Chapter 30
Is it because of me?
"Yeah?"
Jiang Fengyi stared into Jiang Xuan's eyes, trying to find any sign of awakening or remorse, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find any.
She gave up hope and asked routinely, "Mother, are you still not going to send him back?"
Jiang Xuan pretended to be confused: "I told you, I sent the person away a long time ago."
Jiang Fengyi looked at her and stopped speaking, her eyes filled with disappointment.
The phone that was placed close to her body vibrated. Jiang Fengyi closed her eyes and opened them again. Her eyes regained their clarity, and she no longer looked at Jiang Xuan.
He nodded to Ke Fan, who was at the front, and said, "Let's go."
Jiang Fengyi, along with the remaining bodyguards, bypassed Jiang Xuan and drove away, heading in the direction where Jiang Xuan had parked his car and locked up Xu Que.
Jiang Xuan panicked and hurriedly blocked Jiang Fengyi's path: "Where are you going?"
Jiang Fengyi paused for a moment, but didn't stop walking. "Where I go doesn't seem to be my mother's business." She turned her head back. "Stop her."
After saying that, he didn't linger and followed closely behind Ke Fan, his only thought being to find Xu Que.
*
Jiang Xuan's bodyguard captain dismissed everyone except his trusted confidants and, as instructed by Ke Fan, waited for them to arrive at this secluded location.
Soon, she heard Jiang Fengyi's voice.
"President Jiang, I'm here!"
The people below were startled by the captain's use of "General Manager Jiang." Following her gaze, they saw that it was another "General Manager Jiang." They never expected that after all the twists and turns, he was still working for the Jiang family.
So they also greeted the new "General Manager Jiang".
"Enough with the small talk," Jiang Fengyi said, a rare look of anxiety on her face. "Take me to find someone first."
"Mr. Jiang, come with me." The bodyguard captain was the first to react. "This way."
The captain deliberately sent the outsiders away, just so that his own people could show their faces in front of Jiang Fengyi.
"Don't worry, she's perfectly fine lying in the car, she's not suffering."
"Lying down?"
The bodyguard captain, unsure whether Jiang Fengyi knew the inside story, reported truthfully: "Your mother drugged her, and she is still unconscious."
Jiang Fengyi never expected that Jiang Xuan could disregard the law to such an extent.
"Besides drugging her," she said solemnly, "what else did Jiang Xuan do to her?"
"She originally wanted us to put the person in a suitcase," the bodyguard captain said, not entirely satisfied with his acting, and embarrassed. "We pretended we couldn't lift it, and that's when she gave up."
Jiang Fengyi remained silent for a long time, his solemn face concealing a turbulent undercurrent of emotions.
We'll deal with Jiang Xuan's matter later; right now, the most important thing is to find him.
finally,
The bodyguard captain stopped in front of a dilapidated van and spoke to Jiang Fengyi behind him.
"The person is inside."
The car door opened.
There was no one inside.
Jiang Fengyi could no longer maintain her composure.
Where are they?
*
Twenty minutes ago,
Xu, lying in the back seat of the car, secretly squinted his eyes open.
She didn't understand why the people carrying her were pretending they couldn't lift her, letting her relax and continue letting her lie in the back seat of the car. Now, they hadn't assigned anyone to watch over her, leaving her alone in the car.
Whether they were too confident in their abilities or simply didn't take her seriously, Xu had no way of knowing.
I don't know if they saw her hands, which were hidden behind her back and had already broken free of the ropes.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Xu slowly moved his body, leaned against the car window, and looked up to observe the situation outside.
Nobody's here!
Surely they wouldn't leave the van they use to lock her up unlocked?
Under Xu's expectant gaze, she gently opened the car door.
It really wasn't locked!
Right now,
Run away!!!
After confirming that there were no suspicious figures around, Xu mustered the same fighting spirit he had when he ran the 800-meter test in school and shot off like a bullet.
Regardless of the reason why the other party lowered their guard against her, she should take this opportunity to escape.
The roar of airplanes could be heard from time to time in the sky, but Xu suspected that he had been transported to the airport, and the nearest airport to Jiang Fengyi's home was in Nancheng.
Xu ran in the opposite direction of the car. The faster she ran, the louder the roar of the plane became, and the noise of the crowd gradually reached her ears.
She swore she had never loved the noise of a crowd as much as she did at that moment.
The exit is right ahead!!!
The body was affected by the accidental ingestion of the medication. Xu, who used to be able to run 800 meters without getting out of breath, was already sweating profusely after running for only a short while.
Her body felt like noodles that had been soaking for too long, about to go limp, but Xu kept running forward entirely on sheer willpower.
We're almost there!
Her vision was blurry, but she could vaguely make out figures.
"Help! Help me!"
The person finished speaking before she could finish.
Before she collapsed, she seemed to smell the fragrance of the night-blooming cereus.
*
The wind was clear and the clouds were pure.
Xu was awakened by the chirping of cicadas outside the window and slowly opened her eyes. The sunlight outside was just right, streaming into the room through the slightly ajar glass window and falling on the white blanket in front of her.
It was a bit hot, and Xu's forehead was slightly sweaty. She kicked off the blanket that was tucked tightly around her, and finally felt much cooler.
She looked around and saw that apart from the essential living facilities, there were only some medical instruments left.
Is this a hospital?
But why does it look like a luxury hotel, and only have one hospital bed?
Before she could figure it out, the doorknob of the room was turned.
With a "click",
Xu then saw Jiang Fengyi appear in front of him.
She realized that the floral scent she smelled before she fainted wasn't just her imagination!
Jiang Fengyi approached, carrying a lunchbox. "You're awake," she said with concern. "Is there anything else that's bothering you?"
She pulled up a chair and sat down in front of Xu Que's bed, placing the food from the lunchbox on the bedside table.
"I was worried you wouldn't have an appetite when you woke up, so I had the nanny cook you some porridge." She placed the steaming bowl in front of Xu Que.
He asked gently, "Would you like something to drink now?"
Xu found it hard not to be captivated by Jiang Fengyi's gentle nature.
Even if she were holding a bowl of poison, she would probably nod without hesitation.
Jiang Fengyi stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, and asked casually, "Do you want me to feed you?"
Xu nodded blankly.
Jiang Fengyi's upturned lips were clearly the same as when she had just opened the door, but Xu felt that Jiang Fengyi was in a more cheerful mood at this moment than she had been a few minutes ago.
She scooped up a spoonful of porridge and gently blew on it, saying, "Here, be careful, it's hot."
Xu, sitting opposite her, took a mouthful of the scalding hot porridge, which danced on her tongue and was swallowed after being stirred several times in her mouth.
"Good, good red."
Even with her slurred speech, she didn't forget to provide ample emotional value.
"It's too hot," Jiang Fengyi put down the bowl. "Let it cool down a bit before you drink it."
Xu looked at her innocently: "You...you don't want to feed me anymore?"
"I......"
Thump thump thump—
Someone was knocking on the door of the ward.
Jiang Fengyi's unfinished words were suddenly interrupted by a voice.
"Enter!"
The bodyguard captain and Ke Fan walked in. When they saw Jiang Fengyi with a faint smile on her face, they both widened their eyes in surprise and looked at Xu Que on the bed.
Everyone wanted to know what kind of magic this person possessed that could make the usually stern and unsmiling CEO Jiang so happy.
I couldn't help but think of yesterday...
They really didn't want to experience President Jiang's expression yesterday again. Every time they thought about it, they were terrified; it was like the calm before the storm.
Jiang Fengyi's face darkened as she realized the car was empty.
She asked coldly, "Where is he?"
The head bodyguard had never seen such a display of force from President Jiang before, and hurriedly explained, "The people were still here before I left." She searched inside and outside the car, and under the car, but only found a rope.
"President Jiang, the person you're looking for may have untied the ropes and run away..."
"Possibly?" Jiang Fengyi clicked her tongue. "I don't want to hear vague and ambiguous statements. I want a definite result!"
Tell me, can we find them today?
The bodyguard was startled and almost dropped what he was holding.
Jiang Fengyi reached out and took the rope the bodyguard had found: "She was not only drugged, but her hands were also tied up with this rope?"
The bodyguard forced a smile and answered, "Yes...yes..."
A hint of regret flashed deep in Jiang Fengyi's eyes. If she hadn't dragged Xu Que into this, she wouldn't have had to suffer all of this.
It's all her fault for being so arrogant and thinking she had everything under control.
Jiang Fengyi shouted sternly, "Go find someone now!"
The people surrounding Jiang Fengyi scattered like birds and beasts and fled quickly. The angry little CEO Jiang was even more terrifying than the last CEO Jiang who lost his temper!
Even Ke Fan, who had been staring at the computer screen, started doing physical exercise.
Jiang Fengyi was also busy, searching for that familiar figure in the vast sea of people at the airport like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when Xu appeared on his own. The bodyguard secretly glanced at Jiang Fengyi, and seeing that she still had a cold expression, he immediately lowered his head.
Sigh, it's so hard to guess what your boss is thinking.
*
The same applies today.
Standing in the ward, she didn't know how Xu had managed to appease President Jiang, but that didn't stop her from thinking how impressive the person in the hospital bed was.
Ke Fan, who was standing next to her, shared the same thought.
Xu felt uncomfortable being stared at by the two pairs of eyes, so he moved closer to Jiang Fengyi.
Who are they?
Before they could answer, Jiang Fengyi replied gently, "They are the people who helped me find your whereabouts."
Xu sincerely thanked him.
Remembering his purpose in coming to see President Jiang, Ke Fan spoke up before the bodyguard could: "The medical records have been forged, and the private sanatorium is ready to receive patients."
The bodyguard, following closely behind her, said, "I took some men to the Jiang family early this morning to wait, but we still haven't seen President Jiang..."
She really wanted to slap herself; she still hadn't changed her way of speaking.
"We haven't seen Jiang Xuan yet."
Jiang Fengyi said calmly, "She's not at the Jiang family's. Go directly to the Zhao family's to pick her up."
She continued to stir the porridge in the bowl.
"Make sure to send her to a 'sanatorium' so she can properly 'recover' her health."
“Yes,” the bodyguard had already scouted the place beforehand. “This sanatorium is strictly managed. Mental patients are absolutely not allowed to leave without the consent of their family members.”
Jiang Fengyi is Jiang Xuan's only family member.
The three did not avoid Xu Que during their conversation, and she listened to the whole thing while half-sitting on the hospital bed.
Jiang Fengyi was generous with her praise for her subordinates: "You did a good job. I had the finance department transfer a bonus to you. Go back and check if it has arrived."
The two said in unison, "Thank you, President Jiang!"
With such a generous new boss, they are even more motivated to work.
After the person left,
Jiang Fengyi picked up the bowl of porridge that had cooled down a bit, scooped up a spoonful, and held it to Xu Que's lips.
"It's not too hot now, would you like some more?"
Xu's gaze remained fixed on Jiang Fengyi's face. He opened his mouth several times, but no sound came out.
After several attempts, she mustered her courage and asked softly.
"You did all this because...?"
"Is it because of me?"
Her hands, hanging by her sides, clenched into fists, thankfully covered by a thin blanket, just like the affection in her heart, which she allowed only herself to know.
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