novelraw Chapter 424: Time is Running Out
Chapter 424: Time is Running Out
Ten minutes later, Xiyan’s door was knocked on.Glancing at the time, Xiyan raised her voice, "Who is it?"
"Me!" A voice full of confidence and arrogance answered.
Xiyan rolled her eyes and deliberately played dumb, "Who are you?"
Ou Jue crossed his arms, leaning sideways against the doorway, "The one who makes your heart race."
Xiyan’s face turned beet red.
Damn it!
She jumped off the bed and opened the door, "Why are you knocking on my door?"
"..." Ou Jue brought his left hand up, curled it into a fist, and lightly coughed into it in an unnatural manner.
Huh?
Xiyan blinked her eyes in confusion.
"Xia Xiyan." Ou Jue slid his hand into his pocket, his back straight, the sharp lines of his face looking exceptionally focused. "I want to ask you a question."
"Wha?" Why was Xiyan suddenly feeling a bit nervous?
"Did you... gain weight recently?"
... Where’s my knife??
Xiyan’s temple throbbed violently as she forced herself to suppress her anger and retorted, "I did NOT!"
"Then why is it..." Ou Jue leaned in, his thin lips brushing close to Xiyan’s ear, his deep voice low and rich, "that you take up more and more space in my heart?"
Aaaahhh!
Xiyan stared at him in shock, unable to trust her own ears.
Ou Jue... was hitting on her?
And he was doing it face-to-face!
Not via text...
But in person, 3D, fully immersive, live surround sound, uttering a freaking pick-up line!
"Y-you’re Ou Jue, right?" So the Demon King could actually say such cheesy lines, huh.
"... Idiot."
——I’m the lovely dividing line——
Nighttime.
Xiyan had already fallen asleep.
Ou Jue had just finished reviewing documents and turned off his computer.
Suddenly, his phone started ringing.
He glanced at the caller ID, and his expression immediately turned serious.
Standing up, he picked up the phone and walked to the balcony.
With one hand in his pocket, his gaze stretched out into the distance, his features appearing even more profound under the night’s shadows.
"Hello?"
"Young Master Ou, there’s still no news of Ms. Susan, is there?"
Ou Jue paused momentarily before replying succinctly, "No."
"But... there isn’t much time left. If we can’t locate Ms. Susan, it’ll be too late for everything. Finding her is critical for us!"
The importance of Ms. Susan’s whereabouts wasn’t lost on him.
Not just for Ou Jue, but for the entire Ou Family, and even for those on that side...
Yet the person everyone was searching for had vanished as if she’d evaporated from the face of the earth.
"Trying to find someone with just a name is too difficult," Ou Jue said, leaning against the railings behind him. Holding the phone, his dark hair was tousled by the night wind, the disheveled look enhancing his rugged handsomeness.
Otherwise, how could they have been searching for so long without a single lead?
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet.
In S Country, inside a building that resembled a castle.
A man in a navy-blue suit stood before a floor-to-ceiling window, voicing a bold hypothesis, "Young Master Ou, do you think it’s possible that after that night between Ms. Susan and the gentleman, she might have become pregnant? Could that be a clue?"
A child?
Ou Jue’s gaze flickered slightly.
Based on the timeline, if Ms. Susan had indeed conceived after that night...
Then the child’s age would be... about the same as his?
For reasons he couldn’t explain, Xiyan’s face suddenly popped into Ou Jue’s mind.
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(Sweat, just to clarify, the male and female leads are NOT half-siblings, thank you.)
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