When Lin Yan returned to Ye Zi's little nest, she had already fallen asleep on the sofa. Quiet and sweet, she was like a sleeping kitten. Lin Yan walked over and gently patted Ye Zi's head.
"Be good. If you're tired, go back to the bedroom to sleep."
Seeing Ye Zi slowly open her eyes, Lin Yan said softly.
Ye Zi smiled sweetly, revealing a pair of shallow dimples. She hugged Lin Yan's waist and buried her head in his chest. "Are you done with work?"
"Not yet." Lin Yan said, "In a while, I have to go back to the company."
Ye Zi nodded. "Drive slowly."
Lin Yan carried Ye Zi and walked into the bedroom. He covered Ye Zi with the quilt before leaving the house. Along the way, Lin Yan drove very fast. In the darkness of the night, the black Jeep Cherokee only left two dark red taillights. It flashed across the road like lightning.
In the CEO's office on the top floor of Lam's Group.
Lin Yan stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling glass and looked down at the night view of the entire Binhai City. After so many years, would the girl he had been looking for still be in this world? Would the girl who had appeared in the most miserable time of his life be okay?
Memories were like a long line, passing through the light in front of him and pulling Lin Yan back to that time …
A little girl squatted in front of Lin Yan. She stuffed a lollipop into Lin Yan's hand and smiled sweetly. The pair of shallow dimples on her lips were very cute. After the Lin family suffered a huge change, the only thing that could comfort Lin Yan was the girl's smile and the lollipop in her hand.
Until the fire broke out in the Lin family's ancestral home, the little girl held onto Lin Yan's hand and did not let go. On the night Lin Yan's parents left, only the little girl's hand could comfort him.
"When your heart is bitter, eat sweets. That way, it won't be bitter anymore."
Even though so many years had passed in the blink of an eye, Lin Yan still remembered what the little girl had said to him.
This had also become the motivation for Lin Yan to struggle for so many years.
Living in this world, people had to go through thousands and thousands of trials and tribulations before they could grow. Lin Yan hid all his emotions and became a man of steel.
Live and find her.
Lin Yan lit a cigarette and placed it between his thin lips. He took a deep breath and exhaled a thick ring of smoke.
The smoke curled and wriggled in front of Lin Yan. In the entire office, there was only the light of the fire. In the dark night, it looked like a red eye that could see through everything, demonic and ghostly.
That night, Lin Yan stayed in the office and sat until dawn.
His eyes were bloodshot, just like the red eyes that appeared when the cigarette burned last night.
In the ashtray, cigarette butts crisscrossed like thousands of arrows piercing through the heart. Lin Yan finished the last cigarette in the cigarette box and inserted the cigarette butt into the ashtray. The ashes scattered all over the ground, but he didn't care about them at all. He didn't look the slightest bit like his usual mysophobia self.
…
When Ye Zi woke up, her side was empty. It was obvious that Lin Yan did not return that night.
She sat up and stretched her body. She didn't sleep well this time. Without Lin Yan by her side, she kept having the same dream. It was a boundless red, burning, and scorching feeling, burning her delicate skin. The fire that soared into the sky made the night look like it was daytime.
Ye Zi held the toothbrush in her mouth with a gloomy expression. She looked at her reflection in the mirror and gently rubbed the dark circles under her eyes.
The nickname Panda had to be given to her today.
Without Lin Yan in the morning, Ye Zi had no breakfast. She bought a pancake by the roadside outside the apartment and ate it as she walked to the detective agency.
"Aiyo, boss, did you have too much sex last night? Why do you look like this?!"
To Look Around, it was as if she was afraid that others couldn't hear her voice. She screamed like a ghost. Her voice quickly attracted the attention of the other two detectives. Ye Zi was like a national treasure on display, allowing the three of them to look at her.
Ye Zi yawned and waved her hand. She said angrily, "You don't want to work anymore? What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a beauty before? "
To Look Around covered her mouth and smiled faintly. "I've never seen a beauty with such serious dark circles."
Jian Xia took out a concealment cream from her bag and stuffed it into Ye Zi's hands. "You should put on some makeup. You'll look more energetic."
She did not know if it was because of her guilty conscience, but when Jian Xia looked at Ye Zi, her eyes would inadvertently avoid her.
Ye Zi smiled and took the concealment cream from Jian Xia's hands. She put on some light makeup and looked much more energetic. At least, she did not look like she was in a daze.
Not long after, the detective agency welcomed their first customer of the day.
"Excuse me, is this the Aroma Detective Agency?"
The person who walked in was a middle-aged man of about 40 years old. The man was wearing a suit and looked like an elite. He had a square face and a pair of black-rimmed glasses, but it could not hide the worry on his face.
"Hello, how can I help you?" To Look Around walked over and gestured for the detective agency to enter.
The man followed To Look Around into the detective agency. To Look Around found Ye Zi and poured the man a cup of coffee.
Ye Zi smiled and asked the man, "Hello, sir. I'm the person in charge of the Aroma Detective Agency. How can I help you?"
The man said, "My daughter is missing."
Ye Zi heard this and frowned slightly. "Have you called the police?"
"Yes, I have." The man's voice was hoarse and had a sense of helplessness. "But the police investigated the case according to the usual missing persons. The police said that because there was no phone blackmail, they could only rule out kidnapping. I really had no choice, so … so …"
At this point, the man could not continue. He covered his face and his body trembled slightly. It looked like he was crying.
After Ye Zi's simple understanding, she found out that the man's name was Du Zhiguo. His daughter, who was also the missing girl, was called Du Weiwei and was only nine years old.
Before Du Weiwei disappeared, she had said that she would go to her classmate's house that night. Because they lived in the same neighborhood and Du Weiwei often went to her classmate's house, he did not send her there.
At eight o 'clock that night, Du Weiwei left her classmate's house yesterday and her whereabouts were unknown.
Du Zhiguo was the vice president of a foreign bank in Binhai City. Because he had been drinking at a dinner party that year, he went to bed very early. Until the next morning, Du Zhiguo did not see his daughter return, so he called the police. Because Du Weiwei's disappearance was less than four o 'clock, the police did not file a case for investigation at the beginning. It was not until four o' clock that Du Zhiguo went to the police station again, and the police began to investigate Du Weiwei's disappearance.
After the police station was dispatched, they rushed to the scene of Du Weiwei's disappearance. From Du Weiwei to her classmate's house, they conducted a detailed investigation along the way, but found nothing.
From Du Weiwei's classmate, she left her classmate's house at eight o 'clock that night, and the two of them did not contact each other again.
The police found the surveillance video of the neighborhood. In the video, they only recorded Du Weiwei leaving her classmate's house. No one knew what happened after that.
The man cried very sadly and blamed himself. When he told Ye Zi about this, he choked several times, blaming himself in his words. "If I had picked her up that day, this wouldn't have happened. It's all because of me."
Ye Zi did not know how to comfort a man in his forties. She got up and walked to the man's side, gently patting the man's shoulder. "Mr. Du, please rest assured, we will do our best to find your daughter."
In the past few days, the man had heard this sentence countless times.
He was already a little numb. After a few seconds of silence, the man slowly raised his head. His face was already covered in tears, and at this moment, he looked a little older.
Then, Ye Zi brought To Look Around and Yao An, and followed the man to the Forest and Sunshine neighborhood in the center of Binhai City.
The Forest and Sunshine neighborhood, as the neighborhood's name suggested, was already late autumn, but the leaves that had not yet withered could still be seen. The sun shone down, shining brightly on the ground.
The security of this neighborhood was very tight. Basically, there were surveillance cameras everywhere, and there were security guards patrolling 24 hours a day. It was a completely enclosed neighborhood.
Ye Zi felt very strange about this. How did Du Weiwei get taken away from the Forest and Sunshine neighborhood?
According to Du Zhiguo's instructions, Ye Zi and the others came to Du Weiwei's classmate's house. The girl was called Tiantian, and like Du Weiwei, she was in the second grade of elementary school. Her voice was still childish, and she told Ye Zi the purpose of Du Weiwei's visit that day.
Then, Ye Zi and the others left Tiantian's house and walked around according to the route.
At the place where Du Weiwei disappeared, Ye Zi stood and looked around. This location was a busy point of the neighborhood's surveillance. Although the two surveillance equipment were working, they could not detect this place.
It could be imagined that the person who took Du Weiwei away was also using this busy point.
Then, Ye Zi went to Du Zhiguo's house. In his house, Ye Zi did not see his wife. "Excuse me, is there only you and Weiwei in your house?"
Du Zhiguo thought for a while and said, "Her mother is abroad on a business trip. She received my call and rushed back."
Ye Zi nodded slightly. "Does Weiwei have any relatives in Binhai City?"
Ye Zi suspected that the person who took Du Weiwei away might be someone she knew. Otherwise, it would be impossible for a stranger to take Du Weiwei away in the Forest and Sunshine neighborhood where the security guards were patrolling 24 hours a day.
As long as Du Weiwei made the slightest sound of resistance or was knocked out, she would be discovered.
Du Zhiguo shook his head and sighed. He said in a hoarse and low voice, "Neither her mother nor I are from this city. Our parents live in Shanghai. When Weiwei was young, my mother-in-law helped to take care of her here, but since Weiwei started primary school, my mother-in-law has returned to Shanghai."
Ye Zi frowned as she looked at the photo of Du Weiwei in the living room of Du Zhiguo's house. Du Weiwei was a very cute little girl with a sweet smile, a typical loli.
"Do you have a photo of Weiwei alone?"
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