Renault held a cigarette between his fingers, and in the smoke, he squinted at the Maybach that was driving away.
"For Gu Youran, he sharpened himself into the sharpest knife."
There was a dangerous admiration in his deep voice, "That's crazy enough."
Lei Shuangcheng grinned, "Even crazier than you were back then?"
Renault didn't answer, but just put out his cigarette and started the engine.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
Lei Shuangcheng's cell phone suddenly rang.
"Boss, something happened!"
His face changed drastically after he answered the phone. "The escort convoy was attacked on Third Avenue! Chu Beiyuan and Mu Xuewei were kidnapped!"
Renault's eyes darkened, the steering wheel spun suddenly, and the tires made a screeching sound as they scraped against the road.
Five minutes later, the crime scene.
Twelve policemen lay sprawled on the roadside, the doors of their police cars twisted and deformed, and riot shields scattered all over the ground.
The police lights were still flashing, illuminating the messy scene in flickering light.
Lei Shuangcheng examined the unconscious police officer. "The pupils are dilated and the muscles are stiff. It's a military anesthetic."
He picked up a shell casing. "7.62mm silenced bullet, standard issue for the Gray Wolf."
Renault squatted down and ran his fingers over the deep tire marks on the ground. "The anti-skid pattern is specially made for Ryan's team."
Lei Shuangcheng was shocked when he heard this.
Ryan, Fernan's personal bodyguard, the ace of the Grey Wolf Unit, nicknamed "Blood Wolf".
Renault's eyes swept across the scene. "There are two groups of people."
"That's right," Lei Shuangcheng pointed to the west, "There are signs of fighting here. This should be the direction where Chu Beiyuan was taken away."
Lei Shuangcheng lowered his voice and said, "Fernan saved Chu Beiyuan, most likely for the Chu family's overseas assets."
Renault nodded and turned his gaze to the east.
There, there was no other trace except a diamond-studded high-heeled shoe lying alone on the ground.
The road surface was unusually clean, without even a footprint.
So who rescued Mu Xuewei?
"Something's wrong..."
Lei Shuangcheng frowned and squatted, his fingers lightly touching the ground. "The scene was handled so professionally, it looked like it had been meticulously cleaned."
Renault frowned.
There were no witnesses, no physical evidence, and even he couldn't find any clues.
"Mu Xuewei," he ordered solemnly, "notify the Thunder Guards and immediately launch a full investigation."
…
The other side.
Han Jingchen stood in the shadow of the secret room, the silver key in his hand emitting a biting chill.
"Knowing that it will be excruciatingly painful, do you still want to keep going?"
Old Man Han's hoarse voice echoed in the secret room, and every word hit Han Jingchen's heart like a heavy hammer.
There was no immediate answer.
He stared down at the key in his hand, his fingertips gently stroking the mysterious runes.
This key is the only hope to save Gu Youran.
The memory of that stormy night three years ago suddenly came back to me clearly.
In the emergency room, under the glaring incandescent light, the doctor took off his mask and announced:
"Both legs are shattered and may cause lifelong paralysis."
Xia Ke, my childhood sweetheart, only stayed in the ward for less than ten minutes.
Before leaving, he left behind the words "I am going to Country Y for further studies" and then disappeared at the end of the corridor.
The moment the ward door closed, he smashed everything he could reach like crazy.
"My name is Gu Youran."
A clear female voice pierced through the mess on the ground.
A girl in a light blue nursing uniform squatted among the broken glass, with a pair of calm eyes under her neat short hair.
"From today on, I will take care of you."
Han Jingchen couldn't remember how many times he had lost his temper with her or how many things he had thrown at her.
But every morning, the tray with warm medicine would always appear at the bedside on time.
During the most painful period of rehabilitation, her slender arms were always able to support his trembling body steadily.
"I lasted five minutes longer today than yesterday."
Late at night in the rehabilitation room, she wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke softly.
Three full years.
From wheelchair to crutches, until the day he stood in the sunshine again and proposed to her...
"Master?"
The butler's voice brought Han Jingchen back from his thoughts.
Only then did he realize that he had been standing outside the secret room for a long time, and his old knee injury was aching slightly.
In the study, the aroma of tea wafts from the sandalwood coffee table.
Old Man Han was holding a purple clay teapot and pouring tea slowly.
"Have you thought it through?"
He suddenly spoke, his cloudy eyes looking straight through the tea mist.
Han Jingchen turned his head and looked out the window.
The midday sun shines through the dense branches and leaves of the locust tree, casting mottled light and shadows on the bluestone ground.
At this moment, Gu Youran must be in the kitchen of the villa in Beijing, preparing lunch for Shi Heng.
She was no longer the girl who would stay up late to make medicine for him.
"I want to save her."
Han Jingchen's voice was soft, but extremely firm.
It's not as the heir of the Han family, nor is it to break any curse.
Just because...
She is Gu Youran, the one who never gave up on him when he was most desperate.
Old Man Han sighed deeply and took out a yellowed family tree from his arms.
On the cover, a constellation embroidered with silver thread flows with the changing light.
"Remember, it can only be opened at the hour of Xu every day."
Old Master Han tapped the astrological chart on the cover with his skinny fingers. "If you force yourself to read it at other times, you will attract bad luck."
“Crack—”
A crisp sound suddenly came from the courtyard.
Han Jingchen looked in the direction of the sound.
In a trance, I saw a woman in a red gauze skirt sitting on a stone bench under the locust tree.
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