Volume 5: The Kidnapper

Chapter 159 The Leading One (1)

At 4:30 in the afternoon, the entrance of Zhongshi Experimental University was crowded with people.

Parents surrounded the school gate in three layers just to pick up their children.

Among the crowd picking up their children were grandparents in their sixties and some young parents... In short, parents nowadays keep a close eye on their children going to and from school. This is because they know that there are some very hateful people in this world who will take advantage of the situation and kidnap their children!

Most families nowadays have a 4-2-1 structure.

Our grandparents who were born in the 1950s and 1960s had to have only one child because they lived through the period when the country implemented the family planning policy.

And their descendants—the only children born in the 1980s—grew up and married, still at the tail end of the family planning policy, and most of them only had one child... Therefore, in every three-generation family, a considerable number of them have a 4-2-1 structure...

Just imagine, for a family with only one child, this child is so precious! He or she carries the hopes of generations of the family and carries the family genes...

They are the treasure of the family continuation and the source of happiness for generations of the family.

The children jumped out of the school gate one by one.

They laughed and cheered as they ran towards their families...

The narrow road was almost completely blocked by cars and motorcycles. The clamor of people and the honking of car horns made the scene quite lively.

Chong walked out of the school gate with his classmates.

The mother who came stood at the door and took Lai away. Their black car disappeared in a flash;

Dear mother, she didn't come...

Mom always picks me up on time, but today there's a meeting at work. As the department manager, Mom's the one chairing it, so she can't leave. So, she calls Dad and asks him to pick up the phone. But Dad's a busy man, too. He's developing a mobile game that's about to be released, but there's still a problem he hasn't solved. So, when Dad gets the call, he impatiently agrees, but in his busy schedule, he forgets about the matter...

Chong waited at the door for five minutes, but no one showed up, so he decided to take the bus home.

He always carries a bus pass around his neck. It's one his parents prepared for him, just in case they can't pick him up.

Chong's grandparents lived in another province, far from Huacheng. When Chong was young, his grandmother came to help take care of him for a while. Later, his grandfather fell ill, and his grandmother had to return home to take care of him.

Although Chong's grandparents were from Hwaseong, they rarely visited their daughter's home to see their grandson. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but their daughter wouldn't let them. Grandma was a very short-tempered old lady, often losing her temper for no apparent reason. His mother worried that her temper would scare Chong, so she didn't allow her to visit.

With her grandparents being ill and her grandmother having a bad temper, Chong's mother had a hard time picking him up and dropping him off every day. Furthermore, her husband was a science and engineering man, completely absorbed in his research, so it was common for Chong to take the bus home alone after school.

So, Chong came to the No. 11 bus stop opposite the school and waited for the bus to arrive...