Conan: Ran turns into an elementary school student and calls me dad.

Chapter 14 Is this lecherous guy implying that I should sleep with him?

"Do you understand?"

After Lin Xiuyi finished giving his instructions, the Chinese man who had spoken earlier, Li Long, couldn't help but say something.

"Boss, I need to stay by your side to protect your safety. Or should we let Miss Judy go to the police station to meet with them?"

Lin Xiuyi smiled nonchalantly: "Don't worry, this is Japan, the security is much better than in America. Besides, I'm not famous here, no one will specifically target me."

"But..." Li Long still hesitated, his expression full of worry.

He was Lin Xiuyi's true confidant, having followed Lin Xiuyi for over a decade.

Lin Xiuyi had saved his family's lives in his early years, and this kindness made him loyal to Lin Xiuyi ever since he became her bodyguard, wishing he could stay by her side every step of the way.

"There's nothing to 'but' about," Lin Xiuyi interrupted him, glancing at Judy beside her. "Don't worry, with this secretary's skills, she'll definitely be able to protect me."

Upon hearing this, Judy's heart skipped a beat, and her fingers gripping the folder tightened instinctively.

Has he already discovered my identity?

She forced herself to remain calm, lowering her eyes to hide the panic in them, and dared not meet Lin Xiu's gaze.

The four bodyguards' expressions turned somewhat strange after hearing Lin Xiuyi's words.

The woman in front of me, Miss Judy, is delicate-looking and dressed in a sexy business suit. She looks like an office secretary, not someone who can fight at all.

In the eyes of these muscular bodyguards who have seen countless battles and are used to bloodshed, no matter how good a woman is at fighting, she is far less reliable than them.

They almost immediately concluded that the boss had taken a liking to Miss Judy and was deliberately looking for an excuse to spend time alone with her.

They weren't the only ones thinking this way; the person behind Lin Xiuyi also thought so.

"snort!"

Eri Kisaki angrily slammed the documents on the table, then plopped back down on the sofa, crossed her arms, her face as black as the bottom of a pot, and remained silent with her lips pursed.

Lin Xiuyi was preoccupied with finding his daughter Xiaolan and the doubts surrounding confirming Judy's identity.

Although he noticed Eri's emotional change, he knew that explaining now would be useless and would only make things worse, so he simply pretended not to see it and continued to arrange the follow-up matters.

……

It wasn't until after Lin Xiuyi left the apartment with Judy and several bodyguards that Kuriyama Midori belatedly realized what had happened.

She cautiously approached Eri Kisaki, picked up the scattered documents, and asked softly, "Ms. Kisaki, is that Mr. Hayashi Hideichi... very rich?"

"Didn't I just say that?" Eri Kisaki's tone still carried lingering anger. "That bastard made his first fortune by writing novels in his early years, and then invested everywhere. Now he's rolling in money and doesn't need to work at all."

So that's what "not working" means!

Kuriyama Midori paused, holding the document. She had just thought that Lin Xiuyi was a gigolo who only had a place to live because of Teacher Fei.

Luckily, I didn't say anything stupid, or it would have been too embarrassing.

But seeing Eri Kisaki's gloomy face, which looked like it could drip water, Midori Kuriyama didn't dare to say anything more. She could only silently organize the documents and stand quietly to the side waiting for orders.

……

Lin Xiuyi and her group went down to the apartment building, where a black Mercedes-Benz S600 Pullman Guard was already parked.

This is a specially made bulletproof car. It was originally Lin Xiuyi's private car in the United States, and it was specially airlifted here for this trip to Japan.

Judy stepped forward first, opened the driver's side door, got in, and expertly fastened her seatbelt.

Lin Xiuyi went around to the back seat, opened the car door, and got in.

After the car started moving smoothly, Lin Xiuyi calmly reached out and opened the hidden compartment below the car door.

There was a black pistol in the hidden compartment. After confirming that the pistol was still there, he half-closed the compartment, but his finger remained on the edge of the compartment, ready to open it again at any time.

He wasn't afraid of Judy. If the woman in front of him really was FBI agent Judy St. Timilion, given his status and connections in America, let alone an ordinary agent like Judy, even the higher-ups in the FBI would have to go to great lengths to investigate him.

What Lin Xiuyi was really worried about was that the Judy in front of him was an imposter, such as Vermouth in disguise.

If that were the case, given the past entanglements between him and that witch, he was genuinely afraid that she might suddenly become cold-blooded and insane, attacking him without warning.

To test whether the Judy in front of him was real or fake, Lin Xiuyi leaned back in his chair and casually began to speak, revealing some private past events that only happened between him and Vermouth and that no outsider could possibly know.

As he spoke, he subtly observed Judy's expression through the rearview mirror inside the car.

Seeing that she looked blank and didn't seem to be faking it, Lin Xiuyi brought up his ex-girlfriend in America, Sharon Vineyard!

This time, Judy finally showed a clear reaction on her face!

She had been focused on driving with bright eyes, but her gaze suddenly darkened, her fingers tightened around the steering wheel, and she even unconsciously sped up the car by half a beat.

Seeing this, Lin Xiuyi was completely certain that the woman in front of him was Judy herself!

If it were Vermouth, with that witch's meticulous mind and superb disguise skills, she should have already realized that he was testing her from the very first question he asked.

Moreover, this was his first meeting with Judy, so he couldn't possibly know about Judy's personal grievances.

Therefore, on this final crucial question, Vermouth will most likely pretend to have no reaction in order to avoid revealing her identity.

Only the real Judy would react so strongly and emotionally upon hearing the name Sharon Vineyard.

Because at this point, she already suspected that Sharon was Vermouth, the enemy who killed her father.

"Boss, why are you telling me all this?"

Judy quickly realized her own abnormality, took a deep breath, composed herself, and tried to cover up her earlier lapse in composure.

"It's nothing." Lin Xiuyi smiled inexplicably, her tone relaxed. "I just wanted you, as my secretary, to know more about my past. After all, we might be spending a lot of time together in the future."

Lin Xiuyi's original intention was that since everyone would likely have to deal with Vermouth together in the future, it wouldn't hurt to get to know each other beforehand.

But Judy didn't expect that his words would be interpreted in such a completely different way.

"That guy really is a lecher!" Judy cursed inwardly.

So all those words he just said weren't about doubting my identity at all, but rather that he had his eye on me!

She even said something about "spending more time together in the future," which is clearly implying that she should stay by his side and serve him every night.

Although she still wore a professional smile, Judy's eyes had turned cold.

She secretly vowed that once this undercover mission was completed and she no longer needed the identity of a secretary, she would teach this lecherous man a lesson and let him know that he was not someone to be trifled with!