Wooing my Bodyguard Wife

Captain Mu knew from the way Young Master Tianwei fell silent that their suspect was telling the truth. It was unfortunate that he and his family ended up butting heads with Sun Tianwei in a bid to retain their home. It was the equivalent of using a chisel to tear down a castle.

But with this information, Captain Mu can continue his train of questioning.

“In that case, how did you end up in this… Dimitri’s organisation?” Captain Mu asked. “I’m sure it wasn’t because you saw a flyer that told you to join if you wanted revenge.”

“Of course not,” Li Fan scoffed, even as his guards jostled him roughly for his cheek. “It was Boss that found me.”

“Through?” At Li Fan’s mulishly confused look, Captain Mu elaborated. “How did he contact you?”

Li Fan opened his mouth to answer, then he thought about it and closed it.

“Answer!” Tianwei ordered, but Li Fan only glared at him. After he was questioned by these two, he remembered the reason for his grudge against the Sun family. He wanted to bring Xiumin’s murderer to justice, but he also didn’t want to give Sun Tianwei any more information that would cripple his Boss’ network.

His Boss had taken him in when he was stuck in a bad crowd, wasting his life as he drank himself to a stupor and picked fights with anything that crossed his path. If his boss had not offered a helping hand in time, he would have been knifed to death in a dark alley before he was even 18!

“I refuse to answer you,” Li Fan said, and winced at the fingers digging into his flesh. He wheezed in pain.

“You seem to be labouring under the impression that you can make demands.” Tianwei said imperiously, staring down at him as though Li Fan was something smelly he found stuck at the bottom of his shoe. “Might I remind you of your circumstances?”

Li Fan’s mouth stayed in a stubborn firm line. Sun Tianwei’s words just reminded him about how much he hated them and their high-handedness!

Sun Jingwei was clearly the anomaly in the family.

“I’m not talking to you,” Li Fan protested, glaring at Sun Tianwei then at Captain Mu, as though daring them to beat him up. “I’ll only talk to Sun Jingwei and his wife.”

“Tough luck,” Captain Mu replied evenly. “Sun Jingwei and his wife are back home, most likely fucking each other, so you’re stuck with us.”

“Then I won’t say anything more!” Li Fan declared hotly. “The both of you will not care about bringing Xiumin’s murder to justice anyway.”

Tianwei narrowed his eyes. He hated it when people refused to obey him and when things refused to go according to plan.

“Fine, be that way,” Tianwei growled out. “Captain Mu, lock this man up – preferably in the prison cell. Maybe he’ll be more inclined to talk if there’s another attempt at his life. Besides, we have another two people to interrogate. Perhaps they’ll be more forthcoming with information.”

“Yes, Young Master Sun,” Captain Mu promised.

“All of you are scum!” Li Fan yelled out as he was dragged away, and he had to be knocked out with a sharp blow to the back of his head so that he would keep quiet.

Unbeknownst to him, Captain Mu had no intention of throwing him back with the wolves and foxes in the police force. Instead, he was going to stick this man – boy really –  into a fake prison cell that would make him think that he was back at the station.

He wasn’t going to kill off a perfectly good source of information! A good scare would definitely loosen his lips and remove whatever stubborn pride he had left.

Of course, if it failed, they could always bring in Jingwei and his wife, Captain Mu mused. They saved his life – Li Fan would talk to them, if not him.

“Call me the moment the two officials are awake. I want to interrogate them too.” Tianwei ordered as he seethed, watching the empty space where that man used to be.

“Yes Sir,” Captain Mu replied.

Tianwei gnashed his teeth and whirled around, intent on getting to the bottom of things. Somewhere in China was an organisation filled with people that Tianwei and his family had ruined in one way or another, and it didn’t take a genius to know that was trouble just waiting to explode!

“Young Master Sun, would you be going back to see your father now?” Captain Mu asked.

“No. There’s no point anyway,” Tianwei said heartlessly. “He’s not awake, and will not be awake anytime soon. I’ll go back to the company first to resolve things. You stay here with my father and the criminals. Inform me when they are available for interrogation.”

“Yes sir,” Captain Mu said. He noticed that Tianwei did not ask to be informed when his father woke up. “I’ll send two bodyguards with you then, like I did for your brother. Safe travels.”

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Meanwhile, a woman with long blonde hair watched the video of Sun Jingwei’s press conference with badly concealed jealousy. She kept replaying the shrug of his shoulders in his suit, and the confident gait he had when walking towards that woman, the bane of her existence.

How dare he look this handsome! How dare he become this… this capable hunk of a man? He behaved like a CEO, his professionalism, competence and good humour were all on display. If she had known he could become something like this in future, she would never have let him slip through her grasp.

Curse Sun Jingwei and his hidden depths! Why couldn’t he display this kind of behaviour from the very beginning! He wasn’t like this at all during their courtship!

Zhou Yu gnashed her teeth at the thought that Sun Jingwei was capable of all this deep down, but he never bothered to do it for her. How dare he?! Wasn’t she supposed to be the love of his life?

If Sun Jingwei had displayed such CEO-like behaviour, she would never have bothered to chase after Wang Kuan and offend both sets of parents! She wouldn’t have had affairs either! It was all his fault that Wang Kuan didn’t want anything to do with her!

It never crossed her mind to question why Sun Jingwei was willing to change this much for a woman. The main point was that Sun Jingwei had changed for the better, he had moved on to look at a new woman with so much love that her insides were curdled with jealousy.

“What’s so special about her?” Zhou Yu screamed to herself. The video focused on his handsome face and loving eyes as he gazed at his new partner, and she flung her phone directly on the floor in her rage.

Her maid flinched at the sound of the sharp crack of plastic hitting marble.

“Lady Zhou, do you want to eat something?” Her maid, Qiu Ju, timidly asked when the Young Miss made no mention of picking up her phone.

She was the newest staff member added to the mansion and hence was saddled with the unfortunate task of handling Lady Zhou Yu and her infamous temper. Zhou Yu opened one eye to glare at her, but Qiu Ju ploughed on.

“M-maybe it will make you feel better. You haven’t e-eaten since this morning, it’s bad to starve – “

“Shut up!” Zhou Yu yelled in reply, furious that a mere maid had the nerve to presume she wanted to listen to her opinion. She glared at her maid for daring to speak up. Qiu Ju hastily looked down at the floor, hoping that the Young Miss wouldn’t strike her.

It was tiring to hide her bruises with makeup, and she had already been hit twice today alone.

Something had pissed off the Young Miss tremendously since she visited Lady Su Yan’s boutique. Qiu Ju could only feel pity for whoever earned her ire. The Young Miss would spare no expense to destroy her!

“Now where is that blasted PI I hired? What’s taking him so long?” She demanded, and her maid could only stutter a weak response, hoping to not anger her further.

If Qiu Ju didn’t need the job (and if she was a whole continent away), she would have yelled at Zhou Yu to be patient and to stop acting like a brat. But all her courage had been sapped away even in such a short time by Zhou Yu’s verbal and emotional abuse.

Still, Lady Zhou Yu was still expecting a reply. She hated it when she got no response. Qiu Ju had learnt this the hard way and got hot tea sprayed at her for ‘pretending to be a mute’.

“It h-has only been a f-few hours…”

“SO? I paid him good money to get answers quickly and I want them now!”

At that very moment, Zhou Yu’s phone began to buzz from the floor.