Chapter 1031 - 696: I Don’t Believe in Fate, But I Believe in You

"Just now, Ah Su got a call from Uncle Huang and ran over to tell me. No one over at Zheng Garden knows yet."

Su Xiaomeng used the simplest words to tell Yin Shixiu what had happened.

After she finished, without waiting for Yin Shixiu to react, she said,

"I told Ah Su to keep it from them for now. We don’t know what exactly is going on. The worst‑case scenario is ’kidnapping’."

"..."

"But up till now, we haven’t received any phone call from the kidnappers."

As Su Xiaomeng spoke, she sounded like she was analyzing things rationally.

But the faint tremor in her voice and her palm that was tightly clenched yet slick with sweat gave away her panic and fear.

"I—I have to go to the kindergarten first. You can’t make it clear over the phone. I need to see the principal, and that new teacher who let someone pick up Shuangshuang and Huang Huang..."

"I have to ask them myself... If the principal were there, she would never let anyone who isn’t Shuang’er and Huang’er’s dad take them. That new teacher... that new teacher..."

Su Xiaomeng pressed a hand to her forehead and grabbed at her own hair.

"Isn’t that new teacher supposed to know our family really well? She even knows Shuang’er and Huang’er lived in the United Kingdom! How could she just let someone take them away like that!"

As she spoke, she just felt that the way things were developing was far too strange.

Seeing how agitated she was, Yin Shixiu hurriedly grabbed her hand.

"Meng Meng."

Su Xiaomeng looked at Yin Shixiu, met his equally flustered expression, and suddenly her eyes turned red, filling with tears.

"Shixiu... i-if..."

Su Xiaomeng’s voice went hoarse all of a sudden, and her tears dropped with a "pat".

"If anything happens to Shuang’er and Huang’er... I..."

"Don’t let your mind run wild. Don’t overthink it."

Yin Shixiu gripped Su Xiaomeng’s hand tightly, his gaze fixed on her.

"Like you said, if it is a kidnapping, or if someone with ulterior motives took them away, then that person’s target is us, or some member of the Yin Family."

"The fact that we haven’t received any message yet is already good news."

"Go to the kindergarten now and get the surveillance footage pulled. One look and you’ll know who picked up Shuang’er and Huang’er."

Yin Shixiu said calmly.

Su Xiaomeng hurriedly wiped away the tears that had fallen out of fear and nodded.

"Mm, I’ll go right now."

"Xiao Meng, remember, you must stay calm. I’ll contact my uncle and have him go over to help you. He’s a cop—an expert. Any clues you might miss, he’ll be able to spot."

"Okay, okay."

Su Xiaomeng sniffed and agreed.

Yin Shixiu tightened his grip on her hand, pulled her in front of him, and hugged her hard.

"I’ll wait at home for your news."

"..."

"We’ve weathered all kinds of storms already. Heaven won’t have the heart to torment us any further."

"...Heaven has never been fair."

Su Xiaomeng muttered, genuinely full of resentment.

With a heavy sob in her voice, Su Xiaomeng said to Yin Shixiu,

"I don’t believe in Heaven, but I believe in you. If you say it’ll be fine, I’ll believe it’ll be fine."

...............

Yin Shixiu sat in his wheelchair, watching the gate of Jun Garden open and close. The car Ah Su had ordered to be prepared was already parked at the entrance of Jun Garden.

The sound of the engine starting was painfully harsh.

Such a huge Jun Garden.

It was clearly the residence of him, the Fourth Young Master of the Yin Family, yet the days he had actually lived here could be counted on two hands.

Jun Garden was a real Old Beijing siheyuan courtyard. After the Yin Family moved in, parts of it were redesigned and renovated.

But overall, it still retained the antique flavor of a traditional courtyard house.

Under the dark red covered walkway, Yin Shixiu sat there, looking at the old phoenix tree in the exact center of the courtyard, a tree that had clearly lived many years.

Kidnapping?

The odds weren’t high.

Peony Kindergarten, whatever you said about its teaching quality, when it came to children’s safety, they really did a thorough job.

The principal and teachers basically knew each child.

Who usually brought them to school, and who usually picked them up—the principal and every homeroom teacher kept that straight in their minds.

In all the years since Peony Kindergarten was founded, there had never been a safety incident involving the children.

If it were a stranger, logically speaking, Shuang’er and Huang’er wouldn’t go with a stranger.

But...

If it was someone they knew, then why would that person use his name as a pretense to pick up the kids?

That was what made Yin Shixiu feel so conflicted.

There was at least a fifty–fifty chance that something had happened to Shuang’er and Huang’er.

Yin Shixiu had that kind of premonition...

Although Yin Shixiu had made quite a few enemies, had he really done something that would make someone want to kill him, or take it out on his children in revenge?

Right now he truly couldn’t think of anything.

After all, the ones who truly wanted him dead, who truly wanted revenge on him, were either in prison already or on their way there.

Wu Rong, Yin Shiqing.

Aside from those two ruthless people, he really couldn’t think of anyone else who would be so conceited as to pull such a so‑called clever stunt that was, in fact, unimaginably stupid.

Apart from Wu Rong and Yin Shiqing, that only left the Rong Family.

When it came to everyone in the Rong Family, old and young, Yin Shixiu more or less had them all figured out.

Rong Jing had gone to prison and seemed to have thought things through. As for his father, if he were to pull something this outrageous while Rong Jing was about to face trial in court...

Then Rong Si would truly be trying to ruin his only son’s life.

From one o’clock till now, a full two hours had gone by.

Other than Uncle Huang calling back to say they hadn’t picked up the kids, they hadn’t received any information at all about Shuang’er and Huang’er.

Who could it be...

Was someone playing a sick prank? Or was it really...

Thinking that far, Yin Shixiu felt all the threads in his mind snarl into a chaotic tangle.

The string of thought he couldn’t straighten stayed drawn tight...

There was nothing he could do. Right now he could only wait for Su Xiaomeng to get to the kindergarten and tell him the specifics before he could make a judgment.

And on the other side...

Yin Shixiu quickly called Bai Sidong and told him what had happened.

Bai Sidong was truly shocked, and almost instinctively said,

"Yin Shiqing had just been brought into the detention center by me... and this happens?"

Yin Shixiu froze for a moment, then said,

"It shouldn’t be him... What, does he have the power to foresee the future? Besides, this all happened too fast. There’s no way he had the time to arrange any of this."