She is the Side Character! — Watch Her Change her fate!

”Miss Qiao, after our inspection, we found a hidden pinhole camera in your room. Additionally, your room’s lock has been tampered with, and there’s a miniature recorder. Listen to this knocking sound from last night, see if it’s the same.”

After saying that, the person took out a small, black device and fiddled with it, quickly producing a thumping sound, identical to the knocking from the previous night.

Ah Chen nodded, ”It is indeed the same sound. So, someone is up to no good.”

”We should call the police.”

[I wonder if the police can find evidence proving all this was Shao Baocheng’s doing. The comment section says he’s behind it, and that the plot has twists. There shouldn’t be any changes regarding this, right?]

”We definitely should call the police.” Shen Muyang stood up, pulling out his phone to dial the emergency number, ”This is no small matter. We need to catch whoever’s doing this.”

”You should check the whole villa to see if there are any other lapses,” Shen Muyang added.

”I have no idea who’s responsible.”

In contrast to Shen Muyang’s anger, Ah Chen appeared much calmer.

The two of them sat on the sofa, waiting for the police to arrive.

”Xiao Qiao, if you’re scared, you can stay at my place for now. That room was left to you by mom, she missed you so much,” Shen Muyang said, sitting next to Ah Chen with a grin, ”In the future, I’ll try to get up earlier, and we can go to school together.”

”And those house helpers at your place should undergo a thorough investigation. If you ask me, if nothing can really be found, it might be better to replace them.”

Ah Chen said, ”These people have been working in the household for a long time. If they truly didn’t do those things, it’s not fair to fire them without cause.”

[Wasn’t it said in the comments that it was the butler’s doing? Just watch out for the butler.]

[Do the others have issues? I don’t really know yet. Many of them are indeed long-time staff at the Qiao Family and work diligently. Wouldn’t it be a bit too much to terminate them because of this?]

Hearing her thoughts, Shen Muyang chuckled. Xiao Qiao was just too kind.

As an employer, if she no longer feels safe with them and compensates them to let them go, isn’t that perfectly normal?

”So, do you want to stay at my place afterward?”

Ah Chen shook her head, ”Better not.”

[Even though some things in the comments have come true, I can’t just believe everything they say. People’s hearts aren’t static, and there’s no need to move to Shen Family because of this. Visiting occasionally is fine.]

Shen Muyang paused for a moment, thinking that her reasoning was fair.

Soon, the police arrived and conducted an inspection of the scene, questioning the helpers and gardener who lived next door.

After a thorough inspection, they did not find the person responsible for installing the pinhole camera or tampering with the electronic door lock, but they did uncover two thieves.

Thanks to their experience, the officers noticed the anxious demeanor of a helper and a gardener. Under questioning, they quickly confessed to stealing from the villa and had already sold some items. They hadn’t yet managed to sell some of the stolen goods, which were still in their rooms.

Both were arrested, and due to the significant amount stolen, jail time was unavoidable. They kept pleading with Ah Chen, hoping that she might be lenient.

But Ah Chen never considered letting them off. These two had stolen quite a bit and had even escalated their thefts.

Seeing no other options, the gardener suddenly shouted, ”If I report others, will it reduce my sentence?”

The officers nodded naturally, their eyes sharply focused on the gardener and then scanned the others in the room.

Seeing Ah Chen, some of the officers’ eyes flashed with sympathy. They knew a bit about the Qiao Family’s situation; they had investigated after Qiao Haisheng and his wife died unexpectedly. Now that Old Sir Qiao had also passed away, it left just one little girl, holding a massive fortune. It’s no surprise if vultures tried to take advantage.

”I accuse the butler!” The gardener raised his voice, ”The pinhole camera in Miss’s room and the recorder on the electronic lock were definitely the butler’s doing. I guess he wanted to scare Miss so Shao Yifan could play the hero and save her!”

It had to be said, the gardener’s guesstimate matched exactly with hints from the comment section.

Ah Chen glanced at the gardener, ”Do you have any evidence? The butler has been working for the Qiao Family for years with a decent salary; why would he do such a thing? Besides, whether any heroic rescue succeeds or not isn’t up to them—it’s up to me.”

”It doesn’t hurt to try,” the gardener said with a slightly crazed expression, ”What if? Who would complain about too much money? Do you think the butler is trustworthy? Young Lady, you’re only 16, if it weren’t for Old Sir Qiao’s careful arrangements, no one would dare make a move against you; you might already be in your grave.”

”Stay on topic,” the officer asked sternly, ”Explain how you know the butler installed the pinhole camera and what evidence you have.”

At the same time, the gardener’s demeanor suggested there might be more lurking beneath, his frenzy reminding the officers of one particular type of person—gamblers.

Could this guy be an inveterate gambler?

The gardener shrunk back, still eager to earn credit for a lighter sentence, suddenly his eyes darting around before landing on Ah Chen, ”If Miss agrees not to pursue my case further, I’ll reveal how I know it’s the butler’s work.”

Ah Chen looked at him calmly, ”If you don’t want to spend more years behind bars, be honest. Since you’ve mentioned the butler, for risk assessment, we’ll thoroughly investigate his affairs. The officers are not fools; they will find something. You won’t get a chance to lighten your sentence later.”

The officers chuckled, bemused by the gardener’s daring thought.

Turning pale, the gardener realized his delusion, and began to confess, ”About half a month ago in the morning, soon after Miss left for school, there was a short circuit, and the power went out. The butler decided to give us a day off and even gave us shopping cards. But I didn’t leave. As a gardener, I don’t need to prune plants every day—often just watering them suffices. So I have some downtime, and occasionally spend the night out. I happened to stay out the night before and was catching up on sleep inside, not going out to shop like the others.”

”And then?” Ah Chen asked.

This detail wasn’t part of the Commissioner’s memory, because when she came home from school, the short circuit problem had already been fixed, and the help certainly wouldn’t have mentioned such things to her.

The gardener continued, ”I woke up hungry and decided to find something to eat, just when I heard noise from this villa. I planned to check it out and arrived just as the butler and an electrician were coming downstairs. Although I didn’t see what they were doing, to install those devices, one must go upstairs. They were highly suspicious.”