"What are you doing?"
The bodyguard nodded respectfully to Shi Youxi, "Young Master, these are Madam's family members."
Shi Youxi looked at the Cheng family members indifferently. Cheng Li, who was meeting Shi Youxi for the first time, nodded and said, "You must be Xiao Xi. I am Cheng Ran's older brother. We came to see our little sister, but we are stopped outside by your Shi family. Isn't that a bit too impolite?"
Li Ziqi also stepped forward. She glanced at the heavily guarded ward, then looked at the tall young man in front of her and narrowed her eyes. "Family members are being stopped outside when they come to visit. If word gets out, people will think we're not related by marriage. And what about your father? His newlywed wife had an accident and was hospitalized, and he didn't even see a trace of her."
"....."
"The same thing happened yesterday. If he hadn't stormed off first, my little sister might not have gotten into this mess..."
Shi Youxi's expression remained unchanged. He was tall with droopy eyelids and upturned phoenix eyes. His dark eyes were fixed on Li Ziqi without blinking, but in just a few seconds, Li Ziqi inexplicably felt a chill on her arms.
She was used to looking down on others, and given her age, almost no one dared to look at her with such arrogance. The other person was a young boy who hadn't even grown up yet. Li Ziqi felt offended, but the words of rebuke stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter them.
Why do you think Father is no longer here?
Li Ziqi snapped out of her daze, raising an eyebrow. "How would I know that!"
Shi Youxi interrupted her, his gaze shifting from Li Ziqi to Cheng Li and Cheng Yuan beside him. "Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences. It's like Father suddenly leaving, Auntie suddenly returning to the private room, and you all just happen to leave the hotel at the exact time Auntie returned..."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Li broke his silence. His voice was cold and sharp as he looked at Shi Youxi and asked, "What do you mean by this?"
"Young Master Shi, do you know what you're saying? Although our two families are related by marriage, we're not close enough for you to spout nonsense!" Cheng Yuan suppressed his kind and friendly expression and glared angrily at the young man.
“I’m just answering your questions. The person who planned this hasn’t been found yet, and everyone is a suspect,” Shi Youxi glanced at the ward behind him. “Auntie is not fully recovered yet, so her safety is naturally the responsibility of her closest relatives.”
“Cheng Ran’s surname is Cheng! We are her family, you’re just a stepson—”
“But she is now Madam Shi. Since the incident, none of them have asked about the person behind the scenes. They only came to disturb Auntie’s rest a day later. They say they care, but I really can’t see it…” Shi Youxi said slowly, but the three members of the Cheng family changed their expressions at the same time.
"Isn't this all because your Shi family blocked news about my younger sister? Now they're even preventing us from visiting her in the hospital!"
"I have no right to obstruct you. If you have any objections, go find my father." Shi Youxi's eyelids drooped; his patience had run out.
"If Auntie wants to see you, Shi Men will absolutely not stop her. Please leave now."
"Wait! We just want to see how badly she's injured..." Cheng Yuan was still saying something behind her, but Shi Youxi didn't turn around and went into the ward with Guan Shiyan.
Cheng Li and Li Ziqi exchanged a glance. Their commotion had already attracted the attention of the people outside the ward. If they continued to make a scene, it would only spread rumors that the Cheng and Shi families had a rift, which was not their goal. So they had no choice but to pull Cheng Yuan away first.
Once inside the elevator, Cheng Yuan couldn't help but complain, "It was all your own doing! If my little sister is alright, that's fine, but if something really happens, it'll be a disaster." Cheng Yuan scolded Cheng Li, who was sitting next to her with his lips tightly pressed together.
"You climbed to the chairman's position by stepping on your own sister's blood? You dare to sit there? I certainly wouldn't!"
"Brother, don't try to absolve yourself of all responsibility. Without Cheng Ran, who gets the lion's share in the will and the equity? It's you! Besides, my husband didn't want her dead; it was his subordinates who were too stupid!" Li Ziqi retorted indignantly.
"Enough! Stop talking, this is a hospital."
The elevator opened, and the three of them exited the inpatient building and got into the car that was waiting there. A few steps away, a Mercedes slowly pulled up, and a tall man with a full head of silver hair got out. Cheng Yuan glanced at him and then turned and got into the car.
...
Shi Youxi used a hot towel to wipe the woman's face and hands on the hospital bed, and then sat quietly to the side watching. He held the woman's slender fingers and rubbed his fingertips together, making their palms warm.
Guan Shiyan, who was standing to the side, peeled an apple and started watching the surveillance footage on his phone. "Tsk, this guy is quite clever. He actually pretended to be a cleaner. Most people wouldn't notice that he's weird." He swallowed the apple and asked Shi Youxi, who was sitting motionless, "Hey, how did you figure it out?"
The person with their back to him didn't react. Guan Shiyan looked up from his phone and tossed the leftover apple core over. "Hey! What's wrong with you? I told you not to disturb your sister's rest. What are you doing now, messing with her fingers? Are you trying to transfer some kind of spiritual energy to her like in TV dramas?!"
A long, thin object flashed past Shi Youxi's eyes, which he avoided. He focused his pupils and looked at Guan Shiyan, asking, "Why are you still here?"
"..."
"I've been here the whole time..." Guan Shiyan felt that Shi Youxi was really rude. He was ignoring him like this, but Guan Shiyan still bravely pressed on with his warm face, "Tell me, where exactly was this cleaner taken? It's our fault for not bringing anyone with us, otherwise we would have just arrested him and tortured him!"
In the video, after Shi Youxi stopped Hong Shou, who appeared to be a cleaner, the man panicked and tried to run away, but Shi Youxi punched him. A man who had caught up with them at some point then discovered Mu Yiran in the cleaning truck. A group of managers and waiters then rushed in, and Shi Youxi carried the woman out.
Hong Shou, who had been beaten to the ground, was dragged out of the surveillance camera's view by several people in the chaos.
Guan Shiyan clicked on another one to look at. It was a surveillance video from a distance. A cleaner was pushing a cleaning cart out of the room. As she passed a certain spot, she threw a white bag over. "What is this... a trash can?"
"That white bag was placed above the mailbox, right here."
During the video call, Mu Yiran looked at the mailbox the hotel manager had shown her. But that wasn't the point; the point was that her bag was missing.
"So you still can't find it no matter how hard you look?"
"Hmm..." The manager was visibly downcast. He had locked his bag in the locker at Qinheyu, and now it was gone. Would the boss suspect him of stealing it...?
The locker has an electronic lock, which records the number of times it has been opened and closed. Apart from the two times it was put in and opened, it was never opened in between.
But this wasn't the first time something like this had happened. Mu Yiran recalled the report she had seen during her first time travel, which had since disappeared without a trace.
Strange things stop being strange when there are too many of them.
After all, the fact that she could time travel is already the strangest thing.
The video call ended, and the man was still blaming himself.
"Manager Chen." A voice called from behind, making the man turn around. The team leader was reporting to him on the work arrangements and the appointment schedule, but the man was lost in thought.
"Manager Chen, Manager Chen Yili."
"Ah!" Chen Yili snapped out of his daze and looked at her apologetically. "I'm sorry, we'll do it your way. Just send me the list of the guests who made reservations."
"Okay, but what's wrong with you? You've been like this for the past two days. Are you exhausted? Why don't you take a couple of days off?"
Chen Yili shook his head and then nodded, "Maybe, I just keep thinking about that bag."
Team leader: "Hey, you're still dwelling on this? Everyone says the bag you locked in the locker that day was your own, the white one. We've checked the security footage. You keep saying it was stolen by a customer, but we've investigated that too, and it's not."
“You must be too busy, and your memory is all messed up.” The other person patted Chen Yili on the shoulder. “It’s normal to be like this when you’re too busy. It just means you’re starting to get old.”
Chen Yili: "..."
"I'm only 25."
He added, "Still the traditional Chinese age."
"Youth at 18, half a lifetime at 25? Never heard of that? You're not a young person anymore."
Chen Yili opened his mouth to argue, "A man is a boy until he dies."
But when he thought about how even a 25-year-old like himself was suffering from memory disorders, he realized that his team leader was right.
"I just spoke with the young boss on the phone."
Chen Yili was taken aback, then nodded and said, "Yes."
"Well done, kid. So you're trying to hook up with a rich and beautiful girl? You've even made video calls. Not bad. When you reach the pinnacle of your life, don't forget the times I washed your dishes in the kitchen!"
Chen Yili said seriously, "That's not true, don't talk nonsense. Besides, I've never even seen what the small boss looks like."
"I've seen it, it's so beautiful!" The team leader mysteriously pulled out a photo from his phone. "I took this photo when the young boss came before. What do you think? She looks like an angel."
Chen Yili nodded absentmindedly, he really thought it was very beautiful. The girl in the picture only had a side profile, her face was white and small, her eyes were bright and sparkling, and there was a small mole on the tip of her nose.
"It looks so familiar..." Chen Yili murmured.
"This looks so familiar, it's perfect that I said I'd never seen it before."
Chen Yili didn't say anything more, but she really felt that the woman looked familiar, like the beautiful lady she had seen when she was a child.
At this moment, the stunningly beautiful and wealthy Mu Yiran was sprawled out on the living room sofa, shaking her legs so hard they looked like she was about to take off.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
Mu Yiran jumped up, glanced at the security camera footage, and opened the door. "Did you bring the medicine?!"
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