Ding ding ding.
The doorbell kept ringing, causing the sound-activated lights in the corridor to remain brightly lit.
"Who is it?"
After a while, a woman's cautious voice came from behind the door.
"Sister Yan, it's me, Xiao Chen."
Lin Chen and his father stood at the door.
"What do you want at this hour?" The woman was clearly on her guard, observing the outside through the peephole without immediately opening the door.
"My brother left something behind. I guess it might be for you."
"Your brother..."
After a moment of hesitation, the door finally opened.
"What did your brother leave behind?"
The woman poked half her face out.
She was quite unremarkable and ordinary, the kind that would get lost in a crowd.
She noticed two strange people standing beside Lin Chen and his father, and immediately looked puzzled.
No.
The strange one was mainly the chubby man dressed like a monk.
"Do you recognize this?"
Lin Chen took out the sachet and fixed his gaze on the woman.
The woman's expression changed drastically with just one glance at the sachet, and she hurriedly tried to close the door.
But the door was jammed.
She looked down and saw that a foot was caught in the doorway.
"Miss Wu, we mean no harm; we just want to get to the bottom of the truth," Lu Fei said as he stepped forward, placing his hand on the edge of the door.
With just a little force, he could have pulled the door open and rushed into the room, but he did not do so.
It would be inappropriate, as she was a woman living alone.
Moreover, her involvement in Lin Han's death was merely their speculation.
"What do you want?" Wu Liyan bit her lip, her expression full of wariness.
"Is this sachet from you?"
Lu Fei picked up the sachet, embroidered with Lin Han's name, from Lin Chen's hand.
The Lin family father and son stared intently at her.
Wu Liyan avoided everyone's gaze, lowering her head and remaining silent for a long time without answering.
Father Lin couldn't bear it any longer. He rushed forward, yanked the door open, and loudly demanded, "Was it you who killed my son? Was it you?"
Wu Liyan was frightened and stepped back in horror.
"Layman Lin, please calm down." Ku Deng placed his thick palm on the agitated Father Lin and gently pulled him back, "Leave it to Manager Lu; he will get to the bottom of this."
"I don't know! I know nothing!" Wu Liyan waved her hands in panic, seemingly terrified.
"Miss Wu, the herbs in this sachet are the same as the dried grass hanging at your doorway," Lu Fei said with a sharp gaze, "Lin Han died a terrible death. Aren't you afraid he will come back for you?"
Wu Liyan was suddenly stunned, her pupils quivering.
"Didn't he die from overwork?"
"How long are you going to keep up this act?" Lu Fei's expression turned cold.
Father Lin didn't speak, but his eyes were as if they could devour a person.
"But I really didn't harm him... I admit, I did give him the sachet. But I only... I only hoped..." Wu Liyan stammered, looking somewhat embarrassed.
"That's called the Reunion Grass! I bought it online. It was said that if you split the grass into two parts, give one part to your crush and hang the other part at your door, you can win their affection..."
"I did have ulterior motives. I saw that he was handsome and the boss of the company... I was about to succeed, why would I harm him..."
"There are such things on the internet?" Lu Fei narrowed his eyes.
"I have the purchase record, check it if you don't believe me!" Wu Liyan, in a hurry, pulled out her phone and found the purchase record.
Lu Fei took a look.
The Reunion Grass, a plant with two stems, is supposed to make the opposite sex unable to resist you and follow your every command. As long as they see you, they will have intense physical urges.
The description was rather explicit, no wonder Wu Liyan was initially reluctant to admit it.
This thing has quite a high sales volume. Its effects seem a bit like a lowly and unethical practice, something like the Reunion Technique?
This dark art is a bit low, but it indeed doesn't take lives.
"Even so, it doesn't prove your innocence. Who knows if you added something to it?" Lu Fei was half believing and half doubting.
Lin Han had mentioned the word 'revenge' before.
It cannot be ruled out that Wu Liyan might have sought revenge due to the failure of her plan.
"Add what?" Wu Liyan's eyes were full of confusion, her expression truly innocent, "I was afraid he wouldn't accept it in person, so I secretly put the sachet on his desk when no one was around. Later, I saw him wearing the sachet, and I thought I had succeeded..."
"Maybe someone else tampered with the sachet!"
"President Lin is so handsome, all the girls in the company like him. I just wanted to make the first move..."
Wu Liyan was trying her best to prove her innocence.
"You sent the sachet, and it's not like someone else did. This sachet contains..." Lin Chen gritted his teeth, feeling a chill down his spine as he thought of his brother covered in nails.
"The Love Grass would only make him infatuated with me, it wouldn't harm him!" Wu Liyan denied it repeatedly.
"As a girl, do you have any shame doing such a thing?"
Lu Fei observed her discreetly and felt that the possibility of her lying was very small. Perhaps, just as she said, someone else had tampered with the sachet.
"There is a way to prove your innocence." Lu Fei shook the sachet. "Do you dare to put your fingernails inside it?"
"It's just fingernails, what's there to be afraid of?"
Wu Liyan immediately fetched a nail clipper, cut her nails, and, in front of everyone, put them into the sachet.
It seems that it really wasn't her.
If she knew that the sachet could curse someone, she definitely wouldn't have dared to do this.
Lu Fei, maintaining a calm demeanor, asked again, "How many girls are there in your company?"
"More than a dozen."
"So many, and they all like him?" Lu Fei widened his eyes.
It seems that having good looks is not necessarily a good thing.
"The company produces products for women, and there are many female employees; I know of at least seven or eight. General Manager Lin is really popular among the girls," Wu Liyan said with a bitter expression.
She was the least noticeable one, otherwise she wouldn't have resorted to such a risky and unconventional method.
Lu Fei slightly frowned.
It would be too troublesome to investigate each person one by one; it seems they need to find another way.
"You'd better be telling the truth, or else, Lin Han will come looking for you sooner or later."
After leaving these words, Lu Fei left with the others.
Once they were gone.
Wu Liyan hastily took down the love grass hanging at the door and burned it completely in the stove.
Downstairs.
"Even if I have to search one by one, I will find the person who harmed my son!" Lin's father clenched his fist resolutely.
"Searching one by one is not practical and too slow. Lin Han is enduring torture every day, and his resentment is growing. Over time, it might harm our family."
Lu Fei thought for a moment and looked at Lin Chen.
"Is your brother's phone still with you?"
"Yes, we have been keeping it."
"Log in with his phone and post a message in the company group. Say that he has been dreaming of home every night, claiming he was killed by someone, and asked you to find a sachet in the office. As long as you find the sachet, you'll know who harmed him."
"Wouldn't that completely expose us?" Lin Chen was surprised, "If the person who harmed my brother sees the message, they would definitely destroy the evidence."
"Exactly, we want him to destroy the evidence." Lu Fei smiled faintly.
Sting operation?
Lin Chen hesitated for a moment, then understood and quickly went home to send a few messages using his brother's phone.
An account of a deceased person suddenly sent a message in the middle of the night.
It's quite eerie to think about it.
A guilty person would surely go to Lin Han's office.
That night.
Lu Fei, Ku Deng, and the Lin father and son were waiting in the office, like hunters lying in wait for their prey.
When it was still dark, someone really did show up.
The person who came in surprised everyone.
It wasn't any of the girls from the company.
It was a man.