A/N: I rewrote chapter 48. Otherwise, I won't get any further with this story. 

Days after their marriage and after Yibo had started his agent training, where Zhan is one of his instructors, the two received a call from Zhan's boss asking them to come to his office immediately because there was news in the case of the politician's assassination. Just an hour after the call, the two were in the boss's office listening to the news in amazement.

"What I'm about to tell you is subject to the strictest secrecy. I only found out about it in the morning, too. I don't know why they took so long to inform me. All right, then, I'll get started. Nobody knows how this could have happened, but the politician's body has been exchanged between the crime scene and the forensics department. At the coroner's office, the pathologist was about to start the autopsy when he realized he had the wrong body on the table. Immediately, a search was made for the right body, but the politician's body had disappeared. Moreover, it was impossible to find out who had brought the body. Since it was not one of the usual corpse drivers and he had given a false name. And the body of the dead driver also disappeared." Explained the boss.

"Wait a minute. Who would have anything to gain from stealing the bodies of these two men?" Yibo asked, confused.

"I guess nobody." Replied the boss.

"How sure is it that the bodies were really the politician and his driver?" Wanted to know Zhan.

"Good question ZhanZhan." Said Yibo with a grin.

"I know you two are newlyweds and make love all the time. But let's focus on the case now, please." Reminded the boss.

"Yes, sir." Zhan and Yibo replied at the same time, grinning.

"So according to our information, the politician and his driver were identified at the scene by a police officer. Moreover, the two had identity documents with them that identified them as the two of them." Explained the boss.

"That means only this police officer identified the two? Who was the police officer and has he been questioned yet?" Wanted to know Zhan.

Boss: "Here's another mystery. No one knows who the police officer was."

Yibo: "How come I already knew you were going to say that?"

Zhan: "So in short, we are back to square one. Nobody knows who the police officer was. No one knows if the bodies were really those of the politician and the driver. No one knows who the corpse driver was and whether he might have switched the bodies. And if he did, why did he do it?"

Boss: "Yes, that's about it."

Zhan: "What else is missing?"

Boss: "The politician's wife left the country shortly after she was informed of her husband's death. And because she still has Political Immunity, we can't just follow her and arrest her either."

Yibo: "So she grabbed her son and took off?"

Boss: "She didn't take her son. He's with her brother right now. And she told him that she has to take care of important business where she can't take the boy."

Yibo: "What kind of mother is she? Her son had been kidnapped and soon after she leaves him alone again?"

Zhan; "Think about it, they sent the boy to a boarding school in London. They're used to not having him with them. Maybe he would have just been in their way with the political commitments and all the illegal business."

Boss: "You're right. But this isn't about the son right now. This is about much more."

Yibo: "Yeah, sure sir, I was just interested. So sir, what now? Should we restart the investigation?"

Boss: "Yes. The order came from the very top. They said you guys should investigate again."

Zhan: "Great. Then where is the best place to start if no one knows or has seen anything?"

Yibo: "I can think of something."

Zhan: "Like what?"

Yibo: "Where it all started. At the politician's house."

Boss: "That was really turned upside down by the investigators. If there was anything there to help us, they would have found it."

Yibo: "I'm only a few days into agent training, but I've already learned that relevant things aren't always obvious. Besides, this is a very old house. And they often have hidden rooms."

Boss: "I didn't say you couldn't look around the house. If you really want to, go there and look around. I'll let the officers know you're coming. They will let you into the house."

Zhan: "So the house is guarded?"

Boss: "Mhm. We don't want to miss the wife's return. And we want to prevent anyone from getting into the house and stealing anything."

Zhan: "Alright. When should we start?"

Boss: "It's best to do it immediately. And Yibo?"

Yibo: "Yes sir?"

Boss: "Now that you're an agent-in-training, your work counts as an internship for us. So the time will also count as training time for you. In addition, you will be paid by us for your work. You'll even get a badge that identifies you as a trainee in our unit. And because you now also have a gun license, you'll get a gun from us."

Yibo: "Wow, I'm glad to hear that. But does that also reduce the training time at the academy?"

Boss: "Maybe. You're actually already a year ahead of the other beginners now."

Yibo: "Why is that?"

Boss: "Because you've already worked for us. Two times, in fact. And that time has already been credited to your training. I admit that I was embellishing the length of time you worked for us."

Yibo: "What does that mean exactly?"

Boss: "According to the file, you worked for us for a total of almost a year."

Yibo: "Which is not even close to correct."

Boss: "No. But nobody knows that. And this way you'll be able to complete your agent training faster. You're already better than most agent trainees."

Yibo: "Thank you very much sir."

Boss: "You're very welcome. Now get on your way."

Zhan: "All right. We'll be in touch if we find anything."

Zhan and Yibo were handed a gun and Yibo received his first official badge, then the two headed to the home of the politician and his wife. Once there, the two officers let them into the house. But before they began to search the house again for clues, Zhan grabbed his husband and kissed him. "I love you Bo. And now we're agents and we're going to be all professional." He whispered before grinning, taking his hand and walking with him to the politician's office.

Yibo chuckled as the two stood outside the office door. He leaned against the wall and pulled Zhan to him. "I wish we were home right now. Then we could do it with each other in each of our rooms."

"You're thinking about sex right now?"

"That's your fault. Your new haircut makes you look even better and so damn sexy. How am I supposed to think about anything but sex when I'm looking at my hot husband?"

"I promise you, if you focus on our job right now then I will pleasure you all night long."

"What if I want to feel you inside me already?"

"Then we have a problem. Because I will not sleep with you here in this house my cute Bo."

"Too bad. But okay. Let's focus on our task then."

"Right. Let's check the office out then." Said Zhan. He opened the office door. Zhan immediately pushed Yibo behind him and drew his gun. For there were lights on in the office and someone seemed to be looking for something at the politician's desk. "I would suggest you stop what you're doing and put your hands up real quick!" Said Zhan with his gun pointed at the person.

"And if I don't? Are you going to shoot your own brother then?" Cheng asked with a grin as he stood up.

"Damn it Cheng! What are you doing here?" Asked Zhan, putting his gun back in its holster.

"Didn't anyone let you know I was called in to investigate?"

"Nope. And we just came from the boss." Said Yibo.

"Well, he's not my boss." Replied Cheng.

"Mhhh, never mind. What were you looking for?" Asked Zhan.

"My boss sent me here to look for the politician's passport. According to our information, it should be in this desk. But there's no passport there. Also, there should be a gun registered to the politician in the safe. But that's also missing." Explained Cheng.

"Okay. Well, have fun searching. Meanwhile, I'll go look around some more." Said Yibo. He gave Zhan a kiss and left the office.

Zhan called after Yibo, "Don't go too far away. I'll be right behind you."

"All right." Replied Yibo shouting loudly.

Yibo looked around attentively at the lower part of the house, noticing something important that the investigators had apparently not noticed before. He called Zhan downstairs to him and handed him something. It was an expensive brand-name purse, a cell phone and a women's wallet, with cash and credit cards. "Are they sure it was really the wife who left the country? If so, why didn't she take her favorite purse? Or her cell phone and credit cards?" Asked Yibo.

"Good questions my dear." Replied Zhan, taking a closer look at the purse. It was clear from the signs of use that this was the wife's favorite handbag.

"We should ask the boss or?"

"Mhm. I'll give him a quick call. Put these things in the evidence bags."

"Will do." Said Yibo. Zhan talked to the boss on the phone and told him what Yibo had found. He also asked him the questions Yibo had asked. 

"So the boss said he's going to get the video footage from the airport and let it be analyzed. Also, he just wants us to hand over the evidence to him personally because he's afraid it might disappear." Explained Zhan after the phone call.

"All right. What do you think? Are we looking for a hidden room now?"

"Sure. And I already have an idea where we could start, too."

"In the library?"

"That's right. You're even smarter than I assumed."

"Yeah. Yeah. Now come on. Let's find that secret room. I'm sure there's such a room here." Said Yibo. He grabbed Zhan's hand and pulled him behind him to the library.

They entered the library and looked around very carefully. Especially on the floor. They looked for tell-tale signs of a secret door. And under a carpet runner in front of the bookcase with books about tax law, they found exactly what they were looking for. Drag marks that occur when a secret door is opened over and over again.

Yibo and Zhan took all the books from the bookcase and looked for a hidden mechanism to open the secret door. Yibo found a flat button on the side of the fourth row of the bookshelf. He pressed the button and the secret door was unlocked. Zhan pulled the secret door open further and the two went inside.

"This is a panic room, right? At least it looks like it." Yibo surmised.

"True, it almost looks like that. But it seems more like a surveillance room of some sort. At least that would explain all the monitors showing every room in the house and the garden." Replied Zhan.

"Then the politician was here monitoring all of us from here on the day of his birthday party."

"That's right. There's no other room in the house from which he could have done that."

"This is all live. Do you think there might be records of the recent time?"

"I hope so. We should let the boss know so he can send an IT team over."

"Now I'll call him."

"Okay Bo. Meanwhile, I'll see what's stored in those closets."

"Mmm. See you in a bit." Said Yibo and left the secret room to make a call.

Zhan opened the drawers of the cabinets one by one. But nothing had been stored in them. Only in one of the cabinets he found a few documents. Among them was the passport of the politician and a woman he knew only too well. It was the passport of Agent Xian Chu. But in the passport, her name was not Xian Chu. Instead, she had the same family name as the politician!

When Yibo returned to the secret room, Zhan gave him Agent Xian's passport. "Does she look familiar to you Bo?"

Yibo looked at the passport and looked at Zhan in disbelief. "What does that mean?"

"I'd like to know that, too. But from the looks of it, she's related to the politician. Now I would indeed be interested to know if she even left the country as requested to face her new mission."

"Me too. And you know ZhanZhan? This case is getting more and more interesting."

"Oh yeah." Replied Zhan.

The two stood in the secret room and looked around there shaking their heads. How many more secrets are there? And how are they supposed to get anywhere with the case if they keep discovering new secrets?