Du Yan clicked his tongue loudly, and in an instant, his gaze towards Tan Ziting turned somewhat mocking.

"You want to die together with Boss Gu? We'll have to see if you have the ability."

After saying that, Du Yan picked up his phone and made a call. He loudly ordered into the phone, "Bring Tan Ziting's girlfriend over."

Gu Shaojin raised an eyebrow, her expression turning even colder as she looked at Tan Ziting. "This is the last time. Who gave you permission to follow Jiayi?"

Tan Ziting glared angrily at Gu Shaojin, feeling extremely resentful, but he had no other choice.

He answered with difficulty, each word uttered with difficulty, "I don't know."

Gu Shaojin raised her right hand and then waved two fingers forward.

Seeing this, Du Yan immediately took a few steps forward. Just as another slap was about to land on Tan Ziting's face, Tan Ziting spoke up anxiously.

"I really don't know! That person calls me from a different number every time, and the call record disappears every time he hangs up. He's never told me who he is."

Du Yan turned around and glanced at Gu Shaojin, only to see Gu Shaojin with her head down as if she was thinking about something.

Ming Jiayi stood up from the sofa and asked with some confusion,

"Is the person who sent you the anonymous email the same person who asked you to stalk me?"

Tan Ziting shook his head and replied curtly, "I don't know. It's an anonymous email, and I've never heard the voice or seen the person. How would I know who sent it?"

"Did you record that person's voice?" Ming Jiayi asked seriously.

If it's someone you know, you'll definitely recognize their voice.

"No."

Du Yan stared at Tan Ziting with great dissatisfaction, and really wanted to slap Tan Ziting's face twice more.

You don't know this or that, and you have no sense of caution when helping others? No wonder you've accomplished nothing so far.

Ming Jiayi was getting a little impatient. She twitched her lips and said indifferently,

"He asked you to follow me to find out my whereabouts, and then you took these photos, so you have to report back to him about me, right? You don't know anything, you have nothing, so how are you going to report back?"

Tan Ziting scoffed dismissively.

"How could I not have thought of that? He calls me every day, and I report my schedule to him when he calls."

"Then how did you give him the photo?" Ming Jiayi asked again.

Tan Ziting's expression seemed to suddenly realize something, but he quickly put on a cold demeanor again. "He told me to develop the photos and then mail them to a jewelry store on Central Second Street."

Did he call you today?

As soon as Ming Jiayi finished speaking, Tan Ziting's phone vibrated in his pocket.

Du Yan took out the phone, and a hidden number appeared on the lit screen.

Du Yan glared fiercely at Tan Ziting and warned, "Watch your mouth."

Du Yan answered the phone and put it on speakerphone.

Everyone present, except for Tan Ziting, kept quiet.

"How's your schedule today?" a woman's voice asked from the other end of the phone.

Tan Ziting paused for two seconds, then asked, "Who are you? Why are you a woman?"

"You don't need to know that much, just know that I can wire you money. Now start reporting Ming Jiayi's itinerary."

Ming Jiayi's brows furrowed tightly.

This person is way too cautious! They even used a voice changer...

Tan Ziting gave the woman on the other end of the phone a detailed report of Ming Jiayi's schedule, after which the woman said...

"Continue following up tomorrow. Also, upload the photos from the past two days to the jewelry store on Central Second Street before 6 PM tomorrow."

"When are you going to give me my deposit? You can forget about ordering me around until I see the money!" Tan Ziting shouted into the phone, clearly annoyed.

"I'll transfer the money to your account as soon as I see the photo tomorrow," the woman replied coldly.

A few seconds later, the other party hung up the phone.

Ming Jiayi took the phone from Du Yan and glanced at it. Sure enough, just as Tan Ziting had said, the call logs had indeed disappeared.

Ming Jiayi, seemingly oblivious to everyone else, took Tan Ziting's phone and sat down in front of her computer. She wanted to try and recover the call history.

There are two possibilities in this situation. The first is that the other party has hacked into Tan Ziting's phone and is ready to delete the information on Tan Ziting's phone at any time.

The second reason is that the other party has set up encryption protection in their phone number, so the phone number will automatically disappear as soon as the call ends.

Both of these situations are quite perplexing.

If the other party hacks into Tan Ziting's phone, then Ming Jiayi will have absolutely no way to break that person's control.

If the person has set up encryption protection on their phone number, then without knowing the person's phone number and IP address, it is impossible to perform any operation.

Gu Shaojin raised her eyes and glanced disdainfully at Tan Ziting, "Du Yan, send two people with him tomorrow. They must find that person for me."

Tan Ziting stared intently at Gu Shaojin. "I've already explained everything. Can you let my girlfriend go now?"

Gu Shaojin glanced at Du Yan.

Du Yan looked at Gu Shaojin and replied respectfully, "I didn't make a phone call just now. I was just trying to scare this kid."

Tan Ziting rolled his eyes speechlessly and replied irritably, "I was just doing what she told me to do. I didn't agree to help you find her."

"Did I ask you for help?" Do Yeon asked impatiently.

Gu Shaojin sat back on the sofa, reached for the camera, and deleted all the photos inside.

He raised his eyes and said coldly, "I didn't say you could give the photos to that person."

Ming Jiayi's gaze kept shifting back and forth between the computer and her phone.

After a few minutes, she finally confirmed that the other party had not been controlling Tan Ziting's phone; they had simply encrypted their own phone number.

She has now recovered all of those missing call records.

But there was still no way to find out the person's real phone number.

To decipher the code, you must have that person's IP address; otherwise, there's no way to begin.

If we want to catch that person now, the only way is to wait for her at the jewelry store on Central Second Street tomorrow.

Ming Jiayi put down her phone and computer.

Since it's impossible to do, then let's not do it.

She looked at Tan Ziting with a cool expression and asked,

"Zhan Pingping once told me that the person you liked was her older sister, Zhan Fanfan, and that you even took the entrance exam for the Beijing Drama Academy three times in a row to pursue her. Now it seems that was all a lie, right?"