Chapter 196: She Is the Woman He Is Looking For

Zheng Bo was slightly stunned, but he only sighed and did not say anything more.

Upstairs, Li Beijue's eyes had already regained their clarity.

The effects of the alcohol had already mostly worn off on the way back.

It was just that his mind was still a mess, filled entirely with the events of this evening.

His head also ached as if it were about to explode.

Li Beijue's footsteps were somewhat heavy; he truly had no energy left to continue handling work, so he simply returned directly to his bedroom.

But the moment he entered the room, he heard his cell phone suddenly ring.

He was slightly stunned and reached out to take out his phone.

Then, after just one glance, his brows knitted together sharply.

The three characters "Lu Qing'er" were displayed brightly on the screen, making him feel even more annoyed inside.

Li Beijue hung up the call without hesitation and tossed the phone to one side.

But he did not expect that the next second, the phone would ring again!

Li Beijue grabbed the phone again, only to see the same three characters as before.

"Tsk..."

An impatient sound escaped his lips; he hung up the call again and casually added Lu Qing'er's name to the "Do Not Disturb" list.

The room finally returned to silence.

Li Beijue frowned and rubbed his throbbing forehead, his mind filled with Jiang Baobao's angry and anxious expression from this evening.

That girl from sixteen years ago was really her!

She said that necklace was given to her by Xia Xuerou and that she had lost it a long time ago, so this time it definitely could not be wrong!

Li Beijue's heart was full to bursting; images of the two of them from their marriage until now flashed through his mind, and for a moment, he felt a strange, unpleasant sensation.

Just as he was thinking this, he heard the cell phone ring in the room again!

A flash of fire flickered in the depths of Li Beijue's eyes; he grabbed the phone abruptly, only to discover that this time, the person calling was his assistant.

He took a deep breath, casually pressed the speakerphone, and tossed it to the side.

"What is it? Speak."

Li Beijue closed his eyes, his tone heavy with the feeling of an impending storm.

Assistant Chen on the other end of the line immediately gasped in his heart and hurriedly reported without daring to delay for even a moment: "President Li, I have found the information you wanted. Lu Qing'er's reputation at school and at the company is not very good. She previously..."

"That is no longer important." Li Beijue interrupted Assistant Chen.

Lu Qing'er was not the person he was looking for; he no longer cared about what her reputation was like.

Li Beijue's mind was entirely occupied by matters concerning Jiang Baobao.

Just as he was about to ask, he heard Assistant Chen speak up hurriedly: "Also, regarding Miss Jiang, I have already found specific information. I can confirm that she should be the person you have been looking for all along!"

Li Beijue's gaze flickered for an instant; even though this news had been confirmed, his heart still tightened sharply.

Then he heard Assistant Chen say at a rapid pace: "Miss Jiang did indeed attend Shengting Academy before, but only for a very short period. She was also once kidnapped while saving someone, but that matter was suppressed at the time and was not publicized. The next day, because of some family matters, Miss Jiang was forced to transfer to a private vocational high school, and Shengting did not keep her records, so..."

So, back then, Li Beijue had searched the school for a long time and had not found a single shred of information about that girl from those years.

Li Beijue's gaze flickered for an instant, and he suddenly felt that the heavy stone in his heart had finally been set down.

"President Li?"

Hearing that Li Beijue had not spoken for a long time, Assistant Chen could not help but ask.

Li Beijue snapped back to his senses, then gave a low response and replied in a deep voice: "I know."

His tone was somewhat heavy, and after saying this, he hung up the phone directly.

The room was so quiet that only his breathing remained.

Li Beijue did not turn on the lights; he turned and leaned against the side of the bed, his deep black eyes staring at the moonlight spilling in from the window.

His mind was filled with the shadow of Jiang Baobao.

Her appearance, which he had originally not paid much attention to, was now overlapping bit by bit with that girl from sixteen years ago.

What on earth had he done all these years?

She had clearly been by his side all along!

But he had...

Li Beijue took a deep breath, and in the end, unable to hold back, he slammed his hand against the wall!

"Jiang Baobao..."

He murmured Jiang Baobao's name in a low voice, and in his mind, the sound of her always smiling by his side in the past, sweetly calling him "husband," surfaced inexplicably.

Li Beijue's gaze flickered for an instant, and suddenly he took action; he rolled off the bed and walked to the door without making a sound, gently pulling it open.

The night had long since deepened.

The corridor was quiet, without a single sound.

Li Beijue hesitated for only two seconds before walking toward the stairs, heading all the way down, and arriving at the door of Jiang Baobao's room.

His eyes slowly fell on the doorknob, and he tentatively reached out his hand.

"Click—"

The door made a small, light sound.

Li Beijue's gaze flickered for an instant; seeing that there were no lights on in the room, he subconsciously listened carefully for any movement inside.

The bedroom was completely quiet, and it seemed one could only hear a faint, barely perceptible sound of breathing.

Li Beijue let out a slight sigh of relief and walked in with lightened footsteps, reaching the bedside without waking Jiang Baobao, who was sleeping soundly on the bed.

Li Beijue crouched down by the bedside cautiously, carefully observing Jiang Baobao's sleeping face by the moonlight.

She was sleeping very deeply, and the expression on her face looked very peaceful, though he did not know if she was having some nightmare, as her brows were knitting together slightly.

Li Beijue stared for two seconds, then couldn't help but reach out his hand, placing it gently between her brows, as if wanting to smooth away those two creases.

Jiang Baobao's eyelashes trembled slightly for an instant.

Li Beijue instantly snapped back to his senses, immediately pulling his hand away, and even subconsciously held his breath.

Fortunately, Jiang Baobao did not wake up; she just muttered something softly before falling back into a deep sleep.

A hint of a smile couldn't help but flash across the depths of Li Beijue's eyes.

He reached out his hand again, but this time, he gently poked Jiang Baobao's cheek.

"Ahem..."

Feeling the soft, tender touch against his fingertips, Li Beijue couldn't help but cough lightly.

Was he... being a bit... perverted right now?

These two words suddenly surfaced in his mind, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

Yet his gaze never left Jiang Baobao for even a fraction.

He had finally found that girl from all those years ago...

It turned out she had been by his side the entire time.

What kind of massive joke had the heavens played on him to let the two of them miss each other for so many years?

And he had even...

Thinking of his attitude when they were together back then, Li Beijue's mood couldn't help but feel somewhat subtle for a moment.

If he had known earlier that Jiang Baobao was the person he had been searching for so bitterly, he would never have let her leave back then, no matter what!

He would have cherished her well, protected her, and made her the happiest woman in the whole world!

They even had two adorable sons...