"Yes, when he left the house today, he was fine, with nothing wrong at all!"
Li Xiaoli also said with a face full of doubt.
"His injuries had healed, but his meridians were gone. Now, he’s just an ordinary person, and you all drove him away..."
As Xia Wei’er spoke to this point, she couldn’t help but start to cry, the thought of Tang Ming’s uncertain fate causing her heart to ache as if it was being torn apart.
"How could this be?" Upon hearing these words, Liu Mengting and Li Xiaoli were stunned.
Recollecting how Tang Ming had changed his usual behavior after being discharged from the hospital, suddenly terminating his contract to leave Songlan City, and refusing their pleas to stay, the two women seemed to understand something.
Liu Mengting clutched her chest, gasping for breath as if suffocating, shaking her head while saying:
"You are lying to me, this can’t be true."
"And to think you were the ones Tang Ming cared about the most," Xia Wei’er said with a bitter smile, gritting her teeth:
"You’ve been living under the same roof, haven’t you noticed his reduced appetite since he was discharged? That’s because his cultivation was destroyed, leading to his inability to eat like before. It was after I noticed this clue that I forced him to tell me the truth."
Upon hearing this, Liu Mengting’s face turned stiff, recalling that Tang Ming had indeed eaten much less after leaving the hospital, yet she and Li Xiaoli had completely overlooked the possibility that he was injured.
"Wei’er, don’t cry now!"
Li Xiaoli also felt very upset, but she knew they needed to mend their relationship with Xia Wei’er, as she seemed to know more about Tang Ming’s situation.
"You heartless people, if it wasn’t for you driving Tang Ming away, he wouldn’t have gotten into trouble," Xia Wei’er sobbed out loud.
"No, that’s not it!" Li Xiaoli quickly explained:
"It wasn’t Meng Meng who fired Tang Ming, it was Tang Ming himself who insisted on leaving, and he never told us about his serious injuries. The things said earlier were just angry words from Meng Meng because we wanted to keep Tang Ming, and we got angry when he wouldn’t stay."
"Where is Tang Ming now, we must find him immediately, we can’t let him be alone when he’s most in need, I really didn’t know his cultivation was gone."
Liu Mengting suddenly looked up and ran outside like a madwoman.
"Meng Meng, you’re still wearing your pajamas, where are you running to?"
Li Xiaoli shouted anxiously, grabbing the incoherent Liu Mengting at the gate of the courtyard.
"Xia Wei’er, since you know that Tang Ming has lost his cultivation, then you must know where he is, right?"
Liu Mengting grabbed Xia Wei’er’s hand, asking nervously, already forgetting that Xia Wei’er came here to find Tang Ming.
"Right, right, no matter what, this time we have to make Tang Ming stay," Li Xiaoli also nodded continuously, declaring firmly:
"Even if I have to call my brother back to protect him, I won’t let him get hurt."
"I don’t know where he is, but he must be in great danger now," Xia Wei’er wiped her tears and shook her head:
"It’s too late to want to keep him now, he’s been in a car accident!"
"An accident?" Liu Mengting and Li Xiaoli opened their eyes wide, staring at Xia Wei’er in shock.
"Yes, someone flipped over his car. The car is now scrapped, but he has disappeared. I thought he might come back here, which is why I came to find him, but you all..."
Xia Wei’er trailed off mid-sentence, unable to continue.
Upon hearing this, Liu Mengting, Li Xiaoli, and another person were all dumbstruck.
"That guy actually lost his cultivation, and he’s gone missing?"
Shen Yan stood in the green belt not far away, muttering to herself in disbelief.
Before, Shen Yan had been watching the Liu Family’s villa from upstairs, seeing Xia Wei’er break into the yard, and then the three girls seemed to have an argument. To collect intelligence, Shen Yan hurried out to eavesdrop, only to hear this unexpected news.
"No, he’s my prey, I absolutely can’t let him die at someone else’s hand," Shen Yan realized, and quickly ran towards her own villa, mumbling:
"Since he’s lost his cultivation, he should be easy to kill now, I, I must find him quickly and then with my own hands..."
After hearing this news, Shen Yan’s first reaction was to find Tang Ming, but when she wanted to say that she would kill Tang Ming with her own hands, she found herself unable to speak those words!
Killing a defenseless weakling like Tang Ming suddenly didn’t make Shen Yan happy at all.
Liu Mengting and the other two girls didn’t notice Shen Yan’s eavesdropping and departure. Liu Mengting and Li Xiaoli hadn’t recovered from the shock, and Xia Wei’er, upon knowing that Tang Ming wasn’t driven away, also wasn’t as angry as before.
"Where the hell did Tang Ming go now? Whether he’s dead or alive, there should be some explanation!"
Upon hearing that Tang Ming had been in a car accident, Liu Mengting anxiously asked Xia Wei’er.
"If I knew where he was, why would I come to find you?" Xia Wei’er said with an exasperated expression:
"The police haven’t found him either."
"Stop arguing, gosh!" Seeing Liu Mengting and Xia Wei’er completely disorganized, Li Xiaoli stomped her foot and shouted:
"We must stay calm at times , otherwise things will only get messier. Let’s go inside the house right now, exchange whatever information we have, and then make a long-term plan, okay?"
Liu Mengting and Xia Wei’er looked at each other, agreeing that this was the only option for now.
Afterward, the three women entered the villa and sat down on the sofa together.
After sitting down, Xia Wei’er and Liu Mengting remained silent. The previous events had been so unpleasant that neither of the two girls was willing to speak first.
"Come on, you two, say something," Li Xiaoli urged impatiently.
"Just sitting here is wasting time."
"Even if Tang Ming lost his cultivation, why did he have to leave?" Liu Mengting looked at Xia Wei’er and asked in a hostile tone:
"Is it because after he confirmed the relationship with you, you forced him to leave us?"
Xia Wei’er was stunned for a moment; she had not expected Liu Mengting to ask such a question.
Li Xiaoli shrank her head; she had made that statement carelessly before, not expecting Liu Mengting to take it seriously.
"Ahem, Meng Meng sister, isn’t now not the time to discuss this?" Li Xiaoli spoke weakly:
"We need to figure out where Tang Ming brother wants to go to deduce his whereabouts."
"He said he’s going back to his hometown, but do you know where that is?" Liu Mengting glared at Li Xiaoli without good humor.
"This... do you know?" Li Xiaoli quickly turned to Xia Wei’er and asked:
"Or do you have any contact information for his family?"
"No. He told me to find him after I finished college, but he didn’t give me the details. With communication being so advanced nowadays, I didn’t really think much about it!"
Xia Wei’er shook her head, previously believing she could always stay in touch with Tang Ming, so she had never inquired about these details.