After three years of misplaced affection, Mrs. Yu is no longer willing to pretend to be obedient.

"It has nothing to do with you." Although Jian Ailing was about to leave, she didn't want Zeng Ying to get away with it so easily.

"After I leave, Aunt Lü will have to spend time cleaning out everything in the room. If you're so impatient, you can just sleep in my bed and wear my clothes." She raised the corners of her mouth. "I don't care."

"Pah, who wants to wear your clothes..." Zeng Ying glared at her, about to say something, when her phone suddenly rang.

"Feed?...Okay, I'll be back in a bit." Zeng Ying turned and walked to the door, glancing back at Jian Ailing. "I advise you not to dawdle, lest it make things awkward for everyone. And don't ever say anything about your relationship with the Yu family in public."

Jane Ailing snorted coldly, turned around and dragged her suitcase.

She successfully returned to her current residence, and only then did all of this come to an end.

She stared blankly at the ceiling, still feeling a bit unreal.

Unfortunately, she didn't have much savings left, otherwise Jane Ai-ling would have liked to do what Shirley did: pack a backpack and go on a trip to relax.

But she can't go very far. Could she go to the surrounding areas or even another province? Jian Ailing looked at her bank account while estimating what places she could go.

In the past two weeks, the studio hasn't received too many projects. She looked at her work schedule again and figured that even if she went out for a few days, it shouldn't cause any problems.

As Jane Ailing pondered this, she bought a high-speed rail ticket.

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"President Yu, the meeting has been over for a long time. Why... are you still not off work?" Xu Cheng reminded him in a low voice, forcing himself to speak.

The boss seems to be in this state these days. Even though there aren't that many urgent things to deal with and there's no need to work overtime for so long, he always stays at the company until eight or nine o'clock before going home.

His usual work demeanor is also frightening. Yesterday, he personally witnessed the deputy director of the finance department come out of the president's office with red eyes, probably because he had been scolded to tears.

Although his boss is usually quite strict, this is the first time Xu Cheng has ever seen someone cry from his words.

He wasn't the only one in the office who noticed his boss's unusual behavior. He sensed that everyone in the middle and upper management was on edge, and everyone was trembling with fear when they had meetings with Yu Yunting, afraid of saying something wrong and angering him.

Actually, he shouldn't have been so bold as to try and persuade his boss to leave today, but Xu Cheng didn't dare to leave unless his boss did. There wasn't any urgent work to do, and rather than stand there facing his livid boss, he naturally wanted to go home and be with Manman!

"If you want to leave, you can leave first." Yu Yunting nodded without even lifting his eyelids.

Xu Cheng was secretly pleased to receive his boss's permission, and added, "By the way, boss, there's been progress on that matter you asked me to investigate last time... but you've been in meetings these past two days, so I haven't had a chance to talk about it."

"What is it?"

"It's about the Jian sisters that you mentioned before..."

Yu Yunting finally turned his gaze over, and Xu Cheng could feel his eyes change in an instant. "Speak."

Under his gaze, Xu Cheng also became nervous. He cleared his throat and said, "I found the Jian family's former nanny and Jian Aiying's high school and college classmates to investigate the things you mentioned before."

"According to the nanny, the one who got lost in Maple Mountain was the younger sister, Ai Ling. The older sister has always been more obedient and clean, and doesn't often play outdoors. It seems that Ai Ling ran into the mountains with her older brother, Jian Sen, that day, but she got lost there. She was missing for two or three days, and the whole Jian family was frantic."

As Xu Cheng spoke, he looked at Yu Yunting. He could sense that Yu Yunting's expression was changing, but even he couldn't tell if this was the answer he was expecting.

"After Jane Ailing woke up, did she mention getting lost that time? For example, where did she go, and who did she meet?"

His sudden urgency startled Xu Cheng. Xu Cheng honestly shook his head, "I asked about that too, but the nanny said that Ai Ling had a high fever after being rescued and has no memory of what happened in the mountains."

"Oh, if that's what you mean... After Ai Ling was rescued, it seems that the first thing she said to the rescuers was that she still had an older brother in the mountains." Xu Cheng thought for a moment and then added.

As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that Yu Yunting's eyes were changing rapidly.

"And the second thing you asked me to investigate, I contacted Ai Ying's classmates. Two of them said they didn't remember the birthmark on her body, one person said they weren't sure, and two others said definitively that she didn't have this kind of dark red birthmark." Xu Cheng reported the information he had collected while looking at his notebook.

"I see."

Xu Cheng couldn't tell whether his boss was satisfied with the results of his investigation.

But no matter what, this is the truth he uncovered, and he told it all.

"Well... Mr. Yu, if there's nothing else, I'll head back now."

Yu Yunting propped his forehead with one hand and waved at him with the other.

Xu Cheng understood immediately and left the main office.

Yu Yunting rubbed his temples wearily and turned off the computer.

During this period, he devoted himself entirely to his work, and he didn't get home until almost midnight every day.

But at that moment, he no longer had the will to continue working.

Tonight, Yu Yunting returned home before 10 p.m., which was quite rare.

Aunt Lü hadn't gone to sleep yet and brought him a cup of hot tea.

"Sir... I've tidied up Madam's room. She told me to take care of the things inside myself, but there are some items I'm not sure what to do with. I'll have to ask you to take a look."

"What is it?"

"Well... there are quite a few things, some clothes, and some jewelry... I've put the more valuable items on the table in your wife's room. You can take a look at them this weekend and see what to do with them."

It turns out tomorrow is already the weekend, and he still wants to go to the factory in the northern suburbs to take a look.

Yu Yunting laughed self-deprecatingly.

"You can do whatever you want with these things."

Aunt Lü looked troubled and shook her head. "I think... it would be better for you to take a look yourself, sir."

Yu Yunting did not answer, but simply turned and went upstairs.

He went up to the second floor and looked at the tightly closed wooden door of the room next door.

Yu Yunting stood in front of the door for a long time before finally pushing it open and going inside.

Although Jane Ailing had packed her things and left, the room didn't seem particularly empty.

It looks as if the owner of this place will come back at any time.

There were several boxes on the table, perhaps those so-called "things that we don't know what to do with".

Yu Yunting glanced at it, and the first thing he saw was Graf's packaging bag. It was the necklace he had given her on their wedding anniversary, which she hadn't taken with her.

Beside her were the jade-green bracelet her grandmother had given her, and some other jewelry. Yu Yunting didn't recognize it; it might have been bought by him before, or it might have been bought by her herself.

But next to these jewelry pieces, there was also a small, inconspicuous black box.

He opened the box and saw a genuine leather bracelet inside, which gleamed warmly under the light.