Only after her death did I realize that she was the white moonlight of a billionaire CEO.

Chapter 199 Old man, you're lying to us.

Luo Wen went to Europe on a business trip for a few days.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Luo Wen finally returned to Southeast Asia.

As soon as he got out of the car, Lin Nuo came up to him with a smile and reported, "Steward, Miss Xi is here and is waiting for you inside."

Upon hearing this, Luo Wen couldn't help but laugh, "I'll go check on her."

Luo Wen kept a lion as a pet, which he kept in the iron-walled yard in the backyard. When he had free time, he would take the lion to hunt in the jungle.

The majestic lion has a cute, cuddly name: Little Bowl.

It is said that Luo Wen picked it up from the African battlefield. When he found it, it was very thin and could only drink a small bowl of milk per meal.

That's why it's called a small bowl.

But now a small bowl can hold half a sheep in one meal.

Li Xi stood at the window of the iron cage where food was fed and threw the slaughtered lamb chops into the window.

The little bowl stood inside, waiting to be fed.

Hearing the crunching sound of Xiao Wan biting into the lamb chop with her sharp teeth, Li Xi felt a pain in her bones.

"Want to go in and play with Xiaowan for a while?" Luo Wen suddenly appeared behind Li Xi.

Li Xi turned around in surprise, "Uncle, you're back?"

Luo Wen nodded, raised the limited-edition gold watch on his wrist, and shook it at Li Xi. "Uncle really likes the watch you picked out for him."

A pure gold engraved watch exudes an air of extravagance, but when worn on a strong, bronze wrist, it appears calm and understated.

Luo Wen liked it very much.

Depend on.

After all these years, finally someone understands his aesthetic sense.

He showed his watch to Lanyu beside him, "See? My niece has such good taste."

Lan Yu suppressed a laugh and deliberately feigned surprise. "I didn't realize that someone as dark-skinned as you could look so elegant with gold jewelry. To be honest, after knowing you for so many years, this is the first time I've ever seen such elegance in you."

Luo Wen: "..."

Hearing this, Lin Nuo couldn't help but grin.

He loved watching Lanyu and the steward bicker.

Li Xi, being the most obedient, quickly changed the subject, "Uncle Lanyu, Uncle Lin Nuo, I also brought you gifts, they're in the conference room, would you like to go take a look?"

"Oh, we've all benefited from the manager's favor. Thank you, Miss Xi." As clever as Lan Yu was, how could she not see that Li Xi and Luo Wen had something to discuss?

He put his arm around Lin Nuo's shoulder. "Come on, let's open the presents."

Lin Nuo obediently followed Lan Yu away.

After everyone left, Luo Wen gestured towards the inside of the iron fence and asked Li Xi, "Do you want to go in and say hello to Xiao Wan?"

Li Xi was a little scared. "Will it bite my head off?"

"Of course not, Xiaowan is just a giant kitten."

That's all.

However, Li Xi was indeed very interested, "I want to go in and get to know it."

"Come."

Luo Wen led Li Xi to another entrance.

As soon as the iron gate was opened, the massive lion pounced on Luo Wen.

Luo Wen was prepared; he grabbed the lion's head and rolled to the ground.

The man and the lion rolled around on the ground several times.

When it stopped, Xiao Wan stretched out its barbed tongue and affectionately licked Luo Wen's face.

Luo Wen kept wiping with disgust.

Li Xi watched from outside the door, her heart pounding with fear.

"Xi Bao, come here."

Xiao Wan squatted beside Luo Wen, looking down at Li Xi with her head held high.

Li Xi walked over, feigning indifference.

Luo Wen took Li Xi's hand, raised his arm, and pressed his palm against Xiao Wan's forehead.

"Little Bowl, come here and meet your new friend, Xi Bao."

Li Xi took a deep breath, met Xiao Wan's majestic beastly eyes, and called out as calmly and affectionately as possible, "Xiao Wan."

The little bowl tilted its head in Li Xi's palm.

That action was exactly the same as Patrick Star's reaction when Gu Huaizhou asked her for a pat.

Li Xi said, "It really is a big cat."

"Huaizhou has a cat named Patrick Star. It's very proud and arrogant. Whenever it wants to be petted, it will walk to my leg and rub its head against my trouser leg."

Luo Wen chuckled, then vigorously rubbed Xiao Wan's head and told him to lie down. Xiao Wan obediently lay down on the grass, exposing his belly to Luo Wen.

Luo Wen squatted down and rubbed Xiao Wan's belly.

Li Xi also imitated him and stroked the little bowl.

"Speak, after you've sent Lin Nuo and Lan Yu away, what do you want to tell me?"

Li Xi's smile faded slightly. "It's about Lan Yin."

Upon hearing that it was related to Lan Yin, Luo Wen's expression turned serious. "Mother said she entrusted Lan Yin's matter to you. Have you found any new clues?"

Li Xi said, "You two were engaged back then."

Luo Wen nodded. "That's true."

Why was the engagement called off?

The reason was simple, Luo Wen said without hesitation: "I don't love her."

Does she love you?

“…This…” Luo Wen hesitated. “I don’t love her, and I don’t care whether she loves me or not.”

Naturally, he was unsure whether Lan Yin had feelings for him.

But Luo Wen was very confident in his personal charm. He said objectively, "But with my uncle's looks and status, it would be hard for any woman not to love me."

Li Xi laughed at him, "Uncle is so narcissistic."

Li Xi simply sat down on the grass next to Xiao Wan, stroking Xiao Wan's soft belly as she said, "After breaking off the engagement with you, Aunt Lan Yin has been staying by Grandma's side to take care of her all these years. She doesn't date or get married."

After a pause, Li Xi added, "I also investigated her spending history. She has never even hired a male model at a club in her entire life!"

"Is this normal?"

"...You investigated all of these?"

“That’s natural,” Li Xi said. “You’ve investigated everything that needed to be investigated, so of course I can only investigate these unrelated details.”

Luo Wenzhi laughed.

It was a little awkward to discuss this topic with his niece, so Luo Wen thought for a moment before saying, "Maybe she's just naturally not interested in that kind of thing."

“That’s impossible,” Li Xi said. “Aunt Lan Yin doesn’t look like the kind of woman who has no desires.”

A woman who has no desires or wants will not sit in an open flower room late at night wearing a sundress and drinking red wine.

She was clearly exuding her feminine charm.

"Moreover," Li Xi said expressionlessly, her eyes darting around, "I searched her room and found women's toys there."

"It's the kind that only non-virgins can use."

Luo Wen: "..."

Luo Wen quickly regained his composure. "So, what did you discover?"

"I think Aunt Lan Yin has someone she likes, but that person is destined not to marry her for some reason."

"And she wasn't qualified to get close to that person. So she preferred to relieve her loneliness with toys and remain single."

Upon hearing this, Luo Wen said, "Even if Lan Yin has someone she likes, it's not that strange."

"Is there a necessary connection between this and her plot to harm Mengbao and Lanqing?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xi couldn't help but sneer, "Uncle, have you ever thought about who that man is who Lan Yin admires but can't pursue?"

Luo Wen: "...Who do you think it is?"

In short, it wasn't him.

Could it be...

"Does she like Lanyu?"

Could it be that Lan Yin likes her younger brother, but this is a taboo and immoral act, so she can only carefully hide her feelings?

Li Xi rolled her eyes. "Uncle, Lan Yin has been living at Zhaomengtai all these years. Tell me, besides you, who else can she see just by looking up?"

Luo Wen paused slightly in breathing.

He had an absurd candidate in mind, but Luo Wen lost the courage to say that name.

Seeing Luo Wen's reaction, Li Xi knew that Luo Wen had finally understood what she meant.

"uncle."

"The man Lan Yin admires is very likely your father, my maternal grandfather."

Luo Wen subconsciously shook his head, weakly refuting Li Xi's guess, "That's impossible."

“Her godfather is more than thirty years older than Lan Yin. She is a child he watched grow up. How could she have such feelings for him?”

This sounds truly unbelievable.

Li Xi recounted some of the details he had observed to Luo Wen.

“A few days ago, I played until dark before I came back. My grandmother had already gone to bed, my grandfather was practicing Tai Chi in the back garden, but Lan Yin was wearing a light and flowing sundress and was working in the West Flower Hall.”

"She was working, but there was also a glass of red wine in front of her. I deliberately didn't make a sound, and I noticed that every time Lan Yin drank, her eyes would look at her grandfather with admiration and greed."

“I became suspicious at the time, so when she went out for a walk with her grandmother, I went to her room and searched around, and that’s when I found those toys.”

Li Xi spoke with such conviction that Luo Wen's attitude began to waver.

But he still denied it, saying, "My godfather is a hero worshipped by everyone in the Fifth Family. Perhaps she simply worships him?"

Seeing that Luo Wen still refused to believe it, Li Xi was too lazy to say anything more, "Believe it or not."

Luo Wen remained silent.

He absentmindedly tugged at Xiao Wan's mustache, and Xiao Wan grinned at him, but wasn't really angry.

Li Xi was amazed by what he saw.

"Uncle, think carefully about what I said."

Li Xi got up to leave.

At this moment, Luo Wen suddenly spoke again.

He had emptied his mind and abandoned all personal emotions.

With reason returning, Luo Wen displayed the keen insight and wisdom of someone in charge of the Fifth Family.

He calmly recounted what had happened back then, "When Mengbao was 14 years old, Lanyin was transferred to Zhaomengtai to become an intern housekeeper by her mother's side."

"The following year, when Lan Yin accompanied my mother on an outing, my mother was assassinated. Lan Yin was seriously injured and fell into a coma for many days while protecting my mother."

"It was during the days she was in a coma that Mengbao and Lanqing went missing."

"Assuming your guess is true, then I reasonably suspect that Lan Yin deliberately injured herself back then to create the illusion that she was not present when Meng Bao disappeared."

"As for what exactly happened back then, and why Lan Yin sold Meng Bao to the Longevity Island Research Institute, we still need to get clues from Lan Yin herself."

Seeing that Luo Wen's intelligence had finally kicked in and he was able to investigate the matter objectively and rationally, Li Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Actually, I have a guess."

Li Xi squatted down again beside the small bowl.

Looking at his uncle, Li Xi said thoughtfully, "I guess the truth is like this."

“Back then, Lan Yin was young, and it’s impossible to hide a crush. Perhaps Lan Yin did something to my grandfather that my mother happened to discover.”

"Lan Yin was worried that her secret love would be exposed, so she wanted to get rid of her mother."

Luo Wen fell silent.

After a moment, he said, "I'll take you to see someone."

"Who?"

"The gang leader who kidnapped Mengbao and Lanqing back then." It turns out that after eliminating the Longevity Island Research Institute, Lin Nuo followed the clues and caught the gang leader who kidnapped Fifth Dream from Southeast Asia back then.

Lin Nuo subjected them to severe interrogation, extracting numerous clues that led to the discovery of Lan Yin's suspicion.

The gang leader was called Brother Xing, a Chinese Class A wanted criminal with more than ten murders on his record.

Brother Xing was imprisoned in the Fifth Family's underground prison.

The prison was stuffy and filled with a foul, fishy stench.

Brother Xing was quite old, with some gray hair. He was tied to a cross, and a thick steel nail pierced through his limbs.

Seeing the other person's miserable state, Li Xi frowned slightly, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

In Southeast Asia, the strong are respected.

Brother Xing just kidnapped the daughter of the Fifth Family, so he deserves this fate.

A subordinate splashed a basin of ice water on Brother Xing, which immediately woke him up.

Seeing Luo Wen and Li Xi standing in the cell, Brother Xing sighed helplessly and pleaded, "Manager Luo."

"I've told you everything I need to say and everything I know."

"If you want to kill me or beat me, just give me a quick death, okay?"

Xing Ge lived a life of wanton killing, burning, and looting, but in his twilight years, he was reduced to a dog and only then did he realize what it meant to be unable to live or die.

Luo Wen had a chair brought over, and he sat down with Li Xi before instructing his subordinates, "Give Mr. Xing his water."

Xing Ge's eyes lit up.

After drinking a bowl of sweet coconut water, Brother Xing asked Luo Wen cooperatively, "Manager Luo, is there anything else you'd like to ask?"

"Just ask."

From the moment he learned that the girl he had kidnapped years ago was the true daughter of the Fifth Family, Brother Xing knew he was doomed this time.

All he wants now is a quick and painless death.

Luo Wen picked up a box of steel nails from the tool table next to him. He casually played with a sharp steel nail and said in a flat tone, "Tell me the whole story of how you kidnapped my sister back then."

"Don't omit a single word, from the cause and effect to the details."

Brother Xing had already recounted what happened back then several times; he was practically bubbling with eloquence.

I still have to say!

"...Back then, a research institution called Longevity Island issued a bounty on the black market, seeking to find several young men and women with the ability to delay aging."

“We take orders on the black market all year round, so naturally we all saw this bounty notice.”

"Not long after, a familiar customer from Southeast Asia introduced us to an unfamiliar employer. He was a slender man wearing a black suit."

"But I have a keen eye and I saw right through her disguise as a man. However, the people we deal with are all doing shady business."

“We’re all respectable people, so it’s fine for us to meet in disguise, as long as she’s willing to pay.”

Li Xi listened attentively.

"So, she introduces business to you and then pays you in return?"

"Yes, because she wanted us to help her sell someone, and she said that the person was no ordinary person, but the daughter of a servant in a prominent family in Southeast Asia."

"The daughter of a servant?" Li Xi looked at Luo Wen.

Luo Wen explained to her, "The Lan family has served the Fifth Family for generations, and they are servants."

"I see."

What's the name of the person she wants to buy from?

"Lan Qing." Xing Ge couldn't help but curse as he mentioned this, "I really didn't know the person she was going to sell was the Fifth Miss!"

"If I had known that the person she asked us to kidnap was the Fifth Miss, I wouldn't have dared to do it even if you gave me a hundred lives!"

The Fifth Family were the overlords of Southeast Asia. They were all villains who made a living in Southeast Asia. They dared not offend the daughter of the overlord of Southeast Asia!

It was clear that Brother Xing wasn't lying. Li Xi then asked, "What evidence did she give you to believe that the woman she sold was just Lan Qing, the daughter of a servant from the Fifth Family?"

Xing cleared his throat and said in a hoarse voice, "She gave us a blood test report and said that the report was Lan Qing's. Lan Qing is the research subject needed for the Longevity Island research."

“If we are willing to take on this business, we can not only get money from her, but also get a sum of money from the Longevity Island Research Institute.”

"This is a sure-win business."

"Of course, I was also worried that it might be a trap. After catching the two girls, I checked their ears immediately, but they didn't have any birthmarks behind their ears!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xi fell silent.

Back then, Jiang Zhulang heard that Chu Xingchen had a butterfly birthmark behind his ear.

Mistakenly believing that Chu Xingchen was Fifth Dream, he went to great lengths to seduce the young girl and marry her.

This illustrates one thing...

Li Xi suddenly looked up and stared at Xing Ge, her tone icy: "Old man, you're lying to us."