Despite the incessant pounding on the door and demands to hurry, Li Yuanqing remained unhurried. He even went over to the table for a sip of water before opening the door.
"Where's your kid?!"
Sweater Man's father demanded the moment the door opened.
Li Yuanqing asked without a change in expression:
"What's the rush? Did something happen?"
"I can't find my kid! I just knocked on that family's door-" He pointed toward Thin Man's home. "He said Zhang Hao was playing with your kid during the day!"
Eavesdropping, Li Xian thought, Sure enough, someone told on me.
He stayed hidden in his room, waiting to see how Li Yuanqing would handle this.
His father pushed up his glasses, glanced back at Li Xian's bedroom door, and said:
"He should be asleep by now."
That was a polite refusal.
But the man had no intention of leaving and said bluntly:
"Then just wake him up! Don't you know what's important?!"
Li Yuanqing said, "There's no need to be so anxious..."
"Forget it. There's no talking sense into you. Let me in!"
Seeing Li Yuanqing dragging his feet and refusing to agree, Sweater Man's father grew angry. He reached out to shove Li Yuanqing aside and barge in-
"What's wrong, sir?"
Li Xian opened his bedroom door just in time and came out rubbing his eyes, pretending he had been woken by the noise.
The man's eyes lit up at the sight of him, and he immediately asked excitedly, "Do you know where Zhang Hao went?!"
He promptly received a disappointing answer.
"No."
The man did not believe him and tried to press further. "How is that possible? Weren't you..."
"Enough."
Li Yuanqing interrupted him. "Since you got off work on time today and no doll has come looking for you yet,