Chapter 276: Wait for Me to Return
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ji Nuan nodded.
She suddenly felt that the words Mo Jingshen spoke were more than ever before.
“Where are you going this time? The United States or Japan?” she couldn’t help but ask.
He rubbed at her hair and whispered gently, “You’ll know when you see the local specialty I bring to you.”
…
Several days later, Ji Nuan received a phone call from Ji Hongwen.
Ji Mengran had been missing for ten days, and Ji Hongwen’s voice sounded smaller and older than before. He didn’t sound depressed, but Ji Nuan knew he hadn’t been eating or sleeping well these days.
Today was the death anniversary of Ji Nuan’s mother. It had been so many years, and time had diluted the sadness. Ji Nuan habitually looked at the sky for a long time that day, when she received a call from Ji Hongwen.
“Nuan Nuan, I know you don’t ask me about your biological father because of what happened to Mengran. I had planned to keep these truths from you for the rest of my life. You will always be my daughter, and I’m not going to tell you the truth till I die.”
“I won’t force you if you don’t feel like telling me,” Ji Nuan said. “I never planned to find my biological father. You are already worried about Mengran, so you don’t have to…”
“It’s all right. At this point, deliberate concealment can only hurt. Your mother has been gone for many years. I’m sorry I fail to hide what she told me. I just didn’t expect Mengran would find out about it and tell you about it as a tool against you.” Ji Hongwen sighed. “Before your mother married me, she had a sad past. She didn’t love your biological father. Back then, I was a young man who was crazy in love, so even though your mother had been pregnant, without any hesitation, I still married her, protected her, and promised her I would take you as my own daughter. Nuan Nuan, you were brought up by me. To me, you and Mengran are both my daughters. Do you understand me?”
“Yes, I do, Dad.” Ji Nuan didn’t expect for Ji Hongwen to tell her the truth after keeping silent for days. She was suddenly relieved. At least now she was not the only one who was kept in the dark.
“As for who your biological father is, maybe you will never meet him in your life. Even if you do, he may never know your existence. I’m not going to retell too many of those old stories. After all, all this happened over 20 years ago, and it’s all about your mother not about you. Nuan Nuan, except blood ties, we are just like any other father and daughter. Now Mengran is still missing, and I hope you still take the Ji family as your family after you come back to Hai City. No matter what happens, the Ji family will always be behind you.”
Ji Nuan almost cried. “Dad, I have never denied you as my father. We are the same as before. I will not change, and you will not change either, will you?”
“Yes.” Ji Hongwen’s voice was hoarse with emotion. “Good girl. I know Mengran was wrong. She was really wrong in many ways. I have never shown partiality to any of you, but now I haven’t heard from her. Dad’s mood is inevitably affected, but I never mean to ignore you or give you the cold shoulder. You’ve always been my favorite daughter.”
“I know.” A lump stuck on Ji Nuan’s throat. She lifted her hand and rubbed her nose, trying not to sob.
She knew Ji Hongwen specially chose this day to talk to her. Fortunately, they had never been estranged with each other. The worst way of communication was no communication.
Ji Hongwen said some more words before hanging up. Ji Nuan held the cell phone and stood at the window, looking out for a long time.
Who was her biological father…? She may never meet him in her life.
Even if she did, he didn’t know her existence?
Her mother was a very quiet and gentle woman when she was young. She was too young to know much about her mother’s past, but she couldn’t understand how she could have been forced before she got married to Dad.
Under what kind of pressure was she living? Was she imprisoned or forced into a marriage by her elders? Or, what else might it be?
Ji Hongwen obviously didn’t want to mention those things. He just called her to reassure her and tell her nothing would change between them.
He wanted to keep this daughter, and she also wanted to keep the home she had depended on since childhood.
—
Professor Lin’s program only lasted for three months. This class finished before the graduation season of T University. Unlike the common four-year programs, it only had three months, but at least Ji Nuan had made a friend who was Bai Wei.
On the eve of parting, the students in professor Lin’s class had a rare dinner together. Although Feng Ling was a transfer student, she went with them too.
Ji Nuan didn’t drink but just sat on the sofa and talked a lot with Bai Wei about what they had experienced these three months, and the possible cooperation with Bai Wei’s company. Feng Ling had never attended such an occasion before. During the dinner, she just looked at her cell phone and then at Ji Nuan to prevent her from drinking.
This class started simply and ended simply, but the process was quite wonderful.
Ling Feifei had been avoiding Ji Nuan and sat far away from her. Feng Ling deliberately raised her eyebrows and glanced at Ling Feifei from time to time, intimidating her with her stare. Ling Feifei was so scared by her that she left early with the excuse that she was not feeling well, not daring to stay longer.
—
Ji Nuan left T University with the results of her last test, and the next day packed up her apartment with Feng Ling.
Mo Jingshen said that he would come to pick her up and send her to Hai City today, but she didn’t know whether he will fly directly to T City from abroad or return to Hai City first and then come over.
Although Ji Nuan didn’t have much luggage, it still took her a long time to pack up. However, she waited from dawn until afternoon, but Mo Jingshen hadn’t shown up.
And she didn’t receive his call either.
“What time is it?” Ji Nuan locked both of her suitcases, clapped her hands, and asked Feng Ling in the living room as she straightened up.
“It’s after 5:00 p.m.,” Feng Ling answered.
She then noticed the time, looked up at the sky outside, and turned to pick up her cell phone. There were only text messages from Xia Tian and Xiao Ba, asking her whether she would come back to Hai City today or tomorrow and saying that they would treat her to a welcome dinner.
Her cell phone kept buzzing. Many people sent her messages but not Mo Jingshen.
Time passed by little by little
It was 6:00 p.m.
But Mo Jingshen still hadn’t shown up or called her.
At seven o’clock, Mo Jingshen was still missing.
At ten o’clock in the evening, her cell phone was quiet, and no one opened the door.
During this period, Ji Nuan had called Mo Jingshen, only to hear a cold mechanical female voice warning that the other party was not in the service area and could not be connected.
Chapter 277: Mo Jingshen Never Breaks His Promise
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If Mo Jingshen was too busy these two days to fly over, she could fly back to Hai City with Feng Ling.
But why didn’t he even call her?
There was no news of him even at twelve o’clock in the evening. She thought he might be on a flight home from abroad that took more time than usual.
After not getting his call or seeing him showing up, she took a shower and went to sleep.
At six o’clock the next morning, Feng Ling’s cell phone suddenly rang.
As soon as Ji Nuan heard the ringtone, she jumped up from the bed although it was not her cell phone ringing.
Feng Ling was sleeping in the guest room next door. When Ji Nuan pushed the door open, Feng Ling was already answering the call. She looked solemn.
Feng Ling who was usually expressionless rarely had such an expression.
In an instant, Ji Nuan had a hunch that something terrible happened!
After talking, Feng Ling put down her cell phone and turned her eyes to Ji Nuan who was standing at the door.
“Mrs. Mo, why did you get up so early?” Feng Ling gazed at her and asked her calmly after two seconds.
“I couldn’t fall asleep, so I came to have a look when I heard your cell phone ringing.” Ji Nuan walked in and pulled the curtains open for her while asking her in a deliberately casual tone, “Who called you so early in the morning?”
“A buddy in XI base.” Under the light of dawn, the look on Feng Ling’s face couldn’t be seen. She took a look at the time. “I don’t think President Mo will come over. He must have something urgent to tend to. Let’s go to the airport ourselves and go back to Hai City today.”
Ji Nuan’s hand rested on the curtain. After a short pause, she looked at Feng Ling.
“Feng Ling, tell me if anything is wrong?”
Not answering her, Feng Ling pushed back the quilt and got off the bed. “Let’s have breakfast first. Mr. Mo has told me to make sure you have each meal on time every day. Shall we order takeout or call a housekeeping aunt over to cook for us? I can’t cook. Even if I do, I don’ think you can bear the food I make.”
“Just tell me what happened to him. No matter what has happened, you shouldn’t keep it from me.” Ji Nuan stared at Feng Ling’s back and raised her voice, not giving her a chance to change the topic.
Feng Ling stopped, turned around, and looked at Ji Nuan. “Mrs. Mo, I believe Mr. Mo will come back. What you should do now is to go back to Hai City safe and sound.”
“What happened to him?”
When Ji Nuan heard that she said, ‘I believe Mr. Mo will come back,’ her heart sank.
Feng Ling wouldn’t easily say these sorts of words.
Knowing Ji Nuan wouldn’t give up until she told her the truth, Feng Ling gazed at her, saying, “Mr. Mo flew to Cambodia some days ago, where it is recently not peaceful. There are also gangs lurking around in Cambodia that became enemies with us in the United States. Mr. Mo is currently out of contact with our men, and we can’t find his location or receive any signal from him. What we know is only that a group of arms dealers active at the China-Cambodian border went to that area too. We don’t know if they ran into each other…”
Ji Nuan gazed at Feng Ling calmly. It had been quite a while before she understood what Feng Ling told her. She repeated to herself what Feng Ling just said word by word in her heart.
“The gangs who became enemies with you in the United States? Mo Jingshen is from the Mo Family. With such a powerful background, he didn’t have to get his hands dirty when he developed his business, nor did he need to contact the underworld to get their support. What on earth was he up to when he was in the US? Why did he suddenly go to Cambodia? That’s a dangerous country where gang violence is rampant, and land mines are almost everywhere, which is something known to the whole world! Why did he go there?”
“Sorry, Mrs. Mo. Only Mr. Mo can answer your question after he comes back. I can’t tell you too much,” Feng Ling said gently. “But please believe me, just as you said, Mr. Mo’s hands have always been clean. He hasn’t done anything illegal. As for what happened in the US back then, well, it is complicated. Although he has nothing to do with the underworld, in the eyes of the gangsters and the competitors of the XI base, his life is worth ten billion yuan. They won’t kill him, but if they ambush him and capture him, they won’t release him easily…”
“So, you mean he can’t be back because he has been kidnapped…?”
Feng Ling paused and looked at her. “Mr. Mo is missing, and the people in the base have all gone to search for him, but nobody knows what exactly happened to him. He had cut off the contact signal before he went missing…”
“What? That’s impossible. He said he just went abroad on business.” Ji Nuan suddenly turned around to run into her bedroom and picked her cell phone to call Mo Jingshen.
“Sorry, the number you have just dialed is unavailable right now. Please try again later.”
Ji Nuan slightly frowned and continued to try other numbers of Mo Jingshen.
Work phone number, personal phone number, and the infrequently used phone number. She tried each of them.
But the voice prompted that the phone was powered off, unable to connect or out of service.
Seeing Ji Nuan still trying to call Mo Jingshen, Feng Ling came up to her. “Our men have gone to search for him. Mr. Mo will come back safely, for sure. Mrs. Mo, let’s go back to Hai City first and I’ll company you back.”
Trying to calm down, Ji Nuan looked at her. “He asked me to wait for him to come back, and he promised to take me to the airport when he comes back to China. Mo Jingshen never breaks his promise. I’ll stay here, waiting for him. Perhaps he is right on a plane for China or has landed at the airport. I must wait for him here.”
Feng Ling wanted to comfort her, but obviously, Ji Nuan was on the verge of collapse and she shouldn’t push her too hard, so she merely said, “Okay, then let’s wait for him here. I’ll stay with you.”
Ji Nuan didn’t speak anymore but sat down on the couch with her cell phone in her hand and her eyes staring at the door.
Half an hour later, there was suddenly some noise outside the door, and the doorbell rang. Ji Nuan lunged to her feet and rushed up to the door. She looked really excited when she swung the door open. However, to her disappointment, a strange middle-aged man was standing outside.
“Young lady, this is the takeout you just ordered.” The middle-aged man smiled at her politely and handed her two bags with meal boxes inside.
The smile on Ji Nuan’s face immediately froze.
Feng Ling hurriedly walked out, took over the takeout, and paid for it. Then she pulled Ji Nuan into the room and closed the door.
“This is the takeout I just ordered. Mrs. Mo, you can wait here, but you must have some food.”
“I’m not hungry. You can eat it.” Ji Nuan walked back to the couch and sat down.
“But Mr. Mo said you have to eat breakfast.”
“I’m not hungry…”
“Mrs. Mo, if Mr. Mo finds out that you don’t have your meals on time, he will fire me when he comes back. You know, I don’t want to go back to the US. It will be hard for a female bodyguard like me to find a job in China if I get fired.”
Chapter 278: The One Who Knows Nothing Fears Nothing
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Ji Nuan looked at her and got up, went to the table, and sat down.
Feng Ling opened the bag and took out the soy milk and steamed buns in the meal box. “I know you probably don’t have much of an appetite, so I bought two kinds of steamed buns with different fillings, one with beef and onions and the other with eggs and zucchini. Do have some food.”
Without a word, Ji Nuan drank a mouthful of soy milk, then picked up a steamed stuffed bun and took a bite.
As soon as she took a bite, the delicious and strong smell of beef filled her mouth, and for no reason, Ji Nuan suddenly felt sick. She jumped up, rushed into the bathroom, and retched against the toilet.
“Mrs. Mo?” Feng Ling was worried. She put down her chopsticks and followed her out; Ji Nuan retched for quite a while but didn’t throw up anything. Her stomach seemed to have something wrong, and she kept retching. Seeing this scene, Feng Ling hurriedly poured a cup of water for her and handed it to her when she finally stopped retching and stood up.
“Why did you suddenly throw up? What’s wrong with you? Do you need to see a doctor?” Feng Ling stared at her with care.
“I’m fine. I had a lot of stomach trouble when I just came to T City. Maybe I was too nervous just now.” Ji Nuan rinsed her mouth and washed her face with cold water. She went back to the dining table, looked at the steamed buns, and had no appetite. The beef filling smelled disgusting. Although the beef was clean and looked delicious, she just felt it was disgusting.
She didn’t want to eat the steamed buns of vegetable fillings either. In the end, she just took half a glass of soy milk, but soon she covered her twitching stomach with her hands, saying, “I can’t drink it anymore. I’m going to throw up again if I drink some more.”
Since she obviously had no appetite and had already finished half a glass of soy milk, Feng Ling didn’t force her to continue to eat. “Go to your bedroom and take a nap. Shall I buy you some stomach medicine?”
“No, I’ll be all right in a moment. Let’s deal with it when we go back to Hai City.” Ji Nuan walked to the couch and sat down. Where she sat was right opposite to the door. She sat stubbornly there, looking at the door.
From morning to afternoon, Mo Jingshen didn’t show up.
She leaned back on the couch, held the pillow in her arms, and picked up her cell phone, trying to call Mo Jingshen again.
His cell phone was still powered off, and nobody answered the call.
She took a deep breath and looked at the quiet door.
“Mrs. Mo, do you feel better now?” Feng Ling sat down beside her and asked her gently, carefully avoiding mentioning Mo Jingshen.
Ji Nuan didn’t answer. After a long silence, Ji Nuan said calmly, “Feng Ling, let’s go back to Hai City.”
Feng Ling paused, looked at Ji Nuan’s seemingly calm look and nodded. “Okay, I’m going to order the tickets.”
Ji Nuan didn’t speak anymore. She leaned on the couch and looked up at the apartment she’d lived in for three months.
—-
From the apartment to the airport, and from boarding to landing in Hai City, Ji Nuan had been silent.
When they walked out of Hai City Airport, a silver-gray Porsche was parked outside, which had apparently come to pick her up. Ji Nuan didn’t call a car, nor tell the Ji family and the Mo Family about her flight number. Why was there a car to pick her up?
She cast a questioning glance at Feng Ling, and the latter said, “It’s not convenient to inform the Mo Family of what happened to Mr. Mo, so I called Dr. Qin before boarding and told him you had stomach troubles this morning. I was worried that you might be airsick today, so I asked him if he could come to pick you up. Since he happened to be free today, he came here.”
Qin Siting?
Ji Nuan paused and didn’t speak. As soon as she walked to the car, the door beside the driver’s seat was opened. Qin Siting was not wearing his doctor’s gown but a light-colored shirt and trousers instead. He got out of the car and took a look at her. With that idle smile on his face, Qin Siting raised his eyebrow at her. “Wow, Mrs. Mo, you look different from before. As the saying goes, wisdom in hold, elegance in mold. You look like a corporate executive now. I’m afraid those old men in my family won’t be able to compete with your studio in the future.”
“Dr. Qin, sorry for troubling you to pick me up since you are such a busy man.” Ji Nuan nodded at him politely.
“Never mind. Put your luggage over there. Get in the car.” Qin Siting didn’t speak anything more. He motioned Ji Nuan to get into the car and then walked around to the other side to put their luggage into the trunk with Feng Ling.
Ji Nuan wanted to carry her own luggage, but the actions of the two of them were so agile and quick that she didn’t even have a chance to touch her luggage. Ji Nuan didn’t insist and sat in the back of the car.
Seeing her listless, Qin Siting shut down the trunk and glanced at Feng Ling. “She already knows?”
Feng Ling answered, “I can’t keep it from her. Luckily, she seems to be calm, but I don’t know about her real thoughts.”
“Calm?” Qin Siting sneered. “That’s impossible. She just tries to look composed in case we will be worried about her. If she can’t control her own emotions, who can help her? In this world, only Mo Jingshen will care about her. Now Mo Jingshen is missing, and she can only count on herself.”
With that, Qin Siting walked to the car and knocked at the rear window.
Ji Nuan turned down the window and looked at him. “Yes, Dr. Qin?”
“Feng Ling said you threw up with after taking a bite of steamed bun. What’s wrong with you?”
“It’s okay. I’m all right now.”
“I’m going to send you back to Yu Garden, and we’ll pass by my hospital on the way. Let me take you to the hospital to have an examination.”
“Don’t bother. Just send me to Yu Garden…”
Qin Siting ignored her words, opened the car door, and sat in the driver’s seat.
Feng Ling got into the car too. She looked at Ji Nuan. “It’s not bad to have a check in the hospital. Otherwise, I’ll be worried about you.”
She merely threw up. Why should she be worried about her?
Ji Nuan had thought she was pregnant when she threw up, but now she was not in the mood to think about it. Even if she was pregnant, so what? At most, she would have an upset stomach.
Ji Nuan didn’t say anything more. After all, Qin Siting specially came to pick her up. If he insisted on taking her to his hospital, she couldn’t just force him to send her to Yu Garden, nor could she jump out of the car, so she would just let him.
In the car, Qin Siting took a look at the time, then at Ji Nuan from the rearview mirror as he drove. “He will come back. Don’t be worried. Nan Heng has already sent his men to search for him. Although that place is dangerous, we are not sure whether he was ambushed or something else. Don’t do stupid things.”
After a short pause, Ji Nuan said, “I don’t even know what he had been up to in the US. Even if I want to do stupid things, I have no clue what to do. What can I do now?”
Qin Siting smiled. “The one who knows nothing fears nothing. That’s good for you.”
“The one who knows nothing fears nothing? You mean he is in a situation even more dangerous than I think?” Ji Nuan suddenly looked at him.
Qin Siting raised an eyebrow, turned the steering wheel, and drove the car away from the highway, not answering her question.
Chapter 279: You’re Pregnant, Mrs. Mo
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When they arrived at the hospital, Qin Siting asked Feng Ling to accompany Ji Nuan to have a blood test.
It was 9:00 p.m., and most doctors had got off work. They were surprised to see Qin Siting coming to the hospital at such a time because as far as they knew, Doctor Qin seldom went to the hospital after work.
As Ji Nuan was brought here by Qin Siting, the on-duty doctors quickly gave Ji Nuan a medical examination.
When Ji Nuan walked to Qin Siting’s office with the results of her examinations, she heard Qin Siting talking on the phone.
“Still no news? He has been missing for a whole day. From what I know of him, he has never been like this. There must be some accident not expected by us. We’d better find him within 24 hours. Otherwise, his life might be in danger…”
After hearing his words, Ji Nuan paused outside the door.
At this time, Qin Siting’s voice softened a bit. “I’ll take care of Ji Nuan. She has come back to Hai City. She looks calm. Feng Ling will stay with her.”
Then he continued to say something to the person on the other side of the line. Ji Nuan knocked on the door, and Qin Siting immediately hung up.
“The results of your medical examination have come out?” Qin Siting turned his eyes to Ji Nuan who came into his office.
Ji Nuan grunted in response and came up to hand him the test reports, asking, “What does the hCG value mean?”
Qin Siting hadn’t read the page with the hCG value. After hearing her question, he raised his eyebrows and picked that page out. He glanced at it and then looked up at Ji Nuan.
“When was your last period?”
“…”
Ji Nuan suddenly realized that she shouldn’t take Qin Siting merely as Mo Jingshen’s good buddy here. He was a doctor, and it was normal for him to ask her such a question.
“About a month ago.” As soon as she said this, she froze.
Her period should have come two days ago, but it hadn’t come. However, her period was very regular.
“Your hCG value is positive, which means that you’re pregnant, Mrs. Mo.” Qin Siting looked at her with a smile.
Ji Nuan looked at him in surprise. “What?”
“Why are you so surprised? Your hCG value is standard, not high or low, which means you don’t have an ectopic pregnancy. Let’s go to see a gynecologist later. If you don’t have anything wrong, then you threw up this morning because of your pregnancy.” Qin Siting read the other test reports about her, and then made an appointment with a gynecologist with his computer. He glanced at Ji Nuan only to find her still frozen there as if she didn’t understand what had happened.
“Why are you just standing there?” He raised his eyebrows.
“Am I really…” Ji Nuan looked at him incredulously. “…pregnant?”
Qin Siting cast a helpless glance at her. “Do you think the testing machines in the hospital are toys? You are pregnant. According to the time of your last period, you became pregnant three or four weeks ago. Your pregnancy time is so short that it can only be confirmed through a blood test, but you are pregnant indeed.”
“I just had a physical examination done than three weeks ago. And the doctor prescribed me a lot of traditional Chines medicines to treat my uterine coldness problem.”
“Obviously, you could not find if you were pregnant three weeks ago. The pregnancy time should be counted according to the time of your last period. The traditional Chinese medicines worked on you. Besides, during this period, you and Mo Jingshen had had sex more than once, right?”
Ji Nuan: “…”
Yes, they had had sex more than once, or to be exact, for many many times…
So, when she thought it would take her a long time to conceive a baby, she was told she had already been pregnant?
This was a great surprise, but the one she wanted to share this good news with was not around.
Then Ji Nuan went to see a gynecologist and received another examination. In the end, it was confirmed that she was pregnant. Because of uterine coldness, her body was more sensitive, so her pregnancy symptoms came earlier and stronger than on common women.
When Ji Nuan walked out of the consulting room, Feng Ling, who was waiting for her, came up and looked at her with affection. “Mrs. Mo, are you really pregnant?”
Yes, she was.
But where was Mo Jingshen?
Where was her baby’s father?
—-
She left the hospital and came back to the long-lost Yu Garden. As before, Auntie Chen came out to greet her. Seeing her again, she happily beckoned other servants to carry her luggage. She escorted her upstairs and kept asking her how she had been in T City these months.
It had been just three months, and it seemed that nothing had changed. Yu Garden was still that warm Yu Garden, and Auntie Chen was still that enthusiastic Auntie Chen.
The furnishings in the bedroom had not changed, and her wardrobe hasn’t changed much since she left.
“Mrs. Mo, why did you come back at such a time. It’s almost midnight. Are you hungry? Shall I make some night snack for you?” Auntie Chen asked with a smile.
“I’m not hungry and it’s late. Go to sleep, Auntie Chen. See you tomorrow,” Ji Nuan answered gently. Then she walked to the window, opened it, and looked out at the falling snow.
It was early winter when she left. It didn’t snow at that time, but now the gardens and swimming pools of Yu Garden that were over two thousand square meters large were all covered with snow.
Auntie Chen thought Ji Nuan was tired because of the journey, so she told her to go to sleep early and went out, not disturbing her.
Feng Ling waited outside. When Auntie Chen left, she entered the room. “I’ll stay with you at Yu Garden. There are a lot of guest rooms, and I can live here. Call me if you have any problems.”
“You’ve been busy all day. Go to sleep,” Ji Nuan said flatly, standing at the window motionlessly.
There was silence in the room. Ji Nuan gazed out the window for quite a while and didn’t close the window until she felt the cold winter wind. She turned around and walked to the bed. At the moment she touched the bed, she lay down backward. There seemed to be Mo Jingshen’s smell on the quilt, which meant that he lived at Yu Garden before he went abroad.
Ji Nuan rolled over on the bed, buried her face into the quilt, and took a deep breath. The next second, she smelled a slight, clean, and masculine smell. It was as if Mo Jingshen was lying right beside her.
She was sleepy but didn’t want to sleep. She took her cell phone and began to send messages to Mo Jingshen.
Ji Nuan: [You told me to wait for you to come back. You said you would take me to Hai City.]
Ji Nuan: [Mo Jingshen, you can’t just break your promise.]
Ji Nuan: [Where are you?]
Like a stone sinking into the sea, the message got no reply. Her cell phone and Mo Jingshen’s cell phone would show whether the other party had read the message or not. Half an hour later, the messages she sent to him were still displayed as ‘unread.’
Ji Nuan’s nose went sour. She was about to put her cell phone down when her cell phone suddenly vibrated in her palm.
Chapter 280: Mo Jingshen Called Her
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Ji Nuan immediately looked down at the phone number shown on the screen.
It was Mo Jingshen’s number! She instantly jumped up from the bed and picked up the call as fast as she could. “Hello?”
The call was connected, but the other side didn’t speak. She vaguely heard someone breathing on the other side, but the breath seemed to be far away from the cell phone.
“Hello? Jingshen!” Ji Nuan held her cell phone tightly. “Where are you? Are you…”
“Beep—”
This call lasted less than five seconds before cutting off.
Ji Nuan’s hands froze. She took a look at the screen. The call had been cut off for sure.
For some reason, Ji Nuan’s heart suddenly beat faster. She stared at the call record and suddenly rushed out of the bedroom, running to Feng Ling’s room and began to knock hard on the door.
Feng Ling thought she had an accident. When she opened the door, she glanced warily out of the door, only to see Ji Nuan standing at the door nervously. Feng Ling hurriedly walked out and looked behind her. “What’s up? What happened?”
“A call, Feng Ling, Mo Jingshen just called me…” Ji Nuan pointed to her cell phone. “Just now. One minute ago!”
Feng Ling looked surprised at her and took her cell phone. When she saw that call record, she paused for a second and immediately went back to her room to make a call.
Ji Nuan followed her in. Feng Ling told some people that Mo Jingshen called Ji Nuan just now. Then someone sent a software that Ji Nuan hadn’t ever seen to Feng Ling’s cell phone. Feng Ling connected her cell phone to a computer, installed the software, and took Ji Nuan’s cell phone to connect it to the computer as well.
Ji Nuan stood on the side and stared at the computer’s screen. A map appeared on the screen with a marked red dot flickering somewhere on the map. It flickered and gradually faded away.
At the very moment Feng Ling saw that red dot, she called someone. “We found Mr. Mo’s location several minutes ago. He is about five kilometers east of Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia. The coordinates are correct, and the signal has disappeared now.”
After the call, Feng Ling looked at Ji Nuan. “Fortunately, you told me in time so that we managed to find out his location before the signal was blocked. Now our men have hurried toward there. Mr. Mo will come back safe and sound for sure.”
Ji Nuan turned her eyes to the map on the screen where the red dot had disappeared. It was a map of Cambodia indeed.
“He didn’t say anything in the call and hung up in several seconds. Are you sure… he is safe?” Ji Nuan stared at Feng Ling’s face. “If he is safe, why did he suddenly make this call but didn’t say anything? Why did the signal disappear so soon?”
“Mr. Mo’s current location is a minefield. Even the Cambodian government can’t control that area that has been occupied by drug trafficking groups of different countries. All signals from that area will be blocked, so technically no signal can be detected there. Why did Mr. Mo suddenly call you? What did you do? Or…”
As Feng Ling spoke, Ji Nuan glanced at her cell phone’s screen, only to find the two messages she sent to Mo Jingshen had been marked as ‘Read.’
“I sent him messages, and he read them.” Ji Nuan looked up at Feng Ling.
Feng Ling retook her cell phone and looked at the screen. “Perhaps Mr. Mo happened to leave the area where all signals are blocked when you sent him the messages, but we don’t know where he will go or be taken to. We have to find him as soon as possible. We have some people in Cambodia. Believe me, we will find him soon. Go to sleep and wait for the good news.”
Go to sleep? How could she fall asleep?
Ji Nuan didn’t reveal her emotion so as not to bring too much pressure to Feng Ling. She turned to go back to her room with her cell phone.
“Mrs. Mo, leave your cell phone to me. If Mr. Mo contacts you again, I can detect his location immediately.”
“All right.”
Ji Nuan gave her the cell phone and walked out of the guest room.
She went back to her bedroom and looked around at the empty room where there was only her. It seemed that she could still hear the light, faintly discernible breath she heard during the four-second call.
Under what circumstances was he calling?
Ji Nuan leaned against the door and closed her eyes, trying to hold back the tears that were almost coming out. She dared not imagine what had happened to him.
Since he could still read her messages and even call her, it meant that he was still alive. In Cambodia, he was still alive!
He would come back safely!
Ji Nuan went to bed, but there seemed still to be that light, faintly discernible breath of his at her ears.
At night, the cold wind rustled outside the window. Ji Nuan rolled over and couldn’t sleep.
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Before dawn, Ji Nuan, who hadn’t fallen asleep, suddenly heard some noise from outside. She immediately got up and quickly walked to the door. When she was about to push the door open, she heard two lowered voices outside.
“Miss Feng, there’s a car outside. The people in the car said they came to pick you up. And they told me not to wake up Mrs. Mo.” It was Auntie Chen’s voice.
“Okay.” Feng Ling’s voice was low too. “I may be away for a few days. Take care of Mrs. Mo. Have two more people accompany her. Don’t let her leave here. Better keep her waiting in the Yu Garden for our news.”
“Are you leaving? So urgent? Did anything happen, Miss Feng?”
“Nothing serious, but Mrs. Mo is pregnant. She was confirmed pregnant in the hospital yesterday. Remember not to let her run around. She needs more nourishing foods. It is daylight; I have to go now. Make a good breakfast for her,” Feng Ling said in a lowered voice.
“Mrs. Mo is pregnant? God, I didn’t know. She didn’t tell me about this when she came back last night. Okay, I’m going to prepare her the tonics for pregnant women.”
“Okay, and don’t tell Mrs. Mo about this car. If Mrs. Mo asks about me when she wakes up, just tell her I have something to tend to and will come back soon. Don’t let her worry about me.”
“Okay, I see, Miss Feng.”
Then it came the sound of them walking down the stairs, and Auntie Chen asking Feng Ling about Ji Nuan’s pregnancy from time to time. After they went downstairs, she couldn’t hear anything else.
Where was Feng Ling going? She specially told Auntie Chen not to let her know she had left. Apparently, she wouldn’t stay in Hai City.
Where was she going? The US? Or… Cambodia?