Atlas Studios

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  Ding Mengya became anxious. “That’s what you think when you are young. Let me tell you, when you reach 40, it would be too late for you to have a child even if you want one. You……”


  “Oh no. Mother, my steak is burning, I’ll go take a look~”


  Si Jingyu held the phone further away. She dragged her voice on her last word and immediately ended the call. After she ended the call, her expression became solemn.

  Staring at the soggy instant noodles that had been soaked in the soup for too long, she suddenly lost her appetite.

  Tossing the fork aside, she walked toward the window that was turning slightly black. She looked afar silently through the open window.

  This wasn’t her and Shi Jinyan’s house. This wasn’t even Beijing. It was just a small place at the borders of Hebei. This was where she was currently living, which was the best hotel here. A three-star hotel, it had more than 10 rooms along the corridor. The living environment was atrocious. Even the colors of the mattress and cups were turning yellow and dull. However, she did not care at all even though she was a clean-freak and the daughter of an affluent family.

  When she was looking afar, someone knocked on the door. Si Jingyu quickly went to open the door. There was an unfamiliar man standing at the door. “Are you Ms. Si?”


  Si Jingyu immediately narrowed her eyes and nodded. “Yes, I am.”


  “Did you bring the money?” When that person stuck his head in and glanced at the room, Si Jingyu blocked the door with her body. “I brought it.”


  “Oh, I’m the one who called you. It’s time. We should go,” the person said to Si Jingyu with a chuckle.

  Upon hearing this, Si Jingyu was slightly dazed. After a while, she nodded and turned around to grab her bag before following the person out.

  That person looked very crafty and was obviously not a good person. When Si Jingyu reached the entrance, she heard the receptionist at the hotel’s front desk call out to her. “Ms. Si, come over. I have something to tell you! You have not paid for a few days of your stay here. Please come over!”


  When Si Jingyu heard this, she walked toward the front desk and asked in puzzlement, “What did I not pay?”


  The receptionist grabbed her. “Ms. Si, the person you are following is not a good person. He is a pretty infamous local gangster. You must never trust him. You are so pretty and classy, you should never follow him……”


  When the receptionist finished speaking, she looked at the records. “Oh, Ms. Si. I misread it, I’m sorry!”


  After hearing what the receptionist had said, she paused and looked down. There was a tinge of bitterness in her gaze. Of course she knew that this man was not a good person. It’s precisely because he’s not a good person that she was following him.

  However, since the receptionist had warned her, she took out a piece of paper from her bag and wrote down a phone number. “If I don’t come back by tomorrow morning, call this number and ask for help.”


  The receptionist held the note in her hand and looked at Si Jingyu with a smile. “Okay, Ms. Si.”


  Then, Si Jingyu turned around and followed the crafty-looking man. She tried to straighten her back as much as possible, but her fists were slightly clenching up due to her nerves.

  —


  At the Si family’s villa.

  After Si Zhengting sent Ding Mengya off, he went back to the living room, only to find that Zhuang Nainai was no longer there. He looked around the room in confusion before realizing that Zhuang Nainai had slipped to the kitchen. She was looking for something in the refrigerator.

  Si Zhengting stood behind her in confusion. “What are you looking for?”