Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 107 Guan Gu's Brilliant Reasoning

"Wanyu, are you sure this is the cinema?" Curry Sauce, with blond hair, asked.

Wan Yu, wearing a pair of incredibly unfashionable black-rimmed glasses, mimicked Guan Gu's earnest expression as he pushed up his glasses: "There's absolutely no mistake, this is the only cinema in the entire Shanghai that shows educational films, which other cinema could it be?"

Curry Sauce was carrying Wan Yu's Hermes bag, and she swayed as she walked in her awkward high heels.

She couldn't help but complain, "Wanyu, how do you guys usually walk around wearing these things?"

In order to avoid being discovered by Zhanbo, the two underwent a complete makeover under the guidance of Guangu and Meijia.

Wan Yu was dressed in a loose-fitting high school uniform and carried a large backpack on her back, clearly disguising herself as a high school student.

She helped Curry Sauce, who was wearing sunglasses and dressed in a sophisticated urban style, and casually said, "Curry Sauce, you get used to high heels after wearing them for a while."

"Of course, if you don't like them, we won't wear them anymore. Anyway, there's no law that says girls have to wear high heels."

The two supported and leaned on each other, and to outsiders from a distance, they looked like a high school girl and her stepmother.

"Zhanbo and the others should have gone in already, let's hurry too," Wanyu urged.

"Wait, do we have tickets?" Curry Sauce asked a crucial question.

"No." Wanyu suddenly realized that the two of them didn't even have any tickets, and panicked: "What should we do? What if the movie has already started and we can't get in?"

Curry Sauce pointed to the scalper blatantly waving tickets at the cinema entrance: "Help me over there, let's buy tickets from the scalper."

Wan Yu helped the swaying Curry Sauce to the scalper. Curry Sauce asked in a deep voice, "How much are the tickets for this educational film?"

The scalper sized up Curry and Wanyu: "200 yuan each, no bargaining."

"200 per ticket?" Curry Sauce said with her hands on her hips, in a calculating tone, "Your movie is about to start, and tickets are almost sold out, yet you're still charging such a high price."

"This is the price, take it or leave it," the scalper sneered. "These tickets are incredibly hard to come by. I saw a tall guy, about 1.89 meters, buy them for 500 each in the last couple of days."

"Beautiful lady, I've already been very lenient with you."

Wan Yu was stunned. Could this tall young man, standing at 1.89 meters, be referring to Zhan Bo?

You even bought a ticket for 500 yuan.

Zhanbo, oh Zhanbo.

Curry Sauce persisted, "Don't give me that crap. The tickets I bought a few days ago are not the same price as the tickets I'm buying now that the movie is about to start."

"Two tickets for twenty yuan, or we're leaving." Curry Sauce said, pointing at Wan Yu and giving her a lecture, "I told you you're a senior in high school and should be studying hard, but you insist on coming out to watch a movie."

"I was thinking of showing you an educational film, but there's not a single good person in the theater. You should hurry back to school with me."

Curry then tried to pull Wanyu away.

"Oh dear, I'll sell you two for twenty yuan." Even the scalper couldn't stand it anymore. "Look at your girl, so pretty and beautiful. You don't care, but once she runs off to the outside world, plenty of people will want her. You'll regret it then."

Anyway, this ticket won't be worth much if we keep delaying it. It's better to sell it for an extra twenty yuan than to throw it away.

"I'm only in charge of my daughter, what business is it of yours?" Curry Sauce grumbled as she pulled out twenty yuan and took two tickets from the scalper.

She yelled at Wanyu, "Are you satisfied now? Get out of here!"

As they spoke, the two slowly moved into the movie theater.

"Sigh, these days, mothers and daughters," Huang Niu said, shaking his head.

"She's obviously a stepmother; a child without a mother is like a blade of grass."

"Wanyu, how was my performance? Wasn't it amazing?"

"Fantastic!" Wanyu exclaimed excitedly, holding the movie ticket. "Zhanbo said these tickets were hard to come by, but I got them for only twenty yuan."

"It's normal for Zhanbo to get tricked," Curry Sauce said. "I bet he didn't even haggle over the price before buying it."

Wan Yu praised, "Curry Sauce, you're so smart. Your petty and wicked stepmother persona just now almost scared me."

"That's right, it seems my voice acting training these past few months has been quite effective." Curry Sauce was very proud. "One day I will become a very, very outstanding voice actor."

"Then you need to hurry up and prepare for the Mandarin test next month, otherwise you'll have to wait another six months to take it," Wanyu reminded her.

Curry Sauce clenched her fists to encourage herself, then suddenly her eyes lit up: "Wanyu, I can't see clearly with my sunglasses on, can you take a look and see if that person is Zhanbo?"

Wan Yu looked closely and sure enough, Zhan Bo was standing not far away, smiling shyly and awkwardly.

Beside Zhanbo was a sexy, mature, and stunningly beautiful woman dressed more like a young married woman than Curry Sauce, holding a bouquet of roses and occasionally talking to Zhanbo.

Seeing the two chatting and laughing, Wan Yu gritted her teeth and twisted the hem of her clothes.

"Wow, this lady is really beautiful, except she looks a little older than her age." Curry Sauce, completely oblivious to her companion's odd behavior, couldn't help but exclaim.

Wan Yu muttered with a dark face, "When did Zhan Bo become so compatible with a mature woman like this?"

"This older sister doesn't seem to have anything to hide, except for her age," Curry Sauce said excitedly. "Could my guess be true?"

"Don't rush, let's observe more closely."

Wan Yu manipulated the tiny gears on her glasses frame, and as the gears continued to turn, the scene before her eyes was magnified.

Detective toolbox item: Super-long-range glasses.

Holder: Guan Gu Shenqi.

Upgraded and improved by: Xiao Hei.

……

"I had heard before that our department had produced a once-in-a-century computer genius, but I never expected it to be you, junior."

Nini covered her mouth and chuckled: "You probably haven't been paying much attention to the alumni circle, have you? I heard that our professor was upset for a whole month after you refused to pursue a PhD."

Zhanbo smiled awkwardly. He hadn't expected that a casual chat would lead him to discover that Ziqiao's current girlfriend, Nini, was actually his senior from the same graduate school advisor.

What a coincidence!

The two chatted casually, reminiscing about their time studying abroad and unanimously complaining about how terrible the food was overseas. Surprisingly, Zhanbo and Nini had a pretty good conversation.

However, as the movie was about to start, Nini couldn't help but complain, "Ziqiao is really something, how come he's been in the bathroom for so long? The movie is about to start."

Zhanbo glanced at the time, looking anxious: "Why hasn't Dali come back yet after taking Ziqiao to the toilet?"

Speak of the devil, and he appears; Dali returned alone.

"Sorry Zhanbo, I kept you waiting."

Dali explained, "Based on Ziqiao's tense gait before going to the toilet, the gesture of covering his buttocks, and his flushed face, I judged that he probably wouldn't be out so soon."

"To prove my hypothesis, I waited for him a little longer at the toilet door, and the result proved my inference to be correct."

Sure enough, after the three of them continued chatting for a while, Ziqiao called Nini's phone.

"Nini, I'm sorry, my stomach is suddenly a little upset, so I might have to squat for a while longer. If the movie starts, you can go in first, and I'll catch up with you."

Although Nini felt helpless about this, she still said softly, "Okay, darling, don't worry, I'll go in with Zhanbo and Dali first when the movie starts."

Nini hung up the phone, looked at Zhanbo and Dali and smiled helplessly: "I can understand, after all, everyone has to go to the bathroom sometimes. Luckily, we all entered in the same batch, so we have each other's company."

……

"Guan Gu, Guan Gu, can you hear me?"

Wanyu and Curry Sauce sat in a corner of the cinema. Wanyu held her phone and asked Guan Gu in a low voice on the other end of the call.

"Wanyu, I can hear you... No, Senior Brother. My Chinese is very good. I'm not doubting what you just said about XJ's fishing net. It's just that a friend of mine contacted me at the last minute..."

On the other end of the phone, Guan Gu seemed to be explaining to his senior brother.

After a while, Guan Gu's voice came again: "That's fine now, Wan Yu, you can speak."

"Guan Gu, did you and Mei Jia see the photos we sent you?" Wan Yu asked anxiously.

"I saw it. I had Meijia give the photos you sent to Xiao Hei, and he did some investigation based on Zhanbo's network of relationships. Finally, he found this woman in the photos of outstanding graduate students on the official website of the university Zhanbo attends."

"Xiong Nini, age and family background unknown, but her academic performance is extremely outstanding. More importantly, she and Zhanbo are studying for their master's degrees under the same teacher."

"Although Xiong Nini had already graduated when Zhanbo was pursuing his postgraduate studies, that is very likely the reason they met."

"I deduce that Zhanbo and Xiong Nini probably met through their alumni circle because they were senior and junior classmates."

Wan Yu pressed further, "But if that's all there is to it, Zhan Bo has absolutely no reason to hide the existence of this senior sister. It can't just be because she looks a little older, right?"

"Don't rush, because you've missed a very crucial piece of information."

Even though all that could be heard on the other end of the phone was Guan Gu's voice, Wan Yu and Curry Sauce could still imagine Guan Gu pushing up his glasses like Conan, making his brilliant deductions.

"Have you all forgotten? Curry Sauce clearly heard Yifei say 'little girl' in person."

Do you think this bear Nini looks like a little girl?

Wanyu and Curry Sauce glanced up again at the beautiful stepmother who looked to be in her early thirties in the distance, and decisively shook their heads: "She doesn't look like her at all."

"So now there are two possibilities. First, Zhanbo is lying. He deliberately said that Xiong Nini was younger to deceive Yifei in order to achieve his own goal."

"What do you think is the reason why Zhanbo would lie to Yifei in order to achieve his goal?"

"And if he could achieve his goals by lying, why didn't he lie sooner or later, but only now?"

Wanyu and Curry Sauce thought for a long time and both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Wan Yu shook her head: "I can't think of anything. At least right now, Zhan Bo is just going to see a movie with this Xiong Nini. There's no need for him to lie to Sister Yi Fei that she's a young girl."

"And let alone watching a movie, even if Zhanbo said he wanted to be boyfriend and girlfriend with this Xiong Nini, given Feifei's personality, as long as the age difference between the two is not too big, she would be overjoyed. There is no need for her to lie to him."

Curry Sauce looked up again and said, "This older sister is at most 10 years older than Zhanbo. Sister Yifei shouldn't object, right?"

Guan Gu continued on the other end of the phone, "Besides, such a lie is meaningless. If Zhanbo wants to lie about Xiong Nini's age, he can't hide it for long."

"So we're discussing the second possibility: what if there really is such a little girl, but this little girl isn't Xiong Nini?"

"Then who is this little girl...?" Wan Yu asked in confusion, but was interrupted by Curry Sauce before she could finish speaking.

"Guan Gu, Guan Gu, you're amazing! There really is a little girl!"

Wan Yu looked up and saw a little girl who looked about ten years old carrying a bouquet of flowers walk between Zhan Bo and Xiong Nini.

"Does this little girl look no older than eleven or twelve?" Guan Gu asked on the other end of the phone.

"How did you know?" Curry Sauce exclaimed in surprise, giving a thumbs up. "My God, Guan Gu, you're amazing! You're like Sherlock Holmes incarnate!"

"I judged based on the age of Xiong Nini as described by you."

"Wanyu, Curry Sauce, we may have stumbled upon the truth, which may be why Zhanbo is keeping it a secret from us."

"This little girl is very likely Xiong Nini's daughter!"

I'm coming

Detective Guan Gu Shenqi reports for duty.

(End of this chapter)