All transportation vehicles must be checked, search in remote mountains and wilderness, search in rural towns, check exit documents, search for hidden smuggling routes, he quit his job and personally searched every possible corner.
However, Xiao Chu had simply disappeared.
Days passed, and there was still no news of her.
He had strongly suspected that his elder brother had forcibly sent her away, but all evidence showed that she had left voluntarily, not under any coercion.
Voluntarily left? She voluntarily left! Why?
When this thought seeped into his rationality and merged into his thoughts, he took a bottle of strong liquor, returned to the apartment, walked into the living room, saw the bright red rose Xiao Chu wanted had withered, becoming a flower corpse, his heart aching unbearably.
That night, he finished the entire bottle.
The next day, he shaved his beard, styled his hair, put on a suit, drove to Yihai Group to return to work, using massive workload to numb his pain.
From then on, he became a heartless man.
Privately, however, he never gave up the idea of finding Xiao Chu.
Initially, he was only focused on where she went, repeatedly checking transportation channels on land, sea, and air, searching places she might have gone, but always without result.
He began to ponder how Xiao Chu could disappear into thin air? And disappear so thoroughly that even he, skilled in tracking, couldn’t find a trace.
She was not the type to hide her whereabouts, and even if she was, to vanish without a trace would require a large sum of money, which she absolutely couldn’t afford.
Someone must be secretly helping her!
But she had no wealthy friends.
He re-examined every detail from before and after her disappearance, finally discovering that on the morning of her disappearance, she had turned the security system off and on twice, with a twenty-minute interval.
This confirmed that while he was asleep, Xiao Chu had gone out for twenty minutes. This was something he hadn’t noticed before, and was definitely related to her disappearance!
Excited, he immediately requested elevator and exit surveillance footage from the Xinchuan Mansion management center, only to find that Xiao Chu had never gone out.
He began to think. If she didn’t go out, why did she repeatedly toggle the security system?
For fun? Impossible.
