“Of course.” Zou An sat down again. “Thanks to you, I was able to see the true colors of that scumbag. Otherwise, I would still be kept in the dark, worrying and crying all day about his disappearance. I will tell you everything I know if you have any questions.”

"Was there anything unusual about Cui Yi before he entered the orange?" Qin Yuanyao asked.

Zou An thought for a moment: "There's nothing unusual. He's always the same, carefree and irresponsible... It's just that sometimes he's broke, and sometimes he seems to be rich. Whenever he has money, he's in a particularly good mood and will take me to a fancy restaurant."

"How expensive is this upscale restaurant?" Qin Yuanyao asked.

"A high-end restaurant where a meal costs one or two thousand yuan."

"Does he take you to upscale restaurants often?" Qin Yuanyao asked again.

"Not many, maybe three or four times."

Did you ask him where he got so much money?

“I asked him,” Zou An said. “He said he followed a boss who was a very good person and valued him highly. The boss would always give him important tasks, and he would complete them very well. In return, the boss would reward him with a lot of money.”

"Boss?" Qin Yuanyao murmured, "Has he said anything else about the boss?"

"That's all. I asked him who his boss was, but he wouldn't say. He said I wouldn't understand even if he told me, and that I shouldn't get involved in his work and should just enjoy my life."

At this point, Zou An became furious again: "Now I suspect that the money he used to take me to upscale restaurants might be illicit, or even dirty money!"

Qin Yuanyao did not speak.

What Zou An said did match what Chi Baiyi said about Cui Yi's account having a large amount of remittances from foreign banks.

...

That evening, after returning to Yushui Pavilion, Qin Yuanyao told Chi Baiyi about seeing Zou An during the day after Chi Nao had fallen asleep.

She asked, "Could Cui Yi's disappearance be related to the boss he mentioned?"

Chi Baiyi's expression turned solemn: "Possibly."

"According to Cui Yi, could the boss be someone he works with?" Qin Yuanyao pondered.

“Impossible.” Chi Baiyi said decisively, “Mu Hai has investigated Cui Yi’s work situation. He has never stayed in any job for long. Both his superiors and colleagues have a very low opinion of him. They say that he is often late and leaves early. He threatens other colleagues to complete his own work. He is also disobedient to his superiors and often talks back to them. He has even gotten into fights with his superiors several times.”

Qin Yuanyao nodded: "If the boss isn't someone Cui Yi works with, then who is he? What is the mission Cui Yi mentioned? Or is Cui Yi just bragging, and there's no such person as the boss at all?"

“I think this person must exist, otherwise there’s no way to explain the large remittance. But I can’t tell whether what Cui Yi said is true or false,” Chi Baiyi said.

Qin Yuanyao suddenly thought, "Should we go check out where Cui Yi is staying? What if we find something?"

Previously, Cui Yi and Zou An lived together. Chi Baiyi did not want to alert them, so he did not ask Mu Hai to investigate Cui Yi's place, but only asked Mu Hai to investigate Lin Heng's place.

Now that Zou An knows Cui Yi's true colors, it should be perfect for them to investigate.

Chi Baiyi nodded in agreement.

Qin Yuanyao immediately made arrangements for this matter.

To avoid leaks, Qin Yuanyao only told Zou An the next day that she wanted to go to her place to see what was going on.

After obtaining Zou An's consent, Qin Yuanyao, along with Chi Baiyi and several bodyguards, went to Zou An's residence.

Zou An and Cui Yi lived in an old residential area in a very small one-bedroom apartment.

Upon entering, several large cardboard boxes were placed in the living room, filled with various items.

“These all belong to Cui Yi. I packed all his things away when I got back last night, intending to throw them all away so I wouldn’t have to see them,” Zou An said.

Qin Yuanyao thought to herself, "Then they've come at just the right time."

If they had arrived any later, these things would have been thrown away, and it would have been difficult for them to find them again.

"Feel free to flip through and look around, it doesn't matter if you make a mess," Zou An said, then sat down on a chair nearby and stopped looking at them.

Chi Baiyi nodded to the bodyguards, who then split into two groups: one group searched through the cardboard boxes, while the other group searched the house.

Qin Yuanyao would rummage through the things the bodyguards took out of the cardboard boxes, and then wander around the house aimlessly.

They didn't know what they could find or what they were looking for from Cui Yi, so they could only search aimlessly.

"Why are you looking for Cui Yi?" Zou An suddenly asked. "Did he do something bad to anger you?"

Qin Yuanyao glanced at Chi Baiyi, then gave Zou An a vague smile: "I guess so."

Zou An wisely refrained from asking further questions.

She just sneered and cursed, "That scumbag!"

"Did you rent this house or did Cui Yi rent it?" Qin Yuanyao asked her.

“It was rented by Cui Yi,” Zou An said. “Sister Wu just called me and said I got the job. I plan to find a new place in the next couple of days and then cancel this one.”

"Yes, it's good to find a new place to live."

“Yes,” Zou An agreed wholeheartedly. “What if that scumbag comes back one day? Who knows what he might do?”

Qin Yuanyao nodded in agreement and continued to look around the house.

She saw several magazines on the shelf at the foot of the bed, picked one up and flipped through it.

The magazine was similar to "Zhiyin" or "Story Club".

When she turned to the third magazine, a small note fell out of it.

Qin Yuanyao picked it up and took a look.

The note seemed to have a website address written on it.

She took the magazine outside and asked Zou An, "Is this your magazine?"

“Yes,” Zou An said.

"The note tucked in the magazine, did you write it?"

"What note?" Zou An came over and took the note from Qin Yuanyao's hand.

"This wasn't written by me, it must have been Cui Yi. I didn't even know there were notes in the magazine." Zou An said, "What does it say? A website address? It's not one of those shady websites, is it?"

Zou An looked disgusted, not wanting to know what website address that scumbag Cui Yi had written, and left.

Qin Yuanyao took her phone and entered the URLs listed on the note one by one, then clicked to redirect.

A login page appeared on the phone.

The login page has a black background and nothing on it except for the username, password, and confirmation button, making it impossible to tell what the website address is.

Qin Yuanyao tried clicking the redirect a few more times, but it was always the same login page.

Unable to discern what the page was, she exited the website, put away her phone, and went to look at other things.

They searched through all of Cui Yi's and Zou An's belongings, but found no clues.

After thanking Zou An, they left.

In fact, just as Qin Yuanyao logged into that website, someone received a notification on their phone.