Early the next morning.
Bang, bang...
Bang, bang...
Still asleep, Bo Yi was jolted awake by a series of urgent, forceful knocks. He blinked his still-heavy eyelids and let out a deep sigh as he waited for his hazy vision to focus.
What a familiar scene...
The pounding outside continued, as though it would never stop until he opened the door. Bo Yi had no choice but to slowly sit up in bed.
But just as he pulled open his bedroom door and prepared to answer the front door, he caught sight of a fallen strand of hair on his bed out of the corner of his eye. His raised foot stopped short.
He suddenly remembered the "special service" Mitian had provided yesterday morning, picking up his hair. Bo Yi stood there thinking for two seconds, then promptly turned back to the bed, picked up the strand, and tucked it into his pocket.
Once he had finished, he carefully checked the bed and floor again. Only after confirming that not a single strand of hair had been "left lying around" did he leave the bedroom, walk to the front door, and pull it open.
"Something's wrong!"
The door had barely opened a crack before Jiang Miaoyi's urgent voice came through. "Xu Kexin's missing!"
Huh? Bo Yi didn't know which should surprise him first: that this morning's knocking hadn't come from an NPC here to clean, or the news Jiang Miaoyi had just delivered.
Ning Ran stood behind Jiang Miaoyi, her face equally anxious and uneasy. "When we woke up this morning, her bed was empty."
"We checked. There were no signs of a struggle around the bed, no blood, and no other traces." It was as though she had vanished into thin air.
As he listened to their hurried explanations,