Dream Dance Gracefully - Chapter 72 - He Tao's Helplessness
Chen Tianyou stood in place for a few minutes. After all, he would listen to the doctor’s words. Next, he had to inform Chen Hui and the others, but he was thinking about how to tell Chen Hui that Chen Tianqi was going to become a vegetable.
After a while, Chen Tianyou finally explained to Zhang Wan’er that she wouldn’t need to go to work anymore, and if she needed anything, she could just call, and they would deliver it.
Zhang Wan’er nodded. For this period, she wouldn’t be going to work; instead, she would stay home to take good care of Chen Tianqi.
Then, Chen Tianyou went back home. If he stayed any longer, he might not be able to suppress his urge to hit someone.
Zhang Wan’er sat on the steps in front of the door, watching Chen Tianqi playing in the yard. Yes, he really was like a child…
Meanwhile, over on this side.
After arriving home, Li Shaofei hurriedly searched the house before Li Hai returned. In the end, he didn’t find the paper. The next day, he went directly to the company. According to Li Shaofei’s theory, if it wasn’t at home, then it must be at the company.
When he got to the company, the employees all knew that Li Shaofei was Li Hai’s son, so no one stopped him. He went straight into Li Hai’s office.
“Shaofei, your dad is in a meeting right now. You can sit for a bit,” he saw a young woman tidying up. He knew she was his father’s secretary.
“Oh, it’s fine. I’ll just sit for a moment, you can go out,” Li Shaofei waved his hand, signaling the secretary to leave. After she left, he finally had the chance to search for what he needed.
Once the secretary was gone, Li Shaofei immediately sat up and started looking around the desk, rummaging through everything, even checking the drawers, but still found nothing.
Finally, in a moment of despair, he discovered a box with a combination lock, but he didn’t know the password, so he didn’t touch it.
He put it back down. After all, he didn’t want to expose himself just yet. He was looking for these things to uncover the mastermind behind it all, needing enough evidence first.
Just then, the door creaked open.
Li Shaofei quickly pretended to be busy tidying up the desk.
“Ah, Shaofei, is that you? What brings you to the company?” Li Hai walked in, and there was no one else with him.
“Oh, it’s nothing. I just wanted to see when you’d be home. You haven’t been back in days,” Li Shaofei had already prepared an excuse.
“I’ll be home tonight. Don’t worry, don’t worry,” Li Hai said, patting Li Shaofei’s shoulder and smiling.
“Okay, then. I just came to check in. Since there’s nothing going on, I’ll head back,” Li Shaofei said, getting ready to leave.
“Wait, don’t go just yet. How about we go out for dinner together tonight? It’s been a while since we’ve had a meal together.”
Li Shaofei was pondering how to extract the password from Li Hai when, coincidentally, this opportunity arose. He could take advantage of the drinks to get the password out of him.
Nodding, Li Shaofei sat down on the sofa, waiting for Li Hai to finish his work…
While sitting on the sofa, contemplating how to get Li Hai to drink more, his phone rang. It was Xu Meng calling, so he quickly answered.
“Shaofei, are you free tomorrow? I feel really uneasy these days and I want to go out and clear my head.”
“Ah, I’m free.” Li Shaofei was thrilled to have this opportunity; how could he say he wasn’t? “How about tomorrow evening? You can come out after school, and I’ll take you somewhere.”
“Okay, sounds good.”
After hanging up the phone, Li Shaofei noticed Li Hai staring at him.
“Is that your girlfriend?”
“Yeah,” Li Shaofei didn’t hide it from his father; after all, no one really cared about him anyway…
Later that evening.
Li Shaofei had finally managed to get Li Hai drunk, and he had successfully extracted the password, which turned out to be Li Shaofei’s birthday.
In that moment, Li Shaofei was stunned. He realized that his father loved him; otherwise, he wouldn’t have used Li Shaofei’s birthday as the password.
However, Li Shaofei didn’t go directly to the company. Now that he knew the password, things would be easier, and there was no need to complicate matters further.
After arriving home, Li Shaofei received another phone call and retreated to his room.
“Is this Li Shaofei speaking?”
Li Shaofei was stunned. How did he get my phone number? Who is this? “Yes, speaking.”
“I am He Tao, a good friend of Chen Tianqi.”
“He Tao?” Why haven’t I heard Tianqi mention you? “How did you get my mobile number?”
“I’m a computer expert; it’s easy to find out these things. Don’t worry, I mean no harm. I just wanted to ask if you know where Tianqi has gone. I can’t seem to reach him.”
“Chen Tianqi’s brother told me that Tianqi has gone abroad.”
“Do you know when he left?”
“Just about a couple of weeks ago. He left suddenly without leaving a message.”
“Could something have happened to him? It’s not like him to leave without telling us, but he didn’t say a word and just vanished.”
“Yes, now that you mention it, it does seem odd. Tianqi shouldn’t have left without informing us. So, it seems something might have happened to him, but why hasn’t anyone informed us?” Li Shaofei was at a loss for words, but after giving it some thought, there were many suspicious points. Chen Tianqi was fine the day before; how could he just leave like that? “Well, why don’t you ask his family again? I’ll keep an eye out here and contact you if I hear anything.”
“Alright, I’ll do that. I’ll ask Tianqi’s brother again.”
After hanging up, Li Shaofei sat on the edge of his bed, pondering the recent events.
Meanwhile, He Tao was at his home, nearly on the verge of smashing his phone in frustration.
He was trying to reach Chen Tianqi to join forces against Xu’s Company and the Zeng Family.
Previously, because of an issue with a photograph, he lied to Tianqi, claiming he was out of town and unavailable, when in fact…
The Xu Group and the Zeng Family had collaborated, and they knew that a computer expert was with Chen Tianqi. Therefore, the spy embedded near Li Shaofei could potentially have had the photos deleted.
Thus, they took He Tao’s girlfriend as a hostage, forcing him to comply. It wasn’t a matter of valuing love over friendship; even Chen Tianqi would have wanted him to save his girlfriend.
He had been wanting to explain this situation, but he didn’t know how to face Tianqi’s brother. Finally, today he mustered the courage, but Tianqi was nowhere to be found.