On the phone screen, Lu Xiaoshu spread her arms and flung herself directly onto the sofa.
"Woohoo, Xinyue's place is still the best. I'm going to hide out here for a few days."
Moments later, Lu Xiaoshu unbuttoned her top on camera and tossed it aside with a flick of her wrist.
Her exaggerated 36D bust almost burst out of the fabric.
"Don't look!"
Lu Xiaoshu yanked out the card reader, threw it onto the floor, and crushed it ruthlessly under her heel, obliterating the incriminating evidence.
Such an embarrassing and mortifying thing must never be allowed to survive.
Lu Xiaoshu looked at Yunfan. "I heard a lot of pinhole cameras can connect to the internet. Are you sure the footage hasn't fallen into the wrong hands?"
Yunfan said with absolute confidence, "Of course I'm sure. Trust your daddy's judgment—I'm an expert at this kind of thing."
Back when Yunfan was secretly involved with the eldest daughter of the Capital's wealthy Shen Family, he used to sneak into the Shen Family's old estate regularly.
The old estate was practically covered by surveillance cameras with no blind spots whatsoever.
As the saying goes, love what you do, and the same goes for sneaking around.
To see his beloved, Yunfan had studied the ins and outs of monitoring equipment, mastering the functions of various devices long ago.
He could even take them apart piece by piece and put them back together again.
Seeing Yunfan looking so confident, Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help asking, "You wouldn't happen to use this kind of stuff often, would you? Why else would you be so sure?"
"I swear to heaven, I have never used such cheap tricks to peek at women."
Yunfan's vow was completely sincere; he truly had never used surveillance equipment to spy on other women.
The only reason he knew so much was to avoid those very devices so he could be with his beloved in peace.
Lu Xiaoshu turned down the corners of her lips. "Hmph, I'll believe you for now."
Yunfan smiled. "A bet's a bet. Time to call me daddy."
"What bet? When did I ever make a bet with you?"
Lu Xiaoshu shot Yunfan a sideways glance. Make her call him daddy? Not in a million years.
Yunfan smiled. "Are you sure?"
Lu Xiaoshu showed no fear. "Of course I'm sure! It's not like a big guy like you would actually hit me, right?"
Yunfan smiled. "Of course I wouldn't hit you. I'm just giving you a friendly reminder that this villa isn't the only place with a pinhole camera hidden inside a vase."
"Bang!"
Yunfan punched through the wall switch, pulling out yet another pinhole camera from inside.
"Give it to me!"
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Lu Xiaoshu leaped up, rushed over to Yunfan, and snatched the pinhole camera right out of his hand.
She took out the memory card and snapped it in half.
"There! Now you don't have anything to blackmail me with," Lu Xiaoshu said with a haughty air of pride.
Yunfan put on a look of sheer astonishment. "Goodness me, you wouldn't happen to think there were only two cameras in the whole living room, would you? No way, right? Surely not?"
"Click, click, click..."
Furious, Lu Xiaoshu ground her teeth together. She was being driven mad by Yunfan's exasperating demeanor.
She desperately wanted to rush into the kitchen, grab a knife, and hack Yunfan into a million pieces.
Lu Xiaoshu said angrily, "Since there are so many cameras, what are you still standing around for? Hurry up and take those things down! Don't forget, this is your wife's house."
Yunfan found Lu Xiaoshu's fierce little act adorable; teasing her was genuinely fun.
Yunfan smiled. "Call me daddy!"
Lu Xiaoshu puffed out her cheeks. "No!"
Yunfan said cheerfully, "If you refuse, I'll just have to find time to sneakily pull out all those memory cards myself, and then find your recording. You're so pretty—I'm sure footage like this could sell for a pretty penny."
Those words struck right at Lu Xiaoshu's fatal weakness. Although her gaze looked like she wanted to slice Yunfan to pieces, she didn't dare provoke this man any further.
"Xinyue, look at your man!" Lu Xiaoshu whined coquettishly. "He's bullying me!"
Xinyue spread her hands. "I recall someone making fun of me just a moment ago."
"Bad Xinyue! You're actually not going to help me!"
Rejected by her best friend, Lu Xiaoshu fell into total despair.
Gritting her teeth, Lu Xiaoshu forced the words out from the back of her throat: "Daddy."
Yunfan picked at his ear. "What did you say? I couldn't hear you?"
"Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"
Driven to utter desperation, veins bulging on her forehead, Lu Xiaoshu screamed the three words at the top of her lungs.
Yunfan smiled and patted Lu Xiaoshu's head. "Good girl."
Lu Xiaoshu looked ready to grind her teeth to dust. "Can you go take down all the pinhole cameras now?"
Yunfan nodded. "Child's play. Daddy will get right on it."
Ignoring the looks from Lu Xiaoshu that could have killed him, Yunfan began searching around the living room.
Before long, a dozen pinhole cameras had been dismantled by Yunfan.
"Take me to the other rooms. I bet there are plenty more," Yunfan said.
Xinyue nodded. "O—okay."
After that, Xinyue led Yunfan on a tour of the entire villa, discovering numerous additional pinhole cameras that left both young women utterly shocked.
Looking at the small mountain of pinhole cameras piled up before him, Yunfan remarked, "No wonder these cameras weren't connected to the internet. So that's why."
Xinyue asked curiously, "Why?"
"There are over a hundred of these cameras. If they were all connected to your home network, transmitting video from a hundred-plus cameras would instantly crash your router. Anyone called out to fix your internet would immediately discover you had hundreds of devices hooked up."
Even though Xinyue was wealthy and her home internet was far stronger than an ordinary user's, it still wouldn't be powerful enough to support over a hundred pinhole cameras streaming video simultaneously on a residential connection.
Yunfan slapped his forehead. "I just remembered—we haven't checked your bedroom yet, have we, wife?"
Xinyue looked troubled. "We shouldn't need to check that, right? Only Xiaoshu is allowed in my bedroom. Even my dad has never been in there."
Yunfan said, "Door locks only keep out honest folks, not thieves. We just found pinhole cameras in both bathrooms, after all."
Xinyue thought about it for a moment, and realizing Yunfan was right, she stopped objecting.
She led Yunfan into her private room.
"Wow, this is so princess-like."
The entire room was pink and filled with a vast collection of stuffed animals.
In Yunfan's mind, Xinyue had somewhat of a career-woman vibe, so he hadn't expected her bedroom to be so intensely feminine.
"Stop looking at my room and hurry up and check for pinhole cameras," Xinyue urged.
"Don't rush. Good things take time."
Yunfan casually pulled open the drawer of the bedside table.
"Hiss..."
The moment he saw what was inside, Yunfan couldn't help drawing in a sharp breath.
Beside him, Xinyue's pretty face flushed crimson instantly, wishing she could find a crack in the floor to crawl into.