Eleven o’clock in the afternoon, the study on the third floor.
Li Zishen was accompanying Tang Xiaowan as she rifled through the drawers when, upon receiving a ssage from Bai Long, his brow furrowed, and he imdiately straightened up.
"Xiao Wan, I need to step out for a bit. You wait here for , and don’t you dare wander off."
"Oh, got it. Go do what you need to do."
Tang Xiaowan’s responses were distracted as she fidgeted with a seal in her hands.
So this i is that i, right?
It must belong to Grandma; it couldn’t be mine. I don’t work and still go to school. I have no use for such a thing.
But that i on the fourth card...
Tang Xiaowan’s brow creased slightly as she gently pressed the seal into the inkpad. The character for i, inscribed in small seal script, imdiately appeared on the white paper. When she looked up with a silly smile, she t Li Zishen’s worried gaze.
"Why haven’t you left? Don’t you have things to do?"
"Xiao Wan, it will be ti for dinner in less than an hour. If you’re tired, you can go back to the bedroom and rest. I’ll co to fetch you when it’s ti, but you cannot leave this building before I return, okay?"
"Alright, alright, I know!"
Li Zishen looked steadily at Tang Xiaowan: "Then, I’ll be off now."
"Mm-hmm, go on, go on!"
The sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
With a slight smirk, Tang Xiaowan tiptoed out of the study and made her way to the staircase.
Second floor.
The hallway was eerily quiet, with only two rolling suitcases placed at the door of the room at the farthest east end.
One large, one small—both in deep purple.
Tang Xiaowan swayed her keys triumphantly.
"Hmm, yes, this is it!"
Upon opening the door, she pushed the suitcases inside, then imdiately dashed into the walk-in closet.
In Tang Xiaowan’s fuzzy mory, sothing seed to be hidden here.
What exactly that was, she could no longer recall.
Thus, she opened each door, rummaged through every drawer.
The room Tang Xiaowan stayed in was exceptionally large, comprising a reception area, a walk-in closet, a bedroom, a balcony, and a bathroom—six areas in total.
With an area of about 80 square ters, it was similar in size to a small apartnt. Aside from a kitchen, it had everything one could need.
Yet her search yielded nothing.
Tang Xiaowan grew restless and started to recall.
That day, I left the bedroom and then went to the study on the third floor.
But why did I go to the study?
Oh, right, I heard footsteps.
The tragedy was that shortly after entering, a person in black suddenly appeared and sprayed with sothing. They were skilled in martial arts, ferocious, and then I passed out. I vaguely rember two more people arriving, and later Li Zishen ca in a helicopter.
These events were tid almost too perfectly.
Only now did Tang Xiaowan realize she’d fallen into soone else’s trap that day, and it seed all arranged.
As for the purpose, that remained unknown.
She took the keys and headed for the bedroom.
Upon entering, she sprawled out in a spread-eagle position on the soft mahogany bed.
With a lazy sweep of her eyes, Tang Xiaowan observed her surroundings.
The wallpaper was adorned with patterns of blooming roses, and even the bedside lamp, as well as the chandelier, sported similar designs in shades of pale pink or light purple, offering a very cozy atmosphere.
She stretched lazily, turned over, and snuggled her head into the pillow.
Casually reaching out, her hand encountered a hardcover book.
Page 1: Grandma, I miss you so much!
Page 2: Grandma, I miss you so much!
Page 3: Grandma, I miss you so much!
...
Page 20: Today is August 15th, here is i Garden, my ho. After waking up, don’t run around aimlessly. Stay in the bedroom and wait for Huahua to co back. All the keys are on the dressing table; match them with the labels to open the doors. Rember, rember!!!
The handwriting was like scribbles of a worm, really ugly!
No, wait, this seems to be my own writing, this is my handwriting!
Tang Xiaowan was a bit confused.
Who is Huahua, and why should I wait for her?
The tags on the keys were actually put there by myself, I had thought they were...
Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and Li Zishen rushed in with a panicked expression, "Xiao Wan, Xiao Wan!"
His voice was loud and clear.
"Xiao Wan, when did you co downstairs?"
"Dinner is ready, shall we go eat?"
However, faced with Li Zishen’s questions, Tang Xiaowan had no reaction, her eyes fixed on the leather-covered book in her hands, her face full of shock.
Li Zishen didn’t understand and took the book, flipping through it gently and reading quietly.
"Don’t run around aimlessly after waking up, stay in the bedroom and wait for Huahua to return. After waking up? Huahua? Xiao Wan, why did you write this, who is Huahua? And there’s so much more before this..."
"You also think it was written by , right?"
"Isn’t it?"
"I don’t know, found it under the pillow."
"Xiao Wan, you... are you okay?"
"On the 15th of last month, the day you rescued , didn’t you check my bed?"
Li Zishen replied sowhat sheepishly: "No, after all, a girl’s bedroom is a private space, so... I just took a quick look."
"So there was this under the pillow, and I actually can’t rember it at all, I’ve forgotten everything."
After saying this, Tang Xiaowan imdiately ran to the dressing table and rummaged through all the drawers.
However, there were only costics and jewelry.
She didn’t understand why, why did she have to remind herself not to go anywhere after waking up?
Could it be that she had amnesia even before the attack?
"Xiao Wan, stop thinking for now, let’s go eat?"
Tang Xiaowan pounded her head hard: "Why, what exactly happened on the 15th, why did I lose my mory?"
Li Zishen quickly embraced her: "Don’t be afraid, you still have , we’ll find the reason."
"But I always feel that sothing terrible is going to happen. At night at Li Garden, several tis, I dread of a girl crying so sorrowfully; why? Why do I feel that the girl is , why?"
"Grandma’s death was a big blow to you. That day when I ca to see you, you didn’t even want to see ."
"Was it here?"
Li Zishen nodded, gently wiping away the tears on Tang Xiaowan’s cheeks: "I waited for you outside i Garden for a long ti, but you didn’t co out. The person who opened the door said you had been in the hall, holding onto Grandma’s body and crying, not allowing anyone to co close, and you even drove away two police officers."
"Grandma must have really cherished before."
"Yes! You were so sad, and you didn’t co down the mountain for a whole month..."
Gradually, Tang Xiaowan cald down a lot, her tear-dampened almond eyes becoming clear again. She broke free from Li Zishen’s embrace and said faintly, "Grandma, I want to go see Grandma." Then she ran out of the bedroom without looking back.
She resisted with surprising strength, and Li Zishen had not anticipated it at all, stumbling back half a step.
"Xiao Wan, slow down, wait for !"
Li Zishen could not afford to think more and hurriedly chased after her.
This ti, he witnessed Tang Xiaowan’s running speed, just as his brother Li Zihan had described, like parkour but not quite, too graceful, not even noticing when she had put on her shoes, with a speed that was baffling.
"Could it be, she really knows martial arts?"
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