Su Jishi never admitted verbally, and even laughed at herself for coming to ‘clean up her sister’s mess’, but deep down, she was actually worried about Su Jinqing’s safety. She was afraid that her sister would do something stupid in a fit of anger and that she would go into hiding and never show up again.
Fortunately, she came back.
Before Su Jishi could finish her questions, Su Jinqing had already burst into tears on the other end of the line.
They were sisters after all. They grew on the same vine and bloomed with different colors of flowers. They were once separated because of their parents’ grudges, but they were closely linked together by accident.
Su Jinqing was sobbing so much that she couldn’t even utter a complete sentence. Su Jishi was much stronger than her during this radio wave transmission, and only sighed leisurely.
The person answering the phone changed to Fang Xie.
Fang Xie’s throat caught fire, and his voice turned into Donald Duck’s: “Sister Su! Where are you? We are going to pick you up right now!”
“I’m at…” Su Jishi reported her coordinates. On their way back to the camp earlier, she had inquired from the geological exploration team of children clearly. They were located in the southwest corner of the capital, exactly where Beijing and Hebei met. It was a hundred kilometers from the city center, and it would take more than two hours even by speed train.
“Okay, we’ll pick you up immediately!” When Fang Xie finished, he immediately spoke to some people around him before he could hang up the phone.
Su Jishi’s ears were sharp, and from the noisy background, he heard Fang Xie call the person beside him ‘Chief Wang’. He also said ‘Thank you for your help’.
Su Jishi asked, “Are you at the police station?”
“No…Um, Sister Su, the company won’t let us go to the police station.” Fang Xie explained in disgrace. He felt utterly embarrassed. “We can only think of other ways.”
Su Jishi was not stupid, and once she heard that, she understood what the company meant. First, they felt that once Su Jinqing was back, she was no longer important. Second, they were probably afraid that exposing the matter of two ‘Su Jin’ would only cause more trouble.
She knew that the company was stupid, but didn’t expect it to be stupid to this extent. In the beginning, they forced Su Jinqing to continue working in spite of her depressive symptoms; this time, for the sake of the so-called money and face, even her life could be disregarded!
Fortunately, Mu Minde left her in the wilderness, and she could find her way with her own intellect. If she really encountered any unspeakable danger, would she still be alive to go back?
There was this intense discussion on Weibo titled #WhenWillSuJin’sAgencyGoBankrupt. She also wondered how such trashy top management leaders hadn’t died violently in place.
It didn’t matter. When she returned, she and her sister would slowly settle the score with them together.
Su Jishi changed the subject and asked, “If you’re not in the police station, then where are you?”
Fang Xie answered, “We are at the Traffic Control Department to check surveillance videos.”
At first, Fang Xie regarded Su Jishi’s disappearance as a celebrity kidnapping case. The kidnappers’ ultimate purpose was to extort money. As long as the amount demanded was not excessive, the company could pay. However, they waited for a long time, but no ransom call arrived. Countless kinds of speculation poured into their hearts, so who could sit still?
The surveillance videos at the parking and the gate under the TV station were ‘lost’, so Su Jinqing proposed to directly retrieve the surveillance videos on the road where the TV station was located.
The road was wide and long, with intersections on the left and on the right. Although the security cameras couldn’t capture the TV station’s gate, they could record the oncoming traffic. If she was kidnapped, her kidnappers must have driven a car.
The problem, however, was that the procedures of obtaining traffic surveillance were particularly complicated. Without the approval of the Public Security authorities, private individuals were not allowed to view the past surveillance records.
Fang Xie made a round of phone calls, begged this grandpa and that grandma, but none of the trusted people around him could help him open the back door.
Surprisingly, in the end, Lin Yan, who had been silent, made a phone call and contacted ‘an old friend of his’, who was actually an upper-level figure in the Traffic Control Bureau!
This ‘old friend’ personally greeted them at the entrance of the bureau, and when he saw Lin Yan, he curled his fist and gave him a fierce blow on the shoulder: “Well, you just got out of the army and ran abroad without saying a word. I have been wondering which trench you have died in. Why did you decide to come back now?”
With the help of this ‘old friend’, they smoothly retrieved a ten-hour surveillance video of the road segment from yesterday afternoon to early this morning.
Several people work together, and by comparing the two intersections of the traffic, finally locked their target —— Last night at ten o’clock, a van and a luxury car drove in from the East Road entrance and exited at the West Road entrance three hours later!
They must have been in the basement parking lot of the TV station within the three hours when Su Jishi disappeared!
After driving out of the West Road exit, the two cars went their separate ways. The van sped towards the outside of the city, while the luxury car turned towards the West Hill villa area.
Unfortunately, the van had a fake license plate, so they couldn’t find any valid information; nevertheless, the security camera clearly recorded the route of the luxury car —— It finally stopped in a mansion, and that mansion was owned by someone surnamed Mu!
Fang Xie asked, “Could it be that the people who kidnapped her are from the Mu family?”
“That’s right.” Su Jishi’s teeth itched with hatred, “It’s that awful old man Mu Minde! I’ve never seen such a despicable old man. Just because I’m close to Mu Xiulun, he can actually do such a disgusting thing!”
She got away with it this time…But what about next time?”
“Speaking of Mu Xiulun…” Fang Xie said embarrassingly, “In fact, at dawn, President Mu, I mean Mu Xiulun came to the house. He said that when he was talking on the phone, you suddenly went silent. He was worried about you and came over.”
Su Jishi: “…” An ominous foreboding arose spontaneously, “Did he see Su Jinqing?”
“Yes, not only did he see, but he almost found out that you were two different people!”
“Almost? That means he didn’t find out in the end?”
Fang Xie said with certainty, “No, we fooled him!” He asked bitterly, “Sister Su, now the situation is special, you and Su Jinqing’s matter may be exposed at any time. Please explain to Xiao Xia. We can’t forever hide it from her. As for President Mu’s side… what do you think?”
Su Jishi was slightly stunned and asked rhetorically, “What do I think?”
“Yes. Are you going to tell him ah, or not?” Fang Xie said exaggeratedly, “You didn’t see it. President Mu almost kicked his way through the door this morning. What is going on with their Mu family? The old one kidnapped you, but the young one flew back directly from work for you…”
Su Jishi was struck for a moment. These months, Mu Xiulun met her quite many times. From his stiffness on their first meeting, to his unexpected visits to the sets, to the latest horseback riding shooting, as well as all kinds of situations, including the natural disaster in Indonesia…Thinking back, every meeting was vividly engraved in her mind.
It turned out that she had experienced so many things with him.
But she, after all, was the ‘fake’ Su Jin. She used a false identity to approach him, so could the memories they created still be considered ‘real’?
Did she want to tell Mu Xiulun the truth? Tell him that the person who was with him during this time was not ‘Su Jin’, but another girl?
“Forget it.” Su Jishi’s brain had yet to think things thoroughly, but her mouth stubbornly decided it for her. “Just continue hiding it from him. In any case, I will be leaving soon, so telling him or not doesn’t matter…”
Barely had her words fell when a deafening roar erupted overhead!
The mechanical sound and the whistling wind blended together, instantly attracting the attention of everyone in the courtyard.
A huge shadow was cast on the ground, as if a dark cloud shrouded the sky above.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the dark cloud was a helicopter, and it was slowly descending at a very steady speed. Looking at the paint job, it was the same rescue plane that just flew over their heads.
And in the helicopter cabin, a familiar and upright figure, was standing behind the glass window with his eyes firmly locked on Su Jishi.
They were obviously several hundred meters apart, but Su Jishi could still perceive the fatigue, worry, tension…and anger on the man.
Those flames of fury were like substances, rushing towards Su Jishi, the liar.
Fang Xie was still chattering on the phone, “Sister Su, President Mu is, after all, partly the father of the other party. If you really don’t intend to tell him the truth, then you must conceal it!”
“…I can’t conceal it.” Su Jishi eyed the figure that was getting closer and closer and murmured into the phone, “He caught me.”
Peek-Aboo 
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