Su Xingyu walked up to the second floor, the narrow staircase, and the slightly dim corridor.
With each step, she recalled so past events. Four years ago, it was in this villa filled with the scent of flowers that mories of her and him were left everywhere...
Good ones, and bad ones.
Step by step, she walked to the bedroom door.
The bedroom, once disfigured by a fire, had now been rebuilt, looking just as it did in her mory. A mahogany door, a bed draped in black silk, the alarm clock on the bedhead was slightly tilted at the angle she was used to, and by the bed, there was a pair of rabbit slippers she liked very much. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was the deep autumn sky, vast and desolate.
Han looked around the room curiously and asked, "Mom, are we going to live here?"
Su Xingyu snapped back to reality.
The black silk bed stood ominously silent, reminding her of the countless days and nights she was tied to it by him. Unconsciously, she shook her head and coldly told the child, "No, we’re not living here."
Behind her, Lu Shifeng had followed.
Lu Shifeng said, "Xingyu, I rebuilt this especially for you. You’ll be very safe sleeping in this bedroom."
"Safe?" Su Xingyu turned her head, looking at him, coldly laughing, "I haven’t forgotten how I nearly died. Lu Shifeng, do you want to live here and constantly rember the tornt you put through, just to hate you even more?"
Lu Shifeng’s gaze slightly darkened.
Between them, Han looked at one and then the other, feeling so unease.
Lu Shifeng glanced at the child and said, "You can choose another room, but you must stay in this villa. The influence of Ouyang Yi’s shadow group is too great. You must be cautious with your safety and Han’s safety."
"I’ll stay in the guest room," Su Xingyu said without hesitation, "Han will stay with ."
Lu Shifeng had other thoughts, saying, "The child is big enough now to sleep alone."
Su Xingyu just glared at him.
Lu Shifeng retreated under her angry gaze, "I’ll have soone prepare the guest room."
After pausing for a mont, he added, "I’ll sleep in the other guest room next to yours so if you need anything you can at any ti..."
"You’re going to sleep here?" Su Xingyu was very surprised.
Lu Shifeng said, "Xingyu, I want to stay by your side, to protect you."
Su Xingyu laughed coldly, "Protect? Don’t make excuses. Please leave imdiately and go back to find your Zhuang Heng."
"I’ve said, I will handle the matters with Zhuang Heng."
"Get lost."
Su Xingyu, her patience exhausted, finally couldn’t help but curse.
Lu Shifeng wanted to say sothing else but feared her emotions were unstable, eventually he slowly walked down the stairs.
Han held her hand, watching Lu Shifeng’s silhouette disappear at the stair’s end, suddenly said, "Mom, that angry uncle looks like he’s really upset."
Su Xingyu looked down at the child; she hadn’t expected the child to notice these things.
Reflecting briefly, she regretted arguing in front of the child.
It’s said that adults arguing in front of children is very harmful to their growth...
She steadied herself and softly comforted Han, "That uncle is not upset; he really doesn’t understand what being upset is."
Han blinked and softly asked, "But, how can there be people in this world who don’t know what it’s like to be upset?"
Su Xingyu didn’t know how to answer the child.
Is Lu Shifeng upset?
She didn’t know.
She only knew that back then she was a thousand, ten thousand tis more upset than Lu Shifeng.
In the following days, she and Han stayed enclosed in the villa, not venturing out, to prevent being abducted by people from Ouyang Yi’s side.
She followed the news, the matter of Ouyang Yi’s wedding caused quite a stir, with dia at the scene adding fuel to the fire, reporting how Lu Shifeng supposedly crashed the wedding. They speculated that Lu Shifeng did such a thing due to excessive longing for his deceased wife, even having her photo released, analyzing at length the similarities in her photography style, physique, and of the "Su Xingyu" from years ago, believing Lu Shifeng regarded her as a substitute for his dead wife.
But as for why she went with him at the wedding scene?
There are two speculations now, one is that she was scared stiff, and another is that she was greedy for wealth, seeing that Lu Shifeng’s status was nobler than Ouyang Yi’s, she had the thought of climbing up.
This second speculation brought her a lot of insults, with many people siding with Zhuang Heng.
Soon, however, these insults cald down, Su Xingyu guessed it was probably because Lu Shifeng had cleared sothing up.
She followed the developnts privately, preventing Han from seeing these reports.
The child gradually beca a bit bored staying in the villa, although Su Xingyu and several servants played with him, a child’s nature was not satisfied with this. Sotis while Su Xingyu was busy with her own things, he’d explore the villa as if it were a maze, the three-story villa with a garden was thoroughly investigated by him multiple tis.
One day, Su Xingyu was working on a set of photographs.
When she finished and walked out, Han was nowhere to be seen.
She initially thought the child would have gone to play in the garden as usual, but upon searching the garden, she didn’t find him, and when she asked the servants, no one knew where he had gone. Su Xingyu beca anxious, fearing sothing might happen to the playing child, even more terrifying was the thought of him being kidnapped by Ouyang Yi’s shadow group.
She ordered the servants, "Quick, find young master Han, spare no expense to find him!"
The servants were also anxious and hurriedly began searching the villa and the nearby area.
Still, they couldn’t find the child.
At this mont, a black Bentley car stopped at the villa door, Lu Shifeng stepped down from the car. Seeing the chaos inside the villa, he asked Su Xingyu, "What’s going on?"
Su Xingyu didn’t bother showing him her feelings, quickly explaining about Han’s disappearance.
Lu Shifeng said, "Don’t worry, I will definitely help you find the child."
He then ordered the few bodyguards with him to start searching, and instructed one of them to check the surveillance footage.
Soon, the bodyguard who went to check the footage returned saying, "Young master, I’ve reviewed all the surveillance within the villa. Young master Han seems to have headed towards the back garden but didn’t go beyond the villa’s outer wall, and the outer wall surveillance doesn’t show him."
Lu Shifeng reassured Su Xingyu, "He’s definitely still in the villa; I’ll go look for him."
Su Xingyu hurriedly followed.
The back garden was not big nor small, with scattered structures and overgrown vegetation.
Su Xingyu told Lu Shifeng, "We just searched here several tis, including your room full of parts, which I’ve searched too." The room full of parts was where Lu Shifeng had taken her many years ago, telling her that he would go inside to relieve his bad moods.
Lu Shifeng paused, then said, "I’ll search again."
He turned and entered that room.
Su Xingyu followed him in.
The warehouse was large, parts piled up everywhere like little mountains.
Su Xingyu had visited before, calling Han’s na, but there was no response.
Lu Shifeng quickly maneuvered around piles of tal parts, reaching an inconspicuous corner, and pressed a button on the smooth tal wall, the door opened.
They saw a child inside, awkwardly fiddling with the doorknob, seemingly trying hard to open the door.
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