Seeing the troubled look on her face, Lu Siyuan felt they were hiding something from him.
"Xiaocui, are you and Mianmian keeping something from me? Tell me, where did Mianmian really go?"
Xiaocui hesitated about whether to tell him or not because Mianmian had instructed her not to tell Lu Siyuan about the matter that Lu Yun had come to find her about.
Seeing this, Zhang Qian glanced at Xiaocui and then at Lu Siyuan and said, "Xiaocui, it’s not really a big deal. Why don’t you tell Siyuan?"
Knowing she was aware, Lu Siyuan asked her directly, "Zhang Qian, tell me where did Mianmian go?"
"Someone came looking for Mianmian, saying they wanted to talk to her about something and signed the note with the character for ’distant.’ Mianmian then left," Zhang Qian said.
"I never wrote any note for Mianmian. Is she stupid or what? Just going out because she saw the note, doesn’t she know she could be tricked like that? Do you know where Mianmian was supposed to meet this person?" Lu Siyuan’s first reaction was to think that someone was impersonating him to lure Shen Mianmian out, as among the people they knew, only his name contained the character ’distant.’
Seeing how anxious Lu Siyuan was, Xiaocui gritted her teeth and said, "Mianmian thought the person asking to meet her was your mother, so she went out."
"My mom? How could that be?" Lu Siyuan didn’t know Lu Yun had approached Shen Mianmian, so his first reaction was disbelief.
Remembering what Tian Caiyan had said, he got a bad feeling and ran out.
Xiaocui followed him, but she couldn’t catch up. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was off.
Seeing her troubled expression, Zhang Qian thought she was angry at her for speaking out of turn. So she explained, "Xiaocui, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be nosy this time. I was just worried you were scared because he looked so fierce. That’s why I spoke up."
"I’m not angry. I’m just worried about Mianmian." The more Xiaocui thought about it, the more worried she became. "I think there’s something wrong with the note. Could it really be that someone tricked Mianmian into going out?"
Zhang Qian looked astonished, "That shouldn’t be possible, right?"
"I just feel uneasy," Xiaocui said.
"Don’t think too much," Zhang Qian comforted her. "Mianmian hasn’t offended anyone, so how could somebody..."
She stopped talking suddenly, as it dawned on her, and Xiaocui obviously thought of something too.
"That Gu Jianli, he didn’t seem to come in today."
Lu Siyuan arrived later than usual today, and according to Gu Jianli’s routine these past days, he should be standing outside by now.
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Mianmian was called out, and he didn’t show up?
Could it have been him who tricked Mianmian into leaving?
The more Xiaocui thought, the more panicked she became, until Dajun arrived. She felt as if she had found her backbone and quickly relayed the situation to Dajun.
After hearing her out, Dajun’s expression darkened. He borrowed a bicycle from next door and headed to Lanyue.
Lu Siyuan found Tian Caiyan in a nearby alley and grabbed her, demanding, "Where did Mianmian go? Is it you who lured her away? I’m telling you, if anything happens to Mianmian, I won’t let you off."
Tian Caiyan’s face turned pale from fright, "I don’t know where Mianmian went either, but I was told that Mianmian is meeting with another man in secret. I can take you there, but really, this has nothing to do with me."
Seeing his expression, Tian Caiyan suddenly got scared. She regretted listening to Zhou Siyu, thinking that even if Lu Siyuan found Shen Mianmian fooling around with another man, he wouldn’t have a good impression of her anymore. He might even think she was very scheming and that it was all her design.
Lu Siyuan wished he could slap her to death, completely uninterested in her explanations, "Stop the nonsense, just take me there."