That afternoon.
Around five o'clock.
Dong Xuebin, who had gone out to buy groceries, returned to the Municipal Party Committee Family Compound. The moment he entered the compound, many leaders and family members returning from work, including the security guards at the entrance, looked at him strangely.
"Director Dong."
"Madam Liu."
"I heard your goddaughter is okay now?"
"Not yet. We still haven't found her."
"She'll definitely be all right."
"Thank you, Madam Liu. I appreciate the kind words."
After greeting the family members of officials who lived in the same building, Dong Xuebin strode into his building carrying the groceries.
Yet quite a few people behind him continued to glance at his back from time to time, whispering among themselves.
No one could blame them. The things happening around Dong Xuebin were simply too bizarre. Wan Sichao had just offended his cousin, forcing Qu Yunxuan to jump from Liuyang Restaurant, and less than two days later, Wan Sichao had jumped to his death? At the very same restaurant, in the very same private room? Li Taibo and Xu Dabing had given false testimony and provoked Dong Xuebin, only for both of them to somehow be charged with murder and thrown into prison? Now Li Taibo had escaped from prison and kidnapped Dong Xuebin's goddaughter. They had heard that Li Taibo had called that morning and was about to throw Dong Xuebin's goddaughter into the sea, yet one second before he could do it, Li Taibo himself had inexplicably died first??
How could that merely be called strange?
It was downright ghostly!
At home.
Xie Huilan had gone to work. Only Father Qu, Mother Qu, Qu Yunxuan, and Luan Xiaoping were in the living room.
As soon as Dong Xuebin came back, he set the groceries on the coffee