Ye Yanxi, her name is Ye Yanxi!
This sentence kept echoing in Xiao Yu's mind.
If it was Ye Yanxi who saved Jin Yan, then why did she lie to him at that time? She even lied that she had been in the hospital and hadn't seen anyone. What exactly was she hiding?
Xiao Yu was only flustered for a moment. Then, in a calm tone, he said into the phone, "You said someone else is also investigating Ye Yanxi. Who is it?"
"People from the underworld. Someone paid a high price for her information."
Xiao Yu thought for a while. There was only one possibility now. "Check immediately where Leo is. Find him for me as soon as possible."
"Yes, Mr. Xiao."
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Yu's face was as dark as ink spreading, looking rather cold. The air pressure inside the car dropped sharply. Although Xu Bei, who was sitting in the driver's seat, didn't know exactly what Xiao Yu meant, he could tell from the tone that things were not going well. Anyway... it was better for him not to say a word at this moment. Driving properly was the top priority.
After a while, Xiao Yu's phone rang again. It was Shen Mingshu calling.
As soon as Xiao Yu answered the call, he heard Shen Mingshu's continuous complaints on the other end of the phone, which almost burst his eardrums. "Sure enough, you're Mr. Xiao. You're busier than the President. I called you so many times yesterday but you didn't answer. I called you several times just now and the line was still busy. It's really not easy!"
If Shen Mingshu hadn't sent those photos, he wouldn't have misunderstood Ye Yanxi. But... Ye Yanxi was indeed with Chu Beize. What was going on?
Facing Shen Mingshu's complaints, Xiao Yu was a bit impatient.
"Just tell me what you want. If it's nothing, hang up." Xiao Yu was in a terrible mood at the moment.
"Of course I have something to tell you. I asked you to call me back yesterday. Why didn't you?" Shen Mingshu was a bit dissatisfied. Shouldn't he be the one who was angry?
"I did call back. But you said you were going to drink and didn't want any calls. Did I hear you wrong?"
"..." Shen Mingshu was instantly at a loss for words. After a while, he stammered, "Well... wasn't I drunk? How can you take the words of a drunk seriously? But you still didn't call me back!"
Anyway, it was Xiao Yu's fault. He was very responsible.
Xiao Yu's tone was obviously on the verge of an outburst. "Spit it out if you have something to say!"
Well, was he on fire?
As soon as Shen Mingshu heard Xiao Yu's tone, he immediately didn't want to tell him the truth. But Ye Yanxi was his goddess. In the end, he still told Xiao Yu about the photo with a clear conscience. "The thing I'm going to tell you is about Ye Yanxi."
After a while and hearing no follow - up questions from Xiao Yu, Shen Mingshu took a disappointed deep breath and continued on his own. "Yesterday in the bar, I heard from a friend that he saw Goddess Ye in that hotel. She rescued Jin Yan from the room. There were six or seven big bodyguards chasing after them. They went down the stairs."
"And then?"
"Later, my friend thought it was unfair for so many people to bully two women and wanted to go up and help. But she had disappeared. When they got to the first floor, they only found Goddess Ye standing in the lobby. Jin Yan was nowhere to be seen. I also heard that when the bodyguards on the stairs were about to catch up with Goddess Ye, Chu Beize and Mrs. He showed up. Then Mrs. He asked Chu Beize to carry Ye Yanxi out of the hotel and said they were going to the hospital or something."
As soon as he heard the word "hospital", Xiao Yu's pupils shrank suddenly. He pursed his lips and his face was cold.
"And then?"
Sensing the coldness in Xiao Yu's voice, Shen Mingshu swallowed his saliva and whispered, "My friend also saw that Goddess Ye seemed to be seriously injured. Her arms were covered in blood and she could hardly stand. In the photo I sent you, I didn't see clearly at first. You could still see the bloodstains on her body."
She had been so seriously injured, but she had hidden it from him and lied to him.
However, this series of events made him realize that he had misunderstood her at first.
"Shen Mingshu." After a long time, Xiao Yu suddenly called Shen Mingshu's name, using both his first and last name.
Xiao Yu rarely called him like this. It immediately made Shen Mingshu feel nervous. He knew how Xiao Yu would threaten him. He quickly said, "Oh, my friend also said that he saw that Leo who was beaten up by you in a private hospital yesterday. That's all I know. I'm busy. I'll hang up first."
After hanging up the phone, Shen Mingshu still had a lingering fear. He blocked Xiao Yu's phone number.
Now he was safe. Xiao Yu's call was like a deadly bomb. He wasn't interested in using his body to block the bomb, for God's sake.
Xiao Yu didn't call Shen Mingshu again. Instead, he called his mother.
"Aunt Shen, how have you been recently? Don't you always want to know what Mingshu has been up to recently?" Xiao Yu said politely, "I just found out where he lives recently. Do you want to go and see him?"
After hanging up, Xiao Yu called Ye Yanxi.
This woman was so daring. After such a thing happened, she simply moved out of the apartment without saying a word. He hadn't seen her for the past two days and didn't know how she was now.
The phone rang for a long time, but there was always a prompt that no one answered.
After calling three times and just about to hang up, someone answered the phone. The voice was a bit rough and hoarse, not Ye Yanxi's.
"Let Ye Yanxi answer the phone!" There was a commanding tone in Xiao Yu's voice.
He thought that maybe Ye Yanxi didn't want to answer his call and asked someone else to answer it.
"Mr. Xiao." He Chuyan held the phone and said with a bit of contempt in her tone, "Haven't you reconciled with your fiancée? Why are you still calling Xixi? Listen carefully. Xixi has nothing to do with you anymore. Please be kind enough to stop bothering her life in the future, okay?"
Xiao Yu frowned. He could feel the hostility from the woman on the phone. He impatiently repeated, "Let Ye Yanxi answer the phone!"
"Sorry, I won't let her answer the phone. A scumbag like you, Xixi doesn't want to have anything to do with you. Since you've reconciled with your fiancée, please act a bit more devoted. Don't be so greedy!"
Ye Yanxi once mentioned that she had a good friend in the orphanage who always called her Xixi. Presumably this woman was He Chuyan, Ye Yanxi's friend.
Xiao Yu frowned and patiently explained, "Miss He, I think you've misunderstood. I don't have a fiancée!"
"You're kidding a three - year - old. How could you not have one?" He Chuyan snorted disdainfully. "Don't think that just because all the news has been suppressed, I don't know anything. It was clearly written in every detail. Are you trying to renege?"
He Chuyan rattled on without taking a breath.
"Don't think that just because you cured Xixi's father's illness, Xixi should take it for granted to be grateful to you. Don't forget that she also paid a price. And she even saved your fiancée. Even a stray cat will be grateful if you feed it some food. As a person like you who can turn things around in the business world, you should understand what gratitude means."
"Xixi was seriously injured in order to save your fiancée. I don't expect someone as noble as you to be grateful to Xixi. But please don't be so heartless. Stop calling. Pretend you've never appeared in her life, okay?"
Xiao Yu didn't interrupt He Chuyan. He patiently listened to her finish.
When he heard He Chuyan say that Ye Yanxi was covered in injuries to save Jin Yan, his heart tightened.
"Is she beside you now?" Xiao Yu suddenly asked.
He Chuyan was so angry that she was shaking all over. "Mr. Xiao, did you hear what I just said or are you pretending not to hear? I'll say it again. I won't let Xixi answer the phone. You'd better behave yourself!"
However, He Chuyan still looked around but didn't see Ye Yanxi.
She then glanced at the sofa. Usually, Ye Yanxi would lie on the sofa and read a book for a while before going to bed. Why wasn't she there today? She went into the bedroom and checked but there was no one.
It was so late and she didn't even take her phone. Where could she have gone?
Just as she was wondering, Xiao Yu's voice rang out again. "Let her answer the phone."
He Chuyan was impatient and wanted to hang up the phone. Suddenly, there was a rush of knocking on the door.
Walking to the entrance, He Chuyan opened the door. Her finger, which was supposed to hang up the phone, accidentally pressed the wrong button and turned on the speakerphone.
Standing outside the door was the neighbor next door, a rather introverted man. He Chuyan was in a fit of anger. Seeing this man standing at the door stuttering and not saying anything, she snapped angrily, "What do you want?"
The man glanced behind her. "Has the girl who lives with you come back?"
"What?" He Chuyan looked at him doubtfully. "Ye Yanxi? Did she just go out?"
The man averted his eyes and said nervously, "Just now, a man held a knife to me... and asked me to call out the girl who lives with you."
"What did you say?" He Chuyan sensed something was wrong and blurted out, "And then?"
"Then... after Ye Yanxi came out, a lot of people rushed out... and then..."
The man stammered and couldn't get the words out for a long time. He Chuyan got anxious and shouted, "And then what? Just say it!"
"Then, I saw those people take Ye Yanxi away through the peephole." Being shouted at by He Chuyan, the man was stunned for a moment and then immediately spilled out everything he had seen.
At this moment, the phone in He Chuyan's hand rang. It was Xiao Yu's sinister and cold voice. "How long has she been taken away?"
Both He Chuyan and the man were startled.
He Chuyan frowned and looked at the phone. Didn't she hang up the call? Where did Xiao Yu's voice come from? It was like a lingering ghost.
The man whispered, "A... about ten minutes ago."
"Do those people have any obvious features?"
"Ah, I remember those men in black were all wearing hats. Oh, and they seemed to have a black tattoo on their hands. It looked like... an eagle's head."