Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Hangzhou in the early morning had no pedestrians or cars on the streets, making it seem bleak and desolate.
It only took 20 minutes for Lin Yao to reach East City. Now she was only about one kilometer away from her home.
She wasn’t sure whether or not she was hallucinating, but Lin Yao thought she saw the black cab from earlier. Could it be that those people had followed her all the way to East City?
In theory, it was a far fetched idea, but what if it was true?
Lin Yao gritted her teeth and made a beeline for her neighborhood.
The residential area in East City and the residential area in the center of the city were completely different. East City belonged to the urban-rural junction, and the residences here were all developed from bungalows.
Many residences were very close to each other, to the extent that she felt like she could hop from the roof of one building to another. It would be impossible for a car to chase her down a path as narrow as a wall crack.
She was quite certain that the car was no longer tailing her, but… this was East City.
At the same time, Lin Yao found out that, while East City was bleak and desolate during the day, it became a whole other world at night.
East City’s cheap rent and convenient transportation made its residential area highly popular.
Because of the huge influx of people, there were midnight snack shops, motels, karaoke bars, ballrooms, pubs…there were too many to count!
In the early morning after midnight, the streets and alleys of East City were bustling.
People sat in groups of three to five, some holding bottles of alcohol in their hands and pouring them into their mouths while others held skewers and sent them in the middle.
The hill-like pile of garbage that the cleaning ladies of East City swept up every morning was probably the work of these people.
Lin Yao kept her eyes straight ahead and walked forward quickly.
The cold wind blew in her face, but she didn’t feel cold at all, and her palms were sweating.
Lin Yao returned to her tiny home safely, and only at that moment did her tightened nerves finally relax.
She had been living in East City for more than a year before meeting Qin Wenyuan.
At first, Lin Yao thought that it was a pretty good place to live. Only later did she gradually find that the place was as dirty and chaotic as it was rumored to be, so she took the initiative to move to Qin Wenyuan’s apartment…
Lin Yao told herself that instead of thinking about the bad things in the past, it was better to think about something more meaningful, such as moving out as soon as possible.
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In the early morning before dawn, a black car was parked in the alley behind the Yinchuan Building in East City.
That kind of car was rare in Hangzhou and had never been seen in East City.
There weren’t many affluent people in East City. For example, which one of those landlords didn’t have millions in cash? But even after becoming wealthy they usually only bought cars like Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
No one even knew what brand this car was so, of course, no one would buy it.
The three people in the car stared at each other blankly.
Qin Rongze caught up with the Route No. 256 night bus as he wished, but the girl was too vigilant. She ran into the alley quickly after she got off the bus, and that was the last they had seen of her.
Liang Kaiwen really couldn’t understand what the young girl was doing here so early in the morning.
There was no way she actually lived in such a place right?
What a joke, Orlando had many dormitories, so how could an Orlando employee live here?
But she seemed familiar with the place, so it definitely wasn’t the first time she had been here…
Liang Kaiwen didn’t care to think about it any further, and he even began to think that it would be better to go back to the company and scrutinize the UNITEX contract rather than follow the girl!
But when he just thought of the pile of tedious documents, he felt the beginnings of a headache.
“Chairman, we shouldn’t stay in this place for long.” Liang Kaiwen scratched his head nervously and said tentatively, “Chairman, the girl might stay here all night, and there’s no guarantee that we’ll find her even in the morning.”
Qin Rongze shot him an icy look, facial expression indifferent. “What on earth are you trying to say?”
Liang Kaiwen was actually a little afraid of him but felt that, as his comrade and subordinate, he must not stand idly by and watch as his chairman went down the wrong path.
He grumbled and suggested, “How about we go back?”
They didn’t even know which building the girl had gone into, and not only were the residences in East City not closed communities, but the roads were also all interconnected. There was no guarantee that they would meet her again even if they stayed for an entire week, not to mention until dawn.
Most importantly, was it really necessary?
Qin Rongze’s eyes were downcast, and he remained silent.
What Liang Kaiwen saw, he also saw.
What Liang Kaiwen thought, he also thought of.
Qin Rongze felt that he needed some silence.