Chapter 75: Romantic Breakfast

Walking out the gate, he shoved her into the car and didn't forget to urge: "Get down, don't let anyone see you."

Then he floored the gas pedal, and whoosh, they sped off!

Shi Youxuan asked: "What happened? Why are there so many police outside?"

Jian Yining: "I'll tell you when we get to a safe place. It was so close just now; if I had arrived a moment later, the police would have already gone inside."

When Jian Yining arrived at the Villa, he was stopped by the police, who asked who he was and what he was doing there.

He replied that this was his Villa, he had just returned from abroad to pick up some things, and he even let the police see his passport and plane ticket!

Only then were they allowed through. When he and Yingzi left, no one else saw them, and people's focus wasn't on his side, so the two of them were able to leave smoothly.

After driving for over ten minutes, Jian Yining saw that they hadn't been discovered and no one was chasing them, so he finally let out a long breath.

"When did you get back?" Shi Youxuan asked from the back seat.

He revealed a row of white teeth: "I just left the airport forty minutes ago. Fast, right?"

It was fast enough.

Even at a hundred miles an hour, it would take over half an hour to get from the airport to the Villa. Subtracting the time that had just passed, he had actually arrived in twenty minutes.

"What's going on with those people? Why are they cordoning off the lake, and why are there so many police?" Shi Youxuan asked.

Jian Yining said: "The police suspect Sheng Hanyu killed his new wife and threw her into the lake, so those people are going to drain the water in the lake to find her..."

"Cough, cough—"

Shi Youxuan suddenly coughed violently, having choked on her saliva.

"What's wrong, Yingzi? Are you okay?"

Jian Yining handed her a bottle of water with concern: "Drink some water. Why are you coughing? Do you have a cold?"

"Mm."

Shi Youxuan gave a vague response.

She took the water bottle and set it aside, leaned her head back against the seat, and closed her eyes. It felt like a swarm of mosquitoes was flying in her brain—"buzzing" loudly.

Jian Yining just assumed she had a cold and a headache, and he chattered on by himself: "My father called me in the middle of the night yesterday to tell me about this. I bought a plane ticket and came back as soon as I heard. The timing of my return was just right..."

"... I'm not worried about him, the person I'm worried about is you. You don't have an ID card, so if the police come to your door, you're bound to be exposed..."

Jian Yining wasn't worried about Sheng Hanyu, but it wasn't because he didn't care about him.

It was because he believed in Sheng Hanyu's character and knew he definitely wouldn't do such a thing. As long as it was investigated clearly, he would be fine, so he wasn't worried.

As for what Jian Yining had said, Shi Youxuan hadn't heard a single word.

She thought that hearing her father call her in the middle of the night yesterday couldn't have been a hallucination; it was real!

Shi Youxuan's mind was very chaotic now. She didn't understand what had happened—how did it suddenly become that she had been harmed by Sheng Hanyu?

She wanted to go back immediately, but the words died on her lips as she suppressed this impulsive thought.

Go back and say what?

Admit that she is herself?

Admit that Yingzi is Shi Youxuan, that Shi Youxuan isn't an idiot but a genius girl, and that not only is she filthy rich, but she has also been playing everyone for a fool?

Then Sheng Hanyu's suspicion would be cleared.

But what about her?

Shi Youxuan didn't need to use her brain to imagine that the consequences for herself would be miserable!

First, she would immediately become the target of everyone's attacks. The Sheng Family and the Shi Family would accuse her of faking stupidity and hiding to play at going missing.

Then Jiang Yadan and her daughter would scheme about where the money in her hands came from.

Who the company belongs to, who the value created in the past and future belongs to... Back then, just because of her parents' pension and the fact that she was better than Shi Yuke at everything, Jiang Yadan and her daughter had almost killed her.

If she rashly went out and admitted it now, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Only she knew how heavy Shi Yuke's jealousy was and how ruthless Jiang Yadan was.

She would block the storm for Sheng Hanyu, and then all the storms would come crashing down on her like a tidal wave... Shi Youxuan hesitated.

She finally decided to wait and see!

Anyway, as long as her "corpse" couldn't be found, Sheng Hanyu couldn't be convicted.

"Yingzi, Yingzi—"

Jian Yining's voice pulled her back from her thoughts. She opened her eyes and saw the car had stopped.

"Where is this?"

Shi Youxuan felt the place looked familiar; she seemed to have been here before.

When she saw the two characters "Ginza" above the building, she remembered. She had been here before.

Last time, she was planning to negotiate with Sheng Hanyu here, and then she was urgently whisked away by Jian Yining in the elevator.

Jian Yining got out of the car and opened the door for her like a gentleman: "Dear Miss, please get out. Let's eat first, and after we eat, I'll take you to where you're staying."

"Eat here?"

Shi Youxuan got out of the car and suspiciously sized up the magnificent building.

She hadn't eaten in the morning, but this environment didn't look like a place for breakfast.

"Yes, please come in."

Jian Yining was full of enthusiasm, and she couldn't bring herself to refuse his kindness, so she followed Jian Yining into the Western restaurant.

The huge restaurant was quiet and didn't have a single guest. In the very center of the restaurant sat a rectangular dining table, large enough to seat over twenty people, yet there were only two chairs, each occupying one end!

The table was covered with a purple velvet tablecloth, and in the center was a golden candelabra, the candles on it flickering with warm light!

Beside the candelabra was a large bouquet of fiery red roses, as bright as blood and unimaginably beautiful.

"Jian Xiansheng, Miss Ying, please this way."

The Servant led the two of them to their seats, and a violinist walked over and began to play beautiful music.

The waiters filed in, and silver tableware and exquisite food were laid out on the table one by one.

As each item was placed down, the Servant who appeared to be the lead would lift the lid off the food and introduce them one by one: "Australian cream-baked lobster, steamed Okhotsk Sea king crab, French Belon oysters with garlic sauce, charcoal-grilled Canadian geoduck, Mediterranean sea urchin sashimi..."

Shi Youxuan loved seafood the most, but today, she had not eaten a single one of the seafood dishes.

Basically all the lids had been opened, but the plate right in the center remained covered.

The Servant had no intention of lifting it, and Shi Youxuan felt too embarrassed to ask; Jian Yining smiled and invited her to taste the dishes to see if they were to her liking.

So Shi Youxuan took a bite; it was more than just to her liking—it was incredibly delicious!

The two of them ate and talked, and for some reason today, Jian Yining kept bringing up the past.

He said that five years ago, losing his sister was the lowest point in his life, and it was precisely then that he met Yingzi; it was Yingzi who encouraged and supported him, helping him quickly emerge from the gloom...

He spoke with great absorption, while she listened somewhat absent-mindedly.

Shi Youxuan was still wondering how things were going over at the Villa.

Over at the Villa, things were still in the midst of a heated, bustling rush.

The construction team leader told the police and the old man that under normal circumstances, it would take about a day to drain the lake, but since the groundwater was now basically saturated, it would take at least three days to drain all the water in the lake!

"Can people go down to salvage?" The old man was burning with anxiety.

With so many people on the scene—workers, police, and members of the Sheng Family and Shi Family inside the house—the more people there were, the more talkative they became, and the longer the delay, the worse it would be.

In the past, just not finding the person had caused so many issues, with news of Shi Youxuan's death spreading repeatedly... and now, Shi Youxuan's teddy bear doll had been found by the lake!

There was no need for outsiders to spread rumors; the old man knew exactly what everyone in his own family was thinking.