Chapter 121: One Thousand Paper Cranes
Jiang Yan obviously didn’t expect Su Wanyuan to cry like this.
He was instantly nervous too: “What’s wrong with you guys?”
Su Wanyuan cried sobbingly: “We’re trapped on Phoenix Mountain. Lanli fainted due to exhaustion. It’s still raining now. I really don’t know what to do. Come save us quickly.”
It was pitch black outside, and it was raining, with the rain getting heavier. In this situation, what use would he be if he went?
Jiang Yan didn’t particularly feel the urge to go, but he was also worried about their safety.
“Don’t panic. I’ll call the police. Hold on.”
“No!” Su Wanyuan sharply stopped him: “Don’t call the police. Don’t call an ambulance. As long as you come, we can be rescued. If you call the police, the Gu Family will definitely blame Lanli’s injury on me. I don’t want it to become known to everyone. If you call the police, you will ruin my life! Please, Jiang Yan, I don’t want to die.”
Jiang Yan was stunned for a moment. The other side didn’t give him time to think, her voice pleading: “A Yan, please.”
The signal seemed bad on her end, her voice breaking intermittently: “Wuwuwu, Lanli hold on. A Yan will come save us soon…”
The call suddenly cut off.
Jiang Yan called out “hello” a few times, and the other side naturally hung up.
The rain outside was getting heavier.
Jiang Yan held the jar of paper cranes and dialed Jiang Ning’s number.
He called and found it was busy.
He didn’t get through.
Jiang Yan wanted to call the police, but if he did, the Gu Family would take it out on Su Wanyuan because of this, which she also couldn’t bear.
But it was so late now. Where would he go to find them?
Thinking of this, the next second Su Wanyuan sent him a text message telling him their exact location and that Gu Lanli’s condition was very dangerous.
Jiang Yan thought, since the situation on Phoenix Mountain was critical, even if he went what could he do? It would be better to first call an ambulance to the foot of the mountain to save them, then call the police, and leave the search and rescue to the police.
If it were before, Jiang Yan thought, if that life was gone, so be it.
But Jiang Ning said to live well.
Jiang Yan thought that living was pretty good too. At least he had met Jiang Ning, who wouldn’t harm him anymore.
Thinking this, he did it.
Suddenly there was lightning and thunder outside.
Jiang Yan had just entered “120” and hadn’t even pressed the call button when rumbling thunder sounded in his ears.
His pupils suddenly widened, somewhat scattered.
Even his fingers were trembling.
The glass jar of paper cranes he was holding tightly fell to the floor and shattered into pieces, scattering everywhere.
Jiang Yan stood in the middle of a pile of paper cranes, his scattered pupils seeming to struggle. The thunder outside was getting louder, and wind carried raindrops onto him.
In just a short minute.
He deleted the entered 120.
His stiff steps stepped on the paper cranes as he went upstairs.
He put on a raincoat, shouldered a waterproof bag stuffed with warm clothes and tools for two people.
Until he was standing in the rain curtain, the cold rainwater seemed to awaken his senses.
Where was he going?
“Rumble.”
Jiang Yan stepped into the car that had been waiting at the entrance since early.
He said to the driver: “Go to Phoenix Mountain.”
……
Eleven thirty at night, Fujiang Villa District.
Jiang Ning was yawning sleepily in her own room.
At ten o’clock, Chunfen sent her a game private message.
Jiang Ning directly refused.
Too lazy to deal with him.
It could be said that this entire week, the words Jiang Ning said to Xie Jingyan could be counted on ten fingers.
And to avoid running into him, Jiang Ning later got up early so Xie Jingyan wouldn’t take her to school.
Then she found out… Xie Jingyan was waiting half an hour earlier again.
Sometimes she even admired him.
This immense perseverance and thick skin.
She had clearly said there was no need to pick her up anymore.
So he asked her to give him the money for the remaining few months.
He was afraid Jiang Ning would run off.
Jiang Ning: “…”
So at school, besides studying, she had zero interaction with him.
She even told Little Honey that she couldn’t annihilate herself, but she could annihilate the male lead.
Because she stuck to her principles without the slightest wavering!
After refusing the evening game invitation, Jiang Ning went to draw manga.
After a week of her effort, a few hundred people had started following the updates.
The data was pretty good on the platform.
Sure enough, melodramatic stories sold well.
Time flew to eleven thirty.
Jiang Ning saw that Jiang Yan still hadn’t come, so she called him and found the other party was on a call.
Jiang Ning waited a few minutes and called again, finding it busy again.
If Jiang Yan wasn’t coming here, he would send her a message in advance.
But it was almost midnight.
Jiang Ning was afraid something had happened to him on the road.
So she called again, but no one answered.
Jiang Ning watched her phone slowly go dark, a bad premonition gradually emerging in her heart.
She went to the living room and found the landline phone of another villa, then called it.
That villa had Jiang Yan and a nanny besides him.
Taking care of Jiang Yan’s daily life.
The phone rang for half a minute before someone picked up.
The voice on the other end was respectful: “Hello, madam.”
Jiang Ning spoke: “It’s me.”
The nanny thought it was Madam Jiang at first, but upon hearing it was Jiang Ning, her voice softened: “It’s Miss. So late, is there something wrong?”
“Where is Jiang Yan?”
“Young Master?”
The nanny looked up at the upstairs: “Young Master should be sleeping upstairs.”
Jiang Ning said: “Go check.”
The nanny agreed repeatedly: “Okay.”
In no more than five minutes, the nanny hurriedly came back: “Miss, Young Master is gone. After he came back from evening study session, he locked himself in his room saying he was preparing a gift for you. I wanted to stay with him, but I was sick today, and Young Master was considerate and told me to rest first. I saw Young Master was still in his room at ten thirty. I thought he wouldn’t go out today. Miss, I didn’t mean to neglect my duties. I just checked the living room floor. It’s covered in candy wrappers folded into paper cranes, and there’s a broken glass jar.”
The nanny was almost crying from anxiety.
It was raining so hard outside, and she didn’t even know Jiang Yan’s whereabouts.
If this got out, her career as a nanny was over for life.
Who would dare hire her.
Jiang Ning’s expression gradually grew serious.
The nanny on the other end continued: “I’ll call the master right now.”
“Don’t call. Don’t tell my dad about this first. They’re in the countryside now. Telling them would only make them anxious. Night roads are unsafe at night, and with such heavy rain, I’m afraid of accidents on the road. Don’t worry. I know where he is.”
Hearing that Jiang Ning knew, the nanny’s voice carried sobs: “Miss, you must find Young Master.”
Jiang Ning hung up directly.
Her mind was full of confusion. Didn’t Jiang Yan say he wasn’t going to Phoenix Mountain?
Why did he go anyway!
In Jiang Ning’s mind, besides thinking of that place, she couldn’t think of anywhere else Jiang Yan would go.
During this time, Jiang Ning had seen Jiang Yan’s changes with her own eyes.
Because Su Wanyuan and Gu Lanli’s relationship was getting closer, he knew it in his heart and seemed to be slowly fading out of Su Wanyuan’s world.
And at ten thirty, Jiang Yan was still in his room.
That meant until around eleven, Jiang Yan should have been at home.
Jiang Ning told herself to calm down.
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