Meng Xi borrowed a set of formal wear from the team leader, a black single-shoulder dress with a white flower on the shoulder.

  This is a temporary group leader on the spot of the Economic and Trade Forum, who is specially responsible for the people in this banquet hall, Yang Fu Xiao and Meng Xi are temporarily arranged by her.

  She measured it roughly and looked up to ask: "Who is this for?"

  "Dawn," Meng Xi replied, "about the same as my height and weight."

  The team leader said: "That's probably a bit too big."

  Meng Xi said: "There shouldn't be any problem, just do the translation on the side and don't go on stage."

  The team leader nodded and handed the dress to Meng Xi, instructing her to return it in its original packaging after the event.

  Meng Xi brought the evening dress to the corridor.

  On the first floor corridor, there were two dressing rooms at the easternmost and westernmost ends. Meng Xi took out his mobile phone to call Yang Fu Xiao, but no one answered.

  She has been absent from work for a week. Yang Fuxiao was transferred to the upper floor after moving from the guest room department. The wardrobe also vacated, and she didn't know where Yang Fuxiao's changing cabinet was.

  Meng Xi went to the dressing room on the east side and found no one there. He then returned to the dressing room on the west side.

  As she passed through the entrance of the hall, she heard the host's announcement, followed by a popular singer singing. If she didn't remember wrong, after this song, it was the opening dance, with several important figures in this economic and trade forum leading the opening dance, including Gu Qingcheng.

  Meng Xi quickened her pace and walked all the way to the locker room. Not far away, a person was standing at the elevator door waiting for the elevator.

  She stopped at the entrance of the dressing room and knocked twice on the door. "Dawn! I've come to bring you clothes."

  However, there was no one inside answering.

  Meng Xi slightly furrowed her brow and took a step forward to twist open the door handle. There should be no one inside. The room door was not locked.

  But inside it was empty too.

  However, on the chair beside it, was placed the white evening dress that Yang Xiao had been splashed with champagne earlier. In the wardrobe in front of her, one of the doors was open, and Meng Xi slightly furrowed her brow as she saw Yang Xiao's work ID, mobile phone, and handbag inside.

  The person is not here, but the thing is still here, did he go to the toilet?

  Meng Xi felt a bit strange and went to the toilet to take a look, but there was no one.

  Has he found new clothes and changed into them? Has he returned to the hall again?

  She furrowed her brow deeply, feeling that things were not so simple after all. She quickened her pace and ran back to the great hall once again.

  ………………

  In the hall, Liang Yufan also came from Shanghai.

  After all, Fang Da and Ya Wen are partners this time, and he himself is also an old friend of Gu Qingcheng, so he should make a trip.

  Gu Qingcheng walked to the door, Yang Fuxiao made a distant toast, and in Liang Yufan's eyes, he smiled and changed a cup of red wine in his hand, getting closer and asking Gu Qingcheng: "Is this considered making up with her?"

  Gu Qingcheng raised an eyebrow slightly and remained silent.

  Liang Yufan smiled: "During that time in Shanghai, I could see it. You're different with her. You've never spent so much thought on a woman before, taking her swimming and to the golf course."

  Gu Qingcheng turned around, leaned lightly on the dining table behind him, and said with his elbows slightly raised: "Then do you still remember that I also said another sentence? I said, actually some things are not my intention."

  Liang Yufan was taken aback for a moment, thought about it, and seemed to have mentioned it before, at the time of Fang Dasun's old man's full moon banquet.

  "What about now? Isn't it what you really want?"

  Gu Qingcheng put the wine cup back on the table and smiled slightly, "Alright then."

  Liang Yufan had always felt that Gu Qingcheng was a bit hard to grasp since high school and university, even having a night where he didn't return home, but the next day it seemed like nothing had happened.

  Tina also came.

  Although she is involved in the film and television industry, as a makeup artist for actress Lan Xuan, on this occasion, she was specially invited by Gu Qingcheng and came to assist.

  At the beginning, Lan Xiang came onto the stage and sang a foreign song before leaving. Tina remained on the scene, her male partner today was a Russian with deep facial features, speaking fluent Chinese, leading the man to stand in front of Gu Qingcheng, "This is Anton."

  Gu Qingcheng smiled slightly and extended his hand to shake hands with Andong.

  This is also one of Tina's roles this time with Anton coming over, as Anton is both a domestic entrepreneur and can serve as a Russian translator.

  Tina and Anton exchanged a couple of words in hushed tones, the tall Russian man kissed her forehead and left first with a glass of wine.

  Gu Qingcheng watched as Anton left wearing a silver-gray suit and turned to Tina: "Changed men again?"

  Tina leaned against a high-backed chair behind her, holding a glass of sparkling wine, shaking it slightly, and raising an eyebrow, "What do you think?"

  Gu Qingcheng turned around, just in time to face Tina's arm, "I think you should be more restrained from now on."

  Tina continued to sway the wine glass in her hand, and the liquid inside swayed gently.

  "A few days ago, Lu Li called me."

  As expected, when Gu Qingcheng said this sentence, Tiana's hand holding the wine cup suddenly trembled, and the liquid inside spilled out, splashing onto her wrist.

  She pretended to be nonchalant and put the wine glass on the table, took out a paper towel to wipe off the wine from her hand, "What did he say?"

  "He said," Gu Qingcheng looked at Tiena's slightly lowered head and said, "I'm back."

  Tina wiped the liquor off her hand with a bit more force, yet still seemed completely nonchalant, responding with a faint "oh".

  Gu Qingcheng smiled and said, "Honestly, Tina, you can't beat Lu Li."

  Tina's mouth curled up in a faint smile as she asked back: "How did you know?"

  Gu Qingcheng said: "You're already so flustered just hearing his name from me, what would you do if you really faced him?"

  Tina didn't deny the description of Gu Qingcheng, and casually threw the tissue into a nearby trash can. She raised her eyes and asked, "What about him? What's his phone number?"

  Gu Qingcheng said: "At that time, I found someone to check the mobile phone location. The SIM card was newly registered in Guangxi and only made one call and sent one text message. Since then, until now, this card has not shown any call records again. I think it should have been discarded."

  Tina bit her lip silently, and some of the lip gloss on her lips was smeared away.

  After about half a minute, Tina suddenly raised her head and looked at Gu Qingcheng, "I want to ask you, if Lu Li comes back, which side will you stand on?"

  Gu Qingcheng took a glance at Tina, then picked up a cup of wine on the table, "I won't get involved in your affairs."

  The host announced that the last song had been sung and it was time for the opening dance.

  Mrs. Liang has walked to the side of Liang Yufan, who takes Mrs. Liang's hand. Gu Qingcheng and a man who just arrived exchange pleasantries before Liang Yufan reminds him from behind: "It's time for you to call your dance partner."

  Gu Qingcheng nodded and said, "I know."

  He turned his head to look for Yang Xiao's figure, but after scanning the entire hall, he didn't see Yang Xiao in the crowd.

  Mrs. Liang took a step forward and said, "I just saw that Miss Yang seemed to have been bumped into by someone, her evening dress got wet, she went to the back to change clothes."

  It wasn't until then that Gu Qingcheng remembered the flying kiss Yang Mianxiao gave him when he turned his head at the door.

  He thought Yang Mu Xiao was just going to the restroom.

  But now it's been twenty minutes and Yang Fuxiao still hasn't come back.

  At this moment, Gu Qingcheng saw Meng Xi rushing into the hall from the corridor, with a look of anxiety and urgency on his face. He glanced around at the people in the hall and grabbed the arm of a waiter to ask something.

  Gu Qingcheng bid farewell to Liang Yufan and Mrs. Liang beside him: "Excuse me."

  Liang Yufan shouted: "Don't forget the opening dance!"

  Just as Gu Qingcheng was about to leave, the host on stage announced that the opening dance had begun, and the light waltz melody floated gently through the venue.

  Gu Qingcheng pretended not to hear and walked straight towards Meng Xi.

  Meng Xisheng was afraid that he wouldn't see Yang Feixiao again and specially asked the other translators, who all said they hadn't seen Yang Feixiao return.

  She was really anxious, and as she turned around, her eyes collided with a pair of deep and profound eyes.

  "Director Gu... Director Gu overall."

  Gu Qingcheng's expression was bland, "Where is Fuxiao?"

  Meng Xi looked up at Gao Qingcheng's gaze, and his words paused for a moment: "Just now her dress was stained with red wine, I lent her clothes, she went to the dressing room, I..."

  "Get to the point!"

  Gu Qingcheng spat out these three words, already laced with anger. The hand that was originally inserted into his pants pocket suddenly pulled out and grasped Meng Xi's shoulder, "Where is she now?"

  "Not... didn't see her, she's not in the dressing room."

  Meng Xi hadn't finished speaking when Gu Qingcheng brushed past him, almost knocking over a tray held by a waiter in front of him. The three glasses of red wine on the tray fell to the ground with a clinking sound.

  "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

  The waiter hastily stepped forward and handed a paper towel over to Gu Qingcheng.

  Gu Qingcheng directly stretched out his hand to block the waiter in front of him and walked forward with big strides.

  Mrs. Liang beside the stage pinched her husband's sleeve with her hand: "Gu Qingcheng over there..."

  Liang Yufan also sensed that things were a bit urgent, so he turned to Mrs. Liang and said: "You go tell the host first, the opening dance is postponed for ten minutes, let's find a star to warm up the scene first."

  Mrs. Liang immediately turned around and walked towards the backstage.

  At this time, Gu Qingcheng had already walked to the corridor entrance and took out his mobile phone. He dialed a number: "Get me the surveillance footage from inside Ya Huan."

  Meng Xi was also worried about Yang Fu Xiao, so she followed Gu Qing Cheng to the monitoring room in a hurry.

  In the monitoring room, all the surveillance routes in the past half hour have been called out. Dong Zhe has already found two people under his command and will soon call out all the surveillance videos to watch together.

  Gu Qingcheng said: "Stop, and take another look at this passage."

  In a dressing room, Yang Fuxiao first entered the room. Less than two minutes later, a waiter walked to the front of the dressing room and knocked on the door. The door was opened from inside.

  The two of them probably exchanged a couple of words, and the waiter handed Yang Fuxiao the bag of clothes in his hand. As Yang Fuxiao was closing the door, one leg propped against the door, he quickly squeezed inside, and the door closed.

  Because the waiter was wearing a hat on his head, the brim of the hat, which wasn't narrow, blocked his face, making it impossible to see his features.

  Gu Qingcheng stared at the tightly closed door, his eyebrows furrowed, "The surveillance in the dressing room!"

  Suddenly, silence fell.

  Dong Zhe, standing on one side, looked at Gu Qingcheng's increasingly gloomy face and said: "This is the women's dressing room, there are no surveillance cameras inside."

  Inside the monitoring room, apart from a staff member who was watching the surveillance video, there were Gu Qingcheng and Dong Zhe. Behind them were Liang Yufan and Tiana. Meng Xi stood near the door, and although she was quite far away, she could still see what was happening in the changing room on the large monitor screen. Her eyes didn't blink once.

  Everyone's eyes were fixed on the surveillance video, and the air was oppressive.

  The door opened again seven minutes after the surveillance video went by.

  Take a deep breath and pick it up, Gu Qingcheng narrowed his eyes and stared at the surveillance video screen. The only one who came out of it was this male waiter. The direction he walked out was the hall.

  Gu Qingcheng turned his head around, and immediately behind him, Liang Yufan said: "I'll go find the person in charge to check on the service staff inside the venue."

  Now there is only this service birth, that is to say, Yang Xiao is still in the dressing room.

  Meng Xi's eyes widened in disbelief: "No, no, it can't be. You pull back again, I went to the dressing room and looked around, there was no one inside, Yang Fu Xiao's locker was open, her bag and phone were all placed inside."

  As expected, Meng Xi appeared in the surveillance video and entered the dressing room. He came out again soon after.

  Gu Qingcheng left Dong Zhe alone in the monitoring room and quickly turned to walk towards the corridor.

  Meng Xi, standing by the door, felt a gust of wind brush across his face and a black shadow flash before him.

  Inside the dressing room, Gu Qingcheng took a glance at the things inside and slid Yang Bufei's phone to unlock it. Since he knew that Yang Bufei's lock screen password was her birthday, he directly unlocked it. The phone interface that entered his eyes was a quick dialing interface, on which the name of the dialed phone number was written as "Gu Qingcheng".

  Unconsciously, Gu Qingcheng had already clenched the phone in his hand, with a force that almost wanted to crush the phone at the joints of his fingers.

  For some reason, deep down inside, there was a force more impulsive than he was at this moment, gradually magnifying this subtle feeling, just like the first time he saw Yang Duoxiao, needing to use all his strength to restrain a certain spiritual power that required external assistance, such as when he had been so impulsive in the room that he wanted to kiss Yang Duoxiao and had to use the pain of burning his skin with cigarette butts to stop.

  Gu Qingcheng suddenly raised his hand and punched the wooden wardrobe door in front of him, with a loud bang, the wardrobe door fell to the ground with a clang.

  Tina was also startled, her eyes fell on Gu Qingcheng's hand, "Your hand..."

  Gu Qingcheng clenched his fists silently and said, "Never mind, is it time for the opening dance outside? Let's continue."

  Liang Yufan had already asked the person in charge to thoroughly investigate all the waiters and have Meng Xi identify them one by one. When Meng Xi's reply came, it was: "None."

  So Yang Mianxiao entered the locker room and then disappeared?

  Gu Qingcheng sneered: "A living person just disappeared in the dressing room?"

  Everyone was silent and didn't utter a word.

  Gu Qingcheng's two most trusted subordinates, Dong Zhe and Zhang Liang, stood on the left, nodding slightly.

  Gu Qingcheng's phone rang, breaking the awkward silence. He took out his phone and glanced at it, furrowing his brow. He signaled to Dong Zhe and Zhang Liang to go check the surveillance area, then answered the call.

  "Over the phone, Shen Zhou's voice came through: 'Now, an international economic and trade forum is being held, but you're not taking care of it. For a woman, you've turned a good situation into chaos! Do you know what you're doing?!"

  Meng Xi was a little close to Gu Qingcheng Station, and he could almost hear the roar from the loudspeaker.

  She couldn't help but feel a little surprised that Gu Qingcheng, a man who was almost invincible and high above others, would actually be yelled at by someone.

  Moreover, what made it even harder for her to believe was that Gu Qingcheng didn't retort with a single word, but instead said: "I understand."

  Shen Zhou said: "At Monday's board meeting, I just helped to suppress the opinions of those major shareholders for you. You know that there are many examples targeting you at the shareholders' meeting now. Jia You has returned, and many shareholders strongly demand that Jia You be allowed in."

  Gu Qingcheng's fingers tightened around his phone and said, "I have a bottom line."

  He hung up Shen Zhou's phone and walked directly into the hall, passing by Tina, stopping for a moment and saying: "You come to be my dance partner for now."

  No matter what, it must wait until this biennial economic and trade forum is over.

  Otherwise, it's not just losing face for MSC, but also losing face for the whole nation.

  On stage, Tina leaned on Gu Qingcheng's shoulder, listening to the soft waltz music in her ears, stepping out smooth dance steps.

  But Gu Qingcheng's face was cold and gloomy, and he had completely lost the warm smile he used to have when socializing.

  Tina looked up and glanced at Gu Qingcheng's eyes, saying: "You care about Yang Fuxiao a lot."

  Gu Qingcheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

  "I can see it, don't deny it, you care more about Yang Fu Xiao than you think, do you know why you feel like you don't care about him?"

  Gu Qingcheng had one hand on Tina's waist, his spotless leather shoes tapping out the rhythm of the waltz on the wooden floor.

  "Tina continued, 'Because I can see that you're now internally rejecting and blocking this power, and on the surface it seems like nothing's wrong. In fact, you care about her deeply, so don't let go easily this time.'"

  ………………

  At this time, when passing through the entrance of the economic and trade forum, three men in suits and a woman walked in from outside.

  Meng Xi happened to be sprinting quickly down the corridor, and slowed down slightly, looking towards the door.

  The person in the middle is Shen Jia-yu.

  Shen Jia-yu was talking to Xu Yi-qian on one side, and on the other side was a relatively burly foreign man who was quite tall. On another side was a woman wearing a professional suit, who was Xu Yi-qian's secretary.

  Xu Yikun's Jia Chuang was also invited to attend this economic and trade forum, but due to Shen Jiayou's flight delay and the road conditions, they arrived late.

  Two people were given admission cards by the person in charge, after entering, Shen Jia-yu raised his eyes and saw Meng Xi, who was quickly running towards the front hall, but when his gaze swept over this side, he didn't watch where he was going, and his foot slipped, causing him to fall forward onto the ground.

  The foreigner standing next to Xu Yiqian first saw Meng Xi rushing over, who was closer, and took the lead in taking a step forward, helping Meng Xi up.

  Meng Xi's pupils contracted, and she took a step forward, grabbing Shen Jia-yu's clothes. "It was you, I saw it in the newspaper, you had an engagement with Dawn, wasn't it?"

  Shen Jia-yu furrowed his brow, looked down at Meng Xi's hand grasping the hem of his clothes, and then raised his head to give a faint smile: "You're referring to Yang Mu-xiao? Yes, I'm her fiancé."

  After getting Shen Jia-yu's confirmation, he lifted his head and said urgently: "She's gone missing! Just now in the dressing room, she disappeared!"

  Shen Jia-yu's smile suddenly froze on his face. "What's going on? Don't be nervous, tell me everything."

  ………………

  After the opening dance, there was a scene similar to a dinner party that lasted for two hours. Gu Qingcheng received a call from Dong Zhe halfway through and had already left the scene, leaving behind Liang Yufan and Fang Shuxiang who were still present at the scene.

  Liu Yitian came down from upstairs and learned about this matter, her eyebrows tightly furrowed.

  "Secretary Fang, has Miss Yang gone missing?"

  Fang Shu glanced at Liu Yitian faintly and said, "Yes, she disappeared in the dressing room."

  "Is it gone?"

  "Uh-huh."

  Yes, disappeared.

  It's impossible from the very beginning.

  Meng Xi, who had told Shen Jia-yu about the cause and effect, returned to the surveillance video room again, replayed the surveillance video in front of him once more, and there was no difference from before. The sequence was still Yang Mo entering, the service staff coming over to deliver clothes, forcing open the door, leaving seven minutes later, and then Meng Xi arriving.

  But what she felt was off was that originally when passing through the hall, there was an escalator in front of her, and at the entrance, there was a person waiting for the elevator, but now...

  Meng Xi shouted.

  "Ah! Rewind the tape again!"

  "What's wrong?"

  Meng Xi didn't have time to explain to the staff on the side, so she hastily manually rewound the tape for three minutes.

  She noticed that on the surveillance video, in front of the elevator, from the very beginning, there was no one. When the waiter came out of the dressing room, there was also no one.

  When Meng Xi walked to the front of the locker room and turned his head, there was someone on the elevator side again, as if he had suddenly emerged from under the ground.

  How is this possible?!

  The staff behind said: "What did you see? You're startled!"

  Meng Xi had already pressed the pause button, pointing at the figure on the screen and saying: "Look! In this frame, there is a person in front of the elevator, but if you look ahead, there is no one here. Pull it back, and it seems like this person just appeared out of thin air from the ground..."

  Meng Xi muttered to himself, strange thoughts popping up in his mind, but he didn't notice the staff member behind him, holding an ashtray and slowly approaching step by step.

  The shadow fell on the chair and said, "Then what's going on here?"

  Meng Xi shook his head, "I don't know, I'll go tell him."

  As she spoke, Meng Xi was about to get up, but as soon as she moved the chair and stood up, her head was suddenly hit with a loud bang, stars appeared in front of her eyes, and she fell down, losing consciousness.

  ………………

  Dong Zhe has already checked the video, including the video at the entrance of Ya Wan, and there is no record of Yang Fuqiao getting on or off the bus. The surveillance videos at the side door and back door have been broken for two days, because the personnel entering and leaving are sparse, and they have not been repaired in time.

  Gu Qingcheng looked at the manager of the logistics department, "Is this your attitude towards handling things?"

  The logistics manager hung his head low, with cold sweat dripping down his back.

  After half a minute of silence, which seemed like half a century to him, Gu Qingcheng finally spoke up and said, "Go to the finance department and settle your salary."

  With just one sentence, he was thoroughly sentenced to death.

  Being swept out by Ya Wan like this, other colleagues will definitely not hire him again.

  "Director Gu! I'll never dare again!"

  The general manager wanted to move forward, but was separated by a person standing on one side at arm's length and was pulled directly towards the door.

  "Please, General Gu, give me another chance! Give me one more chance."

  Fang Shu listened on one side and shook his head.

  In front of Gu Qingcheng, there won't be a second chance. Once he's disappointed, it will never be possible to regain his trust again.

  Just then, Zhang Liang adjusted the road conditions and came in from the entrance, also with nothing to gain.

  It's like looking for a needle in the ocean. In such a big city C, where to find? Moreover, it is not even known who Yang Xiao was taken away by.

  "Go and investigate," Gu Qingcheng's face was icy cold, his whole body emitting an aura that made people dare not approach him. "If you can't find anything, then you don't have to come back."

  Zhang Liang slightly lowered his head, "Yes."

  After answering, Zhang Liang turned around and walked out of the door with big strides.

  Dong Zhe followed Gu Qingcheng three years ago, while Zhang Liang knew Gu Qingcheng even earlier, five years ago. For the past two years, they have been in Southeast Asia, specifically in Myanmar and Vietnam, and only returned to China last month. Gu Qingcheng gave him a month's rest time, and now he has started working again.

  Dong Zhe watched Zhang Liang leave and stood still on the spot.

  Although a person can only file a missing persons case after 24 hours, Gu Qingcheng used to be in the special forces and his old friend Fang is now at the police station, so he made a phone call and got the police to help look for her together.

  Everything seems to have come to a standstill.

  Suddenly, a person standing next to him said: "I just saw Shen San at the gate, after coming in, a woman went to find him and said something, he directly didn't come in, turned around and left."

  Gu Qingcheng's expression turned cold and stern.

  He held his mobile phone in his hand, the shell slightly cold, rubbing it with his fingers, leaving messy fingerprints on the smooth surface of the phone case.

  ………………

  Shen Jiaoyu has just returned to China and is no match for Gu Qingcheng in terms of foundation or prestige.

  But he also has his own way of finding people.

  When he received Gu Qingcheng's call, he had just hung up another call and saw Gu Qingcheng's name on the screen.

  "Hey, Second Brother."

  Gu Qingcheng said: "Are you outside now?"

  "Yes," Shen Jia-yu said, "something happened on the way, so I was late for the meeting."

  "That's okay, nothing much happened."

  "Uh-huh."

  The two of them seemed to have an unspoken agreement, not mentioning Yang Guofang's matter until the phone hung up.

  Shen Jia-yu looked at the 42-second call duration on his phone screen and dialed another number.

  ………………

  It was already an hour and a half later when Meng Xi was found not in the hotel.

  Dong Zhe once again called up the surveillance video to take a look, and found the clue in it. She wasn't like Meng Xi, who relied on what she saw in the corridor at that time, but rather through the recording time of one tenth of a second in the lower right corner of the video.

  "This tape seems to have been tampered with."

  Gu Qingcheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the staff in the monitoring room on one side, "What's going on?"

  The staff on duty waved his hand in a hurry: "I don't know either, I'm on night shift and just arrived."

  Gu Qingcheng recognized him and saw that the person in front of him was not the staff member who was still working at the economic and trade forum, so he turned around and said to Fang Shu behind him: "Go find this person for me."

  Fang Shu immediately turned around and walked out the door. As he passed by a storage room at the end of the corridor, he suddenly heard what sounded like a noise coming from inside.

  She frowned and immediately found someone to bring the key to open the door.

  The door opened and Meng Xi rushed out from inside, shouting loudly: "Ah!"

  Fang Shu looked at Meng Xi's disheveled hair and asked, "What are you doing in here?"

  Meng Xi covered the big bump on her head, which was hit once, and rubbed it again and again. "It was in the monitoring room, I was hit by that man with an ashtray, then I woke up and was locked back here."

  Fang Shu learned of the urgency of the matter and hastily went to the archives department to find the information of Liu Wei, who was on duty in the monitoring room at that time. As a result, he did not find anyone at Liu's home, but caught him at a long-distance bus station and immediately brought him before Gu Qingcheng.

  Liu Wei knelt on the ground, his shoulders trembling with fear.

  He didn't originally want to run away, but after something like this happened, he was really afraid it would affect his family members, so he packed up some things and left.

  However, was caught again.

  Gu Qingcheng stood up and walked around Liu Wei in a circle. "What was the situation at that time? Tell me everything completely."

  Liu Wei was crouching on the ground, his whole body shaking violently, looking at the neatly pressed pant legs and leather shoes in his field of vision, saying: "It was yesterday, someone found me and told me... let me... help him swap a video segment during a time period today, and then give me some money..."

  Gu Qingcheng slowed down and asked: "How much money?"

  "One hundred thousand," Liu Wei felt a strong pressure coming over him, and he crouched down even lower. "Yesterday... yesterday he gave me fifty thousand yuan, and after it was all settled today, he gave me another fifty thousand, which has already been transferred into my bank account... I just helped him swap out the video footage from that time period yesterday..."

  He said this, suddenly leaned forward and grabbed Gu Qingcheng's pants leg, "Director Gu, I really didn't know that person wanted to do such a thing, I... Today when I turned off the recording and replaced it with the one given by that person, I didn't want to do it anymore... But..."

  "But because of 100,000," Gu Qingcheng interrupted Liu Wei's words, "because of 100,000 yuan, you've ruined your own future."

  Gu Qingcheng took a step back, "What does that person look like? What is the bank card number he gave you?"

  "I, I don't know either, and that person... when we met he was wearing a mask and a duckbill cap, only his eyes were showing, I couldn't see... bank card number, this is, this is my card, it should be displayed inside..."

  Gu Qingcheng took the card handed over by this person, his dark and deep eyes narrowed, and gave it to Fang Shu on one side, "Go check."

  He bent down, staring at the man who was already trembling with fear, and turned his head around, his face cold, "I'll ask you again, what does that person look like?"

  "I don't know, I really didn't see..."

  Liu Wei wanted to shake his head, but it was as if a tight hoop had been clamped onto his head, holding it firmly in place.

  "Really?"

  Gu Qingcheng released Liu Wei's head, sneered and casually pulled out a tissue to wipe his hand, "Forgot? Alright, I'll help you remember."

  ………………

  Tina left for a trip to the film and television base after attending the economic and trade forum because something came up on the crew side.

  However, what happened on Gu Qingcheng's side was also worrying. When she was applying makeup to Lan Xiang, the loose powder that should have been patted onto her cheekbones almost landed on her eyelids.

  Lan Xuan turned around and said: "If you have something to do, go ahead and leave, no one is needed here anyway."

  Tina adjusted the angle of her face, took out a powder puff and patted a layer of fine powder on Lan Xiang's cheek, "I'll put on makeup for you before I leave, can't just come here for nothing."

  The crew temporarily moved tomorrow night's play to tonight, so they had to work overnight.

  Tina came out of the dressing room, and the night wind blew over, feeling cool and refreshing.

  Bao Yu Xin happened to be smoking outside, turned his head and saw Tiena's anxious appearance, and coldly sneered without hiding it.

  Tina stopped in her tracks.

  She and Bao Yuxin have always been at odds, but they haven't torn their faces apart.

  She glanced at Bao Yuxin with a look of disdain, turned around and was about to leave, only to hear Bao Yuxin say: "Some people rely on men liking them, snatch other people's things, but can be at peace with themselves, pretending it's their own. They really have a good opinion of themselves, and are also cruel and ruthless. It's strange that the young master of the Lu family doesn't know how to judge people."

  Tina turned around, smiled coldly: "That's still better than some people who rely on crawling into the beds of men with a loud voice to solidify their title as a sister. Unfortunately, she doesn't have Lan Xiang's aristocratic demeanor nor Qin Shuang's true spoiled nature of a rich young lady, but instead has become something that doesn't resemble anything, a donkey's head doesn't match a horse's mouth."

  "You..."

  Tina had already turned around and hastily got on a car in front.

  Tina called Gu Qingcheng on the road, but a woman answered. The woman's voice was unfamiliar, and Tina frowned, asking: "Has Gu Qingcheng eaten yet?"

  "Secretary Fang brought takeout for General Manager Gu, but he didn't touch it and it's gone cold."

  Since it's called Gu Zong, it should be an employee under Ya Huan.

  Tina passed by a restaurant and ordered takeout for Gu Qingcheng.

  Back in Yaohua, the economic and trade forum ended two hours ago. It's almost midnight now, and most employees have gone home. The 26th floor is still brightly lit, like daytime.

  Tina walked out of the elevator carrying a takeout box, and was immediately hit with an aura of iron and blood. Although the lights in front of her shone brightly like daylight, it felt as if she had stepped into the depths of hell, and she could smell the scent of death.

  Tina's eyelid twitched as she walked towards Gu Qingcheng's office.

  On the floor of Gu Qingcheng's office, a person was lying on the ground, covered in blood, seemingly without even the strength to hold their head up, crawling on the ground.

  Tina knew that Gu Qingcheng had been involved in the underworld before, and had also gone to the deep mountains and old forests to complete tasks. He was ruthless and merciless, but when she actually saw him, it was a different feeling.

  In the office, apart from Gu Qingcheng, there was a woman wearing a professional suit. Tina took a glance and knew that she must be the one who had just answered the phone.

  Fang Shu sent a message from the bank half an hour ago: The account of the bank card that transferred the money is a transit account, so it cannot be checked who originally transferred the money.

  Gu Qingcheng heard Tiena's high heels stepping on the ground, unmoved, stood up from the sofa and walked towards Liu Wei who was lying on the ground.

  "Liu Wei, I've already wasted over an hour with you. If you'd like, we can continue wasting time," Gu Qingcheng's voice was cold and hard, his thin lips slightly parted. "I'll ask again, what does that person look like?"

  Liu Wei's body shook all over, "I don't know, I really don't know, the man was wearing a duck-billed cap and covering his face... I really can't remember... Ah!"

  A cry more shrill than a woman's shriek.

  Gu Qingcheng stepped on Liu Wei's right hand, and Tina's eyelids twitched, as if they could all hear the faint sound of the boot crushing the finger bones.

  "You've just experienced it, and now you're only superficially injured. If you still can't remember, then sorry," Gu Qingcheng squatted down, coldly staring at Liu Wei. "In the past, I spent some time in Southeast Asia, where I knew of a water dungeon with water snakes and crocodiles... or rather, if you don't like those more brutal wild animals, there's also a method that boils people alive, peels off their skin, and dissects their bones... or, those methods are really too complicated. There's one method that's the simplest..."

  "Ah!"

  A silver dagger in Gu Qingcheng's hand was directly nailed into the person's palm, blood splashing out and staining his sleeve, with a few drops on his cheek and chin.

  "I'll give you three more minutes."

  Gu Qingcheng pulled out the dagger that had been inserted into Liu Wei's palm and threw it to the ground with a clang, leaving a few drops of blood on the ground.

  He turned around and sat back down on the sofa, with a very deep shadow at the bottom of his eyes.

  It has been six hours since Yang Wuxiao went missing. The police are working hard on the case.

  Liu Wei, who was lying on the ground, covered his mouth and shouted loudly: "I remember now! When I went to the bank with him before, we needed to take a photo for identity verification. He took off his mask! It was at XX Agricultural Bank!"

  ………………

  Gu Qingcheng's father was a well-known banking entrepreneur and a leader in the bank, so that night, after 12 o'clock, the lights inside the Agricultural Bank of China lit up again. A female staff member sat in front of the computer, quickly retrieving from the database the list of personnel who handled business during the time period mentioned by Liu Wei.

  On the bus, Tina asked Gu Qingcheng: "How did you know that he knew?"

  Gu Qing's white shirt sleeve was still stained with blood, "I don't know."

  "So you..."

  "I only know that we must get something out of this crowd, or the trail will go cold," said Gu Qingcheng with a dark gaze. "In the past when executing tasks, even if it was just a small piece of information, we had to pry open their mouths."

  Inside the bank, the bank staff printed out the list of people who handled business at window No. 3 during that time period and handed it over to Liu Yitian standing behind him.

  Liu Yitian took the list and glanced at the names on it, her pupils shrinking slightly. She turned around and handed it to Gu Qingcheng with a composed expression.

  There were twenty people doing business during this time period. At that time, Liu Wei was outside the bank's partition line and didn't see the person's face at all, and it took a lot of time and effort to screen one by one.

  Tina leaned over and also looked at the list, "If we only look at the eyes, we should be able to pick out some people."

  "Let Liu Wei come and identify."

  Gu Qing's brow furrowed deeply, and just then, he received a call from Zhang Liang.

  "In Jin Yuan residential area, the night-shift security guard said he saw a man carrying a disheveled woman getting out of a car."