Chapter 424: The Villain is Always Up to Mischief

"What if you can't do it?" Shi Youxuan had wanted to agree immediately, but seeing his confident expression, she changed her mind on the spot.

Sheng Hanyu: "If I can't do it, you won't have to wash the dishes for a month."

Shi Youxuan:...

It sounded reasonable enough, but Shi Youxuan did not agree.

"No, if you don't do it, you have to wash the dishes for two months."

A typical unequal contract, but it didn't matter; Sheng Hanyu accepted it willingly.

He agreed: "Fine, we'll do it as you say."

Shi Ran joined in the fun—she would keep time!

The moment the second hand was pressed, Sheng Hanyu's aura fully unfolded; he demanded the manager describe the entire process of discovering the wedding dress was missing within three minutes, and it had to be detailed.

He demanded both time control and detail.

The manager was immediately nervous, describing it stammeringly: "Originally, I saw the Madam was almost done with her makeup, so I let, let the person in charge of the clothing go to the safe to get the wedding dress."

"The safe, the dress was still in the cabinet, but when it was taken out, it was gone—no, let me restate that."

"It was that the box was perfectly fine in the safe, but the wedding dress was not in the box."

There were no signs of the safe having been pried open.

The surveillance showed all the studio staff were working normally, with no abnormalities, including the person in charge of the clothing.

The surveillance was 360 degrees, 24 hours a day, with no blind spots!

There hadn't been any malfunctions either; could the wedding dress have flown away on its own?

And flown away while invisible, at that.

Sheng Hanyu asked: "When was this wedding dress last taken out?"

The manager: "The last time it was taken out was when the Madam tried it on."

Because this "Town Treasure" had extremely strict requirements for a customer's figure, there weren't two people who could standardly fit into it; since Shi Youxuan tried it on last time, no one else had been qualified, so it had been lying in the safe the whole time.

Shi Youxuan also felt it was strange; where could the wedding dress have gone?

Just now, so many people had searched for nearly an hour and hadn't found it; they had already turned over every corner of the studio, and it wasn't there.

The studio's security measures were quite good, with both surveillance and a safe, and no abnormalities were found; could Sheng Hanyu really find the wedding dress in ten minutes?

She didn't believe it in the slightest.

Shi Ran reminded: "Three minutes have passed now, there are seven minutes left!"

Sheng Hanyu patted his daughter's head, chiding: "Little smarty-pants, I don't need you to remind me."

He continued to ask the manager: "Does the wedding dress need to be cleaned or maintained after being tried on? Or is it put away directly?"

The manager replied: "It must be cleaned before it can be put away; it cannot be put away directly."

The cleaning of this kind of wedding dress was different from ordinary ones; although it was only taken out for Shi Youxuan to try on, the staff still wore brand-new white gloves to help throughout the process, and cleaning the wedding dress required a professional a full day's time.

After everything was handled properly, it still had to be carefully placed in the box, one piece at a time, before it could be put into the safe.

Shi Youxuan listened as if it were a story; she really didn't know it was so complicated?

Originally, she had felt it was a pity that the studio manager only rented the wedding dress and wouldn't sell it.

Now she felt it wasn't a pity at all; one couldn't afford to maintain such a wedding dress.

Precisely because every procedure was so strict, there shouldn't have been any possibility of it being stolen, yet the wedding dress had vanished into thin air.

"Let's go, we're going to retrieve the wedding dress."

Sheng Hanyu stood up and walked outside, followed by a crowd of people!

He arrived at the entrance of the dry cleaner's across the street—and kicked the door open with a "Bang!"

Wang Cuihua was holding a large box and preparing to leave through the back door, but before she could get out, she was caught red-handed.

She panicked, and the box in her hands dropped to the ground, revealing the wedding dress inside!

The people exploded instantly.

"Good for you, you thief! All that time you spent calling us sisters was fake; it was all just to fool us..."

"She just wanted to steal things, beat her to death!"

"Hit her."

The person in charge of the clothing was usually the closest to Wang Cuihua.

She was the first to rush up and start hitting, punching and kicking.

She was so angry she could die; their relationship was usually very good, and she never imagined she would actually steal the wedding dress.

If it hadn't been found, losing her job would have been a small matter, but she likely would have faced a lawsuit; if she were made to pay for it, the money she earned in a lifetime might not even be enough...

This person had thought of many possibilities, but never that she would be the one to steal it.

The studio colleagues also stepped forward to help, beating her together!

There were both public grievances and private grudges.

Wang Cuihua was a snob who fawned over those in the studio who had power and influence.

When apprentices brought wedding dresses to be washed, she would casually order them to do free labor for her.

If an apprentice was unconvinced or unwilling, she would go to the manager to slander them and give them Spring Shoes.

Now that she was caught stealing, several people she had bullied all came up to help, each giving her a kick, sending Wang Cuihua into howls of pain.

"Ouch, it hurts! What right do you have to hit me?"

"There's no justice! A whole crowd of people coming to rob me; I'm going to call the police..."

Fang Mingxing had been doing his homework at the table, but he was so frightened by the people rushing in that he shrank under the table, trembling.

But when several people started beating his mother together, he rushed out from under the table and threw himself onto Wang Cuihua to protect her, not letting everyone hit his mother.

With the child shielding her, everyone was a kind-hearted person, so even if they were angry, they wouldn't lay a hand on the child.

Under the protection of her son, Wang Cuihua stopped being beaten, but immediately started accusing others first.

"Son, call the police."

"Pah! You lot ganged up on me, ouch, I can't take it anymore, my heart condition is acting up..."

When it comes to acting like a shrew.

If Wang Cuihua claims second place, then no one dares to claim first!

She insisted that the people from the photo studio had come to her house to rob her, not caring that a tiny dry cleaner's shop had nothing worth robbing.

Then she sprawled on the ground and refused to get up.

She wailed and shrieked that she "couldn't go on living" and "needed to be sent to the hospital," straight to the emergency room!

Shi Youxuan hugged her daughter and went out; although the wedding dress was found, she had no intention of continuing the photo shoot.

The wedding dress had been in that woman's hands for many days; she might have even tried it on.

Shi Youxuan did not want to wear a wedding dress that she had tried on; it was disgusting!

Stealing someone's things and then calling the police—Shi Youxuan couldn't be bothered to deal with such a person.

It seems she was too soft-hearted last time, and the lesson wasn't profound enough, which is why this incident happened.

Shi Youxuan was one hundred percent certain that Wang Cuihua had come specifically for her.

She returned to the photo studio to remove her makeup, and the manager also returned with the staff.

The manager thanked Sheng Hanyu profusely and offered to give them a discount!

Whether there was a discount or not, Sheng Hanyu really didn't care.

But that wedding dress would not be used; no matter how beautiful it was, he didn't want it.

The manager expressed his understanding and, to show his gratitude, offered to introduce Sheng Hanyu to a famous wedding dress designer.

This set had come from the hands of a master.

After such a commotion, the shoot couldn't continue today, so the family of three left the photo studio.

The manager led the employees to see them to their car before heading back.

Compared to before, their attitude this time had more warmth and sincerity, and less polite smiling and habitual commercial calculation.

As the car drove off, Shi Youxuan asked impatiently, "Tell me, tell me, how did you know the wedding dress was in that woman's hands?"

"If I said I calculated it with my fingers, would you believe me?" Sheng Hanyu said.

Shi Youxuan:...

"I don't believe it; stop using the tricks you use to fool others on me."

Sheng Hanyu replied almost without thinking, "I never fool others."

After saying this, he fell silent himself.

That wasn't right; that wasn't what he meant to express!

Could someone explain this to him?