Chapter 214: The Ji Family’s Misfortunes

When Old Master Ji thought of that tiny figure, tears welled up in his eyes. Yes, that was his daughter, his own daughter who had been gone for fifteen years. He really wanted to find her. Just like before, he would hug her after work, play with her, and listen to her laugh.

Thinking of this, Old Master Ji wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Xiaoyu’s full name was Ji Xiaoyu, the youngest daughter of the Ji family. She was very loved by everyone. She was the younger sister of Mayor Ji and Ji Lingchen. They lost her when they were young. In fact, their mother had missed her so much that she became ill and passed away from heartache. This caused unending pain for Ji Lingchen.

He hung his head, and what happened so many years ago now replayed in his mind.

That year, he had just turned thirteen and graduated from junior high school. He was holding his five-year-old sister in a dilapidated building. He was bleeding and his body was covered in wounds. The two of them were surrounded by messy bricks and scattered ropes.

Ji Xiaoyu was so scared that she kept crying. She reached out and pushed her unconscious second brother, she tried to wake him up. “Brother, Daddy and our eldest brother will definitely find us. Open your eyes and check on me. Brother, I’m scared.”

Xiaoyu’s body was covered in blood too, but it was Ji Lingchen’s blood. In order to protect his sister, he was beaten up by the kidnappers.

“Xiaoyu, be good. Don’t cry. I’ll protect you without a doubt. I won’t let the bad guys take you away,” Ji Lingchen replied in a delirious state. Although he was very weak, he held his sister tightly. He would not let his sister be taken away by the kidnappers.

Ji Xiaoyu cried and said, “Brother, if they take me away, Mom Dad, big brother and you must find me. Otherwise, I’ll be afraid.”

Ji Lingchen said, “You… you won’t be taken away. I won’t let them take you away.”

Ji Xiaoyu was very smart. A child’s intuition was always very accurate. She had a premonition that she would not be able to find her way home, so she kept crying. She searched her body, but she could not find a single mark. She cried even louder. She was afraid that she would change when she grew up. Then, her family would not even recognize her. So, after thinking for a long time, she deliberately bit her little arm. Even though she had already lost all her strength from crying, she still bit her arm hard, wanting to mark herself.

Ji Lingchen used all his strength to pull her little arm away. “Xiaoyu, you can’t bite yourself.”

Ji Xiaoyu refused to let go. She only stopped when her arm was bleeding. Then, she started to cry. “Brother, it hurts.”

Ji Lingchen hugged his sister and his heart ached for her. Tears were streaming down his face. “I won’t lose you. Even if I lose myself, I won’t lose you, Xiaoyu.”

However, the bad guys still found them. One of them picked up something hard and smashed it on Ji Lingchen’s head.

Before he lost consciousness, Ji Lingchen’s ears were filled with his sister’s cries. In his heart, he silently said, “I will protect you.”.

Then, he completely lost consciousness. When he woke up again, his family told him that Xiaoyu had disappeared.

Ji Lingchen wailed. He ran out of the house to look for his sister, but he could not find her at all.

During that period of time, the entire Ji family was shrouded in darkness.

The eldest brother of the Ji family vomited blood and fainted while driving around to look for his sister. He almost died in the car crash. That was because he had not slept well for more than a month. Madam Ji was also sick and had been in the hospital. Ji Lingchen also went missing from time to time. When he returned, he would go to the hospital to visit his mother and promise his mother that he would find his sister.

Not long after, his mother passed away. Ji Lingchen completely collapsed. That was the darkest year of his life. That year, he lost his sister and his mother.

On the night his wife passed away, a lot of Old Master Ji’s hair became grey. It was as if he had aged ten years in one night.

Ji Lingchen had never given up on searching for his sister. He had been searching for fifteen years. He had never stopped. Therefore, when he saw the child with a bite mark on her arm, he had to confirm it no matter what. Even if there was a small possibility, even if it was just a false joy, he had to go.

“Dad, brother, this will keep bothering me until the day I die. I need to find Xiaoyu,” Ji Lingchen said.

When he was young, he was a gentle and cheerful young master from a wealthy family. But after that year’s events, his personality changed dramatically, and he became how he was now. This was because he had always felt that it was his fault that his younger sister had gone missing. If he had been stronger, he would have been able to protect her. Around that time, he also established Silver Field.

Afterward, he took over Ji Corporation, and then continued to expand it. He strengthened it and continued to search for his younger sister. But even with such power, finding a child who had been missing for fifteen years was still too difficult. In addition, in such a hopeless situation, it was even harder to persevere.