My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 588 - 0588: Caught with the Goods

Chapter 588: Chapter 0588: Caught with the Goods

"Humph, that’s what I was thinking too. Last night when I got up to use the bathroom, I heard noises outside, and when I went to check, I saw a shadow flick past the kitchen. But when I went down, there was no one there."

Li Xiaoli spoke gravely, "I suspect that person was Brother Tang Ming."

"Really? If you found out something like that, why didn’t you tell me or call someone to catch the thief?" Liu Mengting immediately tensed up. If it had been her, she would probably have been quite frightened—Li Xiaoli’s courage was truly something.

"There are only the three of us in the house. With Brother Tang Ming here, even if there was a real thief, I wouldn’t be afraid," Li Xiaoli said nonchalantly, pursing her lips and squinting her eyes as she spoke:

"I suspect that Brother Tang Ming’s cultivation has already recovered, but he keeps pretending to be ignorant."

Recovered cultivation?" Liu Mengting paused for a moment, puzzled:

"If his cultivation has recovered, then there’s no need to hide it from us, right?"

"Why wouldn’t there be a need?" Li Xiaoli gave Liu Mengting a speechless look and patiently explained:

"Think about it, what has Brother Tang Ming done since he came back using the excuse of having no cultivation?"

"He hasn’t really done anything... It’s just..."

Liu Mengting suddenly looked up, staring at Li Xiaoli and said, "He wants to end the bodyguard contract."

"Exactly! If I hadn’t trapped Brother Tang Ming in advance, he would have run away," Li Xiaoli nodded and pressed her ear against the door, "Tonight, I’m going to reveal Brother Tang Ming’s true face."

"If this is true, then he’s gone too far."

Liu Mengting also got out of bed and walked to the door, indignantly saying, "We should go ask him now why he’s deceiving us, making us worry for nothing."

"Are you silly? If Brother Tang Ming doesn’t want us to know his secret, then even if we ask, he definitely won’t tell us."

Li Xiaoli looked at Liu Mengting speechlessly, and with a touch of mischief, said, "We can only confront him once we catch him red-handed."

"Oh, oh, you’re right." Liu Mengting nodded and worriedly added, "But if his cultivation has truly recovered, with our speed, we definitely won’t catch him stealing food, right?"

"Hee hee, what do you think this is?" Li Xiaoli opened her phone mysteriously, and the screen displayed the kitchen interior.

"Surveillance camera?" Liu Mengting was slightly surprised, "How do you have these things?"

"This isn’t surveillance. It’s just the video recording feature of two mobile phones, something I learned from my brother," Li Xiaoli said with a smug laugh:

"As long as we capture a video of Brother Tang Ming stealing food, that’ll be indisputable evidence. He won’t be able to deny it."

"You’re really smart, I..." Liu Mengting hadn’t finished speaking when they heard an extremely slight noise from outside.

"Shh."

Li Xiaoli quickly covered Liu Mengting’s mouth and then pointed at the phone.

Soon enough, the image showed a sneaky figure tiptoeing into the refrigerator and then began raiding the food inside.

"It’s Brother Tang Ming indeed! Let’s go catch the thief."

A few minutes later, Li Xiaoli immediately burst through the door and turned on the light at full speed, rushing downstairs with Liu Mengting close behind.

By the time Li Xiaoli and Liu Mengting rushed downstairs to the kitchen, they were shocked—there was no one there, and the refrigerator showed no signs of being tampered with.

"Could it be that we were seeing things just now?"

Liu Mengting uncertainly looked at Li Xiaoli.

"Our eyes can play tricks on us, but the video recording can’t," Li Xiaoli retorted.

Li Xiaoli waved her phone and said with an aggressive tone, "Go to Tang Ming’s room and interrogate him."

"Good, today he has to explain himself."

Liu Mengting nodded vigorously, then rushed toward Tang Ming’s room alongside Li Xiaoli, both radiating murderous intent.

When they arrived at the door of the upstairs room, Liu Mengting found that Tang Ming’s door was locked from the inside and said frustratingly, "He even locked the door; I’ll go get the keys."

"Why bother with keys? Move aside." Li Xiaoli pulled Liu Mengting aside and kicked the door open with one foot.

"Sss, sss, you’re pretty strong, aren’t you?"

Liu Mengting gasped in astonishment as Li Xiaoli stood there like a total tomboy.

"Of course, I’ve used the Castration Leg against a Four-star Martial Master before, just a door, piece of cake." Li Xiaoli said proudly, tilting her head and walking in.

Tang Ming lay in bed, burying his head in the covers, and almost swallowed a whole sausage in the fastest speed before playing dead.

Li Xiaoli turned on the bedroom light and, while walking toward the bed, called out exaggeratedly:

"Wow, that’s a strong sausage smell, is that Marco Polo?"

No response.

"Tang Ming, stop pretending, get up quickly, accept the forgiveness of Dawn Goddess."

Seeing no reaction from Tang Ming, Li Xiaoli shouted loudly.

"Still playing dumb? Get up."

Liu Mengting, who had less patience, directly pulled the blanket off Tang Ming.

"Who’s there?" Tang Ming opened his eyes groggily. Upon seeing the two women, he immediately crossed his arms over his chest and said nervously, "What are you doing in my room so late at night? I’m telling you, I will never surrender."

"Pfft." Liu Mengting scoffed disdainfully and said coldly:

"Don’t forget you’re supposed to be our bodyguard. With all this commotion going on, and you didn’t even wake up, that’s sheer negligence."

"Big sis, I’m not your bodyguard anymore, just a tenant here, and I’ve paid my rent." Tang Ming said with a straight face, clearly annoyed: "You’re invading my privacy, I could sue you for entering my house without permission. Besides, it’s normal for me not to hear anything since I’ve lost my cultivation, right?"

"Humph, humph, humph."

Seeing Tang Ming still acting, Li Xiaoli and Liu Mengting stared at him with a weird smile, remaining silent.

"Don’t look at me with those eyes; I absolutely won’t sell my body."

Tang Ming timidly pulled the blanket over himself.

"Brother Tang Ming, excellent acting and nimble moves; you ran here from the kitchen in the blink of an eye, almost like Flash."

Li Xiaoli turned on her phone’s recording feature and showed it to Tang Ming.

Watching the video of himself looking like a thief, Tang Ming was dumbfounded. Who the hell installed these cameras?

"Cough cough, who’s that person? Looks somewhat familiar, why does he seem like a thief?"

Tang Ming asked curiously, feigning ignorance.

"Tang Ming, you’ve gone too far." Hearing this, Liu Mengting suddenly exploded with anger, shouting with a trembling voice:

"I’ve been wracked with guilt over the loss of your cultivation, but you actually deceived me. Are you even human?"