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Gu Fang was walking Qiuqiu in the neighborhood. Qiuqiu looked listless and followed Gu Fang, as if he was not sure whether to move forward or not. Gu Fang put his hands behind his back, holding the leash, and strolled while saying, "I know you miss Yaya, but I'm too busy to take you to see her. So, I'll take a day off tomorrow and take you to see Yaya, okay?"

Gu Qiuqiu: “Woof woof!”

Gu Fang smiled, "So good."

Gu Qiuqiu suddenly broke free from the rope and ran forward.

Gu Fang was stunned. When he looked again, he saw Gu Qiuqiu rubbing against Shen Xingyan's leg. Gu Fang pointed at Gu Qiuqiu and said, "You traitor."

Shen Xingyan stroked Gu Qiuqiu's head and asked, "Do you miss me?"

Gu Qiuqiu rubbed her hand with his head to express his feelings.

Shen Xingyan smiled, "I'll take you to see Yaya tomorrow."

Gu Qiuqiu became even more excited and wagged his tail vigorously.

Gu Fang was jealous, "Gu Qiuqiu, come here! Whose dog are you?!"

Gu Qiuqiu ignored him and licked Shen Xingyan's hand obediently. Shen Xingyan chuckled, "You are so obedient."

Gu Fang had no choice but to let him go and turned to Shen Xingyan and said, "You're going to your mother's tomorrow?"

"I haven't visited her for several days. I'll take a day off tomorrow and go see her."

"Just right, I'm taking Gu Qiuqiu to meet my girlfriend."

Shen Xingyan looked at him without blinking, and threw the ball to her again. Gu Fang said, "I have something to do tomorrow."

Shen Xingyan snorted, "Aren't you afraid of lying in bed like Du Zhenhai?"

"If they dare, just come at me." Gu Fang looked far away, "I don't believe that evil can defeat good."

"Have you ever thought that Zhai Shibang's case might involve a wide range of people, and you might not be able to defeat them at your level?"

"We have to fight whether we can win or lose. I found it incredible that Shibang hid the evidence. With Shibang's character, he would not do anything against the law even if his family was short of money. Besides, being a criminal policeman has always been his dream."

"I know I can't persuade you, just be careful and let me take care of the ball."

Gu Qiuqiu seemed to understand and rubbed Shen Xingyan's leg with her head tilted.

Gu Fang noticed a stack of newspapers in her bag, "You work so hard, and you still read newspapers at night."

Shen Xingyan took out the newspaper and flipped to the literary edition. "Take a look at this."

Gu Fang read through it quickly, his brows furrowed, "Where did this Mo Xuyan come from? Why does he know so much about the case? It is impossible for outsiders to know about the case during the investigation process."

"That's what puzzled me, so I plan to take it home and read it carefully."

"Contact the newspaper later and ask who this Mo Xuyan is."

The two of them walked into the building while talking. Shen Xingyan took out the key to open the door, but Gu Qiuqiu suddenly ran into her house.

Gu Fang was stunned, then shouted: "Gu Qiuqiu, come back here!"

Gu Qiuqiu ignored him and went straight into the bedroom.

Gu Fang held his forehead with his hand, "Little traitor!"

Shen Xingyan laughed, "Forget it, let him stay at my house today."

"Excuse me, I'll bring his food over."

Gu Fang brought a bowl of dog food over and moved his bed over. Gu Qiuqiu lay on the ground, watching him busying around, and there was a smile in her eyes.

Gu Fang patted his head and said, "Stay still and don't cause any trouble for others."

Gu Qiuqiu turned her head away and ignored him.

Gu Fang was furious and rubbed him several times angrily before leaving.

Shen Xingyan finished reading all the serials in one night. She compared the content of the serials with the process of solving the case and found that most of Mo Xuyan's understanding of the case came from media reports, and some were rumors in the market and his imagination.

The reasoning process and the direction of case development were also quite different, but the strange thing was that he accurately grasped the time of solving the case, which was almost the same day as the police announced the results of the investigation.

Shen Xingyan was amazed and felt it necessary to visit Guangyuan Daily.

…

The next day, Shen Xingyan took Gu Qiuqiu to Shen Lan's place, but Shen Lan had not gotten up as usual.

Chen Lin was cleaning the room. When she saw them, a smile appeared on her face. Gu Qiuqiu jumped out and circled around Yaya.

Yaya had just recovered and was still a little weak. After playing with him for a while, she lay down on the sofa and didn't move.

Gu Qiuqiu lay on the ground and licked her fur, as if he knew that she was injured.

Shen Lin smiled, "These two really look like a couple."

"Yeah, Qiuqiu hasn't seen Yaya for a while, and he looks listless."

Shen Xingyan sat next to Yaya, stroking Yaya with one hand and the ball with the other, looking quite satisfied.

Shen Lan came out wrapped in a shawl, her hair casually draped over her shoulders, looking a bit lazy, "I knew it was you." She slipped on her slippers, sat on the sofa, stretched out her arms, revealing her snow-white arms, and touched Qiuqiu's head, "Your father didn't come?"

Shen Xingyan answered for him: "Captain Gu is busy."

"You are so young, what are you busy with?" Shen Lan pouted, her stomach growling, "Cousin, make me some food, I'm hungry."

Chen Lin went to the kitchen to work, and soon brought out a bowl of bird's nest porridge, a small corn bun, and a plate of cold dishes, "Yanyan, do you want to eat?"

"I've eaten, don't worry about me."

Shen Lan was drinking bird's nest porridge. Although she was in her forties, she looked only in her thirties because of good maintenance. Sitting with Shen Xingyan, she looked like a two sisters.

Shen Xingyan admired Shen Lan very much. She dared to break out of the system, start her own business, and made a name for herself.

Shen Lan finished her porridge and bit her bun, "You didn't come to see me specially, did you?"

"Of course."

Shen Lan curled her lips, "The sun rises from the west."

Shen Xingyan smiled, "I have such a beautiful, capable, and wealthy mother, so of course I have to come and hug your thighs often."

Shen Lan was amused by her, "Silly girl, make fun of your mother, don't follow Gu's bad habits after school."

Shen Xingyan was dissatisfied, "Who would learn from him? He is him and I am me."

"Oh, you even brought his dog here. He is him and you are you." Shen Lan curled her lips, her eyes full of ridicule.

"That's because Qiuqiu and I have a good relationship, right, Qiuqiu?"

Gu Qiuqiu actually barked twice in response to Shen Xingyan, and Shen Xingyan laughed.

Shen Lan rolled her eyes, "What a coincidence." She stood up, "I'm going to change my clothes and go to the company, what are you going to do?"

"I'll sit for a while and then leave. I'm going to download the Guangyuan Daily."

"Okay, let's go home for dinner tonight. Cousin, please cook some of Yanyan's favorite dishes."

Shen Xingyan took a ride with Chen Lan to Guangyuan Daily. The newspaper's office building was quite old and looked gray. When Shen Xingyan entered, a man at the front desk asked her who she was looking for. Shen Xingyan took out her ID and said, "I'm looking for your editor-in-chief."

The old man made a phone call and said after putting down the receiver: "302, take the elevator up and turn right."

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Ji Qiang, who is in his thirties. He is wearing a shirt, a gray knitted vest and black-framed glasses. "Do you have something to talk to me about?" He was a little nervous, and quickly went over his recent actions in his mind to see if there was anything out of the ordinary.

Shen Xingyan smiled embarrassedly, "It's nothing particularly important. I just read Mo Xuyan's serials and became very interested in him. I wanted to find out more about him, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to meet the editor-in-chief, so I used my identity as a police officer."

Ji Qiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "So that's how it is. After Mo Xuyan's novel was serialized, many people called or wrote to him, but we have no news about Mo Xuyan, and we don't even know who he is." Ji Qiang sighed heavily. He originally wanted to take advantage of this favorable situation to arrange an exclusive interview with Mo Xuyan, but he couldn't contact him at all.

"How could that be?" Shen Xingyan was puzzled.

Ji Qiang said: "We receive manuscripts from Mo Xuyan every day. After being revised, the manuscripts are serialized in newspapers. We have also tried to contact him and wrote to him according to the address on the letter, but he never replied."

"Doesn't he want royalties?"

"At first, we remitted the royalties to him, but they were all returned. Later, we sent them to him in cash, but they were never returned. Every time I sent him royalties, I would write a letter, hoping that he would reply, but he never replied and just sent the manuscript."

"What a strange man."

"Yes, but the novels he wrote are indeed wonderful. Since his novels were serialized, the sales of newspapers have increased significantly. It doesn't matter who he is. As long as he continues to write novels, even if he is a monster with three heads and six arms, we will accept him."

Shen Xingyan didn't find what she wanted, but became even more confused. Suddenly he remembered that Xijun was a reporter at Guangyuan Daily, so he asked Ji Qiang which department Song Xijun was in.

Ji Qiang said: "She is doing the literary version."

Shen Xingyan was stunned. What a coincidence.

Ji Qiang took her to find Song Xijun. Song Xijun was proofreading a manuscript and was stunned when he saw Shen Xingyan. Shen Xingyan greeted her with a smile, and Song Xijun hurriedly pulled her to sit next to her. "Why are you here?" She glanced at Ji Qiang's receding back, "You're with our editor-in-chief."

"I have something to do, so I came to see you."

"Another case?"

"No, how are you? Is work going well?"

"I'm fine. Recently, because of Mo Xuyan's novel, our literary reporters have been envied and hated by reporters from other sections." Song Xijun smiled.

"Speaking of this Mo Xuyan, do you know who he is?"

"Novel writers all use pen names, rarely real names. They just like the feeling of hiding behind the paper, why do you have to expose them?"

"I'm curious."

"I know what you're curious about. To be honest, I'm curious too. I feel terrified every time I read his novels. The cases he wrote about are extremely similar to what you and I have told. Even if you didn't come, I would still come to find you."

"Do you have the envelope from him?"

"Wait a minute." Song Xijun walked away, came back after a while, and stuffed the envelope into Shen Xingyan's hand, "All letters are sent to Editor Su. The contact person listed in the newspaper is him."

Shen Xingyan took the envelope, a very ordinary kraft paper envelope. The address on the envelope was a residential house on Xirong Road, and the date on the postmark was April 13, 1997, the day the headless dismemberment case was solved.

The handwriting is vigorous and sharp, and it is obviously a man's handwriting.

“Have you ever been to this place?”

Song Xijun nodded. "It's an abandoned house. People living nearby said that the owner's family was wiped out a few years ago. Everyone thought the house was unlucky, so it has been vacant ever since."

"It seems that he lives nearby and knows the inside story. He is sure that no one dares to enter the haunted house, so he boldly uses it as a false address."

"We also speculated so, but why is he unwilling to show up? With his current influence, once his pen name is exposed, it will not only be the royalties. A publishing house has already contacted us to publish his novels, and the royalties offered are not low.

The editor-in-chief wrote to him to inform him of this, but he did not reply. I don't understand what is his purpose in writing novels? Isn't it for the purpose of earning royalties and then selling the copyright when there is an opportunity for publication in the future? ”

"Maybe it's for fame."

Song Xijun nodded, "That's possible."

Shen Xingyan stayed until five o'clock before leaving. When she returned, Shen Lan had actually returned home. She was eating bird's nest, petting the dog, and waiting for her.