Could she still be at Yunshang?

After a pause, he asked in a cold voice, "At this hour, have any cars arrived downstairs?"

——"No special cars have come at this hour; I’ve been watching downstairs the whole time."

Gu Jizhou remained silent and drove straight to Dongsheng Garden.

Until midnight, there were only a few dilapidated cars, and Che Huan was nowhere to be seen.

In the early hours of the morning, when he suddenly saw the lights turn on in Che Huan’s floor, his eyes darkened bit by bit. Had she already come back?

How had she come back?

He ordered his assistant to retrieve the surveillance footage. After a while, the assistant called, "Mr. Gu, this community is quite old and doesn’t have any surveillance."

Gu Jizhou’s face darkened as he stared at the light upstairs, "Retrieve the footage from the cameras closest to here."

The assistant searched for a long time. There were several nearby cameras with many passing cars; it was impossible to determine anything.

Hearing the results, Gu Jizhou directly called the person who had been following Che Huan, "You’re useless. She got back and you didn’t know. Tomorrow, you don’t need to follow her anymore. You’re fired."

After hanging up the phone, he threw his phone aside, looked up at the building, and lit a cigarette. He took a deep drag and called Che Huan. Her phone was turned on, but the call was quickly hung up.

He wanted to go up, but then he thought about how it might end up with Qin Shaojin intervening by going to Great-grandfather again, a flash of ruthlessness crossing his eyes as he snapped the cigarette in his hand in half!

———Yunqi Academy———

After using the toilet, Che Huan glanced at her phone, deleted the missed calls from Gu Jizhou, and thinking of Huo Jinnan, she found his contact and deleted that too.

As she confirmed the deletion, images of him kissing her flashed in her mind, followed by the words he said in the bathroom.

Being with him didn’t mean marrying him!

At the time, it seemed that she was the one who had overthought it!

Now that she thought about it, it was not like that at all.

Lost in thought, a knock sounded at the door.

Thinking back on the last incident, Che Huan’s heart raced, "Who is it?"

"Open the door!"

Hearing Gu Jizhou’s voice, Che Huan did not open it, "What are you here for?"

"Have you cleared up the matter with the lawyer’s letter and the subpoena?"

Through the door, Gu Jizhou’s voice sounded especially eerie in the night.

Che Huan chuckled disdainfully, "I’m sorry, Mr. Gu, but I’ve changed my mind. Whatever you want to do with Qiao Qiao, don’t involve me from now on. It’s none of my business, please do as you will."

Gu Jizhou continued knocking, "Che Huan!"

A mere door separated two utterly different worlds!

Che Huan stood there, her voice growing increasingly cold, "Gu Jizhou, what was it that Qiao Qiao wanted to tell me that day?"

"..."

Gu Jizhou’s knocking stiffened, and he remained silent.

Che Huan laughed mockingly at herself, "I really wonder what secret is worth a hundred million. I’m truly curious."

"..."

"The child is gone, can you tell me who that person was that night?" Che Huan paused, her tone grave.

Gu Jizhou looked at the firmly shut door and turned to leave.

Downstairs, Gu Jizhou gripped his phone, staring at Huo Jinnan’s number, his grip almost crushing the fragile case!

After waiting a while and hearing no more sounds, Che Huan walked out to the balcony and saw Gu Jizhou get into his car, letting out a soft laugh.

After so many years, that night remained an unspoken taboo between them; every mention of it was guaranteed to provoke Gu Jizhou, true to form!

That person, Gu Jizhou must know!

Was it someone he could not resist, or someone he couldn’t face?

The affairs of the Huo Family were beyond her understanding and not hers to guess; it just suddenly struck her that the person from five years ago might really have been Huo Jinnan!