Chapter 284: Police Room Check Met with a Sharp Tongue and a Hasty Exit

Everyone thought Lin Dongfan was taking Wang Minning to get a room, and Lin Dongfan lived up to expectations—he really went boldly to a hotel, opened a room, and registered with his own ID.

Upon entering the room, Lin Dongfan slipped into the hotel slippers and said, "I'll go take a shower first." His series of moves was smoother than a veteran driver's, without a hint of hesitation.

The inexperienced Wang Minning instantly blushed all over her face from embarrassment.

She lowered her head nervously and whispered, "What… what do you want? We've only just met…" Her voice was as low as a mosquito's buzz, and her heart rate broke records.

Lin Dongfan merely smiled and did not answer her question.

He turned and went into the bathroom.

When he finished his shower and came out, he saw Wang Minning already lying on the bed, playing with her phone.

Lin Dongfan asked, "Aren't you going to shower?"

"I don't want to…" she said, not even knowing what she didn't want, curling up like a shy snail and hiding under the covers.

Almost at the same moment, a knocking sounded outside.

The pattern of two light knocks followed by a heavy one immediately identified the visitor as bodyguard Xie Xiaofeng.

Lin Dongdan asked through the door, "What's up?"

"The anti-vice squad is already downstairs," Xie Xiaofeng whispered.

Lin Dongfan didn't reply, turned his head to glance at Wang Minning curled up under the covers, couldn't help but smile faintly—this silly girl really is a pawn being used by someone.

In just five seconds, Lin Dongfan had dressed and lit a cigarette.

He opened the door and waited in silence.

Wang Minning suddenly poked her head out from under the covers, saw Lin Dongfan already dressed, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "You… what's going on?"

"Someone's trying to mess with me," Lin Dongfan said with a laugh.

Wang Minning clearly misunderstood Lin Dongfan's meaning, and blushed even more: "Obviously it's you who wants that… and yet you're saying I…"

"I'm not saying you want to mess with me."

"Is there someone else in the room?"

Wang Minning instinctively glanced around the room, and when she saw three police officers enter, she jumped again, dazed and barely able to grasp the situation.

The leading officer was likewise a bit surprised.

The scene before him was completely different from what he had imagined.

He glanced at Wang Minning lying on the bed, then at Lin Dongfan, fully clothed and smoking in front of him, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

Lin Dongfan smiled and asked, "Officer, are you perhaps a bit disappointed?"

"!!!" The lead officer embarrassedly forced a smile: "Section Chief Lin, we just received a report that someone was engaging in prostitution here; I didn't know it was you, it's a misunderstanding…"

"You say who's selling sex?!"

Wang Minning, who had been a little embarrassed, suddenly flung off the covers in anger and got out of bed.

The lead officer hurriedly explained, "It's a misunderstanding…"

"What a misunderstanding! How could this five‑star hotel be compared to a dirty market's brothel? Not to mention the sandalwood fragrance filling the room—nothing like the powdery, foul air of such places—and just looking at my chiffon dress!" She swept her skirt aside and coldly questioned the officers: "Could it possibly have even a speck of dirt? I'd like to trouble you all to open your eyes wide and see whether you usually mistake your police uniforms for dog skin!"

"!!!"

The lead officer broke out in a cold sweat, as if he'd walked onto the wrong set, standing there dazed.

Is this the Grand View Garden from Dream of the Red Chamber, or a twenty‑first‑century five‑star hotel? Why is there a Lin Daiyu who thinks highly of herself and talks back without using dirty words?

The lead officer, steeling himself, explained: "Miss, please speak politely. I've already said it's a misunderstanding. Regardless of whether you're out selling yourself, we believe Section Chief Lin isn't a patron."

"What a 'misunderstanding'—you say it so smoothly." Wang Minning chuckled lightly: "I originally thought the police eradicate violence and promote goodness, never imagining they'd treat 'misunderstanding' like a mother, carrying it on their lips wherever they go—you're truly filial! Could it be your father never told you that this 'mother' isn't your real mother?"

"!!!"

The lead officer wiped a cold sweat, said nothing more, lest he end up being talked back to into some unknown wild species.

I've lived this long and never seen such a poisonous tongue.

The lead officer turned to Lin Dongfan and pleaded: "Section Chief Lin, tell this beauty to reel in her powers—we were wrong, isn't that enough? This really is a misunderstanding."

"Who called the police?" Lin Dongfan asked.

The lead officer looked embarrassed: "Um… it was transferred from the dispatch center; I'm not entirely sure either—we just came to have a look…"

"Let's go." Lin Dongfan waved his hand.

The lead officer hastily saluted: "Thank you, Section Chief Lin, for your understanding."

As they turned to withdraw, the officers glanced once more at the grand‑aunt‑level Wang Minning, puzzled as to how someone who looks harmless could possess such sharp retorts.

However, what truly frightened the officers was not Wang Minning's venomous mouth.

but the smiling Lin Dongfan.

After entering the elevator, the lead officer wiped another cold sweat and, still shaken, told his partner: "I guess someone's trying to mess with Section Chief Lin; we almost got used as a gun, lucky…"

"Section Chief Lin and that woman really didn't do anything, did they?" one officer wondered.

The lead officer slapped him on the head: "What nonsense are you spouting? You've got no filter! Even Bureau Chief Xu has to give Section Chief Lin some face—if you don't want to die, keep your mouth shut."

The nearby junior officers, terrified into silence, dared not speculate further.

Inside the hotel room.

Lin Dongfan looked at Wang Minning with a smile: "Do you usually talk back to everyone you meet?"

"They insulted me like that—can't I talk back? That makes no sense." Wang Minning then puzzledly asked Lin Dongfan: "Earlier you said someone's trying to mess with you—do you mean someone wants to harm you?"

"Yes." Lin Dongfan replied.

Wang Minning wore a curious expression: "What kind of person would dare so much?"

"You'll find out soon—come on, I'll take you to see the worldly drama." Saying that, Lin Dongfan picked up the watch lying on the table and put it on his wrist.

Wang Minning hesitated again: "You… don't you want to rest?"

"Rest?"

That word is used so damn implicitly.

Lin Dongfan thought, "I'm a vigorous young man, not a Liu Xiaohui who can sit with a woman without being disturbed—how could I not want to rest?"

But the season is wrong now.

Lin Dongfan replied: "Resting in broad daylight, I'm afraid people will say I'm not doing my proper job. After all, we're people with ideals and ambitions; getting the right work done comes first. Let's go."

"Where are you taking me?"

"You'll know when we get there."

Lin Dongfan pulled Wang Minlei, next stop, straight to Nanzhou City Renmin Yiyuan.

Launch a full-scale operation to win over the enemy.

Lin Dongfan first took Wang Minlei to the martyrs' hill of Qingzhu Village; after the forest fire on 9·28 last year, eleven solitary graves appeared on the hill.

Lin Dongfan offered incense to each grave one by one.

And he introduced to Wang Minlei: "These people all died in that big fire on Qingzhu Ridge, eleven lives. The one who finally took the blame was a ninety-year-old old man."

!!!

Faced with these solitary graves, Wang Minlei's emotions became extremely complicated; for a moment she didn't know what to say.

She could only silently offer incense.

She performed a devout memorial service.