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Chapter 264: Chapter 264: President Li is actually a God too!
Chen Shu knew yesterday afternoon that Lu Sheng and Gu Siyu had met, and in the evening, he listened to her conversation with Juanjuan through a bug.
So, before Lu Sheng asked him for a meeting, he had already made thorough preparations.
Before coming to Jiang City, Chen Shu planned for the most ideal outcome to be the girl’s emotional break with Li Muchen, and preferably, for her to develop feelings for him. This way, he could take her back to Suli with him.
Anyway, by any means necessary, as long as the girl was willing to go to Suli with him, it would be within his sphere of influence, and he could tell her everything then.
But clearly, when the girl asked to meet him, she no longer trusted him, or rather, she was extremely cautious.
Both the girl’s commitment to her feelings and her sensitivity to danger had exceeded his expectations.
It had been less than two days since their first meeting the night before last. Not to mention having fallen for him, it was possible that, whereas they might have become friends before, now she probably regarded him as an enemy in her heart.
Therefore, before meeting her tonight, Chen Shu had arranged everything in this restaurant.
He had pre-prepared and readied incense, had everyone in the restaurant leave after the girl arrived, brought the feather in the black jade box and the ancient book of mythologies he had found, as well as placed a signal jammer ahead of time.
—Signal jammer.
This time, Chen Shu was ready to be completely frank.
He firmly believed that if he told the girl everything he knew, she would be willing to leave with him, rather than staying in Jiang City as an ordinary high school student.
If the girl was unwilling, it would certainly be because her true nature was being repressed.
In that case, he would simply perform the ritual to awaken her true self without disturbance by anyone.
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Before meeting Chen Shu, Lu Sheng told Li Muchen about her meeting with Chen Shu and the address of the restaurant where they were meeting.
Although Li Muchen was away on a business trip in Beijing, from the moment he saw the message from the girl saying she was in a taxi on the way to the restaurant, he began to feel an unease.
The unease turned into full-blown anxiety when his messages didn’t receive a response and the calls he made only led to [The number you are dialing is not answering].
So, Li Muchen didn’t hesitate to send Chen An to check on the situation at the restaurant first.
Then he called for a helicopter, ready to rush back to Jiang City as fast as possible.
It was just half an hour without a reply; perhaps he was overthinking it.
Maybe the girl was just not looking at her phone or there was a poor signal.
But Li Muchen would rather it be a false alarm than for the girl to have had an accident and for him to not have arrived in time.
However, when the helicopter was preparing to land, Li Muchen received a phone call from Chen An.
Chen An said that the shopping center where the restaurant Lu Sheng went to is usually closed at eleven o’clock at night. But now, only at ten o’clock, the mall was already shut, with no access from the outside.
The problem was that the restaurant on the rooftop of the mall could still be seen lit up, but the restaurant’s number indicated no one was answering.
This was very unusual.
Li Muchen inhaled deeply—his intuition wasn’t wrong; something must have happened to the girl.
The main doors of the first floor of the mall were shut, and contacting a manager to open the doors and get to the restaurant would take a lot of time, and it wasn’t even certain that they could get into the restaurant.
Originally, Li Muchen had planned to have the helicopter land on the helipad on the top floor of the Li Group headquarters, but now he immediately redirected the destination towards the shopping center rooftop.
A few minutes later, Chen An at the main entrance of the mall building looked up to see a helicopter heading towards the restaurant’s location and couldn’t help but widen his eyes—
On this helicopter, isn’t that President Li?
President Li is going to the restaurant to find the miss, but why is he directly heading there by helicopter?
What does he intend to do?
Li Muchen originally wanted to see what was actually going on inside the restaurant.
But as he sat in the helicopter, he could see through the floor-to-ceiling window from afar that the young woman was lying unconscious on a sofa in the restaurant, and his heart nearly came to a stop.
Especially when Li Muchen saw the mixed-race man who had felt dangerous to him at their first meeting, also lying not far from the young woman on the ground.
If the cabin hadn’t been so cramped, he really would have stood up right away.
He couldn’t figure out what had happened, nor did he know what the young woman’s condition was now.
Li Muchen exerted great control over himself to steady his mind, then asked the helicopter pilot if there was a safety hammer.
The pilot looked bewildered: "...There is, but President Li, what do you plan to do?"
Li Muchen’s voice was calm as he lifted his head: "Break the restaurant’s floor-to-ceiling window."
Li Muchen had said it, and he really did it.
Using the safety hammer to smash the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window, the moment he jumped from the helicopter into the restaurant, Li Muchen smelled an air filled with a seemingly unique fragrance.
On the only dining table in the restaurant, there was a small purple clay incense burner gently emitting smoke, and the fragrance seemed to be coming from there.
But he didn’t pay attention to these; all his focus was on the young woman.
The next second, with a long stride, his black leather shoes crunched across the shards of the floor-to-ceiling window glass, and he quickly walked toward the young woman on the sofa.
"Shengsheng... baby, I’m here."
Li Muchen immediately picked up Lu Sheng from the sofa, tightly embracing the young woman in his arms. He called out Lu Sheng’s name softly with his head lowered as if the whole world had only the person in his arms.
His large hand caressed Lu Sheng’s face, her eyes closed tight, and then he realized the young woman seemed as if she was sleeping, yet her body and forehead were very hot, as if she had a fever.
How could she be sleeping here of all places, and even have a fever?
Li Muchen couldn’t help but clench his fist secretly. He appeared calm on the outside, but inside, he was deeply self-reproaching.
He shouldn’t have let her come to meet Chen Shu alone.
No matter how strong the young woman was, those with bright and straightforward hearts are always vulnerable to the dark schemes of others.
It was all his fault.
Although Li Muchen still didn’t know what exactly had happened, fortunately, aside from the fever, the young woman was still safe and sound.
"...President Li, I’ve arrived!"
It wasn’t many minutes later that Chen An, having probably contacted the mall manager to open the door, also directly smashed the front door of the restaurant and rushed in with people.
Seeing the scene inside the restaurant — besides the scattered pieces of floor-to-ceiling window glass, the man Chen Shu was lying on the ground, and the miss was unconscious in her own boss’s arms.
Chen An couldn’t help being startled, puzzled: "President Li, what happened? The miss, she..."
"I don’t know," Li Muchen took a deep breath, "I’m taking Shengsheng home. Contact Doctor Jiang to come to the house."
Saying this, Li Muchen stood up, his tall and straight figure leaning forward, intending to bend over and lift the young woman in a carrying position.
However, the moment he got up, an inexplicable feeling of fatigue hit him, making Li Muchen stagger uncontrollably.
Chen An was startled by Li Muchen’s staggering, reaching out subconsciously to assist: "President Li, are you alright? What’s wrong with you, do you feel unwell?"
"...I’m fine," Li Muchen didn’t know what was wrong with him, shaking his head to keep clear-headed, and he bent down to pick up Lu Sheng. He glanced coldly at Chen Shu on the ground, "Take him back too, I want to find out what exactly happened tonight."
Outside the mall building, as the man gently placed the young woman into the car and the black Maybach disappeared from sight.
The man leaning against the wall at the end of the alley under the street lamp withdrew his gaze, smiling at himself with a hint of self-mockery.
— Again, one step too late.
In the Divine Realm, he had fallen for her before him. Now, once again, it was he who arrived before him.
Always one step too late.
