The commotion of the search died down and calm returned once the last person had been checked.
There was nothing unusual within the Shen Family, so the suspect was not among them.
Since Zhang Chen's family of three had been cleared, they naturally returned to their own courtyard. Yet Zhang Chen had only just stepped back in when he saw Shen Ling, dressed in a bright red robe, hurrying over. She came up to him with a face full of concern: "Zhang, the Shen estate was just set on fire by some villain—are you all right? Were you burned at all?"
Her words overflowed with concern, and paired with that soft Wu dialect, they could stir a man's heart, making it sound as though she were worrying over her lover.
If Zhang Chen had not previously seen Shen Ling and Zhang Gaoqiu clinging to each other in the blaze, he might really have believed her act. After all, that scene of Zhang Gaoqiu "examining" Shen Ling's body, his hands roaming all over her, had been truly eye-searing.
