"Did you take any photos?"
Gu Lanxin nodded, "Of course, I did!"
Gu Lanxin searched through her album for a while and found a photo of the chocolate shop, including a dazzling array of chocolate pictures.
Hua Jinyan quickly scanned through them, ultimately pausing on a photo that featured a person.
A person wearing a ghost mask and clad in a black cloak.
Seeing her son fixated on this photo, Gu Lanxin explained, "Foreigners take Halloween seriously. Although there’s still some time until Halloween, this chocolate shop has already launched Halloween chocolates. I didn’t buy any—they were all ghost-face chocolates. Are you interested in this? If I had known, I would have bought some!"
Hua Jinyan pursed his lips and asked, "Did all the chocolate go to the doctor?"
Gu Lanxin nodded, "All of it for testing."
Hua Jinyan’s brows furrowed; something didn’t feel quite right.
Since when do doctors also test food?
Hua Jinyan pressed on, "Do you know that doctor well? Is he the one who examined Little Taotie before?"
Gu Lanxin recalled, "Probably not, but I saw him in the doctor’s office; he should be in charge around here too. He was wearing a mask, so I couldn’t see his face."
"Go to the doctor’s office and ask about it. See when you can get the food testing report."
Without asking why, Gu Lanxin went off to do just that.
After a while, Gu Lanxin returned with a grave expression.
There was no need to ask—just seeing her face, Hua Jinyan could guess the outcome, "A fake doctor?"
Gu Lanxin nodded, "The real doctor told me they were expecting an intern today, so at first, he thought that person was the intern, which was why he left him in the office to sit for a while. But then the fake doctor left, and an actual intern arrived, mentioning there had been a rear-end collision on the way that caused bad traffic, hence the late arrival."
"An accident, a fake intern..." Hua Jinyan narrowed his eyes, guessing it was all a setup from the start.
The car accident was deliberate, simply a means to delay the intern’s arrival at the hospital.
During this time, the fake intern pretended to be the intern to access the doctor’s office, getting mistaken for a doctor and thus gaining trust.
Using this layer of trust, he tricked them out of the chocolates.
All this effort further proved that there was something wrong with the chocolates.
It was the opposite party’s urge to destroy the evidence.
This rush to deceive away the remaining chocolates—what were they afraid of? Were they worried about an investigation by the Special Department in the ancient castle?
Remembering how the Ghost-faced People ran away at the sight of him, Hua Jinyan was certain that they went through all this trouble to avoid him.
"The chocolate... there’s something wrong with it, isn’t there?" Gu Lanxin asked nervously.
As she asked this, she already had a confirmed answer in her mind.
After all, having been a powerful figure in the business world, she was no naive fool.
Putting all these clues together, she could guess that there was definitely something wrong with the chocolate, and that the fake doctor was there to destroy the evidence.
Hua Jinyan sighed, "It’s nothing to do with you."
"How can it not involve me! It was me who bought the chocolate, it was through me that it got into her hands!"
"Little Taotie wouldn’t eat anything poisonous."
Gu Lanxin paused, looking at him with confusion.
Hua Jinyan had long noticed that Little Taotie seemed quite sensitive to the freshness of food—if there was something wrong with the food, she wouldn’t eat it.
The chocolate did have an issue, but it wasn’t poison; of that, he was certain.
Gu Lanxin asked, "The chocolate isn’t poisonous? Was it tainted with a drug that induces unconsciousness?"
"That’s not it either."
Hua Jinyan’s gaze deepened.
Little Taotie was indeed a little foodie, slightly gluttonous, but under those circumstances, when the two were caught by the bodyguards, she shouldn’t have been greedy. That level of temptation to stab in the back could only be—Evil Spirit Chocolate!