Lin Wei seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. When she woke up, it was already evening, and their clothes were scattered all over the floor.
She pressed her throbbing temples, looked at the flashing neon lights outside the window, and felt uneasy. She had actually slept until now, and had told Guo An during the day that she would go see him that night.
Lin Wei hid in the bathroom and switched accounts, and sure enough, she saw Guo An's messages, one after another.
The woman replied, "I didn't sleep well last night. I had a massage at the beauty salon this afternoon, and I fell asleep with my phone on silent."
Guo An had been feeling that Lin Weiqi was acting strangely these past two days. He received her reply with trepidation and immediately made a phone call, only to hear the message "cannot be connected" again.
Lin Wei guessed that Guo An would call, so she sent another message: "[Strange, I haven't had any missed calls all afternoon. Could there be something wrong with my SIM card?]"
"Yes, I kept getting a message saying the call couldn't be connected," Guo An replied.
"Oh no, this is really bad. Guo An, I'll go to your dorm in a bit, can you give me some advice?" Lin Wei lied.
After leaving the bathroom, she pretended that her friend was looking for her and left the hotel.
Li Yun was exhausted after a long day and couldn't keep going all night, so she decided to take a rest.
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At Royal Bay, the servants stopped searching for the old lady.
Rong Yan was still worried, so she asked a few friends to check if the old lady had any ticket information at the station. Once she confirmed that the old lady hadn't left Tiancheng, things were much easier.
Rong Yan had a bold guess: perhaps the old lady herself hired someone to take her away. She called Fu Jingsheng, but Fu Jingsheng didn't want to get involved in his grandmother's affairs anymore.
He patted Rong Yan's head: "Wait a bit, if no one's looking for her, she should come back on her own."
The old lady deliberately didn't bring her phone. She asked the person who was temporarily taking care of her if there was any news about her disappearing.
The man shook his head.
It was already evening, and I was not far from home, yet no one had found her. Had they not looked for her?
"Grandma, my friend checked in the neighborhood, and your family is all home. Nobody's looking for you." The middle-aged woman deliberately stirred things up.
Knowing the old lady might not believe it, she specially had someone take a picture. In the picture, the Fu family's servants were busy in the yard, and indeed no one went out.
Fu Jingsheng and Rong Yan were also at home.
The old lady was even angrier. At her age, she hadn't brought her wheelchair or her phone and had come out alone, yet no one seemed to care. Her grandson was right; in that family, she was superfluous. Perhaps Rong Yan was hoping she wouldn't come back.
No, she must go back. But she came out on her own, so how can she go back on her own? The old lady thought for a moment, gave the woman who was taking care of her some money, and borrowed a phone to call her grandson.
Fu Jingchen was searching everywhere for her when his grandmother called.
The old woman, who only dared to tell the truth to her grandson, told him her location and asked Fu Jingchen to come and pick her up.
After hanging up the phone, Fu Jingchen first told his brother about the old lady's whereabouts, and then rushed to pick her up.
When the middle-aged woman learned that the old lady had sent someone to pick her up, she went to the restroom and sent a message to the person upstairs. Li Yun replied, telling her to go back.
After all, kidnapping is illegal. He's said what he needed to say, and he'll probably not let Rong Yan off the hook when he gets back tonight. Just wait for the Fu family to be thrown into chaos.
The old lady reluctantly went home, still holding onto a sliver of hope that someone might have gone out looking for her. But when she got home, she found everyone there, as if nothing had happened.
Before Fu Jingsheng could even ask where his grandmother had gone, the old lady snapped, "Do you all think I'm dead?"
The old lady, supported by Fu Jingchen, trembled and kept shouting, "I'm a useless person, you'd be happy if I died out there."
Han Yue returned from the back garden after hearing the commotion: "Mom."
Rong Yan and Fu Jingsheng stood to one side. Fu Jingsheng wanted to reply, but Rong Yan stopped him and shook her head at him.
Seeing that Rong Yan and the others ignored her, the old lady became even angrier. She leaned against the table and casually picked up a vase and smashed it on the ground.
The servants watched, not daring to speak.
Only Han Yue stepped forward to stop her, asking where she had been. The old lady clearly didn't listen to Han Yue. She looked at Fu Jingsheng, tears streaming down her face, and said, "You ungrateful wretch! Grandma raised you with her own hands, and I knew you'd forget about me now that you have a wife. Sure enough, I was gone all day, and you didn't even look for me. I had to come home with a long face..."
"Grandma, who hasn't come to see you? Have you made enough of a scene?" Fu Jingsheng couldn't hold back any longer and asked the old lady a few questions.
The old lady raised her cane and threw it at her eldest grandson.
The man slammed his cane down on Rong Yan, and he lost his composure: "Help the old lady back to her room. If she makes a scene again, send her back to the old house tomorrow."
The old lady realized that what the middle-aged woman had said was absolutely true; Fu Jingsheng and the others had long since stopped wanting her and were finally saying they wanted to send her back to the old house.
The old woman sat on the ground, pounding the floor tiles, her cries carrying beyond the courtyard.
Reporters who had been lying in wait in advance now had new material to glean.
Rong Yan and Fu Jingsheng abuse the elderly, causing a huge scene at the Fu family home, with the old lady making a huge fuss.
The video, accompanied by the old woman's cries, was so heart-wrenching that outsiders might think everyone was bullying the elderly woman.
In the summer, when people wear less clothing, Rong Yan's arm hurt from being hit by the crutch, and she went upstairs clutching her arm.
Fu Jingsheng asked Fu Jingchen to calm the old lady down first, while he accompanied Rong Yan upstairs. In the bedroom, the woman rolled up her sleeves and discovered that the spot where she had been hit by the cane was bruised.
"I'll take her back to her old house tomorrow."
"No need, I'll go to Xingzhi's tomorrow. Fu Jingsheng, you go see Grandma and explain to her that we've all been looking for her and asking who she went out with. I always feel she can't go out alone, and I'm afraid she might be taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives," Rong Yan said worriedly.
"You suspect Jing Chen?" Fu Jingsheng had called his younger brother, and he was indeed at the company, and someone could testify that he hadn't gone anywhere that morning.
"I don't know who it is either, so I'm asking you to ask around, but don't ask directly, you know what I mean."
Not long after Fu Jingsheng went downstairs, Rong Yan received a call from a reporter friend who asked if something had happened at home and told her to watch the news.
The news broke just half an hour after the old lady started making a scene. Rong Yan didn't believe it wasn't pre-planned.
She glanced at the news headline and nearly vomited blood: "Fu Jingsheng and his wife, along with family members, drive away a disabled elderly woman."
The figure in the video is blurry, but you can clearly hear the old woman's hysterical screams. The old woman said that no one cares if she goes out for a day, that no one treats her like family, and that they always want to drive her away. In addition, there are sounds of things being smashed.
Although netizens know that the old lady of the Fu family is not someone to be trifled with, the fact that no one stood up to refute her accusations shows that what she said was true.
Netizens have been swayed by the rumors again, with everyone saying that Rong Yan and Fu Jingsheng are wicked.
Rong Yan muttered to herself, "What a good grandmother, she only complains that the house isn't messy enough."
She took her phone downstairs, intending to show the old lady the news.
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