TVSFPAG -Chapter 139 So Miserable

Wei Ke didn’t even dare to breathe loudly. In fact, he even felt a slight hope that memory wouldn’t return.

It was too terrifying—this was truly the first time in so many years that he had seen such an expression.

Normally, Chu Jinhan was someone whose emotions were never shown on his face. Even when he was angry, one had to guess. It was rare to see such a vivid range of expressions.

Chu Jinhan slowly opened his eyes. His gaze had already settled down, with no lingering emotions.

But in Wei Ke’s eyes, it felt more like the eerie stillness after a storm—like a landscape left in ruins, merely covered up.

He stood up. His clothes were stained, and there was a scratch on his temple from a branch.

Yet the aura around him had already changed.

He walked straight toward the car by the roadside—it was Wei Ke’s vehicle.

Wei Ke snapped back to reality and hurriedly stood up, running over to open the door for him.

After getting into the car, Wei Ke sat in the driver’s seat up front and secretly glanced at the rearview mirror.

However, the car interior was too dark. He could only see the man’s chest illuminated by the streetlight; his entire face was hidden in shadow, making his expression impossible to discern.

Wei Ke swallowed nervously. Several times he wanted to speak, but hesitated, afraid of stepping on a landmine.

While he was still conflicted, the man’s deep, magnetic voice came from behind him:

“From the time I went missing until now—tell me everything that happened, one by one.”

Wei Ke’s tense nerves relaxed slightly, and he began to recount everything in detail.

“Half a year ago, you went abroad on a business trip. I went to pick you up, but waited a full day and you never appeared.”

Wei Ke had checked the flight route—the flight had indeed been delayed.

However, afterward, he couldn’t reach Chu Jinhan by phone, and messages went unanswered.

He reported the matter to the chairman—Chu Jinhan’s father.

Soon after, the chairman dispatched many people to search for him. Strangely, however, no clues were found at all.

Even more bizarrely, the airport had no footage of him.

So everyone began to wonder whether he had not yet returned from abroad, or whether something had happened to him overseas.

Chu Jinhan said, “Of course there was no footage, because I returned the day before.”

“Why didn’t you call me??” Wei Ke was not surprised, as he had already investigated this.

He had gone through great effort, finally finding clues from someone else’s dashcam footage, because all the road surveillance recordings had disappeared.

There was a long silence afterward.

Wei Ke thought he wouldn’t explain and was about to continue speaking.

The next second, he heard the man’s displeased voice:

“I was hit while I was calling you.”

“……”

Because the trip had not gone well, he had booked a flight back the same day.

After landing, he happened to take a call and walked along the road outside the airport. While he was hanging up and scrolling through Wei Ke’s phone number, he was struck by the car.

Wei Ke continued reporting on the company matters.

After his disappearance, they initially tried to keep it hidden to avoid affecting the stock market.

But it couldn’t be concealed—news eventually leaked, and various reports broke out.

However, the situation was quickly controlled. The stock market only experienced a slight fluctuation, and the issue was not serious.

After that, everyone did their utmost to search for clues about him.

But after half a year of searching, no one found anything.

Whenever Wei Ke was close to uncovering a lead, it would suddenly go cold again.

Aside from that, one notable development was that his younger brother, Chu Xiuye, had suddenly started to improve himself.

In the past, that guy never went to the company, let alone worked.

He spent his time racing with friends, going to bars, and engaging in all kinds of extreme sports.

True to his name, he was always “wild”—getting him to go to work was like asking for his life.

But after Chu Jinhan went missing, he suddenly became serious.

At first, he wasn’t familiar with business operations, but gradually he began to achieve significant results. Even the chairman praised him for his potential.

Another important matter was that the chairman was preparing to retire, and many people were eyeing that position.

For the two brothers, this position wasn’t extremely critical, but it also couldn’t fall into the hands of outsiders—after all, it carried significant authority and room for maneuver.

By the time Wei Ke finished explaining everything, the horizon had already begun to glow red, and the sun was about to rise.

Many people were already walking on the streets, no longer as deserted as before.

“Oh right, Mr. Chu, there’s one more thing. I’ll tell you, but don’t get angry…”

“Speak.”

Wei Ke hesitated for a moment, then said cautiously, “Well… Chu Xiuye seems to be getting very close to Miss Shen.”

He phrased it rather tactfully. In reality, the two were not just “close”—he had personally seen them kissing in a car.

Wei Ke glanced at the rearview mirror, trying to read the man’s expression. Under the faint light of dawn, he could make it out.

Mr. Chu seemed to be lost in thought.

“Mr. Chu?”

“Normal. Women are all liars.” Chu Jinhan’s voice carried no discernible emotion, but if listened to carefully, a trace of anger could still be detected.

Wei Ke silently sighed in his heart. Alright… it seemed Mr. Chu had taken quite a blow.

His fiancée was gone, and now he had been played by another woman.

Truly miserable.

However, judging from his tone, compared to the fiancée, his resentment toward the latter seemed even stronger.

“So where are you heading now?”

“Buy a ticket. Go back to Haishi.”

“Now?”

Chu Jinhan’s gaze moved to the rearview mirror, meeting Wei Ke’s eyes. “Planning to treat me to breakfast before I leave?”

“…No, I’ll book it right away.”

Chu Jinhan said no more, picked up his phone, and made a call.

——

When Song Yunfei woke up, she found herself asleep on the sofa.

She rubbed her eyes and looked around.

A sense of emptiness greeted her. The house was cold and quiet, with no sign that Chu Jinhan had returned.

Did he not come back last night?

She hurriedly picked up her phone to check, but there were no messages from him.

Being a supervisor must be exhausting—was he working overtime all night again?

She sent him a message, but still received no reply.

She could only sigh and go to the bathroom to wash up, then head to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

She made an extra portion, thinking he might eat it when he returned from work later.

After breakfast, she went downstairs and didn’t see the pink electric scooter, but the Volkswagen was still parked in its spot.

He really hadn’t come back.

Since the workplace wasn’t far away, Song Yunfei simply walked to work.

However, at work, she was distracted. From time to time, she would pick up her phone to check.

But she still didn’t see any reply from Chu Jinhan. Even when her phone rang and she saw it was an advertisement call, she felt an urge to delete it in frustration.

Near noon, she couldn’t hold back and called him again.

Still no answer.

At that moment, Chu Jinhan had already arrived in Haishi. Looking at the incoming call, he directly pressed the power-off button.

Wei Ke had already made arrangements in advance. A Rolls-Royce slowly approached and stopped in front of them.

Wei Ke opened the car door. Seeing that he wasn’t getting in immediately, he turned back to look at him.

He saw him turning his phone back on.

Wei Ke couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Turning it off, then on again—what was he doing?

Along the way, he had seen him power his phone off at least three times.

“Mr. Chu?”

Chu Jinhan snapped back to reality, put away his phone, and got into the car.

Song Yunfei rested her chin in her hand, hesitating whether to go to the factory to check on him, when a familiar profile picture suddenly popped up at the top of her phone.

She immediately grabbed her phone and opened the chat window.