Chapter 235 Jiang Ning has disappeared

The torrential rain that had been building up all morning finally came down.

When the imperial blue Bentley arrived at the entrance of the cultural and creative park, it was already raining heavily.

After parking the car, Lu Junyan got out and opened his umbrella.

The louder the rain, the quieter the cultural and creative park seemed.

This is where Jiang Ning works.

He could have gone straight up to Jiang Ning.

But he didn't.

Lu Junyan stood alone in the rain; even with an umbrella, his suit was still soaked.

He didn't even know why he had come here.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't tell Jiang Ning that he hoped she would come and celebrate his birthday with him.

Lu Junyan stood silently in the pouring rain, holding an umbrella, with lightning flashing above his head.

The construction site was deserted; it was impossible to work in such a stormy weather.

The entrance to the concrete staircase was completely blocked by old shipping containers that had been stacked three stories high.

Looking around, no one would notice that there is a staircase leading underground behind these containers.

No one would know that at the end of the stairs was an abandoned electrical substation.

No one would know that someone was imprisoned inside.

An old, dilapidated apartment on Qian'an Road.

Fu Xinyue collapsed onto the sofa, the room reeking of alcohol.

She moved here after the Fu family went bankrupt; this is her current home.

Fu Xinyue was drinking alone, her face showing a mix of tension, excitement, and pain.

The scary thing is that she killed someone, even though the person should still be alive.

She was also excited because she had killed someone, although the person was probably still alive, but would die soon.

"In the cold basement, being locked up for too long will cause heart palpitations, hypothermia, dehydration, and fainting... By then, we'll cover that abandoned electrical substation with shipping containers, and by the time someone finds it, Jiang Ning will probably be a rotting corpse."

As Fu Xinyue recalled what Chu Qingxue had told her, the image of Jiang Ning's painful and contorted death flashed through her mind.

"Jiang Ning, die! You die, hahahaha!"

Fu Xinyue suddenly burst into laughter.

As I laughed, tears streamed down my face like a broken string of pearls.

Fu Xinyue was certainly not crying for Jiang Ning, who was on the verge of death.

She was crying for herself.

In order to make Jiang Ning suffer a torturous death, she actually reduced herself to a prostitute.

Fu Xinyue picked up the bottle and gulped down the entire bottle of wine.

She can't afford expensive liquor right now, so she drinks cheap beer.

She'd trade her body for Jiang Ning's life—

"It was worth it!"

The sky was getting dark.

The rain is still falling.

The construction site was deathly silent.

Cultural and creative park.

Starting at five o'clock, companies began to close one after another, by which time it was completely dark.

Another wave at 5:30, and yet another at 6:00.

Seven o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock...

People gradually left the office building to go home.

Lu Junyan held up an umbrella and stood outside until this time.

However, he did not see Jiang Ning among the few people who came out.

"Mr. Lu?"

Lu Junyan slightly raised the umbrella that was covering half of his face.

"It really is you, Mr. Lu! I thought I had mistaken you for someone else!"

What came into view was a young girl. Lu Junyan didn't know her, but she looked somewhat familiar.

If he remembered correctly, this girl was Jiang Ning's newly recruited assistant.

Seeing Lu Junyan silently scrutinizing her, Xiao Ai patted her chest and introduced herself:

"Mr. Lu, I'm Xiao Ai, and I'm Mr. Jiang's assistant."

"Um……"

Xiao Ai could tell that Lu Junyan didn't have much to say to her, but her woman's intuition told her that Lu Junyan was probably here to see Jiang Ning.

"Is Mr. Lu here to see Mr. Jiang?"

"..."

Lu Junyan wanted to say no, but ultimately remained silent.

Xiao Ai's eyes lit up immediately.

Lu Junyan's silence was a tacit agreement.

"I knew it, my intuition was right... But Mr. Lu, the boss isn't in her office, she hasn't come back all day..."

At this point, Xiao Ai scratched the back of her head, looking puzzled.

"It's strange, really. The boss used to go back to the company after delivering goods... I don't know what's wrong with him this time. It's already this late, maybe he's just going home!"

Listening to Xiao Ai's murmurs, Lu Junyan frowned.

Then the rain lessened and gradually stopped.

Lu Junyan put away his umbrella, took out his phone, and dialed Jiang Ning's number.

The call didn't go through.

I tried again, but it still didn't work.

Where is your boss delivering goods today?

“I remember… it was Mr. Zhao from Tianxing Industrial.”

The imperial blue Bentley sped along, leaving everyone else in its dust.

Xiao Ai stood on tiptoe, watching the imperial blue Bentley drive away, and muttered to herself:

"President Lu doesn't seem as cold-blooded and ruthless as the rumors say!"

It was past midnight.

The suburbs, where a torrential rain had just fallen, were as cold as the dead of winter.

This place is deserted and silent, as quiet as a graveyard.

Suddenly, all the lights on the pitch-black construction site came on.

"Mr. Lu, the weather is bad today, so we're taking a day off. There's no one to work here, so the person you're looking for can't be here."

The foreman stood beside Lu Junyan, bowing and scraping.

He was sleeping soundly in his warm bed when his boss called him out of bed.

Besides him, there were all the workers under him who were working on Boss Zhao's project.

Besides the workers, Lu Junyan's bodyguards and Xiao Zhang were also at the construction site.

Xiao Zhang showed each worker a photo of Jiang Ning, but none of them said they had ever seen Jiang Ning.

About two hours ago, Lu Junyan found Boss Zhao, but Boss Zhao said that he had originally arranged for Jiang Ning to deliver the goods. He changed the location to the construction site because he had to go to the construction site for inspection. However, something came up at his company, so he sent a WeChat message to Jiang Ning to reschedule the delivery.

Mr. Zhao stated that he had never met Jiang Ning from beginning to end.

Lu Junyan also went to the old house on Sanhu Street, but Jiang Ning did not go home.

When I called Jiangning, the prompt kept saying that the number I dialed was not in service.

Lu Junyan's intuition told him that something had happened in Jiangning.

He had Xiao Zhang call the police. Although the police station had dispatched officers, Lu Junyan couldn't just sit and wait to be killed.

Bai Yichen and the others also couldn't contact Jiang Ning. They gradually heard that Jiang Ning had disappeared, so they split up to look for him.

Lu Junyan led his men to the construction site.

Although Boss Zhao absolved himself of all responsibility, according to Xiao Ai, Jiang Ning left the company to deliver goods for Boss Zhao.

The construction site is remote and desolate with poor signal, which is consistent with the current situation in Jiangning where telephones are not in service areas.

However, Lu Junyan dispatched more than twenty bodyguards to search with the workers, turning the entire construction site upside down, but they still couldn't find Jiang Ning.

“Mr. Lu, there really can’t be anyone here…” The contractor was extremely helpless. “Assuming that lady you mentioned really came to deliver goods to Boss Zhao, when she saw that there wasn’t a single person in the construction site, she would definitely contact Boss Zhao… Even if the signal was bad and she couldn’t get through, she couldn’t possibly stay here alone and wait.”

"Besides, the construction site is only so big, and there are only a few pits. Even if you fall in, you won't be unable to climb out. We've already searched all of them."

The foreman's words made some sense, and even Xiao Zhang thought Jiangning wasn't here.

"Have you retrieved all the surveillance footage?"

Lu Junyan asked Xiao Zhang with a cold face.

"Officer Li said it hasn't fully recovered yet because it rained too heavily before."

As soon as Xiao Zhang finished speaking, a large raindrop slammed onto Lu Junyan's forehead.

Rainwater slowly flowed down the high, straight bridge of his nose.

"It's raining again."

"It's raining harder, who brought an umbrella?!"

The construction site was in chaos, with workers searching for umbrellas and seeking shelter from the rain.

"Mr. Lu..."

Xiao Zhang first held up an umbrella for Lu Junyan, while he himself was already soaked.

"It's too late now, and it's raining. Why don't we go back tonight and wait for news from the police tomorrow?"