Deliberately Approaching
Chapter 151 Missing?

Chapter 151: Chapter 151 Missing?

At eight in the evening, in the study.

Li Zishen had just closed his notebook, ready to check some approval documents when suddenly he received a call from Bai Long.

The latest news about Tang Xiaowan enraged him.

The bodyguard had lost track of her black SUV, and the news from Jinyuan Academy wasn’t optimistic either; she hadn’t returned to her new residence.

Without pausing to think, Li Zishen quickly dialed Tang Xiaowan’s phone, only to be painfully rejected.

Immediately after, a message notification sounded.

"I’m fine, no need to search for me. I just want some peace for a few days, and I’ve already requested leave from school."

"If you can manage not to disturb me, I will send a daily safety report before dinner. If you can’t manage that, don’t ever expect to see me again."

"Don’t call, I don’t want to listen."

The three messages arrived one after another, merely seconds apart. It wasn’t hard to guess that Tang Xiaowan had prepared these in advance.

Li Zishen read them and quickly responded.

"Where exactly are you, do you even know what you’re doing? Without my protection, if something suddenly happens..."

He had only typed half of the message when Li Zishen lost his patience and called her again.

He knew this was wrong, showing himself to be rash, especially since Tang Xiaowan had just instructed him not to call. Yet, he couldn’t control himself.

This was something Tang Xiaowan had anticipated, hence she turned off her phone after sending the messages.

"Why won’t you answer the phone?"

With a smack, the phone was thrown across the room.

Fortunately, it was of good quality and wasn’t damaged, merely lying quietly on the floor.

Li Zishen loosened his tie and went to the floor-to-ceiling window, striving to calm his bad mood, hoping to recover quickly.

However, the more he thought, the more annoyed he became, his mind a complete mess.

"Where did you go, where on earth did you go?"

"Is it Lin Ping’s death... making you lose your sense of security towards me, causing fear, causing fright?"

"Silly girl, it really wasn’t me!"

"If it really had been me, you wouldn’t know at all, nobody would know, why don’t you trust me?"

Unable to calm down and think, Li Zishen returned to his desk and took a wooden pig carving in his hands, constantly rubbing it.

It was a gift from Tang Xiaowan before she lost her memory.

When happy, he would look at it, touch it, and when despondent, he would treat it like a lifeline, using it to encourage himself.

Finally, his bad mood was soothed, and the thrown phone was picked up.

The messages were still there, and Li Zishen smiled.

He kept everything related to Tang Xiaowan, including the blood-stained, silver-grey dress from the night of the attack.

"Inform me immediately when there’s any news."

"Yes, Brother Shen."

"Whatever it is, immediately!"

"Don’t worry, Brother Shen, I understand."

After finishing the call with Bai Long, Li Zishen left the study and headed towards the stairs.

He walked very slowly, still wearing a troubled expression.

Ten minutes later, Bai Long finally located the black SUV, parked near the Jinda South Gate, right outside the swimming pool where Lin Ping had his incident.

Unfortunately, the car was empty; there was no one inside.

The bodyguards nearby whispered among themselves, thinking this had been done on purpose. Even the usually silent team leader began to murmur.

He tentatively asked, "Brother Long, do you think this incident might have something to do with our Brother Shen..."

"It has nothing to do with him."

"Oh, actually, even if it did, it wouldn’t matter much. Dealing with a traitor, one ought to..."

With a sweeping glance from Bai Long, the team leader immediately shut up and quickly ran into the swimming pool to check the surveillance, looking for any signs of suspicious activity.

Fifteen minutes later, the captain came out.

The surveillance at the entrance showed that Tang Xiaowan hadn’t entered the swimming pool at all, but had instead gotten out of the car and walked toward the north gate of Jin City University with Cheng Shi.

Bai Long had anticipated that she wouldn’t enter the swimming pool, but he couldn’t quite understand why she would return to the university at this time.

Go find Chen Yu, and stay at the Foreign Language College?

It couldn’t possibly be that simple; there must be an aspect I’m overlooking. What could it be?

Bai Long shook his head; his gaze settled once again on Cheng Shi’s black SUV.

A feint to the east but attacking the west, a golden cicada shedding its skin?

Hmm, that was possible, just the kind of thing Lady Tang loved to do!

Indeed, every day after 5:30 PM, once Tang Xiaowan left school, the bodyguards who stayed behind at the school would withdraw to take on new assignments.

Including their number, everything was adjusted according to Tang Xiaowan’s location.

At this moment, the anxious captain of the bodyguards came closer, and seeing that Bai Long was silent, he gathered his courage to ask.

"Brother Long, where to next?"

"Leave two men here to keep watch; the rest will follow me to Jinshan Villa."

"Aren’t we already keeping an eye on that location?"

"Leng Lingxiao is unpredictable, and I always felt that Lady Tang’s situation was related to him. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so troublesome. Let’s head there and take a look."

The captain immediately remembered the setbacks they had previously faced and quickly nodded, "Yes, Brother Long, you’re right!"

Meanwhile, on the ring road.

A sleek black motorcycle sped along, the rider fully geared, obscuring whether they were male or female.

Minutes later, at a gas station.

The rider got into a car with a Qingcheng license plate, while the black motorcycle was handed over to another rider who turned around and headed back, arriving at Jinyuan Academy half an hour later.

...

At eleven o’clock at night, in Li Garden’s second floor.

Li Zishen lay in the rocking chair that Tang Xiaowan had once used, his eyes tightly shut, still holding the small pig wooden carving in his hands.

[Leng Lingxiao has not left the villa.]

[Li Wanshan is hosting a party at home tonight, which ended ten minutes ago, and he is currently playing cards.]

[Wang Junchen left the hotel at two in the afternoon and went to Jinlin Huayuan. He and Ye Wanhua have a property there with a courtyard on the first floor; they haven’t left since their arrival.]

[Li Jingshan went to the movies with his daughter after dinner and then returned home.]

[Cheng Shi has returned to Jinyuan Academy, alone, without seeing Lady Tang.]

Information after information reporting on their whereabouts.

Li Zishen ultimately couldn’t let things take their own course and used all available manpower in the search.

Eighteen more hours until Tang Xiaowan sent a message that she was safe; for a man who usually acted decisively, this was sheer torture.

Xiao Wan, where exactly are you?

If Cheng Shi is still in Jin City, it means you didn’t go to Qingcheng; you’re not at Mei Garden. Wherever you are, he is there too, right?

It’s okay to be quiet for a few days, but please don’t wander off!

His messy thoughts were disrupted by several knocks on the door.

"Young master, are you there?"

Li Zishen turned his head to glance, then replied wearily, "Come in."

The door then opened.

Nanny Chen entered, carrying a supper tray with a bowl of lean meat porridge, a small plate of radish shreds, and two fried eggs.

In her other hand, she held a white cloth bag, apparently containing something heavy.

"Young master, have some porridge."

Nanny Chen was worried as he hadn’t eaten dinner.

Hearing her, Li Zishen looked up, and after a moment of being stunned, he abruptly stood up.