Chapter 116 Night Market

"Xin Que?" Su Zhan pounded anxiously on the heavy door. "Are you alright?"

"I saw someone following you at the night market, and fearing for your safety, they took it upon themselves to follow you..."

"Hey, what's wrong with your lock... Xin Que?!"

Su Zhan looked extremely worried, as if he was afraid something might happen to Xin Que. Finally, he gritted his teeth and opened the door, whose lock had been broken.

"We meet again."

A woman's sudden voice echoed from the darkness, startling Su Zhan.

What happened?!

Su Zhan was startled. Upon closer inspection, he realized that Xin Que was sitting on the sofa not far from him.

He felt that the scene seemed somewhat familiar.

Forcing himself to calm down, Su Zhan forced a smile, "Are you alright? I saw a suspicious person..."

Su Zhan was startled by the woman who suddenly overturned in front of him over the coffee table.

Before he could even shout, his mouth was covered and he was dragged into the living room.

The security door was slammed shut.

It wasn't until Xin Que dragged him across the wall again, making him face the bulging-eyed man behind it, that Su Zhan became utterly terrified.

Xin Que is definitely not the pushover Xin Xin described!

"I have a few questions for you," the woman's urgent voice rang out above him, "Can you answer truthfully?"

Su Zhan's eyes widened, and he nodded frantically.

...

Xin Que threw the lifeless Su Zhan onto the floor, letting the space she was in be destroyed and shattered by the enraged plot space, and then gradually reassembled.

While dodging the flying shards of glass, Xin Que sorted through the information she had gleaned from Su Zhan.

Su Zhan was the senior that the original owner, Xin Que, had a crush on during her university years.

In this tragic story, Xin Que was still targeted by Xin Xin even when she was in college. Xin Xin even had many followers who helped her bully Xin Que on campus.

Xin Que was being assaulted by thugs hired by the bullies when Su Zhan happened to be passing by and rescued her.

Thus, under the influence of the suspension bridge effect, Xin Que naturally fell in love with Su Zhan.

Later, by chance, Xin Xin discovered Xin Que's feelings and immediately took action to steal Su Zhan away, giving Xin Que a thorough humiliation.

Afterwards, Xin Que lost all hope, and the two sides severed all ties...

As for why Su Zhan took the initiative to appear in front of Xin Que after many years, it was because Xin Xin promised him a lot of benefits and asked him to help deal with Xin Que once again.

"Betrayed again by someone I once trusted..." Xin Que connected this sentence with Su Zhan, "Is the plot hint referring to Su Zhan?"

The space has been reorganized.

The robber who was strangled by Xin Que disappeared without a trace, while Su Zhan, who died at Xin Que's hands, was resurrected once again and reset in the hall.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Su Zhan subconsciously touched his neck, which was covered in goosebumps.

The elevator beeped as it arrived at the first floor, and the metal doors slowly opened to both sides.

Su Zhan looked at the cramped, empty elevator lobby and hesitated for a moment, unsure whether he should go forward.

He should now take the elevator to Xin Que's rented apartment, and then...

Su Zhan felt a strange chill run down his spine.

He stared blankly at the empty elevator in front of him, which seemed to be urging him to hurry up and enter, then turned and ran.

...

Xin Xin was caught off guard by Su Zhan's sudden loss of contact.

Su Zhan seemed to be deliberately avoiding her, blocking her contact information and completely disappearing from her WeChat Moments.

At first, she thought he had lost face by being humiliated by Xin Que, but after waiting for a few days, Su Zhan disappeared without a trace, and Xin Xin finally couldn't sit still any longer.

She contacted several of Su Zhan's close college classmates, but the responses she received were all that they didn't know where he was or that they hadn't been in contact with him recently.

This person...it's as if they just vanished into thin air.

Xin Xin then remembered what Su Zhan had told her earlier: that they could find a robber to ensure their plan would go perfectly.

Xin Xin immediately pulled out her backup phone, which she used to contact Su Zhan, and deleted all their chat messages.

She started overthinking again.

Su Zhan's disappearance was like a fishbone stuck in her throat, something she couldn't spit out or swallow.

She couldn't call the police because she was absolutely the only person Su Zhan had contacted before he disappeared. If the police wanted to check his phone... Xin Xin shuddered.

But how many days can Su Zhan's disappearance be kept secret?

His parents are both alive, and although they live in different cities, they can't keep it a secret for too long.

If his parents still can't contact Su Zhan...

Xin Xin began to comfort herself, thinking that maybe he just felt the task was too risky and ran away at the last minute?

Nothing should happen...

Hopefully nothing bad will happen.

...

"Brother Chuan, aren't you eating at the stall?"

The young stall owner was diligently flipping two large handfuls of skewers in front of the grill when he asked Ji Mingchuan, who was waiting by the stall, a question.

Ji Mingchuan shook his head, "No, just pack it up for me after it's baked."

Just as he transferred the money, Ji Mingchuan seemed to see a familiar face through the smoke mingled with the aroma of meat and charcoal.

Um?

He subconsciously tilted his head to the side.

Isn't this the artsy young man who made things difficult for Xin Que before?

After a few days apart, most of his artistic aura had vanished, and he was swaying unsteadily, as if his soul had been taken away.

Ji Mingchuan's sixth sense told him that this person's appearance here was probably not accidental, so he turned around and was about to walk towards the young man.

"Boss, give me twenty skewers of lean meat, and..."

New customers arrived at the smoky stall.

Ji Mingchuan paused, turned around to look at the new guest, "Cheng Zheng?"

Cheng Zheng was interrupted as he was reciting the names of the dishes. He subconsciously looked up at the person who called his name and was surprised to see that it was Ji Mingchuan.

What's going on? I ran into an old acquaintance after finishing overtime.

Just as the two were about to ask each other why they were at the night market, Ji Mingchuan turned his gaze away.

Xin Que was at a fried food stall not far away, neatly and efficiently picking food into her iron plate.

Cheng Zheng followed Ji Mingchuan's gaze and saw Xin Que's figure, immediately having a bad feeling.

All three of them appeared here, so...

The client and Luo Huayi chatted and laughed as they walked into the largest food stall in the night market. "Mr. Luo, don't be fooled by the noise and bustle here, their crayfish has a good reputation."

"It's really hard to find a restaurant now that we've gotten this far in discussing the plan. It wouldn't hurt to treat ourselves to a street food stall once in a while."

“That’s true, we can’t eat like this every day…” Luo Huayi was very approachable. He had already changed out of his suit and was now wearing a t-shirt and jeans, looking very casual.

Just as Luo Huayi was about to enter the food stall, she caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye and suddenly turned around.

Xin Que, Cheng Zheng, and Ji Mingchuan stood several stalls apart, gazing at each other from afar.

Luo Huayi: "???"

"Mr. Luo," a client's urging voice rang out, "Shall we go?"

Luo Huayi slowly turned around to look at the customers in the bustling crowd.

The customer stood beside the white plastic tables and chairs at the food stall, still with that easygoing smile, and his tone showed no sign of anything amiss.

Guests came and went, shoulder to shoulder.

But the guests who were drinking and chatting in the courtyard all stopped eating or put down their disposable plastic cups.

Countless eyes were fixed on Luo Huayi.

The noise froze in an instant.