Since Xia Yanran hadn’t returned for the night, Junyuan was going to go crazy.
He even went to the police station. However, the police couldn’t make a report since it had been less than twenty four hours.
Xia Yanran going missing suddenly with a switched off phone was something that had never happened before.
In the past, if she had a business trip or was going on a trip, she would always send a message to them in their siblings chat. She would tell them even if she had to work overtime.
Their siblings have had a very good relationship from the start, being considerate, caring, depending and tolerating each other.
Junyuan didn’t know at first how Yanran got involved with Xiao Yi, but in the last few years, he found out that she only sold herself to Xiao Yi that bastard because of him.
Junyuan smoked the entire night on the balcony.
He kept calling Xia Yanran, until his phone was almost out of battery, but they keep telling him that Xia Yanran’s phone was turned off.
Junyuan stood on the balcony, his whole body slightly stiff from having stood there the entire night.
The skies slowly brightened. He was about to return to his room to change, planning to go back to the police station when he saw a black sedan downstairs from the corner of his eyes.
The residential estate Junyuan and his family stayed in wasn’t big, so all of the neighbors knew each other.
Junyuan could recognize immediately which car belonged to which family. This car was worth at least a million, and very few people could afford it in the estate.
Indeed, within a while, he saw Xia Yanran, whom he had been looking for the entire night, get off the car. Within a few seconds, Xiao Yi got off as well.
He watched as Xia Yanran walked into the building.
Seeing Xiao Yi appear in Xia Yanran’s life again, Junyuan felt like all of his blood had frozen in place.
A year ago, when he hurt his wrist and was left with a disability, Yanran promised him that she would stop contacting Xiao Yi and live a normal life.
It had only been a year, but they had gotten together again? She didn’t come home for the entire night because of Xiao Yi?
Junyuan felt an indescribable anger. As the oldest brother, he was like their father, in-charge of taking care of his two younger siblings ever since they were chased out of the Xia family.
He only wanted them to have a comfortable and good life.
However, Yanran had spent ten years with Xiao Yi, a man in the triads. She was not young anymore and if she dragged this on longer, she would become an old spinster and it would be harder for her to find a husband.
Why must she be with Xiao Yi that bastard?
…
When Xia Yanran returned homed, Junyuan had already sorted his emotions.
He understood his younger sister. If Xiao Yi didn’t come and find her, she wouldn’t go back on her promises.
Xia Yanran changed her slippers and saw the busy figure in the kitchen. “Brother?”
Junyuan turned around to look at Xia Yanran, smiling warmly at her. “I got up late today, so I can only prepare some wontons.”
“I like to eat wontons too, thank you Brother.” As she spoke, Xia Yanran bit her lips, before she said carefully, “Brother, I worked overtime at the newspaper agency last night and my phone ran out of battery. I forgot to inform you because I was too busy, you must have been worried!”
Junyuan stared at his younger sister, who looked like she was afraid of him being angry. Affection filled his eyes as his smile widened. “Just remember next time. Oh right, did all of your colleagues work overtime last night?”
Xia Yanran looked down. “No, I’m the only one.”
Junyuan nodded. “Go shower and change your clothes!”
…
Junyuan hide outside of the newspaper agency Xia Yanran worked at and observed for two days. He didn’t see Xiao Yi appear at the office and Yanran didn’t contact him recently as well.
This evening, just as Junyuan thought he had hallucinated that morning, Junyuan saw that Bentley leave from the basement of the newspaper agency. Junyuan immediately got on a taxi and got the driver to follow that car.
Xiao Yi wasn’t in the Bentley. It was Long Ye instead. Not too long after they drove off, both the driver and him noticed that they were being followed.
“Brother Ye, there’s a taxi following us, do you want to shake the car off?”
A glint of ruthlessness flashed in Long Ye’s eyes, as he smirked. “Do you know who’s following us?”
“Who is it?”
“Brother Yi’s woman’s brother. Why do we need to shake the car off? Just drive normally.”
The Bentley stopped in front of a high-class and private clubhouse. After Long Ye got off the car, the taxi arrived not too long later as well.
Junyuan paid the taxi and entered the clubhouse.
Junyuan was a well-known doctor in Ning City in the past as well, so the clubhouse’s manager knew him and welcomed him. “Dr Xia, what brings you here today?”
Junyuan didn’t hide away. “I came to find someone. Which room did Xiao Yi go to?”
The manager said slowly, “I’m so sorry, we cannot reveal our VIP’s rooms casually.”
Junyuan pushed the manager away and entered an elevator quickly.
Once he arrived at the second floor, he saw two rows of bodyguards standing along the dim corridor.
Long Ye and the third in-charge, Xiao Feng, stood in front of a door as they smoked. When Junyuan walked over, Long Ye lifted his chin. “Feng Zi, see? That woman’s older brother is here.”
Both Long Ye and Xiao Feng were Xiao Yi’s brothers that had followed him to the gates of hell and back again. Xiao Yi was also their savior. At the start, their positions in the gang were very low and they would be beaten up by their bosses from time to time.
If it wasn’t for Xiao Yi, they would have long been hit to death by a powerful boss following Second Master Qin back then.
And right because they were always hit to death, there was a fire within them that wanted to stand strong and do well.
They followed Xiao Yi loyally, dealing with Second Master Qin with him and had now become the second and third in-charges in the organization.
Xiao Feng didn’t even have a name in the past, with everyone calling him Shi San. The name Xiao Feng was given to him by Xiao Yi, which was why he took Xiao Yi’s surname as well.
“Feng Zi, it hadn’t been easy for Boss to arrive at where he is today. He’s dealing with an important business in the room right now, so let’s not disturb him if we can settle this for him. You should know too that Boss wants to leave the triad for that woman. We both know very clearly what the consequences of leaving the triad are.”
“It hadn’t been easy for the gang to reach its top status now, do we have to be a bunch of people without a leader? Boss is someone who should do big things, so how can he be affected by relationships?”
Xiao Feng furrowed his eyebrows. “Second Brother, you’re right, we cannot do without Boss!”
Long Ye patted Xiao Feng’s shoulders, saying softly, “That’s why, the only way to make Boss stay in our gang is…”
…
Just as Junyuan was about to approach the room, Xiao Feng stood forward, staring at Junyuan coldly and fiercely. “We booked the entire clubhouse tonight. Unrelated people cannot come in. If you know your place, please leave quickly.”
Junyuan finally found Xiao Yi after so much trouble, so he naturally wouldn’t leave so easily. “I want to see your Boss.”
“Who are you to see our Boss just because you want to?” Long Ye laughed coldly, nonchalance in his eyes. “Don’t think that you can be our Boss’ brother-in-law because your younger sister has slept a few times with our Brother. How about you see who you are? You’re only a useless person with a wrist disability and cannot even pick up a scalpel anymore!”
