Chapter 712: Chapter 713: Full Moon Banquet (7)
Qin Sijue’s dark eyes narrowed slightly, but his voice was steady, “What’s happening?”
“Nangong Feifei has escaped.”
Hearing this, Qin Sijue’s expression changed subtly, a chill flashing through his dark eyes.
“When?”
“Yesterday.”
“Yesterday!?”
His voice was filled with anger, a sentiment Luo Chen naturally understood.
“Yes, because she is a critically important criminal, after she escaped, the district attorney thought he could capture Nangong Feifei himself and therefore did not inform us immediately.”
This was also because of Qin Sijue’s warning that if anything went wrong, it would be the district attorney who would have to face him. Consequently, when the criminal indeed got lost, the district attorney, fearing Qin Sijue’s authority, dared not reveal the news. He fancied he could control the narrative and recapture Nangong Feifei!
“Search the entire city!”
“Understood!”
After hanging up the phone, Qin Sijue’s heart was fraught with unease.
Glancing up, he intended to search for Gu Qiangwei’s whereabouts, but he couldn’t spot her in the vast banquet hall.
The instant he realized her absence, an unsettling feeling surged within Qin Sijue!
In the banquet hall, including Qin Feimo’s family of three and Qin Guozhong and Zhuang Yanyan, almost the entire Nangong family was present, but only Gu Qiangwei was missing.
“Weiwei…”
Considering Nangong Feifei’s escape, Qin Sijue’s heart grew even more anxious!
He brushed past the guests, his expression desperate.
“Sijue!”
Just then, Zhuang Yanyan spotted him and hurried over, dragging him toward the center stage.
She planned to pull him into a group photo.
Scanning the crowd and not seeing her with Gu Qiangwei, his brow furrowed further, “Eh, where’s Weiwei? Aren’t you with her?”
Qin Sijue looked visibly anxious upon seeing Zhuang Yanyan, his gaze somewhat urgent, “Isn’t she with you?”
Zhuang Yanyan appeared bewildered, “No, we came down after seeing Yiyi; didn’t she go to find you?”
After arriving at the banquet hall and busy greeting guests, she saw Gu Qiangwei heading towards her grandson and then turned her attention away.
Her answer only intensified Qin Sijue’s anxiety. Pulling his arm away from Zhuang Yanyan, he said, “I am looking for her.”
As his words fell, he quickly turned and made his way through the vast banquet hall, leaving no corner unchecked.
In his urgency, he abruptly took out his phone, dialing Gu Qiangwei’s number.
However, the phone rang in his suit pocket instead.
Qin Sijue stopped short, his gaze fixating on the pocket as the familiar ringtone sounded, recalling that earlier, because Gu Qiangwei’s gown could not accommodate a phone and she found carrying a handbag bothersome, she had placed her phone in his pocket.
“Damn it!”
At the same time.
Gu Qiangwei, feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit, headed straight for the restroom.
But hunched over the toilet for quite some time, the sick feeling persisted, and she just couldn’t vomit anything.
Struggling for awhile, she eventually stood up, intending to return to the banquet hall.
Because she had been hasty, Qin Sijue might be looking for her at this very moment.
With that thought in mind, she took a deep breath, trying to suppress the nauseous sensation.
But just as she got up and was about to open the stall door, that wave of nausea hit her chest again, making her grimace with discomfort.
This feeling of wanting to vomit but being unable to was truly unbearable…
Hunching over the toilet’s edge once more, she retched for a good while but still, nothing came out.