manynovel Chapter 7 The Tacit Understanding Between Lovers
Chapter 7 The Tacit Understanding Between Lovers
No wonder Ran has always lived at the Mouri Detective Agency instead of with her mother.
It turns out that the famous undefeated queen already had a new lover and even another daughter!
However... this seems reasonable.
After all, Xiaolan's biological father has been gone for so many years...
Filled with shock and astonishment, Shinichi Kudo walked towards his home.
Before that, he had to go to Professor Agasa's house.
Having learned so much all at once, Shinichi Kudo felt he would go crazy if he didn't confide in someone.
……
After Shinichi Kudo left, Eri Kisaki glanced sideways at Shuichi Hayashi.
"After all these years, you haven't changed a bit in your lying ways."
"I had no choice," Lin Xiuyi shrugged, looking completely innocent.
"...I think that's where I lost back then," Kogoro Mouri muttered to himself.
He knew Eri Kisaki earlier than Hayashi Hideaki.
But when it comes to chatting and making Eri happy, my younger self was far from being good at it.
In addition, both of them were top students; now one is a well-known lawyer, and the other is a prominent figure in the United States.
And myself...
Uh,
Kogoro Mouri felt increasingly troubled and inferior the more he thought about it, and the more he felt that his defeat back then was not unjustified.
"What are you muttering about?" Ruri nudged Kogoro Mouri with her elbow.
"Oh, no, nothing..." Kogoro Mouri snapped back to reality and hurriedly waved his hands to cover up his misunderstanding.
The group discussed for a while how to keep Xiaolan's shrinking a secret.
As a result, Ran temporarily moved in with Eri.
As for the rest, just do as Lin Xiuyi just said.
To the outside world, they continued to use the story of "Lin Xiaolan, a half-sister from the same mother but different fathers" fabricated by Lin Xiuyi.
Lin Xiuyi had not returned for seventeen years, and most of Eri's acquaintances assumed that he, Ran's biological father, had long since passed away.
Now, even if I heard that Eri Kisaki had a child with another man, I wouldn't be too surprised.
……
As night deepened, Eri Kisaki's MINI Cooper drove through the streets of Tokyo.
The neon lights outside the car window rushed past, casting dappled light and shadow on Eri's sharply defined profile.
She gripped the steering wheel, glancing at Lin Xiuyi in the passenger seat out of the corner of her eye, and couldn't help but speak sarcastically.
"How come our American tycoons don't even have a place to stay?"
"I rushed over here as soon as I received your letter, without bringing anything with me except my plane ticket."
Lin Xiuyi smiled ingratiatingly, but the second half of his statement was clearly a fabricated lie.
How could he possibly go out without money?
However, they had figured out Eri's proud and aloof nature. If they didn't give her a way out, she would definitely be forced to stay in a hotel tonight.
But the first half of the statement is absolutely true.
Upon receiving Eri Kisaki's letter, he immediately arranged for a chartered plane and a private jet, but both would take several hours to complete due to procedures.
In his desperation, Lin Xiuyi abandoned his bodyguards and went to the airport to have someone cancel a ticket for the nearest flight to Japan at a high price, so he could immediately buy a new one.
Using this method, Lin Xiuyi was able to arrive in Japan fourteen hours after receiving the letter.
Eri Kisaki naturally sensed this urgency, so she didn't bother to expose the obvious lie, but she still wouldn't let it go.
"Hmph, I don't see any sign of you being anxious."
As she questioned him, she raised her right hand from the steering wheel and lightly touched her cheek with her fingertips.
This subtle gesture warmed Lin Xiuyi's heart instantly.
This was a code they set up when they participated in a competition in high school: touching the face with the right hand meant "There's a question, answer carefully."
Lin Xiuyi immediately followed her gaze to the rearview mirror and saw Xiao Lan in the back seat staring blankly out the window, clearly unaware of the inconsistency in their conversation about flight duration.
"Why am I not in a hurry?"
Lin Xiuyi immediately adopted a pitiful expression, and her voice rose several decibels.
"A flight from America to Japan takes at least twelve hours, but after receiving your letter, I was already at the Mori office in just fourteen hours!"
In the rearview mirror, Xiaolan's eyes visibly brightened, and the corners of her mouth subtly curled up before quickly pressing down.
Lin Xiuyi silently mouthed "Thank you," but Fei Yingli gave a haughty snort, though the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curve upwards into a slight arc.
That bastard, he finally remembered the code from back then.
As the car drew closer to Eri's apartment, Ran's barely audible voice suddenly came from the back seat: "Do you really have to keep my affairs a secret from Shinichi?"
Lin Xiuyi was about to speak, carefully choosing his words, when Fei Yingli decisively refused: "No way! I've already said it before, you're not allowed to associate with that kid!"
"But..." Xiaolan twisted the hem of her clothes in grievance. When she looked up, her wet eyes looked at Lin Xiuyi, and she looked just like a little kitten asking for help.
Lin Xiuyi's heart softened, and she quickly tried to smooth things over: "Let's wait and see how things go. If you still can't change back after a while, then..."
"No! I said no, and that means no!" Eri Kisaki abruptly interrupted him, her fingers gripping the steering wheel turning white.
Seeing Ran's head droop instantly in the back seat, Lin Xiuyi felt a pang of heartache and couldn't help but ask, "Eri, why are you so hostile towards Shinichi Kudo? He's Ran's friend, after all."
Before she could finish speaking, Eri Kisaki suddenly gritted her teeth and let out a cold laugh, her voice filled with suppressed anger: "Friend? That kid is a month younger than Ran; he was born in May!"
Lin Xiuyi was first stunned, then felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
Being born in May means that the conception occurred in July of the previous year!
July seventeen years ago was the time when he left Japan!
"This...this can't be possible..."
His voice was slightly stammering, and he subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror, afraid that Xiaolan would understand the hidden meaning.
"Impossible?" Eri glanced at him, her tone icy. "After you ran away, that woman came looking for me, and we had a huge fight... Do you want to hear what we had?"
"This... never mind..." Lin Xiuyi nervously pressed her temples and hurriedly looked away.
"Just let it go?" Eri Kisaki snorted, but her voice softened. "What's done is done; it's not so easy to just let it go."
Just then, Ran, sitting in the back seat, suddenly poked her head out curiously: "Mom, Shinichi is a month younger than me, is there a problem?"
"How could there be a problem? Your mother was just..."
Lin Xiuyi wanted to gloss over the matter, but unexpectedly, Fei Yingli seemed determined to make things clear today.
She slammed on the brakes, and after the car came to a stop on the side of the road,
Eri Kisaki looked at her daughter through the rearview mirror.
"Ran, do you know why I've always been against you associating with that kid Kudo?"