My Husband is the Emperor : I Woke Up With a Husband

Li Lian opened the door to the room, as son as the news reached her ears of how Li Xiao Chen’s position suddenly went missing, she had dropped the idea of visiting the shooting area, turning back to home.

Entering Li Jun Wei’s study room, she saw the swarm of bodyguard whose body was quick to bend to offer her a polite greeting. Li Lian made quick steps to come closer to the desk where Li Jun Wei was standing at.

Li Jun Wei had been standing with his back turned but upon hearing the sound of the open the door, he frowned, initially wondering who is it to add another problem.

Seeing Li Lian brought him a relieve. Li Lian could feel the tension in the room and the way frown marred his forehead.

"Where did you lose him?" Li Lian asked immediately, deciding to put her hand in it.

"The road near Shuishu tunnel," Li Jun Wei answered and he turned the laptop around to show her the location. "I have ordered all my men there—" Li Jun Wei didn’t continue his words but it was enough to put the rest of the bodyguards in the room to be on edge as they knew it was indirectly their fault.

"Shuishu tunnel, that’s the tunnel which is divided to four route," it wold be extremely difficult to pin point where they had gone exactly with the many route and three out of the four route connect to the large road that goes to different cities.

The police then came to Li Lian’s mind but not for help, "What about the road CCTV?"

"Nothing," Li Jun Wei said with a gritted teeth. His only younger brother had been kidnapped. He recalled that it happen only once where Li Xiao Chen was kidnapped and it was an attempt. He then snapped his glowering to the head of the bodyguard, "Have you find any witness of the car yet?"

"We have found that Mr. Li Xiao Chen’s car was the only vehicle that passed by the road. An unknown construction sign had been found on the end of the road possibly removed and replaced there as soon as the master’s car passed by."

Li Jun Wei sighed, his hands went through his hair in frustration. "Has there not been any way we can locate Xiao Chen, like gps or any tracking device?"

"Everything had been dissembled by the kidnapper," answered the guard again.

Li Lian frowned, the person who attacked them had been too prepared to kidnapped Li Xiao Chen, leaving no evidence as they knew doing so would be the last risk they could ever take. "Have you tried to contact Zhuang Xuan. I heard he had once tried to hack into the police’s security cameras all over Shanghai and Beijing. He might know how to salvage a deleted video."

"The problem is that the cameras had been shot. The last people who had been caught were the two people who rode the motorcycle as he went beside Xiao Chen’s car and attacked the camera. The motorcycle had been found discarded," Li Jun Wei’s words were hurried as anger sparks in his eyes when he thought of how his brother had gone missing.

"Is there no bodyguards who was with him?" On Li Lian’s question, she noticed how Li Jun Wei shook her head and it wasn’t because they bodyguard didn’t come with him but because they were all dead.

Crisp sound of a door opening then sounded, a person came running toward both Li Jun Wei and her. She noticed it was Ni who had once took the position as her bodyguard until Violet took the position.

Ni’s clothes was drenched with blood but it wasn’t his blood from his wounds as he had did not participate in the ride with Li Xiao Chen. He choked on his breaths, after running on distances of meters and climbed over staircase to arrive faster and deliver what he found, it took him a good five minutes of wheezing to squeeze some words, "E...evidence... the car’s plate number..." he didn’t had to explain the rest as he had passed the phone he had been holding to.

Li Lian came to take the phone herself before coming back to her earlier position. She saw the web-like crack fracturing the phone’s glass surface, fortunately the picture that was taken was still clear to allow anyone to jolt down the number on the palate.

Li Jun Wei took the phone, passing it then to the head bodyguard, he knew it wasn’t the fault of his bodyguards as there were peoples in a pinch situation that no matter how many bodyguards try to they won’t be able to stop it from occurring, but he cannot handle the anger and disappointment he held, causing him to growl when he met his bodyguards’ eyes.

Li Lian then looked at him with a long stare and Li Jun Wei knew the gaze was a mix of concern and something deeper as she wanted a personal talk.

Li Jun Wei raised his hand to gesture his bodyguard, "The rest of you leave us alone."

When the door clicked close, only Violet was still standing against the door. She hadn’t move out of surprised. During the entire ride back home, she was shocked to hear Li Lian speaking about Li Xiao Chen’s sudden appearance.

It was rare for an adult man to be kidnapped that is if not for them being as rich, wealthy, and the younger brother of Li Jun Wei thought Violet. Out of all people, why Li Xiao Chen? She asked herself. He didn’t do anything to anyone and what they have done was dragging an innocent person.

Briefly, Violet also caught news of the bodyguards who were found dead in Li Xiao Chen’s discarded car. She clenched her hand. While Xiao Chen might be a precious trading chip that had became the reason why he had been kidnapped ironically, it also became a warrant for his life.

His safety should be around during the first one or two days. "One or two days?" whispered Violet to herself. She was naive. She was thinking things in the best possible way. After killing the bodyguards it confirm just how vicious the kidnappers were. The possibility of Xiao Chen being killed was high.

They had just shared conversation not long than an hour ago, and now he was going to die?

"Die...?" Violet repeated the word for an uncomfortable emotion to crawled over her heart. She didn’t move the entire time Li Jun Wei was talking as she had sunk in silence when anger boiled inside her at the thought that Li Xiao Chen could come back as a lifeless corpse.

Li Lian who had received a proper explanation then understood how apparently the reason why Li Xiao Chen’s kidnapping was discovered not too late because one of the person who work to construct the road found it odd and strange of how the road was constructed when the schedule was pushed until next month. The man was also the one who had found the dead bodies and called the police.

"It’s Wei Tsui Lan," Li Lian concluded; not a guess because it was clear. "But I thought he is under the police’s constant watch and shouldn’t be able to do anything against us. The mole that you placed on them also didn’t say they were going to kidnapped Xiao Chen."

"No. There is another way. That bastard had compelled someone to work with him and do his dirty work to kidnapped Xiao Chen in their stead," Li Jun Wei clenched his teeth and his jaw ticked when he thought of what could happen to his younger brother. He slammed his fist on the table out of a burst.

Li Lian held his hand, the same one which Jun Wei had used to whacked the desk. It was a very emotion-consuming moment they were at the moment, "You have to be calm in this situation, Jun Wei. It is difficult but we cannot let our emotions drive us. Don’t worry I’m sure Xiao Chen would be alright. We need to think what to do next. Do you think you have a lead?"

"Yes," Li Jun Wei said, heaving a deeper breath so he could be calm. As Li Lian had mentioned, he felt thankful for her presence that helped him to turn more rational while finding a plan they could go with. "The maid who had been following our orders in Xie Family claimed that she overheard Mrs. Xie’s discussion with Xie Hue Lin, both was speaking and seemingly making a call with an old phone that isn’t use anymore. She remembered it because it cause her a deep impression as both the women never used something that has fallen from the date."

Li Lian narrowed her eyes at the piece of information, "Old phone?" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"A burner phone that prevent others from tracing the call," Li Jun Wei’s added information was all it needed for Li Lian to be sure of it.

"They called Wei Tsui Lan. It was them? They were the one who he had ordered to kidnapped Xiao Chen?" Li Lian asked in disbelief. "They have gotten bolder in killing people without guilt or mercy!" Li Lian understood asking mercy for them was similar to trying to bring the moon from the sky back to the ground— clearly impossible even if they were to die and be reborn again.

"We should go to their house now." Li Jun Wei said with a certain urgency as he tried to keep his anger leashed but occasionally something feral hidden underneath his voice leaked out to make his eyes sharper with anger, "When we come there, I apologize to ruin a little of your schedule to put them down with shame. If I don’t kill them today, I won’t be at peace."