Last time, he found that Second Shifu, Money God, and she liked each other.
But as the daughter of the Shen family and the product of the family marriage, it wasn't easy for her to make up her mind to pursue her own happiness and be with Second Shifu.
Even if she liked Money God, in order not to implicate her lover, she could only bury her feelings deep in her heart.
By doing this, he was also telling her to follow her heart to pursue her own happiness. He would be a strong guarantee for them to sweep away all obstacles.
Seeing Shen Momei silently return to the hotel, Ding Ning slowly and quietly left.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
His phone started to vibrate. Ding Ning looked at the caller ID and pressed the answer button. "Hello, Xilin, what's wrong?"
"Ding Ning, where are you? I remember a place where they might have locked Diba up. "
Xilin's hurried voice came from the phone.
"How do you know?"
Ding Ning's spirit was instantly lifted. He had basically walked all over Wu City but still hadn't found where Diba was locked up. Even Li Maoyang and his son were nowhere to be found.
"Where are you? I'll go pick you up. We'll talk when we meet."
Xilin spoke very quickly.
"Okay, I'm … there's a Guoning Building next to me."
Ding Ning looked at the landmarks around him and gave a name.
"Wait, I'll be there soon."
Celine hung up the phone without hesitation.
Ten minutes later, Ding Ning sat in the passenger seat of the Ferrari and asked suspiciously, "How do you know where Diba is locked up?"
"I'm not sure, but I know a place where I think Diba is very likely to be locked up there."
Xilin's expression was slightly unnatural. She pretended to be focused on driving and avoided his probing gaze.
Ding Ning frowned slightly. This wasn't like Xilin's usual straightforward style. He didn't say anything and just looked straight at her.
Xilin felt uncomfortable under his gaze. She said with a sad face, "Okay, okay, I'll tell you the truth, but you can't be angry."
"I'll decide based on the situation."
Ding Ning wouldn't agree easily. Xilin's behavior tonight was very abnormal. There must be an unknown reason.
"You know, Diba, Shanshan, and I played together in junior high school. At that time, we were young and had our first awakening of love …"
With Xilin's coy confession, Ding Ning learned that when he was in junior high school, Li Mingrui was handsome, rich, and versatile. He had a great attraction to the girls who had just begun to fall in love. Xilin was also one of the girls who had a crush on him.
However, Xilin was more mature and rational. She was not as naive as other girls. As long as she liked someone, she would throw herself into that relationship without hesitation. While she was secretly in love with Li Mingrui, she had secretly investigated his family background.
When she found out that Li Mingrui was the son of the notorious butcher, Li Maoyang, her heart turned cold. Her feelings towards Li Mingrui were very complicated. On one hand, she adored him, but on the other hand, she feared his family like a snake or a scorpion.
In fact, at her age, she didn't have much intuitive impression of whether Li Maoyang was good or bad. The reason why she was so disgusted with him was that her father often scolded Li Maoyang when he was drunk and criticized him for all the bad things he had done, which left a deep impression on her.
Most importantly, she learned from her father that one of her father's friends, who was also an uncle who had loved Xilin since she was a child, had his family ruined by Li Maoyang. His death was unknown, which made Xilin's impression of Li Maoyang worsen to the extreme.
But it was difficult to control feelings. She wouldn't easily give up just because the one she liked was the son of a bully.
The entanglement and complexity in her heart made Xilin make a decision. That was to secretly follow Li Mingrui and get to know him. Was he a good boy who was pure from the mud, or was he a villain who was as bad as his father?
During the period of following Li Mingrui, she slowly found that Li Mingrui looked like a sunny boy on the surface, but in fact, he was arrogant, arrogant, and extremely selfish. He didn't even treat those classmates who fawned on him as human beings. When he was in a bad mood, he would vent his anger on them.
This made Xilin more and more disappointed in him. She felt that he was a hypocrite who was good at pretending. She decided to not like him in the future and stay away from such a sinister guy.
But Li Mingrui was the first boy she liked in her life. It wasn't easy to let him go. In addition, following him had become a habit. As soon as school was over, she would quietly follow him as if her brain didn't listen to her.
Until one time, when the weather was very cold, Li Mingrui and his lackeys ran to the frozen river to skate. Unexpectedly, the ice wasn't strong enough, and Li Mingrui fell into the river. Although those lackeys usually flattered him in every possible way, when something happened, they were so scared that their faces turned pale. They were afraid that they would fall into the river and scatter.
Maybe it was because of that ignorant first love, or maybe it was out of humanitarianism, but Xilin's mind was muddled at that time. Everyone else was running outside, but she took the initiative to rush over and threw her scarf to the struggling Li Mingrui. She struggled to save him.
From then on, Xilin became Li Mingrui's friend. But Xilin was afraid that her father would know that she was in contact with Li Maoyang's son, so she always asked Li Mingrui to pretend that he didn't know him at school.
Li Mingrui readily agreed. The two of them acted like spies. During the day, they pretended to not know each other at school. After school, they would go shopping, eat, watch movies, and often share each other's little secrets.
During that time, Xilin was very happy. She felt that Li Mingrui didn't seem to be as bad as she thought. He was an only child, afraid of loneliness, and longed for friendship. The living environment at home created his willful, overbearing, and selfish character.
It was also during the "honeymoon period" of the two that Li Mingrui took her to an air-raid shelter as if showing off. He also said that this was his father's secret base. Once, he was chased by a competitor and escaped by hiding in the air-raid shelter.
At that time, Xilin didn't think much about it. She just curiously visited the air-raid shelter that had been taken by Li Maoyang and spent a lot of money to transform into an underground fortress.
Unfortunately, before she could visit half of it, Li Maoyang appeared. At that time, he scolded Li Mingrui with a very ugly expression and told them to get out of here.
Li Mingrui felt that he had lost face in front of Xilin. He quarreled with Li Maoyang and left with Xilin angrily.
Later, Li Maoyang sent someone to specifically warn Xilin to stay away from Li Mingrui and not to tell anyone where the air-raid shelter was. Otherwise, her whole family would be slaughtered.
Xilin was afraid. From then on, she began to gradually alienate Li Mingrui. But in her heart, she thought that Li Mingrui liked her. Although she ignored him, she still liked to follow him out of habit.
It wasn't until later that she realized that Li Mingrui had never liked her at all. He only treated her as a friend. He had always liked Diba, which made her secretly sad. But on second thought, it was also good. At least, her family wouldn't be in danger because of her. The two slowly drifted apart because of this. When they met, they just nodded and greeted each other.
Later, she watched coldly as Li Mingrui madly pursued Diba, but Diba had no interest in him and always ignored him.
Because of this, she also discovered another side of Li Mingrui. Like a gummy candy that couldn't be shaken off, he kept pestering Diba, making Diba very annoyed. In the end, he left Wu City to study in Ninghai, which had a lot to do with wanting to get rid of his pestering.
If Diba hadn't been kidnapped, she probably wouldn't have remembered the air-raid shelter that had been sealed in her memory. So, after she remembered it, she immediately told Ding Ning that Diba was likely to be locked here.
"I liked him, but now I really don't like him at all. Don't be angry, okay?"
Xilin bit her lower lip, looked at Ding Ning uneasily, and said pitifully.
Ding Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He rubbed her head with a doting expression. "Am I so petty? Who doesn't have a past? Besides, you haven't had any substantial relationship. Do I have to be jealous of this? "
"But, he … he kissed me."
Ding Ning's magnanimity made Xilin feel relieved, but also indistinctly a little unwilling. It seemed that he didn't care about her at all.
A woman's heart was like a needle at the bottom of the sea.
Ding Ning looked at the slyness that flashed through her eyes. How could he not know that this girl deliberately wanted to make him jealous? He immediately put on a straight face and cooperatively said, "Humph, damn Li Mingrui. When I catch him, I will definitely smash his stinky mouth."
Xilin immediately became happy and beamed like a little girl who got a fun toy. "No, I lied to you. He just held my hand."
"That won't do. Which hand held your hand? When he comes back, I have to cut off his hand. "
Ding Ning said fiercely.
Xilin shivered all over and said with a bitter face, "Can you not be so bloody and violent? He just held your hand."
"What do you mean just held your hand? Why did he hold my woman's hand? No, tell me, which hand did he hold your hand? "
Ding Ning held back his laughter and asked with a murderous look.
Xilin felt sweet in her heart and charmingly rolled her eyes. "At that time, I was not your woman yet. Can you be more reasonable?"
"That won't do. Anyway, I will never let him go. When I think of him holding your hand, I feel jealous."
Ding Ning was completely immersed in his role and said with jealousy.
Xilin felt very happy and said very seriously, "You can kill him, but don't cut off his hand. I will have nightmares."
Ding Ning was instantly confused and his face was dull. "You will have nightmares if you cut off his hand, but you won't have nightmares if you kill him."
Looking at his dull expression, Xilin giggled. Then she became serious and said seriously, "He dared to kidnap Diba. His death is not to be regretted."
"Aren't you afraid that your man will be sued for murder?"
Ding Ning asked with a faint smile.
Xilin was stunned and said with hindsight, "Yes, I forgot about this. Forget it. Let's catch them and hand them over to the police."
"If handing them over to the police is useful, the father and son will not be so arrogant."
Ding Ning narrowed his eyes with cold light flashing in them.
Xilin felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped by more than ten degrees. She couldn't help shivering, but she was not afraid because of this. Instead, she felt extremely excited. "To be honest, I always feel that you are that Five-Colored God of War."
Ding Ning was stunned and couldn't help laughing. "That is just a fictional character."
"Even if it is fictional, there must be a prototype. That song can only be written by someone with a story. So, I think you must have experienced things that many people have not experienced."
Xilin said with great certainty.
Ding Ning smiled noncommittally, stretched himself, and sighed inwardly at the girl's keen intuition.
Although the song had been artistically processed, and the background, characters, and events had been changed, it was indeed based on his experience in the Kunpeng World that inspired him to write it.
"Here we are."
Xilin suddenly said. She slowed down the car, turned off the lights, and moved quietly on the tree-lined path under the moonlight.
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