C24 The Night Had Finally Regained Its Tranquility

No matter how angry Mu Yao was, she could only silently lower her head and endure it. She took the warm glass and looked at the slightly shaking surface of the water. Then she thought of how he had just let her take a bath. In an instant, a bold guess formed in her mind.

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Absolutely not!

"What did you put in there?" Mu Yao sounded alert, but her cold tone could not hide the panic in her eyes.

Li Beichen glanced at her and turned his eyes back to her face. He saw her current expression and attitude and gave up on explaining. He had the thought of testing her out.

"No matter what I added, you have to finish it today."

His ambiguous answer made Mu Yao more and more confirm her guess.

Despicable!

She cursed at him in her heart and the five fingers that held the cup could not help but tighten. "Li Beichen, is this also a condition to exchange my father's information?"

Before he could answer, she added coldly. "If it was before, I would have smashed it in your face." But now, in order to know her father's current condition, she had to endure! She had to rely on luck to believe that logic and intelligence could defeat the medicinal effects...

After saying that, she drank it without any fear of death.

The sour and spicy taste made her nose turn sour! "I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I... I...

This drink is for decontamination?!

Mu Yao was stunned and coughed as she stared at Li Beichen. She was surprised and even felt guilty. If it was just to relieve alcohol, why didn't he say so earlier? Why did he deliberately make her misunderstand?

Li Beichen spoke at the right time.

"I'm not interested in drugs." After seeing through her thoughts, Li Beichen laughed at himself. He asked directly, "Besides, do I have a habit of using drugs when I want to do something to you?"

"Enough!" His meaningful words made Mu Yao's face turn black on the spot. With a "bang," she heavily placed the cup back onto the tea table and suddenly stood up to walk out, "I'm going back!"

He had been playing with her from the beginning to the end!

She actually foolishly followed over...

Mu Yao was so angry that she wanted to cry. Her nose was also sore. Where is the information about father? He only mentioned that terrible memory again. He did it on purpose! He deliberately trapped her in that shadow, unable to walk out.

"I can let your father go." Just as she put her hand on the door handle, his voice suddenly came from behind, cold and without any hint of mockery. "I only have one condition."

She could not help but stop and hear the second half of his sentence clearly: "Find the thing he took from the Li family."

What?

Mu Yao turned her head back in doubt. Her small face was full of doubt. Really? Could he really let his father go? But what exactly did his father take away? With his abilities, He had been helpless for so many years?

Li Beichen stood up from the sofa. He lifted his foot and slowly approached, but he quietly pressed on the door. "You can consider it."

His tone of discussion was almost gentle.

His forceful actions deprived her of the right to choose...

When she returned to the apartment, it was already very late.

Li Beichen did not make things difficult for her anymore. He even called someone to send her back. In the car, Mu Yao sat silently at the back. She was still holding a picture tightly in her hand. This was the reward she received for agreeing to his conditions. A picture of her father.

The picture should be... Someone secretly took it in prison. There was a line of small words written at the back: Mu Xiangxian, City A Prison.

The father in the photo was facing the camera, focusing on writing on a broken table. The dim light from the lamp illuminated his thin and haggard face, making the white hair on his temples clearer. After not seeing him for six years, he had aged a lot.

Mu Yao felt sad and sad at the same time, "Father, I will definitely save you.

"Miss Mu, we have reached Fenglan Residence! Which building do you live in?" The driver's voice came from the front seat. He was polite and respectful.

"Stop here, I'll go back." Mu Yao sniffed and calmed down. Then she opened the car door. She reminded him lightly, "Let him remember his promise. Don't disturb me again." This was her additional condition.

"Eh?"

The driver was stunned. Mu Yao pushed the door open and walked out.

Most of the people in the residential area were asleep. Only a few houses' lights were left.

Mu Yao thought that the door was still locked, so she went upstairs and checked the unlocked phone. She had just walked to her floor when someone called her. "Miss Mu, you're back? This is the key to your new lock."

"Who?" Mu Yao was shocked and suddenly turned her head to look at the source of the sound. When she saw the respectful man, her eyes were full of wariness and rejection. "Li Beichen sent you here?" Only his people would have such a respectful attitude.

"Uh, yes." That person was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and nodded.

He could not tell the truth. The lock was changed by Chen Ze. In order not to expose his identity, Chen Ze had just left...

"Miss Mu, I will give you the key." Seeing that Mu Yao did not move, he took the initiative to give it to her. The silver metal key lay quietly in his palm and was carefully brought into the cartoon key ring.

Mu Yao could not help frowning.

Mu Yao hesitated for a few seconds and finally took the key. She lightly replied, "Thank you." But she was not grateful at all for Li Beichen's "good intentions.

That person left very quickly. Mu Yao took the key and opened the door to enter the house. The house was neat and quiet. The person he sent only changed the lock and did not touch her things. However, she did not hang the key on the door as usual. Instead, she used her phone to search for a number.

"Hello, Lockpicking Company? I want to change the lock."

At the hotel.

"Do you want Miss Mu to get the information back?" Miss Mu asked. Li Beichen's casual words surprised Chen Ze for a long time. He only found his voice after a long time and murmured, "How is this possible..."

Mu Xiangxian had been locked up for six years and was not willing to reveal any secrets. They had spent six years but could not find any clues. How was it possible for him to ask Miss Mu to find him now? Moreover, she was only 18 years old back then and did not know anything at all.

"I was just looking for something to do for her." Li Beichen smiled and continued to read international documents with his head lowered. "She is too sensitive..." That was why he could not be too direct.

This could be seen from her reaction just now.

Chen Ze nodded in understanding. He seemed to be deep in thought. "It is indeed unrealistic to ask Miss Mu to look for information..."

"Not necessarily." Li Beichen cut him off. The corner of his mouth rose slightly and he said with a determined smile, "If she can find someone related to Mu Xiangxian, I will get the information back."

After Mu Xiangxian was locked up, all his friends disappeared without a trace. The only person who could lure them out was Mu Xiangxian himself, and it should be his daughter, right?

"Ah?" Chen Ze frowned slightly and asked worriedly, "Does this count as using Miss Mu? If she knows the truth..."

"This is not the truth." Li Beichen closed the document and raised his lips. "It is just a part of the plan."

As for the truth...

It was his whole plan.

"Do you have anything else?" He threw away the folder and stood up, ready to rest.

"Ah, right!" Only then did Chen Ze remember. He hurriedly took out a key from his pocket. "This is Miss Mu's backup key."

Chen Ze chased after Miss Mu and gave her the key with a proud look. As the special assistant of the gold medal, he had to think carefully. He had specially left a spare key for Young Master Li so that it would be convenient for Young Master Li to enter and exit in the future.

"No need." Li Beichen sneered. He glanced at the key and ordered casually, "Throw it away."

"Throw it away?" Chen Ze was shocked.

This was Miss Mu's...

"I don't think she would keep the lock you changed." Li Beichen smiled, a rare trace of gentleness appearing in his eyes. He patted Chen Ze's shoulder and comforted him lazily, "Don't worry. I can knock on the door and go in."

She did not dare to not open the door.

With that, he turned around and went back to the bedroom. Chen Ze stood there for a long time, but in the end, he could only quietly throw the key away.

It was already late in the night.

Most of the people in the residential area were asleep. Only Mu Yao's apartment door was busy. It was the Lockpicking Company who was working hard to change the lock. While Mu Yao was waiting, she called her aunt in City A.

"Yao?" Her aunt's voice was obviously asleep. Her voice was hoarse, "What is it?"

"I'm sorry for waking you up." Mu Yao smiled apologetically and hesitantly continued, "Aunt, I want to ask if my father took anything from the Li family back then." She had no clue about this!

"What?!" Her aunt was stunned, and her voice suddenly changed. She angrily sat up from the bed, "Where did you hear that from? Your father is a decent person. Why would he take something from the Li family? That kind of complicated and huge family feud involves your father..."

Her aunt was angry and kept cursing.

She had been cursing like this for six years: "The Li family just doesn't have any good people! Mu Xiangxian was such an honest and upright person. Her excellent brother was actually imprisoned by them. It was too lawless! There was no reason!

"Aunt..." Mu Yao comforted her for a long time and tried to change the topic, "Then does my father have any better friends?"

After my father went to prison, those "uncles" seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden. She did not pay attention at that time, so she could not find them at all.

"Friends? There seems to be one. His surname is Bai. He is a doctor, and he works in City C. "I can't remember his exact name." His aunt murmured as she recalled. Suddenly, she changed the topic. "By the way, why are you asking this?"

"I was just asking." Mu Yao panicked and quickly tried to avoid it, "I was just suddenly a little curious. "Go to bed," she said. "I'm going to sleep too."

Afraid that Aunt would ask further, she hung up the phone in a hurry and secretly remembered the only message in her heart.

Doctor Bai of City C.

"This lock of yours is still new..." The master who changed the lock happened to have finished his work. He weighed the lock that had been changed. "I'll find a bag for you and wrap it up. It can still be used in the future!"

"No need." Mu Yao smiled and opened her wallet to take the money, "The lock is for you."

She did not want to touch anything related to him.

This complicated night finally calmed down.