Huo Jincheng lit a cigarette; he didn’t smoke often, but both times were for Lu Xingzhi.

Both were under the same circumstances.

As he was smoking the third cigarette, Ah Si entered.

"Sir, based on the surveillance we’ve been checking for the past few days, no suspicious activity has been detected regarding the vehicles going up and down the mountain. Moreover, there’s no sign of Fu Yanzhi. We suspect..."

Huo Jincheng crushed the cigarette butt and interjected, "They didn’t come down by car; they used a helicopter. Go check this. What’s the situation with Yunyan now? Fu Yanzhi is not around, yet Yunyan is somehow not in chaos."

No news has been leaked; the Yunyan executor has disappeared.

Still operational. If it isn’t due to their people being good at hiding it, with impressive skills, then it must be because Fu Yanzhi had planned this well in advance.

"Understood." As Ah Si was leaving, Huo Jincheng instructed, "Bring me a cup of coffee."

"Sir, you should really take a break now. Madam wouldn’t want to see you like this." Ah Si knew that as a servant, he shouldn’t be saying these things.

But truly worried that before they could find Lu Xingzhi, Huo Jincheng would collapse.

"I know my limits; go on!" Huo Jincheng wasn’t receptive to any advice at the moment.

Even knowing that this lack of rest wouldn’t help, he simply couldn’t sleep.

Thinking about Lu Xingzhi, not knowing if she was safe, he couldn’t truly enter a state of rest.

But, recalling what Lu Xingzhi had once said.

Huo Jincheng leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes.

However, his sleep was restless.

"Uncle, Uncle, come save me. I’m so scared." Lu Xingzhi was tied up, a man in black clothes grabbed her and held a gun to her head.

"Huo Jincheng, if you want to save your wife, here’s a gun for you; only one of you two can live." Fu Yanzhi sat in a wheelchair and tossed a pistol to Huo Jincheng.

"She stays alive, but you must promise never to harm her again." Huo Jincheng looked at Lu Xingzhi, his eyes filled with deep affection, longing, and farewell.

"No... don’t, Uncle, don’t." Lu Xingzhi struggled, and suddenly the gun aimed at her misfired.

With a ’bang,’ Lu Xingzhi fell into a pool of blood.

"Zhi Zhi!! Zhi Zhi..."

Huo Jincheng woke up, drenched in sweat.

It was just a dream.

He took a shower and changed into clean clothes.

His worry for Lu Xingzhi increased.

Yunyan Group is running smoothly now; Huo Jincheng has roughly figured that Fu Yanzhi used him once, no, twice.

Things he could have done on his own, yet entrusted to him.

Fu Yanzhi is truly repugnant.

"Jin Chen, I heard Little Zhi Liao has gone missing. We’ve all come over, is there anything we can do to help? And you, with such a big incident happening, yet you say nothing to us." Qin Shihuai and Mo Jinyan entered, with Si Jinghan behind them.

"It’s not that I didn’t inform you; it’s just that the time isn’t right." Huo Jincheng simply didn’t want it to escalate.

Lu Xingzhi is not like ordinary people; she’s a public figure, and it’d be bad if it got out.

Unless he truly couldn’t handle it on his own, only then would he speak up.

He didn’t want Lu Xingzhi to suffer any harm, even if it’s just to her reputation.

In such cases, no one would care if she was simply kidnapped.