Xiao Xia was startled and hurriedly covered her mouth, looking left and right: “There are wolves here…?”
In the mountainous areas around the capital, there were almost no wild wolves, which was just Su Jishi’s rhetoric to scare her into shutting up.
Su Jishi rested for a while, recovered some strength, and began to consider how to save herself.
There was no road beneath their feet. The van had dropped them directly in the deep forest. The valley was extremely cold, and snow was still visible under their feet.
The moonlight was dim, and Su Jishi tried her best to make out their surroundings, but could only see cliffs like copy and paste, so there was no way she could tell which way to go.
“We should now be in the north or west of the capital.”
“Huh? W-Why?”
“Beijing faces the Taihang Mountains to the west and Yan Mountains to the north, and low plains to the east and south. We are now in the mountains, so it definitely cannot be in the south or east, only in the west or north.” The first thing Su Jishi did was to determine their location. However, both the Taihang Mountains and the Yan Mountains were too vast. They span multiple provinces and cities, and they were in them, so where should she deduce their location from?
She mulled over it and asked again, “Xiao Xia, you said you have been awake in the car. So when we reached the next toll station before and after, did you hear their phones received text message alerts? I mean, all the mobile phones in the car, receiving prompts at the same time. That kind of thing.”
Xiao Xia thought about it, and suddenly brightened up: “Yes! Yes! After leaving the toll booth, we drove on the dirt road again for a long, long time, and then I did hear everyone’s phones vibrate within a minute. I’ve wondered how could anyone send text messages at the same time at night ——”
“—— That’s an inter-provincial text message from the mobile operator.”
Every time you arrived in a foreign city, you would receive a notification from the local mobile operator, and the general content was always the same: “Welcome to the beautiful city of XX Province!”
It was just that this notification was usually inaccurate and crackled as you approached the inter-provincial border. However, Su Jishi could also infer from this that they should be located in the intersection of Beijing and Hebei. As for a more detailed location, Su Jishi really could not deduce.
If there were stars in the sky, she could still rely on the Northern Star to identify their position and further narrow the area down. But looking up, layers and layers of dark clouds held the canopy. With basic meteorological common sense, Su Jishi could forecast that tomorrow would definitely usher a snowfall in the area.
And they had no water, no food, and no communication equipment.
Could they really get out of this mountain forest before the snow seaed the mountains?
*
“You must call the police now!”
Dawn had barely fallen, but Su Jin’s apartment was already brightly lit.
Su Jinqing was sitting on the sofa with her back straight. She gripped her right wrist tightly with her left hand, but couldn’t stop the trembling of her right arm. Her nails plunged deeply into her palms, leaving behind a string of small white crescents.
She looked at several other figures in the living room, and said in an unprecedentedly firm tone, “My sister is missing! ‘Su Jin’ is missing! How can you guys make me sit here all the time waiting for news?!!!”
After she found out that her sister had actually taken her place as ‘Su Jin’, all sorts of emotions such as shock, guilt, doubt, pain, self-blame… etc. came flooding up at the same time. She did not understand how such an absurd thing happened.
She wanted to contact Su Jishi first hand, but she only had Su Jishi’s contact information in the United States, and her number became inaccessible after Su Jishi returned home. Next, she tried to contact Fang Xie and Xiao Xia, however, because Kakadu’s signal was so bad, she mistakenly dragged the two of them into her blacklist, cutting off all possibility of contact.
During that time, Su Jinqing did have that little hesitation —— Was that an omen given to her from the heavens not to look back after she left that tumultuous circle?
She could only search like crazy for all the news about Su Jin after she ‘disappeared’, and found that her sister fared better than she did.
Su Jin’s transformation success; Su Jin’s I fashion; Su Jin system across-the-board…Under Su Jishi’s aura, ‘Su Jin’ became a more vivid name.
She was no longer the first love of the people, nor that innocent beauty. Su Jishi only used less than half a year to bring ‘Su Jin’ to life.
Su Jinqing read the compliments on the Internet and couldn’t describe how she felt. Her twin sister who made her proud, who filled her heart with respect, who made her envious, yearn, and jealous…was indeed better than her in every aspect.
She had thought, since ‘things have come to this’, and her sister was very comfortable with her new identity, should she follow her inner voice and continue to ‘hide’?
But when she heard about the volcanic eruption in Indonesia on the international news, the protective film she had built up for herself suddenly shattered.
—— If she hadn’t escaped, how could her sister have taken her place and gone on such a dangerous trip in Indonesia? It was her who should take the blame!
She immediately ‘woke up’. She realized that for so long, she seemed to have been dreaming an illusory dream, a dream in which there was indeed the tranquility she sought, but behind the tranquility, there was a world her sister supported for her.
So she came back.
She said goodbye to Benny, Ivanovich, and Edwin…However, what she did not expect was Lin Yan packing his luggage and wanting to return to China with her.
He said that he had worked continuously for so many years and that he could take an extraordinarily long annual leave, which he wanted to use immediately.
The two of them chose a flight that arrived in the middle of the night; the least crowded it was, the least noticeable they’d be.
After landing, she did not want to delay for a moment and went straight to the TV station to try to fix her mistake. Never did she imagine that she would brush past her sister and lose news of her again!
After realizing that Su Jishi was missing, Su Jinqing immediately asked for the police.
However…her agency disagreed.
The company’s upper management meant that their priority was concealing her identity. Since Su Jinqing had returned, she would continue being ‘Su Jin’, and the company wouldn’t pursue her breach of contract when she ran away without permission.
As for Su Jishi’s disappearance, the search could only be done in private and in secret.
——If she were to report the case to the authorities, wouldn’t that be exposing Su Jishi’s identity as her twin sister? By then, couldn’t the media, fans, audience and Party A’s father guess that Su Jin had been replaced by another person for the past six months?
No, absolutely not!
For the agency, the impact of this scandal was too big. Once it exploded, not to mention what netizens would say, Party A’s father alone was enough to kill them!
Businessmen had always been cold-blooded and ruthless.
Although it was Lin Yan’s first time to visit the house, he acted like the host and went into the kitchen quite naturally, boiling water and making tea. The lime green tea leaves quickly stretched out from the heat of the boiled water and danced in the transparent glass.
He picked up the tray and walked into the living room, forcefully stretching the girl’s ten fingers and slipping the heart-warming cup of hot tea into her hand.
On the double seat opposite the sofa, Fang Xie and Ashan huddled together with a look of gray defeat.
Ashan scratched his short, shaggy hair and cursed himself, “Why didn’t I go to the TV station with Sister Su today?!” He was Su Jin’s exclusive makeup artist, and he always followed Su Jin wherever she went. However, there was an official stylist in this kind of provincial gala, so Su Jishi graciously let him take a vacation for a rest at home. Had he known that Su Jishi would be in danger, he would have followed her no matter what she said!
Fang Xie’s intoxication had all but dissipated. He tossed his phone on the table, and in the recent couple of hours, he had called countless contacts. On the upper right corner of his phone, only a trace of blood red warning was left on his battery icon.
He ripped off his tie, decadence and despair enveloping him.
In this matter, Fang Xie was also on the side of the Su sisters. A nice big living person had disappeared, and the CCTV footage from the TV station’s underground garage was inexplicably lost. This was definitely a premeditated kidnapping!
The only thing they knew now was that before Su Jishi went downstairs, an unfamiliar staff member came to her and said that ‘Mr. Mu’ was waiting for her in the basement parking lot.
Mr. Mu? Which Mr. Mu?
Mu Xiulun? But Mu Xiulun could not have kidnapped Su Jin; this didn’t make sense.
Peek-Aboo 
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