Chapter 53: Explosive Update 2
Ruan Qi didn't notice Bai Li's weird behavior. She muttered to herself absentmindedly for a while, then logged out of the system and sent a WeChat message to Wen Ran.
At the same time, inside the sect.
Nie Beilou, who was drinking tea with his senior brother Chu Yujiang, received a call.
"Mr. Nie, there's been some activity in the bank account you asked me to keep an eye on. Just yesterday, this account transferred money to Country Y. The recipient's name is... Jiang Si."
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After returning to the crew hotel from the Daxian store, Ruan Qi asked Jian Guoqiang for the whole morning off tomorrow.
After asking for leave, she threw her phone aside, fell on the bed and fell asleep.
The little girl slept very uneasily and had intermittent nightmares.
In her dream, there were large patches of blood and scarlet, and all kinds of screams and wails were haunting her like a curse.
At the same time, there was a terrifying face, thin, blue, and shaped like a skull.
Ruan Qi recognized him. He was the man named Jiang Chunian who had appeared in her dream.
He stared at her with a pair of eyes as dark as dead water, a twisted and ferocious smile on the corners of his crimson mouth.
Don't come over here...
Ruan Qi kept backing away, his whole body and even his soul trembling.
She turned back into the body of an eight or nine-year-old child, and every inch of her skin and bones carried the fragility of a child.
Jiang Chunian walked closer and closer, and the smile on his lips became more and more ferocious.
Endless panic and despair rose from Ruan Qi's heart. She retreated to the corner, muttering "Brother Iceberg, save me".
Brother Iceberg, save me...
Who is Brother Iceberg?
Did she forget someone?
Various images flashed in the dream like a kaleidoscope, and finally stopped on a thin young man in a white shirt.
"Brother Iceberg!" The little girl in the dream couldn't help but shout out.
She stared straight at the boy's back, "Brother Bingshan, I'm Xiaoqi! Don't you recognize me?"
The boy in front had his white shirt fluttering in the wind.
His shoulders moved, and then he slowly turned around -
"Jiujiu!!!"
In the hotel room, Ruan Qi suddenly sat up from the bed.
She was breathing heavily, and cold sweat slowly slid down her fair forehead.
What was the dream just now about?
Who is that iceberg brother?
Why did he always appear in her dreams?
And why did he look so much like the young version of Jiujiu in this dream?
Is it because she misses Jiujiu too much?
Ruan Qi's head ached from thinking so much, and her thoughts were like a tangled mess that she couldn't make any sense of.
She rubbed her temples uncomfortably and looked out the window.
At this time, it was dusk outside the window.
Some people say that when you wake up from bed in the evening, you will feel inexplicably sad and lonely.
Ruan Qi felt the darkness in the room, and a strong sense of panic and loneliness inexplicably rose in his heart.
She slowly crawled to the bedside, turned on the desk lamp, then took out her cell phone from under the pillow and made a video call to Xi Jiu.
The call rang twice and the video camera lit up.
"Baby." The man's gentle and cold voice was like a warm fire, illuminating the lonely and cold night.
Ruan Qi's panic dissipated a little.
She curled herself up in the quilt, holding the phone and said in a hoarse voice, "Jiujiu, I miss you."
Although the little girl concealed it well, Xi Jiu immediately noticed that something was wrong with her.
He raised his hand to signal everyone to take a break, then strode out of the meeting room with his cell phone.
"Jiujiu, are you in a meeting?" the little girl asked hoarsely.
Xi Jiu hummed, "It's not an important meeting, it will be over soon. What's wrong with the baby? Did he just wake up?"
The little girl nodded gloomily.
"Jiujiu, I miss you."
At this moment, Xi Jiu was absolutely certain that something was indeed wrong with Ruan Qi.
According to the girl's usual personality, if she heard that he was in a meeting, she would immediately hang up the phone and let him go.
But now, she is as spoiled as a child.
Xi Jiu really likes Ruan Qi's coquettishness and wishes she could be like this every day.
But now, he was more worried about why the little girl was abnormal.
He looked at the pale face of the little girl in the video, and something in his heart moved. He asked, "Baby, did you have a nightmare?"
Ruan Qi buried his head in the pillow and said nothing.
Xi Jiu's heart sank instantly.
Since returning from YL Country, Ruan Qi hasn't had a nightmare for more than a month thanks to Nie Beilou's treatment.
Why did it relapse today?
Xi Jiu felt a sinking feeling in his heart. He pulled his Bluetooth headset out of his trouser pocket and put it on, then quickly walked towards the meeting room with his phone in hand.
"Don't hang up, baby. Wait for me for half an hour."
After saying that, he pushed open the door of the conference room.
"The meeting is over. We'll discuss other matters tomorrow. Assistant Mu, I'll leave the rest of the work to you. I'm going to be out for a while."
Before he finished speaking, the man standing at the door of the conference room had quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
The senior executives in the conference room looked at each other in confusion.
"What happened to the boss? Something happened at home?"
"I don't know. But the boss's expression is scary."
"Didn't the boss answer a video call earlier? What did he call the other party? Baby?"
"The boss has a child?!!!"
"Bullshit kid! Baby is the boss's nickname for the young lady. I heard him calling her that when he was chatting with her in the office."
"Oh my god! The boss looks so cool, is he this flirty in mainland China? And baby? If I call my girlfriend that, she'll kill me with a knife."
"Can you compare with the boss? The boss almost treats the young lady like his own daughter, okay? Look, for the young lady, the meeting ended just like that."
"Did something happen to the young lady? The boss's expression was really grim just now."
The Xi family's senior management turned into gossipheads, gossiping crazily about their boss's private affairs in the conference room.
As the subject of the gossip, Xi Jiu was already speeding on the streets of the imperial capital in his Maybach.
It was already past seven in the evening, and the traffic wasn't too congested. Xi Jiu used the navigation system, memorizing routes with heavy traffic, then deliberately drove around them, taking various side roads.
"Don't worry, baby. I'll be at the hotel soon. Do you want anything to eat?"
"I don't want to." Ruan Qi's mood was seriously affected by the nightmare and she had no appetite at all.
She hugged the quilt, staring at the man in the video motionlessly, her eyes full of dependence.
Xi Jiu, who was waiting for the red light, happened to see the little girl's eyes, and his heart was broken.
Ruan Qi also relied on him on a daily basis, but that was the kind of dependence a girl has on her boyfriend, not like now, like a frightened kitten or puppy relying on its owner for survival.
Xi Jiu didn't like seeing that look in Ruan Qi's eyes.
His baby should be happy and carefree, she shouldn't be hurt and helpless like this.
Xi Jiu took a deep breath, turned the steering wheel quickly, and finally drove the car onto the overpass.
The black Maybach began to speed, and its smooth body cut through the sharp light in the night.
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