Li Weiyi’s greatest strength was her ability to assess situations and adapt accordingly. After one night, although she was still full of doubts, she had regained her composure. She had unconditional trust in the real Zhang Jingchan. Since he had told her to wait, she wouldn’t act rashly. She would stay obediently in this “temporary cage” and observe how events unfolded.

However, from dawn to dusk the next day, there was still no word from Zhang Jingchan, and the situation seemed to be developing in an even worse direction.

According to the bodyguards, Zhang Moyun and his wife had been admitted to intensive care and were still unconscious, not allowed visitors, and not yet out of danger.

There were more and more police on the streets. Even the TV news reported that the fugitives involved in embezzling huge assets from Fu Ming Group and attempted murder still hadn’t been caught.

That “Zhang Jingchan” called to say that although Fu Ming now had the ability to pay off all debts, there were still many matters waiting for someone to make decisions. So besides going to the hospital, all his time was spent managing the group’s crisis. He apologized for not being able to accompany Li Weiyi. Li Weiyi said it was fine—important matters came first. He seemed so busy he forgot about buying her a phone. Li Weiyi was very understanding and didn’t mention it either. She even expressed concern for him with a few worried words. He was silently moved—everything left unsaid.

By seven or eight in the evening, Li Weiyi finally couldn’t sit still anymore. After all, in one more day, they would travel back through time, and Xu Yi and Zhang Jingchan would swap back. She not only couldn’t figure out Zhang Jingchan’s intentions, but couldn’t understand the intentions of Xu Yi impersonating Zhang Jingchan either. She had a premonition that in these two days, outside this safe cage, the two men might have already engaged in life-and-death confrontations several times, only she had been tacitly excluded by them.

This feeling of waiting for fate’s judgment really didn’t feel good.

So Li Weiyi decided not to wait anymore.

She said to the bodyguards, “Give me the phone. I want my sister to come keep me company.”

The bodyguards looked at each other and said with difficulty, “It’s already so late. Why don’t we ask Young Master Zhang tomorrow first?”

Li Weiyi was very unhappy. “Why can’t my sister come? She’ll be Zhang Jingchan’s sister in the future too!”

However, the bodyguards had clearly received instructions in advance. They replied, “Both Zhang Dong and his wife had accidents. You also went out last night and were almost lost. We’re doing this for your own good. Don’t interact with anyone these two days, don’t give criminals an opportunity. Just get through these few days safely. Don’t make things difficult for us, okay?”

Li Weiyi argued a few more times, but they firmly refused. Li Weiyi wanted to force her way out, but their tall, burly bodies blocked the door. They took any hitting or scolding but just wouldn’t move aside.

The two sides were in a stalemate when suddenly the doorbell rang. All three were startled.

“Miss Li, you go back to your room first,” one bodyguard said quietly.

Li Weiyi was fairly cooperative, running back to her room, but didn’t close the door—just left it ajar, her head poking out.

“Who is it?” the bodyguard asked.

“I’m Li Weiyi’s older sister, Li Xiaoyi,” a female voice came through. “Ah Chan gave me the address and asked me to come.”

Li Weiyi had already run out. “Quick, open the door! That’s my sister’s voice! What perfect timing!”

The fact that Li Weiyi was at this address was confidential. Since Li Xiaoyi said Young Master Zhang had sent her, the two bodyguards believed eighty percent of it. Besides, she was her real older sister, and a woman at that—the bodyguards felt it was fine and opened the door.

Outside the door, besides Li Xiaoyi, there was also the tall and sturdy Zhong Yi.

The two bodyguards hesitated slightly, but Li Weiyi had already rushed out the door, pulling the two inside. “Sister, brother-in-law, you came to see me? You knew I was so bored here, right?”

Li Xiaoyi shook the fruit bag in her hand. “Didn’t you have stomach pain? Yesterday there was something urgent at home. By the time I got to the hospital, you’d already left. Are you better now?”

“All better! Lively as can be.” Li Weiyi pulled the two toward her room.

Since Li Xiaoyi had been sent by Young Master Zhang, the two bodyguards naturally didn’t call “Zhang Jingchan” to report.

Once the door closed, the smiles on all three faces disappeared. Li Weiyi almost wanted to cry. She asked pitifully, “How did you find this place?”

Li Xiaoyi looked at Zhong Yi. His eyes sharp, he answered, “This isn’t actually the Zhang family’s property. It should be a hidden property of that gang. Yesterday when you called Xiaoyi, I went to the hospital with… him. He went to see you and had me stay outside the hospital the whole time, following your car to find this place.”

Warm currents, both sweet and bitter, surged through Li Weiyi’s heart, because this was exactly what Zhang Jingchan would do—decisive reactions, thinking three steps ahead.

“When did he contact you?” she asked.

“Yesterday afternoon.”

“Ding Chenmo knows too, right?”

Zhong Yi nodded. “Otherwise he would have been arrested long ago.”

“How did you believe it was him?”

Zhong Yi smiled slightly. “He had ways to make us believe.”

Li Weiyi stared at him directly. “So I’m the only one kept in the dark?”

Zhong Yi coughed lightly. “We didn’t mean to keep it from you. He said he called you first, but you didn’t answer. Later you were always with the fake one, and then you were hidden away—there was no opportunity to contact you. So he said might as well go with the flow to avoid alerting the enemy.”

Li Weiyi was sullenly silent.

Li Xiaoyi on the side quickly tried to smooth things over. Although she was somewhat confused about what these men were doing, she guessed the general idea. She said, “Weiyi is still smart. With that phone call yesterday, I said when has your iron stomach ever hurt? Zhong Yi knew right away you were looking for Ah Chan. You don’t know how difficult it was for Ah Chan to evade police pursuit and go to the hospital. Just to tell you a few words in person—I said I could pass on the message, but Ah Chan wouldn’t agree.”

Li Weiyi thought of that man from yesterday who had changed his appearance but whose eyes, movements, and tone were the same as always. Her heart swelled slightly. She said, “Doesn’t he have Ding Chenmo covering for him?”

Zhong Yi said, “This case has alarmed the provincial level. There’s a citywide manhunt, with economic crimes cooperation too. Ding Chenmo is just a criminal investigation team captain—there’s no way to make other police believe such an outlandish thing.”

So he was still having such a difficult time?

Li Weiyi grabbed the bedsheet, bunching it into a ball. “Where is he? I need to see him and get things straight.”

Li Xiaoyi turned to look at Zhong Yi again. He touched his nose and said, “Ah Chan’s meaning is that he’ll handle everything. Tomorrow when they swap back, everything will be over. I guess he doesn’t want you involved in the danger.”

Li Weiyi’s heart stirred. “He’s going to do something dangerous, isn’t he?”

Zhong Yi hadn’t expected her to react so quickly and was momentarily at a loss for words. Li Weiyi suddenly said to Li Xiaoyi, “Sis, if you were me and Brother Zhong Yi was shouldering everything while keeping it from you, would you feel at ease? Even if you couldn’t help, wouldn’t you want to be with him?”

Li Xiaoyi immediately said, “He’s downstairs, in our car.”

Zhong Yi: “…”

Li Xiaoyi didn’t look at Zhong Yi anymore. She asked worriedly, “But how will you get downstairs?”

Li Weiyi and her sister held hands, her eyes rolling. “Don’t I have you?”

Ten minutes later, Li Weiyi’s room door opened halfway. Her voice came out: “Sister, brother-in-law, tell Mom and Dad not to worry. I’ll come home in a few days. I still have the college entrance exam.”

The two bodyguards on the sofa turned around to see the tall Zhong Yi with his arm around Li Xiaoyi, walking out of the room. Li Xiaoyi was petite, head lowered. In the room, a girl leaned against the door, still in that athletic outfit, backlit, showing half her profile, waving her arm.

Zhong Yi smiled and greeted the two bodyguards, then turned to comfort the girl beside him: “What’s there to cry about? She just had gastroenteritis yesterday. She doesn’t blame you for not going. Stop crying now…”

Seeing the two being affectionate, the bodyguards didn’t approach. They watched them walk out the door. Li Weiyi’s room door also closed.

Since she had stayed in her room almost the entire two days without coming out, the bodyguards were used to it.

As soon as they left, Zhong Yi released Li Weiyi. The two quickly pressed the elevator button and went down to the underground parking garage.

Zhong Yi’s car was parked in a secluded corner. He pointed: “Go ahead.” He walked aside to smoke.

Li Weiyi vaguely saw someone in the back seat. She walked over, gripped the door handle, paused for a moment, then pulled it open and got in.

The man beside her took off his hat, removed his mask, and turned to look at her.

“Zhang Jingchan, this is the unhappiest cycle I’ve experienced,” Li Weiyi said. “The person by my side wasn’t you, yet I almost mistook him for you.”

He pressed one hand against the front seat back and placed the other on her seat back, almost encircling her in his arms, yet without actually embracing her.

“You wouldn’t,” he said. “Because I know that no matter how he imitates and deceives, as long as I stand in front of you, you’ll definitely recognize me.”

Li Weiyi smiled with a sour nose and gave him a punch. “Blindly confident! Weren’t you afraid of losing control? Have you been okay these two days? Have you suffered any hardships?”

His complexion didn’t look good. When she opened the door, she had seen him with eyes closed, head leaning back, looking very exhausted. Heaven knows what he’d been through these two days.

He smiled lightly as usual and said, “I’m fine.”

Li Weiyi’s tears were forced out. She said, “Fine my ass! Police all over the city are trying to catch you, Xu Yi is definitely still trying to kill you completely, and also…” She swallowed her words, not mentioning his parents’ situation. Because he looked very calm, as if he didn’t know yet. Was Ding Chenmo also unable to bear telling him?

Li Weiyi asked, “What exactly does Xu Yi want to do? What have you been doing these two days? The cycle ends tomorrow—can we win this time?”