Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 645 - 643: The Faucet Is Broken

Seeing Lin Wanwan coughing non-stop, Lu Shouyue quickly walked over, crouched down beside the sofa where Lin Wanwan was sitting, and gently patted her back, frowning in self-reproach: "Wanwan, are you okay?"

Lin Wanwan waved her hand, indicating that it was nothing.

After finally finishing her coughing, the atmosphere fell into an awkward silence again.

To speak or not to speak, that was the dilemma!

Lu Shouyue looked at Lin Wanwan intently, while she lowered her eyes, avoiding his gaze.

After a moment of contemplation, Lin Wanwan decided to play dumb to the end.

She voiced the excuse she had previously thought of to fool the police officer: "That person had a gun. After exchanging a few moves with him, I was startled by his shooting and fell into the wardrobe, passing out. The door of the wardrobe in my room is the same as the hidden one in your home in Hai City, so you didn’t notice."

Lu Shouyue didn’t respond immediately. After a moment, he slowly said, "Wanwan, you know that in such major incidents, the members of the police crime scene investigation team will wipe through every nook and cranny of the crime scene?"

Lin Wanwan’s small mouth gaped: "Ah?"

Lu Shouyue gently rubbed his forehead: "Forget it, you’d better not go to the police station tomorrow. I’ll take care of the rest."

Lu Shouyue didn’t press Lin Wanwan into revealing her secret, as long as he himself knew the truth.

Considering Lin Wanwan’s untrained state, she couldn’t face the police directly. Even if he rehearsed a confession with her and devised an alibi, experienced officers would likely see through it. It’s better not to go or say anything.

After all, the armed intruder who died was involved in a major case. The person who acted alongside the intruder and engaged in close combat, with every move being a lethal strike, certainly wasn’t a good person and likely had a murder case on him.

In such a situation, as a victim who had no prior interaction with them, sending Lin Wanwan to the police station was just going through the motions. Lu Shouyue could completely use his influence to handle this.

Having said everything, it was already quite late, and Lu Shouyue stood up to prepare a place for Lin Wanwan to sleep.

This building has two units on each floor, both large flat floors close to 300 square meters, handed over as finely decorated units.

The rooms were plentiful due to the design, and Lu Shouyue didn’t bother to make major layout changes, so there are plenty of guest rooms.

However, he never kept anyone overnight before. When his parents came to Yongcheng, they naturally stayed at his grandmother’s small villa. Other relatives and friends preferred comfortable hotel suites.

So, the guest rooms here were never prepared with beds, but fortunately, there was a tatami study that could serve as a bed once bedding was set up.

Lin Wanwan followed Lu Shouyue as they set up the bed together.

Then Lu Shouyue got a new set of toiletries and skincare products for her to use, pointing out the location of the guest bathroom to her.

He went into the cloakroom and took out a set of female clothes, a suit with a silk slip dress: "It’s new, my mother bought it to hang here. You can wear it."

Lin Wanwan thanked him, only then noticing that she was still wearing her dirty pajamas.

So much had happened tonight that she hadn’t paid attention to these details.

"So that’s it, good night, Wanwan."

"Hey, wait." Lin Wanwan called out to Lu Shouyue, "Mr. Lu, are we still flying to the Ancient City as scheduled tomorrow?"

Lu Shouyue looked into Lin Wanwan’s eyes, guessing that she might have a reason she couldn’t avoid going, and said: "Hmm, we’ll go as scheduled."

"What about the police station here?"

"Don’t worry, we don’t need to appear. I’ll handle everything, good night."

"Good night," Lin Wanwan said, "thank you."

"I told you, no need to be polite with me."

Lu Shouyue left, and Lin Wanwan took the clothes and toiletries into the bathroom to shower.

She had actually already showered earlier at her own home, but after fights and tumbling through branches, she was dirty again and couldn’t sleep without washing up.

Tonight, everything seemed to go wrong; she was jinxed. Lin Wanwan undressed only to find out that the shower head in this shower stall wasn’t dispensing water!

Lin Wanwan had to put her clothes back on and go out to find Lu Shouyue. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Mr. Lu, the shower won’t dispense water, can you help me take a look?"

Lu Shouyue suddenly remembered that because the shower had been unused for so long, the workers had turned off the water valve during the last inspection.

But he didn’t plan to turn it on, saying instead: "It might be broken. My master bedroom has a built-in bathroom, does that bother you?"

Lin Wanwan hesitated for a moment but could only accept.

"You go ahead." After running hot water for her, Lu Shouyue exited and sat on the Imperial Concubine chair in the room, playing a mobile game.

While showering in the bathroom, Lin Wanwan pondered over the potential slip-ups.

Lu Shouyue certainly didn’t believe her story, but she had no choice but to say it.

Deny everything; without evidence, given the bizarre circumstances, no one could prove otherwise.

This was different from Xiao Chong catching her descending from the sky.

Dealing with Lu Shouyue was relatively easy; the trouble was with the police.

If the police discovered her sudden disappearance and reappearance, it would be hard to explain and wouldn’t make sense. But as someone who always abides by the law, she wouldn’t know how to fabricate a crime scene.

Moreover, with a life on the line, she couldn’t act recklessly.

She had seen Xiao Chong solve cases, knew that expert investigators could assess the scene conditions through fingerprints and footprints.

And modern times were a whole 1,400 years more advanced than the Great Tang, so forensic science was incomparable.

In this situation, doing nothing was better than deliberately covering up. After all, she was just a victim, and the police investigation wouldn’t focus on her.

If she did nothing, her room being full of her traces and footprints would be normal. But if she deliberately fabricated the scene for a lie, it could be disastrous and might backfire.

Once she figured it out, Lin Wanwan felt relieved.

She quickly finished showering, put on Lu’s mother’s silk dress, applied a bit of moisturizer, opened the bathroom door, and stepped out.

"Mr. Lu, I’m finished."

Lu Shouyue looked up from his mobile game, feeling as if a white light flashed across his heart.

The Lin Wanwan before him, in a beige silk slip dress with a lingering mist on her body, her icy skin like snow, was like a mermaid emerging from the water.

Being accustomed to going barefoot at home, he hadn’t given Lin Wanwan slippers; now she was barefoot too.

Each of her steps felt like they landed on his heart.

Lu Shouyue suddenly felt his hands, holding the phone, become a bit slippery. Ignoring his teammates, he tossed the phone aside, stood up abruptly, and said, "I’ll get you some slippers. Wait a moment."

"Hey, it’s okay, no need." Lin Wanwan called, but Lu Shouyue had already run out of the room, so she had to accept his kindness and wait in place.

From earlier on, Lu Shouyue was multi-tasking, not focusing on the game but repeatedly pondering something in his heart.

Even though many things happened tonight, such opportunities were rare, making him want to try again.