Liu Junnan set the files down and leaned back in his chair, lost in thought.
It wasn't Su Wan.
Then who could it be?
Someone who had intersections with both the Xu and Bai families, and also had the ability to reach such a level...
He suddenly thought of someone.
Gu Huaiyu.
The Gu family was one of the culprits behind the Su family's downfall.
And Gu Huaiyu was Su Wan’s former fiancé.
This man had connections with both the Xu and Bai families.
Moreover, given the Gu family’s power, if he truly possessed an ability...
But Liu Junnan quickly dismissed the idea.
If Gu Huaiyu really had that kind of power, he wouldn't have needed to join forces with anyone; he could have handled the Su family on his own.
Furthermore, according to the records, Gu Huaiyu had done something strange recently—
He had purchased a non-performing asset bundle that included the unfinished buildings of Jinxiu Garden and then transferred the title to Su Wan.
He hadn't taken a single cent for it.
Liu Junnan’s fingers tapped lightly on the desk.
Why would Gu Huaiyu give that building to Su Wan?
Guilt? Compensation? Or did he have another motive?
This move made him somewhat difficult to read.
But if Gu Huaiyu really were connected to that mysterious person, there would be absolutely no need for him to approach Su Wan in such a manner.
With the Gu family’s influence, what couldn't he do if he wanted to?
Liu Junnan rubbed his temples, feeling a surge of irritation.
He had gone through everyone associated with the Xu and Bai families, and not a single one fit the criteria.
In terms of identity, only Su Wan was the most suitable.
But in terms of strength, it was completely impossible for her.
“Young Master Liu,” Fang Yingshan asked cautiously, “should we... keep a close eye on Su Wan?”
Liu Junnan was silent for a moment before speaking: “Is she going to the police station for questioning today?”
Fang Yingshan nodded: “Yes, she has been summoned. The appointment is for nine in the morning.”
Liu Junnan stood up and grabbed his coat: “Let’s go and take a look.”
8:50 AM.
At the entrance of the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau.
Liu Junnan stood by a convenience store on the street corner, wearing an ordinary dark gray jacket and a peaked cap, looking just like a typical pedestrian waiting to cross the road.
However, his gaze remained fixed on the gates of the Public Security Bureau.
At exactly nine o'clock.
A slender figure appeared in his line of sight.
Su Wan.
She was wearing a navy blue tracksuit with her hair tied in a simple ponytail. Her face was clean, and her temperament was gentle; there was nothing particularly striking about her.
She walked through the gates of the Public Security Bureau alone, her pace steady and her posture composed.
Liu Junnan’s gaze locked onto her.
His sensing ability spread out silently, like invisible tentacles reaching toward that figure.
The ability brushed against her body...
Nothing.
Liu Junnan’s brow furrowed slightly.
No energy fluctuations.
No special energy.
There wasn't even a hint of an unusual aura.
She was just an ordinary person.
A completely ordinary person.
Liu Junnan withdrew his sensing ability and was about to look away...
Suddenly, he froze slightly.
In that instant, he seemed to have caught something—a faint, almost imperceptible sense of abnormality.
The feeling came and went so quickly that he didn't even have time to discern what it was.
Liu Junnan focused, pushing his sensing ability to its limit once more, carefully scanning the back of the figure that had already entered the building.
Still nothing.
No abnormalities.
No fluctuations.
Liu Junnan’s brow furrowed even deeper.
Was that sense of abnormality just an illusion?
Or...
He stood there, staring at the spot where the figure had disappeared, not looking away for a long time.
Time passed minute by minute.
About an hour later, the figure reappeared in his sight.
Su Wan walked out of the Public Security Bureau gates, her pace still steady and her expression still calm.
Liu Junnan sensed again.
Still nothing.
That faint, fleeting sense of abnormality had vanished completely, as if it had never existed.
Liu Junnan withdrew his gaze and turned to leave the street corner.
Inside the black business van, Fang Yingshan and Qin Zhong’an were waiting for him.
“Young Master Liu, how was it?” Qin Zhong’an asked tentatively.
Liu Junnan leaned back against the seat and closed his eyes, remaining silent for a long time.
Then he opened them and spoke flatly: “There are no energy fluctuations on her. It’s not her.”
Fang Yingshan and Qin Zhong’an exchanged a glance, both quietly breathing a sigh of relief.
“Then...” Fang Yingshan asked tentatively, “who should we investigate next?”
Liu Junnan did not answer.
He simply stared at the street scenery flashing past the window, his eyes deep and inscrutable.
What exactly was that sense of abnormality earlier?
He couldn't figure it out.
But there was one thing he could be certain of—
Su Wan was not the mysterious person.
There were no traces of energy fluctuations in her body.
She was just an ordinary person.
An ordinary young lady with bad luck, having fallen from the clouds into the mud.
As for that faint sense of abnormality...
Perhaps it was just his imagination.
Liu Junnan retracted his gaze, no longer thinking about that irrelevant person.
He needed to continue his investigation.
The big fish hiding in Jiangcheng must have left other clues.
The black business van drove away from the Public Security Bureau, disappearing into the flow of traffic.
At the street corner, the figure by the convenience store was long gone.
Everything returned to normal.
Su Wan had no idea that during the ten hours she had let the puppet handle Blue Star affairs for her, a crisis capable of exposing her had been averted by a freak combination of factors.
That mysterious person with the special sensing ability had stood less than ten meters away from the puppet, using his power to scan her body meticulously.
If he had scanned the real Su Wan—
The Su Wan who had a Level 3 Ability Core hidden within her, ready to unleash terrifying mental power at any moment—
What would the result have been?
Liu Junnan would have confirmed on the spot that she was the mysterious person.
Then, what would have awaited her would be endless pursuit, imprisonment, and research...
Or she would have become a tool in the hands of some powerful faction.
But fate happened to play a joke at that moment.
Standing before him was a puppet with no energy fluctuations at all.
A perfect, flawless body double.
Liu Junnan could not sense anything unusual.
He had ruled out Su Wan as a suspect.
The gaze of that entire group had thus shifted away from her.
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