Mei asked again, "Young Master, have you had dinner? I'll make you something to eat."
"Not yet. Cook two bowls of noodles. I'll persuade Susu to eat something too." Tianyi, thinking of the absence of Tiantian's cheerful laughter in the house, leaned back on the sofa, feeling a heavy heart. He could only hope for good news from Kangxi soon.
And why hadn't Wu Xiufang contacted him yet? Had his and Kangxi's deductions been wrong?
After Mei finished cooking the noodles, Tianyi took a bowl upstairs. He pushed open the door and saw Susu staring intently at her phone, as if reading a text message.
"Eat something," Tianyi walked towards her. "If you don't eat for these two days, your body won't be able to hold up."
Seeing him enter, Susu quickly closed her phone and hid it behind her. She agreed, "Okay, I'll eat."
Tianyi felt she had finally started to recover. He placed the noodles on the table, handed her the chopsticks, and said, "I'll watch you eat."
Susu forced a smile, clutched her phone, took the chopsticks, and began to eat the noodles in large bites.
"We will definitely find Tiantian, but it might be tomorrow, or it might take some more time. We can't let our own bodies collapse."
With her mouth full of noodles, Susu smiled at him and said, "Mmm, you eat too."
"I've already eaten." Tianyi saw she was still holding her phone. "Why are you still holding your phone? No one should be calling randomly anymore. Relax a bit."
Susu tried to relax, placing the phone on the edge of the table. "Okay, I'll sleep properly again. That way, I'll have the energy to keep looking for Tiantian."
Seeing that she had figured it out, Tianyi felt a sense of relief. He patted her head and said, "That's my good girl."
Susu used her chopsticks to pick up some noodles and proactively offered them to him. "You said you've eaten, but have one more bite. Don't get too tired either. I know you're not feeling well either. If you have anything to say, just say it. We can comfort each other."
"I'm a grown man, I can handle it." Tianyi felt that her words were enough. He discussed with her, "Tomorrow, I plan to repost the missing person notice, but I'll leave the police's phone number on it. That way, if there are any leads, the police can help us screen them before we go, so we won't waste time running around aimlessly."
"Okay," Susu said jokingly. "I'll listen to you. If one day I disappear too, it will all depend on you."
"You're an adult, how can you disappear? Who could kidnap you?" Tianyi tapped her forehead, knowing she was overthinking again.
"Just saying, I'm going to sleep now." Susu didn't dare to say more and proactively went to sleep.
"Then you sleep first. I'll go to the study to make a call and ask if Kangxi has any leads." As he spoke, he tucked Susu in and went to the study.
As soon as he left, Susu took out her phone and carefully re-examined the address Yang Shasha had sent.
She quietly got out of bed, wrote the address on a piece of paper, and hid it under Tianyi's pillow. She thought that if anything happened to her, Tianyi would at least know where she had gone.
Tianyi went to the study, but he didn't actually call Kangxi, knowing it would be useless.
If Kangxi had any information about Tiantian's whereabouts, he would have told him and Susu immediately without him having to ask.
If he hadn't received a call from Kangxi, it meant there was no news.
Tianyi just wanted to be alone in the study to clear his head. He browsed through photos of Tiantian from birth until now on his computer, missing her even more.
From childhood to adulthood, he had never allowed Tiantian to suffer any hardship or pain, doting on her like a proud little princess.
But now she had fallen into the hands of bad people. The thought of her possibly being beaten or scolded made him frantic, wishing he could go directly to Wu Xiufang to demand her return.
Once Tiantian was found, he would not let any of these people go!
...
Susu woke up to find it was morning.
She was still lying alone in bed. Susu felt that Tianyi hadn't returned to the room to sleep all night. She figured that after Tiantian's disappearance, his mood could only be worse than hers.
Therefore, she made up her mind that when she saw Yang Shasha today, she would find Tiantian and bring her back, no matter what Yang Shasha asked of her, she would agree.
After getting up, Susu went downstairs. She didn't see anyone else, only Mei busy in the kitchen.
The tutor and nanny hadn't come for the past two days. It had been Xiao Xingxing who had been accompanying Hengheng and Tangtang.
These children knew that something big had happened at home and their parents were very worried. They were sensible and didn't bother Susu.
She quietly sat at the dining table and casually ate a sandwich she picked up from the table.
When Mei came out of the kitchen with steamed cakes, she was startled to see her and said, "Young Madam, why are you walking so silently?"
"Did Tianyi go out? Where are the children?" Susu asked.
Mei replied, "Yes. Young Master went out very early. I'll go and call the two Young Masters and the Fourth Young Lady for breakfast."
"Wait, let them sleep a bit longer. I'll call them later." After finishing her sandwich and drinking a glass of milk, Susu returned to her room to get ready.
Mei looked at her, completely different from last night, and felt a bit strange.
Why wasn't the Young Madam sad or anxious anymore? It was as if she was no longer worried about the Third Young Lady at all?
As Mei watched her go upstairs, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. The Young Madam must have been searching for the Third Young Lady everywhere for the past two days without any success, and had become completely heartbroken and despairing, so she kept all her emotions to herself and no longer showed them.
But sighing aside, she still had to take care of the other children.
After the Third Young Lady disappeared, these elder children also stopped playing. They were probably all worried about the Third Young Lady too.
Especially the Fourth Young Lady, who seemed very scared. She stayed in her room and didn't even dare to go to the garden, fearing that someone would snatch her away like they had snatched the Fourth Young Lady.
While Mei wasn't paying attention, Susu quietly left the villa by herself. She didn't drive the family car but took a taxi to the address Yang Shasha had mentioned.
After getting out of the car, she found herself in front of an abandoned factory. The factory building looked quite new, or perhaps it had just been renovated and hadn't started production yet.
Susu looked around and saw no one. Could Yang Shasha be playing a trick on her?
She walked towards the factory building, intending to push open the large blue door, thinking that Tiantian might be inside.
With this thought, Susu quickened her pace. As she neared the main gate, a voice called out to her, "Gu Susu, long time no see. You seem to be living quite comfortably."
Susu turned her head in the direction of the voice, unable to figure out where Yang Shasha had appeared from. It seemed this factory had more than one entrance.
Yang Shasha was wearing a mask and a hat, so Susu could barely see her face, but she recognized her voice.
"Where is my daughter? Was she taken from the amusement park?" Susu asked directly. "You harmed yourself and others back then. I never harmed you, so why did you kidnap my daughter?"
"It wasn't me who kidnapped your daughter. I just took money to help someone solve a problem," Yang Shasha sneered. "But honestly, you and your daughter deserve to die. You killed Yang Sijie, so why do you still get to live so well?"