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Chapter 244: Chapter 244 "The Lady’s Endless Disguises
Lu Sheng initially thought that Gu Siyu’s WeChat profile picture would be a selfie showing her face or figure, but it actually wasn’t.
It was just a cute cartoon sun pattern.
The accompanying bio was simple too, "Face towards the sunlight," followed by a cute emoticon, making her seem like an ordinary college student.
There really was a contrast there.
It’s like when Gu Siyu came to see her tonight, dressed sexily and revealingly, one might think at first glance that she was a promiscuous, scheming woman.
But Gu Siyu would blush profusely from a single word or action, an embarrassment and shyness that couldn’t be faked.
This made Lu Sheng feel that Gu Siyu didn’t seem like the kind of person who would actively seduce someone else’s boyfriend and wreck other people’s relationships, yet she undeniably did just that.
So it seemed a bit strange.
After returning to her room, Lu Sheng stared at Gu Siyu’s WeChat for a moment—there were only two reasons Gu Siyu wanted to add her on WeChat.
Either it was for easier contact in the future, or she wanted her to discover something.
If it was about discovering something, that probably pointed towards... the Moments?
Indeed, after clicking into Gu Siyu’s Moments, the setting showed only the past month was visible.
The earliest update, however, was from half a month ago—a photo of a beautiful moonlit scene, captioned only with—[Turns out a heart flutter is really just a momentary thing.]
Half a month ago was exactly when Gu Siyu had just arrived in Jiang City.
Night, moonlight, heart flutter? Quite a suggestive Moment.
The second Moment after that was a photo of Beautiful Night perfume by Ases displayed on a counter.
The caption read [Came to pick a gift, and to my surprise, I found the Beautiful Night by Ases which I could never find before, this scent is simply intoxicating~]
Seeing this, Lu Sheng understood what Gu Siyu meant by letting her add WeChat.
She probably feared that Lu Sheng didn’t catch the scent earlier, so she straightforwardly presented the answer to guide her.
It wasn’t that she was afraid of Lu Sheng discovering, but rather that she was afraid Lu Sheng wouldn’t be able to discover.
The subsequent Moments were the same; both the pictures and the captions were vague and ambiguous.
If Lu Sheng looked with suspicion, she might directly conclude that Li Muchen was guilty of adultery.
These Moments... a half-month carefully crafted lie—was it truly from Gu Siyu’s own volition, or was she instructed by someone else?
Lu Sheng tilted her head, supporting her chin with her hand, her slender fingers tapping on her cheek, seemingly deep in thought.
Just then, Chen An sent a message: [Miss, the perfumer contacted me just now, she confirmed the brand and model of the perfume!]
Lu Sheng replied: [Ases’ Beautiful Night?]
Chen An, stunned by the response, replied: [!! Miss, are you a goddess?? How did you know?]
[I guessed.]
Miss, why didn’t you guess earlier [T▽T, we could have saved $100,000.]
Chen An joked, then quickly became serious.
He continued: [Miss, because President Li has been so busy recently that he often sleeps directly at the company, the shirt he was wearing that day was one I had just taken from the home wardrobe to the company’s resting room a few days ago.]
[I heard that this perfume tends to leave a long-lasting scent on fabric, so if the perfume was deliberately placed on the shirt, it’s unclear whether it was the work of the servants at home or someone from the office.]
[It shouldn’t be someone from home,] Lu Sheng thought for a moment and replied: [After the St. John’s wort in the pillow incident last time, didn’t you check all the servants at home and kept only those we can trust?]
[If not from home, then it must be someone at the office, check who has access to Li Muchen’s resting room. Since it’s the president’s office and the resting room is meant to be private, there should be very few who can enter.]
Chen An said: [Right, Miss! You reminded me! There’s a safe in President Li’s resting room where important documents are kept, so I previously installed a hidden camera there, known only to me and President Li.]
[Although the camera is aimed at the safe, not sure if it could catch the person who touched the wardrobe, but at least we have a clue now. I’ll hurry and check it out to find out who wants to frame President Li!]
[Alright.]
After chatting with Chen An, Lu Sheng thought for a moment and then sent a message to Huo Yu: [Have you gone to sleep?]
She remembered that although Huo Yu was a genius hacker skilled in various electronic devices, he seldom looked at his phone.
However, for some reason, whenever Lu Sheng messaged Huo Yu, he almost always responded instantly.
[No sleep.]
[What’s wrong?]
[Have you recovered? Are you coming back to school?]
It’s rather embarrassing to admit that after over two months of recovery at home, and finally getting the cast removed a few days ago, Lu Sheng still hadn’t returned to school.
Mainly because of Gu Siyu’s matter, added on top with incidents related to Chen Shu and Juanjuan, it’s unlikely she could go back to school in the coming days.
[The cast is off, and I’m recovered. But I still have some things to take care of, it might take a few more days to return to school.]
[Texting so late, do you want me to help check on someone if you’re free?]
Huo Yu immediately asked: [Who?]
[The sister of Beijing Shengda Real Estate’s president Gu Weijian, Gu Siyu.]
[She seems to be trying to get close to me and Li Muchen. I suspect she’s either being instructed or coerced, so I wanted to ask you to help look for some clues on this.]
[She’s trying to get close to you? Did she do anything to harm you? Are you alright?]
Just as expected from someone who can type quickly on the keyboard, he managed to type so much in just two seconds.
Completely ignoring the words ’Li Muchen’, only worried whether she had encountered any mishap. The typically calm and taciturn boy’s triple inquiries show his anxious concern.
[No, I’m fine, I just want to figure out what’s going on.]
Lu Sheng indeed hadn’t been harmed.
Bizarrely, it was Gu Siyu who was taken advantage of by Lu Sheng tonight, practically fleeing with her ears red as if they were bleeding by the time she left.
Seeing her say so, Huo Yu seemed to also sigh in relief: [Glad you are fine. I’ll help you investigate and inform you if there’s any news.]
[Thank you, Huo Yu.] Lu Sheng had asked for Huo Yu’s help several times before, and even offered a reward, but Huo Yu always firmly refused.
Indeed, maybe talking about money really does hurt friendships for some.
But Lu Sheng only knew that Huo Yu lived alone in a rental in Jiang City and was someone with very few material desires, making it tricky to figure out what kind of gift to give in return.
Thinking for a moment, she typed: [When I return to school, I’ll treat you to a meal in the cafeteria~]
Lu Sheng didn’t know that at this very moment, in a certain rental property, the usually expressionless boy was staring at the messages on his phone screen with a slight smile: [Okay.]
——
Lu Sheng woke up at nine in the morning, and had agreed to meet Chen Shu at ten.
Still not fully awake, Lu Sheng habitually reached for her phone by the pillow only to find Chen An had already sent her countless messages.
[Miss, I’ve found the person!]
[From the surveillance I checked, within these three days, aside from me and President Li, the only other person who went into President Li’s resting room was a cleaning lady from the company.]
[I confronted her with the surveillance footage. She confessed that a woman stopped her on her way from work the night before last, gave her $20,000 and a bottle of perfume, and asked her to leave the scent on those shirts.]
[However, she said the woman wore a hat, sunglasses, and a mask that night, completely covering her face, and she doesn’t know who she was. Even if that person stood in front of her again, she might not recognize her.]
Seeing the messages, Lu Sheng’s sleepiness completely vanished as she replied: [Is the lady still in front of you?]
Chen An immediately responded: [Yes, I’m making her recall more details.]
Lu Sheng typed: [Ask her, was that woman’s bust size about a D cup?]
This probably struck Chen An.
He probably had no idea why the girl suddenly mentioned this. Besides, being a man, suddenly asking a cleaning lady such a question looked utterly perverted. 𝒏𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
After a minute, Lu Sheng received a reply.
[!!! Fuck, it really is!!]
[Miss, you must be a deity! Or are you the Closed-door Disciple of some mystic Master of Traditional Medicine?!]
[Miss, you don’t have to deny it! I know it must be! After all, you already had so many hidden identities while still remaining low-profile, I’m completely floored by admiration for you!]
Master of Traditional Medicine’s Closed-door Disciple, forgotten friend of the world piano master Osborne, Boxing King of the Abis underground boxing matches, plus a mysterious mysticism guise...
Thinking that their lady, who is merely a high school student, had so many awe-inspiring identities to casually reveal.
Nobody knew, at this moment, a thought crazily took root in the heart of an executive assistant.
And no one knew, that at midnight that day, a novel labeled "Domineering President’s Sweet Pet: The Lady’s Endless Disguises" debuted on an online literature platform, titled [President Li, go easy on the love! The Lady’s Endless Disguises!]
