Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 20 The family must be neat and tidy
The fact that someone attempted suicide was already serious enough, but the addition of a suspected group drug use immediately escalated the issue several levels.

The staff member who answered the phone was startled, all sleepiness vanished, and he hurriedly confirmed the details with Du Hexuan again.

At the same time, please make sure Du Hexuan takes good care of himself. If the situation is true, they will contact him again later.

Du Hexuan hung up the phone and looked up to meet the intense gazes of the three members of the Du family.

Mr. and Mrs. Du were full of praise, feeling that their second son had handled the matter very well, while Du Anrao was full of curiosity and doubt.

"Second Brother, how do you know she took illegal drugs? And how do you know there was more than one person in that room she mentioned? Do you suspect she's lying to you?"

Du Hexuan nodded in a mocking manner: "She's acting really strange, and she keeps repeating the same things over and over. I suggested sending someone to pick her up, but she seemed very resistant. I can't really explain it, but I just have a feeling that something's wrong. This industry is a mess. I heard your brother Zhou mention the reactions of some people after taking that stuff, and it seemed quite similar to her condition just now."

"After all, she was crying and saying she wanted to commit suicide, right? I was just stating my guess. How to identify and verify is the police's job. I can't call it a false alarm. If I guessed wrong, it would just be a false alarm, which is better than letting someone slip through the net due to negligence."

"As for why I know there's more than one person in her room," Du Hexuan revealed a mysterious smile, "your second brother has a unique skill: I'm extremely sensitive to the breathing of others. Even through a microphone, I can hear how many people are breathing on the other end."

"Although Ni Fang cried very loudly just now, she couldn't completely drown out the breathing sounds, but she said she's alone now..."

Ni Fang was the female celebrity who had just called Du Hexuan. A hint of surprise flashed in Du Anrao's eyes: "So, Second Brother, you knew from the beginning that she was lying to you?"

Du Hexuan answered without any hesitation: "Yes!"

"So you really aren't curious at all, and haven't even considered going to see for yourself as she suggested?"

"Am I crazy? To go see for myself?" Du Hexuan immediately showed a resistant expression.

"If she's just making empty threats, that's fine. But if she's really trying to kill herself, not only can I not save her if I go there now, but I might also happen to be at the scene of the crime, and then I won't be able to explain myself. It's safest to call the police. Professional matters should be left to professionals. Why should we get involved?"

Du Anrao frowned, even more confused.

[Isn't Second Brother usually pretty clear-headed? How come he was so dim-witted in the original story, believing everything people told him?]

Du's parents' probing gaze swept over him in a flash. Du Hexuan raised his chin, thinking righteously that it was definitely not his problem. He wouldn't be that stupid!
Given that the case involved prohibited drugs, the police acted swiftly.

Before Du Hexuan and the others had even finished their meal, another phone call came in, asking Du Hexuan to come to the police station in person to give a statement.

Du Hexuan was mentally prepared for this and readily agreed, getting up to leave.

Not to be outdone, Mr. and Mrs. Du said, "Let's go together."

Du Anrao, holding his chopsticks, stared blankly at the two of them: "Mom and Dad, you..."

“Such a big matter, how can we let your second brother go and handle it alone? Of course, the whole family should go together.”

They happened to be away when Xi Jingyue had dinner with Du Hexuan and the others. Although they heard Du Hexuan give a general account of what happened in the private room when they returned, how could a word-of-mouth account compare to the excitement of witnessing the drama firsthand? In particular, they couldn't imagine how their petite daughter had managed to beat those tall, burly bodyguards, each twice her size, to a pulp.

It's regrettable to have missed such a good opportunity, but now that we have another chance to watch the drama unfold, we absolutely cannot miss it.

"..." Mom, what you said is very ambiguous. Anyone who didn't know better would think that our whole family was going to go in together!
Du Anrao ultimately couldn't resist her enthusiastic parents, and since she was genuinely curious about what had happened, she ended up taking a taxi with the three of them to the police station.

As soon as the four entered the gate, they saw a woman wearing a coat and disheveled clothes huddled in a corner. They assumed this was Ni Fang, the woman who had set up the honey trap and called Du Hexuan.

When Ni Fang saw Du Hexuan appear in a radiant state, her expression twisted for a moment.

The staff member in charge of questioning her saw right through her thoughts and scolded, "What are you looking at? She's just lucky she didn't fall into your trap, otherwise she might have been ripped off. Now that you haven't harmed her, you're resenting her? What's wrong with you!"

After saying that, he turned to Du Hexuan, his attitude much better: "I heard you're a big star, right? Sit down. The reason I made you come all this way so late at night is because their testimonies are basically all related to you."

It turned out that after receiving Du Hexuan's call, the operator immediately gathered all the colleagues in the vicinity and surrounded room 1303.

To avoid alerting the suspect, a young police officer whose voice sounded somewhat like Du Hexuan's posed as Ni Fang's friend and knocked on the door.

When the person inside the room introduced himself as Ni Fang's friend, everyone naturally assumed that it was Du Hexuan who had come, and they were completely confused by the police officer who had entered the room.

Luckily, the other party was experienced and dodged most of it, otherwise he would have been lying on the ground long ago.

After this incident, everyone felt that this matter was not simple.

They immediately swarmed forward and arrested everyone, confiscating all the tools and drugs they intended to use to subdue Duhexuan.

"This woman is tight-lipped and won't say anything. On the contrary, those few thugs she called to help her confessed everything after a little prodding."

The female police officer in charge of taking the statement paused for a moment, then summarized: "The preliminary assessment is that this is a rather heinous honey trap case. The perpetrators planned to lure you there under the pretense of suicidal thoughts, then drug you immediately upon meeting you, and take intimate photos with you. In addition, they prepared some addictive drugs, intending to administer them to you after taking the photos, in order to better control you."

Mr. and Mrs. Du already knew these things before they arrived, but hearing them mentioned by others still inevitably ignited their anger.

Fortunately, He Xuan noticed something was wrong, and fortunately, they had An Rao with them, otherwise their son's life would have been ruined!

Did she explain why she was doing this?

"She said someone in her family was sick and needed money. She thought you were the richest person she could get her hands on, so she decided to take a risk and do something big."

Du Hexuan sneered and said bluntly, "It's not that simple. Those drugs are not something a small-time artist like her can easily access."

This was also a key focus of their investigation. The policewoman suddenly sat up straight: "You suspect there's someone else behind this? Do you have any enemies?"

(End of this chapter)