Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 432 - 445: Black Sedan

For a brief moment, she felt an impulse to tell Lu Shifeng directly that Han was also his biological son, but the last shred of reason stopped her; this was definitely not the time to say such things.

Lu Shifeng said, "Han is just like my own son in my heart."

"You’re lying!" She didn’t believe him at all. If Han truly was like his own son, would he ignore him?

Lu Shifeng said, "What do you want me to do so you’ll believe me?"

"There’s nothing you need to do; you’re just a beast," Su Xingyu felt both heartache and anger. The exhaustion from losing and regaining Han, the anxiety over Jue’s disappearance—all transformed into resentment towards Lu Shifeng. "You only care about yourself, your so-called family duty, connections, big principles, without truly caring for the two children! You completely ignore whether sending the children here is appropriate, completely ignore today’s torrential rain and insist on holding your ridiculous meeting! What if I hadn’t barged into the meeting room? Lu Shifeng, what would have happened today if I hadn’t barged into the meeting room? Would anyone have even noticed that Han and Jue were missing for an entire night?!"

The series of questions left Lu Shifeng unsure of how to respond.

Throughout his life, he had only ever used logic to press others; he never thought there would be a day when he would be chastised to the point of speechlessness.

Staring into her distrustful eyes, he felt a deep, cutting pain. If a man causes his beloved woman such profound sadness and anxiety, he could never be considered a good man.

He could only repeatedly promise her, "I will find Jue."

As he spoke, his phone rang.

After picking up, his expression changed: "The 813 highway branch was buried by a mudslide, and they dug up half of a black private car?!"

A thunderclap sounded outside the window, followed by a bright lightning strike cutting through like a sharp blade.

Su Xingyu’s face turned pale at that moment. She couldn’t bother scolding Lu Shifeng anymore and looked up at him, motionless, asking tremulously, "What’s going on?"

Lu Shifeng hung up the phone and told her, "We’ve been checking through the black private cars that appeared at the kindergarten, and one of them was buried by the mudslide. They found a child’s shoe while digging. Xingyu, stay here, I’ll take some people to check it out."

"I’m going too!" How could Su Xingyu bear to stay?

As soon as she thought that the buried child might be Jue, as soon as she thought that Jue might be in peril, her entire heart was seized by fear, making it hard to breathe.

"I want to go with you!" she said resolutely.

But Lu Shifeng just glanced at her, grabbed her arm, and led her outside, placing her into the hands of a staff member at the kindergarten: "Watch over her, take good care of her, and don’t let her leave the kindergarten, or you’ll have me to answer to!"

The staffer, not entirely present, nodded instinctively, intimidated by Lu Shifeng’s aura.

"Lu Shifeng!" Su Xingyu was held by the staffer and couldn’t break free, watching helplessly as Lu Shifeng walked away, "Let me go! Let me go! You beast, monster, not human!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

No matter how she struggled and shouted, all Lu Shifeng left her with was an increasingly distant silhouette.

Desperately watching him disappear from sight, the pouring rain outside quickly closed in like a terrifying curtain of night. She simply didn’t believe he could find the child. This entire ordeal, from choosing the kindergarten to urging the driver to pick them up, to Han’s disappearance and being found... Had Lu Shifeng done any of it right? How could she trust him to find Jue?

She so wanted to go with him; maybe that way Jue could be found sooner...

Her heart sank little by little, anxiety, fear, pain... all turned into deep resentment towards that man.

The storm didn’t cease, as if tearing open the firmament, pouring down endless rivers of water.

Lu Shifeng didn’t know Su Xingyu’s thoughts, but as long as she was safe at the kindergarten, he felt at ease. The outside weather was so terrible, so dangerous, and where he was going was a mudslide site. He preferred the mudslide burying him rather than her.

He drove himself, leaving the driver to accompany her and Han, taking two kindergarten staff members through winding mountain roads to the vicinity of the landslide on the 813 highway branch.

With heavy rain falling, even police cars and ambulances couldn’t drive in; they all abandoned their vehicles and walked, stepping cautiously to the incident site.

Sunk in the mudslide was indeed a black private car, a brand-new Audi, indicating the owner had a good family background.

A police officer nearby had set up a cordon and informed them, "Step back, step back. Are you family members of the victims? An ambulance came earlier but drove away again; they couldn’t retrieve the people inside, it’s beyond rescue. I advise you to hurry back, I’m leaving soon too. There are several accidents still to deal with nearby. Don’t stay here; you never know if there might be another landslide, safety first."

But Lu Shifeng didn’t listen.

He asked the officer, "Did they find a child’s shoe here, right?"

"You mean this?" The police officer turned to look around and pointed to a pile of dirt nearby, "Judging by the size, it looks like it belongs to a three-year-old boy; truly tragic."

Lu Shifeng’s heart tightened; disregarding the officer’s objection, he stepped over the cordon and hurried to the car, kneeling down and starting to dig at the earth beside the car.

He had to dig out this car and see if the child inside might be Jue!

God forbid, let it not be Jue...

His expression grew tense, and anyone familiar with him would certainly be surprised to see this. Everyone had always known Mr. Lu unfazed even in the face of great adversity; yet today he was this tense?

The truth remained, however. Jue’s situation had him flustered.

"What are you doing, hey, what are you doing?!" The police officer grew tense too, "Stop digging! What if there’s another collapse?"

"Help me dig!" He looked at the officer and the two kindergarten staff members, saying, "Help me get that child out! I promise to reward you most handsomely afterward!"

The two kindergarten staff members knew his identity well—the Crown Prince of Blade Group, the actual person in power! His promises could drive anyone wild!

Without hesitation, they began helping dig.

Meanwhile, the police officer shook his head, hesitated briefly, and then joined in the digging.

He wasn’t driven by greed; having seen Lu Shifeng arrive in a Bentley, clearly a wealthy man. His motivation for helping was rooted in his duty as a police officer—if he allowed them to dig and simply walked away, then should another landslide occur, it wouldn’t cost three more lives, would it?