"I’m supposed to sleep now? Do you think I’m a pig?"
"What the heck, scaring people with that trick every ti. You think you’re so great just because you’re tall?"
"I’m not afraid of you, I just can’t be bothered!"
Tang Xiaowan returned to her room with a hint of complaint.
She lay on the lounge chair, flipping open the diary she had brought back from i Garden. After reading it several tis, she also tucked those four handwritten cards into it.
The material and size of the cards were identical, only the contents varied.
Card 1: "The lotus blossoms are barely peeping out, and already a dragonfly perches atop."
Card 2: "Through a sea of flowers, not a leaf clings to him."
Card 3: "Mountains of books have paths with diligence as the travel; seas of learning are boundless, with perseverance as the vessel."
Card 4: "Plum blossom fragrance cos from the bitter cold."
They each corresponded to four places: Old Man Cui’s cutlery shop, the Wanhua Counter in the shopping center, Jin City University, and Qingcheng’s i Garden.
Tang Xiaowan had already been to all of the above locations.
Among these, i Garden’s yield was the greatest. Not only did she find her grandmother’s ’i’ seal, a bank card, cash, and jewelry, but she also reunited with the original staff of i Garden.
But with the other locations, it was all very elusive, and strangely enough, each card had a different exclusive stamp on the back, with unique shapes and fonts.
Could it be that the big picture was wrong and nobody was actually after ; they were rely guiding ?
No, no that can’t be right; the attack was too vicious. If I hadn’t dodged in ti, it wouldn’t be my shoulder that got hurt, not to ntion being forcibly fed several Chinese dicine pills.
Pills? Right, I almost forgot, that guy Leng Lingxiao also gave a bottle of Chinese dicine pills.
Tang Xiaowan hurriedly got up and went straight for her rolling suitcase.
She had hidden the bottle of pills in an inner compartnt.
The bottle was ceramic, white with pink flowers; upon opening, the unique fragrance of Chinese herbs imdiately enveloped her; the granules were very small, like mung beans.
To take or not to take was a matter of a single thought.
Actually, Tang Xiaowan didn’t get headaches every day, they only surfaced after she dreamt – that kind of pain like being pricked by needles.
Because she was scared of dication, she didn’t dare tell Li Zishen.
How did Leng Lingxiao know about it? It couldn’t possibly be my chronic illness, right? Yet Li Zishen had already given two full physical check-ups, found nothing unusual, and even said I was in very good health.
Weird, it’s just so weird!
While Tang Xiaowan was thinking this, she poured out two pills without much thought, and after sniffing them, stuffed them into her mouth.
Quickly, the small pills disappeared.
They weren’t bitter at all, but rather slightly sweet, tasting much better than the dicine Li Zishen formulated for her, at the very least without that nauseating urge to vomit.
Tang Xiaowan was savoring the taste when suddenly, several knocks on the door interrupted her thoughts.
"No way, did he follow here?"
With a hint of suspicion, she opened the door, and it wasn’t Li Zishen whom she had expected, but Li Zihan, who lived next door.
The young master stood there looking quite smug, holding a bag from Immortal Restaurant.
"Hey, want to eat sothing?"
Tang Xiaowan touched her nose, her eyes showing a bit of disdain: "What’s this... trying to bribe ?"
"Listen to you, with our relationship, would I need to bribe you? I was just thinking, you have a good appetite, you must be hungry by now, so... you know what I an."
"I don’t understand. I’m not hungry, goodbye."
Tang Xiaowan was about to close the door, but Li Zihan blocked it with his foot: "What’s the rush? I really didn’t an anything else, it’s purely goodwill."
"Thanks, but I’m not hungry."
As she said this, Tang Xiaowan’s eyes involuntarily sneaked a peek at the bag of roast duck.
Oh my god, that slls so good!
"No, no, I must resist, absolutely cannot be tempted by this guy’s food, it must be for Cheng Shi."
Seeing Tang Xiaowan seed a bit conflicted, Li Zihan imdiately put away his smile and stood up straight, "If you really don’t want to eat, just throw it away, it’s okay."
Before Tang Xiaowan could respond, Li Zihan had already hung the bag containing the roast duck on the doorknob, and then quickly ran back to his room.
The whole operation was done in one smooth motion, to say there was no purpose behind it would be sothing only a fool would believe.
"What kind of person is this, how can he do such a thing?"
Hang the roast duck back or throw it away? Impossible, with such an enticing sll, Tang Xiaowan was salivating just from the scent, she couldn’t bear to let it go.
After muttering about boredom, the door was closed.
[What are you doing, do you want to eat roast duck?]
[Miss, are you hungry? I can drive out and look. If there’s no roast duck, is sothing else okay?]
Tang Xiaowan: "..."
Please, in your eyes, am I really such a person who eats then sleeps, and upon waking up is hungry again?
Oh well, it doesn’t matter anymore!
Tang Xiaowan picked up the roast duck and took a sniff, biting her lip she replied: [I an there’s a roast duck here, it was delivered by Li Zihan, I’m asking if you want so? If you do, co over, let’s share because I can’t finish it on my own.]
Cheng Shi: [Miss, feel free to command .]
Tang Xiaowan: "..."
What’s with that, why are you so dense?
Forget it, it’s not worth the trouble!
A leg of the duck was imdiately torn off, Tang Xiaowan bit into it fiercely and then picked up her phone, quickly typing a few words: [It’s fine, you do your thing.]
Twenty minutes later, she had eaten her fill and was lazily lying in the lounge chair, continuing to ponder over the cards.
The handwriting was the sa, it seed to be in the thin gold script. Could it all be written by Old Man Cui?
But he said he didn’t know !
Could it be that soone deliberately imitated the thin gold script to send so sort of ssage?
Going to such lengths, what for?
Does it have anything to do with those n in black from i Garden, are they in cahoots, opposition, or unrelated, simply targeting Li Zishen?
By starting with , to influence him?
No, it can’t be so, if they just kidnapped it would be simpler, it must still be related to the night raid at i Garden.
The more Tang Xiaowan thought about it, the more depressed she beca, and the more scared she got, she always felt like soone was manipulating sothing behind the scenes, and she was just a pawn for that person.
I can’t just sit and wait for doom, I have to et it head-on, it’s the only solution I can think of.
"Zishen, Li Zishen, ah, what a headache."
Tang Xiaowan was about to get up, planning to go discuss with Li Zishen, but when she saw the text in the diary, she hesitated again.
It was written before the attack.
It was not difficult to tell that even back then, she had lost her mory, and it was very likely written before the amnesia, especially the second entry, no matter how many tis reread, it seed to be reminding herself.
Not to leave i Garden, to wait for Huahua to co back!
Why does it only ntion soone called Huahua, with no ntion of Li Zishen at all?
Could it be that I never trusted him before? Or is it that he did lie, that we’re not the couple he claid we were, just ordinary friends?
"Huahua, Huahua."
Just by hearing the na, it sounds like a girl’s, but Wang ijuan said she didn’t know, and also stated that there was no one by that na in i Garden.
Thinking of this, Tang Xiaowan returned to the lounge chair and slowly picked up her phone again.
[Contact the agent, get the procedures done as soon as possible.]
A short ssage was successfully sent, and Cheng Shi almost instantly replied: [Okay, Miss, don’t worry.]
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