Chapter 15021510 [Jiang Xia Longping's Amazing Life]
It seems that the parties involved and Okiya Subaru are not the only ones paying attention to these two pieces of news about the solved cases.
In the distance, in a room of Riverside Mansion, a woman sat quietly on the edge of the bed, watching the TV opposite.
The dark golden curtains hung down heavily, and the light of the setting sun slanted in through the gaps, landing on the ends of the woman's hair, giving the light-colored long hair a hint of orange-red, which symbolized vitality.
At this moment, a little-known TV station was on the screen, broadcasting news about a Gothic and Lolita murder case. Although many scenes were not captured, the final footage of the case being solved in one go was recorded by the quick-handed reporters.
Chief Superintendent Lotta looked at the young detective surrounded by reporters through the screen, but his eyes seemed to pass through him and fall on another person.
After a long while, she sighed softly: "It's really like that."
"Like what?"
The door was suddenly pushed open, and a woman whose eyes and eyebrows were somewhat similar to those of Chief Superintendent Lotta, but a little older, walked in.
Lotta picked up the remote control beside her, turned off the TV, frowned and looked at the person who had just entered the room: "Grace, I said you have to knock on the door before entering my room."
Superintendent Lotta, who had met Tokyo's group on the plane, had changed out of her formal uniform. She casually wore a nightgown, and her high bun was untied and draped over her shoulders, which made her look more than half her age. Her affluent life made her look well-maintained. When she didn't deliberately make an expression, there was no wrinkle on her face, like a dignified girl.
The woman she called "Grace" quickly glanced around the room when she entered the room. It was not that she was deliberately snooping into anything, but it was just a habit she had developed over a long period of time.
So, although the TV turned off quickly, she still caught a glimpse of the conspicuous black-haired young man on the screen.
Combined with Chief Superintendent Lotta's previous mumbling, Grace vaguely felt that she understood something, and she smiled:
"He does look a bit like him when he was young. I say, you really are deeply in love. It's been so many years, how come you still haven't forgotten that guy?"
She walked to the window and closed the gap in the curtains. Then she returned to the bed and sat next to Lotta, raising her arms and embracing her sister affectionately:
"I remember at the party when you were 16, you clearly said that you only liked career-oriented men. You even cursed the sweethearts who surrounded you as 'trash' after getting drunk, and told them to use the time they spent pretending to be gentlemen to read one more book - but now, your standards for looking at men seem to have changed a lot."
Although she said it in a rather tactful way, Chief Inspector Lotta still heard it: her sister was calling Jiang Xia Longping a waste.
Her face darkened. “You don’t know him. He is a true hero, but he didn’t live to see his time.”
“…”
Grace looked at her carefully, and was very surprised to find that when her sister said this, her tone and expression were very serious. She actually felt from the bottom of her heart that Jiang Xia Longping was a so-called "career-oriented man."
She hesitated to speak, but finally couldn't help herself and spoke softly:
"To be honest, I really doubt whether he was working seriously. In fact, I specifically asked about it before. He always said that he had some mysterious long-term plan, but in fact, until his death, that 'plan' did not make much progress. Even if he had some useful connections later, he didn't use them because of the so-called 'pursuit of greater development' - if Capet hadn't been confused by his fancy plan, I would have killed him long ago..."
Grace trailed off halfway through her speech.
Facing her sister's sinister gaze, she awkwardly curled her short hair and said, "Uh, you wouldn't scold your dear sister for that kind of guy, would you? Tell me you wouldn't."
As she said this she leaned over and kissed Lotta on the cheek.
"I can't." My sister did not give a disappointing answer.
Lotta really didn't like to curse. But soon, she pushed away Grace who was hanging on her, stood up with a cold face, refused to talk to her sister anymore, and strode out of the room.
“…”
Grace sighed at the empty room and muttered in a low voice: "But I'm clearly telling the truth... Is it really because I had too little contact with that guy back then and didn't know him well enough?"
She saw the remote control thrown aside, picked it up and pressed it.
The TV was turned back on, but the news had already ended. Now the screen was showing a pigeon that was stuck in the middle of a church window frame and how people were rescuing it.
Grace snorted, turned off the TV out of boredom, and turned to look outside the door.
My sister doesn't like going out, and she rarely leaves London, but this time she went from the UK to Tokyo. She spent a lot of time on this trip in order to adjust her job and make other preparations.
Although her sister didn't say what she was going to do, Grace guessed that she was probably going to confirm whether Jiang Xia Longping was really dead.
"Judging from her current state of mind, she's probably dead."
Grace rubbed her hair helplessly. "Why didn't you ask me before you went? Our investigation has already confirmed that he was dead. Why did you make this trip in vain? Sigh, the terrible love brain. Why didn't I realize that there is such a gene in our family before?"
Although she still felt resentful about some past events, Grace soon shook her head:
No matter if he was a hero whose grand plan failed or a thief who ate funds, now that he is dead, there seems to be no point in dwelling on it any longer... Let's just regard Jiang Xia Longping as a hero whose development failed.
Grace: “…” And even if you want to conclude that he is a slacker, it seems very difficult - because according to her observation, there are actually quite a few people who share the same opinion as Lotta on the matter of Jiangxia Longping.
As she thought about it, Grace couldn't help but sigh in confusion, muttering to herself, "Is that guy really that charming? He looks... well, well, he only looks good. But he obviously hasn't achieved any real results.
"Are they too far-sighted and see the bright side that I can't see, or are they simply confused?"
As she spoke, Grace took out her cell phone and looked at the messages that she had asked someone to sort out urgently not long ago.
As she turned the pages, a hint of surprise could not be concealed in her blue eyes:
"I didn't expect Jiang Xia Longping's son to be quite promising, but the direction of his success seems to be a bit wrong... How did he become a detective, and a famous detective known nationwide for his sunshine and justice? This is completely different from his father's fancy plan."
(End of this chapter)
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