Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 322: The incident with Xiaolan is over; Yingsheng wants to steal the show!
Xiaolan told Yingsheng what happened before and snorted.

"You said you didn't care, Ying, and why are there so many women's clothes in your closet? Tell me the truth, do you have a cross-dressing fetish, or do you often bring other girls home to spend the night?"

"Um……"

Yingsheng exclaimed: "How did Lan Ni come up with this idea? It's really amazing."

"Don't change the subject."

"Is it because of what happened with Dr. Cheng Shi? Come to think of it, if you count Shirakura Yang, I've already seen two men dressed as crossdressers. I didn't expect that I'd be one of them too."

"..."

Xiaolan was speechless, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just said, "I didn't tell you the name of the interrogator."

Yingsheng asked with a smile: "Do you think there is still a chance that Vermouth can escape?"

"Just to be on the safe side, when will you be back?"

"There are definitely people watching Ian's apartment right now. Tomorrow morning, let Vermouth disguise himself as me. You two go to school together, and we'll change back in school."

“Eh??? Then… then…”

Xiaolan blushed: "Isn't that the same as me staying over at your house? My dad knows about this, too."

"Alas, it has come to this, what else can we do?" Yingsheng sighed softly, "Lan, since others have misunderstood it, we should not let them down."

Xiaolan said coldly: "What do you want to do?"

"How about we live together?"

"……roll!"

Xiaolan said unhappily, "Since yesterday afternoon, you have completely stopped hiding your scumbag nature, right? Where has your gentlemanly demeanor gone?"

Yingsheng chuckled: "I never said I was a gentleman, and compared to Plato's pure soul harmony, I agree more with Nietzsche's point of view."

"Haha, I'd better leave these words to you, Miss Liu Feng. I'm stupid and don't understand."

"…Nietzsche believed that sex was an important source of vitality and creativity, which could drive…"

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!"

Xiaolan interrupted quickly and leaned her red cheeks against the green leaves of the wisteria next to her.

But that hint of coolness not only failed to suppress the lustful thoughts in her heart, but instead the green leaves themselves were roasted by some kind of flame and became even more vibrant.

"How can you say such a thing openly?"

"Um……"

Yingsheng thought for a moment and said, "Should I say, the moonlight is beautiful tonight? What about Natsume Soseki's famous quote?"

"……snort!"

When talking about the moonlight, Xiaolan thought of another thing: "What will Xuesong do in the future?"

"Kiyoko..."

Yingsheng sighed softly: "He's dead."

……

……

At 3:33 in the afternoon, when Hotaru learned from Kiyoko that Vermouth was going to attack Xiaolan, he was really scared.

But in the next thought, he realized that Xiaolan probably wouldn't die on the spot. After all, he was just being tortured, and the worst that could happen to Xiaolan would be the same.

And if it were just this, then with a monster wandering around outside, Xiaolan would most likely be fine.

Thinking of this, Yingsheng immediately contacted Aoyagi Chisou and learned everything she saw.

Xiaolan is safe and sound.

Vermouth was captured by Xiaolan, and was making up to look like Hotaru and playing a strange game with her.

Kiel was also captured by Xiaolan and buried in a wooden box under the wisteria trellis.

The partition on the wooden box was actually only inserted into a very shallow layer of soil. It was originally not there. It was added by Xiaolan herself.

After confirming Xiaolan's safety, Yingsheng continued to deal with his own affairs. The first thing he had to do was to find out how Kiyoko was discovered.

However, Qingzi, as the person being searched, was naturally completely unaware of the matter, so it could only be put aside for the time being.

"Hina, did you install a bug in my hotel room?"

Kiyoko asked.

Although everything has gone smoothly so far and she is out of danger, Qingzi is very grateful.

But she still wondered how Yingsheng had discovered this matter so quickly the day before yesterday.

Yingsheng said, "How could I eavesdrop on you, Qingzi? I just asked the receptionist to help keep an eye on it."

After learning that Kiyoko was taken away by Megure Jusan, Hotaru was quite moved, thinking that Officer Megure was truly a model worker.

He had just investigated missing persons in Ebina City in the morning, and in the afternoon he rushed back to Tokyo to capture Kiyoko.

Considering Kiyoko's personality, Yingsheng wanted to send an email to calm her down.

But that would be too much of a coincidence, so he decided to wait ten minutes or so before sending the message and reply to other people's messages first.

Then he had an unexpected reward.

A lady who was hospitalized due to a car accident sent an email to Hotaru to complain. She asked Megure Jusan for compensation, but he just went to the hospital to hand over the insurance company and left without saying a few words to her. This made her very angry and she wanted to contact the media to make a big deal out of it.

Hotaru asked about the time with great concern and found that as long as Megure Jusan didn't know the art of clones, he probably wouldn't be able to appear in two different places at the same time.

It was easy to tell what was true and what was false. Yingsheng immediately guessed that Qingzi might have fallen into the hands of Vermouth.

He still didn't know whether Vermouth had resumed contact with the winery.

Anyway, let's transfer Ai and Junerick first.

As for the rest, it all depends on how Qingzi responds. So he sent that email to Qingzi, specifically pointing out Friday night, which was actually naming a scapegoat.

Nakatani Bunsen.

After all, Yingsheng was driving his car that night.

And Qingzi’s reply:

——Do you want to be my slave tonight?

It refers to what the two of them said in Chiyoko's villa, which can be simply understood as a promise.

Qingzi is willing to believe him and believe in her own moon.

Of course, Yingsheng couldn't completely believe this sentence, and asked himself what he could get.

Kiyoko said that slaves would get nothing, but Yingsheng really got the hint in his heart.

[Love +1]

Just one point, but it seems to be enough to illustrate the point.

The most important thing is that even if Kiyoko really betrays him, as long as she continues to provide him with love, Yingsheng will not give up on her.

However, at that time, apart from arranging the emergency transfer of Ai and the other person, and hiding Nakatani Fumizumi, Hotaru did not actually take any action to save Kiyoko.

Of course he had to go back to talk about things in Tokyo first. He hadn’t even enjoyed the sunshine and beaches of the Izu Islands yet.

Moreover, he didn't know where Qingzi was now, so of course he could only wait for her to find him.

I don’t know if it was for this reason, but Yingsheng didn’t receive any love from Qingzi for two days.

That's why he wasn't completely sure about Qingzi's feelings when he saw her again in the abandoned warehouse area today.

After all, as far as Hotaru knew, Kiyoko was captured by Vermouth, and now the police and Toru Amuro have appeared, so his identity has of course been exposed.

And the source of all this is naturally Qingzi.

Qingzi simply spoke without saying a few words and let Yingsheng connect everything together.

Make a guess:

After all, Vermouth was not directly involved in this matter, and Kyoko just fell into the hands of the winery by accident.

Obviously, he guessed wrong.

Vermouth did not return to the winery, but started a business with the people in the winery, which Yingsheng had never thought of before.

But the final outcome was not bad. Judging from information from various sources, the winery was still missing a piece of the puzzle after all.

Miyano sisters or Kudo Shinichi.

Of course, it is inevitable that the winery will have serious doubts about Yingsheng.

After the interrogation with truth serum, the suspicion level has been lowered a little. Now that the winery has been attacked, the suspicion level has been raised again.

Fortunately, Yingsheng just likes this feeling. He jumps back and forth on the edge of being exposed, with the hint of murderous intent constantly jumping.

The only thing that puzzled him was where the two [Love +5] came from.

Just now, Chiso Aoyagi reported that Xiaolan had been in danger once.

Could it be that Xiaolan has broken through her limits?

While Yingsheng's thoughts were wandering, Qingzi told him everything she knew.

She also didn't know why she was handed from Binga to Gin. Binga was originally unhappy with Gin, but he seemed quite happy about this matter.

And Gin's original idea was to let her and Hotaru kill each other, and the one who survived would join the brewery.

"What to do now?"

Finally, Kiyoko asked, "Is Ying ready to completely break off relations with the winery now?"

Yingsheng sighed, "That won't work. Those guys are so powerful. If I want to break off relations with them completely, I will have to give up my public identity. The most important thing is that they are so good at finding people. I'm afraid I will have to hide in a remote place."

Qingzi was silent for a few breaths: "The injury on your leg before, was it real or fake?"

Yingsheng looked down at his ripped jeans and hissed softly, "Of course it's true. I'm still bleeding. Others came to save me."

Kiyoko looked up at Hanakage Nozomi who was on guard on the roof of the warehouse, with her cell phone on loud speaker.

Huaying Xiwang jumped down, with a little distress on her face under the mask: "Big brother, don't you think it's a little unreasonable for you to be alive now?"

Yingsheng leaned against the overturned black Porsche 356A and nodded: "I also think it is unreasonable, so I left Vodka alive."

"Eh? Isn't this even more unreasonable?"

"When do you think reinforcements from the winery will arrive?"

"I don't know, probably soon."

"What if Vodka shows its power and stops the enemy before the reinforcements from the distillery arrive?"

"Um?!"

Huaying's eyes lit up, and she immediately took the phone, turned off the speakerphone, walked aside and whispered, "Big brother, do you want to bless Vodka and create the illusion that he is fighting the enemy?"

“If everything went well, that would have been the case.”

"Great! What about the enemy? Do you want me to come over?"

"No, let Qingzi exchange clothes with Sato Miwako, and then take Qingzi away. Remember to cover your face and don't get discovered again."

"Oh……"

Huaying Xiwang said in a disappointed tone: "Big brother, do you really not need my help? What is going to happen here later?"

Yingsheng said: "The madness and cruelty of human beings."

(End of this chapter)