Chapter 11: Just Graduated

"Nonsense!" Gu Mingyue rubbed her brows. "Would we let a young girl who just graduated from high school get involved in this kind of thing?"

Wen Nianchu shrugged:

"But the truth is, they've already got their eyes on me. My entry into the casino is like a piece of fat meat delivered right to their lips. They'll try every possible way to make me fail. They don't dare to do it openly, so they can only resort to underhanded tactics. The most likely scenario is that I lose everything at the gambling table. As for the reason? The small inheritance rights to the Wen Group shares in their hands are enough to motivate them."

She paused and lowered her voice:

"But they would never have thought that a little girl who had just been in a car accident would take the initiative to cooperate with the police and be used as bait. Who knows? They are having a celebration party somewhere right now... Hehe, I guess they are celebrating my death."

It would be better for everyone if she died.

Anyway, all of her so-called relatives wanted to peel off a layer of skin from her to survive the winter.

When Wen Nianchu said the last half of the sentence, she paused, and then Gu Mingyue saw her suddenly raise her hand, and gently pressed the tuft of curly hair on the top of her head with her fingertips. The disobedient strand of hair was pressed down by her and bounced up mischievously again.

She pouted and poked it again.

Gu Mingyue looked at her, a hint of astonishment flashed across his eyes, and then he fell silent.

Wen Nianchu spoke of her own death with such casualness. Perhaps it was because children her age had never truly faced death that she could so easily toss it aside, treating it as a cold joke? Even so, the understatement still made her heart skip a beat.

"So, there's no one more suitable bait than me." Wen Nianchu smiled and returned to his harmless appearance. "But... I have a small problem."

Gu Mingyue: "What's the problem?"

"I can't fight." She blinked innocently, "So, I need a bodyguard to go in with me."

I can't just say that I have a heart disease. If I do that, the person in front of me will definitely not be willing to let me go in as bait.

The young male police officer just now turned back again, with a strange look on his face, and lowered his head to say a few words to Gu Mingyue.

Gu Mingyue was stunned.

She looked at Wen Nianchu meaningfully:

"We've found the candidate, you can go out first."

Wen Nianchu felt a little strange and walked out, then saw the young man at the door of the police station. This time, he was wearing thin silver-framed glasses and holding two wrapped red roses in his hands. He was talking to other police officers in the station.

Isn’t this Xie Yue?

After seeing Gu Mingyue being led towards Xie Yue by the young police officer, Wen Nianchu instantly realized that the bait they were looking for was Xie Yue.

Wen Nianchu even remembered that Qin Ye had inadvertently mentioned in her previous life that Bai Yiqiu was almost permanently kicked out of the competition for Wen Wan. It was not until then that she knew the true identity behind Bai Yiqiu.

Wen Nianchu looked down at the floor and began to recall.

She vaguely remembered that the cause of the incident seemed to be that the police's carefully arranged undercover operation failed. The informant who was used as bait did not know that the internal contact had already betrayed him. In the end, he was unable to escape unscathed and had one leg chopped off before he escaped.

Thinking of this, Wen Nianchu frowned slightly, and his gaze lingered on Xie Yue for a moment.

She suddenly remembered that Xie Yue in the news seemed to have suffered serious injuries to his legs and feet and had to wear prosthetic limbs.

The bait is Xie Yue?

"This is Xie Yue, the top scorer in Rongcheng's college entrance exam this year." The officer standing next to Xie Yue introduced him to Gu Mingyue with a hint of admiration in his tone. "Coincidentally, he worked the night shift at the Royal Dynasty on weekends before and is very familiar with the situation there."

Xie Yue stood quietly, his eyes behind the glasses calm and without any waves.

He was wearing a simple blue and white school uniform with his sleeves slightly rolled up, revealing his well-defined wrists. Although it was the most ordinary outfit, he inexplicably gave people a sense of inaccessibility and alienation.

The only strange thing was that he was holding two roses in his hands.

"The top scorer in the college entrance examination goes to work in a casino?" Gu Mingyue raised her eyebrows, with doubt in her tone.

Xie Yue finally spoke, his voice low and cold: "I'm short of money."

Just two simple words, yet one cannot hear the emotion in them.

"I'm willing to be your bait, as long as you pay me."

Xie Yue's gaze swept across Wen Nianchu behind him. He was stunned for a moment, clenched the rose in his hand, and then said.

"Don't worry, Captain Gu, we have investigated him many times, and his background is absolutely clean." The person who just introduced Xie Yue continued to speak, trying to dispel Gu Mingyue's current concerns.

"Who said you were the bait?"

Gu Mingyue said coldly, also looking at the thin young man in front of him.

The office suddenly fell silent.

Uncle Liu, who had just introduced Xie Yue to Gu Mingyue, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a brave face, "Captain Gu, I was the one who suggested it. The child is from an orphanage, so even if...even if something happens to him, it won't cause much of a social impact. And he's worked at the Imperial Dynasty before, so he's familiar with the internal situation." He stole a glance at Gu Mingyue's face and added, "The tip says they're going to reschedule the transfer location this week. Time is running out, and we really can't find a more suitable candidate."

After all, last time, they all went out, but came up empty-handed and missed the opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Wen Nianchu looked at Xie Yue, and she suddenly felt that Xie Yue was as pitiful as she was.

One has no home, while the other has a home which is better than having no home.

Gu Mingyue was silent.

"How about... just forget it?" Someone suddenly whispered in the corner, "Failure to complete this case won't have much of an impact on us anyway. After all, it's quite difficult. We don't need to work so hard for such a small amount of money every month."

Everyone in the Huaguorongcheng Police Station knew that Gu Mingyue was a newly appointed officer.

As the saying goes, a new official starts with three things.

No one before her was as troublesome as she was. They all talked about the newly appointed Captain Gu behind her back, saying that she was a troublemaker. She was thirty years old and a leftover woman, but she still hadn't married. She was completely focused on solving cases, treating them like blind dates. She deserved to be single.

Gu Mingyue was completely irritated by these words and laughed. Her eyes instantly turned cold:

"never mind?"

She spoke each word slowly, curling her fingers together into a fist.

"Please remember your current identities and the weight of your police badge. The Chinese people have placed their lives and trust in our hands, not for us to cower here! If you cannot seek benefits for the people, if you don't even have the courage to protect them, then you will automatically take off your police uniforms and get out."

Gu Mingyue looked into the crowd and saw that the others were so guilty that they immediately lowered their heads and dared not say anything.