Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

Chapter 342 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (53)

Lu Liruan rubbed her throbbing temples, sighed a few times, and opened the door with her head down and hair disheveled.

"Thorn-"

As soon as she opened the door, Lu Liruan heard the sound of stir-frying coming from the kitchen, and the aroma wafted over.

Why is this child still at home?

Oh!

He's off today!

For a moment, Lu Liruan wanted to turn around and go back into the house to pretend she hadn't woken up yet, but before she could do it, Jin Shuhe had already spotted her.

"Sister Li Ruan! Go wash up, dinner will be ready soon!"

Jin Shuhe was tall and big, but he was wearing a pink apron with a little rabbit pattern. The straps accentuated his narrow waistline. He was holding a shovel, which didn't look out of place at all. It gave off a warm and gentle feeling of home.

"Why didn't you sleep a little longer?" Lu Liruan replied awkwardly, slinking towards the bathroom with her tail between her legs.

"I'm used to this routine, so I'll wake up at the right time." Jin Shuhe skillfully tossed the seasonings and side dishes into the pot.

In fact, he barely slept all night... He only dozed off for a short while before regaining his energy, and when he opened his eyes, he even wondered if he had had a good dream.

As he stepped out of the room, the sky was just beginning to lighten with a pale, fish-belly white. Seeing the wrinkles on the living room sofa in the cold, dim light, he realized that what had happened in the middle of the night was indeed true.

Then he couldn't sleep at all.

I spent almost two more hours in the living room and bedroom, but Sister Li Ruan's bedroom door remained tightly closed.

The doors in a house are usually not complicated; they are simply closed gently when going to sleep.

Jin Shuhe suppressed the urge to secretly open Li Ruan's door and peek inside, just to make sure Li Ruan was still in the room.

He got up and began cleaning.

After cleaning the living room and bathroom, I started cleaning the kitchen, taking out the ingredients from the refrigerator, and preparing to cook.

Finally, Sister Li Ruan came out.

Lu Liruan has myopia of 300 degrees, but even without her glasses, she could feel that Jin Shuhe's gaze was bright and focused as he looked at her.

After washing up, Lu Liruan saw four or five dishes on the table.

"Wow! This is such a lavish breakfast!" she couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's getting late, it's almost noon." Jin Shuhe brought out a bowl of soup.

"Sister Li Ruan helped me take off my apron."

He turned around and said naturally.

Lu Liruan helped him untie the belt, and when he turned around, she noticed a red scar on his exposed arm.

"What happened?!" Lu Liruan instinctively grabbed his arm and pulled him in front of her.

"It's nothing, I just accidentally got splattered with oil." He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the oil in the pan had boiled over and the food was splattering with oil.

"Why aren't you applying any medicine? Otherwise, you'll get blisters!" Lu Liruan felt pain just looking at it.

"You've already eaten, right? I rinsed it with cold water." Jin Shuhe pursed her lips. "Sister Li Ruan was so worried about me."

Isn't that nonsense?!

Lu Liruan felt somewhat powerless. This child often talks about these random things now, and the key is that he can't keep things to himself. No matter what, she has lived six years longer than him, and sometimes she can't help but notice. It's really frustrating.

Lu Liruan even wanted to grab him and shout: What! Didn't I care about you before!

The way you're acting now makes it seem like you're just fooling and deceiving yourself...

But seeing his happy and cheerful appearance, Lu Liruan couldn't bring herself to say it, not wanting to see him looking dejected and disappointed.

She's not as cute as she was when she was little!

Lu Liruan thought bitterly: How obedient and innocent she was when she was little! With long arms and legs, she looked like a paper doll. The difference between now and then is just too great.

Do boys change this much as they grow up? My height was about the same when I was seventeen or eighteen, and my facial features haven't changed much, but it just feels like... I've completely changed.

Jin Shuhe had no idea that his sister Li Ruan, sitting in front of him, had already begun to reminisce about what he looked like when he was a child.

He even became so engrossed in thinking about it that he stopped eating with his chopsticks.

"Sister Li Ruan? What's wrong?"

"Oh? It's nothing..."

Looking at the table covered with plates, Lu Liruan suddenly said seriously, "Don't copy my dad! I feel like you've inherited his skills..."

Jin Shuhe paused.

He was indeed learning from his uncle.

Although he knew that what Sister Li Ruan was saying was that he cooked as recklessly as his uncle, he still felt a little guilty that he had been seen through...

Looking at his uncle and aunt, he felt that he had to treat them as well as his uncle treated his aunt so that Sister Li Ruan would respect him and stop seeing him as a younger brother.

He was indeed working silently in that direction and trying his best to appear mature and reliable, even though Jin Shuhe himself didn't quite understand what it meant to be mature and reliable at his age.

Because he fell in love with his older sister, he tried his best to become an adult.

Jin Shuhe originally thought he could stay at home with Sister Li Ruan today, but the phone rang in the afternoon.

"Come join us on set!"

Wu Qidong's voice was very serious, and he didn't ask Jin Shuhe where he was or what he was doing.

He always receives any order.

Lu Liruan heard him changing clothes: "What's wrong?"

"Something urgent came up at work." Jin Shuhe said, sounding a little dejected. "Sister Li Ruan, remember to eat dinner tonight and don't stay up too late. I'll make sure to let you know I'm safe!"

"Okay, I understand. Go ahead and do it." Lu Liruan patted his shoulder.

Wu Qidong told him to go to his workplace first and have a short meeting before setting off.

When he entered, the atmosphere in the entire office had already become tense.

The head of the forensic department upstairs also arrived, sitting in a swivel chair, looking at some documents on the computer while making a phone call and giving instructions.

"You're here, Shuhe. Have a seat. Deputy Captain Wu will be here soon." Qin Wen had an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Smoking is prohibited in their office, but it still often smells of smoke.

Someone brought it in because they were smoking too heavily outside.

Working day and night is commonplace for them in this line of work; staying up for two days and one night is normal. When they are tired, most of them smoke to keep going.

The outdoor emergency exit is so choking at night that you have to cover your nose when you open the door.

"Coming or not?"

Noticing Jin Shuhe staring at his cigarettes, Qin Wen knocked one out of the pack and teased Jin Shuhe.

The two new members in their group are quite different. One lacks drive and is too quiet, while the other is too serious.

He was like an old scholar right after graduation, with decent professional skills, but he was also very rigid in his daily life, which Qin Wen found interesting.

When Qin Wen first started working the same shift with him, he asked the boy if he smoked, and the boy shook his head and said, "I don't smoke."

"Don't you smoke or don't know how to smoke?" Qin Wen looked at his hands and indeed found no trace of smoking.

"I don't smoke."

"Those of us in this line of work have to learn this sooner or later! It's not for any other reason than when you're at your breaking point, there's really nothing else that can help! Several of the older ladies in our office know how to smoke, why don't you give it a try?"

Qin Wen is a chatterbox, and although he's more than ten years older than Jin Shuhe, he has no sense of propriety whatsoever.

"No, smoking will make it smell bad," Jin Shuhe thought for a moment and answered seriously.

"what!"

Qin Wen laughed: "What, your mom won't let you smoke? Are you afraid she'll scold you if she smells it?"

"No."

"So...your girlfriend doesn't like you smoking?" Qin Wen asked gossiping while helping him organize the files, and then keenly observed that the guy's eyes twitched when his girlfriend was mentioned.

Wow! You're not so old-fashioned after all! You found a girlfriend so early?

Jin Shuhe didn't respond to his teasing anymore, but she still refused the cigarettes he offered her every time afterward.

"I come!"

As Chen Mingkang walked over carrying his laptop, he swiped a cigarette from the man's pack: "Looks like we're in for another tough time—"

"What case is it?" Jin Shuhe asked, noticing the serious expressions on everyone's faces.

"I don't know. The branch office below reported that they found a skeletonized body. We have to go and investigate." When it came to business, Qin Wen's playful demeanor vanished.

"Have you brought any clothes?"

"No."

"Deputy Captain Wu, are you treating me like an old man? This trip will probably take several days, you should bring two sets of clothes to change into!" Qin Wen nudged him: "Never mind, I'll lend you a shirt, come on, come on, we have to go to the meeting!"

The meeting briefly described the situation: the body was found in a deserted area in a county southwest of Pucheng.

It was a wasteland. The county originally planned to develop it into a farmhouse or something, but it has been delayed and has not been completed.

This time, it was discovered by two young couples who were looking for a place to camp.

They said that after setting up camp at night, they could always smell a foul odor, which they thought might be animal excrement nearby.

But the smell was quite strong, so they decided to wander around to eliminate the danger. They ended up in a thicket of weeds on a steep slope and found the body. One of them fainted from fright.

The local police station cordoned off the scene, but because they felt the case was serious and required technical support, they reported it to the municipal bureau.

"Is that place within our jurisdiction?" Jin Shuhe wasn't fully familiar with the map yet.

"Yes, we're almost there, so it'll take us two hours to drive there." Chen Mingkang flicked the keys in his hand. "I'm the driver today. You practice a bit, then you can drive. Most of the drivers here are kids!"

"Stop talking nonsense and bullying the younger ones!" After Wu Qidong finished speaking, he heard their murmurs and cursed, "Get moving! Don't be like you have glue on your butts!"

Not only did they handle the past major cases, but a whole carload of forensic experts followed them, heading to the scene in a grand procession.

Jin Shuhe felt nervous in the car. Since joining the Major Crimes Unit, he had never truly participated in a crime scene. The only crime scene he had ever experienced was...

Thinking of this, his fingertips involuntarily turned cold, and he tried his best to calm himself down.

He has to overcome his psychological problems. If he can't even get past this hurdle, what kind of work can he do?

Jin Shuhe was stubborn and strong-willed by nature. He bit his cheek to prevent anyone around him from noticing anything unusual.

By the time they arrived at their destination, it was already dark, and a large cordon had been set up, making everyone's expression grim.

The cordon cordon covers the crime scene, and it will be very precise if it can be so precise. There must be a reason why it's so large.

Sure enough, the police officers at the scene told them that after a preliminary investigation, the body was not complete, but they could not tell whether it was incomplete from the beginning or whether the incompleteness was caused by surrounding animals or something else after the skeleton had turned to skeletal form. The whole area needed to be carefully investigated.

"What's missing?" Qin Wen asked.

"That depends on the forensic doctor."

As they were talking, the forensic examination vehicle arrived. A smart woman in sportswear, accompanied by two junior forensic doctors who looked like newbies, walked over quickly, carrying a toolbox.

"Forensic Doctor Xia," Wu Qidong greeted.

"Hmm, where's the body?"

After understanding the situation, forensic doctor Xia strode downstairs, accompanied by Jin Shuhe and the others.

"Huff—" After walking for a while, Qi Silang, who had entered the major case with Jin Shuhe, began to pant. It wasn't that he was lacking in stamina, but rather that the terrain here was completely chaotic. The weeds were waist-high, and there were pits and ridges below, so he couldn't see anything. He walked with his muscles tense, afraid that he might accidentally fall somewhere.

Jin Shuhe wasn't in much better shape. His exposed skin was scratched countless times by the grass, and the scalded areas were painfully cut, causing him to sweat profusely.

The medicine that Sister Li Ruan applied must have all been rubbed off...

The one walking the fastest was actually the forensic doctor Xia in front; with her ponytail swinging back and forth, she had already left them far behind.

"Sister Xia is amazing..." Qi Silang gave a thumbs up.

"She has a Level 2 track and field athlete certificate. Do you think this is a joke? Back then, when she bumped into a suspect at the scene, this woman threw down her investigation kit and chased after him. Even Deputy Captain Wu couldn't outrun her. She's incredibly impressive!"

"If it weren't for her exceptional professional skills, we'd have to ask her to come over for even major cases..."

Jin Shuhe was also hearing about this place for the first time; it truly was a place where hidden talents resided.

Listening to the idle chatter around him, Jin Shuhe felt much better, but the moment he saw the corpse, he immediately lost his composure.

"Go throw up over there! If you spit on the evidence, I'll skin you alive!" Sister Xia's voice was penetrating. Qin Wen, very experienced, grabbed the two newcomers by the arms and dragged them aside.

After they had finished vomiting, he waved them away and said, "Go find the missing hand and foot, and shout when you find them!"

No one takes good care of them; they all come here in large numbers, so they'll get used to it sooner and become useful individuals.

Jin Shuhe didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky today, but he found the foot. When the flashlight swept across the foot, which had been gnawed by an animal and was torn apart like a detached hem, his vision went black again. He gritted his teeth to keep from spitting it out.

Take two deep breaths: "I've found the foot here!"

The forensic investigators came over, and someone patted him on the shoulder: "Good job, you've got potential!"

After the search was completed and he ate the warning tape, Wu Qidong tossed him a bottle of mineral water: "Not bad, you didn't mess things up."

Jin Shuhe's legs went weak. He squatted down under a tree, not caring about being clean or dirty, and took a couple of sips of water.

Oh, right! Let Sister Li Ruan know you're safe!

He took out his phone; it was 10:30 p.m.

His message had barely been sent when Sister Li Ruan replied instantly: "Are you outside? Take a picture so I can see you~"

Jin Shuhe turned the camera around, took a picture of his upper body, and sent it: "What is Sister Li Ruan doing, squatting under the tree?"

"Whee!"

Lu Liruan sent over a photo. She was leaning back on the sofa, looking up at the camera with feigned ease, and holding a bag of potato chips in her hand.

The warmth and comfort emanating from the screen seemed to instantly soothe Jin Shuhe's emotions.

He wiped his hands on his already filthy clothes before carefully enlarging Sister Li Ruan's photo.