I returned home on vacation and heard that Xiaoyun was missing again.

This time, along with her, Xiaochao gege also disappeared.

Everyone said that their biological father must have taken them away.

Cousin was worried, so she took Xiaobo to Kunshan alone, searched for three days, and helplessly returned home.

Song Liang was at home sleeping soundly, not helping, not interfering.

Quite unusual.

One day, I met cousin on the road, pushing Xiaobo, walking slowly with exhaustion.

I caught up with her.

She stopped, looking somewhat flustered.

I smiled, "Is the child asleep?"

She nodded.

It was our first conversation since the engagement banquet.

Coincidentally, Fang Zhizhou called, asking about my return train time, planning to pick me up at the high-speed rail station.

I hung up the phone and told cousin, "It's my boyfriend."

Her expression visibly relaxed.

Answering the call triggered deep-seated memories.

I suddenly remembered the day Song Liang called me, the monotonous, hollow sound of the lake water hitting the shore.

And that unsettling sentence: "Trouble, real trouble, I really wish I could jump into the lake from the shore. But then I feel like it's too easy for those bastards."

By the lake, there was an abandoned factory covered in weeds.

My heart pounded, "Sis, let's go to the lake and take a look."

Cousin obediently followed me.

The journey was not far, so we walked there.

Outside the abandoned factory, it was covered with lalayang, the most annoying type of wild grass.

If you walked fast, a pull on your ankle would result in a bloody cut.

I struggled through the ocean of lalayang.

I pushed open the creaking iron gate and immediately saw two figures curled up, one big and one small.

I shouted, "Found them!"

Hearing the sound, Xiaochao gege opened his eyes and moved his mouth.

He looked like a dehydrated fish stranded on the shore, his exposed skin covered in bumps.

Xiaoyun leaned against him, holding an empty water bottle with not a drop of water inside.

One big and one small, tied securely to a pillar by a thick rope.

The person who tied them up clearly intended to starve them to death.

I shuddered.