"What did you say? She's gone again? What are all of you good for!" Gu Jiangyan slammed his palm on the table, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Ten minutes ago, Gu Jiangyan had just finished a phone call with Jian Junruo. After agreeing to send Jian Sheng over that evening and not keep her with him any longer, he had sensed something was wrong with Jian Sheng.
At that time, Jian Sheng, with her baozi-like face all teary-eyed, had asked him with a choked voice, "Daddy isn't going to leave Sheng Sheng anymore, is he?"
Gu Jiangyan, not wanting to let a child affect his work, had directly said, "Daddy isn't leaving Sheng Sheng, he's just letting Sheng Sheng stay with Mommy for a while."
Jian Sheng had then flung back, "Daddy doesn't want Sheng Sheng, so Sheng Sheng doesn't want Daddy either!" and ran out crying.
Gu Jiangyan hadn't paid it much mind, merely asking Qin Wen to follow her and continuing his work.
But in the blink of an eye, Jian Sheng had vanished as if from thin air, with even the surveillance cameras showing no clues.
This time, Gu Jiangyan was truly starting to panic. He pressed his palm hard on the table, "Notify everyone, everyone gets an extra day's pay today. Have everyone in the company go find her! Every corner of the company! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, find her!"
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In the flower bed outside the company, a small figure was huddled behind a low evergreen, constantly wiping away tears with her hands.
In the cultivation world, she was doted on as a little ancestor. Now that she had come to the mortal realm, she had offered herself sweetly calling out "Daddy, Daddy," only to be disliked. In both her lives, when had Jian Sheng ever been so wronged!
"I thought I could have a daddy, but it's all fake! Daddy is bad, Sheng Sheng doesn't want Daddy anymore!"
Jian Sheng took out Uncle Qin, Qin Wen's, phone from her embrace. The phone was vibrating constantly, with call after call coming in, all of which Jian Sheng quickly declined.
Through the dense bushes, Jian Sheng saw a red Maserati sports car perform a beautiful drift and stop at the entrance of Huanyu Company. A young, handsome man, who looked about eighty percent like her Mommy, got out of the car, leaned against the door, and picked up his phone to make a call.
At the same time, the phone in Jian Sheng's hand rang again, but this time it displayed an unsaved number.
Jian Sheng answered the call and crawled out from the bushes, waving towards the man, "Little Uncle, Sheng Sheng is here!"
The person was her maternal uncle, Jian Junyu, Mommy's twin brother, and the only member of the Jian family who had maintained goodwill towards Mommy from beginning to end in the original story.
Not long after Daddy found Mommy, the Jian family also found Mommy. However, except for Little Uncle, the other Jian family members had extremely hostile attitudes towards Mommy. Only Little Uncle cared for Mommy and had stayed in Jiangcheng, fearing that Mommy might get into an accident.
Jian Sheng had run out of the company with nowhere to go, and her first thought was Little Uncle. If she could take Mommy to Little Uncle's place to hide, then she wouldn't want the bad daddy anymore!
As the little voice echoed, a voice also came from Jian Junyu's phone. Jian Junyu immediately walked towards the little dumpling waving here.
The dumpling was small, still wrapped in a comical suit, with several tears in the clothes from the bushes, her face covered in un-dried tears and some smudges of mud from who knows what, looking exceptionally disheveled and exceptionally pitiable.
Jian Junyu hugged the little dumpling with concern, "Oh my, Sheng Sheng baby, how did you get like this? Where are your Mommy and Daddy?"
The little dumpling sniffled, her big red eyes looking at Jian Junyu, "Daddy doesn't want Sheng Sheng anymore, so Sheng Sheng doesn't want Daddy anymore either. Can Sheng Sheng and Mommy go to Little Uncle's place?"
"Okay, okay, Little Uncle's place will always be Sheng Sheng's home. Sheng Sheng can come anytime," Jian Junruo quickly agreed, secretly cursing Gu Jiangyan for being such a scoundrel for letting such a young child run around like this.
What if the little dumpling, alone outside, ran into bad people? Such a cute child would be most liked by human traffickers.
Jian Junyu, holding the little dumpling, was about to get into the car when Jian Sheng grabbed his clothes, "Little Uncle, Sheng Sheng will call Daddy first. Daddy will be worried if he can't find Sheng Sheng for too long."
"Call what? He deserves to be worried if he's not responsible!" Jian Junyu snorted coldly, stopping his steps.
Jian Sheng, in the slightly cool evening breeze, sat in Jian Junyu's arms and made the call.
In the total surveillance room of the Huanyu Company building, Gu Jiangyan's gaze swept across countless surveillance screens, with people running in from time to time to report search progress.
"Report, Mr. Gu, the 27th floor has been searched. No sign of the young lady!"
"Report, Mr. Gu, the 26th floor has been searched. No sign of the young lady!"
"Report, Mr. Gu..."
Waving away another reporting supervisor, Gu Jiangyan, with bloodshot eyes, looked at the employee typing rapidly on the keyboard to his right, "Have you located Qin Wen's phone signal?"
The person's fingers flew across the keyboard, "Almost! Two minutes! Give me two more minutes and I can determine the exact location."
Just as he was about to call Qin Wen's phone again, a call noted as "Qin Wen" came in. Gu Jiangyan quickly answered.
There was a two-second silence on both ends. Gu Jiangyan suddenly heard a car horn, and he clenched his fist fiercely, "Sheng Sheng! Where are you now? Daddy doesn't want you! Hurry back!"
The cold wind blew, making Jian Sheng's nose sting. "Daddy doesn't need to comfort Sheng Sheng. Sheng Sheng knows Daddy doesn't like Sheng Sheng and Mommy. Daddy always dislikes Sheng Sheng as a burden and a troublemaker, hoping Sheng Sheng can stay as far away as possible. You don't need to chase me away, Sheng Sheng will leave on her own."
Gu Jiangyan's chest tightened, his breathing becoming difficult. Anger and urgency filled his chest at this moment. He roared into the phone, "Jian Sheng! I have never abandoned you! Don't do anything foolish, damn it!"
Everyone in the total surveillance room was stunned by this roar. The air fell silent for several seconds.
"Hic!"
Jian Sheng was startled into a crying hiccup, looking a bit stunned.
What foolish thing was she doing?
Just as she was about to tell her Daddy that she was going to Little Uncle's place and that Daddy shouldn't bother Mommy, Jian Junyu couldn't listen anymore and directly snatched her phone, hanging up.
"He dares to yell at my niece like that? Does he think he's got it all?"
Less than a second after the call was hung up, it rang again. Jian Junyu looked at the contact noted as "Boss" and asked, "Whose phone is this?"
Jian Sheng was still dazed, answering foolishly, "It's Uncle Qin's, my Daddy's assistant."
"Oh."
Jian Junyu directly threw the phone into the flower bed, then unlocked his own phone and shoved it into Jian Sheng's embrace, "Let's go, Little Uncle will take you for a drive."
Total surveillance room.
Gu Jiangyan was so angry he almost smashed his phone.
The employee typing on the keyboard suddenly stopped, looking a bit dumbfounded, "Boss, we've located it. Assistant Qin's phone signal is outside the company, about fifty meters west of the main entrance."