Sirius was stunned.
"Alright, I know this question is a bit presumptuous, but if it's inconvenient to answer, then forget it." Ruan Chen waved her hand and sighed with worry.
Sirius scratched his head. "It's not inconvenient at all. I was just thinking back, and it's true that dating is a blind spot for me."
He also sighed with worry, "Miss Ruan, you know I'm a local from Liuli Island. I didn't go to school for many years. I've been in gangs since I was a child just to make a living. Later, when the boss came, I followed him. It was during these years with the boss that I got some education. I've had one or two women around me, but they all left for no apparent reason."
Ruan Chen sighed and complained, "You acted like you knew a lot about this, which startled me."
“I’m with the boss, and there are always women trying to get close to him.” Tianlang began to recount Su Ze’s dark history. “A few years ago, your uncle took a liking to a woman who was also from China. Even when he was dealing with urgent matters in the gang in the middle of the night, he would respond immediately whenever that woman contacted him.”
"You know all that? Maybe my uncle is involved in something else."
"He has a nickname for that woman. He ignores other people's messages or calls, but he only responds to that woman. Besides, his demeanor is different from that woman's, whether he's on the phone or replying to messages."
Ruan Chen stared at her phone quietly. Seven or eight minutes had passed since Bo Nian sent her the message, "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
She replied, "Understood, thank you."
Then she started counting down in her mind.
three.
two.
Before I could even count to one in my head, Bo Nian replied.
"Good, if you understand, feel free to ask me anything. If it's convenient, we can go to the coffee shop to study together tomorrow."
Ruan Chen didn't dare to reply again.
Tianlang led her to Su Ze's room. Ruan Chen put down her luggage and looked around Su Ze's room.
Although she appeared confident and in control in front of Sirius, she was actually quite uncertain about everything.
She could only determine from Su Ze's letter that Su Ze had left voluntarily, but she still needed to find out where Su Ze had gone and whether his life was in danger.
She first checked Su Ze's room to make sure there were no hidden surveillance cameras or listening devices before she felt safe enough to start searching.
Su Ze tidies his own room and is very reluctant to let others into it—except for Ruan Chen.
Ruan Chen skillfully retrieved a set of keys from a hidden compartment on the side of the bed and opened Su Ze's drawers one by one.
Documents, old photos, letters... Su Ze had locked up a lot of things. Ruan Chen quickly browsed through them, but there was nothing useful. He had seen the old photos of him at Su's house, the photos of him and his mother, and the correspondence between him and his sister in their early years.
She searched Su Ze's room for almost the entire morning without finding any clues. Frustrated, Ruan Chen took off her coat and threw it on the bed, kicked off her shoes, and lay down on her back.
The last time she took the medicine was on the plane. Now the effects of the medicine were almost gone, and her head was throbbing again, but Ruan Chen was too lazy to get up to get water and drink the medicine. Anyway, she could bear it for the time being.
Ruan Chen turned over and pulled the pillow that was under her head over her face.
She suddenly sat up, staring at the pillow she was clutching in her hand.
Ruan Chen pulled a paper cutter from the pen holder on Su Ze's desk, cut it open, reached inside and rummaged around for a moment, and pulled out a piece of metal.
It is a square nameplate, with the most conspicuous part being a number – “nine”.
Below is densely packed small print, which contains Su Ze's blood type, past medical history, medication history, allergy history, etc.
At the bottom right are seven small characters: "New Moon Bay Training Base".
Ruan Chen had seen this badge before; she herself had one, number 13, with the same information as Su Ze's, also from the Crescent Bay Training Base.
Ruan Chen was unaware that she was subconsciously confusing the concepts of "herself" and "Ruan Chen in the tragic world".
So my uncle also lived in Crescent Bay? But he never mentioned this experience to me. So, is Su Ze's sudden departure related to Crescent Bay?
Ruan Chen turned on her computer and retrieved the surveillance footage from the airport on Liuli Island ten days ago. She had seen the equipment from Crescent Bay in another timeline. Just now, Tianlang said that the plane that picked up Su Ze was a pitch-black plane with a very peculiar tail shape.
Only when Ruan Chen connected this matter with Crescent Bay did he suddenly realize that the sickle that Tianlang mentioned was very likely the "crescent moon".
In another timeline, "she" gazed at the planes taking off and landing at the airport in the distance outside the cabin for an entire afternoon. She was deeply impressed by the fact that the tail of each plane was shaped like a crescent moon.
The internet speed on the island was very unstable. Ruan Chen impatiently tapped his fingers on the desktop, staring at the download progress bar.
There was a knock on the door.
"Miss Ruan, the Su family has arrived."
"who?"
“The Su family,” Tianlang repeated, reminding him, “the Su family of the head of the family. I think you are the most qualified person among us to handle this matter.”
"Troublesome." Ruan Chen's brows were full of annoyance and weariness. She walked back into the house quickly, turned her back to Tianlang, poured three pills into her palm, put them in her mouth, and then thought of going to find water. She shook the water bottle that was placed to the side, but it was empty.
"I'll pour it for you."
“No need,” Ruan Chen said curtly, hooking his coat off the back of the chair and slinging it over his shoulder before striding toward the reception room.
There were three men and two women sitting in the reception room, and they were still throwing a tantrum.
"Is this how Su Ze taught you to treat guests? It's one thing that no one picked you up at the airport, but after sitting here for ages, no one even offered to pour you a cup of hot tea?"
"Who's in charge here now? Tell him to come out and get the paperwork done quickly, make sure the property transfer is clear, these all belong to the Su family!"
"Tsk, this place is really dilapidated. How did Su Ze end up in such a miserable state? This is all he's capable of after leaving the Su family. Running off to this godforsaken place to hang out with a bunch of lowly people, does he think he's some kind of local tyrant?"
"Luckily, our Su family severed ties with him early on, otherwise it would have been really embarrassing if word got out."
"And then there's his illegitimate sister, the child his father had with another woman. She doesn't even have our Su family name. What was her name again? Where have I seen her?"
"Cong Rao seems to have died several years ago."
"Good riddance. It's a disgrace to the Su family to have someone like her living outside. Only Su Ze treated her like a treasure, but in the end, he couldn't even protect her."
"I do think it's a pity, that illegitimate daughter is quite pretty."
A group of people were chatting animatedly, unaware that a slender, upright figure stood at the door, her eyes so cold they could almost kill.
Backlit, with her eyes lowered, Ruan Chen gently knocked on the door. "Excuse me, I wanted to ask about Cong Rao, what's the situation?"
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