Chapter 1585 - 1305: Loving Someone Is Exhausting

Chapter 1585: Chapter 1305: Loving Someone Is Exhausting

In the afternoon, Song Yansheng rushed to Gu Zheng’s place again; ten minutes earlier, he’d received a call from Gu Zheng.

Gu Zheng said he had stopped a deaf-mute couple, and Qin Ran had said the man’s way of walking looked very much like Zhong Jinnan.

But unfortunately, before Song Yansheng could reach the destination, he received another call from Gu Zheng; Gu Zheng said they had already checked and it wasn’t him.

Song Yansheng let out a slow breath, said nothing, and kept heading for the destination.

In the monitoring room, Gu Zheng’s head was pounding too. Yu Yao and Zhong Jinnan had been missing for nearly a full day and night; if they still couldn’t be found now, he really couldn’t be sure Zhong Jinnan was still in T City.

When Zhong Jinnan did things, he was shrewd and calculating, planned far ahead; it was indeed hard for anyone to be a match for him.

And if he wasn’t absolutely certain, how could he have knowingly walked into a trap and still chosen to keep his appointment with Yu Yao?

Gu Zheng suddenly had a bad feeling. He deeply regretted making that demand, but at this point it was already too late.

When Song Yansheng arrived, he didn’t say a word, just kept working with Gu Zheng to investigate. It was another whole night, and still they came up empty-handed.

The longer the disappearance dragged on, the harder it became to find any trace of Zhong Jinnan.

Gu Zheng had already called to have the search radius expanded.

But Song Yansheng said there was no need. He said, "I have a feeling Zhong Jinnan is still in T City. He hasn’t left, and he won’t leave."

Gu Zheng frowned and asked, "Why?"

Song Yansheng’s thin lips moved slightly. He said, "Because he won’t stand by and watch my mother die."

If Zhong Jinnan had really wanted to have Yu Yao, he could actually have gotten her eight years ago—no, maybe even fifteen years ago.

But he wanted Yu Yao to willingly follow him, so he had schemed for so many years, grooming Qin Ran and Yan Ke.

Yet he had also made the worst preparations, in case Yu Yao refused him to the death...

If Yu Yao refused him to the death, could he really resign himself to all those years of effort turning into nothing?

Zhong Jinnan was so proud, there was no way he would allow that; so now, he was making his last gamble. ℴℴ𝘮

He had abducted Yu Yao; even if Yu Yao wouldn’t accept him, he still wanted to keep her by his side.

To Song Yansheng, Zhong Jinnan felt like a very deranged man; but then again, aren’t all men and women ensnared by love just as crazed?

If he weren’t crazy, how would he have been so stubborn, ignoring everything to marry Shi Nuan?

He actually had no right to condemn Zhong Jinnan. If the person Zhong Jinnan had taken wasn’t his mother, he might even have sympathized with him.

After a whole night of exhaustion, for some reason Song Yansheng came down with a chill. Chi Rui, distressed, told him to go rest, but he refused.

In the end the chill turned into a low-grade fever, and the low-grade fever turned into a high one.

By noon the next day, Song Yansheng finally collapsed in the monitoring room, and Chi Rui hurriedly took Zhong Jinnan to the hospital.

He handed the remaining tasks over to Gu Zheng and Qin Ran.

At the hospital, Song Yansheng lay unconscious, burning up at 39.7 degrees. A man of almost six feet, he looked haggard beyond recognition.

Chi Rui couldn’t help his eyes turning red. Even though Song Yansheng might not approve, she still called Yao Ziwan.

She hoped Yao Ziwan could bring Shi Nuan to the hospital to see Song Yansheng.

But Yao Ziwan said she didn’t know where Shi Nuan was right now, and couldn’t reach her.

Chi Rui froze. "Didn’t you say you’d arrange a place for Lady to stay? How can you not know?"

Yao Ziwan frowned and said, "When we left yesterday, Lady had me take her to T University. After that she said she wanted to walk around campus and told me to go back first. Coincidentally, Mr. Qiao needed to see me about something, so I went back to the company. About an hour and a half later, when I finished up at the office and wanted to return to T University to pick up Lady, Lady called me herself. She said she had now found a very safe, very quiet place and told me not to look for her. If she needed anything, she would contact me... After she hung up, I haven’t been able to reach Lady again."

Chi Rui’s brows drew together. "So Lady... didn’t tell you where she was?"

"No..." Yao Ziwan said. "Yesterday Mr. Song... Mr. Song really did hurt Lady. I thought it might be good for Lady to have a few days of peace, so I didn’t inform Mr. Song right away..."

Chi Rui took a deep breath and couldn’t say anything more; she just hung up.

Chi Rui went back to the ward. Seeing Song Yansheng on the bed, his brow tightly furrowed, she couldn’t name the feeling in her heart.

She couldn’t bear to look any longer. She knew that right now, finding Zhong Jinnan and Yu Yao and settling the turmoil outside was what mattered most.

As for the relationship between Song Yansheng and Shi Nuan... there would be time. There would be time for the two of them to slowly work through everything.

They clearly loved each other. They shouldn’t have parted.