Seeing that Li Yuzhu was distracted, Ding Haowen didn't bother to find out what was wrong with her.

It's nothing more than him saying he doesn't care about her anymore, and so on.

Ding Haowen felt a surge of excitement whenever he thought of Li Yan.

He glanced at Li Yuzhu, then turned and left.

Li Yuzhu only realized that Ding Haowen was going out when she saw his departing figure.

She quickly called out to Ding Haowen, "Where are you going?"

Ding Haowen's tone was somewhat impatient.

"I'm going out for a walk."

Most of the guests had left, but some of the Ding family's extended family members remained.

Li Yuzhu knew that Ding Haowen didn't like facing these distant relatives, but she didn't like facing them either!

Seeing that he had abandoned her at home, Li Yuzhu felt very depressed.

Immediately, Li Yuzhu realized something was wrong.

She followed Ding Haowen, hoping to catch him in the act!

Chen Jiayi was half asleep in the hotel when she suddenly heard a series of knocks on the door.

After she got up, she listened to the noise outside the door without moving.

As someone kept prying open the door lock, Chen Jiayi's face turned pale.

She got up, dressed, and climbed out the window.

There's a corridor outside the window of this hotel, which Chen Jiayi discovered during her last stay.

Aunt Wang lived next door. Chen Jiayi knocked on the window and called Aunt Wang's name softly.

Fortunately, Aunt Wang wasn't sleeping very deeply. When she heard the noise, she got up and opened the window.

Upon seeing Chen Jiayi, Aunt Wang asked in surprise, "Jiayi, why aren't you asleep so late?"

Hearing the door being pried open, Chen Jiayi immediately jumped into Aunt Wang's room. Then he closed the window and drew the curtains in one smooth motion.

After closing the window, she also locked it.

Chen Jiayi made a shushing gesture.

She tried to close the window when she climbed out, but the window could only be closed from the inside.

The neighbors would surely find out soon enough, and sure enough, she and Aunt Wang heard the sound of someone opening the window and climbing out.

Chen Jiayi quickly squatted down, gesturing for Aunt Wang to lie down on the bed.

Aunt Wang lay on the bed, closing her eyes in fear and turning her back to the window.

The outer curtains were pulled open, and Chen Jiayi sensed someone peering through the window and observing the room.

She held her breath, thankful that the moonlight wasn't very bright tonight.

Perhaps the other party didn't notice anything, and simply drew the outer curtains and left.

Aunt Wang breathed a sigh of relief and turned over to speak.

Chen Jiayi quickly shook her head at Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Chen Jiayi did not hear any footsteps, which meant that the other party had not left.

Sure enough, the curtains were pulled open again a short while later.

The other person peered through the window, scrutinizing the person on the bed. Upon discovering it was an older woman, they lost interest and left.

Chen Jiayi took a deep breath and exhaled gently.

She didn't know who had managed to break her lock and try to come in.

The first person Chen Jiayi thought of was Ding Haowen.

The only person who knew she had returned to Lotus Town was Ding Haowen.

It's either Ding Haowen or a thug trying to rob someone.

Chen Jiayi and Aunt Wang remained silent until the noise from next door subsided.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Chen Jiayi realized that someone was prying open Aunt Wang's door lock.

She was a little flustered and whispered.

“Aunt Wang, pretend to be very angry and go to the door to curse a few words in the local dialect.”

Although Aunt Wang was scared, she was also genuinely angry.

She jumped out of bed and went to the door, where she angrily cursed for a long time.

"Which bastard is up in the middle of the night, not sleeping, and trying to break into my house?"

"Get the hell out of here! I've already called the police! The police station is right downstairs from the hotel. You'll be heading there!"

"..."

There's another sentence, and it was incredibly vulgar.

It's inconvenient to type it out.

I don't know if Aunt Wang's scolding had any effect, but no one tried to pick the lock anymore.

At the same time, Chen Jiayi heard a sound coming from outside.

What are you doing?

The sounds of someone running away and shouting angrily came from outside.

Aunt Wang beamed with joy and instinctively reached for the door.

"It must be the husband and wife returning."

Chen Jiayi quickly reached out to stop Aunt Wang, and shook her head at her.

My brain is calculating at lightning speed.

They arrived in Lianhua Town at 5 p.m. It takes three hours to drive from Lianhua Town to her father's construction site, which means Lan Meixuan arrived at the construction site at 8 p.m.

If my parents don't waste time, they can come back directly.

That won't arrive until midnight.

But Chen Jiayi had just glanced at the wall clock, and it was only 10 o'clock.

She went to bed early tonight, so she's been in light sleep.

Sure enough, a moment later someone outside cursed.

"Damn it, he's a coward, he won't even open the door."

Upon hearing that rough, hoarse voice, Chen Jiayi and Aunt Wang's hearts both raced.

The young lady was right; the people outside might not have left, they were just putting on an act.

Neither of them dared to sleep deeply all night, and Chen Jiayi only dared to close her eyes and go to sleep when it was dawn the next morning.

Lan Meixuan and Chen Qiming were also very tired.

I had a car accident last night; my tire blew out.

A group of thugs wanted to extort them.

Fortunately, they didn't drive here alone; they brought two cars full of people with them.

The thugs ran away in fright when they saw so many people.

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