Chapter 236 The bell rings at twelve o'clock in the morning

Today is the first day of the new year.

The entire industry is on holiday.

It's snowing again.

The shops were closed, the roads were sparsely populated, and the area near the private hospital was even more deserted. Upon learning that Han Zhan was going home, Ms. Bai's first thought was the Beishan villa where he and Shi Yin lived.

The woman quickly left the hospital.

While letting the driver drive, he made a phone call and instructed his men to stop Han Zhan on the only road leading to Beishan Villa. He must not let him and Shi Yin meet again!

Shi Yin really cursed him.

Lost my memory.

Forget about her completely.

But she still attracted him to look up her contact information when they first met.

His communication equipment was only restored tonight. After receiving a brief call from Shi Yin, he ran out without stopping, heading home to Beishan Villa.

The lost son.

I will never allow Shi Yin to snatch it away again!

…

Half an hour later.

A Lincoln business car drove into the street entrance leading to Beishan Villa.

There are people waiting here.

The window of the back seat rolled down, and seeing Ms. Bai's fierce face, the people outside immediately bowed their heads and said respectfully, "Madam, we have been guarding here, but we haven't seen the Second Young Master."

"A Zhan hasn't come yet?"

"It should be."

Hearing this.

Ms. Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked up and saw in the distance a modern villa with lights on, several big red lanterns hanging at the door, and a tall and fat snowman in the yard.

The gate was opened.

A thin and frail figure appeared under the eaves.

She was wearing a thick coat, a pair of home slippers, and a big dog following behind her. She stood there, on tiptoe, looking up at the tree-lined avenue, waiting for someone to come home.

Ms. Bai withdrew her gaze from Shi Yin in the distance and immediately ordered: "Leave two of you to guard this entrance. If Ah Zhan comes over, stop him immediately. The rest of you go to the Beijing Police Station and check the road surveillance from Han's Private Hospital to Beishan Villa to find Ah Zhan's whereabouts!"

Everyone received the order and left one after another.

Ms. Bai stayed here.

The snowy night was long, and the search for her son was even more agonizing. She was worried about him freezing and about him meeting Shi Yin. After an unsettling time, Ms. Bai's driver received a call with good news: "Madam, the police have found the second young master. He's on an overpass two kilometers away!"

It was almost midnight when Ms. Bai rushed over.

The wind was bitingly cold.

The snowflakes floating in the air are even colder.

As soon as the car stopped, Ms. Bai got out impatiently, not even bothering to hold an umbrella, and stumbled in her high heels straight to where Han Zhan was. As she got closer, she could clearly see his disheveled appearance. His hair was covered in snow, and his shoes were already soaked by the slush, but his eyes were resolute, as if he was heading somewhere.

"Ah Zhan, what are you doing? You'll catch a cold! You just got out of danger and returned to the capital. Don't make Mom worry, okay? Mom has been looking for you for two or three hours and almost collapsed, do you know?"

Han Zhan remained silent.

Push away the person in front of you and keep moving forward.

The defenseless Ms. Bai was almost pushed to the ground by him, but fortunately the driver helped her up. She didn't even have time to stand firmly on her feet, and hurriedly chased after him: "Son, let's get in the car first. Wherever you want to go, Mom will take you there personally--"

“Ding Dong!”

The clock struck twelve.

Han Zhan suddenly stopped.

Amidst the blowing wind and snow, he opened his eyes, his dark pupils fixed on the LED screen in the distance, which was reputed to be the tallest and largest in Beijing. On it was an electronic clock, indicating that it was already past midnight.

Ms. Bai didn't know what was wrong with him.

Tentatively walked over to him.

She reached out and held his completely cold arm. When her son did not struggle, she immediately took off her fur coat and put it on him, then led him into the Lincoln car parked nearby.

The car drove off the overpass.

Back to the hospital.

Han Zhan, who had caught a cold, had a low-grade fever at night. The doctor gave him an IV, and he was now sleeping in the hospital bed. Ms. Bai was watching over him, wiping his face and tucking him in.

The housekeeper knocked on the door.

The sound got a little louder.

Ms. Bai glanced at him, as if Han Zhan was the most precious treasure in her heart, and she cherished him beyond measure. The woman stood up from her chair, looking back at her son on the bed every three steps, until she had completely left the bedroom and closed the door, then she withdrew her gaze.

She sat down on the sofa.

The housekeeper approached cautiously and said carefully, "Madam, the police have found out where the Second Young Master was tonight. Shi Yin called at 9:30 and the call lasted 11 seconds. After the call, the Second Young Master left the hospital without even changing his clothes or shoes."

"It was New Year's Day, snowing heavily, and I couldn't get a taxi on my phone. There were no taxis on the street. The surveillance video showed that the Second Young Master waited at the hospital entrance for over 20 minutes, then followed the map and headed from the hospital towards Beishan Villa."

"We walked for about an hour and finally got a taxi in front of the IFS shopping mall. Because the road was blocked by heavy snow, all the cars heading towards Shiyin Road had to use the elevated bridge in Panlong District, causing a traffic jam there."

"The Second Young Master was stuck on the elevated highway for over half an hour. He got off the bus around 11:30 and walked to Beishan Villa. You arrived shortly thereafter, and he followed you back."

"This audio clip was downloaded by the police from the Second Young Master's phone records. It's an 11-second conversation between Shi Yin and him."

The butler pressed the play button.

Silent hall.

Shi Yin's clear voice is exceptionally clear.

She didn't beat around the bush, just gave a very simple notice, telling Han Zhan that if he didn't go home before midnight, he wouldn't have to go home in the future. Before hanging up the phone, she gave an address: Beishan Villa, No. 789, Shiyin Road.

Just this one sentence.

Han Zhan walked for nearly three hours during the heavy snowstorm.

Soaked all over.

The corners of my clothes are almost frozen.

He was completely frozen.

If the LED screen on the building had not displayed the time and the clock had not struck twelve, he would still have stubbornly gone home and headed towards Beishan Villa.

He clearly didn't remember what Beishan Villa was.

I don’t know where home is.

Just from Shi Yin's words, he was determined to go home even if it meant his life was gone.

"Where's A-Zhan's cell phone?"

"Here."

"Have you synced all the data on your old phone?"

"It's synchronized now. When the Second Young Master took it last night, he only synchronized some contacts."

Ms. Bai looked down at her phone screen.

Open WeChat.

The only pinned contact is Shi Yin.

No matter how hard they scrolled, they couldn't reach the top of their chat history. For every sentence Shi Yin said, he would reply ten times, always adding a cute emoticon to make Shi Yin laugh. Looking back on the past 29 years, the total number of words her son had spoken to her was probably less than the number of sentences he and Shi Yin exchanged in a single day.