The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity-Chapter 428 - 426: She Really Wanted to See Him

Nan Xian passed the phone over, but he didn’t give it to Qin Zhao. He just asked her to say a word into the phone.

"I..."

"Qin Zhao."

On the other end of the call, Chu Yan’s indifferent voice came through.

For no apparent reason, Qin Zhao detected a hint of danger in his tone, and thinking back to last night’s events, her legs felt a bit weak.

She hesitated and said, "I still want to see you. I’ll come back immediately after I finish my business."

"How long will that take?"

"Three or four days?"

"Send me your location."

"Uh..."

"Is there a problem?"

"No."

A dial tone sounded, and Chu Yan had hung up.

Nan Xian looked at her with a disappointed expression, "When you left Imperial City, didn’t you say you didn’t want to see him? Why have you gone soft now? You should have stayed out and had fun for at least half a month before going back!"

Qin Zhao touched her nose, feeling a bit guilty.

"It was just something I said in the heat of the moment."

She did really want to see Chu Yan.

Nan Xian rolled his eyes and said to Shangguan Qiu, "Miss Shangguan, we’ll give you back the Changyuan Sword for now. Tomorrow, you communicate with it, and let it lead us to the Eight Diagram."

On the way here, Qin Zhao had already explained to Shangguan Qiu about the Divine Artifact.

Shangguan Qiu nodded earnestly, "Okay, senior."

The three of them checked into a hotel first.

The place they were at was called Yunzhou, which was very far from Imperial City.

After Chu Yan received the location, he immediately contacted the pilot and took his previously purchased helicopter over.

By the time he arrived in Yunzhou, it was already past midnight.

He thought Qin Zhao must be resting, so he didn’t message her; instead, he found a place to stay for the night.

The next day, Chu Yan finally got in touch with Qin Zhao and came to find them.

They were having breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Upon seeing Nan Xian, sparks seemed to fly from the eyes of both men.

Qin Zhao pulled Chu Yan to sit beside her, "Haven’t had breakfast? I’ll order you something."

"Why did you leave without telling me?"

Chu Yan’s tone was somewhat complaining.

Had he not known that Qin Zhao loved him and wouldn’t be interested in Nan Xian—and considering Nan Xian had once saved his life—he might have come over last night and chopped Nan Xian up.

"I didn’t want to talk about it."

Qin Zhao pursed her lips, looking awkward.

Who could blame her? The guy had deliberately harassed her, so Qin Zhao had thought of getting away for a few days of peace.

But when Chu Yan called, her heart softened, not wanting him to misunderstand.

Chu Yan said nothing, just stared at Qin Zhao for a long time, noticing her ears were red.

She lowered her eyelids, eating her breakfast without looking at him.

Chu Yan moved a bit closer and asked softly, "Are you angry?"

After being together for so long, he was well aware of her little sulky thoughts.

He remembered the night before last, Qin Zhao had cried and told him to leave, saying she never wanted to see him again.

Of course, Chu Yan hadn’t left; he continued to harass her.

The next day, he got up early to handle some things at the hospital, and when he returned, he found his wife had run off.

"Who’s angry? Don’t talk nonsense, am I that petty?"

Chu Yan playfully ruffled her hair.

"Then why did you run? And didn’t respond to my messages?"

"I’m out here on business, why do you have to follow me? Who’s as clingy as you?"

Qin Zhao knocked his hand away.

Not allowing him to touch her, he caught her chin with his hand, pulled her face over, and kissed her.

"So, is it okay if I was just passing by?"

"..."

The cold Phoenix Eyes held a hint of a smile.

The bright red mole under the eye inexplicably added a demonic touch to his handsome face.

Nan Xian and Shangguan Qiu watched the two get cozy and rolled their eyes in unison.

Suddenly, breakfast didn’t taste good anymore.

After eating a bit, Nan Xian started to hurry them.

"Come on, we still have to find something!"

After breakfast, Qin Zhao first contacted Ying Caixia.

"I need to help someone find their daughter."

Qin Zhao recounted the incident he had encountered in the restroom the day before to the others.

About half an hour later, Ying Caixia arrived at the station with her husband.

Both of their eyes were very red, and their faces pale, clearly having had little sleep the night before.

"Master, is my daughter really gone?"

Ying Caixia’s husband, Fang Kaisheng, asked with a choked voice.

"If there’s no accident, she should be."

The couple supported each other, their bodies bent with age although they were in their prime and their hair streaked with white.

"Even if Ni Ni is no longer here, we still want to bring her back home."

Ying Caixia told her husband, who nodded firmly.

Shangguan Qiu rented a van, took Fang Kaisheng and his wife, and they started their journey to find Ni Ni.

Qin Zhao held a Compass in his hand and said to Shangguan Qiu, "Southwest direction."

"From here, we’ll have to go to another province," Fang Kaisheng looked at the road outside the car. "We had searched here for Ni Ni before but found no clues."

"There are many mountains around here; if someone took her deep into the mountains, that would be hard to find."

Fang Kaisheng and his wife fell silent.

After Ni Ni’s disappearance, the best case scenario would be if a kind-hearted person had found and taken her in as their daughter.

Aside from that, there were many other worst-case scenarios.

They occasionally thought about them but dared not face them, each thought bringing immense pain.

As it stands now, Ni Ni’s fate after her disappearance did not seem good, or else she wouldn’t have died so young.

Contemplating these things, the couple couldn’t help but shed tears again.

Under Qin Zhao’s guidance, the van drove deep into the mountains, winding along mountain roads.

Nan Xian had forgotten where they had come from, the endless mountains connecting one to another with only a few small villages visible occasionally.

"We’re here, I feel her soul."

Qin Zhao held a specially made talisman in his hand, which bore Ni Ni’s birth details.

This talisman could connect with Ni Ni’s soul and help them find where her soul was.

"In such deep mountains?"

"She might have been trafficked here."

Fang Kaisheng and Ying Caixia had also searched for their daughter in the mountains.

However, the neighboring province had numerous hidden villages and, limited in energy, they were not able to search each thoroughly and had never come here.

A nearby village had no smooth roads for driving.

They had to get out of the car and climb the mountains to reach a village halfway up the mountain.

The buildings in the village were primitive, mostly old stone houses built of blue stone slabs, and the inhabitants were primarily elderly and children left behind, with no young adults in sight.

Following Qin Zhao, they saw a relatively nicer two-story house.

White drapes hung on the house, evidently hosting a funeral.

"Ni Ni!"

Seeing the coffin placed inside, Fang Kaisheng and Ying Caixia immediately rushed in excitedly.

"Who are you?"

"What are you doing? Don’t disturb the deceased!"

Someone in the yard came out and stopped them.

Ying Caixia said desperately, "The one inside is my daughter — I am her mother!"

The others had a strange look on their faces.

Because the villagers all knew, the daughter-in-law of this family was a purchased bride.

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