As night deepened, guests began to depart, and the number of guests dwindled. A Lei, with Qin Xiaoyu on his left arm and his eldest sister on his right, while the eldest sister carried her youngest daughter, walked towards the door.

"Wait a minute, please wait a little longer. Actually, tomorrow is my birthday, so I'm staying with some close friends for a night of revelry," Linda said, jogging over to stop them.

"Are we close friends?" Are couldn't help but retort sarcastically.

"Yes, very close friends, because there's a surprise for all of us." Although Linda's eyes held a murderous glint, she tried to keep her tone calm.

"Miss Linda, a customer just backed up and knocked two cars down the slope. It looks like it won't be until dawn to get a tow truck to get them up," a servant ran over and said loudly to Linda.

This acting is probably worth 60 million in three days. Qin Xiaoyu almost burst out laughing. Needless to say, these two cars belong to the eldest sister and Lin Yaofangfei. They used every means to keep them.

Linda has already decided to do this, so if you ask her to send a car to take you again, she'll have all sorts of excuses. It's better not to waste your breath.

"Alright, since that's what you think, then we'll stay." Qin Xiaoyu was going all out.

Of the remaining people, there were about thirty, mostly young people. The eldest sister, worried that her youngest daughter was sleepy, took her to sleep in the guest room.

Apart from a few people involved, the rest of the people were unaware of the inside story. However, these people were indeed Linda's close friends, and they knew about her past relationship with A Lei, so it was a bit awkward to suddenly keep them behind.

The three of them, including A Lei, sat on the sofa in the corner, watching time tick by, the atmosphere growing increasingly tense.

"It looks like the answer will be revealed by dawn." Qin Xiaoyu sighed softly.

She was unwilling to accept her defeat.

The new magazines are printed in the early morning and delivered to various distribution points by daybreak. Only then do they reach the retail outlets.

If Qin Xiaoyu's guess is correct, around three o'clock, those magazines featuring the newest Sun & Moon clothing styles had already set off, and what happened after that was beyond their control.

After midnight, Linda kept Ray and the others behind, and she let loose a bit. She drank a lot of alcohol. Her face was flushed, her eyes were shining, and her voice was much louder, as if she owned the world.

Lei ignored her and sat down next to Qin Xiaoyu, whispering to each other as if they were in a world apart, having come to fall in love.

“Boring, you’ve become so boring,” Linda said provocatively.

"I don't think so," Qin Xiaoyu said bluntly.

"Don't you think? The old Alex was funny, cunning, and a little sly, and incredibly cute." Linda had already lost all restraint.

"He's even more adorable now than he was then, you just can't see it," Qin Xiaoyu said with a calm smile.

"Why let her see? What does it have to do with her?" A Lei raised Qin Xiaoyu's hand to his lips and gently rubbed it. Qin Xiaoyu's eyes flickered as she went to meet him, while Linda turned and walked away.

Lin Yaofangfei laughed unkindly.

Suddenly, the faint sound of police sirens came from outside. Linda's house was some distance from the main street, so she couldn't hear it clearly.

"Is there a fire somewhere?" someone noticed and whispered.

A servant hurried through the crowd to Linda's side, whispered a few words in her ear, her expression changed, she glanced in the direction of Are and the others, and then quickly left with the servant.

"I feel like things have changed a bit. Are you going to give me a surprise?" Qin Xiaoyu's heart was pounding, and she tugged at A Lei's arm and shook it a few times.

“It wasn’t me, but I feel it’s related to us.” A Lei also noticed. He stood up and walked in the direction Linda had disappeared, with Qin Xiaoyu following closely behind.

Linda followed the servant through a side door, and once inside, they found it was a corridor with all the doors on either side closed, so they had no idea where she had gone.

Qin Xiaoyu was still in a daze when A Lei grabbed her hand and strode forward.

Seeing how familiar he was with the place, Qin Xiaoyu wondered if he had been here before. She was annoyed.

Once outside the corridor, Qin Xiaoyu realized that it led to the servants' quarters.

At the corner of the stairs, Linda was yelling into the phone.

"What's going on? Weren't you following along the whole time? What else can you do? You're a piece of trash! Why should we believe you? Your IQ is just like that bitch's!" Linda viciously attacked the person opposite her, who, needless to say, was Young Master Huo.

A Lei and Qin Xiaoyu held hands, silently watching her performance. Until she turned around, the microphone slipped limply from her hand, her face ashen.

This time, no one stopped them from leaving. A Lei went upstairs and called his older sister, while Qin Xiaoyu called Lin Yaofangfei over. They walked out and were about to go back.

Fortunately, they were able to hail a taxi after walking just one street, and Lin Yaofangfei told them to go ahead.

“The child will catch a cold, but I can take care of myself.”

Her reasoning was one that her older sister couldn't refuse.

"You really didn't do it?" Qin Xiaoyu still wouldn't give up and asked A Lei again.

"No," the older sister answered for him.

Who is that?

They all shook their heads. From Linda's account, it could be roughly deduced that the fire occurred at the printing plant, meaning that not a single magazine that was about to be published had been produced.

The fire was reported on the morning news the following day. The fire was massive; the factory and warehouses were destroyed, but thankfully there were no casualties. The magazine's editor-in-chief was hospitalized due to the shock, and the funders did not respond to inquiries.

The investor, surnamed Hong, was originally an investor in real estate. The magazine was just a small investment under his company, nothing serious, and he didn't take it seriously at all, treating it as just a loss in a horse race.

Ah Lei does know Mr. Hong, but he's not in business, so they've never had any dealings. It's not wise to inquire about anything rashly right now.

He was just curious why Mr. Hong and Mr. Huo, who seemed to have never gotten along, would secretly help Linda.

"I think it was mostly done by the editor-in-chief himself, and has nothing to do with Mr. Hong," the older sister said, hitting the nail on the head.

“I think so too. When we were investigating, we only focused on those connected to the Huo family and didn’t investigate those others seriously, which is why they slipped through the net. So who exactly set the fire?” A Lei still couldn’t figure it out.

Qin Xiaoyu had already called the Du family. When her uncle heard about it, he was relieved, as the fire had nothing to do with him.

Having passed this hurdle, they were still clueless about how to handle the next step.

The fire doesn't seem like a coincidence. Regardless of who helped them, the videotape is still in Linda's hands. What if she releases it in a fit of anger? That would be quite damaging. Selling it to a TV station would be even more destructive than publishing a magazine.

A Lei and Qin Xiaoyu planned to visit the editor-in-chief, hoping to find some clues.

The news report mentioned which hospital the editor-in-chief was staying at, and when they arrived, the entrance was already surrounded by reporters. It seems even getting a meeting isn't easy.

They went around to the hospital from the back and inquired. They found out that the editor-in-chief was in the internal medicine ward, mainly due to excessive shock.