If You Could Hear My Heart

Chapter 600: Chapter 600 The video is gone
 

She just blurted it out suddenly, but when she said it, she was shocked by her own words.

Five years ago, when she found out the truth, she never thought about confronting Zhou Ran. Instead, she fled far away, even choosing death.

Five years later, she returned and suddenly had such a thought, which she quickly extinguished in its infancy.

She dared not think any further.

However, the more she warned herself not to think about it, the more it tickled her heart like a feather, making it impossible to forget.

Like right now, she was still thinking about it.

She shook her head, forcing herself to forget, to think of some happy things.

Shen Di was about to return to the country, and she was looking forward to it, but also felt uneasy. Except for Shen Chi, nobody in the Shen Family had a good opinion of her. So what about Shen Di?

She slowly walked back to her office, returned to her seat, placed the fancy pen holder in a conspicuous place, and started her computer to begin work.

As she was modifying a drawing, her phone rang.

She looked down to see it was Yu Weiwei, and her heart inexplicably skipped a beat.

“Chaomu,”

“Weiwei,”

“Are you free this weekend? Come with me to pick some stuff at the furniture city, I’m redecorating my office,” said Yu Weiwei.

“I’m free, totally free, must be free.”

“Then it’s settled, you’re not allowed to make plans with anyone else, not even President Shen.”

“How can he be more important than our Weiwei? He’s at the very bottom of my heart, the bottom! The little pinkie!”Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Yu Weiwei burst into laughter upon hearing this, “Be careful that President Shen hears you. You might not be able to leave your bed the next day.”

“Weiwei, you’re bullying me…”

“Bullying you? If it really gets to that point, sister will teach you a few moves to bully men.”

“Really? Shall we have a competition this weekend?”

“Okay, deal.”

“Great, it’s a promise.”

The two of them started fooling around again.

Xu Chaomu chatted happily with Yu Weiwei, sensing nothing amiss in her tone. Indeed, just as she had guessed, Yu Weiwei knew nothing about Li Beiting’s engagement.

It was better that she didn’t know…

But eventually, no secret can be hidden forever. Yu Weiwei would inevitably find out.

She just hoped that when Yu Weiwei did find out, she wouldn’t be too sad.

She understood that Yu Weiwei had feelings for Li Beiting. But often, deeper feelings are more likely to be buried, less likely to be spoken out again, especially when they’ve been hurt before.

Men are probably colder, thought Xu Chaomu. Li Beiting could forget at will, and it didn’t matter which girl he married.

Mi Fei wasn’t bad either. Probably, he would come to love her in the future.

The so-called eternal love and engraved memories are really just jokes they tell themselves. Whoever takes it seriously, loses.

After hanging up with Yu Weiwei, Xu Chaomu felt a sense of loss.

…

Her first day at work went quite well, and her relationship with Shen Chi remained undiscovered by anyone.

In the morning, he would drop her off not too far from the company, and in the evening, he would wait for her at the same spot.

During the weekend, she used the excuse of needing to get clothes to return to the Shen Family home.

Just entering the Shen Family home made her emotions especially complicated.

She remembered the loss of control during the recent stormy time, which still made her shudder in hindsight.

This time, she returned to the Shen Family home to look for a video. She wanted to bring it back to the Waterside Pavilion and find the right moment to show it to Shen Chi.

That man could be so dim-witted that his IQ might as well be negative. She hinted so heavily last time, yet he didn’t harbor any suspicion.

“Fourth Young Mistress, did the Fourth Master not return with you?”

The butler appeared surprised to see Xu Chaomu back and of course, was also pleased.

“No, Uncle Cheng brought me here,” said Xu Chaomu.

Having said that, she went to her room. When she opened the door, she had an odd feeling, yet she couldn’t pinpoint what exactly it was.

She quickly pulled out her small box from under the bed, and she was shocked when she took it out—it still had its lock, but had been picked!

Upon closer inspection, one could barely see the marks of tampering!

Xu Chaomu lifted the lid of the box, and sure enough, the contents were in a total mess.

She didn’t care about those things; her first response was to find the surveillance video.

She remembered where she had placed it, and after flipping through the jumbled layer of stuff on top, she saw the bag that contained the video.

Her heart skipped a beat—the bag was empty, nothing was left inside!

“Where’s the video? Where’s the video?” Xu Chaomu became frantic, searching through every other corner of the box.

After a thorough search, nothing else was missing, except for that surveillance video!

Originally messy, the box now was in even more disarray, a complete shambles.

Who had entered her room? And moreover, with a clear purpose!

She got up, disregarded the small box, and went to check her laptop—unexpectedly, although it appeared normal on the desk, it had completely crashed!

What happened to her things?

She began to rummage through the other cupboards in the room, and just as she expected, everything was still there, neatly arranged, but the placement of items was all mixed up.

Clearly, the person had turned her room upside down while searching for the video and, in order to avoid suspicion, had put everything back neatly.

After finding the video, to prevent any trace being left on her computer, they also destroyed her laptop.

Xu Chaomu felt a blank in her mind—Who took the video? What did they want it for?

And when did the video go missing? During the days she left the Shen Family home, or even before that?

Uneasily, she caressed her stomach. She had originally planned to leave the video for Shen Chi to watch by himself, not expecting it to have disappeared already.

If the video never resurfaces, would she need to wait until the child was born, to have them take a paternity test with Shen Chi?

She stood up and walked downstairs.

The butler was busy with the accounts. Xu Chaomu went straight to him.

“Butler, who has been cleaning my room lately?”

“Mostly me, but there were a few days when I was busy, so I asked Xiaoqin and Xiaolan to take care of it,” the butler replied truthfully, “What’s wrong, Chaomu? Did you lose something?”

The butler saw that Xu Chaomu’s expression was panicked and her tone was filled with urgency.

“No, it’s just that things seem a bit messy,” Xu Chaomu shook her head.

She was afraid to startle the snake, so she didn’t dare to say much.

“Really? Maybe they don’t know how to put things away properly,” the butler said. “Did you find anything missing?”

“No, that’s not the case.”

“Well, that’s good.”

“Butler, have only Xiaoqin and Xiaolan been there?” Xu Chaomu asked.

“Yes, when I was busy, I let them help out for a bit.”

“I see,” Xu Chaomu nodded.

The two maids had joined the Shen Family after her return five years later. She wasn’t familiar with them; she merely recognized them. Could it be that one of them took the video?