Qi Dahai, as luck would have it, rode his electric scooter back just as the ambulance was leaving.
He was carrying two large bags, brimming with items.
"Stop right there," Xiao Yu shouted when he saw Qi Dahai.
Startled, Qi Dahai dropped what he was holding and turned to flee.
However, there was no escaping Xiao Yu, who had a special forces background. Within minutes, Qi Dahai was pinned to the ground.
"Why are you running?" Xiao Yu demanded, panting.
"You caught me, so I had to run. Otherwise, I'd be hauled in for re-education again."
"What have you done wrong?"
"Heaven above, Captain Xiao, I swear to you, I haven't done anything bad. In fact, I did a very good deed."
"That's curious. What good deed? Tell me about it."
"I rescued a beautiful woman from the artificial lake."
"Are you sure you rescued her and didn't kidnap her?"
"Captain Xiao, do I look like that kind of person?"
"Yes. You look exactly like it. Didn't you see the missing person poster?"
"What missing person poster?
I've been busy and haven't gone out these past few days.
I just went out today to buy some essentials, and as soon as I returned, you caught me."
"Is that really all there is to it? Who would believe you haven't been out?"
Qi Dahai fell silent after Xiao Yu's barrage of questions.
"The person in your room has already been sent to the hospital.
The missing person poster offered a reward of 100,000 for anyone providing information, and a reward of one million for finding the person.
You didn't know about this?"
"Cross my heart, I haven't left my place much since I rescued the beauty from the artificial lake.
I was thinking that if I saved a beautiful woman, maybe she could become my wife.
Who knew someone would offer a reward for finding her?
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of taking care of her at home. It would have been much better to just collect the reward money."
Hearing Qi Dahai's explanation, Xiao Yu found it reasonable and let him go.
"You'll have to come with us to the station to give a statement."
Qi Dahai obediently followed Xiao Yu and got into the car.
Guo Xuyang and Xiao Yun arrived in the provincial capital past midnight. Hearing from Xiao Yu that Chen Hailing had been sent to the hospital, he was relieved that she was alright.
The next morning, Guo Xuyang drew the likenesses of the main person of interest and the secondary person of interest and sent them to Xiao Yu, asking for her help in identifying them.
He then went with Xiao Yun to the hospital to visit Chen Hailing.
Chen Hailing lay quietly on the bed, with Chen Qiang and a middle-aged woman by her side.
The middle-aged woman was presumably Chen Hailing's mother.
"Auntie, hello. Is Hailing okay?" Xiao Yun asked as she pushed open the hospital room door.
"Xiao Yun, you're here.
She was just rescued yesterday and still hasn't woken up.
The doctor said she experienced a major shock, causing temporary amnesia and unconsciousness.
She hasn't woken up since."
"It's good that she's been found. She'll be alright, Auntie,"
Xiao Yun said, placing the fruit she was carrying on the bedside table.
Guo Xuyang felt a moment of disorientation upon seeing Chen Qiang. He couldn't help but extend his senses and discovered that Chen Qiang actually knew the secondary person of interest.
"Chen Qiang, is it? Can I speak with you for a moment?"
Guo Xuyang said to Chen Qiang.
"Who are you? I don't know you,"
Chen Qiang replied after glancing at Guo Xuyang.
"I'm Xiao Yun's boyfriend. I have something I want to ask you about, regarding your sister."
"What is it? Can't we talk about it here?"
"Let's talk outside. Your sister hasn't woken up yet."
Guo Xuyang said, walking towards the door.
Chen Qiang had no choice but to follow.
"Do you recognize these two people?"
Guo Xuyang pulled up the two portraits he had sent to Xiao Yu.
"Aren't these Sun Xin and his father, Sun Shihai? How do you have their pictures?"
"You're saying these two are father and son?" Guo Xuyang was very surprised.
"Yes. Why are you asking about them?"
"Do they know your sister?" Guo Xuyang continued to ask.
"Of course they do.
Sun Shihai is friends with my father.
Our families were always on good terms, but then some things happened, and we gradually stopped associating."
"Does your sister know about those things?"
"She probably doesn't. She rarely asks about my affairs."
"Your affairs? You mean that because of your affairs, your families stopped associating?"
"That's not something I can talk about. Why are you asking about them?"
"These two people are closely related to your sister's coma.
I need to know what happened between you all."
"What? You mean these scoundrels hired someone to kidnap my sister?" Chen Qiang exclaimed.
"What are you shouting about? We don't know the exact situation yet.
You need to tell me why your families fell out."
Chen Qiang scratched his head and said, "Sun Shihai's daughter, Sun Xin's sister, used to be my girlfriend.
We broke up later because our feelings didn't match.
That's why our families' relationship wasn't as good as before."
Guo Xuyang felt that Chen Qiang wasn't telling the whole story.
This guy was holding back half of it.
"I need you to tell me everything clearly."
"What can you do if I tell you? This is a private matter between us, I can't talk about it."
"If you say that, then I won't be able to help your sister."
"You mean you can help my sister recover?"
"That depends on you.
I need to know the whole story to decide how to help your sister."
What Guo Xuyang said was not wrong.
He didn't know how to restore Chen Hailing's memory, and perhaps it was better if she didn't recover it.
At least she could continue to be an arrogant goddess.
If this matter were revealed, she, and her family, would be disgraced by it and would have no standing in the provincial capital.
Chen Qiang didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, only thinking of it as a simple kidnapping.
He was still hesitant and unwilling to disclose the incident.
Unbeknownst to them, a middle-aged man was secretly observing the two from a short distance away.
"Sir, I wonder if you can truly heal my daughter?" the middle-aged man asked as he approached.
Upon seeing the middle-aged man, Chen Qiang called out, "Dad."
The middle-aged man, Chen Shikun, ignored Chen Qiang and looked directly at Guo Xuyang.
"I need to know the cause and effect of the matter to decide how to treat Chen Hailing," Guo Xuyang said.
"I'll tell you about this," Chen Shikun said after a pause.
"Sun Shihai and I both started in real estate. We used to be colleagues and friends in the same unit.
Later, we went into business together. I did foreign trade, and he did mechanical and electrical equipment.
In the last decade, the real estate business boomed, so he and I partnered up in real estate. I handled procedures and marketing, and he managed the teams and construction.
I was the chairman of the company, and he was the general manager. We had always been on good terms.
As the children grew up, Chen Qiang and Sun Shihai's daughter, Sun Yiling, got together and were close to marriage.
Chen Qiang was too playful. When Sun Yiling became pregnant and wanted to get married, he met another woman. Sun Yiling found out, and they had a terrible falling out.
Later, Sun Yiling had a miscarriage and suffered a mental shock.
Sun Shihai also split from our company, taking many people with him.
My company also declined, and now it can barely sustain itself, with significantly reduced business.
After that, the relationship between our two families grew increasingly distant.
Although we didn't completely cut ties, we communicated very little."