Conan: Ran turns into an elementary school student and calls me dad.

Chapter 19 The things they do in America are no less sophisticated than those in Japan.

"Shinichi Kudo is not my son," Lin Xiuyi replied softly, his voice tinged with weariness and confusion, completely lacking his previous composure.

"Could it be Miss...?"

Judy was startled and quickly looked at Xiaolan. Could it be that the test results showed that Xiaolan was not Lin Xiuyi's daughter?

That doesn't make sense. Judging from Xiaolan's expression just now, she didn't seem sad.

Haha, God bless!

Judy secretly rejoiced; such a cute little girl shouldn't be this lecher's daughter!

"Don't talk nonsense." Lin Xiuyi glared at Judy, her tone slightly displeased. "Xiaolan is my daughter, there's no doubt about that."

"If that's the case, boss, why do you and Miss both look so gloomy?" Judy was even more puzzled, unable to understand what the two of them were struggling with.

"I……"

Lin Xiuyi gave a wry smile, opened his mouth, but didn't know how to explain.

You can't just say you suddenly have a daughter whose father you don't know, can you?

This is utterly absurd.

Just then, Xiaolan looked at Judy's back in the driver's seat and seemed to have noticed something. She quickly tugged at Lin Xiuyi's arm.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xiuyi turned her head in surprise.

"Uncle Lin," Xiao Lan pointed at Judy's hair and lowered her voice, "that paper bag containing the new hair was given to me by Sister Judy. Could it be... could it be that the extra hair inside is Sister Judy's?"

"How is that possible?" Lin Xiuyi shook his head with amusement. "Judy's hair is blonde, but that extra hair is light brown."

"Maybe the person who did the appraisal made a mistake?" Xiaolan was still somewhat...

impossible?

Lin Xiuyi was also stunned for a moment, her brain working at lightning speed.

He went to America after he turned twenty. Although he dated a few girlfriends there, Judy looked quite old. Even if he had children in America, they shouldn't be as old as Judy.

However, just to be on the safe side, Lin Xiuyi still looked at Judy and asked, "Judy, how old are you this year?"

"Boss, it's not polite to ask a lady's age so directly."

Judy's lips twitched, and her anger flared up again.

That bastard is not only a pervert, but also has no manners at all!

"Is that so?" Lin Xiuyi raised an eyebrow, his tone calm but with a hint of threat. "Then it seems I might need to find a new female secretary who can tell my age."

He knew perfectly well that Judy was willing to stay by his side as his secretary for a reason, most likely to investigate him.

If they fire her now, it would obviously disrupt their work plans, and Judy certainly wouldn't want that.

"hehe……"

Judy's lips twitched even more violently, her grip on the steering wheel tightened, and her resentment towards Lin Xiuyi deepened.

That bastard, how dare he threaten her!

"I'm...twenty-eight years old this year!" she said through gritted teeth, each word seemingly squeezed out from between her teeth, her tone filled with suppressed anger.

"Twenty-eight years old, only nine years younger than me."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiu felt an instant sense of relief.

"When she was born, I wasn't even dressed up yet... cough cough, I mean, I hadn't even arrived in America yet."

Seeing that she almost let something slip, Lin Xiuyi quickly covered it up with a cough, but fortunately the other two people in the car didn't notice.

"Phew, thank goodness it's not." Xiaolan patted her chest gently, a relieved expression on her face.

Although her older sister Judy is very beautiful and has a gentle personality, it's still hard for her to accept having another older sister all of a sudden.

"Boss, what exactly did you want to know when you asked my age?"

Judy was also getting a little uneasy. Lin Xiuyi and Xiaolan's reactions were too strange, making her worry that this bastard might have discovered something.

"It's nothing," Lin Xiuyi said casually, as if the threat and tension from before were just an illusion. "I just wanted to see if you could be my daughter."

"What?!"

Judy was so startled by this that she almost slammed on the brakes, and in her astonishment, she blurted out her native language.

"Boss, I'm just your secretary!"

Judy's voice trembled slightly; she was clearly very angry.

"Although I've heard that many wealthy people in Japan enjoy cosplay, I absolutely will not accept it! Especially not with such an absurd father-daughter dynamic! You'd better keep your filthy thoughts to yourself!"

She now strongly suspects that Lin Xiuyi deliberately used this method to tease her!

That bastard really does reek of disgust from head to toe!

Seeing Judy's angry expression, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but roll his eyes: "What are you thinking? I was just asking casually. Besides, the games in America are just as fun as those in Japan, especially on Little St. James Island..."

Halfway through his sentence, Lin Xiuyi remembered that his daughter was sitting next to him, and in order not to disturb Xiaolan's pure heart, he quickly shut his mouth.

"Sister Judy, don't be angry," Xiaolan quickly explained. "Uncle Lin didn't mean it. He asked that because the paternity test report said he has another daughter, and there was a light brown hair in the paper bag containing the hair, so we suspected it might be yours..."

After hearing Xiaolan's explanation, Judy finally understood, and her anger subsided slightly, but her disgust for Lin Xiuyi remained unchanged.

She snorted coldly, turned her head and continued driving, muttering to herself: This lecherous man has affairs everywhere and doesn't even know how many children he has. He's an absolute scoundrel!

But what exactly is Little St. James Island?

Judging from what this bastard just said, that place seems to be a place where perverts enjoy themselves.

Could this shady place be connected to the Black Organization?

Judy's mind raced with wild ideas, while Ran watched the two curiously: "Father-daughter cosplay, does that mean pretending to be a father and daughter?"

The girl blinked, her face full of innocence.

"Isn't that just kids playing house? Would adults really like to play that?"

Playing house isn't just for kids!

Lin Xiuyi mentally complained, then sighed helplessly, "The biggest problem right now is that we have no idea whose hair it is!"

"Shinichi Kudo's hair was plucked by Li Long himself, so there shouldn't be any problem."

Judy stopped her thoughts and started driving while reminiscing.

"After I got it, I put the hair in the bag and handed it to the young lady, and then the girl..."

"Suzuki Sonoko!"

"The garden!"

Lin Xiuyi and Xiaolan called out the girl's name in unison...