“Sis, do you think … he’s really in love with you?”
Zhao Lanlan’s heart palpitated, and in the next instant, she said, “What nonsense? Go to bed early! I’m going on a business trip tomorrow.”
“I’m not bullshitting. If he doesn’t love you, then what’s he pestering you for now that you’re obviously divorced? Revenge? Ha, lie to the devil! You haven’t done anything wrong from start to finish, why would she want to retaliate against you? To put it bluntly, he just can’t let go!”
Zhao Yuanyuan fell asleep as she talked. Zhao Lanlan, however, lay beside her, tossing and turning never falling asleep. Although Yuan Yuan was in a daze, her words were not wrong.
She was never wrong, so why get back at herself now?
Half an hour later, Xia Feiqing had already returned to the Xia home and was taking a shower in the bathroom. When his cell phone rang, he took a towel and wrapped himself haphazardly around it, and went to answer the call.
Naturally, it was Pei Yajun who called.
“Just checked it out. Ms. Zhao is on tomorrow’s flight to S City.”
“Such a coincidence?” Xia Feiqing was surprised.
“Uh-huh. However, it’s not the same flight as you, she’ll be there early in the morning.” Pei Yajun said.
“Is the return trip booked? Is it hard to believe that she wants to go over there?” This shouldn’t be ah, they are living such a hard life nowadays, and S city is obviously not as good as this side to develop. The economic level, the basic salary can’t catch up with this side.
“The return trip was booked, that is, the day after tomorrow. I checked, and it wasn’t she herself who called to make the reservation, but it was booked at the newspaper.”
“I see.” Xia Feiqing mused, suddenly remembering that there was a serial murder case over in S City. Guess what, she went over there because of this case, but …
She’s so timid, she can handle this kind of interview?
“It’s all checked out now, don’t worry, Ms. Zhao won’t just walk away.” Pei Yajun peered into his mind over there, “Should we simply change your flight to the same one as hers now? But then the morning’s work would have to be done tonight.”
Pei Yajun believed that staying up all night for the sake of chasing his wife was definitely worth it. However, to his surprise, Xia Feiqing said; “There’s no need to change it. But … hotel help me change it.”
“Hmm? Change where?” Pei Yajun asked.
“Isn’t there a hotel serial murder case in S. City? Just go there.”
“There?” Pei Yajun was surprised, “Isn’t that unlucky? Besides, the government has already uniformly booked a counterpart hotel.”
“Don’t bother with that much, just book it when I tell you to.” Xia Feiqing said impatiently.
Pei Yajun then figured it out, “Oh, so it’s the lady who will live there!”
Ma’am?
Xia Feiqing deliberated on these two words, and suddenly felt that they were extraordinarily good.
Without denying it, he continued, “And change my ticket back.”
“How do I change it?”
“Returning the day after tomorrow.”
“Ah, got it!” Pei Yajun nodded, “This will be done!”
Hanging up the phone, Xia Feiqing pondered for a while before lying down on the bed again. Turning off the lights, the entire room was plunged into darkness, but his mind was tossing and turning with that figure.
Zhao Lanlan …
What could she possibly be capable of that he would even be attached to it by now.
As Xia Feiqing thought, Zhao Lanlan was more timid, and besides, that murderous devil was still at large at the moment. Now that hotel, there were already too few guests to stay there. Apart from the reporters, there were only those customers left who had come here specifically to take a risk.
It was a little scary, but this was a job after all, and she simply didn’t have the right to say no in order to get a better paycheck at the end of the month.
Got off the plane and dragged my luggage into the hotel. Packed my stuff up and headed out with my camera.
First, the entire hotel is filmed and then moved to the scene of the crime. The serial killings were all in different places, from the hotel’s welcome kiosk, to the private pool in the presidential suite, to the penthouse and in the elevator.
All the places were blocked off, and Zhao Lanlan showed her press card before she could go in for an interview.
Even after a long spin, it was getting dark and she looked at the pictures in her camera as she headed upstairs. Ate dinner in the cafeteria before retracing her steps to her room.
When she got on the elevator and pressed the 15th floor, she leaned and stood alone in the corner of the elevator. When she reached the 8th floor, the elevator stopped, opened, and a man came in. The other man wore a black hat that hid his face, was tall, and wore boots.
It had an eerie aura all over it.
Zhao Lanlan took a deep breath and took a step back in a row, nervously gripping the camera tighter. This man was too similar to the features on the wanted list. And …
The worst part is …
She was actually wearing a wide red dress now. All of the girls that Murderer killed were wearing red dresses.
She cringed, her breath held. Sight only froze at the jumping numbers of the elevator, afraid that it would stop. But what goes around comes around …
The elevator, literally, stopped on the 12th floor. But … none of them pressed the 12th floor!
She flew to press the door open button, just wanting to escape the cramped space as fast as possible. At the moment, the door was stuck.
“No! No!” She murmured in fear. Starting to hate herself for wearing a red dress! She had obviously brought a white t-shirt with her!
“The elevator seems to be malfunctioning.” The other man spoke quietly, the voice more somber in the enclosed space.
She was shaking all over, and when she saw the other woman trying to get closer to her, she stiffened, “No! Don’t you come over! No coming over! I could call the police!”
Without waiting for the other party to say anything, she had already taken her cell phone out. She was about to dial 110, but the phone rang at this moment at first.
Seeing the number on it, she couldn’t care about anything and immediately put her cell phone through, “Help! Save me, Xia Feiqing …”
She doesn’t want to die yet! Her baby hadn’t had time to be born yet, hadn’t seen the world …
“Where are you? Give me directions at once!”
“It’s stuck on the 12th floor! The … murderer is here!” Zhao Lanlan cried out directly when she heard his voice.
“Damn!” Xia Feiqing let out a low curse, “Don’t hang up, I’ll bring someone over immediately!”
“Ah… ah…” two terrified screams made Xia Feiqing’s heart hang in his throat, “Lan Lan? Lan Lan!”
He called out several times, but there was no one there to answer him again.
Days!
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever have anything happen!
Zhao Lanlan, she must not die without his permission!
“Hurry up for me!” Standing in front of the elevator door on the 12th floor, Xia Feiqing furiously yelled out in a low voice, “If something happens to her, I don’t think your hotel will need to be open again!”
“Sir, we’re on it, give us ten minutes.” The maintenance man replied warily.
“Fuck you for ten minutes, you have five minutes, no! Two minutes, if you don’t open the door for me in two minutes, I’ll tear this hotel apart.” He had lost all regard for his political stance and image and could only hiss. Damn it, he should have come over earlier! He should have listened to Pei Yajun’s arrangement and simply come over on the same flight as her. What the hell was he so arrogant about? When he had to change his return ticket, there was no pride left to speak of!