Chapter: 5546

An Kai Feng looked disappointed and sighed, "So it seems the noble lord is probably not in Jinling..."

An Chong Qiu nodded in agreement, "I think we're on the same page if this response time is a bit longer. I estimate that the noble lord is probably indeed not in Jinling."

As he was speaking, An Chong Qiu added, "And Song Wan Ting also mentioned that the noble lord has already left Jinling during our conversation. I've been wondering if it's related to that thing after he left New York and stayed overseas for so long."

An Kai Feng hummed in skepticism, "That can't be confirmed. Maybe he just hasn't come back yet."

An Chong Qiu nodded in agreement, "I think we're on the same page if this response time is a bit longer. I estimate that the noble lord is probably indeed not in Jinling."

As he was speaking, An Chong Qiu added, "And Song Wan Ting also mentioned that the noble lord has already left Jinling during our conversation. I've been wondering if it's related to that thing after he left New York and stayed overseas for so long."

An Kai Feng hummed in skepticism, "That can't be confirmed. Maybe he just hasn't come back yet."

Li Yalin witnessed the two men gradually diverging from their direction, and coughed twice before opening his mouth: "Ah-ah... You two can't simply determine whether someone is in Jinling or not based on response time alone. Even the most brainless criminal knows how to manipulate the temperature and environment of a corpse to interfere with the police's judgment of the time of death. What makes you think that just because someone responds quickly, they must be in Jinling, and if they respond slowly, they mustn't be?"

An Chong Qiu said: "Old Li, I actually don't have such absolute certainty. I'm just thinking that if Song Miss knows he's in Jinling, according to our habits, we would immediately think of calling him;"

"But if we know he's currently outside, then before we call, we'll consider whether the situation is urgent, whether the other party is busy, and whether our call will disturb them. If it's not an extremely urgent matter, we might wait until most people are less busy in the evening to contact the other party;"

"If the other party is abroad, we'll have to take into account the time difference. Although it's already afternoon here, on the other side of the earth, the sky may still be dark at this moment..."

Li Yalin chuckled: "So your judgment is very one-sided. You can only confirm that if Song Miss responds quickly, the noble lord is probably in Jinling, but now she hasn't responded quickly, you also can't conclude he's not in Jinling. You should consider that the other party may also be considering this level of interference."

Li Yalin said these words and couldn't help feeling a sigh: "You two brothers shouldn't be too clever for your own good... I agreed to leave out Ye Chen's identity information, but now you've already arrived in Jinling, don't go around getting yourself into trouble. Following this line, you'll definitely have unexpected surprises..."

An Chong Qiu listened and couldn't help asking: "Old Li, what do you mean? Are we likely to find the noble lord still in Jinling?"

Li Yalin hurriedly said: "I didn't say he's definitely there. I just think that everyone shouldn't be so hasty. The next negative judgment is like solving a case together - the most feared thing is being too quick to negate something, once you negate it, you'll block your own path. It's like we cracked the missing person's case, although it seemed like the people around the missing person were all very fond of him and cared about him deeply, but you absolutely cannot deny any suspect in your heart, not even his parents, until the evidence is sufficient to prove them innocent."

As he spoke, Li Yalin added: "Since we've already arrived in Jinling, I think we shouldn't dismiss Jinling so easily. Let's first believe that Ye Chen may be in Jinling and the noble lord may also be."

"Ah, Li Yalin's words are right! We've been too quick to dismiss a case in the past, so it took us this many years to finally find Ye Chen. Sometimes, you need to go against your intuition and follow the evidence. If we don't do that, we'll just be stuck in our own biases."

An Chong Qiu nodded: "After Sister Ye's disappearance, we searched Jinling for a while but couldn't find any leads on Ye Chen's whereabouts. At that time, we just relied on our intuition and thought Ye Chen must have left Jinling. Then we went outside of Jinling to look for him and spent 20 years without finding anything."

An Ke Feng fell silent for a moment before suddenly looking up with a serious expression: "Now that I think about it, the situation in Jinling is indeed deep and complex! Not just that, but based on our current understanding of the scattered clues, I suspect that Noble Lord should be from Jinling!"

"It's true," An Chong Qiu also agreed. "Noble Lord chose to hold a Spring Dan auction in Jinling and gave the opportunity to the local Song family group. Moreover, I received some information saying that the Song family group donated over 100 billion US dollars in taxes and another 100 billion US dollars in charitable donations after the auction. These funds should have come from the auction proceeds!"

As he spoke, An Chong Qiu added: "Besides that, there's one more thing - after the auction, the Song family group invested over a billion dollars to build a large-scale welfare institution in Jinling. According to rumors, this welfare institution is designed to be the largest globally and not only provides living necessities for tens of thousands of orphans but also offers them excellent educational resources."

Lee Yalin's eyes suddenly lit up: "Building a welfare institution? It seems that this Noble Lord really values orphans! Could it be that he's an orphan himself, so he's taking care of orphans out of empathy?"

An Chong Qiu nodded: "Old Li's words are also possible."

Ye Chen's little niece An'ao couldn't help but say: "If we investigate the welfare institution in Jinling, won't we have a chance to find out Noble Lord's true identity?"

Lee Yalin's eyes lit up at this point, and he exclaimed in his heart: "Isn't this just following one clue to lead to another? Following this thread, not only will we be able to find Noble Lord but also discover that he is actually the outside grandson of our family!" JrNovels.com