Detective Against All Odds:Chapter 747: The Mystery Deepens-Urban Fantasy

“Miss Gu, Miss Gu…”

“Huh!?”

Lin Dongxue called out a few times before Gu You snapped out of her daze. Lin Dongxue asked, “Can we still see Chen Fengde’s daughter?”

“I… I don’t know. I haven’t contacted her since then.”

“It’s strange. Chen Fengde’s file doesn’t mention his daughter at all,” Lin Dongxue said to Chen Shi.

“Let’s go upstairs and check it out!” Chen Shi was still fixated on the matter. “We need to understand how this man ended up like this.”

Though it felt impolite, Lin Dongxue agreed since they were already there. Gu You said she’d wait downstairs.

Upstairs Investigation

A wooden staircase led upstairs. Several pairs of shoes were placed below it, indicating they should take off their shoes. The two of them complied and walked up to the attic.

Upstairs was a normal bedroom, brightly lit by sunlight streaming through the window. The floor was spotless. The young girl who had spoken to them earlier was sitting cross-legged in front of the TV, engrossed in a cartoon with the volume turned down. A woman sat on the bed nearby, embroidering something, and looked slightly startled when she saw them.

Lin Dongxue thought it odd that despite the commotion caused by the ambulance, this mother and daughter didn’t come down to check.

“There’s nothing to check. You should leave! My husband has been like this for a long time,” the young woman said. She was likely the one who had an affair with Liu Tao years ago.

“Why not send him to a mental hospital? Why let him suffer at home?” Chen Shi asked, sitting cross-legged and glancing at the TV. “SpongeBob, huh?”

The little girl remained indifferent.

“A mental hospital? Is that a place for people? My husband may be crazy, but he doesn’t go out harming others. Keeping him at home works fine. The room downstairs is his; he can do whatever he wants there,” the woman replied disdainfully.

“Do you have jobs?” Lin Dongxue asked.

“None. But we have savings. After his first wife died, we got a big insurance payout… Don’t look at me like that. The police almost broke down our door investigating that. She was killed by another lunatic, nothing to do with my husband.”

“A lunatic named Chen Fengde. Has your husband ever mentioned him?”

“No.”

“Did he ever talk about something called ‘Mengyuan’?” Chen Shi asked, curious himself.

The woman thought for a moment. “He used to have a ‘special ability’ to control his dreams. He told me mysteriously that he could enter my dreams. On our third anniversary, I wanted to go to the Maldives. He said we didn’t need to spend money; we could go in our dreams. That night, I dreamed he took me there, and the next day he asked if I enjoyed the trip. What could I feel in a dream? One summer afternoon, we were napping on a mat. I woke up hot and saw him smiling in his sleep, looking lecherous. Then I saw his little thing harden and stain his shorts. I woke him up and asked what weird dream he had. He was upset… After that, I kept an eye out. This pervert was having wet dreams almost every day, and I had to wash his underwear. I’m sure he was dreaming about other women. Men are all pigs!”

The woman seemed gentle but turned fierce when she spoke, making even Chen Shi blush. “It was just a wet dream. As for dreaming of the Maldives, I think it was just your imagination.”

“I thought so too,” the woman sighed. “Until he got another woman pregnant in a dream! She came to our house with the child, saying she couldn’t raise it and left it with us!”

“Where’s the child?”

“That little brat!” The woman threw a pillow at the girl, who continued drinking her Vitasoy without reacting. “Seven years ago, a woman looking like a vixen came here, said she couldn’t raise the child, and left her. Do I deserve this? Raising my husband’s love child?”

“Are you sure it wasn’t just an affair? Your husband has had one before,” Chen Shi asked carefully.

“An affair? He never leaves the house! He’s as pale as a maiden, even his bathroom needs my help! That woman was an actress, ruined by an unplanned pregnancy. She just dropped off the child and left. How could he seduce an actress? It had to be a dream! I wrote to a newspaper about it. They didn’t believe me, saying it was too far-fetched.”

“Could you avoid using so many expletives?”

“How else can I express my anger? My husband enjoys other women in his dreams and hasn’t touched me in five years!”

“Where did you find ‘New J Bottle Plum’? I couldn’t find it anywhere,” Lin Dongxue asked, changing the subject.

“I have it on my cloud drive. I can send you a link.”

“Thank you so much.”

“The series is good, but seeing that actress who played Li Ping’er makes me angry.” She punched the bed again, reminding Lin Dongxue of a werewolf.