Chapter 1052: Mo Family Princess’s Marriage [54]

Xiao Yebai remained silent.

“Alright,” Chu Xiuhuang laughed, “Anyway, I’m busy with other things. Whether she’s with you now or not, I’ve left her in your hands, goodbye.”

After that, the call was disconnected.

Listening to the beeping sound on the other end, Xiao Yebai narrowed his eyes; his expression was inscrutable.

From the bridal shop to the Mo family’s ancestral home, it took about half an hour.

Due to the rain, the traffic was slow, and it was almost five in the afternoon when he reached the old house.

The sky was darkening, and the few old trees at the entrance swayed wildly in the cold wind, accompanied by the rain curtain, looking eerie and frightening.

**

At the entrance of the villa, Aunt Zhou was waiting with an umbrella.

Seeing Xiao Yebai walking in the rain, she hurried over with the umbrella, “Young Master Xiao, where is the princess? Why didn’t she come back with you?”

She noticed the bag in Xiao Yebai’s hand.

“Isn’t this the princess’s bag? Young Master Xiao, where is she now?”

After several questions, Xiao Yebai finally answered, “I don’t know.”

I don’t know?

Aunt Zhou hesitated to speak, “This morning when the princess left, she was wearing a very thin dress and didn’t take an umbrella. With such heavy rain, she will definitely catch a cold if she gets wet… Young Master Xiao.”

She finally said, “Could you please go and look for the princess again? She must be around the bridal shop by now. Her phone is off, and she didn’t take her bag; something might have happened to her, and the old master will surely lose his temper…”

“She won’t be in trouble,” Xiao Yebai suddenly interrupted, his voice so low as to be almost indifferent, “She’s already eighteen, an adult, not a child. She won’t be unable to find her way home.”

“But Young Master Xiao…”

Xiao Yebai stepped forward.

Aunt Zhou hurriedly followed with the umbrella.

The man’s face was tense, and he seemed to exude an aura of ‘keep out’ around him.

Aunt Zhou didn’t dare to speak anymore.

Upon entering the villa, Xiao Yebai went straight to his room without saying a word.

Aunt Zhou put away the umbrella, placed the handbag on the table, and quickly picked up the phone again to dial Mo Weiyi’s number.

“Sorry, the number you have dialed is switched off…”

Putting down the phone, Aunt Zhou looked at the heavy rain outside the window and then at the tightly closed room door, her brows tightly furrowed.

**

In the room, Xiao Yebai had changed out of his wet clothes after arriving.

Outside, there was a sudden flash of lightning and thunder, the light flashing into the room through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

At the desk, Xiao Yebai sat there with his computer on, displaying the weekly work report.

The room was quiet, and no sound from outside could be heard.

Perhaps…

By this time, Aunt Zhou had already gone to find the butler to arrange someone to look for Mo Weiyi.

However, he felt it was entirely unnecessary.

How could the Mo family’s Little Princess, pampered from a young age, deliberately play missing?

She had not returned to the bridal shop nor had she gone home; the most likely possibility was that she went to find her fiance.

It was almost too obvious.

That time in the store, she had called Chu Xiuhuang.

Whether she was pretending or deliberately acting, the little girl was clearly being coquettish, wanting her fiance to indulge her whim and leave his work to accompany her, but…

It did not pan out as she wished.

Given her spoiled young lady temperament, she would undoubtedly have gone directly to Chu Xiuhuang to seek an explanation.

Perhaps by now, the two of them had already reconciled…

Xiao Yebai’s lips curled into a faint, somewhat mocking smile.

He quickly suppressed all his emotions and opened the report to start working.

Until a series of urgent knocks sounded.

Xiao Yebai frowned.

As he got up, he glanced at the time.

6:23 PM.

Upon opening the door, standing outside was Butler Shi Kang, followed by Aunt Zhou, both looking very uneasy.

“Young Master Xiao.”

Butler Shi Kang, with a stern face, said, “The princess hasn’t come home, and the old master is looking for you to ask about it.”

Xiao Yebai slightly raised an eyebrow, seemingly a bit surprised.

“Young Master Xiao…” Aunt Zhou hurriedly explained, “The princess’s phone has been off, and just now the old master called the Chu Family. Young Master Chu said the princess was not with him…”

She was cut off mid-sentence by a sharp shout, “Bring Xiao Yebai to me!”

The anger in Old Master Mo’s voice turned Aunt Zhou’s face pale.

She gave Xiao Yebai a look as if to wish him luck, and he, stretching out his hand to close the door, said calmly, “Understood.”

**

In the living room, it was as bright as day.

Old Master Mo dressed in black, holding a dragon-headed cane, sat in a wheelchair, his face tight, and his nasolabial folds stern and severe.

Seeing Xiao Yebai dressed in home clothes coming out, his eyes seemed to flicker with a blade, “I ask you, where is Yiyi?”

Mo Yaoxiong, standing beside, quickly said, “Yebai, weren’t you supposed to accompany Yiyi and Young Master Chu to try on wedding dresses today? How come Young Master Chu has gone home, you have come back, but where has Yiyi gone? Did she tell you she wanted to visit a friend’s house? Maybe Miss Su?”

He hinted variously, “Why don’t you drive now to pick Yiyi up? It’s raining outside, she might find it hard to hail a taxi…”

“Shut up!” Old Master Mo interrupted sharply, “The Su Family side, Butler Shi Kang has already called.”

Mo Yaoxiong was taken aback.

Old Master Mo’s eyes, sharp as a hawk’s, turned back to Xiao Yebai, “You tell me, where has Yiyi gone?”

Mo Yaoxiong fell silent.

As for Xiao Yebai.

He looked at the old man and began, “Sorry, I am not sure.”

At these words, Old Master Mo scoffed loudly, “You’re not sure? Good, you’re not sure… My granddaughter left with you this morning, and now you’re comfortably lying at home while my granddaughter has disappeared?”

“Dad…” Mo Yaoxiong couldn’t hold back.

“If something happens to my granddaughter today…” Old Master Mo, holding his dragon-headed cane, pointed straight at Xiao Yebai, “then you get out tonight! And never step foot in the Mo Family’s doors again!”

…

10 minutes later, a dozen sedans successively left the Mo Family’s gates.

Braving the stormy rain, they carried out an intensive search on the streets of Nancheng.

In one of the black Audis, Xiao Yebai was driving, with Mo Yaoxiong sitting in the back.

Since getting in the car, the cabin had been deadly quiet.

About half an hour later, Mo Yaoxiong couldn’t resist speaking, “Yebai, grandfather was just too anxious earlier, don’t take his words to heart.”

Xiao Yebai didn’t speak.

He drove while scanning every passer-by.

Mo Yaoxiong sighed, “Yiyi too, she’s grown up, not a child anymore, why does she still act so irresponsibly? Don’t worry, I have already had someone check all major hotels in Nancheng, there should be news soon.”

Weiyi has been pampered since childhood, her father knew her better than anyone, why would she let herself be in discomfort?

Perhaps she had a disagreement with her fiance while trying on the wedding dress and decided to go out on her own, getting tired and deciding to spend the night in a five-star hotel…

After all, this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened.

Only today, with the sudden drop in temperature, unexpected heavy rain, and an unreachable phone, Old Master Mo was probably overly worried…

Time slowly passed.

Mo Yaoxiong’s phone constantly buzzed, all messages from Butler Shi Kang.

Over half an hour had passed, and after checking the guest information of more than a dozen hotels near the bridal shop, there was no information about Mo Weiyi.

Mo Yaoxiong’s eyebrows gradually furrowed.

Another flash of lightning lit up, and the inside of the car was instantly as bright as day.

A second later, thunder rumbled outside.

Mo Yaoxiong glanced at the time; it was already almost nine o’clock in the evening…

“Yebai.”

He looked at the young man driving in front of him, “Why don’t… let’s go back first.”

Finding her aimlessly like this was meaningless.

She hadn’t gone to a hotel, maybe…

She had gone to a friend’s place.

The rain grew heavier, and it was nearly impossible to see outside the car windows. The number of vehicles on the street was also decreasing, and even the meteorological station had issued a yellow warning…

Suddenly.

Xiao Yebai turned the steering wheel to the right, and the car quickly pulled over and stopped by the side of the road.

Mo Yaoxiong frowned, “What’s wrong?”

Xiao Yebai didn’t speak; he just pushed open the car door and got out.

Mo Yaoxiong sat in the car, his gaze following him as he walked around the front of the car and stopped under a bus shelter by the roadside.

In front of him on the simple bus seat, there was a figure sitting there.

**

Mo Weiyi was curled up on the stainless steel bus shelter seat with her head bowed, her body trembling incessantly, and her hands tightly clutching her arms washed by the rain. Her originally beautifully styled, fluffy long curly hair was completely soaked, now stickily clinging to her body.

This was the first time Xiao Yebai had seen her like this.

When she had left home in the morning, Mo Weiyi was still that little princess in his memory–beautiful, arrogant, lively, and carefree…

The bus shelter had a sufficiently large rain canopy, but it clearly couldn’t cover such heavy rain.

Moreover, it had already been seven or eight hours since Mo Weiyi had left the bridal shop…

Her drenched appearance needed no guesses.

Xiao Yebai’s eyes darkened, and he stepped forward.

Without speaking, the girl with her head down seemed to sense something; her fingers moved, and then she lifted her face.

When she saw Xiao Yebai standing in front of her, wearing what were clearly home clothes that had been half-soaked by the rain…

“Xiaobai…”

Mo Weiyi opened her mouth, her voice choking, “Did you… did you come looking for me?”

Her clear black and white eyes were already red as blood, and it was unclear whether from the cold or from crying…

Her face looked pitiful, and her body was still trembling, just hopefully looking at him, waiting for his answer.

But Xiao Yebai seemed as if he hadn’t heard her and coldly uttered two words: “Get up.”

Upon hearing this, Mo Weiyi’s face visibly froze, then her lips pursed, and a sour liquid slid from her eyes, mixing with the rain on her face as it streaked down, “Chu Xiuhuang doesn’t want me anymore, Xiaobai you don’t want me either…”

The tall, upright man’s voice was low and cold, “Grandfather is very worried about you.”

Mo Weiyi lowered her head, her shoulders shrank, “What about you?”

Xiao Yebai didn’t respond.

“I knew it.” Mo Weiyi’s voice was noticeably calmer as she spoke these words, even managing a laugh, “I was just being foolish…”

A flurry of hurried footsteps came.

“Yiyi!”

Mo Yaoxiong rushed out of the car, grasped her arm in one move, “What are you doing here? Come on, get in the car and let’s go home.”

After saying that, he started pulling her back without hesitation.

“I’m not going home!” Mo Weiyi struggled, shrieking, “Let me go!”

“What are you freaking out about?”

Although it was August, the temperature had plummeted during the stormy night, with cold winds wrapping the rainfall and incessantly howling.

Mo Yaoxiong was somewhat impatient, “Do you not know how worried Grandpa is about you? How old are you? How can you be so thoughtless…”

“Grandpa isn’t worried about me… he doesn’t care about me at all, he doesn’t understand anything… anything at all…” Mo Weiyi cried and babbled incoherently, stubbornly refusing to leave.

Mo Yaoxiong directly ordered, “Yebai, you grab her.”

Xiao Yebai reached out and grasped Mo Weiyi’s wrist.

Today, she was only wearing a strappy dress, and her wrist was even colder and bone-chilling, continuing to shiver after he grasped it.

But the fierce rejection from before was gone.

She looked up, gazing at the man’s handsome, profound face, her voice tender and pitiful, “Xiaobai…”

Mo Yaoxiong was also looking at him.

Under the streetlight, Xiao Yebai was expressionless, “Let’s go home.”

Mo Weiyi: “…”

Without speaking further, she let him pull her to the car, opened the door, and ushered her inside.

…

The car soon started the heater, and Mo Yaoxiong handed his daughter a dry towel while still incessantly scolding her.

Then he took out his cellphone to call home.

Mo Weiyi sat quietly, head down, holding the towel.

In the rearview mirror, Xiao Yebai gazed unswervingly ahead.

…

In his memory, the little princess of the Mo Family had always held herself above others.

She was the only little princess of the Mo Family, beautiful, radiant, her eyes clear and innocent, showing a naivety to the world.

She was a person utterly different from himself.

Some people, from the moment they are born, are destined to start where others end…

Mo Weiyi was such a person.

She was a typical darling of the heavens, her demeanor towards everyone haughty to the point of near insolence.

However, the first time he entered the Mo Family, she pointed at him with her tender little hand, like a princess commanding from on high, decreed that he would be her boyfriend.

Back then, Xiao Yebai was only 15, still just a teenager.

This teenager, having lived a dependent life since childhood, had become overly precocious and sensitive.

His initial feeling was astonishment.

A 10-year-old girl in a red princess dress, pretty and clean, with such delicate features and dress, yet telling him she liked him.

Since he came of age, he had never even heard the words “like” from his parents.

More often, he heard “bastard,” “burden,” “drag”… and so on.

But she said she liked him…

For a few seconds, he felt almost shockingly cherished.

But immediately after, the attitudes of the old Mr. Mo and the butler brought him back to reality.

A child’s naive words, in the eyes of adults, were like seeing a new and pretty toy.

And toys, once acquired and played with to boredom, are only destined to be discarded.

He had been abandoned by his parents since childhood, then by his uncle and aunt.

Sometimes he felt he might not deserve to live in this world, because even he couldn’t see any reason for someone like him to exist.

His uncle sold him to the businessman Mo Yaoxiong for five million, bringing him from the rural village of Tongcheng to Nancheng.

On the day he left, his uncle told him, “You’re going to the Mo Family to live the good life, you’ll be thanking me later!”

Ha.

Xiao Yebai’s lips curved in a cold, chilling arc.

If even blood-related relatives can abandon you for money, what more of the princess of the Mo Family who has everything?