She should be around forty years old.
Based on the timeline, it will take at least another ten years or so.
So he should have been out of danger before that.
Even so, she still felt somewhat uneasy.
This unease has been there since Mr. Mei first came, and more than half a month has passed, and this feeling has only grown stronger.
Yang Juan's incident happened again today.
She became even more uneasy.
He just hoped to receive a call from Shen Qingyan to let him know he was safe.
Yan Liti answered the phone, and after only one sentence was spoken, her brows furrowed. Qiao Qiao knew then that it probably wasn't her father calling back.
The call was from Grandpa Shen.
Qiao Qiao turned her gaze away listlessly and continued watching TV.
Yan Liti was genuinely impatient with answering Old Master Shen's calls. If the call came from the number Old Master Shen used at the sanatorium, she would basically just let it ring indefinitely.
However, it seemed that Grandpa Shen knew she wouldn't answer his calls, so he called from different numbers each time, causing her to mistakenly answer several of his calls over the past month.
As before, upon hearing his voice, Yan Liti immediately covered the phone and unplugged the cord.
The others nearby immediately understood that the call was probably made by Old Master Shen.
Qiao Qiao climbed from the other side of the seat into Yan Liti's arms.
Looking at the unplugged phone line, she tilted her head a little worriedly and asked, "Grandma, what if Dad calls back and can't get through?"
"It can't be that much of a coincidence," Yan Liti said.
But she had some doubts, and after thinking about it, she reconnected the phone line ten minutes later.
Disliking the old man is one thing, but it would be bad if I really missed Shen Qingyan's call.
Although Shen Qingyan couldn't get through to his home phone, there were plenty of other places he could call, such as the Xiang family's house, the tenement building, or even the police station if all else failed.
When Qiao Qiao slept with Qiao Changdong at night, she felt a little uneasy, though she couldn't quite explain why.
She usually goes to bed around nine o'clock, and at the latest it won't be later than ten o'clock, but tonight she couldn't fall asleep until eleven o'clock.
She didn't move around on the bed, but the small hand on Qiao Changdong's earlobe rubbed it faster than before.
This is her habit before going to bed.
Generally, pinching and rubbing a person's earlobe for about ten minutes can help them fall asleep, and the process will slow down as they fall asleep.
Today it's getting faster and faster. It's been half an hour, and Qiao Changdong's ears are practically sparking from her rubbing, but she hasn't stopped. Qiao Changdong knows she can't sleep.
"Can't you sleep? Do you want Daddy to read you a storybook?" Qiao Changdong asked, placing his hand on her back and gently patting her.
Qiao Qiao shook her head in his arms.
Still nestled in his arms, she asked in a muffled voice, "Dad, do you think he'll be alright?" The "he" she was referring to was obvious.
Just as Qiao Changdong was about to answer no, he felt a slight movement at the door.
A rustling sound...
It was the sound of a doorknob being turned.
The door handles in Qiao Changdong's new house are all cylindrical. You can open the door by turning it left or right. If you want to lock it, you just need to press down the raised button on the top of the cylinder.
Qiao Changdong always had the habit of locking the door when he went to sleep at night.
Normally, no one would come to open the door in the middle of the night, and even if someone did, they would knock, never make this rustling sound as they unlock the door.
So this is—
Qiao Changdong narrowed his eyes.
Looking at Qiao Qiao, who had just sat up in bed and was staring at the door with bright eyes, Qiao Changdong quickly realized that this was undoubtedly Shen Xiao's father, who liked to sneak into the room in the middle of the night.
Qiao Changdong sat up with Qiao Qiao, pulled her into his arms, and they wrapped themselves together in the blanket.
Qiao Changdong didn't turn on the lights, but the room wasn't dark. Moonlight shone in through the window, making the room quite bright, and there was no problem seeing anything.
Qiao Changdong was always startled by Shen Qingyan's sudden appearance in the house, but so far, he had not personally witnessed Shen Qingyan unlocking the door.
So the father and daughter sat there, wrapped in blankets, their eyes wide and bright as they watched the person outside unlock the door.
The people outside were clearly very experienced; they pried open the lock in less than a minute without damaging it!
After unlocking the door, the person outside seemed unwilling to disturb the people inside, and pushed the door open with extremely gentle movements.
The door had been specially treated so that it made no sound when pushed open.
However, the people outside stopped halfway through pushing it.
He thought that when he opened the door, he would see his sleeping daughter and Qiao Changdong, but to his surprise, he was met with two pairs of bright eyes!
Both the large and small ones were incredibly bright.
Even though Shen Qingyan was used to big occasions, he couldn't help but blush when he opened the door and met the searchlight-like eyes of the two people inside.
After all, picking the lock in front of his daughter is hardly a good thing to do.
The next second.
The small shell crawled out of the quiver and rushed into his arms.
"Dad!" Qiao Qiao's voice was loud and clear, not even caring that it was the middle of the night.
Qiao Qiao leaped directly from the edge of the bed into Shen Qingyan's arms.
"Dad, Dad, Dad..." Qiao Qiao kept calling out, initially with joy and surprise.
But for some reason, as she kept shouting, she started to feel aggrieved, her little mouth twitched, and her eyes reddened.
She buried her head in Shen Qingyan's neck, whimpering pitifully, "I thought Daddy wasn't coming back..."
Qiao Qiao thought Shen Qingyan wouldn't be able to make it back in time.
When she moved to her new house, Shen Qingyan didn't come back in time, which made her feel a little disappointed.
But in a few days it will be her birthday, her fourth birthday. Grandma said that this is the first birthday she will celebrate with her, and she will throw her a big birthday party.
Qiao Qiao was thinking at the time that she didn't care about whether it was a grand event or not.
She just wanted Shen Qingyan to come back and keep her company, or even just to make a phone call.
However, Qiao Qiao is no longer a four-year-old child. In her previous life, she was almost ten years old. She knew that her father was on a mission outside. It was his job, and his job was dangerous. She couldn't be so insensible as to make him worry about her at home while he was on a mission.
So even though she had asked Yan Liti when her father would be back, and Yan Liti suggested that she could ask Di Zixuan about the situation, she still refused.
Shen Qingyan held the warm little body that rushed into his arms, his eyes slightly red.
I felt that my heart, which had been empty for more than a month, was finally filled.
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