Chapter 226: Chapter 219: Captured

She just hoped that Xu Miaomiao was doing as Chen Lidong suggested: ran short of toilet paper, got numbing legs from squatting, or couldn’t get up because of diarrhea.

She went into the ladies’ restroom. When she came out, her face was pale – it was even rather unsightly.

Because Xu Miaomiao wasn’t in there.

“She might have run into the men’s restroom,” Chen Lidong pondered, then slapped his left hand with his right, “I believe she must be too embarrassed to come out. Let me check.”

Chen Lidong said this and also ran into the men’s restroom to look for her.

But Tang Yuxin firmly clenched her hands at her sides, without any hope in Chen Lidong. After all, Xu Miaomiao originally entered the women’s restroom, not the men’s. She had seen with her own eyes Xu Miaomiao entering the women’s restroom, and half an hour had already passed, and she had not come out yet.

And now she was not in the restroom.

How could a perfectly fine person just disappear? She reentered the ladies’ restroom. There was a window inside, but Xu Miaomiao was not going to climb out. The window was small, so a child might have been able to fit through it, but Xu Miaomiao was not petite, and there was nothing wrong with her mentally. So, she would never climb through a window.

When she came out again, Chen Lidong’s face was all white.

“What should we do, she’s not inside.”

Tang Yuxin slightly pursed her red lips. She knew Xu Miaomiao was not inside.

“What should we do now? Should we inform her aunt?” Chen Lidong was a bit flustered. He bitterly thought that once he found Xu Miaomiao, he would definitely beat her to death, regardless of whether she was a woman. She was playing a game of disappearing, was she having fun somewhere?

Yes, she must have gone somewhere. Chen Lidong consoled himself with this thought.

“She must have gone somewhere for fun.”

He tried to bronze a smile, but it was uglier than a cry.

Even though he was saying these words, he understood very well in his heart that even though Xu Miaomiao was sometimes silly, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl. She wasn’t like Sisi, who was only eight or nine years old and didn’t really understand things. Even Sisi knew to hold an adult’s hand in crowded places. At Miaomiao’s age, could it be she did not know it was better to stay with them rather than wandering off alone?

She was not this kind of person, and she wouldn’t do these kinds of things, so his thought became very clear.

Xu Miaomiao was in trouble.

Tang Yuxin suddenly turned around and walked away.

“Yuxin, where are you going?” Chen Lidong quickly caught up with Tang Yuxin.

Tang Yuxin stopped, then turned around, her black eyes sinking frighteningly.

“Don’t follow me.”

Her words, each one clear and cold, pierced Chen Lidong’s heart. He blinked, as though suddenly understanding Tang Yuxin’s thoughts.

“Yuxin, you’re not going to…”

Tang Yuxin did not answer. She turned around again, and then strode away. Chen Lidong stepped to follow, but after a few steps, he saw Tang Yuxin turn around again, and the warning in her eyes frightened him.

His feet really froze at that spot, and he couldn’t move forward at all.

Tang Yuxin continued to walk forward, heading towards a less crowded area. Only then did she remember that back in Water City, they had said a lot of young girls had gone missing. Those girls had all been taken by criminals. At that time, that news was quite shocking. That was why Sang Zhilan had confined Wei Jiani in the house, not allowing her to go out. Because of this, Wei Jiani had thrown a fit.

At that time, Tang Yuxin realized that all of Sang Zhilan’s motherly love was for Wei Jiani. She didn’t allow Wei Jiani to go out, but Tang Yuxin still had to go shopping for groceries and give private tuitions.

There shouldn’t be any difference between a biological daughter and an adopted daughter.

But even as a biological daughter, Tang Yuxin was treated worse than an adopted one.

Tang Yuxin’s heart was a bit heavy at this point. Her tightly pursed red lips were being bitten by her own teeth until they hurt.

How could she have forgotten this?

She had sensed something was wrong yesterday, as though something was about to happen. But she hadn’t paid close attention to Xu Miaomiao. All of this was her fault. In her previous life, Xu Miaomiao would have been fine because she never got into high school, so it could have never brought her to Water City.

All of this happened because of her.

Her rebirth changed a lot of things, but she could not change the course of history itself.

Xu Miaomiao was doing well academically. She would have had a bright future, but now if she was really taken away by criminals, Tang Yuxin would prefer her to be the previous Xu Miaomiao, who did not know Tang Yuxin, who did not get into high school or college. Despite living a more challenging life, at least these kinds of things would not have happened to her.

Xu Miaomiao’s parents only had one daughter. If they lost her, what kind of harm and pain would it cause them? Would anyone understand?

And she understood, she understood.

When she died that year, she had personally seen her white-haired father crying and sobbing like a child, holding onto her ashes. In that instant, she regretted dying before her father and making him experience the pain of a white-haired person sending off a black-haired person.

And how could she let the Xu parents, who were so kind to her, experience the pain of losing a flesh and blood child, the pain of being parted by life and death?

Xu Miaomiao was only sixteen.

Only sixteen.

And all she could do now was to follow this path. She put her hand in her pocket and touched the small packet of medicine.

If her uneasy sixth sense was correct, then these people would not let her go.

Those glances held a terrifying sense of invasion, and there was also a determined quality to them – it was not desire for women, but greed for money.

She stood for a long time at a booth and then walked towards a sparsely populated area. From the corner of her eye, she saw a creepy man who had been following her.

Her heartbeat quickened, and she tried to suppress her nervousness. No, she wasn’t afraid. Yeah, not afraid. Her medicine could take down even a large elephant with only a bit of it, so she wasn’t worried about a person, or even ten to twenty people. No matter what, she would have to rescue Xu Miaomiao.

She lowered her eyes, and as she walked further, there were fewer people. Just as she was about to turn a corner, a cloth was suddenly thrown over her face, and she smelled an unusual smell. It was somewhat stinking and somewhat sour.

It was ethanol.

Her consciousness lingered for a few seconds, and then all she saw was darkness.