Only you in my love
Chapter 371 He Won't Punish His Sister

John wanted nothing more than to leave this place as soon as possible.

However, Richard was under the wrong impression that his boss still needed to talk to the other man, so he didn't start driving away until John shot him a sharp look. The tension in the air was so thick that one could cut it with a knife. After realizing what was going on, Richard stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away.

Noah stood by the road and watched them leave. Once the car's taillights were out of sight, he picked up his phone and called Nina.

"Nini, John is looking for you."

"No, he's not," a muffled voice came from the other end of the line, and Noah instantly knew that Nina was hiding under her quilt.

He coaxed, "Don't be too depressed. John is on his way to find you."

"Are you going to be his representative from now on, Noah?" Nina pulled down the quilt and sat up, disgruntled. "He only called two times. When I didn't answer, he didn't try to call me anymore."

Noah said, "He called you two times but you didn't answer, so he went to see you."

"Why haven't I seen him, then?" Nina stood up and went to the balcony. She peered at the entrance downstairs and added, "There's no one at the entrance right now."

Noah cleared his throat. He was sorely tempted to tell her that John had actually attempted to climb into her balcony and was brought to the police station under suspicion of theft, but he did promise John that he would not tell her. John should tell her about it himself.

"Maybe he was delayed or something."

Nina's face darkened. "Noah, you suck at lying. Anyway, don't make excuses for him. I want to go to sleep."

After hanging up the phone, Nina buried her head under the quilt again. She forced herself to close her eyes because she needed to fly to Spring City the next morning.

John was silent. A storm seemed to be brewing inside the car, and the atmosphere was stifling.

"Mr. Shi, why were you at the police station?" Richard held the steering wheel in a vise-like grip, so nervous that he felt his palms grow damp. He couldn't just sit there and suffer in silence while facing John's coldness, so he had to make conversation. Everything was going okay until Richard addressed the elephant in the room. John looked daggers at the man. "Where have you been? You are my assistant and bodyguard. Don't you know that you can't stay too far away from me?"

he asked through gritted teeth.

If Richard had been guarding John at that time, then he wouldn't have been dragged by someone to the police station so easily.

John wanted to climb into Nina's balcony so that he could persuade his wife to talk to him. He didn't expect he would be treated as a thief.

Besides, was there ever a thief who looked as handsome and rich as him?

He couldn't believe how blind the man was.

John had a tough time calming himself down.

"Mr. Shi, didn't you instruct me to stay as far away from you as possible?" Richard said in a trembling voice. "First, I retreated by a hundred meters, but you said it was too close. Then, then I put at least four hundred meters between us, but you called me to say that you could still see me, so I walked another four hundred meters."

John was speechless.

He did say that.

Embarrassed, John straightened his back and snapped, "Since when have you talked so much? You retreated as I told you to?"

"Yes." Confusion filled Richard's eyes.

Was there any other option?

John was his boss. He was being paid to do whatever he wanted. If he didn't listen to John, he would have been fired. For a moment, John was at a loss for words.

He opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Finally, in his irritation, he snapped at Richard, "Drive faster."

Then, after a pause, he added, "Don't let my wife know that I had just been to the police station."

"Yes, sir." Speaking of Nina, Richard suddenly remembered something important. He took out a laptop computer with one hand and handed it to John. "Sir, the surveillance videos that you had asked me to check are in this computer." John took the device and turned it on, his eyes scanning the screen avidly to search for clues.

His first suspicion was that his food or drink must have been tampered with.

He had ascribed the slight dizziness that he felt to exhaustion due to the long hours of working in the company and preparing for the proposal ceremony in Spring City. But he realized that wasn't the case.

In order to seduce Nina, he often exercised so that he could keep his body, especially his abs, in top shape. To match Nina, he even learned to fight.

It couldn't be his increased workload that led to his dizziness.

John paid close attention to everything that was going on around him and finally fixed his eyes on the glass of wine he had drunk.

He clicked the pause button, and his eyes tracked the glass of red wine all the way back to the source. It was not until the red wine had reached Jessica that he clicked the pause button a second time. The surveillance video froze on the scene where Jessica held the wine glass for a full minute before John played the video again.

There was nothing suspicious about the whole process the only irregularity was the fact that Jessica touched the wine glass. Except for the waiter who poured the wine, no one else did so. John asked Richard, "Did you investigate the wine I drank?"

"Yes, I did. The wine is fine."

"Okay, noted. No problem with the wine, then." John looked up then, his glittering eyes narrowed to slits.

That night, apart from the wine he had consumed, he only had a bite of the cake that Nina gave him. The rest of the cake was eaten by Nina herself.

Nothing happened to Nina, which meant that the cake was okay.

There was no problem with the wine.

Therefore, there must be something wrong with the glass.

As he continued to watch the footage, John's expression grew increasingly bleaker. He began to pay special attention to Jessica's appearances onscreen, which actually confirmed his speculations.

It was true that someone was behind all this.

That person was none other than his own sister-the same sister who had always been against his marriage to Nina and hell-bent on getting him to marry Vivian.

In John's life, there were three people in the world whom he could never hurt. The first was his father, who brought him into this world, and then his beloved wife. Finally, there was his sister, who practically played the role of his mother. Helplessness flared inside him.

John pressed a button to shut down the screen and leaned back against the seat. He was pinching the bridge of his nose, and his eyes were blurry from exhaustion.

"Mr. Shi, have you found the mastermind?" Richard broke the silence.

"Yes." John sounded tired.

Richard said, "Don't worry, Mr. Shi. As long as you severely punish the schemer, Mrs. Shi will forgive you."

John didn't say anything.

It would be impossible for him to punish Jessica. Therefore, his wife might not forgive him.

According to his understanding of his wife, he was afraid that Nina had already figured it out on her own.

A look of embarrassment crossed John's face, and he fell silent. He only spoke up again when Richard reminded him, "Mr. Shi, we're here."

He shook his head to clear his thoughts. "Okay." John came to his senses and got out of the car.

This time, he didn't intend to climb into the balcony anymore.

Instead, he went straight for the door and rang the doorbell. John rang the doorbell several times,

but there was no response.

A few minutes later, John tried to call Michelle's number.

As soon as the call was connected, however, she angrily ranted, "Uncle John, you've gone too far! Humph, bye."

John opened his mouth to retort, but he only heard a distant beep from the other end. Michelle had ended the call. Michelle was already so angry, so he couldn't imagine how his wife would react.

John was so anxious that he ended up bothering the newly engaged James.

However, as soon the other man picked up the call, John was subjected to a mad rush of tirades and complaints.

"Uncle John, why are you calling me right now? Shouldn't you coax Aunt Nina, instead? Do you intend to make fun of me with her? It's my engagement party tonight, but you and Adrian took the limelight. All of the top searches and hot topics are all about you. Emma and I got no exposure at all. I want everyone to know that I'm engaged to Emma. Why couldn't you find another time to make trouble? Was that too much to ask? You couldn't even do that." The more James said, the more excited he became.

John ended the call from his end, afraid that James would suddenly start bawling like a child over the phone.

Both James and Michelle were complaining, but John felt like he was missing something.

"Top search?" John asked in confusion.

Richard took out his phone and looked up the current hot topics. His eyes nearly popped out of his head when he saw the headings in the web portals.

"Mr. Shi..." His hand trembling uncontrollably, Richard reached out to show John his phone screen.