Chapter 39: Chen Xiangxiang Gets Caught

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  The rooftop of the high school building in the TCM Academy, above the third-year classroom. Chen Xiangxiang sat under a sun umbrella with Xiao Hei in her arms, staring at a glass of iced water in front of her, her eyes gazing blankly into the distance, lost in thought.

  The Chen family is the largest shareholder of the Chinese Medicine College, holding 51% of the shares. Chen Zhenhua was extremely fond of Chen Xiangxiang, so this rooftop became Chen Xiangxiang's private domain. Without Chen Xiangxiang's permission, others were not allowed to come up privately.

  And every time Chen Xiang felt bored, had worries or was in a bad mood, she would come to this rooftop to get some fresh air and relax.

  "How boring." Chen Xiangxiang withdrew her gaze, lowered her head to pet Xiao Hei, and whispered: "Sister Jingrou should be done with her work, call her up to chat."

  Thinking of this, Chen Xiangxiang put Xiao Hei on the table, took out her mobile phone from her bag and started dialing Lin Jingru's number. However, it was unreachable.

  "How can there be no signal?" The phone didn't get through, Chen Xiang looked at the phone's signal bar, and was stunned to find not a single signal, shook the phone, still none, "Usually there is a signal, but today there isn't, it's infuriating."

  No signal, the phone can't get through, Chen Xiangxiang pouted and threw her mobile phone on the table.

  "Xiang Xiang Chen, are you up there?" Just then, a tall and slender girl wearing a white skirt came to the rooftop and asked softly.

  "Who are you?" Chen Xiangxang turned around and looked at the person who came, but didn't recognize him.

  "My name is Liu Na, I'm Lin Jingrou's deskmate. Lin Jingrou wanted to come find you, but something suddenly came up and she was busy, so she had me call you." The girl walked over to Chen Xiangxiang and said: "Originally wanted to give you a call, but your phone is always unreachable, afraid that something happened to you, so I came to take a look."

  "Oh, I'm fine." Chen Xiangxiang put her phone in her bag and hugged Xiao Hei, smiling as she said: "Na Jie, Jingrou Jie is busy with something, I won't disturb her if I go over there, will I?"

  Since Lin Jingrou couldn't make it, the bored Chen Xiangxiang decided to go herself.

  "Lin Jingrou is really insightful, knowing you're bored and letting me come call you over." Liu Na said with a smile all over her face: "Xiang Xiang sister, let's go."

  "Xiang Xiang little sister, your puppy is so cute." Liu Na said, reaching out her hand to touch Xiao Hei.

  "Hong, hou......"

  Liu Na had not even touched Xiao Hei when he suddenly glared at her with his eyes wide open, staring at her fiercely and shouting angrily.

  "Sister Na, don't mind him, Xiao Hei has a bad temper. Xiao Hei, what are you doing? How can you be so rude?" Chen Xiangxiang awkwardly explained and scolded Xiao Hei, but in her heart she was very puzzled, "Xiao Hei used to call out when he saw him before, now he doesn't even call out anymore, always being very gentle, what's wrong with him today?"

  "It's okay, it's okay." Liu Na, who had been startled, carefully withdrew her hand.

  More than ten minutes later, when Chen Xiangxiang and Liu Na were about to arrive at the school gate, Chen Xiangxiang felt that something was wrong and stopped.

  "Xiang Xiang, we're almost there." Seeing Chen Xiang stop, Liu Na smiled slightly and said: "Jing Rou sister said that she won money racing with others, and it's the first day of school, so she's giving us sisters some benefits, at the supermarket up ahead."

  "Oh, I see." Chen Xiangxang's rising suspicion was dispelled by Liu Na's one sentence. Lin Jingrou winning money, she had seen it with her own eyes, and even competed with Chen Qingdi.

  At first when dividing the spoils, Chen Xiangxiang also saw so much cash for the first time. If it weren't for Chen Qingdi's sake, she couldn't help but rush forward and grab some.

  What Xiangxiang didn't know was that as long as she was willing, Chen Dashao really hoped she could also join the ranks of those scrambling for money.

  Soon, Chen Xiangxiang followed Liu Na out of the school gate.

  However...

  Chen Xiangxang had just walked out of the school gate when a business car rushed over and blocked her way. The car door suddenly opened, and at this time, Liu Na suddenly pushed Chen Xiangxang into the car.

  "Let's go." Liu Na quickly got on the car and suddenly seemed like a different person, shouting.

  "What... what kind of people are you?" Chen Xiangxiang knew she had been deceived.

  It may also be because of the many things she had experienced, so Chen Xiangxiang was only startled at first and quickly calmed down. "Why are you catching me? If you want money, go find my dad, I don't have any money on me."

  In Chen Xiangxiang's view, others catching him was just for money.

  "Xiang Xiang, little sister, don't be afraid, we're not bad people." Liu Na looked at Chen Xiang Xiang who was calm and smiled: "It's just that the young master wants to see you, he's afraid you won't come, so we had no choice but to do it this way."

  "Big Young Master? Who is your Big Young Master? Could it be... could it be my big brother?" Chen Xiangxiang's face changed, and she tightly hugged Xiao Hei, shrinking to one side.

  Just as Xiao Hei was about to take action, he heard Chen Xiangxiang say "it's my big brother" and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he calmed down.

  Older brother?

  Chen Xiang's big brother, Chen Qingyun, is the source of spiritual energy, and Xiao Hei really likes it.

  "How did you know... your elder brother? Who is your elder brother, we don't know him." Liu Na's face changed, and she repeatedly denied: "No... it's not your elder brother, we don't even know your elder brother."

  Liu Na didn't deny it, and with this denial, Chen Xiangxiang was even more certain that it was her older brother Chen Qingdi who did it. Liu Na's reaction was really too flustered, only someone whose secret had been exposed would react like this.

  "Shut up!" At this time, a blond kid sitting in the back row shouted angrily: "What's the point of talking to her so much? Don't ruin Young Master's good deed."

  "Second brother, make a call to Young Master and tell him that the person his sister wants has been caught." At this time, a twenty-year-old youth who was driving said.

  "Alright." The young man in his early twenties sitting in the passenger seat took out his phone and quickly dialed a number, saying: "Young Master, your sister...the person you wanted is already on the car."

  After finishing speaking, the young man hung up the phone.

  At the same time, on the rooftop of a teaching building in the Chinese Medicine Academy, Chen Fengyan looked at his phone with a cruel smile on his face.

  "Chen Qingdi, just you wait." Chen Fengyan raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Even if you took advantage of the opportunity to treat Xiao Hei's illness and had a chance to interact with Xiaomei, and your relationship improved slightly, what does it matter? Wanting to ruin things is still easy, isn't it?"

  "Let's call Chen Qingdi first, how can he not show up?" Thinking of this, Chen Feng turned to Chen Qingdi's phone and pressed the dial button.

  "Huh?" A few seconds later, Chen Fengran furrowed his brow and thought to himself: "Chen Qingdi's phone is actually turned off. However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing."

  Immediately, Chen Fengran quickly dialed Lin Jingru's phone again. "Jingru sister, where are you? I just called Xiangxiang and it was unreachable, turned off. I'm afraid something happened to Xiangxiang, so I called my brother, but his phone is also turned off."

  "What? Xiang Xiang's phone is turned off? And Chen Qing Di's phone is also turned off?" Lin Jing Rou let out a cry of surprise, a bad premonition surged to her heart, and she asked repeatedly: "Feng Ran, have you gone to look for Xiang Xiang?"

  "I went, but I couldn't find her. I asked others and some said Xiang Xiang left with a girl towards the outside of the school. Even if she wanted to leave, there's no need to turn off her phone." Chen Feng Yan's voice was filled with worry.

  "Feng Ran, ask her which school gate Xiang Xiang went out from and go to that gate to ask the security guard." Lin Jing Rou took a deep breath and said urgently: "Feng Ran, you must hurry, I feel like something has happened to Xiang Xiang."

  "Maple, wait a minute, I have an incoming call, it seems to be the security guard." Lin Jingru then hung up Chen Fengran's phone and answered the incoming call, which was indeed from the security guard.

  When Lin Jingru heard the gatekeeper say that Chen Xiangxiang was taken away at the school gate, her face suddenly turned ugly.

  "Xiang Xiang has been taken away by someone!" Lin Jing Rou informed Chen Feng Ran in a hurry, and quickly rushed towards the school gate where Chen Xiang Xiang was taken.

  ……

  In the lotus pond of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Academy, the search is still ongoing. More and more people are gathering in the pond, almost filling it up completely. However, Chen Qingdi, who was said to have jumped into the river to commit suicide, has yet to be found.

  The lotus pond was just that big, and the water level plus the soft mud sank down, it was just above the thigh. A person of that size jumped in, but couldn't find anything.

  It's really too weird.

  The search for work is still ongoing. What was originally a refreshing thing in the water has become a sweat-inducing task. Everyone is constantly digging mud to find something, it's exhausting.

  "It's been over ten minutes already, and we still can't find him; that person is probably dead for sure."

  "Yes, it's been over ten minutes, he must be dead by now. But even if he is dead, how come there isn't even a corpse? It's really too strange."

  "We've all looked everywhere and can't find anyone, surely someone must have jumped into the river?" said a latecomer who couldn't help but speak up.

  Because he rushed to the scene upon hearing the news, he didn't actually see Chen Qing jump down. However, seeing others jumping down and shouting that they were saving someone, he also jumped down in a daze.

  There are still many people like him.

  After searching for over ten minutes, almost the entire pond was turned upside down, and the lotus flowers were also destroyed. Still, nothing was found. Anyone would have been suspicious.

  "Nonsense, we all saw it with our own eyes, and there were many others who saw it too."

  "It's just that we clearly saw someone jump down and still haven't come up. With so many pairs of eyes seeing it, how could we be wrong?"

  "Which one of you saw what that person looked like?" Seeing everyone shake their heads, the student spoke up and said: "Could it be that after that student jumped down, we followed him down and then mixed in with us, so we couldn't find him?"

  "Wow... That makes sense, it must be like that, otherwise it can't be found."

  "What the heck, who is it? Grandma's, hurry up and come out to apologize, what kind of person are you, playing tricks on all of us?"

  "It's not like that, don't play with people like this."

  Someone jumped into the lotus pond, and with so many people, the entire pond was turned upside down, but still couldn't find him. The only explanation is that the person who jumped in deliberately showed up and mixed in with the crowd.

  Everyone was in a hurry to save people, and it was the first day of school, with many new students, no one knew anyone else, even if someone poked their head out, no one would recognize them.

  "Damn it, let's go, we've all been fooled."

  "Just you wait, if I find out who's messing with me, I'll make sure he doesn't get away with it." A first-year student, extremely muscular and covered in black mud from head to toe, shouted angrily.

  Although it's not as what the students said, Chen Qingdi has already emerged and blended in with the crowd. However, to be strict, Chen Qingdi was indeed no longer in the lotus pond.