Su Kangxi noticed her strange expression and asked, "Sister Susu, are you alright?"
"Oh, oh, I'm fine. You should go back quickly and don't let it delay your work." Susu forced a smile and watched him walk away.
She returned to her room, closed the door, and leaned against it. Thinking about Shu Yan's impending delivery, the timing of the pregnancy coincided exactly with when she and Qin Tianyi had planned to go abroad for a vacation.
Could it be that because she couldn't go abroad with Qin Tianyi that time, Qin Tianyi had an inappropriate encounter with Shu Yan overseas?
She then wondered why she should care about these things. She no longer had the right to be with Qin Tianyi. Who he wanted to be with, or who he wanted to marry, was his own business.
She wanted to continue drawing the design drafts that Su Kangxi had interrupted, but when she picked up her pen, she couldn't concentrate.
...
Su Kangxi rushed back to the police station in the afternoon. It was almost time to get off work when his superior called him over.
The words Sister Susu had told him had been unsettling him. Thinking about things related to Si Jie, he had a bad premonition.
As soon as his superior saw him, his expression turned serious. "Deng Rui has lost contact with the overseas police. It's highly possible he has been harmed."
Su Kangxi looked up at his superior as if he hadn't understood, unwilling to believe it. "How could that be? Deng Rui contacted me suddenly a few days ago. He's been a police officer for over ten years, he'll be fine, he definitely will be fine!"
"He contacted you privately? What did he say?"
Su Kangxi replied, "He didn't say anything specific, it was like he just wanted to say hello."
"He didn't say anything?"
"Yes, he said it was the rule." Su Kangxi, who already had doubts, asked with grief and indignation, "He was on an undercover mission, wasn't he? But why did he have to go abroad? It would be more dangerous there!"
"Comrade Su Kangxi, please calm down. He volunteered for it. I advised him at the time that going abroad would mean facing extremely brutal criminal groups, but he wouldn't listen. He insisted on uncovering the truth." The superior explained.
Su Kangxi couldn't calm down. "What truth does he want to uncover? What does this have to do with overseas criminal groups?"
"It's about the situation you encountered during your last undercover operation. It should be related to Boss Wei colluding with overseas criminal groups."
Su Kangxi asked in confusion, "Who was it that sent him to the warehouse that time? Is he trying to uncover this truth?"
The superior nodded solemnly.
"No, I have to go find him! I want to see him alive, or his body if he's dead! If it's for this, then I should be a part of it!"
Seeing him getting more agitated, the superior advised, "How are you going to find him? Where are you going to look? You don't know the place. If you rashly go there, you'll only mess things up. We need to wait for further news from the overseas police."
"Then what's the point of you calling me here? Are we just going to wait and do nothing else!" Su Kangxi felt distressed at the thought of more sacrifices.
The superior patiently said, "I called you here because the last message Deng Rui sent stated that the person he had been trying to find had a personal connection with you. I wanted to ask you, when you went undercover, did you tell anyone around you?"
"No, I didn't tell anyone, not even the people closest to me. But who is the person he's trying to find? What's his name?"
The superior looked him in the eye and said, "Yang Sijie, do you know this person?"
"Brother Sijie, of course I know him. Why is he investigating Brother Sijie?"
The superior gestured for him to sit down and slowly explained the reason.
When Su Kangxi was undercover in Boss Wei's organization, Deng Rui acted as his secret contact. One time, after receiving a message from him, Deng Rui went to Boss Wei's warehouse and was caught red-handed by Boss Wei's men.
That incident almost exposed Su Kangxi's identity. Deng Rui was injured and jumped into the river, barely escaping with his life.
However, afterwards, everyone knew that Su Kangxi had not contacted Deng Rui, but someone had impersonated Su Kangxi to contact him, leading him into a trap.
Deng Rui, an experienced old police officer, felt that something was not right. Fearing that Su Kangxi's identity might still be exposed, he wanted to find out who that person was.
But after this incident, which was dangerous but ended without mishap, Su Kangxi's identity was still not exposed, which made the matter even stranger.
Instead, it made Deng Rui even more determined to uncover the truth. His efforts paid off, and he found the person who sent the message, who turned out to be a minor figure. After interrogating this minor figure, it was discovered that the mastermind behind it might be the head of an international money laundering group.
At that time, he followed this lead. The head of this group was a wealthy foreigner named Yang. International police organizations had been targeting him for a long time but had not found sufficient evidence.
Just before Deng Rui went undercover abroad, the international police received an anonymous tip stating that Yang Sijie had come to Lancheng under the guise of investing in legitimate businesses, but was actually engaged in illegal transactions with Boss Wei.
Yang Sijie did not appear in person and acted very discreetly. If it weren't for this anonymous tip, no one would have noticed. However, the tip still lacked substantive evidence, only providing some valuable clues.
Based on these clues, Deng Rui volunteered to go undercover, wanting to personally apprehend the person who had tried to harm him and Su Kangxi.
But based on the current situation, Deng Rui's undercover operation had failed.
When Su Kangxi emerged from his superior's office, he was still in a state of extreme shock and grief.
He still remembered that night, when he was supposed to go with Sister Susu to see Yang Sijie off. He hadn't gone because Deng Rui had been suddenly captured.
And at that time, Yang Sijie was having dinner with Sister Susu. He had actually been controlling things with Boss Wei.
Yang Sijie had put both him and Deng Rui in danger, just to have dinner alone with Sister Susu?
He had never told anyone about his undercover work, including Yang Sijie, yet Yang Sijie had known what he was doing from the beginning. However, Yang Sijie had not exposed him, nor had he helped Boss Wei.
With such contradictory actions, what had Yang Sijie been trying to do at the time, and what was his motive?
Sister Susu was right. Yang Sijie had completely changed long ago, becoming as deep and unfathomable as the sea, impossible for anyone to guess.
Was Deng Rui's undercover mission failure also related to Yang Sijie? Had Deng Rui already been killed?
Yang Sijie's image in Su Kangxi's mind had completely collapsed...
Colleagues who were leaving work one after another kept greeting him, but he ignored them all and went straight back to his office, trying to send a message to Gu Susu.
Susu was having dinner with Ya Nan when she suddenly received a message from Su Kangxi. After a quick glance, she immediately picked up her phone, ready to go to her room to read it carefully.
Ya Nan, seeing her nervous demeanor, smiled and said, "Did Qin Tianyi contact you again?"
Susu didn't confirm or deny it, just smiled at her and headed towards her room.
"It's just saying some mushy sweet nothings, why be so secretive about it." Ya Nan waved her chopsticks at her, teasing her.
She closed her room door and replied to Su Kangxi, "What is it?"
"Is it convenient to call you?"
Susu listened to Ya Nan's movements outside, who seemed to have gone to the kitchen. She replied, "Yes."