When Luo Yaozong received the order to find someone, he couldn’t help letting out a “Ha!”

Isn’t this- isn’t this a chance for promotion?

Though finding the person wouldn’t directly lead to a promotion, helping the Demon Star- no, helping Director Xia would surely bring benefits.

Xia Xiaolan telling Tang Hongen was the official channel.

Telling Bai Zhenzhu meant searching through underground connections.

As for Coward Luo Yaozong, the Luo family had been Shenzhen natives for many years, serving as village chiefs for two generations, and Luo Yaozong used to be a drifter – making him a local snake.

His family was very dissatisfied with him working as a security guard at Qihang Real Estate. Originally, sending Luo Yaozong to work came with grand ambitions – how could he be just a mere security guard?

When Luo Yaozong had his accident and nearly died, the Luo family almost smashed Qihang’s gates, causing people to make trouble.

Xia Xiaolan didn’t hold it against these villagers. After investigating that Luo Yaozong was the unfortunate one thrown from upstairs, surviving the ordeal but becoming a coward, he stopped his troublemaking and started treating security work as a proper job.

The Luo family initially had strong objections, but as time passed, they discovered Luo Yaozong was actually working steadily, no longer hanging out with his former companions.

Due to land compensation, every villager family received money.

Suddenly wealthy poor people didn’t know how to spend their money, and some people targeted these first-batch demolition households in China. Those with slightly weaker willpower quickly developed bad habits like gambling and visiting brothels, and in no time, they squandered all their compensation!

Yet Luo Yaozong, the prodigal son of Ganquan Village’s chief, actually avoided these pitfalls by honestly working at Qihang Real Estate.

Now, some village families had lost their compensation money and gone astray.

Luo Yaozong had worked his way up from junior security to security chief, and his family’s 200,000-plus yuan compensation remained intact.

Luo Yaozong regarded this job as more important than his father or grandfather. If anyone at home questioned it, he would immediately become stubborn and dramatic… Yes, Chief Luo maintained appearances at work, looking proper and considering himself a cadre, naturally putting on airs.

In private, he was still that spoiled troublemaker from the Luo family!

This troublemaker had changed somewhat – he showed more respect to his sisters, no longer ordering them around carelessly, and would even speak up for fairness when the Luo family showed obvious “son preference.”

His father, Ganquan Village Chief Luo Degui, thought his son had developed problems after falling from the building.

But he didn’t know Luo Yaozong’s concerns.

Wasn’t Demon Star Xia a woman?

And that “He Shiyuan” he had followed.

And that Ye Xiaoqiong.

These were all women – terrifying women!

Luo Yaozong feared that if his sisters were bullied too much, they might one day “awaken” and transform, then wouldn’t he-

Now, receiving another “order,” Luo Yaozong vowed to complete the Demon Star’s instructions ahead of everyone else!

If the Demon Star gave him this task, she surely asked others too – he had to finish before everyone else.

Luo Yaozong immediately went home and delegated the task to his whole family.

Luo Degui and Old Man Luo, both spoiling and fearing him, passed the task on to the villagers.

“How worried parents must be when their child is missing! The city police are searching, so we’ll quietly ask around the villages to see if anyone has seen her.”

It was normal to ask villagers to help the Luo family. Luo Yaozong’s ‘official business’ became everyone’s business. Luo Degui gathered the villagers for a meeting and showed everyone Tian Xiaoyan’s photo, and they all promised to find her.

Standing beside his father, Luo Yaozong coughed:

“Be careful when asking around, don’t let everyone know. Thank you all!”

Yaozong even knew to say thank you now.

Indeed, he’d been working at a big company for a while.

The villagers rushed to flatter Village Chief Luo Degui.

Luo Degui, though a minor official, had grand airs. He nodded formally, and after the villagers left, turned to ask Luo Yaozong:

“Yaozong, you really won’t come back to be village chief?”

The Luo family had only one son per generation for three generations, and the ‘village chief’ position had passed through two generations. They always wanted Luo Yaozong, the third-generation only son, to become village chief too.

Luo Yaozong shook his head like a rattling drum, “No! Dad, please help find this young girl quickly!”

Luo Degui was speechless.

What was a security guard? Just someone watching doors.

Even as security chief, no longer personally guarding doors, did he think it was better than being village chief?

Luo Degui wanted to scold him but couldn’t find the right words.

His son Luo Yaozong’s job wasn’t bad. As security chief, his salary had increased significantly. Although Luo Yaozong didn’t bring money home, at least he wasn’t wasting family money anymore. If he could keep completing his assigned tasks well, maybe he’d become a manager someday.

Luo Degui noticed that somehow, Luo Yaozong no longer walked with a hunched back and raised shoulders.

Perhaps continuing to work at Qihang wasn’t a bad choice after all.

Luo Degui viewed his son through rose-colored glasses, seeing the straight-backed Luo Yaozong as talented, and nodded heavily:

“Don’t worry, this will be your achievement, no doubt!”

Not only must they find the person, but Yaozong must find her personally – hmph, no one else could steal this merit.

…

Setting up such an extensive network for a young girl like Tian Xiaoyan – this level of treatment would suffice for hunting Class A fugitives!

Why not search openly?

Xia Xiaolan repeatedly emphasized the need for discretion; she didn’t want to alert Xia Ziyu.

This time, Xia Ziyu had abandoned Tian Xiaoyan in Shenzhen, and she discovered it. If Tian Xiaoyan was exposed, Xia Ziyu might send someone else – better to stick with Tian Xiaoyan!

After leaving Tian Xiaoyan in Shenzhen, Xia Ziyu actively cut off contact with her.

Those hidden thoughts couldn’t see light. If Tian Xiaoyan did something, it had nothing to do with her. She just discovered that the girl she sponsored had bad character and decided to stop sponsoring her – what law did that break?

However, after showing Tian Xiaoyan what a heavenly rich life was like, then kicking her back into her original poor world, how far would the ambitious and obsessive Tian Xiaoyan go to return to HK… Xia Ziyu curved her lips in a smile. Liu Fen and Xia Xiaolan already had friction with Tian Xiaoyan; she had merely catalyzed Tian Xiaoyan’s dark side – she was quite innocent!

For Xia Ziyu, there was more good news – her usual regular period was already three days late.

Touching her belly, Xia Ziyu felt a new life growing inside.

She couldn’t be certain yet. Wait a bit longer, and once she could confirm the pregnancy, she would tell Du Chengrong this good news!

— Ah, who knows whose child it was, hopefully, Du Chengrong’s. She had been too anxious before, trying to get pregnant after just three months. It was all that cheap woman Liu Keying’s fault, showing off and forcing her to lose her rationality.