Chapter 459: 459: The Man in the Picture

“Try to find out if you can get any useful information about this phone number.”

If she could find out who sent her the text messages, she might be able to figure out their purpose.

“Okay.”

“By the way, there’s one more thing I need your help with, but this has to be done in secret. No upheaval allowed.”

Qin Youxuan leaned closer to the butler, lowered her voice and spoke her mind.

“I understand, Miss. Don’t worry, I’ll get on it immediately.” The butler slightly nodded his head, seeing Qin Youxuan had no other commands, he swiftly turned and exited.

“…”

As soon as the butler left, Qin Youxuan looked wilted.

At this point, even Da Bai was sent for training.

Looking at the vast mansion, she felt hollow.

…

Day by day passed, Qin Youxuan only received daily texts from different numbers, without any signs of Dan Hanjie returning.

In the blink of an eye, she hadn’t seen him for almost half a month.

If this continued, she really wasn’t sure if she could hold herself together.

As soon as it got dark, Qin Youxuan sat in front of the table, watching the day’s surveillance recording.

Every move of every servant in the mansion was under surveillance.

Qin Youxuan rested her chin on one hand, staring at the surveillance screen for a long time without noticing anything unusual.

Since suspecting that there might be a mole in the mansion, Qin Youxuan had the butler quietly bring the previous day’s surveillance tape to her room every day for her to review.

But after watching for several days, everyone seemed perfectly normal.

Except for downtime where they might huddle in small groups for chatter, the rest of the time they were busy with their duties, and even their phones had been confiscated.

No one had touched a mobile phone, so how could anyone have the opportunity to text her?

Yet, the mysterious texts she had been receiving in the past couple of days didn’t stop.

Moreover, the number had increased from one or two a day to more than a dozen.

The message contents basically revolved around her lineage, several times Qin Youxuan couldn’t help but call back, only to hear the message that the number was no longer in service.

It was as if she was experiencing a supernatural phenomenon.

“Beep beep—”

Just as she was watching the surveillance footage, her phone rang again.

Qin Youxuan grabbed at it. She didn’t need to think twice to guess the content of the text message, but the moment she opened it, she was stunned.

It was a picture message.

On it was a very clear photograph…

After hesitating for a few seconds, Qin Youxuan quickly dialed back.

“We’re sorry, but the number you dialed is no longer in service, please check and try again…”

Another disconnected number.

Qin Youxuan exited the dialing screen and reopened the picture message.

In the photograph, there were two people.

A young woman nestled in a man’s arms, the man’s hand was holding the woman’s waist from behind…n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Only their back view was visible, but just from their posture, one could tell that they were intimate.

Most importantly, Qin Youxuan could immediately recognize that the woman in the photo was her mother.

However, she didn’t recognize the man in the photo.

One thing was for certain, he wasn’t her father, Qin Mo, whom she had called ‘dad’ for twenty years.

Qin Mo and Jiang Yu had been living together for over a decade, but except for a few photographs taken during their wedding, there were hardly any intimate photos of both.

Moreover, in the photograph the man’s face is not visible, but Jiang Yu’s side profile is.

Qin Youxuan could feel how happy her mother was smiling in the photo…

“Beep beep—”

When Qin Youxuan was still stupefied, another text message came in.