Juan murmured his thoughts out loud. Was this also the reason why she always appeared in a fixed area? To let those people lower their guard down and think that they had managed to lock her down?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt like it should be the case.

He Juan was shocked by the possibility that crossed his mind, especially when he recalled that the one who had planned this was none other than a minor not even twenty of age yet. But somehow, when he thought of Ye Qiu’s fierce and unyielding temperament, he felt like it should come to no surprise.

"What did you just say, Boss?"

"No, nothing," He Juan couldn’t help but laugh. Goodness, hunters had become the hunted and worse still, they did not even realize anything at all! Now that there was such ridiculous theatrics going on in front of him, how could he not join in on the fun?

He Juan gazed at the serene lawn in front of him and a calculating smile curled on his lips, "You don’t need to follow her anymore. I have another important job for you. Catch those people. Make sure to leave some traces to let them know that the one who ordered it is me. You know the drill."

The man replied loudly, "Yes, Sir!"

He Juan hung up on the call and tapped the phone on his smiling lips. If he did this, he should be able to prove his sincerity to her, right?