Chapter 128: Leng Ruoli Goes Missing

Jiang Muye's heart twisted with pain.

He had known nothing about any of this, and just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

"I'm sorry…" Mi Lu burst into tears, regretting it deeply now.

Jiang Muye spoke to Mi Lu with absolute finality, "The one you really need to apologize to is her, not me."

Leng Ruoli had secretly prepared all of this just to give him a surprise.

And the result?

She had been betrayed by Mi Lu. She had done all the work, only for Mi Lu to steal the credit.

If Little White Dove had done something like this, he'd probably be in agony. Never mind that Leng Ruoli, a girl, had to bear all of this alone.

Something had sliced viciously into Jiang Muye's heart, and the wound continued to fester and rot inch by inch.

She was just a girl, alone in this city for her studies.

After everything that had happened, where could she even go?

Had she eaten? Had she slept? Was she cold right now?

Jiang Muye was completely in the dark.

Mi Lu lowered her head, her eyes instantly reddening.

Seeing Jiang Muye run out without a shred of hesitation, she panicked. "Where are you going?"

"To find her, of course! I'm going to bring her back!" Jiang Muye looked back at Mi Lu with resolve and stubborn determination in his eyes.

Little White Dove followed without a second thought.

Old He didn't spare Mi Lu a single glance, walking right past her without a word.

Kai shook his head at Mi Lu. "Campus Belle Mi, I'm very disappointed in you. I don't think you deserve to like Muzi, and you don't deserve to be the Cold Campus Belle's friend."

A bitter smile spread across Mi Lu's lips. Biting her crimson lips, she was dying of regret.

Only Mi Lu remained at the scene. Helpless, she crouched down and wept.

Meanwhile, Jiang Muye was searching aimlessly for Leng Ruoli.

The nearby parks, the stairwells, the malls.

He turned every place upside down.

But Leng Ruoli was nowhere to be found.

Until he spotted a familiar, beautiful figure across the intersection—long hair flowing, wearing the same beige coat Leng Ruoli had worn.

His eyes lit up. "Leng Ruoli!"

After calling out, Jiang Muye charged after her like a cheetah. Not caring that it was a red light, he rushed straight ahead.

However, after weaving through the traffic and running across the road, he found the person turning around to reveal a completely unfamiliar face.

All of Jiang Muye's hope collapsed in an instant. The smile on his face stiffened.

"Who are you?" the girl asked, puzzled.

"Sorry, I mistook you for someone else," Jiang Muye replied apologetically, and the girl walked off.

Jiang Muye looked at the endless sea of people, utterly at a loss.

He felt incredibly small.

The street was full of people coming and going, but none of them was the one he wanted to find.

Jiang Muye had been clutching his phone tightly the whole time, but there had still been no reply.

Little White Dove came running over, panting. "I've searched everywhere nearby. I didn't see her."

Old He arrived to regroup with them. "Could she be staying at some hotel right now? Searching outside like this isn't getting us anywhere."

Little White Dove nodded. "Old He's right. She might be perfectly fine right now, nothing wrong at all."

Jiang Muye's brows knitted tightly, and he retorted stubbornly, "But what if something is wrong? Even if her phone died, it should be on by now. She could ignore Mi Lu's calls, but why wouldn't she contact me?"

"But it hasn't even been forty-eight hours since she disappeared. We can't file a police report yet. There's nothing we can do just searching like this!" Little White Dove sighed.

Jiang Muye immediately began asking the System, 【System, can I locate Leng Ruoli's address right now?】

The System replied, 【Sorry. This System cannot define her whereabouts, but I can track and locate her phone.】

That gave Jiang Muye hope.

Jiang Muye quickly followed the System's instructions and entered a store, using five hundred Grit Points to locate the phone's IP address.

Even with Leng Ruoli's phone off, it could still be located.

Soon, a string of addresses surfaced in Jiang Muye's mind.

【The phone is in room 205 of the Xiangrui Hotel.】

Hearing "hotel," Jiang Muye felt both joy and worry.

He hoped Leng Ruoli was just resting in the hotel, and not that something terrible had happened—that she'd been… by bad people…

"Hey, Muzi, where are you going—" Little White Dove was shocked to see Jiang Muye, like a madman, jump straight into his Silver Phantom sports car.

Without a shred of hesitation, Jiang Muye drove the sports car toward the Xiangrui Hotel.

Along the way, all kinds of chaotic thoughts churned in his mind.

Please be okay.

Please don't let anything have happened.

Leng Ruoli, you have to be okay.

Jiang Muye didn't want to see anything unbearable, and he especially didn't want such a pure girl to end up defiled and destroyed.

With intense urgency, he essentially sped forward at full throttle, nearly clipping the car ahead as he rounded a turn, barely braking in time.

But he was already drenched in cold sweat.

"Are you trying to kill yourself driving like that!" the driver ahead shouted furiously.

Jiang Muye rolled down his window and said "Sorry," with no time for anything else. He had to find Leng Ruoli immediately.

Jiang Muye's phone rang.

His hope ignited.

Was Leng Ruoli contacting him?! He stretched out his hand, almost trembling.

Instead, it was a call from Little White Dove.

Disappointed, Jiang Muye answered abruptly. "Hello?"

"Muzi, where did you go?"

"I thought of a place. She might have gone there. It's very late now, you guys go back and rest first, otherwise you'll really miss dorm closing." Jiang Muye said in a low voice.

Little White Dove scoffed. "What kind of nonsense are you saying? The Cold Campus Belle is our friend too. Now that she's missing, how could we go back and sleep peacefully! Besides, we promised you—we're going to search together no matter what!"

"Alright then, wait for my news. I'll go take a look first." Jiang Muye was grateful that these three roommates had stood by him at the critical moment, bringing him a bit of warmth when he needed it most.

"Okay, if there's anything I can do, just say the word. We'll go check the nearby hotels too, maybe the Cold Campus Belle is there." Little White Dove said forthrightly.

"Okay." After hanging up, Jiang Muye accelerated and quickly arrived at the Xiangrui Hotel.

The System began to remind him, 【Congratulations, Host, on successfully checking in at the Xiangrui Hotel. You are awarded 500,000 RMB.】

Jiang Muye quickly headed into the Xiangrui Hotel.

It was an old hotel, very run-down, with all sorts of people around. The environment was terrible, tucked away in a narrow alley.

Leng Ruoli was a rich man's daughter.

Her family's conditions were good, and she had plenty of pocket money.

How could she possibly stay here? Even if she'd fallen out with Mi Lu, she would absolutely not come here!

Jiang Muye's heart was struck hard, and the uneasy feeling in his chest grew more and more violent.

He put all his strength into it and raced up the stairs.

His heart was in his throat. Unease, anxiety, trepidation—all of it gathered together, tormenting Jiang Muye.

Jiang Muye immediately rushed to the door of room 205.

He started knocking on the door—bang, bang, bang.

Knocking very hard.

A man's grumbling voice came from inside. "Who is it?"