Su Baizhou and Li Xia returned to Hangzhou together.
Meanwhile, Luo Ye and Gu Mingxuan returned to the capital.
Their plane landed at Capital International Airport, only for them to discover that no one had come to pick them up.
In the past, even if Aunt had not come herself, a driver would have been sent for them.
Why was there no one at all?
The brothers exchanged a look, both feeling that something was off.
Every second on the way home weighed heavily on them.
With every kilometer closer to home, their hearts sank a little deeper.
Something was wrong. Very wrong.
When they returned to the villa, Uncle was sitting on the sofa playing on his phone.
The two looked around from the doorway but did not see Aunt anywhere on the first floor.
They both breathed a sigh of relief and were about to head inside when Uncle cleared his throat.
Luo Ye and Gu Mingxuan stopped at the same time. Luo Ye shrank his neck and asked with an awkward smile, "Uncle, where's Aunt?"
Hearing this, Gu Ransheng glanced at them and sighed. "You two... pray for yourselves."
The moment he said that, Luo Ye and Gu Mingxuan's expressions turned grave, cold sweat nearly breaking out across their bodies.
They had been tense all the way home, and now that they had arrived, the sky had finally fallen.
"Oh? You're back."
The sound of slippers hitting the floor came from the stairs leading down from the second floor, accompanied by Aunt's distinctly displeased voice.
Luo Ye and Gu Mingxuan both took a step back, seized by the urge to flee the villa.
But they knew that if they left now, Chen Shaoman would be even angrier when they faced her next time.
Chen Shaoman came down