Chapter 381: Lu Jingye Asks Zi Yi: Where Are Your Shoes?
Ansel clearly still had other things to do and he left after that.
When Ansel was about to leave, the circular ball in Zi Yi’s hands was about to fly out.
Yet, Lu Jingye who was standing beside her had stopped her actions.
“Let’s wait and see first.”
It was very tight for two to stand behind the cabinet and they could only stand side by side. Zi Yi tilted her head to look at his unfamiliar face and she subconsciously reached out to touch his face.
Lu Jingye grabbed her hand and whispered in her ears, “If something happens later, stay here. I’ll lead Count Alistair here. He won’t make things difficult for you.”
After saying that, he asked, “Where are your shoes?”
Zi Yi’s feet twitched and she said, “I threw them at someone around the flowers beside this building.”
Lu Jingye responded with a groan.
They stood there and waited for around two minutes, only to see Allen walking to the windows as he pulled open the curtains and opened the window. He reached out his head and said, “You can come in.”
Immediately after, a person soundlessly flipped their way inside.
The person was a woman dressed in tight clothing and black tights, while holding onto a whip.
She had come in without being noticed by the people under the window.
Allen shut the windows and pulled the curtain back to its original position and asked that woman eagerly, “Have you found that woman yet?”
Zi Yi somehow knew that the woman Allen mentioned referred to her.
The woman opened her voice and spoke. Her voice was extremely frosty. “She’s in this building.”
“Which room is she inside?”
“I don’t know yet.”
She then took out an item.
Allen asked, “What’s that?”
“A tracker. This tracking device can track her based on her aura.”
She walked to the door and opened a crack and was about to release the tracker.
However, a split second before she could release it, Lu Jingye deliberately made some movements and the woman warily shouted, “Who’s there? Come out!”
Lu Jingye immediately revealed himself and started to fight with that woman.
Zi Yi threw out a circular ball and controlled the tracking device.
While the two of them were engaged in a fight, Allen seemed to have detected something and he headed towards the cabinet in large strides.
Zi Yi immediately took action when Allen approached the cabinet. A circular ball was thrown out and it crashed against his eyes.
“Ouch…”
Allen covered his eyes at once and groaned in pain as he took several steps back.
He then shouted to the woman, “She’s here!”
The woman who was fighting against Lu Jingye wanted to change directions the moment she heard that.
However, she was immediately blocked by Lu Jingye.
The woman then said to Allen, “Think of a way to catch her.”
Allen’s eyes hurt so much that it felt as if they were about to explode. But the moment he heard what the woman said, he disregarded the pain in his eyes and wanted to catch Zi Yi.
“Pft~” Zi Yi laughed and the circular ball in her hands soon transformed into a sharp weapon as it flew towards Allen.
He did not have time to dodge and the back of his hand that reached out to grab Zi Yi lost a piece of flesh.
“Oww-”
The woman heard Allen’s miserable scream and was distracted for a second, and she ended up receiving a punch from Lu Jingye.
The strength behind the punch was no joke. The woman’s body flew out from the window like a broken kite.
BAM!
Crash!
BAM!
The alarm throughout the entire building started ringing when the woman hit against the window and flew out.
Lu Jingye said to Zi Yi, “Count Alistair is coming. Leave through the main door shortly.”
Zi Yi nodded her head.
Lu Jingye leaned out the window and disappeared the next second.
Soon, the sound of footsteps of numerous people running over could be heard from all directions. There were even voices and shouts coming from below.
“Quick, catch that woman!”
“Someone’s on the roof, hurry and chase them.”
Zi Yi calmly stood there and waited.
The door was pushed open the next second and a group of armed bodyguards quickly came in. They surrounded Zi Yi along with Allen who was squatting with his hands behind his back.
Shortly after, Count Alistair and Ansel came in.
“Miss Zi, why are you here?”
Count Alistair was particularly surprised to see Zi Yi standing there.
When he shifted his line of sight to Allen who was squatting there, he was even more surprised.
Ansel was alarmed to see Allen and he hastily walked over to ask, “Mr. Allen, what happened to you?”
He then looked towards Zi Yi with a deep gaze.
Zi Yi did not bother to look at him at all. She looked towards Count Alistair and furrowed her brows as she said, “My cousin went missing. There were many people who saw that she went to the backyard together with Meng He. Mr. Ansel supposedly accompanied me to find them, but I didn’t expect him to be plotting against me. I then hid inside this room in an accident, and unexpectedly, he brought Mr. Allen into this room soon after.”
Count Alistair looked towards Ansel and Allen with a sharp gaze. “What’s going on?”
Ansel tried to save himself, “Father, Miss Zi is talking nonsense.”
“What nonsense have I said? Isn’t it a fact that Mr. Ansel left the hall together with me? Wasn’t it Mr. Ansel who told me that my cousin was here?”
After Zi Yi questioned him, she turned to Count Alistair. “If Count Alistair doesn’t believe me, you can check the surveillance in your estate. Or perhaps you can simply ask those people whom I have chatted with. You can ask them if I had indeed left the hall together with Mr. Ansel.”
“You–”
“Ansel.” Count Alistair’s voice became very stern. It was so stern that traces of fear flashed past Ansel’s face.
Count Alistair took a look at the ruined studio along with Allen who was trembling in pain while tears and snot covered his face. He then asked Ansel with a deep voice, “What’s with that woman downstairs? Also, what’s with the man who ran past on the roof just moments ago?”
“Father, I don’t know, you…”
Just as Ansel was about to make excuses for himself, a nice sounding voice could be heard from outside the door. “Father, what happened?”
Shortly after, a handsome, fair man with shoulder-length blond curls walked in gracefully.
Zi Yi looked in his direction and suddenly recognized him as the man who was playing the violin last night on the bridge.
Ian seemed to have only just noticed Zi Yi who was standing inside the room. There was the right amount of surprise in his eyes as he asked, “Father, who’s this beautiful lady?”
Count Alistair clearly liked this second son of his. His expression eased slightly at the sight of him and introduced Zi Yi.
“This is Miss Zi Yi from China. She has also won first place in the first and second round of the International Painting and Calligraphy competition.”
“Miss Zi?” Traces of surprise flashed past his eyes. When everyone’s attention was on him, he said, “Lu had mentioned to me before that his girlfriend is Miss Zi.”
Zi Yi was a little surprised that Ian would say that and she also guessed that he was close with Lu Jingye.
However, his words caused the expressions of Count Alistair and Ansel to change simultaneously.
Just then, Ian added, “Could it be that Big Bro hasn’t heard of it before?”
Count Alistair suddenly turned his head to look at Ansel.
Ansel looked at his younger brother and his heart sank. He felt that he had been set up and was brimming with hatred deep down. Yet, he tried to explain himself on the surface. “Father, I didn’t know of this at all…”