THE FAKE DAUGHTER BECAME THE FAVORITE

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Chapter 205: Is It a Coincidence?

After the police stated their identities, the patrolman immediately invited them in.

However, after the police exchanged only a couple of sentences with everyone, the sound of a car sounded up outside once again.

The patrolman was standing right by the window; hearing the commotion, he immediately pulled open the curtain and cast a glance outside.

After seeing the situation outside clearly, he looked at the two police officers in the room in astonishment:

"Strange, how come another police car arrived?! You two couldn't be imposter cops, right?"

Hearing him say this, Wen Yan and Shen Jingchuan also became vigilant.

However, one of the police officers in the room quickly offered an explanation.

He looked at Wen Yan "You are Wen Yan, right? Your assistant reported to the police saying you were taken away. The ones arriving outside right now should be our colleagues from another sub-bureau; when assisting in the joint investigation, our sub-bureau had already notified them."

Wen Yan nodded: "Yes, I am. Then could I trouble you to have your colleagues notify my assistant? My phone was left behind at the set, and I can't remember her number—I'm afraid they'll worry about me."

"No problem at all with this. However, next we may need to ask the four of you to return to the sub-bureau to cooperate with the investigation. By the way, there is one more thing to tell you: on our way here, we encountered the suspicious vehicle you described in the emergency call and have already requested the traffic police department to assist in intercepting it. Just received notice, those two people have already been brought under control."

"That's really wonderful!" Wen Yan stepped forward on her own initiative and held the police officer's hand. "Thank you, comrade! Your efficiency is truly too high—once I get back, I'll definitely send you guys a silk banner!"

The police officer couldn't help chuckling: "Thank you for the praise, but Ms. Wen, you are truly very optimistic. Still, this is good, it won't leave psychological trauma. No wonder my daughter likes you so much; she watched your variety show and said among so many guests, her favorite was you."

"Really? Thank you so much! Police Uncle, you look even younger than my dad—your daughter shouldn't be very old, right?"

Wen Yan hadn't expected the police officer's daughter to happen to be her fan by such a coincidence; in an instant, she felt the police officer was even more amiable than before.

Shen Jingchuan, left out on the side: "……" This girl, he didn't know she was such a social butterfly, actually starting to chat casually with the police after reporting a case.

And after another group of police came in to get a sense of the situation, the four people including Wen Yan got into the car heading back to the public security bureau.

Inside the police car, Wen Yan couldn't help lamenting: "This is the first time in my life riding in a police car, didn't expect it to actually be under such circumstances."

Shen Jingchuan caught the briskness in her tone, but seeing how even her pair of eyes looking out the window were shining, he couldn't help feeling amused.

"What are you looking at? Silly or what—is watching the scenery outside while sitting in a police car any different from watching the scenery while sitting in a regular car usually?"

"Of course! Sitting in a police car to look outside after surviving a disaster instantly makes one feel the country is prosperous and the people are at peace. Right now, looking at you, I see a face of national peace and prosperity too."

Shen Jingchuan touched his chin: "Sounds like you're praising me, but how come I feel like after this phrase is used on me, I instantly become not handsome anymore?"

The police uncle in front: "You're still very handsome. When my daughter watched your variety show, she kept saying you were a big handsome guy."

Shen Jingchuan—mm, must arrange a whole room of silk banners for this police uncle, otherwise it wouldn't do justice to his daughter's honest truth.

Just thinking about it, a fluffy head suddenly landed on his shoulder, it was Wen Yan leaning over.

"I'm sleepy, want to sleep for a bit. Call me when we arrive."

Shen Jingchuan uttered an "mm" and said softly: "Sleep, relax."

"Okay." Wen Yan shifted her body with eyes closed, and in a short while found the most comfortable posture.

Very soon, her breathing became long and even as she fell asleep. Shen Jingchuan looked down at her for a good while, slowly tightening his fist.

The lights in the police station seemed exceptionally bright, making the disfigured man's face appear even more terrifying.

When he entered, a drunk man gesticulating wildly as he walked out accidentally bumped into him, knocking off his hat; upon seeing the half face above his mask, he was almost scared out of his wits.

Even several police officers were caught off guard and startled for a moment.

However, Wen Yan was no longer that afraid of his appearance now. He was very tall and built; when looking at his back, Wen Yan would even feel an inexplicable sense of security.

Bending over to pick up the hat that fell on the ground, Wen Yan smiled and returned the item to him.

"Here. Just now I didn't get a chance to properly say thank you to you. You saved us—truly so grateful."

As she spoke, Wen Yan pulled Shen Jingchuan over, telling him to bow together with her to the man.

Yet the man never met Wen Yan's eyes from start to finish, only uttering a faint word of thanks.

Forced to bow to someone else, Shen Jingchuan felt very uncomfortable. Bending down, he lowered his voice into Wen Yan's ear:

"Next time before doing this kind of action, can you discuss it with me first? I've never done this before."

Wen Yan smiled at him: "There's a first time for everything!"

At this moment, the patrolman also came over to join the fun: "There's me too! I'm your savior as well—you guys should thank me properly too. To help lead those two criminals out for you, I risked my life as well!"

"Right, right, right, there's you too! Thank you so much!"

While speaking, Wen Yan gave the patrolman another bow.

But this time, no matter what, Shen Jingchuan was unwilling to bow to the patrolman again. This person didn't look very upright.

However, he had indeed saved them, so saying a word of thanks was still manageable. Later, he'd offer some financial aid, and there'd be no need to interact in the future.

Wen Yan and Shen Jingchuan's attitudes were starkly different. Knowing Shen Jingchuan wasn't easy to get along with, the patrolman naturally wouldn't press his warm face against a cold bottom.

He chose to lean over to Wen Yan's side to talk.

"What's the relationship between you two? Feels like he listens to you quite a bit."

Wen Yan: "……Uncle, the question is a bit out of line. I don't even know how to answer you, so I won't answer."

The patrolman clicked his tongue: "Isn't that equivalent to saying nothing?"

"…" Shen Jingchuan gave the patrolman a glare, his temper instantly rising.

He crossed over in one step and blocked between the patrolman and Wen Yan: "Already told you it's out of line, why are you still asking? No sense of boundaries at all! Are we very familiar? ……Let's go, don't mind him."

Shen Jingchuan pulled Wen Yan forward, while the patrolman stared at the wound on Wen Yan's lower back.

The police officer walking behind also felt the patrolman lacked a sense of propriety, reaching out to pat him on the shoulder.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and walk—the earlier it finishes, the earlier you can go back to rest."

"Sigh!" The patrolman immediately nodded. "Alright, alright, walking, walking."

The few were led into a place resembling a conference room.

During the police interrogation, Wen Yan learned the names of the patrolman and the disfigured man.

Turns out what the patrolman said earlier in his little sheet-iron shed was true.

It was truly a coincidence that his surname was also Wen; his name was Wen Chengcai.

As for the disfigured man, rather than calling it a name, it was more like a codename.

He said everyone called him Third Brother.

He didn't reveal even a single surname.

What was even stranger was that after hearing this form of address, the police actually didn't press further either.

In Wen Yan's impression, even if the police saw a male sitting opposite, they would still solemnly ask for gender and demand the other party answer seriously and sternly.

However, thinking about it carefully, that seemed to be the process during an interrogation; right now, at most, it was just a questioning session.

After explaining the cause, course of events, and suspected targets clearly, the police had the four go separately to identify the two captured criminals.

The first to go in was Wen Yan, then Shen Jingchuan.

While standing outside waiting for Shen Jingchuan, Wen Yan saw that Third Brother talking with a police officer in uniform with graying hair, shaking hands; they appeared to be old acquaintances.

Although Wen Yan didn't know that police officer, she recognized the epaulets on his police uniform—must be a bureau chief, station chief, or something similar.

Seeing him treat Third Brother quite politely, could Third Brother's identity be out of the ordinary?

However, Wen Yan didn't plan to probe deeper either; whatever identity background that Third Brother had was unrelated to her.

In a short while, Shen Jingchuan came out, and Wen Yan exchanged a couple of words with him.

When she looked back in that direction after finishing speaking, she found Third Brother and the police officer were both gone.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at?" Shen Jingchuan asked Wen Yan.

"Nothing." Wen Yan shook her head. "After all this tossing around, I'm suddenly so hungry. How about you? Hungry or not?"

"I'm alright—once we go out in a bit, I'll take you to eat something good."

"In such cold weather, are there still shops open 24 hours?"

"Then let's go home to eat; I'll cook personally to show off my skills to you."

"Then what dishes do you know how to make? Can I order?"

"No!"

"Why?"

"Because, your brother only knows one dish."

"……" Wen Yan furrowed her brows. "It couldn't be cooking instant noodles, right?"

"Alright, two dishes—there's also egg fried rice."

"OK, I believe there are still food stalls operating at this hour."

Just as the two were walking out, Wen Yan suddenly saw a familiar face.

She hurriedly waved at the other party.

"He Xing! Darling, I'm over here!"

"Ah! Yan'yan!! Sobbing, finally got to see you!" The moment she saw Wen Yan, He Xing sprinted over quickly.

She tightly wrapped Wen Yan in a hug: "Are you okay? Sobbing, as long as you returned safely, that's all that matters! I was really scared to death! It's all my fault, all my fault—I should have followed you without leaving a single step back then, sobbing."

"Alright, alright," Wen Yan hurriedly comforted He Xing. "This matter has nothing to do with you—you did nothing wrong at all, don't self-blame! Look, am I not perfectly fine right now?"

"Heavens have eyes! Thank goodness you're fine!"

"Of course!" She was someone who could transmigrate into a book and live again after dying, after all—this luck value was definitely off the charts.

"Look at you, eyes swollen from crying—how come there's a bump on your head too?"

"When I got my phone and went back to look for you, I was knocked out by them too! As soon as I woke up, I found a big bump knocked on my head."

"Bastards! But rest assured, the police have already caught their accomplices—not a single one of these people will escape."

"Sobbing, Yan'yan, you're so good—at a time like this you're still comforting me. Right, the director came over with me too, as well as Teacher Shen."

"Teacher Shen?" Looking past He Xing's shoulder toward the front, sure enough, Shen Jinghe and the director were briskly walking toward her direction.

Shen Jingchuan also saw Shen Jinghe.

He raised an eyebrow: "Why did you come too?"

"I was about to ask you—what's up with the filth on your clothes? When did you arrive?"

"This is a long story. Very coincidental—anyway, I am one of the victims too."

In front of the director and He Xing, Shen Jinghe didn't ask further either.

He looked at Wen Yan, letting out a sigh of relief: "Really fine?"

"Fine! Doing great—after all, I had a fellow kidnap-buddy accompanying me all along."

"Kidnap-buddy, what the heck? You're still in the mood to joke, seems like you're indeed fine. Can we leave now?"

Wen Yan shook her head: "Not yet—the identification process isn't completely over yet, probably need to wait a bit longer. By the way, what time is it now? I have no concept of time anymore."

Right as her voice fell, He Xing took out a mobile phone from her bag.

"Here, brought your phone."

"Good Xingxing, you're so thoughtful!" However, after taking a glance at the time, Wen Yan immediately exclaimed, "Holy crap, it's already past four! It's brightly lit in here like daytime—didn't expect it's almost five o'clock. No wonder I'm hungry, it's almost breakfast time."

"Then should I go buy some right now?"

"No need, no need—you're not familiar with the neighborhood here either."

Just as they were talking, the police came out with Wen Chengcai.

Wen Chengcai squinted at Shen Jinghe: "You're a star too, right? Wow, met so many stars today."

Wen Chengcai's words and behavior were overly rude to Shen Jinghe, making him displeased.

He looked at Shen Jingchuan: "Who is he?"

Shen Jingchuan leaned over and whispered a couple of sentences into his ear; he nodded without saying more.

Before leaving, Wen Yan proposed to add the savior's contact information, and Wen Chengcai immediately agreed.

With quick reflexes, Shen Jingchuan held his phone and blocked in front of Wen Yan.

"I'll add it, it's enough that I add it. What's your phone number?"

Wen Chengcai looked at Shen Jingchuan rather unhappily: "Saved your life after all—how come you guard against me like guarding against a thief? Then I'll guard against you too. I don't want to tell you my number. I'm going back, please step aside."

"Adding your contact info is to thank you in the future."

"Hmph, is there anyone who thanks people like this? You're practically treating me like a thief—no fun! Me doing this was out of moral duty and conscience, not for your few words of thanks!"

"Don't, don't, don't," fearing the two would start arguing, Wen Yan hurriedly took out her own phone. "Uncle Wen, what's your number? I'll save it."

"No problem with you asking for my number!" While speaking, Wen Chengcai even raised his eyebrows and glanced at Shen Jingchuan.

After saving Wen Chengcai's number, Wen Yan asked again: "By the way, Uncle Wen, how come I haven't seen Third Brother all this time? Where did he go? I wanted to save his number too."

"Him? He doesn't like interacting with people, saving my number is enough. Also, he's older than me! You call me 'Uncle', so how come you call him 'Brother'? Even I have to call him 'Brother'—you should call him 'Third Uncle'."

Glossary

Wen Yan (溫顏 / Wēn Yán): The female lead; transmigrated into a web novel.
Shen Jingchuan (沈景川 / Shěn Jǐngchuān): Wen Yan's fourth elder brother; kidnapped along with her.
Shen Jinghe (沈景和 / Shěn Jǐnghé): Wen Yan's third elder brother (Teacher Shen); came to the police station upon hearing the news.
He Xing (何幸 / Hé Xìng): Wen Yan's manager/assistant.
Third Brother / Third Uncle (三哥 / 三叔 / Sāngē / Sānshū): The disfigured rescuer with a background known to high-ranking police officers.
Wen Chengcai (溫成才 / Wēn Chéngcái): The patrolman who helped lure the kidnappers away; shares the same surname "Wen" with Wen Yan.

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