Chapter 409: Chapter 409 The Meeting

“Let her in!” Chen Hao stood up.

A few bodyguards brought a girl in.

The girl was shy and shocked by the situation here.

It was because thousands of sports cars flocked the harbor and there were a few thousand bodyguards dressed in black too.

Who would dare to get close to this place?

“You are Tongxin's boyfriend, Young Master Chen Hao?” she asked.

“Yup.” he nodded.

“I am Ma Nan, Tongxin’s good friend. I know you are investigating the accident. I can give you some information about it. Do you think it will help your case?” she asked.

“Go ahead,” Chen Hao said.

“On the night before yesterday, I helped Tongxin, Mengmeng, and Wenwen to retrieve their parcels.

There were three identical pendants in it. We thought they were souvenirs from the expedition team, but the pendants exuded an eerie aura. They sent chills down our spines and we wondered why the team sent such presents,” Ma Nan said.

“I was the host of an event yesterday. Coincidentally, one of the participants was Professor Chen’s student. Professor Chen was the leader of the expedition. During the break, we chatted with each other and I asked him about the pendant. He told me that the team would never send anything like that, and they did not have such souvenirs too. I felt something was off. In addition to that, there was no sender’s address written on the parcels. Hence, I told him the shape of the pendant,” Ma Nan continued. “He then showed me the chat history for their group. Those involved in the expedition were discussing it as well. Apparently, they also received the same thing. I find the whole situation really odd. I can’t help wondering about the person who sent them the pendants. Who would do that?”

“Miss, what does the pendant look like? Do you have pictures? Can you show them to me please? ”

Fu walked over and asked.

“Of course, I saved the pictures!” Ma Nan nodded.

She showed her phone to Fu.

Chen Hao also looked at the picture.

After looking at the picture, Fu trembled slightly. “This again?” he exclaimed in aghast.

“What is this, Uncle Fu?” Chen Hao asked curiously.

Fu explained, “Young Master Chen, this is a spooky pendant. It showed up twenty years ago. Lady Mengxin, I assumed you still remember this?”

Fu looked at Fang Mengxin as she walked toward them.

She looked at it and said, “Yes, I do remember this. I felt odd when Pingan showed it to me years ago.

He thought our plans to elope were found out by others and they sent this as a warning. At that time, we shrugged it off. But he disappeared the next day!”

Fu said, “When the Second Young Master disappeared, all hell broke loose in the Chen Family. We thought the Fang Family schemed to kill him. Master Chen was extremely furious. Since then, the seeds of dispute were sowed between both families. After investigating for decades, Master Chen concluded that the Fang Family at that time was not powerful enough to harm the Second Young Master. But who would it be, if not the Fang Family? After many years of investigation, Master Chen denied the Fang Family’s involvement in the case, and agreed that it was related to this logo instead.

This was also the reason why he asked Chen Hao to look for Lady Mengxin and Ziyue instead of looking for them himself. After all, the grudges between Master Chen and the Fang Family were too strong in all these years. This was too big a misunderstanding!” Fu frowned. “Who would have thought that the sign will emerge again after two decades!”

“Who is the mastermind behind this? Pingan was the victim, and now Tongxin. What on earth does he want?” Fang Mengxin asked with tears in her eyes.

“How about we let Master Chen decide on this? Why don't we go back to the Southern Region together, Young Master Chen?” Fu asked.

“You guys go ahead. Let me know if there are any updates about this. I will stay here for now,” Chen Hao said.

Chen Hao would not be happy with himself if he left like this.

Fu and Fang Mengxin took their leave.

Chen Hao, on the other hand, continued to look for Su Tongxin at the area where the accident took place.

Three days… Four days… Ten days had passed.

Even though Chen Hao tried his very best and used every possible way he had thought of, he still couldn’t find any traces of the cruise ship.

“Tongxin, where are you? I don’t believe that you are gone just like this! I don’t believe it!” he screamed hysterically and grabbed his hair.

Memories of the times he spent with Tongxin flitted across his mind.

He knew that Tongxin had tried her best in order to be together with him.

In the afternoon, Chen Hao sat alone on the shore and looked into the distance vacantly.

Just then, his phone rang. It turned out to be his sister, Chen Xiao.

“Chen Hao!”

Chen Hao smiled slightly and asked, “Sis, are you back to the Southern Region? Is everything going smoothly?”

These two days, after hearing about Su Tongxin’s accident, Chen Xiao went to Hong Kong to accompany Chen Hao.

She also told him about Tongxin’s time in Hong Kong.

But she left hurriedly yesterday because there were family matters to be settled back home.

“Well, you don’t have to worry about me. We are having an annual family meeting tomorrow. You have not been back for twenty-two years, so father wants you to attend this time. There are some matters that he wants to speak with you personally too,” Chen Xiao told him.

Chen Hao threw a rock in the sea and nodded. “Alright, I will go back tomorrow.”

At a huge island in the Southern Region.

The buildings there resembled castles from the middle age and the views were magnificent.

It was the day of the annual meeting held by the owner of the island, the Chen Family.

Everyone in the family returned from all corners of the world.

As the Chen Family was very big and had many separate branches, thousands of people flocked together to attend the meeting.

The island had no problem accommodating tens of thousands of people; a mere few thousand people did not raise any problems.

Fu led Chen Hao into the family.

This was actually his first time going home. He was quite overwhelmed.

The Chen Family in the Southern Region was a lot bigger than his sister’s small island.

Needless to say, it was full of people.

As the head of the family, his father was busy with the arrivals of everyone.

Fu wanted to notify his parents that Young Master Chen was finally back to the Chen Family, but they were very busy entertaining the guests.

“That’s okay, Uncle Fu. Let’s wait for them to finish entertaining the guests. You carry on with what you’re busy with. I’ll go find sis in the meantime.” Chen Hao stopped Fu from interrupting his parents.

Fu nodded and left.

Chen Hao then called his sister, Chen Xiao, who told him that she was on her way there. He just had to wait for a while.

Bored, Chen Hao sat alone on the island, looking out into the distant sea again.

“Hey, Bingbing, I thought you are looking for a ball boy? Look, there’s a douchebag sitting there for quite some time. Why don’t we ask him to pick the balls for us?”

A few girls, around 18 to 19 years old and several others, around 26 and 27 years old, were playing tennis in pairs.

It was usually the adults who were involved in the annual meeting.

For younger people like them, they took it as an opportunity to play and eat.

“Sure, let’s ask him to come over!” the girl named Bingbing slinged a tennis racquet over her shoulder, said aggressively while pointing at the guy who sat dazedly.