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Ha Ji-yeon put down her chopsticks, took out a laptop, opened two documents, and handed them to Gu Ran.
Gu Ran finished eating the instant noodles in his bowl, wiped his mouth, and took the laptop to start looking at the contents.
Two suspicious targets. One is named Lee Bo-young, a third-year student at Ewha Womans University. Kim Seok-woo met her at the Kim Seok Go Dojo, and the two had only known each other for two weeks.
Although Ewha Womans University is a prestigious university in Asia, it is a private university with high tuition fees, which are about 40000 RMB per year, not including living expenses.
Li Baoying comes from an ordinary family. Her tuition fees were paid through commercial loans. Her family subsidizes her living expenses, but it's very little. She usually works at a convenience store.
Because she had learned Go when she was a child, two weeks ago, by chance, she met Kim Seok-woo when she visited the Kim Kwang Go Dojo with her classmates.
"This person keeps sending me flirtatious text messages? I haven't received any." Gu Ran glanced at his phone and asked Ha Ji-yeon.
“She only started sending flirtatious text messages this week. I had Norma intercept them, and I imitated Kim Seok-woo to chat with her.”
Chapter 56: The Breakthrough Point for Verification
Ha Ji-yeon picked up the laptop, opened a software program, and saw the text message chat history between Lee Bo-young and Kim Seok-woo.
"Little brother, do you think your older sister is pretty?"
"Little brother, look at your sister's pants, don't you think they look good?"
"Little brother, I'm so lonely!"
Gu Ran read a few of the messages; they were very ambiguous.
Could it be that Li Baoying is seducing him?
Besides text messages, there were also many MMS messages, which contained several daring selfies of women in bikinis, exuding feminine energy.
Her pale, white skin was displayed in large swaths as if it were free, almost to the point of being rated 18+.
"What is she trying to do?" Gu Ran looked at Ha Ji-yeon, confused about Lee Bo-young's intentions.
Surely it's not about satisfying physiological needs!
“She wants to be kept,” Ha Ji-yeon said. “She doesn’t want to be with those old men and uncles. Kim Seok-woo is good. He’s a high school boy, and his family gives him a lot of pocket money, almost as much as an adult’s monthly salary in Seoul.”
Because Gu Ran didn't use Jin Shiyu's bank card and instead used the executive department's funds, he didn't know how much pocket money Jin Shiyu had.
He had a general understanding that the current monthly salary in Seoul is around 15,000 RMB.
However, Seoul has high prices, high cost of living, high rent, and high housing prices.
Therefore, most working people live paycheck to paycheck and have little savings.
Kim Seok-woo's allowance is after deducting his apartment rent and regular food expenses.
Therefore, he is indeed wealthier than the average worker in terms of the amount of money he can spend each month.
To use a domestic analogy, Jin Shiyu's family is like a small-town entrepreneur. They can't compare to big capitalists in Beijing or Shanghai, but they are still several times better off than ordinary workers.
Ha Ji-yeon explained, "Lee Bo-young's text messages asking to be kept by a sugar daddy only started this week, around the same time that Kim Seok-woo received the fire-breathing dragon emblem, so we listed her as a suspect."
Gu Ran nodded and looked at the next suspect.
"Xin Zhican?" Gu Ran was stunned when she saw the name and picture in the document. "Why is he a suspect? Isn't he a man?"
"Who told you that the dragon that committed the crime must be female?" Ha Ji-yeon smiled slightly. "Guess what 'homosexuality' means?"
This dragon probably doesn't actually have a penchant for bending...
Gu Ran suddenly felt a tightness in her anus.
Ha Ji-yeon said, "Actually, Shin Ji-chan's level of suspicion is higher than Lee Bo-young's, because dragons need money in human society, and they are more likely to choose to transform into rich people like Shin Ji-chan. Moreover, dragons also have a desire for treasure."
"But dragons can survive as long as they can transform into a cocoon, so they must have accumulated a lot of wealth, right?" Gu Ran asked.
“That’s the usual situation, but there are also many cases where people wake up to find their treasures stolen,” Ha Ji-yeon said. “We think this case is the latter.”
She continued, "By the way, Shin Ji-chan also goes to the National Sports Hall to practice Taekwondo on Sundays. Your task is to make contact with these two people on the weekend."
Gu Ran nodded and agreed.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck him: he could use a bold method to verify whether those two people were involved in any problems.
……
The next morning at nine o'clock, Gu Ran took a taxi to the Jin Guang Go Academy.
Saturday is a time for Go enthusiasts to gather and practice. Following the instructions in his earpiece, Gu Ran greeted several familiar Go enthusiasts and chatted for a few minutes.
Jin Guang Go Academy has trained many professional players, and there are also reserve professional players practicing here.
Kim Seok-woo's rank is amateur 1. In South Korea, there are seven amateur rank ranks in Go, and amateur 5-dan is qualified to become a Go teacher.
People come to the Go academy to practice and to watch.
Gu Ran wasn't very good at Go, so he joined the spectators and stood quietly, pretending to watch others play.
He only knows the basic rules; he can't understand the patterns or situations at all.
So I look a little sleepy.
He didn't specifically go to find Li Baoying.
High-level hunters often appear as the prey.
He believed that Li Baoying would take the initiative to approach him.
not far away.
In a corner of the dojo, a man and a woman were playing chess.
The boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, still a teenager.
The woman was twenty years old, with light makeup on her face and wearing a sundress.
The boy's attention was divided between the chessboard and the older sister on the other side.
This woman named Li Baoying has very fair skin, delicate features, and a beautiful smile.
She was also wearing a slip dress, which revealed her black invisible bra straps.
He didn't know where to look.
In no time, the boy made a mistake and, without noticing, was surrounded and captured by the beautiful Li Baoying on the other side, losing more than ten pieces.
Before the pretty lady had finished removing the captured pieces from the chessboard, she suddenly grabbed a handful of pieces from the chess box and threw them onto the board.
In Go, this action means resigning.
"I admit defeat. Let's play again another time, little brother," the pretty older sister said with a smile. "Could you please tidy up the chess pieces?"
The boy was stunned. He had just lost so many pieces and was at a huge disadvantage. Why did his sister concede?
Before he could figure it out, the young and naive boy saw a pretty older sister come up to an older brother and grab his hand, acting coquettishly.
That older brother was very tall and handsome, just like an idol on TV.
Seeing the pretty older sister speaking softly to the older brother, the boy felt a pang of loneliness in his heart.
Gu Ran looked at Li Baoying's arms that were holding him and awkwardly pulled his hands away.
Li Baoying assumed he was just a shy high school student and gave him a slightly resentful, flirtatious wink.
To be honest, Li Baoying's appearance is only average. Her features are regular but flat, and her eyes are not big, unlike Su Xiaoqiang's three-dimensional and delicate features.
However, Lee Bo-young has fair skin, and as the saying goes, "fair skin covers a hundred flaws." She doesn't have a single mole on her face and is very good at makeup.
With a little dressing up, plus her C-cup bust and not-too-fat figure, she still has some good looks.
Most high school boys would probably like this kind of pretty and proactive older sister.
But Gu Ran was still very picky, after all, Su Xiaoqiang was so beautiful.
"Brother Shiyu, come play chess with me?" Li Baoying invited Gu Ran.
Gu Ran thought for a moment and then sent Ha Ji-yeon Morse code.
These past few days, Gu Ran hasn't been idle during class time; she's made a point of learning Morse code.
After all, he doesn't speak Korean, so he can only communicate through Ha Ji-yeon.
Sometimes, when he wanted to express his thoughts, he could only do so through Morse code to Ha Ji-yeon, who would then speak for him.
Gu Ran told Ha Ji-yeon, "When I invited her out of the chess club, I suddenly thought of a way to verify if she was a dragon."
Chapter 57 The Go Prodigy of South Korea
"Are you confident?" Ha Ji-yeon asked through the earpiece.
"Have."
Gu Ran replied with a Morse code.
So, Ha Ji-yeon spoke to Lee Bo-young through the microphone:
"I don't want to play chess. How about we find a quiet coffee shop and have a good chat? I have some homework questions I'd like to ask you about."
Upon hearing this, Li Baoying's face immediately lit up with a smile.
It seems her flirtatious text message offensive has worked!
She immediately agreed and then took Gu Ran's hand in a generous manner.
For her, a wealthy high school student like Kim Seok-woo was the best candidate to marry a rich man.
Li Baoying had her plans in mind; she had already made a plan on how to win over Jin Shiyu.
The most important thing is that you can't give him the first shot too early; you have to lure him in slowly!
She thought to herself that if she worked hard enough to marry him, she could achieve a leap in social class.
Although in South Korea, this was only a minor social class.
But for her, it will take more than a decade of hard work!
Seeing that her hand was being held, Gu Ran didn't try to break free for the sake of acting.
He and Li Baoying were about to leave the Go academy together.
Suddenly, a boy blocked his way.