Chapter 58: Setting Another Fire

Sheng Hanyu realized something was wrong, came out of the Study and walked to the kitchen; the moment their gazes met, the woman immediately shrieked: "Ah—why is there someone here?"

His expression was icy, and he said in a deep voice: "Who are you, and how do you have the key to this room?"

The woman was over forty and wearing a housekeeping company uniform; in fact, he knew he had misunderstood even without asking.

A wasted excitement.

Sure enough, the woman stammered: "I, I am Wang Ayi from the cleaning company, I, I have been cleaning for you for several years, this is the first time I've seen you in person."

"Mm, continue with your work."

A joy that came to nothing, but it didn't matter; he had already waited five years, so a few more days wouldn't hurt.

Wang Ayi was nimble, and she quickly tidied up the dirty and messy Apartment, but she talked too much, leaving Sheng Hanyu with no peace in his ears.

"You have other houses outside, right?"

"Mm."

"Where do you usually live, what does your wife do, if you two aren't living in this house, are you planning to invest or is it for your parents to live in..."

Sheng Hanyu frowned, then walked into the room and closed the door, shutting the chattering voice outside.

The hundred-square-meter house didn't take long to clean, and not long after Wang Ayi left, the doorbell rang: "Ding-dong!"

He walked to the door on tiptoe, just about to look through the peephole to see who was outside, when the person outside already called out: "Big Brother, open the door, it's Ze Rong."

The door opened, Sheng Hanyu dragged Sheng Zerong in, and as soon as the door closed, he started to lose his temper: "How did you find this place, who gave you the address?"

Sheng Zerong was confused: "Your bodyguard, what's wrong?"

"Get out, don't come here again in the future, contact me by phone if there's anything."

After finishing, he started shooing the person out; Sheng Zerong had gone to great lengths to find this place, so he wouldn't leave easily.

He gripped the door frame and wouldn't leave: "Hey, hey, Big Brother, have you gone insane? Hasn't it already been proven that Jian Yining's partner is someone else? Why are you still guarding this place?"

"That woman knows Yixin, Yixin will come here." Sheng Hanyu was concise and to the point.

But Sheng Zerong didn't believe it, insisting that he wake up, and saying that the woman was lying and deceiving him, that Jian Yixin had died five years ago and it was impossible for her to come back to life...

If anyone else had said such things, Sheng Hanyu would have turned hostile long ago.

But these words were spoken by Sheng Zerong; although the words were unpleasant and grating, they were spoken out of genuine concern for him, and he was the one who had sincerely helped him get back on his feet during his most difficult times.

Sheng Zerong was his brother, the only person in the Sheng Family besides his grandfather who could give him warmth!

But that didn't stop Sheng Hanyu from kicking him out: "Get out, don't come again."

Big Brother was impervious to reason, and even the usually gentle Sheng Zerong became indignant.

He was so angry that he muttered as he walked: "Dictator, blockhead, water in his brain..." He was so furious that he didn't even notice Sheng Yukai following behind him.

Yun Zhehao called, asking how the effect was.

That guy had a gloating tone, clearly knowing the result and waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

Sheng Zerong said irritably: "How could the effect be? I was kicked out by Big Brother, I don't know what kind of love potion that woman fed him, he insists on believing Yixin is still alive and must wait for her here..."

"The house is under Jian Yixin's name, but does that mean Jian Yixin will definitely come? Brother Hao, do you think my Big Brother needs to see a psychiatrist?"

He was busy complaining, unaware that everything he said had been overheard by Sheng Yukai behind him.

Sheng Yukai had recently become infatuated with an obscure actress who lived in this residential complex; he had been fooling around with her for three days before leaving, only to see his younger brother walking out of the apartment building looking indignant.

Out of curiosity, he followed quietly, but the content he overheard shocked him!

He had no interest in whether Jian Yixin was alive or not; what shocked him was that Sheng Hanyu was still obsessed with Jian Yixin.

A person who dwells on old affections will also dwell on old grudges; all his misfortunes over the past few years were related to Sheng Hanyu. Now, out of respect for his grandfather, Sheng Hanyu hadn't dealt him a fatal blow, but his grandfather was so old and couldn't live forever.

Once the old man died, would there be any good left for him?

Sheng Hanyu was living in the Apartment by himself now, with no bodyguards and not letting anyone come to disturb him...

Sheng Yukai smiled coldly, and a vicious plan came to mind.

Midnight, deep in the night.

A black, unplated Passat drove quietly into the residential complex.

A man carrying a black suitcase passed the front desk; the Security Guard was dozing behind the desk and didn't notice.

The person didn't take the elevator, walked up the fire escape to the door of the Apartment, looked up to confirm the house number was correct, then opened the suitcase and took out a gasoline canister...

"Run quickly, there's a fire!"

"Help, there's a fire—"

"Mommy, sob, sob, sob, Mommy, I'm scared!"

Thick smoke billowed in the hallway, the alarm was shrieking incessantly, and people were panicking and running out along the fire escape.

Sheng Hanyu had noticed when there was a commotion at the door; he had originally thought it was Jian Yixin arriving, but he quickly realized something was wrong.

When he discovered there was a fire outside, the main door could no longer be opened!

The security door was scalding hot, so he made a prompt decision to go to the bathroom, soak a towel to cover his nose and mouth, and then run to the balcony.

There was a brand-new Rope on the balcony, and the height of the Rope was just enough to reach the ground.

Sheng Hanyu skillfully tied one end of the Rope to the railing, threw the other end down, and then gripped the Rope tightly to climb down quickly!

As he passed the tenth floor, a five or six-year-old boy in the living room was crying while pounding hard on the balcony door, wanting to come out but unable to open it.

It seemed the boy was the only one in the house.

He didn't hesitate to flip into the tenth-floor balcony, gesturing and shouting for the child to stay further away.

At this time, people were running out of the building one after another; some were calling 119 to report the fire, some were shouting for their loved ones, and others were holding DSLRs and video cameras aimed at the building, preparing to upload to their social media feeds!

The little boy was still crying, but he obediently hid further away.

Sheng Hanyu picked up the largest flowerpot on the balcony and smashed it fiercely against the balcony glass—"Bang!"

"Clatter—"

The glass flowerpot shattered all over the floor.

Sheng Hanyu smashed all the glass on the side, then climbed in to carry the child out.

He did not know how the situation was outside, so he decided it was safer to go via the exterior.

He wrapped the child tightly in his coat, the little boy held Sheng Hanyu's neck tightly, and the two slid down the safety rope to the first floor!

No sooner said than done.

From descending his own balcony to saving the child on the tenth floor, and then reaching the first floor, it took Sheng Hanyu no more than five minutes in total.

The entire sequence of movements was smooth and standard; as soon as his feet touched the ground, enthusiastic applause erupted all around.

The child's mother ran over, held the child tightly in her arms, and kept saying thank you in her excitement!

She had only gone downstairs to the residential complex supermarket to buy instant noodles, never expecting the building to catch fire; if anything had happened to the child at home, the child's mother would not want to live either.

The fire trucks arrived quickly, and with the property management and Security Guard working together, the fire was soon extinguished.

It was a false alarm; apart from some property damage, there were no casualties!

It was not that there were no injuries at all; an old lady had sprained her ankle because she ran downstairs too hurriedly.

Sheng Hanyu was treated as a hero, and many people used their mobile phones to film him and post it to the residential complex owners' group to worship him.

By the time he realized and wanted to stop it, it was already too late; with such a thing happening, Yixin could not come, so he returned to the Villa to take a shower and sleep.

……

The next morning.

Sheng Hanyu was still asleep, but Jiangzhou City was buzzing as if it had exploded with a piece of sensational news!