LOVE ME IF YOU DARE [when he comes, close your eyes]

3.3-Fish, fish, fish

After that dinner with Jian Yao, Lee Xun Ran started to get increasingly busy. He was busy enough with his usual work and added onto that was the missing teenagers' case. As the investigation continued, it started to get harder to dig deeper. The first stumbling block was the missing teenagers all came from different areas and the second stumbling block was the time that they went missing were all different as well.

Lee Xun Ran couldn't find any link that these missing teenagers' cases were related and they were abducted by an organisation, he had no way to prove that this organisation exist. His supervisor did pay attention to his findings but without concrete evidence, this case couldn't get the green light to start a formal investigation nor an increase in manpower.

This was why he decided to meet up with one of his seniors for dinner. Both of them went to a nearby hotpot restaurant which was the perfect meal on such a chilly day.

"Honestly, you have too much free time on your hand." His senior told him after Lee Xun Ran told him what he was investigating.

Lee Xun Ran gave him a smile. Well, he did have a little more time on his hand but now that he was involved, he wasn't going to just give up so easily. He lit a cigarette and took a puff of it. "I trust my instinct. My sixth sense is telling me that these few cases are connected and they are done by the same person. Other people wash their hands off it but I can't. I can't let more children disappear again."

"It is not going to be easy," his senior said after a while. "Our country is so big, how are you planning to start? The organisation is smart enough to not leave any traces behind."

"But you have to understand that - "

"There is two ways to crack this case. First, you find an expert. This kind of case isn't something that normal people like us can solve. But nowadays, finding an expert isn't that easy. All of them are just all talk with their deduction but no actions were taken. So this brings us to the second way, you can choose to work undercover but unlike the past, trafficking organisation isn't going to be as easy to infiltrate. One of the cops in the past managed to infiltrate but that was after days and days of disguising himself as a beggar. He eventually cracked the case but he died soon after. "

Lee Xun Ran didn't say anything as he drowned another can of beer. His senior sighed before changing the topic, he had no doubt that Lee Xun Ran was going to continue with his investigation. "I saw a woman with you the other day, is it Jian Yao? She has grown up rather well, getting prettier day by day. It isn't easy to find a suitable partner in our line of work so you better treat her well and propose soon."

"What propose? She is just my sister." Lee Xun Ran said.

As per usual, just like every other day, Jian Yao will send her completed work to the email address in the laptop during afternoon time. The next day, she will get a read receipt but still, Bao Jin Yan never once replied her email nor showed his face.

Well, she believed that no news meant good news.

However, now that she had seen Bao Jin Yan's fishing rod, her fishing addiction started to kick in. It has been quite a while since she last fished. After working continuously for a week, she picked a day with the perfect weather to take a break.

"Hello?" Lee Xun Ran answered his phone. He was currently in disguise, wearing tattered clothing to make himself resembled a beggar. After talking to his senior, he choose to do what that cop had done. It had been a few days but still, there wasn't anything. "Fishing? I am currently in the midst of an investigation."

"Is that so?" Jian Yao asked.

"How about this? I will meet you later on at our secret spot but I can't give you an exact timing now." Lee Xun Ran hung up after he told her that. Looking at her phone, Jian Yao placed it on the table before packing her fishing gears.

She was surprised that Lee Xun Ran still remembered their secret spot. They discovered that spot when they were still kids. The place is rather remote so not many people know about it and that was probably why the fishes are always bountiful in that area.

Since then, Lee Xun Ran coined that place to be their secret spot.

Another reason why such a good place weren't discovered earlier by other people might have to do with the fact that it is located near Bao Jin Yan's house which was rumored to be haunted and making people stayed away from it. Now that she think about it, she realized that she could see this spot clearly from Bao Jin Yan's living room so their secret spot weren't exactly a secret anymore.

Well, that aspect might have changed but the memories that remained were worth reminiscing about.