The banquet was coming to an end.
Song Ziwei finally managed to get away from the crowd and called Su Yanle again.
Her phone was still switched off.
He began to worry.
She looked up at the crowd around her, but there was no sign of her.
Yang Jing, Father Su, and Mother Su were still among the guests, smiling and chatting with the surrounding guests. They didn't seem to notice that Su Yanle had disappeared.
Where did she go?
Song Ziwei held his phone tightly, a bad feeling rising in his heart.
"Song Ziwei!"
Someone called him. He turned around and saw a man in a waiter's uniform running towards him with sweat all over his face.
He had actually met this person before. His name was Shen Zhien.
He knew that he and Zhang Yiwen were friends who grew up together in the orphanage. The three of them had met twice together, but he always felt that Shen Zhien's attitude was very strange. It was an indescribable strangeness.
Therefore, he had always been wary of him.
He watched as she ran up to him, supporting her knees with her hands and panting heavily.
Song Ziwei narrowed his eyes and looked at him. He was a little confused as to why he was here. He quietly waited for him to speak.
"Don't be anxious. Speak slowly."
He looked at him, who was sweating and panting, and guessed that this was probably related to Su Yanle.
"Have you seen Su Yanle just now?”
Shen Zhien looked up and asked him anxiously.
Song Ziwei shook his head.
The last time Su Yanle mentioned Shen Zhien to him, he knew that they knew each other.
"I haven't seen her since she said she went to the bathroom.”
He looked at Shen Zhien, hoping that nothing had happened to Su Yanle.
Shen Zhien was about to speak when the phone in his pocket vibrated.
He quickly took out his phone. It was Zheng Qi.
"En, I just found the location.”
When Shen Zhien heard this, his face revealed an extremely excited expression.
"Can you send it to me directly now?"
He asked excitedly, ignoring the strange looks of the people beside him.
"It's probably impossible to send you the location directly. This number's phone isn't turned off, but there has been no signal. Just now, the signal suddenly flashed, and I quickly captured the location. I can only send you a screenshot of the location.”
"Alright, send it over quickly."
Shen Zhien replied anxiously. His WeChat showed that Zheng Qi had sent him a picture.
He hung up the phone and hurriedly opened the picture.
There was a small red dot on it, and it was Su Yanle's current direction.
It was already the most specific location, but it was still not clear. He could only see that she was still in the hotel.
Shen Zhien panted as he zoomed in on the picture.
The red dot was on a prominent corner of the building.
He looked at the shape of the banquet hall. The protruding part was in the direction of the elevator hall.
He took the phone and ran towards the elevator lobby.
Song Ziwei seemed to have called him from behind, but he couldn't care less now.
Su Yanle had been locked up for almost three hours.
If she did not appear on stage after the banquet ended, everyone would find out that she was missing. With the power of the Song and Su families, they would definitely investigate and not let Zhang Yiwen off easily.
His mind raced as he ran towards the elevator lobby.
Where was he?
He looked at the empty corridor.
This was the elevator hall for employees, but because this floor was rarely used, employees would take the passenger elevator directly to the banquet hall in advance, so very few people took this employee elevator. Now, it had become a place to store junk.
He tried to walk inside.
The doors of the elevators were tightly shut, and the numbers on them showed that they were all parked on the first floor.
He pressed all the elevator buttons once, and the few elevators slowly rose up.
The elevator was normal.
But where else could he hide?
He felt that he had gone in the wrong direction. He turned around and was about to leave when he heard the faint sound of a piano around him.
There was no piano player at the banquet.
He held his breath vigilantly, trying to find the source of the music.
The voice seemed to come from the wall opposite the elevator.
Shen Zhien listened along the wall in confusion.
The further they went, the louder the sound became.
He finally stopped. The sound of the zither was unusually clear.
There was a large wooden board in front of him, leaning against the wall. It looked like a decorative board that had been hung in the hotel during the New Year.
He tried to move the plank away.
It was much lighter than he had imagined.
There was indeed a double door behind the wooden board. There was a wooden board on the handles of the two doors. Clearly, someone had deliberately hung it there.
He took off the wooden board and pushed the door open.
Su Yanle was sitting next to the piano with her phone on top of it. The dim light from the flashlight shone on the piano keys.
The moment he pushed the door open, the music stopped abruptly.
He saw that she had subconsciously raised her hand to block her eyes because she was not used to the light that shone in.
"You still have the mood to play the zither at a time like this? Are you an idiot?”
He looked at her, feeling a little annoyed, but he still laughed when he opened his mouth.
When Su Yanle saw him rush in, she stood up from the piano stool excitedly. However, it seemed that she stood up too quickly and her body was a little shaky.
She looked at Shen Zhien and blurted out the first sentence.
"I'm so hungry."
As she spoke, she was like a child who was acting coquettishly towards her mother.
A tear finally rolled down her face.
Shen Zhien suddenly remembered that Su Yanle had accepted an interview with the campus newspaper the year he graduated.
The video was titled " School Belle " and was about to graduate. It had once spread like wildfire in their circle of friends.
At that time, they had looked at their roommates 'phones in the dormitory.
Su Yanle, who had a ponytail and was wearing a scholar's uniform, answered all kinds of strange questions seriously.
When she was asked if there was anything she was particularly afraid of in her life, she smiled.
There are only two things I fear the most.
Darkness, and being alone in a place.
She said at that time.
Shen Zhien recalled and looked at her with tears on her face.
These two things happened together today.
She must have been terrified.
Song Ziwei dialed Su Yanle's number again. Although he knew that his phone was probably still switched off, he still frowned and waited quietly for the voice on the other end.
This time, the call actually went through.
He was so excited that he was about to speak when he heard Su Yanle's ringtone. It was a familiar English song.
He looked to the side.
At the entrance of the elevator hall, Shen Zhien was helping the seemingly weak Su Yanle over.
She looked at him. Her snow-white gown had a lot of black stains on it for some reason, and her exposed shoulders were slightly trembling.
Song Ziwei looked at her with a frown. He walked forward, took off his suit jacket, and draped it over her.
Su Yanle tried his best to keep his face calm, but he still couldn't stop trembling.
Song Ziwei looked at Shen Zhien warily.
Su Yanle saw this and quickly explained for him.
"This is Shen Zhien, the one I mentioned to you. He was the one who found me and brought me out.”
Her voice was slightly hoarse as she spoke.
Song Ziwei nodded without saying anything.
The three of them were silent for a while before Song Ziwei opened his mouth again and raised the most important question.
"Who locked you up?"
He looked at her and asked softly, but his face was calm.
When he saw Su Yanle being helped out by Shen Zhien, he actually already knew what was going on.
However, he still wanted to confirm it.
Su Yanle didn't say anything.
She did not know how to answer.
If he told the truth that Zhang Yiwen had locked him up, would Song Ziwei believe it?
Even if he really believed it, would his heart ache?
Of course, that heartache was for Zhang Yiwen, not her.
She looked at him quietly, unable to speak.
"It's Zhang Yiwen."
Shen Zhien, who was beside him, suddenly spoke.
After saying this, the three of them fell silent again.
Su Yanle looked at Shen Zhien in surprise, then turned to look at Song Ziwei's expression.
She thought that he would be shocked, but she did not expect him to be abnormally calm.
He nodded and turned around calmly, forcing a smile at Shen Zhien.
"Thank you."
After saying that, he pulled Su Yanle, who was wearing his big coat, and walked towards the door.
"Now... Are you going out?"
Su Yanle couldn't help but ask him when she reached the door.
"The banquet isn't over yet. Don't we have to go on stage to thank them later?”
She said as she looked at Song Ziwei's back.
He did not speak, and his expression could not be seen.
Song Ziwei pulled her to the underground parking lot before he spoke.
"Get in the car."
As he spoke, his tone was extremely gentle.
"But, where are we going…"
Su Yanle reached out and pulled up the clothes on her shoulders. She stood there and looked at him.
"Whatever. Let's leave this place first."
Song Ziwei said in a joking tone, but his eyes were extremely serious.
Su Yanle didn't say anything else. She opened the car door and got in.
Song Ziwei immediately started the car and drove out.
He was probably very sad now. It should be very difficult for his beloved to do such a thing.
Su Yan leaned back in his chair and looked out the window.
He was really tired.
She closed her eyes.
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