Bai Jin Has Gone Missing

Bai Jin was so angry that he hung up the video call.

"Old pervert!" Bai Jin cursed with a smile as he pulled the blanket over his entire body.

The capital's young prince had never had anyone hang up on him like that, yet Lu Chengze was not angry at all. He even grinned shamelessly and scolded, "Little thing, you were clearly very happy."

Bai Jin slept until broad daylight. There was still an hour before the hotel delivered breakfast, so he planned to go out for a morning run and see whether Lu Chengze's people had withdrawn.

After changing into sportswear and putting on his earphones, Bai Jin jogged through a small park across from the residential community.

Since moving here, he rarely exercised during the day because he would run into the elderly residents from the community. He generally preferred running at night.

But ever since he had hooked Lu Chengze, he had even run at night less often.

His phone vibrated in his pocket. Bai Jin took it out and opened it. It was a message from Lu Chengze.

[Little friend, where did you go so early in the morning? Your WeChat step count is almost at ten thousand already?]

Bai Jin rolled his eyes at the sky. Why was this man so clingy?

Yet his hands still replied earnestly: [Morning run. Getting some exercise!]

Lu Chengze: [Oh, didn't you used to like running at night? Why did you switch to mornings?]

Only after silently cursing, That bastard, testing me again, did Bai Jin fire back resentfully: [Didn't Fifth Master tell me not to go out at night if I had nothing to do?]

Lu Chengze seemed to be in a very good mood. [My fault. Next time, we can exercise together. Smiley face jpg.]

There was clearly nothing particularly noteworthy about that sentence, yet Bai Jin immediately understood what Lu Chengze was trying to imply.

[...Pervert!]

Exercising was not a problem, but why did they have to do it together?

Could the kind of exercise two people did together possibly be proper exercise?

Lu Chengze did not try to deny it and sent over a suggestive kitten meme.

Bai Jin pretended not to see it, put away his phone, and continued running seriously.

As he rounded a corner, Bai Jin suddenly sped up. In the blink of an eye, he vanished from sight.

A man and woman then ran out from around the corner. They looked around in every direction, and the woman asked in confusion, "Huh? Where did he go? He was just here. How did he disappear in the blink of an eye?"

"He couldn't have gone far. This little park only has one entrance and exit. Let's look ahead." The man's voice was somewhat hoarse. "He has already seen what we look like. Whether he is White Scarf or not, we can't let him go."

Because Lu Chengze was behind him.

Even if this Bai Jin was not the White Scarf they were looking for, if his boyfriend Lu Chengze noticed anything suspicious, their fate would not be much better.

"Let's go."

The two continued down the path, searching all the way to the back of the small park.

There were elderly people exercising in this park every day, but they liked to gather beneath the large trees to enjoy the shade and chat. Few people came to the back.

Bai Jin had deliberately lured them to the back. With his arms folded, he leaned against a large tree and waited for the prey to walk into his trap.

"There he is, hurry!" Sure enough, when the two saw Bai Jin resting beneath the tree, they immediately rushed over and surrounded him. The man asked viciously, "Kid, are you White Scarf?"

His voice was already hoarse, and he deliberately lowered it. The pronunciations of Bai Jin and White Scarf were nearly indistinguishable.

Bai Jin lifted his eyes, an innocent smile on his face. "I am. Are you here to die?"

"Fuck! It really is him. Get him, kill him!" The man immediately grew excited upon hearing that.

The woman was slightly calmer than the man. "Honey, wait. If this person really is White Scarf, can the two of us kill him?"

The man sneered. "He doesn't have a gun on him. What are you afraid of?"

They had already observed him. Bai Jin had merely come out for a morning run and had no weapons on him. He was empty-handed. With both of them attacking together, were they really afraid they could not kill him?

Besides, they both had silenced pistols. Why would they fear an unarmed White Scarf?

The two approached Bai Jin with complete confidence, ignoring the killing intent in his eyes. "White Scarf, die."

Lu Chengze sat in the car, smiling as he exited his chat with Bai Jin and began staring at Bai Jin's WeChat step count.

He watched Bai Jin's count jump from over nine thousand steps to more than twelve thousand.

Lu Chengze muttered, "He can really run."

As if deliberately going against him, Bai Jin's WeChat step count did not move for the next ten minutes.

Lu Chengze became suspicious. "Did he get tired from running?"

Lu Jin and Lu Mu exchanged looks. They both felt that since falling in love, their Fifth Master had become more and more of a wife slave by the day.

Just then, Lu Jin's phone rang. It was Lu Shui calling. "Brother Jin, this is bad. I just found the whereabouts of two of the remaining fugitive killers. They're near Eight-Star Residential Community in Fengxi District..."

Lu Chengze's expression immediately changed. "Lu Shui, send me the exact location. Little friend went out for a morning run today."

Lu Jin and Lu Mu's expressions changed as well. Surely he had not run into them by such a terrible coincidence.

Lu Mu floored the accelerator, and the modified Land Rover shot forward like a cheetah.

Lu Shui had already sent the exact location. "Fifth Master, don't panic yet. Maybe Young Master Bai won't run into them..."

When Lu Chengze saw that the coordinates Lu Shui sent were for the small park across from Eight-Star Residential Community, even his voice changed. "No. Bai Jin's WeChat step count has not moved for eleven minutes and fifty-two seconds. Lu Mu, get back there as fast as possible."

Bai Jin was not the restless sort, and his range of activities was very fixed. He generally would not go somewhere unfamiliar. The place where he had previously run at night was the small park across from his residential community.

Based on Lu Chengze's understanding of Bai Jin, Bai Jin would definitely not seek out a new route for his morning run. He would still go to the small park.

In Bai Jin's simple mind, the small park had always been safe for night runs, so nothing would happen during a morning run either.

Therefore, Bai Jin's route that morning had to be through the small park.

But now, killers had approached the small park... Bai Jin was in extreme danger.

Lu Mu: "Understood."

"Lu Jin, contact our people and have them immediately go seal off the small park. Make sure he is safe."

Lu Jin: "Understood."

Lu Chengze called Bai Jin. The call connected, but no one answered.

This made Lu Chengze's heart sink even further.

Lu Mu was practically driving the car until it smoked, but they were still five minutes away from Eight-Star Residential Community. Then the people sent to seal off the small park delivered bad news.

They had found only Bai Jin's phone left at the scene, but Bai Jin himself was nowhere to be seen.

To ensure the information was reliable, they had also sent people to Bai Jin's home. It was empty too.

They had also called the school. Bai Jin had not arrived that morning.

In other words, Bai Jin had gone missing.

Lu Chengze's gaze turned icy. "Send out two more teams. Find him no matter what. I want Bai Jin unharmed."

"Yes."