Aunt i escorted Huang Qi downstairs.
All the way to the living room door, Aunt i held onto Huang Qi, glanced upstairs, and then around her.
Seeing that Qiao Yuxian hadn’t co out of the bedroom yet and there was no one else around, she whispered, "Doctor Huang, how is Madam’s condition? Is it getting worse?"
"No," Huang Qi replied, "Why does everyone ask that?"
"You didn’t look right just now," Aunt i said.
"Did I?" Huang Qi touched his own face.
He didn’t feel anything else, just that he had lost weight. His facial features were becoming more defined.
Aunt i nodded, "Really, there’s nothing wrong?"
"Nothing," Huang Qi answered with conviction.
"That’s good, that’s good," Aunt i patted her chest and said, "Really scared . My heart was pounding."
"Don’t worry, Aunt i," Huang Qi said.
"Alright," Aunt i agreed, "I won’t keep you any longer."
Huang Qi nodded and left.
He walked steadily out of the East Courtyard. But just as he exited, he suddenly paused.
Standing there, he rubbed his fingertips, thinking about Qiao Yuxian’s pulse, and his brows gradually furrowed.
After standing there for a mont, he quickly left the Gu Mansion...
Bedroom.
Qiao Yuxian, tired of sitting by the bedside, leaned back against the headboard.
She tried recalling a dream she couldn’t rember in the middle of the night, and now it suddenly ca back to her.
And it was a very fragnted dream.
When her grandparents were talking to her, she was still very young.
But in a blink of an eye, she was grown up.
She watched her grandparents walk away, wanting to catch up but unable to move, wanting to shout but unable to speak...
The words in the dream, her grandmother had indeed said to her.
She told her when she was very young, and repeatedly.
Be sincere with people, but also keep a guard. True heart for true heart; if you don’t receive it in return, soday you will be compensated in another way.
She wondered if her mory was faulty.
Qiao Yuxian suddenly realized that in the past few days, when she dread of her grandparents, they seed to have said the sa words. After waking up, she only rembered the first part of the dream, forgetting the rest.
Qiao Yuxian didn’t understand why she kept dreaming about these words.
She thought maybe she was too weak lately or missed her grandparents too much, so she kept dreaming about them.
She didn’t think too much about it.
Qiao Yuxian lay in the room for a while longer, then got up to wash, went downstairs to eat and take her dicine, and then went back to the room to sleep.
Less than two hours later, she dread again of her grandmother saying those words to her.
And this ti it was clearer than ever.
She didn’t wake up with a start; rather, she opened her eyes slowly, as if waking naturally.
After opening her eyes, she looked at the quilt she had crumpled together, thinking about Xi Wanqing’s words.
After a while, she got out of bed, went to the wardrobe to find so clothes to wear, and then went to the study before heading downstairs.
Lu Muyao was sitting downstairs again.
Ever since Gu Yanjing left Capital City, he would co every day before lunch, staying for the al before leaving.
He even ca twice yesterday. In the afternoon, passing by Gu Mansion on business, he stopped by for a cup of tea.
Qiao Yuxian suspected he had grown fond of the lunches at the Gu Mansion, visiting every noon.
Upon reaching downstairs, as she was about to greet him, soone suddenly entered from outside.
The newcor’s hurried footsteps were impossible to ignore.
Qiao Yuxian and Lu Muyao both turned to the door.
Seeing the newcor’s appearance, Qiao Yuxian’s pupils quivered, sending a chill through her body.
It was Shang Hao, the person responsible for guarding Yan An at the Sixth Hospital.
He was always in charge of Yan An’s safety there.
His sudden appearance made Qiao Yuxian’s heart leap with anxiety, and she quickly asked, "What happened?"
"Madam, Aunt Yan is missing." With just one sentence from Shang Hao, the entire living room seed to freeze.
Everyone tensed up, and the butler’s expression changed repeatedly.
As he spoke, he handed an envelope to Qiao Yuxian, quickly adding, "Since winter ca, every morning at six, Aunt Yan and Aunt Ge Hong would take a stroll, but this morning it was half past six and they were nowhere to be seen. We knocked on their door with no response. Upon entering the room, we found only this letter on the table. Aunt Yan and Aunt Ge Hong were gone."
Qiao Yuxian took it and imdiately opened it.
There was nothing written on the envelope.
The letter was a sheet of A4 paper with only one line: [Yu Xian, I’ve taken Aunt Ge Hong to handle so matters. Don’t look for , and don’t worry about . Also, don’t tell Yanjing, so he won’t be distracted.]
Qiao Yuxian’s mind went blank, as if it exploded. Her legs wobbled, and she stumbled slightly.
Lu Muyao quickly steadied her.
Aunt i also ca over just in ti and helped to support her.
Lu Muyao let go from the other side.
"Madam, please sit," Aunt i suggested.
Qiao Yuxian steadied herself and said, "I’m fine."
After speaking, she looked again at Shang Hao, "Did you send people out to look?"
"We’ve already sent people out," Shang Hao replied, "Once we realized they were gone, both the hospital and outside, we mobilized a search."
Qiao Yuxian then asked, "What about the hospital’s surveillance?"
"It’s being checked," Shang Hao replied, "There’s a lot of surveillance footage, and it’s ti-consuming to go through carefully, leaving nothing unchecked. There’s no news yet."
There’s an excessive amount of footage to review, spanning from last night to this morning, necessitating a ticulous examination that can’t miss any detail, demanding a significant amount of ti.
"Were there any signs of struggle or a fight in the courtyard?" Qiao Yuxian asked again.
"No," Shang Hao replied, "There’s always soone around the courtyard 24/7. Anyone coming in would be noticed. Even if soone entered quietly, Aunt Ge Hong is quite capable; there would still be so noise."
Qiao Yuxian remained silent.
Lu Muyao asked, "What’s the status of the courtyard’s surveillance?"
"The courtyard’s surveillance shows it stopped working from nine last night," Shang Hao said, "When we found out Aunt Yan and the others were missing, we checked the surveillance and realized it was stuck on last night’s footage."
Qiao Yuxian looked back at the letter in her hands; the handwriting was indeed Yan An’s.
Moreover, it was written very steadily. When she wrote this, there didn’t seem to be any danger around her.
As Shang Hao said, there are guards all around the courtyard. If soone ca, they would notice, and if soone left, they should detect it too.
How did Yan An and Ge Hong leave without being seen?
What did they leave to do?
Even if Yan An wanted to go out, in her condition, Ge Hong would stop her.
Qiao Yuxian thought, taking out her phone to call Shen Wenyan.
Since Yan An disappeared, the Sixth Hospital was in a semi-locked state, and Shen Wenyan was also dispatching people to search.
When the call connected, Shen Wenyan had just finished another call.
Qiao Yuxian asked him about Yan An’s situation. According to the letter, Yan An was in a completely lucid state. Also, with Ge Hong leaving with her, she wasn’t stopping her.
However, various unexpected situations couldn’t be ruled out.
Yan An had been stable for a long ti and hadn’t had any relapses. Every checkup by Shen Wenyan showed increasingly better results each ti.
But Shen Wenyan couldn’t guarantee that she was completely recovered.
She had been stable for a while, possibly because nothing had triggered her. But if sothing did trigger her, he couldn’t predict the outco.
Especially leaving a familiar place, she’s easily triggered.
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