True to her word, Miaomiao didn't touch games again. She spent the entire summer vacation eating, drinking, and watching TV, being an absolute homebody.
On the third day after Miaomiao went to her grandmother's place, something happened to Liao Che. One night, under the cover of darkness, a man sneaked into his house with the primary intention of killing. After being caught, he stubbornly refused to reveal who his mastermind was, only claiming that he was there for a burglary.
Although everyone knew perfectly well who had sent this man, without concrete evidence, there was nothing anyone could do.
Thankfully, Liao Che and his people weren't hurt, just a bit startled at most.
The summer vacation seemed to fly by in the blink of an eye. Miaomiao was still indulging in the joy of being a couch potato at home and the fun of sparring at the martial - arts school every day when she was suddenly confronted with the harsh reality of English and math.
On the third day of school, a few of her friends walked out of the school gate with Miaomiao as usual. During the six years of primary school, Wei Ziqi had walked home with them every day and then gone to Miaomiao's house to wait for his mother to get off work.
But today, there was a change.
"You guys go back first. I have something to do, so I won't walk with you." Wei Ziqi suddenly stopped at the school gate and said while standing still.
"Huh? Aren't you coming home with me?" Miaomiao was a bit confused. She felt that the little teacher seemed abnormal today.
No!
To be more precise, the little teacher had been acting strangely these days since school started.
"No, I have something to take care of." Wei Ziqi shook his head. Then he turned around and walked in the opposite direction of Miaomiao's home.
Looking at Wei Ziqi's back, the three friends all had expressions that showed they suspected something was up.
"Don't you guys think Lao Wei has been a bit strange lately?" Yao Mingxuan stroked his chin and asked thoughtfully.
"He didn't even smile when saying goodbye to Miaomiao today. What could be making him so serious?" Cheng Ruan also noticed something was off.
It wasn't the first time that Wei Ziqi had to go home earlier. But no matter the reason, when saying goodbye to Miaomiao, he would always show a particularly doting smile. But today, his expression was extremely serious.
"Where there's an anomaly, there's bound to be something fishy. Should we follow him and take a look?" Yao Mingxuan suggested.
"We'd better go and check. You guys know Wei Ziqi. He's so stubbornly proud. If he really encounters any difficulties, he won't tell us."
Miaomiao stared at the little teacher's back without saying a word, but the step she took forward had already given her answer.
Follow him!
Wei Ziqi's route was very strange. Instead of going home, he walked into a magnificent hotel.
This was the most high - class hotel in Nancheng, with a rather high consumption level. According to Wei Ziqi's consumption concept, he would never waste money by staying in such a place instead of going home.
And his mother was doing very well in Miaomiao's family's enterprise and had even been promoted to a small management position. So there was no way she would be working part - time in this hotel like before.
So what was Wei Ziqi doing here?
"Hotel?" Cheng Ruan immediately conjured up some rather inappropriate images in her mind.
As a newly - promoted junior high school student with a heart full of girlish fantasies, she had already embarked on the path of star - chasing.
Hanging around in the fan circle, she had some understanding of the rumored unspoken rules between men and women.
Combined with Wei Ziqi's incredibly good looks.
Cheng Ruan immediately pictured a pitiful Wei Ziqi being kept by a perverted rich woman in her mind.
"I don't think what's in your head is anything good." Yao Mingxuan got goosebumps just looking at Cheng Ruan's expression.
"No, I didn't, don't talk nonsense. I didn't think of anything." Cheng Ruan quickly denied it three times. Such dirty thoughts didn't fit her image as a fairy at all, so she definitely couldn't say them out loud.
"Miaomiao, this hotel seems to be your family's business. Why don't we go in and ask?"
When in trouble, turn to dad. After hearing Yao Mingxuan's words, Miaomiao didn't hesitate to take out her phone and call her father.
Lin Yao listened to Miaomiao recount the whole story and was silent for a while. Although he thought it wasn't a good thing for his daughter to follow and spy on her friend, as a doting father who would indulge his daughter unconditionally, even though he felt it was wrong, he couldn't refuse his own daughter.
Lin Yao immediately called the hotel's person - in - charge and asked him to let Miaomiao and the others in. They asked the receptionist.
The receptionist said that Wei Ziqi had come to the hotel every day for the past three days. He had come a bit later the first two days, and each time he went to the luxurious presidential suite on the top floor.
The person staying in the presidential suite had quite a grand entourage. He had booked an entire floor of rooms and had arranged many bodyguards to guard it. Even the food was cooked by the people he brought with him, and he never let the hotel staff serve him.
The three friends felt the situation was getting weirder and weirder the more they heard.
They understood that there were rich people. But families like theirs, who were rich but didn't waste money, were really rare.
Among the wealthy families, their three families had an alternative way of consumption.
It was understandable that most rich people liked to do these fancy things.
The strange thing was why Wei Ziqi would know such a person.
If it weren't for their classmate relationship and if the school hadn't randomly come up with that support plan, they might never have met or communicated with Wei Ziqi in their lives, let alone become friends.
The gap between ordinary people and the wealthy was just that big.
"Do you think Lao Wei might have gotten into some trouble?" Yao Mingxuan sat in the lounge area of the lobby and looked worriedly at the elevator leading upstairs.
"I don't know. Let's wait here for a while. Maybe he'll come out soon, and then we can just ask Lao Wei himself." Cheng Ruan shook her head, full of confusion.
Miaomiao didn't even feel like the small cake on the table was delicious anymore. When Wei Ziqi left and walked towards this place, his facial expression wasn't happy. Being very sensitive to the situation, she could clearly sense that the little teacher was a bit irritated.
So Miaomiao concluded that Wei Ziqi didn't come to this hotel voluntarily but was forced to.
Unwillingness = being forced = Wei Ziqi might be in danger = he needed to be rescued.
Miaomiao drew a perfect equal sign in her mind. She suddenly stood up from the sofa and walked straight towards the elevator without saying a word.
No!
She couldn't just sit around and do nothing. The little teacher might be in danger, and she had to go up and rescue him right now!