"My young lady, you don't have to do anything. Just wait until we take actions, and walk over here."
A Miao, Shen II, and Shen III were all at the meeting in the study, discussing the plan for tomorrow.
"I get it." A Miao pointed at the drawings and said, "I am standing here at that time, so it is much better in terms of time."
Shen II and Shen III exchanged glances, wondering that A Miao was too calm. Especially Shen II, he knew her attitude when she was forced to steal a jade pendant last time—it was totally helpless by force.
But now, she seemed to be more active than them...
"Why are you looking at me like that?" A Miao finally noticed their suspicious expressions and asked.
Shen III tilted his head, for he would blush when he looked at girls' eyes, not to mention open his mouth. Shen II did not know how to say it, but he still asked.
"My young lady, are you okay? If you have any pressure, speak it out."
A Miao smiled and said, "I am fine!"
..."The hell you were fine."
"All right, is there anything to explain?" She stood up and said, "If nothing, I am going back to my room for preparations."
Shen III whispered after she left, "What is she going to prepare?"
"Pack her luggage."
"What baggage?" Shen Xinglan happened to come in.
Shen II sighed with a heavy breath and replied, "BOSS, you've promised that you would let the young lady go tomorrow, haven't you?"
The atmosphere of the study suddenly became dignified, and Shen III shrank a little bit to be more invisible. Shen Xinglan sat down and glared at them, saying, "It is best not to make troubles tomorrow, or you will accompany each other to find Shen I."
"Yes. BOSS."
In the evening, Shen Xinglan passed by A Miao's room and stood outside the door for a long time. But he had never been in. He was never an indecisive person. However, at this time, now that he couldn't say these feelings out, it meant that his love wasn't so strong to reach the point.
And A Miao, in the room, had put all the luggage well. It was phony to say that she wasn't afraid. But she was just excited at the thought of that she would be free after the task completed tomorrow.
"Mom! I will be free." Holding her mother's portrait, A Miao lied on the bed, smiling. Because Shen Xinglan had promised her—he would announce to cancel their engagement until she graduated. But at that time, she had been abroad for a long time.
"The Xia family... will have nothing to do with me anymore." A Miao looked calm and slowly closed her eyes.
S City, as an international metropolis, often had various world-class auctions. The auction this day was the biggest jewelry one at the end of this year, and there were also many antiques on display.
"Mr. Shen, please, please!" The staff respectfully welcomed Shen Xinglan and A Miao towards the VIP seats.
A Miao was very cooperative to act, sitting beside Shen Xinglan. Just sitting down, she heard someone calling her name.
Xia Wan, of course sitting beside Bai Youran, noded her in a place not far away, saying, "A Miao, I wondered when you would come just now!"
Bai Youran still looked A Miao with disdain. He said, "Wanwan, don't say hello to everyone. Now, the auction is more and more informal, and everyone can be allowed inside."
"You can't say that, Youran," said Xia Wan, frowning, "can this man be much maturer?"
Seeing that he still wanted to speak, Xia Wan pulled his sleeve and whispered, "Now she is Shen Xinglan's fiancée. Don't make me embarrassed."
"I know, I know!" Bai Youran immediately patted her hand and said, "Your grandfather will be angry, I know."
Disguising the disgusts of her eyes, Xia Wan continued talking to A Miao with her head tilted.
"You haven't returned home to see us, how are you going? Is Mr. Shen good to you?" Xia Wan asked inappropriately, but she couldn't care so much.
Since the scandal of the engagement banquet was brought to light, she was scared for a long time, fearing Shen Xinglan's revenge. She finally came across A Miao and naturally needed to ask something.
"A Miao is getting along very well. But you, Miss Xia, look bad."
Shen Xinglan suddenly turned around and put one hand on A Miao's shoulder, looking at Xia Wan with a spurious smile.
Xia Wan squeezed a smile and said, "Shen... Mr. Shen, you are really good at joking!" On hearing this, replied Bai Youran with a glare, "That's why your eyes are not very good. My dear Wanwan is getting along better than anyone else."
No one noticed that A Miao was stiff, except Shen Xinglan. His eyes were deep, and his hands were taken back from A Miao. Also, Xia Wan did not want to stay here even for a minute.
"Youran, I am dizzy."
Bai Youran immediately held her and asked, "What's wrong? Do you need to go to the hospital?"
"No, maybe I didn't sleep well yesterday. Let's go and sit there. I will feel better by sitting against the window."
These two persons changed positions, and A Miao said nothing from beginning to end, just looking down at the brochure.
"Don't be nervous, Shen II will get everything ready. It will be okay."
Shen Xinglan's cold voice was spreading into her ears. Didn't know if it was an illusion, but it was a little bit gentle.
A Miao felt funny and said, "Well, you all think that I am nervous?"
"So why don't you look at me." Shen Xinglan interrupted her and said, "From yesterday to now, this is the first time you talk to me."
A Miao didn't look up, spreading a smiling sound into Shen Xinglan's ears.
"Look or not look, talk or not talk, what's the point of that?"
On hearing that, Shen Xinglan dropped his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
At this time, the auctioneer appeared on the high platform and announced the opening ceremony. When the meeting place was quiet, A Miao started to recall that she didn't see Jiang Hua. She looked around and didn't found him.
"1.2 million once..."
"1.23 million twice..."
The auctioneer kept reporting the bid. Shen Xinglan had casually participated several times in the middle. But every time he placed a bid, Bai Youran would definitely follow him. Shen Xinglan all gave them to him.
Soon, more than a dozen items were all sold out, and then the organizers came up with a few antiques, from vases to small pieces of jade ornaments.
At this time, Shen Xing suddenly said, "Do you see it?"
A Miao nodded and replied, "The one in the middle."
"Go and get ready," said Shen Xinglan.
As A Miao stood up and walked away, a burst of power suddenly grabbed her wrist. When looking back, she found that Shen Xinglan looked at her with a faint expression.
"You..." A Miao said with puzzlement.
"I will steal it back." A Miao pushed his hand away and left without looking back.
At sight of his empty palm, he felt a sound wandering into his heart: No, I don't need you to go.
Appearing from nowhere, Ding V broke in abruptly and whispered, "Something is wrong."
However, Shen Xinglan still gazed at her back sight, watching her go further and further, as if she would go out of his life. As something slammed into his heart, Shen Xinglan stood up all of a sudden.
And said, "Tell Shen II, terminate the plan."
"You also find it?" Ding V looked around like a wolf and said, "Those few guys look like skilled scammers."
Shen Xinglan looked askance and said, "Skilled scammers?" This was an argot, meaning robbery.
"Yeah." Ding V strangely looked at him and doubted, "You didn't find it? Then why did you stop the plan?"
"I regret." Shen Xinglan left the words and ran towards A Miao.
At this time, with the cooperation of Shen II and Shen III, A Miao was very naturally hitting the staff who was carrying the jade pendant. At the moment when she was pulled up by the security guard, she had already exchanged with the fake one.
"Miss, are you okay?" Asked the security guard.
"Thank you, I..." Before she finished, several persons suddenly rushed over, wearing masks, and armed with guns.
Shen II immediately reacted and wanted to put A Miao behind him in the first place.
"Don't move!" Robbery did faster than him.
A Miao was pushed behind his back and one of the robbers grabbed the gun and slammed it on her head.
"Stop!" Seeing this scene, Shen Xinglan felt that his heart was almost split. He walked over to the robbers step by step and queried, "You... dare to hurt her."
Shen III hurriedly stopped in front of him and cried, "BOSS!"
The harsh alarm bell ringing, the security guards came in from outside of the door. However, the robbers had already put the antiques of the auction into the bag, about to leave.
"This way!" A uniformed security guard even opened the back door for them.
Shen Xinglan didn't stop at all and still walked towards A Miao step by step. Robbers misunderstood his behavior and the last one even put up a gun to threaten him.
"Shen!" Ding V suddenly rushed out to push him away. At the same time, there was a gunshot, and the bullet shot on the wall post next to him.
Screams, noises, and messy rushes of feet... The scene was in a mess.
Shen Xinglan pulled Ding V away and stood up. The next second, vacancy began to take entire possession of him, as if he had lost his soul.
"A Miao?"
In the evening, the news reported the case—the auction, as well as millions of antiques, was robbed. But no one knew that there was a person, besides antiques... missing as well.
"BOSS." Shen II slowly walked in.
Shen Xinglan, all of his figure, was shrouded in the darkness—he was sitting in the sofa, only letting the lamp turned on.
"Go and find again." His voice, coming out of the darkness, was cooler than the night outside.
Shen III, following Shen II, said the truth, "BOSS, it is nearly dawn. The young lady... the young lady must have left by herself."
"No, she won't leave until she has given me the jade pendant." Shen Xinglan said affirmatively, "She has been injured in her head and should not be awake now."
Although his voice was cold and calm, without no temperature in it, only he could know the truth.
Overwhelmed with sadness to death... That was his exact feeling at this moment.
This word, when Shanshan fell into the sea more than a decade ago, seemed to never occur to him.
"Go and find again." Shen Xinglan annihilated the cigar and said, "A Miao must have been taken away."
Shen II and Shen III, who did not close his eyes overnight, turned around and left without hesitation, and passed by Ding V who was coming in.
"Shen, those robbers were killed." He sat opposite Shen Xinglan and said, "I didn't do that. When I found them, they had been killed and antiques were gone."
With this and seeing that Shen Xinglan didn't respond, he stared at him for a while.
"You still don't admit that you like A Miao?"
"Yes, I do."
Ding V: ... He didn't expect that Shen Xinglan could answer him so fast. Or, he didn't even think that Shen Xinglan would answer.
"You are still waiting for Shanshan, aren't you?"
Shen Xinglan moved a little bit and said, "Now, I only want her."
"I know." Ding V stood up and said, "I will help you find her."
It was dawn, but Shen Xinglan sat still and didn't move. When the sun fell again, he stood up.
"BOSS!" Shen II rushed in and reported, "The courier just sent it in."
In the black box, a milky white jade pendant laid quietly...