IHWL – Chapter 63.1

Chapter 63: Missing (Second)

 “Mr. Mu, this joke of yours isn’t funny.”

    The person who answered him was agent Fang Xie.

    Fang Xie stood up from the sofa, took a few steps to the door, and stood side by side with the strange man he first met.

    Fang Xie spoke a little fast, as if he was hiding something: “Of course she’s Su Jin. If she’s not Su Jin, who else could she be?”

    “She is…” Mu Xiulun was stuck.

    Exactly, if the girl in front of him wasn’t Su Jin, who else could she be?

    Su Jin slightly opened her mouth like she wanted to say something, but quickly closed it again. She reverted to the way she was when he first met her – a pretty rag doll at the mercy of the agency.

    Mu Xiulun felt he was in a fog. He desperately wanted to see the person in front of him, but the more he looked, the more he was lost.

    Su Jin asked softly, “If you don’t believe I’m Su Jin, do you want me to repeat how we met?” She paused, “We met in Sun Village, where I went to do charity work and coincidentally met you visiting the Village Chief Aunt. Later, after encountering each other more, you learned that my mother was seriously ill and offered to…’sponsor’ me.”

    With her narrative, Mu Xiulun suddenly recalled the events of three years ago. Those memories that had been buried in the depths of his memory, like a dictionary suddenly turned out from the bottom of the shelf. Although tattered and dusty, they did not fade.

    Although his surname was Mu, his status as an ‘adopted son’ pushed him down the stage, causing him to be shunned by some people. Even when he was starting his business, he was also under great pressure. A tiny slip and his foster mother would have pinched him to death. He did move on a whim at the time and wanted to paralyze others by having a female celebrity as his mistress in exchange for a chance to recuperate.

    This risky move…did succeed.

    He was the one who played the chess, yet he was also a pawn on the chessboard and unknowingly developed feelings for the other player on the board.

    But now it seemed that Su Jin had completed the chess game and was ready to get up and leave.

    The person in front of him was indeed Su Jin. Mu Xiulun carefully examined her face, trying to catch a stray of dissonance, but in return, Su Jin was staring back at him openly and calmly.

    Mu Xiulun: “…”

    He might have been truly and overly concerned.

    Mu Xiulun released her hand and stepped back to a safe distance. He looked at her with the same bland gaze, without telling her exactly how worried he was on his flight back all night.

    “It’s good since you’re fine.”

    That was all he could say.

    After saying that, he didn’t wait for Su Jin to give him any more reply and turned around to leave the apartment that once belonged to him and then passed on to her.

    The fire that was boiling in his chest when he arrived was inexplicably extinguished. He rubbed the location of his heart, feeling it empty

    It was really too strange.

    The door closed behind him, and the moment he stepped into the elevator, he heard the strange man inside the door ask Fang Xie coldly, “Sponsor? What did you mean by sponsor?”

    But Mu Xiulun spared no time to care about that.

    His car was parked outside. He got into the car in a daze, and stayed silent for a long time.

    The eastern sky showed a glimmer of light, which grew brighter and brighter, like an invisible hand was there, slowly drawing the curtains.

    —— It was dawn.

    Dawn, Mu Xiulun squinted, adjusting to the light from far and near. He watched as the sunlight slowly crept over, shining bit by bit into the car. The warmth permeated his heart a bit.

    Su Jin, Su Jin, Su Jin.

    Mu Xiulun unconsciously recited these two words repeatedly on his lips, as if he could be closer to her by reciting them a few more times.

    The knot in his throat rolled until he felt thirsty. He woodenly rolled his eyes, and tried to find the last bottle of mineral water left in the car.

    He tried to remember…was in the storage drawer in front of the passenger seat?

    He turned sideways and pulled the drawer open, and a flash of bright silver reflected a blinding light in the sunlight.

    Mu Xiulun froze —— and subconsciously caught the heavy thing that rolled out.

    It was a geological hammer.

    It was the geological hammer, which Su Jin jokingly called her ‘boyfriend’, which he had never taken back.

    …All of a sudden, countless memories flooded him. Like a block of ice that was overturned by the turbulent river when the ice melted in spring, Mu Xiulun stared at his ‘love rival’ in his hand and finally realized the countless details that he had overlooked!

    What was Su Jin like? If he had answered half a year ago, he would have said that Su Jin was introverted, shy and low-key.

    But Su Jin, who stayed beside him during the past six months, wasn’t like that at all.

    She was passionate. She was never at the mercy of others. She had her own thoughts. She was flamboyant. She was independent, and her eyes were full of fire.

    She could gallop on a horse and escape a volcanic disaster. She would laugh in front of him and flirt with him as if…

    She was this kind of Su Jin that captured all his attention.

    But Su Jin, who had just appeared in front of him, had ‘changed back’.

    Could it be that the Su Jin he fell in love with before was just a bubble that burst under the sun?

    How was it possible?

    It’s impossible!

    They couldn’t be the same person!

    —— The person who just opened the door was indeed ‘Su Jin’, but not the ‘Su Jin’ that he fell in love with.

    The same face could be copied, but personal charm was hard to imitate.

    How could he have been so slow to have figured out the trick only now?!!

    If the former Su Jin came back, then where did the girl who spent half a year with him go?

    Mu Xiulun immediately called his secretary.

    Gao Ling, who was left by him to preside over the big picture in the south, was woken up by one of his calls and asked in a daze, “President Mu, what’s the matter?”

    Mu Xiulun sternly ordered, “Send someone to investigate what Mu Minde and my foster mother did last night. Not only them, but also the movements of their bodyguards, drivers and nannies. I want to know everything!”

    The sudden disappearance of the ‘Su Jin’ he loved must be related to these two people.

    “Understood,” Gao Ling was sleepy, but he answered immediately. President Mu answered a call last night and hurriedly took a special charter back to China. Was it to officially declare war on the Mu family?

    “Also…” Mu Xiulun sat in the car, his eyes unfathomably staring at the apartment on the top floor of the building, “Go and check for me exactly what personal information of Su Jin had changed before she debuted.”

    “Huh?”

    “Focus on finding out if she has a twin sister.”

    “???!!!”

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