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Zheng Lei looked at that person and felt that he looked familiar. He wondered where he had seen him before.

"Student Zheng Lei, I'm really sorry. They didn't know you, causing you quite a bit of trouble."

Zheng Lei looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked, "You are?"

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Hao Ren, I'm the vice president of the Student Union. When you left school last year, we met once before." Hao Ren introduced himself.

"Good people?" Zheng Lei sized up Hao Ren and thought back to last year when he left for White Cloud Temple. It was this Hao Ren who gave him leave of absence. Zheng Lei smiled and said, "Mm, not bad. He really has a kind appearance."

Hao Ren chuckled and said, "Zheng Lei is really funny." With that, he turned around and said to the group of people that had rushed over, "All of you should leave as well. This is a misunderstanding. Everyone, don't take it to heart!"

After he finished speaking, Hao Ren looked towards Zheng Lei with an inquiring expression. Zheng Lei had no enmity with these people and they were in someone else's territory. Thus, Hao Ren naturally wouldn't make things difficult for these people.

"Zheng Lei, what business do you have with the student union?" Hao Ren asked Zheng Lei.

Zheng Lei turned his head to look at the messy stuff he found, "I just returned to school today, and as soon as I came back, I saw that none of my roommates had come, and it seems like they haven't been here for a long time, so it's like I'm here to check their absence records to see since when they left school. But after coming to the student council, I had some conflict with them, I'm really sorry."

Hao Ren smiled apologetically as he walked towards a cabinet. As he walked, he said, "I felt that something was amiss at the time, but they had formal leave requests, so I couldn't be too suspicious. Thus, I put away their leave papers."

"Leave of absence? Their departure was a normal leave of absence? Can you let me see that leave slip? " Zheng Lei asked.

Hao Ren opened the cabinet and took out a slip of paper from a book. The slip of paper was stuck in the book and it still had its original look. It seemed that Hao Ren had protected it well over this period of time.

Zheng Lei took the slip of leave and read it. This slip of leave was a collective slip that had the names of five people besides Zheng Lei in their dorm. The final date was November 9th. Zheng Lei raised his head, frowning as he calculated the time in his mind.

"This time, it should be not long after Little Fatty returned from Beijing. According to what you've said, they shouldn't ask for leave together. Furthermore, asking for leave together doesn't seem to be feasible." Zheng Lei said softly.

Hearing Zheng Lei's words, Hao Ren placed the book in his hand into the cabinet and said, "Indeed. The student union usually doesn't approve group requests for leave, and they also take a longer leave of absence than yours, so this matter will have to pass through the administration office. It was you who took the leave of absence when the administration informed us."

Zheng Lei thought for a moment, then asked, "Then do you know who sent the leave slip?"

"This … let me look for the recording." Hao Ren flipped through the student union records and searched for a name. He smiled at Zheng Lei and said, "Please wait a moment. I'll give her a call."

Zheng Lei nodded. He watched as Hao Ren took out his phone and dialed a number. After the call was connected, Hao Ren said, "Hello, I'm Hao Ren. I need you to come to the Student Union for something … "Yes, yes, I'll see you later."

After he hung up the phone, Hao Ren said to Zheng Lei, "The one on duty that day was Yue Qingmei. This girl is very calm and doesn't like to talk. She doesn't know what she would do in the Student Union with her character."

When Hao Ren mentioned Yue Qingmei, his eyes were filled with praise.

Zheng Lei held the slip and studied it for a while. Suddenly, the door opened and a girl wearing jeans and a small down jacket walked in. The light blue jacket made the girl's ponytail look very elegant.

"You're looking for me?" The girl said to Hao Ren. Needless to say, she was Yue Qingmei.

"Yes, I want to ask you something."

"Go ahead." The girl never seemed to want to waste a word.

Hao Ren's eyes widened slightly. He took the leave slip from Zheng Lei and walked in front of Yue Qingmei. He handed it to her and asked, "Do you remember who delivered this slip?"

Yue Qingmei held the slip of paper and read through it for a while before handing it to Hao Ren. She said, "Jiang Cheng."

"Jiang Cheng!?" Zheng Lei exclaimed.

Yue Qingmei turned her head and stared at Zheng Lei. The calmness in her eyes was akin to a bottomless lake.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Zheng Lei."

"Zheng Lei?" Yue Qingmei's eyes widened as the calmness in them was broken. She stared at Zheng Lei as though she wanted to devour him. "Where's Shui Rou?" Yue Qingmei suddenly asked.

"Shui Rou? What happened to her? How do I know what happened to her? What's your relationship with her? " Zheng Lei asked.

"You really don't know?" Yue Qingmei coldly stared at Zheng Lei as she asked, "She's gone missing, two months after these people took their leave."

"It's that Jiang Cheng again!" Anger immediately rose in Zheng Lei's heart. This Jiang Cheng was always sneaking behind his back. After failing a few times, he actually stretched his Demon Claw out to Zheng Lei's brothers in the dorm.

When Hao Ren saw that the atmosphere between the two of them had changed, he hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "The two of you, we're here to search for information regarding them. We should be thinking about where they might be going to now."

Zheng Lei nodded his head, but Yue Qingmei coldly glanced at him and said, "I will settle my own matters. I don't need your help!" With that, she turned and left.

Zheng Lei helplessly shook his head as if he owed her a few kilograms of black beans.

After thinking for a moment, Zheng Lei bid Hao Ren farewell and left the Student Union with the leave slip in his hand. Although he had found some clues, Shui Rou's disappearance only made things more complicated.

After passing through the winding mountain paths of the dorm, Zheng Lei returned to his dorm room and sat on his bed, thinking about the suspicious aspects of the situation. Suddenly, he remembered that when Little Fatty was about a month away, Shui Rou had come to White Cloud Temple to look for him.

Could it be that Shui Rou left the school a long time ago and just didn't return? Or was this Yue Qingmei lying? What was her relationship with Shui Rou? Although he had not spent much time with Shui Rou in the past, he had never heard her mention it. The aura emitted from this girl's body made Zheng Lei feel that she wasn't simple. However, the specifics weren't simple, so he wasn't able to pinpoint it.