Chapter 641: Mysterious Disappearance

Jian Yining: "She went out a long time ago, why hasn't she arrived yet..."

Jin Wan'er has been out for over an hour.

It is only a ten-minute drive; she should have arrived long ago.

Jian Yining immediately leaves the house to search the route.

Shi Youxuan also departs from the agreed-upon location, retracing the path.

Her car and Jian Yining's car soon meet at an intersection, and neither of them has seen Jin Wan'er's car!

A not-too-long route has already been combed through three times like sifting through a sieve, yet there is still nothing.

Jin Wan'er has gone missing, and everyone is worried sick.

Call the police.

Check the intersection surveillance.

Finally, a clue is discovered in the surveillance footage.

Jin Wan'er's car was driving normally, but as it approached the meeting point, a champagne-colored Bentley caught up from behind, and then her car followed that vehicle away.

Not long after driving off, both cars disappeared from the surveillance.

"It's all your fault, why go shopping for no reason? If anything happens to my Wan'er, Shi Youxuan, I will never forgive you." Lady Jian's face is covered in tear tracks, and she is furious.

Shi Youxuan ignores her.

Now is not the time for sharp tongues; finding the person quickly is what matters.

But for the entire day that follows, the police almost turn Jiangzhou upside down, yet there is not a single piece of news about Jin Wan'er.

The room is decorated in a magnificent, luxurious, and comfortable style.

Jin Wan'er has been locked in the room for a full day.

"Open the door, someone help... cough, cough!" Jin Wan'er's throat is almost hoarse from shouting, but she still receives no response.

She sits on the floor, powerless; forget it, she gives up.

She has been knocking on this door for over an hour, and no one has paid her any mind.

On the table are two servings of meals, fruit, milk, and snacks.

They are exactly as they were when brought in; she hasn't eaten a thing.

The servant who delivers the food seems unable to understand human speech; no matter what she says, she gets no response.

Who brought her here?

How did she get here?

Who are these people?

What exactly do they want?

She knows nothing; she is completely bewildered.

Yesterday, when her car was waiting at a red light at an intersection, a car came up from behind. The moment the two cars met, the opposite window rolled down, and the woman inside smiled at her.

It was a face identical to her own.

It was also the person she and Shi Youxuan had been searching for repeatedly over the past few days, but could not find.

She hurriedly told the driver to follow, and then, after passing the intersection, she knew nothing more.

There was no car crash.

She didn't faint.

She didn't even feel the slightest bit of discomfort.

But when she regained consciousness, she found herself in this luxurious room!

She cannot get out.

No one comes in, either.

No, that's not right; people do come in, but they are like walking machines.

They deliver food and drink without saying a single extra word.

Her phone is not on her, which was expected, but she has no way to contact the outside world.

Based on the speed of the three meals delivered, a day must have already passed.

Her family must be worried to death.

Others are fine, but Jin Wan'er hopes Shi Youxuan won't send word to her grandparents.

They are old and cannot handle it; after she was kidnapped last time, Grandma's health was much worse than before, and now that it's happened again, she fears... she dares not think any further.

The Jian Family.

Lady Jian struggles to get out of bed to go settle the score with Shi Youxuan!

She believes this is all Shi Youxuan's fault; perhaps the kidnapping was even her doing!

"Mom, it's chaotic enough as it is, can you please not add to the trouble?" Jian Yixin, who stayed behind to take care of her mother, sees her trying to make a scene as soon as she wakes up and tries to persuade her with kind words.

Lady Jian doesn't listen: "Move aside, even if I have to risk this old body of mine today, I am going to demand an explanation from Shi Youxuan... Wan'er must have been abducted by her, and now she's still pretending to be a good person, hypocritically saying she doesn't know anything..."

"Enough! If you keep acting like this, I won't acknowledge you as my mother anymore!" Her daughter suddenly shouts, and Lady Jian freezes.

She suspects something is wrong with her ears: "What did you say? Say it again."

Jian Yixin doesn't have the heart to, but she repeats what she just said anyway.

Her tone is firm, enunciating every word: "I said if you go to find Shi Youxuan, we will sever our mother-daughter relationship from now on."

"What?"

Lady Jian "swish," tears fall down.

She swayed, nearly falling over.

Jian Yixin instinctively reached out to support her, but halfway through, she hardened her heart and pulled her hand back.

She could not help her.

In the past, it was because she could never bear to be firm that her mother kept making mistake after mistake; if she let her continue to be willful now, it would not be love, but harm.

Sheng Hanyu had been by Shi Youxuan's side the whole time; just now, when her mother was scolding Shi Youxuan, his gaze had been as sharp as a knife, and it was fortunate that her mother had fainted, otherwise, no one could say what might have happened.

Her daughter's painstaking efforts were unknown to her, and she still felt very aggrieved.

"Yixin, my daughter, are you even my daughter?" Lady Jian's lips trembled, her voice helpless: "How could you be like this? You are a piece of my own flesh, and so is A Ning; everything I do is wholeheartedly for the good of you two siblings."

"Yet you would actually sever ties with your own mother for the sake of that woman?"

Her tears fell in a rush, unable to be stopped.

The reason Lady Jian held such deep prejudice against Shi Youxuan was mainly because, many years ago, her son had severed ties with her because of her.

Although her son had returned later and the family had reconciled as before, she had, after all, lost five years of familial affection.

Shi Youxuan had only lost a life, but what she had lost was familial affection.

During those five years, no one but herself knew how she had gotten through them.

She suffered from insomnia every night, and whenever she finally managed to fall asleep, her dreams were filled with her son shouting at her: "It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

"It was your selfishness that harmed her; if it weren't for your despicable methods, she wouldn't have died!"

She had blamed herself for five years.

But that woman had not died!

Thus, she blamed all of this on Shi Youxuan, blaming her for the fact that her family had not been reunited for five years.

No matter how she looked at Shi Youxuan, she found her displeasing.

But Shi Youxuan being alive was not without its benefits; at least her son had returned and was willing to acknowledge her as his mother again.

After waiting and hoping for so many years, she had finally waited for her son to get married and was about to have a grandchild, and yet Shi Youxuan had ruined it all!

Lady Jian did not understand why the children she had raised with such hardship were both inclined to side with outsiders.

No one knows a mother better than her daughter.

"Mom, you must be very angry right now, thinking that Shi Youxuan has put a spell on us, making us lose our minds, right?"

"It's not like that; it's that you have always been looking at her through colored glasses and have a prejudice against her."

Jian Yixin brought up the matter she was least willing to mention: "Back then, we caused her to nearly have a miscarriage; if you were in her shoes, Mom, could you forgive?"

"But Shi Youxuan managed to do it."

"And when Sheng Zichen was just born, you had your younger sister throw such a small child into the storage room; if it weren't for Shi Youxuan stopping it, did you think Hanyu would have let you off?"

Lady Jian suddenly widened her eyes: "Are you saying that it was Sheng Hanyu who caused your aunt's family to go bankrupt? Not Shi Youxuan?"

She had always thought that incident was done by Shi Youxuan.

"No one ever told you?" Jian Yixin realized there was a misunderstanding here, and quite a deep one at that.

"No, I didn't know..."

After being enlightened by her daughter, Lady Jian suddenly had an epiphany.

She stopped looking for trouble with Shi Youxuan, and Jian Yixin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Shi Youxuan was on the road with her husband at this time.

"Straight ahead."

"Turn left."

"Turn right."