Fu Ling woke up groggily when he noticed the person beside him moving.
Gu Yunnain looked down to see Fu Ling staring at him and stopped
"Did I wake you up?"
Fu Ling nodded lightly
Gu Yunnain bent down and placed a kiss on his forehead
"I'm sorry. Today is the press conference for the launch of the new project between Gu's and Hope."
Fu Ling cleared his brain and remembered Wen Jingshi seemed to have mentioned something like this before
"I forgot " His voice was hoarse and Gu Yunnain narrowed his eyes but thinking of the occasion, he cleared his throat and turned away.
"I'll be back right after the press conference"
Fu Ling was still a bit tired so he just answered noncommittal.
Gu Yunnain got ready and kissed Fu Ling before leaving.
"I'm taking your car"
Fu Ling didn't have any objections so Gu Yunnain went to the garage and headed out.
Fu Ling got out of bed and his left eye twitched. He paused for a moment and there was a gnawing sense of unease in his heart.
He jumped out of the bed and rushed straight to his parents bedroom knocking insistently.
Fu Shilei came out with surprise on his face but Fu Ling didn't have time to pay attention to that.
"About those people who came yesterday did either of them do anything weird?"
Fu Shilei thought it was a bit weird to ask someone this so early in the morning but after thinking about it and looking at the urgency on Fu Ling's face, he realized something might be wrong with those people so he immediately became serious.
"We met them at the gate while coming back yesterday and the lady claimed to be your friend. We didn't intend to bring them in but she kept making a fuss do we decided to let them in and wait for you to get back but we didn't let them out of our sight until you got back"
Fu Ling shook his head slight. He felt like he was still missing something.
Xiu Jing walked out with confusion on her face.
"What's going on?"
Fu Shilei explained it to her and she thought for a few seconds before saying
"We did watch them closely except for one situation. Her companion said he wanted to use the bathroom and I pointed it out for him. That was the only time he spoke. I even previously thought he was deaf. But he didn't stay long there—"
Fu Ling felt like he had been soaked in an ice cellar. No one knew better than him how much damage one could cause even with little time.
He raised to the study and pulled up the surveillance to all the bathrooms in the house at that time but came up blank. After some thought, he checked the garage surveillance and sure enough he caught sight of a figure who wasn't supposed to be there.
Fu Ling had already started calling Gu Yunnain but he got the system message that there was no network which further confirmed his conjecture.
He sent a few messages to Wen Jiali and Wen Jingshi then started hacking into his cars Bluetooth.
Gu Yunnain was thinking about how to cut down on the interview time when the small screen beeped and he heard Fu Ling's somewhat anxious voice
"Gu Yunnain? Yunnain are you okay?"
Gu Yunnain took a quick glance at the screen and looked back at the road
"Fu Ling?"
Gu Yunnain could hear the obvious relief in his voice
"You're okay. Gu Yunnain where are you? It's serious don't ask any questions"
Gu Yunnain who had a mouth full of questions swallowed them and answered honestly
"I'm almost at the new express road"
Fu Ling's house was a bit far from town and there was a hill before getting to the express road. Fu Ling stopped himself from panicking and tried to think straight.
"The brakes have been tampered with. Gu Yunnain can you try to stop now if you go down that hill, it'll be very difficult."
Gu Yunnain frowned and tried the brake a few times. He realized it would slow down a bit but quickly pick up speed again. He didn't notice it before because he had something in his mind and there was no where he needed to pause abruptly. He chided himself for being careless. It seems like their real target was him and Fu Ling was used as a smoke bomb.
"It's okay I haven't gotten to the hill yet I'll stop now"
Fu Ling took a few deep breaths and tried to stop his hands from shaking. He couldn't go through this again.
"I'm on my way. Wen Jiali already called the ambulance. Don't worry you'll be fine."
Gu Yunnain focused on trying to make the car slow down but that wasn't working. He looked at the slope that was getting closer and made a choice.
Fu Ling called out but there was no response. His voice trembled as he called out again but the result was the same. He sped up and could see the slope. He vaguely saw a mass of parts and took a deep breath.
He remembered calling out but Gu Yunnain didn't answer. Based on the time, that should have happened around this side. There's no reason why Gu Yunnain wouldn't answer unless he wasn't in the car anymore.
Fu Ling immediately fixed his eyes on the side of the road while making a call.
"Send the ambulance up the hill."
Without waiting for the person on the other side to answer, he ended the call and kept scanning the road in reverse.
He caught sight of a small figure and hurriedly parked the car at the side of the road and rushed out but was pulled back by his seatbelt. He quickly undid it and ran towards the figure.
Fu Ling saw Gu Yunnain covered in blood raise his eyes and smile at him. The figure seemed to overlap with another one and Fu Ling felt his eyes grow wet.
History repeated itself but thankfully the end result was different. He laid on the ground with his eyes to the sky and one hand holding Gu Yunnain's tightly.