Chapter 51: Strong Willpower

Sheng Hanyu did not let go; he forcibly dragged her into the room, shoved her hard onto the bed, and then went out!

"Bang!" He closed the door and locked it from the outside.

Shi Youxuan let out a breath, but immediately after, she realized she couldn't get out and started pounding on the door: "Open the door, why are you locking me in? This is my house, you get out, what right do you have to lock me in? Open the door."

She was incredibly anxious; there was still a stack of self-portraits in the bag in the bathroom, and the person drawn in the pictures was Shi Youxuan!

There were also teddy bear dolls and various poses of her hugging the teddy bear dolls.

She had just drawn them for fun at the time, but now she just wanted to beat up her past self!

"Shut up, I have something to ask you in a moment." Sheng Hanyu's voice was hoarse; he was struggling to suppress the fire in his heart.

"You say shut up and I shut up? What a joke, why should I listen to you? Who do you think you are? Sheng Hanyu, let me out immediately, right now, this instant... otherwise, as soon as I get out, I'll sell that batch of nickel, and let's see what you use to start work next month!"

Sheng Hanyu continued running on the treadmill, panting with exhaustion, but his tone was very calm: "You don't need to go out; wait until my goods are in hand before we talk."

Shi Youxuan didn't expect that she would lift a rock only to drop it on her own feet; not only did she fail to threaten him, but she was also countered!

"Sheng Hanyu, let me out!"

The woman's angry shouting sounded full of temptation to his ears, and the fire in his body surged upward, almost impossible to suppress.

"Shut up."

He swallowed his saliva and threatened with a hoarse voice: "If you shout again, I'll come in and handle you. If you want it, keep shouting."

Shi Youxuan stopped abruptly and immediately went silent.

She hugged her knees and curled up in the corner of the wall, nervously staring at the door, terrified that Sheng Hanyu would suddenly burst in.

Sheng Hanyu was sweating like rain on the treadmill, and when he really couldn't run anymore, he went to the bathroom, turned on the shower, and rinsed with cold water...

His eyes were repeatedly washed by sweat and cold water; he was only focused on extinguishing the fire in his heart and completely failed to notice the bag behind the door and the drawings inside!

Shi Youxuan heard the sound of water from the bathroom outside, and her heart rose to her throat; it was over, she would definitely be discovered this time.

"Ring-a-ling—"

The phone rang in the living room, a familiar ringtone, it sounded like her own phone.

Shi Youxuan hurriedly felt her pockets; oh no, her phone wasn't on her.

It must have fallen out during the scuffle just now; no one else would call her, it must be Jian Yining trying to reach her.

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped, the phone kept ringing, and Sheng Hanyu came out, picked up the phone, and answered.

"Hello, it's already dark, why haven't you come back yet? The road here is hard to travel; tell me the address and I'll come pick you up."

The name displayed on the phone was "Laomao," and the voice was Jian Yining!

"Yingzi, speak, why aren't you speaking? Yingzi, where are you? What's wrong? What happened?" Jian Yining began to realize something was wrong.

"It's me."

"Beep, beep, beep—"

Hearing that the voice on the other end was Sheng Hanyu, Jian Yining hung up the phone as a reflex.

He patted his chest and panted heavily, thinking how he could have dialed the wrong number; he was too careless.

No, that wasn't right.

Jian Yining picked up his phone again and checked the call logs, and his heart beat even faster now.

He hadn't dialed the wrong number!

The number dialed was Yingzi, but the person who answered was Sheng Hanyu.

He didn't have time to think and hurriedly dialed Yingzi's number again, but a mechanical female voice came from the other end: "Sorry, the number you have dialed is powered off..."

He hung up and tried calling Sheng Hanyu's number, but the result also showed it was powered off!

Sheng Hanyu and Yingzi were together; he had finally found her. He wouldn't do anything to Yingzi, would he?

Jian Yining was incredibly anxious; he was terrified that Sheng Hanyu would send Yingzi to the police station. Yingzi was a fugitive, after all; her identity couldn't stand up to questioning, and Sheng Hanyu was exactly the type of person who would dig to the bottom of things.

He bolted toward the villa across the way. Seeing him run so urgently, the butler knew something must be up and, before he could ask, said: "The Eldest Young Master went out; a woman sent a message saying something... Zi..."

The Eldest Young Master had mentioned it when he left, but he couldn't remember the specific name.

"Yingzi! Was it about Yingzi?" Jian Yining grabbed the butler's shoulders and shook him urgently.

"Yes, it was about Yingzi."

"Young Master Jian, please don't shake me; if you shake me any more, my old bones will fall apart."

Jian Yining let go of the butler: "Where did he go? When did he leave?"

The butler said: "I'm sorry, Young Master Jian, our Eldest Young Master didn't let me say, I cannot tell you."

"He didn't let you say, so you won't say? If you don't say it, someone might die; can you take responsibility for that, huh?" Jian Yining was almost driven crazy with anxiety and kept spinning in circles on the spot.

Hearing "someone might die," the butler's legs began to tremble.

Five years ago, someone had died, and that incident had almost cost the Eldest Young Master his life, so the butler didn't dare to take the risk: "The Eldest Young Master took people to the Prince Hotel, room 1820."

Before Jian Yining even reached the hotel entrance, he saw a crowd of people on the road watching the commotion; the road was blocked so tightly that cars couldn't get through at all.

He parked the car on the side of the road, pushed the door open, and ran toward the hotel.

The door to room 1820 was open, and he walked in: "Yingzi, Yingzi, are you here?"

The living room was empty, and there was a romantic candlelight dinner and half a bottle of red wine on the dining table.

"Sheng Hanyu, Sheng Hanyu, come out."

Jian Yining searched room by room; in the luxurious bedroom, a large heart shape was laid out with rose petals on the wide waterbed, but the bedsheets were neat and tidy, not looking like anyone had rolled on them.

The luxurious bathtub in the bathroom was filled with hot water, also sprinkled with a layer of bright red rose petals, and the water was still warm, but there was no one there either.

Jian Yining searched carefully while calling out the names of Yingzi and Sheng Hanyu, but he was now doubting if this was even the place where they had met.

Yingzi said she was going back to the Apartment to pack, so how could she have come to the hotel?

Even if she did come to the hotel, she wouldn't have the leisure to pull off so many tricks.

He searched a full circle, checking every room carefully, but there was no one.

Neither of the two people he wanted to find were there, and he didn't know where Yingzi's Apartment was, so he was anxious with no way to act.

He walked out of the hotel dejectedly; the people on the road earlier had already dispersed, and after getting in the car and starting it, he drove off without knowing where to go!

"A Ning, save me—"

A voice suddenly rang out from the back seat, giving him such a fright that he nearly collided with an oncoming car; Jian Yining hurriedly jerked the steering wheel, barely brushing past the car in front!

"Ouch!"

The woman in the back seat cried out again; Jian Yining found the voice somewhat familiar, but it was definitely not Yingzi.

"Who are you? How did you get into my car?" He pulled the car over to the side of the road, preparing to kick the person out.

"A Ning, it's me, Yuke, sob, sob, sob... so it was your car, so it was you who saved me... sob, sob, sob!" As the woman spoke, she took off the mask on her face, revealing the true face of none other than Shi Yuke.

"You, you're dressed like this... what happened?"

It was no wonder Jian Yining hadn't recognized her at first; the makeup on Shi Yuke's face was too heavy, and with her flaming red lips and revealing attire, it was a far cry from her usual style of dress.

"I was set up by someone, I almost didn't have the face to see anyone again, sob, sob, sob..." Shi Yuke began to cry again; this time, her crying wasn't an act, but genuine, heartfelt sorrow!

Jian Yining couldn't just leave Shi Yuke behind, but he was also in a rush to find Yingzi, so he suggested: "Miss Shi, I have urgent matters to attend to; shall I take you home first?"

Shi Yuke's face turned pale instantly, and she waved her hands repeatedly to refuse: "No, I'm not going back; if I go back looking like this, my dad will beat me to death, and if I'm beaten to death, you'll be an accomplice!"