Chapter 42 Chapter 42 He wants to go to Sanya

A black car was parked in the blind spot of the surveillance camera downstairs.

Guan Mi walked quickly out of the unit door, opened the car door, and stuffed herself and the backpack containing all her cash into the back seat.

It was not until the car trembled slightly and drove out of the community that she leaned her head against the back of the chair and slowly exhaled the breath she had been holding for too long.

In the rearview mirror, the gate of the community slowly closed, completely locking her entanglement of the past year in place.

That's enough, let's stop here.

When the car drove to a quiet street, Guan Mi got out, got into another car, and changed her clothes. Her phone, which had been turned off long ago, was left in the previous car.

The car was headed to the airport, where it would shortly board a plane to Los Angeles.

Shao Xin would forge a real-person exit record. When the person holding the phone arrived in Los Angeles, he would call Guan Tang immediately, leave the communication record, and then turn off the phone completely and throw it into the sea.

As for the Shen family, they had already completely controlled Shen Yanfeng's people.

Guan Mi was most thankful that long-distance buses and ferries didn't have strict real-name registration requirements that year. She would take a ferry from Jiangcheng to Yantai, then transfer to a southbound bus, eventually crossing the sea via Shenzhen to Sanya.

This route was chosen by her, and she will not leave any traces along the way.

Although the journey was long and bumpy, she was finally able to take a good look at the scenery along the way.

Shen Yanfeng was awakened by a burst of severe heart palpitations.

The moment he regained consciousness, he realized that there was no one in his arms and subconsciously reached out to his side.

It's cold.

He sat up suddenly. The bedroom was eerily quiet, with only the sound of his own breathing.

The glaring sunlight filtering through the gaps in the curtains told him that it was already noon.

This wasn't normal. He had never slept so deeply before, so deeply that Guan Mi didn't even notice when she got up. Where was Guan Mi? Had she been awake for a long time? In the study? Normally, she wouldn't get up this early.

A strong sense of uneasiness instantly seized him.

He threw back the quilt and got out of bed, his steps even a little unsteady as he rushed out of the bedroom.

"Guan Mi?"

No one responded.

The living room, the study, the second floor... all places were empty, with only Becky following him around and meowing uneasily.

He rushed back to the cloakroom and opened her wardrobe.

The clothes were still there, including her favorite dress.

He did not feel relieved. He went back to the bedroom, picked up his cell phone and called Guan Mi.

In the brief moment he waited for the call to connect, he still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that maybe she had just returned to Changping. What else could it be? She loved work so much, and she had a meeting she had to attend on Monday.

"The number you dialed is turned off..."

The cold notification sounded like a bucket of cold water, pouring down on his head. After a brief moment of panic, a calmness almost instinctively took over his mind. He immediately turned and walked to the study, turning on the home surveillance system.

Fast forward, replay. The last frame of the video freezes at 6:11 in the morning. Guan Mi walks from the master bedroom to the living room entrance with her bag. She opens and closes the door, but in less than five seconds, she is back inside, squatting on the floor and hugging Becky tightly.

Finally, she actually came to the camera, waved to it, and then walked out of the house without hesitation.

It was clear that this was no ordinary goodbye.

Guan Mi left.

He looked at the door on the screen that had never been opened again, and suddenly laughed softly. The laughter was extremely creepy in the empty room.

But the next second, his fist slammed hard on the desk, and his finger bones immediately broke the skin and bleed.

All the confusions had answers, the one he had deliberately ignored, about the bowl of soup and Guan Mi's shaking hands.

So, he slept so soundly because he drank the soup that Guan Mi personally brought to him and added some "ingredients".

Irony, so ironic!

When he thought they finally understood each other, she was already planning how to escape from him.

Was it that the “person I like” she mentioned in the breakfast shop was also part of the plan?

He leaned his hands on the table, a sneer on his lips, and watched the clip of Guan Mi waving at the camera over and over again.

Guan Mi, where do you think you can run to? I told you, you can't get rid of me.

Chen Yanfeng picked up his phone and called Special Assistant Liu. His tone was terrifyingly calm: "Go ask Zhang Yan and the others how they are keeping an eye on people. Then check all of Guan Mi's traffic records today and retrieve all the surveillance footage in the community and surrounding areas. I want to know where she was last seen."

After hanging up the phone, he finally saw that Guan Mi sent him a WeChat message at around six o'clock.

Please don't make things difficult for my family.

Of course he wouldn't be embarrassed, because these were his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and he would personally visit them with the betrothal gifts.

Special Assistant Liu's call came back within a few minutes.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Shen, I can't find Zhang Yan, and her dozen or so men can't be contacted either. Even the ones you sent to keep an eye on Mr. Shao are missing."

Shen Yanfeng held the phone tightly, forcing himself to calm down.

Guan Mi couldn't do it alone.

It was impossible for her to easily buy medicine that could make him fall into a deep sleep in a pharmacy outside, and it was even more impossible for her to make Zhang Yan and her men disappear from the world.

A name comes to mind.

He took one last look at the face on the screen, which was so clear that it didn't reveal a trace of reluctance, and then left the study.

On the way to the Shen family's old house, the phone kept coming in.

"Boss Shen, I found a record of the secretary appearing on camera at 8:07 this morning, and her destination was Los Angeles. I've already sent someone on the fastest flight there, and there are people guarding the airport there."

"Boss Shen, the car that came to pick up Secretary Guan at around 6:00 this morning was a fake license plate car, and the area where they last disappeared was indeed near the Airport Expressway. There is no record of Secretary Guan in any other transportation system."

Chen Yanfeng's eyes were bloodshot, and his hand holding the steering wheel tightened again, and the wound on his finger bone was torn open in an instant.

He stared at the guardrail on the right front of the road, his eyes darkened, and without any hesitation, he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

"Bang--!"

A resounding crash echoed, and the airbag deployed instantly. The immense force of the impact caused a dull pain in his chest, and a warm liquid trickled down his forehead. He leaned back in his chair, relaxed, unbuckled his seatbelt, and pushed the door open.

The traffic police on duty at the intersection rushed over immediately.

"Comrade, are you okay?"

Shen Yanfeng handed over his phone, and on the screen was a call from Shen Minyan's secretary.

"Let him come and deal with it."

The traffic policeman took the phone and was about to call for support, but when he looked up, he found that the man with blood all over his forehead had stopped a taxi and sped away.

Zhen Sui and the housekeeper were about to go out to buy something. Just as they reached the moon gate of the second courtyard, they saw a figure staggering in.

Both of them were stunned and quickly stepped over the threshold to see who it was.

When she saw who it was, Zhen Sui gasped.

The housekeeper was also shocked when he saw the blood on Shen Yanfeng's face: "Third Young Master?! What are you doing..."

Chen Yanfeng walked past them with a cold face, bringing with him a smell of blood.

Zhen Sui had never seen him like this before, and was so frightened that she stammered incoherently: "Third, Third Master..."

The housekeeper nudged her and said, "Go get the medicine box! I'll call a doctor right away!"

Just as the two were about to take action, a loud "clang" suddenly came from the direction of the study, which was the sound of porcelain shattering heavily.

At the same time, Shen Minyan's furious voice rang out: "What do you want to do?! You got into trouble early in the morning, and you come to see me like this? Have you ever thought about who you are? And you let Secretary Qi go and clean up the mess. Do you want your father's name to appear on the headlines of today's news?!"

The door of the master bedroom was opened and Shao Xin hurried to the study.

Shen Cunyi also came out of the room and walked over.

Shen Yanfeng looked at the man in front of him coldly, "Where did you send her?"

Seeing that Shen Minyan's anger was still rising, Shao Xin glanced at Shen Yanfeng's face, then walked to the desk and pressed her husband's shoulder, "He's like this, you have to talk to him properly."

Shen Yanfeng suddenly smiled: "So Ms. Shao is also involved?"

Shao Xin pulled two pieces of paper from the box and walked over to wipe the blood off his brow. "This is bound to happen sooner or later. If you act without considering the consequences, someone will have to bear the consequences."

Shen Yanfeng dodged her hand and asked, "Where did you hide the person?"

Shao Xin said calmly: "She doesn't want you to know."

Shen Yanfeng was silent for a while, then suddenly nodded calmly: "It's okay, I have plenty of time to look for it slowly."

He turned to the still silent Shen Cunyi and said, "Brother, Wen Siyi is in Glasgow. Do you need me to pick her up for you next week?"

Shen Cunyi's face changed and he immediately went back to his room to get his cell phone to call England.

"Chen Yanfeng!" Shen Minyan suddenly slammed the table and stood up.

Chen Yanfeng only stared at Shao Xin, his tone suddenly cold: "Since you must let her go, how much money have you prepared for her? Mr. Shao is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, so he should have enough money for her to live on for the rest of her life, right?"

Shao Xin frowned: "Why should I give her money?"

"You didn't give it to her?" Chen Yanfeng's heartbeat was throbbing, and anger was in his eyes. "Do you know how much savings she has? How can she survive alone out there? Before I find her and see that she's in trouble... Send the money now, immediately."

Shao Xin was frightened by the crazy and paranoid pain in his eyes. She took a deep breath: "That's enough, Chen Yanfeng. The way you are now is exactly why she wants to leave."

Shen Yanfeng pretended not to hear anything, turned his gaze to Shen Minyan, and said in a voice that seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "Where is she?"

"We won't tell you." Shao Xin sighed, "You won't be able to find her."

Shen Yanfeng suddenly smiled, and that smile made people shudder: "Then we will wait and see."

He turned to leave, and Shao Xin said behind him: "She asked me to tell you that after today's farewell, just treat her as if she were dead."

Shen Yanfeng's back froze for a moment, then he strode out of the study.

He walked into the yard and looked up at the square sky. This place had never been his home. The person who could have given him a "home" had joined forces with others to cruelly betray him!

Zhuang Shuimo was just about to go to bed when she received a call from Chen Yanfeng. She had been playing games with her best friend all night until around six in the morning, and she was still groggy. But when she heard the person on the phone say Guan Mi was missing, she was instantly awakened.

"Why did you disappear? Who are you? Are you a liar?"

"Open the door first." said the person on the other end.

She hesitantly walked to the door and could only see a dark cloth through the peephole.

At this time, Yu Tongtong, who had just gotten up for work, came out of the room, glanced at Zhuang Shuimo, yawned, and asked, "Why are you standing at the door?"

Zhuang Shuimo lowered her voice and said only the key point: "The man outside said Guan Mi is missing."

"Ah?" Yu Tongtong frowned, "Is this true?"

"I don't know. I'm afraid he's a liar, so I don't dare to open it."

"Chen Yanfeng." After a moment of silence, a voice came from the receiver again.

The two exchanged glances and immediately opened the door. This name was too familiar to them—Guan Mi's immediate superior.

As soon as the door opened, Zhuang Shuimo realized that what she had seen through the peephole was the front of Shen Yanfeng's clothes. This man was surprisingly tall.

Yu Tongtong cautiously looked at the two bandages on the man's forehead and his cold eyes. "We haven't seen Guan Mi since yesterday, but how can you be sure that she is missing?"

Shen Yanfeng said expressionlessly: "I am her boyfriend."

The two people in the room were stunned at the same time, with disbelief written all over their faces.

Guan Mi's room was still neat and simple, without any unnecessary things. The only special thing was the upside-down photo frame on the bedside table, which contained a photo of her and Wen Li.

This was Shen Yanfeng's first time here, and he had no intention of stopping to take a good look at the room. He glanced around but didn't find anything, so he just picked up the photo frame.

Zhuang Shuimo watched him inspecting and couldn't help asking, "Could she have gone back to her hometown?"

Shen Yanfeng said nothing, nor did he expect the two girls to provide him with any information. He walked out, leaving the two people looking at each other in bewilderment.

Sitting in the car, he clicked on the message.

[Mr. Shen, there's nothing unusual on Wen Li's end.]

[The three members of the Guan family also go to work and school as normal.]

He called Special Assistant Liu and said, "No need to go to Los Angeles. She won't be there." After a brief pause, he changed his tone and said, "No, we should still investigate. We can't miss any possibility."

Special Assistant Liu: "Okay, we have people monitoring the airports in Paris and Marseille."

Shen Yanfeng hesitated for a moment and said, "Wait, we also need to check the ferries at home and abroad."

He hung up the phone and picked up the photo frame on the passenger seat.

The smile on Guan Mi's face as she leaned on Wen Li's shoulder in the photo made his eyes ache. They had been together for so long, and there wasn't even a proper photo of them together. How could such a photo still be preserved?

Shen Yanfeng took out a letter opener from the storage compartment and slashed at the photo paper without hesitation.

With a crackle, the photo split neatly between the two of them. He casually tossed Wen Li's half out the window and carefully tucked the remaining, Guan Mi's smiling silhouette, into the pocket of his wallet.

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When Qiao Qiuying came home from get off work and walked around the corner of the stairs, she recognized at a glance that the person standing at the door was Mr. Shen, who helped Guan Tang find medicine.

"Hello, you are Mr. Shen, right..." Her words stopped abruptly, and she was stunned by the scene before her.

The entrance was filled with red brocade boxes and gold-painted lacquer boxes, each tied with a festive red ribbon. The most eye-catching was an open mahogany box. Although the specific contents could not be seen clearly, the packaging alone told me that it was very valuable.

This scene is just like the future son-in-law coming to propose marriage.

When she invited the person into the house and asked, she was so shocked that she could hardly hold the teapot.

He really is here to propose marriage.

The gift boxes contained family trust documents, several sets of keys, property deeds, an agreement to ensure Guan Tang's supply of Belimumab for the next 50 years, and an eye-popping check.

"This...what's going on?" Qiao Qiuying was a little confused and took a long time to ask.

Chen Yanfeng smiled faintly: "Actually, Guan Mi and I have gotten to the point where we're talking about marriage, but she may not have figured out how to tell her family yet. Auntie, I really want to marry Guan Mi, so I took the liberty of coming to ask for marriage."

Qiao Qiuying recovered from these words and asked doubtfully, "How long have you been together?"

That's not right. After Guan Mi and Wen Li broke up, she devoted all her energy to work. It doesn't seem like she's starting a new relationship at all.

"It's been more than half a year." Chen Yanfeng only regretted that he couldn't produce a photo right now. He said softly, "Guan Tang also knows about this."

After mentioning Guan Tang, Qiao Qiuying finally believed him. She thought of the precious targeted drug, which was so hard to get. If they were just ordinary friends, how could they be so dedicated?

She was silent for a long time, looking at Chen Yanfeng, then at the things in the room. When she lowered her head, she finally remembered what she was going to do and hurried to boil some hot water.

She thought about it and felt that there was only one possibility: "Are you in such a hurry to come here and propose marriage because she was assigned to an American company?"

"Assigned to the United States?" Chen Yanfeng found it funny and laughed out loud, "Is that what she told you?"

"Yeah, she called me a few days ago and told me." Qiao Qiuying sighed, "She's really something. She told me right before she left and said she wouldn't be back until the next Chinese New Year."

Chen Yanfeng carefully observed Qiao Qiuying's expression and quickly confirmed that she had been kept in the dark. This trip wasn't in vain; he had sincerely intended to give these betrothal gifts.

He stood up and said goodbye: "Auntie, I won't bother you anymore. Please keep the things. When Guan Mi comes back one day, I will pay you a formal visit."

Qiao Qiuying stood up quickly. "Wouldn't you like to sit for a while? I'll call Xiao Mi's dad and ask him to come back for dinner."

"Don't bother. I'm planning to go to the United States to look for Guan Mi." He said calmly, "She's been having a fight with me lately and hasn't spoken to me for a day."

Qiao Qiuying was at a loss for words, but she didn't know what to say.

She walked Shen Yanfeng to the door and couldn't help but say, "Why don't you take the things back first, and when Xiao Mi comes back, you can discuss it with her. It won't be too late to send it then."

Chen Yanfeng said, "If Guan Mi has contacted you, please ask her to come back first and get married."

The car drove to the tree-lined avenue outside the main gate of Jiangcheng University.

Shen Yanfeng sat in the car and waited quietly until he saw a figure dawdling out of the school gate. He pulled off the Band-Aid on his forehead, leaving the torn wound exposed to the air, and pushed the door open to get out of the car.

Guan Tang came to Shen Yanfeng with a pounding heart, his face pale, and he looked like he was about to fall to the ground.

"Brother Chen." Her voice was weak.

Shen Yanfeng went straight to the point: "Where's your sister?"

"Ah?" She frowned, and when she raised her eyes, she was startled by the wound on Chen Yanfeng's head. She said tremblingly, "Isn't she sent to the United States?"

"Who sent her?"

"Isn't it you..."

Shen Yanfeng smiled: "I don't have any."

Guan Tang swallowed unconsciously, then said in surprise: "How could it be... She clearly told me in person that she would be stationed in the American company and would not be back until the New Year."

The next second, her eyes widened: "Could something have happened to her?"

As she said that, she hurriedly took out her cell phone and called Guan Mi.

Shen Yanfeng said nothing, just looked at her.

Guan Tang put the phone to his ear and listened for a while before putting it down. He asked anxiously, "Why is it turned off? Is something really wrong with her? I...I have to call my parents and ask."

Chen Yanfeng retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go back to school and fight. Tell me when you have any news."

Guan Tang nodded as if she had been pardoned. She even asked politely, "Why don't you look worried about my sister at all?"

"I'm worried." Shen Yanfeng got into the car with the window open. He pointed to his forehead nonchalantly, "I had a car accident this morning and killed several people. I'm in a really bad mood right now. If I don't see your sister tomorrow, I might just hit people again."

The girl next to the car was scared out of her wits.

He laughed, started the car and drove away.

"Monitor Guan Tang's phone and her bank account." He said to the person on the phone.

This is the most important person to Guan Mi, how could she not contact him?

Back in the hotel suite, Shen Yanfeng stood on the balcony smoking. After a while, he opened his phone, entered Guan Mi's bank account, and transferred some money into it.

She didn't take any of the gifts given to her, and she probably only had a few tens of thousands of yuan in cash on hand.

He was quite smart and knew to withdraw all the money in Beijing.

Chen Yanfeng is now much calmer. Being angry and sad is useless. It is better to think about how to catch the person back.

He turned and leaned against the railing, thinking about something.

He wants to go to Sanya.