The president's wife wants to run away

Chapter 30 Curiosity

Yuxuan held my hand tightly. His palm was warm and dry, which gave me great strength. "Don't be afraid. I will always be by your side." His voice was low and firm, as if he was comforting me and also as if he was cheering himself up.

I took a deep breath, tried to suppress my inner anxiety, and gave him a forced smile. "Well, let's go in."

The banquet hall was magnificent, with elegant people in fine clothes and clinking glasses. Everyone wore masks and exchanged hypocritical greetings. I felt like a deer that had strayed into the jungle, helpless and confused.

Yuxuan led me through the crowd, his eyes scanning the surroundings sharply, as if looking for something. I followed his gaze, but only saw unfamiliar faces.

"What are you looking for?" I asked in a low voice.

"That mysterious man," he whispered back, "he said he would come find us."

My heart began to lift again and I looked around, but found nothing.

Halfway through the dinner, Yuxuan was called away by a business partner, and I went to the terrace alone to get some fresh air. The night breeze blew away some of the noise and heat in the banquet hall, but it couldn't blow away the haze in my heart.

"Miss Li, long time no see."

A deep male voice sounded behind me. I turned around suddenly and saw a man in a black suit standing behind me. He was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face and a meaningful smile hung at the corner of his mouth.

"Who are you?" I looked at him warily, searching my mind for memories of him, but found nothing.

"It seems that Miss Li has forgotten me," he chuckled, "but it doesn't matter, you will soon know who I am and why you are here."

His tone was full of suggestion, which made me even more uneasy. "What do you want to say?"

He took a step closer and lowered his voice so that only the two of us could hear him: "Ms. Li, you are not the real daughter of the Li family. You are just a pawn arranged by someone to join the Li family."

My head buzzed, as if a bomb exploded beside my ear. This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, splitting me apart. I'm not the daughter of the Li family? How is this possible? I always thought that the reason I ended up wandering away was because of an accident that year...

"You're talking nonsense!" I forced myself to calm down, but my voice couldn't stop trembling.

"You know whether I'm talking nonsense or not." He smiled and turned away. "If you want to know the truth, come to [address omitted here to avoid disclosing private information] to find me."

My heart was in a mess, and the man's words kept echoing in my mind. I am not the daughter of the Li family. I am just a chess piece arranged by others... Then, who are my biological parents? Why did they arrange for me to live in the Li family? Who should I trust?

I stumbled back to the banquet hall and saw Yuxuan standing in the crowd. His figure seemed like a life-saving straw, giving me a little support in the stormy sea.

I walked up to him, held his hand tightly, and told him what the man had said.

After listening to my story, Yuxuan frowned, with a flash of shock and anger in his eyes. "Don't worry, I will find out everything."

At this time, Qin Xue also came over. After hearing our conversation, she was also incredulous. "How could this happen? Luo Xue, don't worry, we will all help you."

That night, I couldn't sleep. My mind kept replaying what the man said and everything I had experienced over the years. I began to doubt my life and everything I had.

The next day, Yuxuan, Qin Xue and I went to the study together and began to look up the family history materials, hoping to find some clues related to my life experience...

In the study, heavy curtains blocked the sunlight outside, and the air was filled with the smell of old books and yellowed paper. Yuxuan brought a ladder, stepped on it, and took down thick family trees from the highest bookshelf. Qin Xue and I were on the desk next to us, carefully reading the family records of the Li family over the years.

"Luo Xue, look here!" Qin Xue pointed at the yellowed paper, her tone a little excited, "It's recorded here that a few decades ago, the Li family had a pair of twin sisters, but one of the children died shortly after birth."

My heartbeat suddenly accelerated. Could it be that... could it be that I was the child who "died in infancy"? But if I was really alive, why was I abandoned? Who are my biological parents? Why did they do this?

"Don't worry, let's look for it carefully." Yuxuan's voice was calm, but it carried a reassuring power.

The three of us divided the work and read through each document carefully, one book after another, one page after another, hoping to find a clue about my life experience in this vast amount of information.

At this moment, the door of the study was gently pushed open, and Li Luoyao walked in. She was wearing a plain dress today, with a faint smile on her face, looking calm and gentle, completely different from the arrogant and domineering her before.

"What are you looking for?" she walked up to us and asked curiously.

"We are investigating Luo Xue's background." Qin Xue replied.

Li Luoyao was slightly startled, and then joined us. She picked up a family tree and carefully read it, frowning slightly, as if she was thinking about something.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the study was so quiet that only the sound of turning pages could be heard. It was like we were racing against time, hoping to find the truth before it was buried.

"Wait!" Li Luoyao suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a passage in the family tree and said, "Look here, this passage records that the ancestor of the Li family once obtained a treasure. It is said that this treasure has mysterious power and can change a person's destiny."

Yuxuan, Qin Xue and I all came over and read the text carefully. Although the text was a little blurry, we could still clearly see that it described a legend about the ancestors of the Li family and a mysterious treasure.

"Could it be that my life experience is related to this treasure?" I murmured to myself, my heart full of doubts and curiosity.

What exactly is this treasure? Does it really have the power to change fate? Are my biological parents also related to this treasure?

A series of questions swirled in my mind. I felt as if I was trapped in a huge mystery, and the answer to this mystery seemed to be hidden in the dusty history of the Li family...

Li Luoyao's words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake, stirring up a thousand waves. A treasure with mysterious power that can change fate? This sounds like a fairy tale, but it inexplicably makes me feel a little uneasy. My intuition tells me that this treasure must have some connection with my life experience.

"Where is this treasure now? Is it recorded in the family tree?" I couldn't wait to ask, hoping to get more information from Li Luoyao.

Li Luoyao shook her head, a confused look on her face. "The genealogy does not record the whereabouts of the treasure. It only says that it was secretly hidden by the ancestors of the Li family, and only descendants with special blood can find it."

Special bloodline? Could it be me? As soon as this thought came to my mind, I quickly rejected it. If I really have the bloodline of the Li family, why was I abandoned? Why do I know nothing about my own life experience?

"It seems we have to find more clues about this treasure." Yu Xuan pondered for a moment, with a hint of determination in his tone, "Luo Yao, do you remember other legends about this treasure? Don't miss any details."

Li Luoyao tried hard to recall and said slowly: "When I was a child, my grandfather told me that this treasure seemed to be a jade pendant with a strange pattern carved on it. It was said that it could open a mysterious place..."

Jade pendant? Suddenly, a bright light flashed through my mind, and fragments of memory flashed through my mind like a movie scene. I remember that when I was very young, I seemed to have a jade pendant. It was warm and smooth, and felt cold to the touch. I often held it in my hand to play. But later, the jade pendant disappeared. I asked my adoptive parents, but they said they had never seen it.

Could it be that the jade pendant was the treasure of the Li family's ancestors? Why did it appear beside me? What is the relationship between my adoptive parents and the Li family?

I pieced together the fragments of my memory of the jade pendant, but found that I could remember very few details. The more I tried to remember, the blanker my mind became, as if it had been deliberately erased.

"Luo Xue, what's wrong with you?" Qin Xue noticed that something was wrong with me and asked with concern.

"I'm fine, I just suddenly remembered something, but I'm not sure." I shook my head and decided not to tell anyone about the jade pendant for the time being.

"Don't worry, think about it slowly, and you will remember it eventually." Yuxuan gently held my hand and gave me an encouraging look.

I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down. I knew that the most important thing now was to find more clues about the treasure. Only by solving this mystery could I uncover the truth about my life experience.

"Yuxuan, you're right. We can't just sit there and wait for death." I raised my head with a firm gaze, "We must take the initiative to find more clues about the treasure!"

Yuxuan nodded, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes, "I have contacted an expert who is well versed in family history. I believe he can provide us with some help."

A glimmer of hope ignited in my heart. Perhaps, we can really find the treasure and solve all the mysteries...

Yuxuan's work efficiency was as high as ever. The next day, an old gentleman with gray hair but vigorous spirit appeared in front of us. His name was Professor Li, an authority on family history, and it was said that he had helped many families find lost heirlooms.

Professor Li carefully looked through the Li family tree and asked Li Luoyao some details about the Li family's ancestors and family legends. Finally, he raised his head and looked at us with bright eyes, "According to my speculation, the Li family's ancestors may have built a secret room in the old house to store the treasure."

"Secret room?" My heart was shocked. This word seemed to have a mysterious power, pulling me back to that night full of unknowns. That night, I got lost in the garden of the Li family's old house and vaguely saw a stone door open. It seemed that there was some secret hidden inside...

"Yes, a secret room." Professor Li nodded. "The Li family's old house has a long history, and many places have been kept in their original state. If there really is a secret room, it is most likely hidden in some unknown place."

"But the old house is so big, where should we start looking?" Qin Xue asked.

"Map. Did the Li family leave a map of the old house?" Professor Li turned to look at Li Luoyao.

Li Luoyao tried to recall and shook her head. "I remember seeing a design drawing of an old house when I was a child, but it disappeared later. I don't know where my grandfather put it."

"It seems like we have to go back to the Li family's old house and search carefully." Yuxuan said decisively.

So, we drove to the old house of the Li family in the suburbs. The old house still kept the way I remembered it, ancient, mysterious, and with a touch of sadness.

Under the guidance of Professor Li, we carefully searched every corner of the old house, hoping to find some clues about the secret room. However, after several hours, we found nothing.

"Is there really no secret room?" I asked somewhat disappointedly.

"No, I believe there must be one." Professor Li pointed to a corner of the old house's garden. "According to my experience, secret rooms are usually built in hidden places, such as rockery, wells, or even under big trees."

We looked in the direction Professor Li pointed and saw several huge Taihu stones piled in a corner of the garden, overgrown with weeds, which looked particularly desolate.

"Could the secret room be hidden under these stones?" The scene I saw that night suddenly emerged in my mind, and my heart beat faster involuntarily.

At this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded in my ears, "I advise you not to act rashly, otherwise you will bear the consequences."

We turned around suddenly and saw a man in black clothes and a baseball cap appeared behind us at some point. He was wearing a pair of sunglasses, so his real face could not be seen. He exuded a dangerous aura.

"Who are you? Why are you stopping us?" I asked warily.

The man in black sneered and said, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. Just remember my words." After that, he turned around and disappeared into the night.

"Who is this mysterious man? Why is he stopping us from finding the secret room?" Qin Xue's face showed a look of worry.

“No matter who he is, we can’t be scared by him.” I took a deep breath and said with a firm look, “I have a feeling that the secret room must contain some secret about my life experience. I must go in and find out!”

Yuxuan held my hand tightly and gave me a firm look, "I'll go with you."