Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 538 - 537: The Thief

Chen Yan tilted her head and smiled as she asked Lin Wanwan, "Wanwan, where’s Mr. Lu? Didn’t bring him along?"

Su Yanwei quickly tugged at her, "Hey, Xiaoyan, these spicy crab claws are your favorite. Let me serve you a couple of pieces."

Gu Yihui asked with a smile, "Who’s this Mr. Lu? Is there a teacher among Wanwan’s admirers?"

Chen Yan laughed and said, "Yes, he’s quite impressive, from Yongcheng University."

Lin Wanwan turned her head toward Chen Yan and said, "Xiaoyan, don’t misunderstand. Mr. Lu and I are just ordinary friends, not like you and Yanwei."

Chen Yan exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!" and continued, "But I think Mr. Lu is interested in you. You’re not together?"

"Xiaoyan, would you like some cherries? I’ll put them in your bowl," Su Yanwei offered, serving her a few cherries.

"Okay," Chen Yan replied to Su Yanwei, then turned back to softly ask Lin Wanwan, "Wanwan, are you really just friends with Mr. Lu? I always thought you two were a couple."

This Chen Yan is really hitting on all the sore spots!

Recently, the name Lu Shouyue has become taboo with Lin Wanwan. Although Su Yanwei tried to change the subject several times, she kept probing about "Mr. Lu," making Lin Wanwan feel annoyed.

She answered coldly, "Ah, why are you so curious? Do you have male friends other than Yanwei?"

Chen Yan was taken aback, "Oh, does being in a relationship mean you can’t have male friends?"

"I never said that," Lin Wanwan smiled indifferently, then turned to speak with Gu Yihui, ignoring Chen Yan completely as if she were invisible.

Chen Yan rolled her eyes silently several times in her heart and stopped trying to please. Meanwhile, she silently mocked Lin Wanwan, thinking she was just being played with; clearly, she thought being pretty would suffice to marry into a wealthy family.

The overall atmosphere during the meal was very harmonious, owing to the sisters reminiscing with Lin Wanwan about childhood fun.

Su Xiaoling’s husband is in the seafood business, and many of the seafood dishes on the table came from him. He is very generous and enthusiastic, clearly a social butterfly.

Gu Yihui’s husband is like her, a high school teacher. They attended Teachers College together and now teach at the same school, living very stably and harmoniously.

After dinner, the siblings and their families gathered on the balcony of Su Yanwei’s room on the second floor to play cards.

Lin Wanwan isn’t very skilled at cards and lost a few hundred, but she was happy. It felt a bit like the joy of playing poker during summer breaks in childhood. It’s been a long time since she touched cards.

If it weren’t for what happened later, it would have been a perfect day.

After finishing dinner at Su Yanwei’s house and about to leave, Lin Wanwan couldn’t find her small perfume bag, which she had with her when she arrived.

The bag was from Golden Globe Fatty, bought as part of an outfit to attend Lu Shouyue’s mother’s birthday banquet, set aside specially by the salespeople. Its value was thirty-two thousand.

The bag also contained ten red envelopes for the New Year, each stuffed with six hundred in cash, and Lin Wanwan had only given out two today. Aside from this, there was a compact and lipstick for touch-ups.

All these weren’t the key point; the most important thing was that Lin Wanwan’s ID card was also inside!

Anything can be lost, but not the ID card.

It’s not about the inconvenience of getting a replacement; it’s about the uncontrollable risks of losing it.

By that time, most of the guests at the Su family had already left, but Lin Wanwan and the Su family members, along with Gu Yihui and her husband, searched up and down the house but couldn’t find it.

Actually, Lin Wanwan remembered clearly that she kept the bag by her side since she came in, even during dinner, she kept it on her chair. Later, when she went upstairs to play cards, she placed the bag on the bedside table in Su Yanwei’s room.

Since people coming and going in the room were all Su family friends and relatives, Lin Wanwan didn’t think to guard it, never expecting the bag to get stolen.

After searching for it for a long time and not finding it, Lin Wanwan said, "Uncle, could you ask around again, see if anyone took it by mistake and it contains my ID card? If we really can’t find it, I’ll have no choice but to call the police; the bag’s worth thirty thousand, enough to file a case."

"Alright, alright, Wanwan, don’t worry. No one would take it; it must be hidden somewhere by the kids running around."

Su Yanwei’s father felt overwhelmed too — what a shame to have a bag stolen during their New Year’s meal, especially in their house!

Hearing Lin Wanwan talk about calling the police, Wang Fang’s eyes gleamed, and she quietly retreated to the storeroom to make a call to her sister-in-law.

This sister-in-law of hers has a habit of stealing, which is why the door at her parent’s sister-in-law’s place is always locked, just to guard against her.

You can’t tear your family apart by publicizing when things are stolen, nor can you call the police. After getting burned a few times, you can only be careful yourself!

Wang Fang hoped today wasn’t an instance of her sister-in-law repeating her bad habit, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.

When the call connected, Wang Fang immediately asked, "Sis-in-law, did you see a black bag today with a little gold ball on the chain? It’s Lin Wanwan’s, Su Zhonghua’s niece, worth over thirty thousand. She’s anxious enough to call the police."

"Oh my, that niece of yours is something. Isn’t she the one who’s supposedly kept by a man who gives her necklaces worth billions? Making such a fuss over a thirty-thousand bag? She’s never seen the cops come to the village; it’ll be quite the spectacle..."

Wang Fang interrupted her sister-in-law’s chatter, becoming certain that she had taken the bag.

"Sis-in-law, please come back to my place and help me find the bag. If this really blows up with the police coming, it’ll ruin the New Year; the young ones don’t care about anything. Besides, she’s not even really my niece."

"I don’t have the time; I just got home."

"Come on, you’re the most careful one. I’m counting on you to help me out here, waiting for you, be sure to come over!"

Sure enough, once Wang Fang’s sister-in-law came dressed in a big down jacket to help look for the bag, the bag was quickly recovered — except for a few missing New Year’s red envelopes, which Lin Wanwan didn’t mind anymore.

She didn’t thank that sister-in-law, just said meaningfully, "She’s really good at finding things."

Everyone remaining, except for a few unmindful ones, understood but chose not to express it openly. After all, they were Su family’s friends and relatives, it was the New Year, and what else could be done?

Wang Fang’s face flushed red. She cheerfully saw Lin Wanwan to her car and insisted on giving her a big bag of vegetables from her own garden, saying they were all homegrown.

Lin Wanwan, considering Su Yanwei’s feelings, naturally said nothing further about it and drove off with her bag.

Wang Fang’s relatives were indeed peculiar; though Lin Wanwan had had some extreme relatives of her own, none would steal.

Lin Wanwan thought if Chen Yan were to become Su Yanwei’s wife someday, her cousin relationship would surely worsen, as Chen Yan is Wang Fang’s niece.

This was her way of taking her annoyance out on things related to Wang Fang.

However, she couldn’t interfere in other people’s relationships, so she could only take it one step at a time.