Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

The morning sunlight slanted across the majestic stone lions of the Provincial Public Security Bureau.

"Good morning, Team Leader Lu!"

"This is a pork rib soup that someone lovingly simmered for you for four whole hours. Would you like to have a taste while it's hot?"

The girl's voice was so grating it was almost like she had a screaming chicken stuffed down her throat.

She was wearing a pure white floral dress, and her slender wrists were carrying a pink insulated box.

The delicate, no-makeup makeup looked pitiful in the morning light.

Her big eyes blinked as she gazed at Lu Jingyan, as if the only man in the world was right in front of her.

But on her virtual panel, which only she could see, red system notification sounds were flashing wildly.

[System Notification from the Chef's Beloved Wife: The Heartfelt Truth-Telling Agent has been perfectly infused into the pork rib soup! Colorless and odorless!]

[If the target drinks even a tiny sip, their brain's defenses will completely crumble!]

He'll instantly become your ultimate lapdog! Completely at your mercy!

The girl's name is Lin Chacha.

She was the first vanguard drawn by the "strategy mutual aid group" last night.

Looking at Lu Jingyan, who was dressed in a black tactical uniform, tall and handsome, she was so excited that her heart pounded.

As long as she wins over this man, the 100 million system points will be hers!

Lu Jingyan stopped in his tracks.

His deep black eyes swept indifferently over the strange woman who had suddenly appeared, and the pink insulated box in her hand.

Although the police system in his mind was in deep hibernation, and the anti-reconnaissance shielding aura was also temporarily offline.

But he is a top-notch criminal investigation expert who has truly survived countless brushes with death.

Even without any system cheats, his innate criminal investigation instincts remained frighteningly sharp.

Lu Jingyan didn't take the insulated box, but instead narrowed his eyes slightly.

His gaze was like a precise scalpel, instantly dissecting all of Lin Chacha's pretense.

Are you nervous?

Lu Jingyan had one hand in the pocket of his tactical pants, a half-smile playing on his lips.

"I...I didn't. I was just a little excited to see Team Leader Lu."

Lin Chacha forced herself to remain calm and brushed a stray hair behind her ear, attempting to showcase her most perfect profile.

"lie."

Lu Jingyan's voice turned cold, and he ruthlessly exposed her with lightning speed.

"Your pupils have dilated twice in the past three seconds, and you blink three times more frequently than normal."

"More importantly, your hands, which are holding the insulated box, are trembling slightly."

"This uncontrolled muscle spasm reaction usually only occurs in poisoners with ulterior motives."

Lin Chacha's face suddenly turned pale, and she subconsciously took half a step back.

"What...what nonsense are you talking about! This is the culmination of someone's hard work all night!"

She mustered her last shred of reason and forced the lid of the insulated box open.

"Smell this soup, it smells so good! I put in the finest cordyceps and wild pork ribs."

As soon as the lid was opened, a rich aroma of meat wafted out.

But Lu Jingyan only sniffed it for a fraction of a second before his brows furrowed deeply.

Based on his years of experience handling cases and handling countless chemical agents, he immediately sensed the dangerous anomaly.

"The meaty aroma is too artificial."

Lu Jingyan stared coldly at the layer of oil floating on the soup noodles, which even had a faint fluorescent green hue.

"Moreover, the color of this soup is completely contrary to the normal Maillard reaction of proteins."

"What did you add to it? Hallucinogens or neurotoxins?"

Lin Chacha panicked completely.

This is the system's top-tier heart-to-heart confession agent!

What happened to the claim that it was colorless and odorless, undetectable even by the most advanced instruments?

How could this living Yama detect something was wrong just by looking and smelling?

"Since you're so generous in coming to offer your help, our forensic department happens to be short of a live specimen recently."

Lu Jingyan unceremoniously pulled out the walkie-talkie from his shoulder and pressed the call button.

"Forensic Doctor Qin, bring your rapid toxicology test strips and come to the main gate of the provincial department."

"Someone is in a hurry to send us experimental materials for biological weapons."

Less than half a minute.

Wearing a white lab coat and high heels, Qin Mingyue rushed out of the hall in a flurry of activity.

"Who would launch a biological attack at the provincial government building so early in the morning?"

Qin Mingyue pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses and put on medical rubber gloves without saying a word.

She pulled a sensitive broad-spectrum toxicology test strip from her white coat pocket.

Under Lin Chacha's horrified gaze, Qin Mingyue directly inserted the test strip into the bowl of still steaming pork rib soup.

"Sizzle—"

A strange, soft sound.

The originally white test strip turned into a glaring dark black the moment it came into contact with the pork rib soup!

It even emitted a wisp of pungent blue toxic smoke.

Qin Mingyue looked at the color of the test strip, and her eyes instantly became incredibly sharp and cold.

"Team Leader Lu, this soup contains an extremely high concentration of an unknown neuro-psychotropic drug."

"The effects are similar to a potent mixture of a strong hypnotic and a truth serum."

"If an ordinary person takes just one sip, their cerebral cortex will be instantly damaged, turning them into a puppet that can be completely manipulated."

Qin Mingyue raised her head and looked at Lin Chacha as if she were looking at a dead person.

"That girl's methods are quite ruthless."

"This isn't just drugging; it's blatant attempted murder."

"No! That's not it! This is a soup made with love!"

Lin Chacha was completely terrified and dropped the insulated box on the ground with a thud.

The spilled soup even corroded the cement ground in front of the provincial government building, creating several small white bubbles.

She never dreamed that she had prepared a killer strategy all night.

Not only did they fail to even get a word in edgewise with Lu Jingyan, they were also caught red-handed in a biochemical poisoning attack!

"Love-filled soup? I think it's more like a death trap!"

Just then, Zhao Tiezhu arrived at the door in his armored vehicle and strode over, his face full of fierce features, trembling with anger.

He pulled out the gleaming insulated handcuffs from his waist.

With two crisp "clicks," Lin Chacha's hands were tightly handcuffed behind her back.

"You even dare to plot against our boss! You must have a death wish!"

Lu Jingyan looked down at the green tea girl who had fallen to the ground and was wailing, his eyes as cold as ice blades in the dead of winter.

"Attempts to poison state officials with illegal nerve drugs."

"Suspected of attempted intentional assault and assaulting a police officer."

"Tiezhu, take her to the interrogation room ninety meters underground and thoroughly investigate the source of this poison."

"Alright, boss! Today I'm going to dig out that stupid system from her brain and sell it for scrap metal!"

Zhao Tiezhu dragged Lin Chacha into the provincial government compound without any tenderness, as if she were a chick.

Lin Chacha's heart-wrenching cries echoed through the streets in the early morning, a sound that moved all who heard it to tears.

All of this happened far too fast.

They were so fast that even the people on the other side of the road who were supposed to be there to meet them didn't have time to react.

It's located on a secluded street corner opposite the provincial government building.

Inside a red Ferrari sports car with a temporary license plate, female guest number B from the strategy team was gripping the steering wheel tightly.

She watched as Lin Chacha, the top vanguard, received a silver bracelet set in less than five minutes, and was so frightened that cold sweat soaked through the silk camisole on her back.

"This Lu Jingyan is not a normal man at all! He's a heartless legal machine!"

Female guest number B bit her red lips tightly, a hint of unwillingness and crazy determination flashing in her eyes.

"The green tea trick isn't working; it seems we'll have to resort to more direct physical contact."

She slammed on the Ferrari's engine, and the high-powered sports car roared like a wild beast.

"That classic 'chance encounter' scenario from those domineering CEO novels—I refuse to believe he can escape it this time!"

Guest B stared intently at Lu Jingyan, who was about to turn and walk towards the parking lot.

She closed her eyes and slammed the accelerator to the floor.

The red Ferrari, like a raging fire, ignored the traffic lights and charged wildly toward Lu Jingyan.