After leaving my father and keeping my son, I built my own wealthy family, and my ex-husband's

"Clang!"

The sound of something breaking came from Qin Pinsen's side.

The sound wasn't very loud.

But it's also quite obvious on quiet nights.

Even Qin Youyao, who was almost asleep, was awakened by the noise.

Qin Pinsen's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly turned around.

They then discovered that Tianheng had somehow managed to untie the ropes and was trying to sneak away.

However, the environment was extremely dark.

To avoid being in the dark himself, Qin Pinsen only turned on a dim light.

In addition, Tianheng had no knowledge of the environment here.

While groping around in the dim light, I accidentally bumped into a storage cabinet, which knocked over and shattered some glass items inside.

"You little brat, trying to run away?"

Qin Pinsen thought his daughter was asleep, so he put down his phone and ran after Tianheng.

Qin Youyao opened her eyes groggily. In the video call, she could only vaguely see some blurry light, and there seemed to be some figures moving in the distance.

She was about to call for her father when she suddenly heard a little boy's voice.

"Let me go!"

She managed to utter just three words before a muffled sob was heard as her mouth was covered.

Qin Youyao was stunned for a moment.

That sounds like... Yu Tianheng's voice?

Since losing that fight to him, Qin Youyao could be said to have become acquainted with him through a fight.

The two children didn't fall out; instead, they became friends because they were both good at fighting.

Tianheng disregarded past grievances and even taught her rock climbing and boxing.

Over time, the two actually became good friends.

Qin Youyao didn't know what had happened over there, nor was she sure if the child's voice was Tianheng's.

Her intuition told her that something was very wrong.

She also refrained from calling him "Dad".

After a while, she heard footsteps approaching from a distance in the video call.

She quickly closed her eyes.

Qin Pinsen had just knocked Tian Heng unconscious again and tied him up.

I walked over, picked up my phone, and saw that my daughter was asleep with her eyes closed. I breathed a sigh of relief, said "Goodnight, baby," and hung up the video call.

Qin Youyao tried her best to fall asleep.

However, the strange scene from the video call just now keeps replaying in my mind.

She couldn't resist taking the children's watch and watching the recorded call again.

It made her tremble all over.

Although I don't know exactly what happened, the dark scene, the child's cries, the sobs...

And Dad's strange expression...

It's almost like watching a horror movie.

The atmosphere was terrifying.

Qin Youyao became more and more frightened the more she thought about it.

But she didn't dare call Qin Pinsen again.

It's past 1 a.m. now.

It was eerily quiet around her; she could only hear her own heartbeat growing louder and louder.

The cartoon pajamas she was wearing were soaked with cold sweat without her even realizing it.

"Mom...Mom...Waaah..." Qin Youyao curled up in a ball, crying and calling for her mother.

After a while, a bold idea popped into her head.

Go find your mother now.

She's not a five-year-old anymore; she's six now!

After finishing this term of kindergarten, it's time to go to primary school.

For her, this year was exceptionally long and difficult.

Her father was too busy to care for her. He didn't even know that she was being bullied by Qin Chengxi or that He Ya would punish and insult her for no reason from time to time.

Aunt Ya Ya, whom she once thought was much kinder to her than her own mother, had completely dropped her pretense in front of her.

That woman was bad.

My mother is a million times better than her.

Actually, she had wanted to go find her mother for a long time, but as she grew up over the past year, she matured much earlier than other children her age and realized that she had hurt her mother deeply before.

Feeling guilty, she endured her longing for her mother.

But this time is different.

She couldn't hold back any longer.

She wiped away her tears, picked up a teddy bear from beside her bed, got out of bed, patted her chest, and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm the bravest."

After mustering her courage, she used the light from the nightlight in the dormitory to find the door, opened it, and tiptoed out.

There are security guards at Huazun Kindergarten.

At this time, only a few security guards remained at the entrances and exits.

Taking advantage of her familiarity with the kindergarten environment, Qin Youyao bypassed the teachers' dormitories and, like a wary kitten, arrived at the back gate of the kindergarten.

There are people on duty here.

However, because it was a back entrance, there was only one security guard on duty.

The security guard is dozing off again.

Qin Youyao hugged the little teddy bear tightly in her arms and slowly approached the door.

Just as we arrived next to the iron gate.

Suddenly, a beeping sound rang out in the duty room.

She quickly lay down.

The security guard, who was dozing in his chair, groggily opened his eyes, looked around, and then pressed the button next to him.

I listened to the notification tone.

It turns out this is an alarm device in the duty room of Huazun Kindergarten.

It is especially suitable for security guards on night shifts to help guard the entrances and exits.

Qin Youyao was getting anxious. How could she leave the kindergarten if things continued like this?

A little while later, the security guard fell asleep again.

Qin Youyao gritted her teeth and crawled towards the iron gate.

beep beep-

The alarm sounded again.

The security guard had just fallen asleep when he was startled awake again, and he was already showing signs of impatience.

He got up, pushed open the door to the security room, and shone his flashlight around.

Fortunately, Qin Youyao was a child and reacted quickly enough to hide in the bushes in the nearby green belt.

The security guard searched around but couldn't find anything wrong.

Boom...

Thunder rumbled in the night sky.

As soon as the thunder sounded, large raindrops began to fall.

The security guard shrank back, returned to the security room, and immediately unplugged the alarm.

Qin Youyao lay prone in the bushes, patiently waiting until the security guard fell asleep before attempting the task for the third time.

This time, the alarm didn't sound.

But what blocked her way was a tall iron gate.

The sudden downpour soaked her completely in an instant.

"Don't cry, don't cry... I'm the bravest, I'm not afraid at all." Qin Youyao wiped away the tears mixed with rainwater from her face, and then forcefully threw the toy bear over the door.

Then, she used the rock climbing skills that Tianheng had taught her, using both her hands and feet to climb the iron gate.

Fortunately, the iron gate is a fence-like structure, and there are many places to climb over.

Despite the torrential rain, Qin Youyao struggled to climb up, then climbed over the iron gate, and finally inch her way down.

When I was halfway there, my hands and feet slipped.

She fell flat on her backside with a thud, and the pain brought tears to her eyes.

While crying, she picked up the toy bear and hugged it to her chest. Then she turned on the children's watch, found the map app, and searched for "Gilded Mansion".

She already knew that her mother had remarried.

She also learned that Tianheng was the son of her mother's second husband, but she didn't tell Tianheng that she was her mother's biological daughter.

However, because she became friends with Tianheng, she also learned from Tianheng where her mother lived.

After opening the map navigation, Qin Youyao's small figure disappeared into the torrential rain of the night...