<h4>Chapter 1574: Chapter 1567: Murderous Intent Overflowing</h4>


    After hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, under Lu Tianxing’s anxious gaze, Xue Man slowly opened her mouth and said, "Lu Tianxing, I’ll let you off the hook for today, but there’s something I want to ask you."


    Although he didn’t know what Xue Man was getting at, after hearing her words, Lu Tianxing still nodded and said, "Minister Xue, if there’s anything else you want to ask me, I’ll tell you everything I know."


    Upon hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, Xue Man didn’t hesitate and directly said, "Lu Tianxing, do you know where Hong Yue went today?"


    "Where did Hong Yue go?"


    Lu Tianxing obviously hadn’t expected Xue Man to ask him this question. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Minister Xue, why are you asking me this? How would I know where Hong Yue went? Besides, hasn’t she already resigned? Why are you looking for her? Just give her a call."


    After hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, Xue Man looked at him with aplex expression and said, "It’s because I can’t reach her by phone that I’m asking you. Originally, Hong Yue and I had agreed to hold a farewell party for her after work, but when I tried calling to ask if she was avable, I found that her phone was unreachable. I’m worried she might have run into trouble."


    "Hong Yue’s phone is unreachable?"


    Upon hearing Xue Man’s words, Lu Tianxing frowned slightly and paused for a moment before speaking, "Minister Xue, don’t worry too much. It’s okay; I’ll have a word with Zhiqingter and have someone look for Hong Yue."


    "Okay, I appreciate it."


    "No problem, it’s a small matter, Minister Xue, you’re too polite."


    After exchanging a few more words, Lu Tianxing and Xue Man didn’t linger, and they walked out of Xue Man’s office.


    Watching Lu Tianxing walk out of her office, aplex expression shed across Xue Man’s face. The image of Lu Tianxing smacking her bottom involuntarily shed through her mind, and a blush crept over her face, an unprecedented throbbing spreading through her heart, leaving her slightly dazed, unaware that Lu Tianxing had closed the door and left.


    After leaving Xue Man’s office, Lu Tianxing took a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and stood by the corridor’s floor-to-ceiling window, looking downstairs, his brow slightly furrowed. Unable to reach Luan Hongyue by phone, he sensed something amiss.


    Logically speaking, Luan Aoxiong and Zheng Xiu’e should have left Modu already, and given Luan Hongyue’s character, she shouldn’t have turned off her phone. Now the phone is unreachable, which is almost impossible, especially since Luan Hongyue has just be the president of the Hope Charity Foundation. She didn’t refuse at the press conference, indicating she genuinely wants to start anew, impossible to leave without a word.


    Could it be that something’s really happened?


    Lu Tianxing frowned slightly, then extinguished the newly lit cigarette in his hand and tossed it into the nearby trash can without hesitation, stepping into the elevator and heading to the top floor to have a word with Bai Zhiqing, and then to Rose, to check if something really happened to Luan Hongyue.


    When the elevator stopped at the top floor, Lu Tianxing walked out directly, heading to Bai Zhiqing’s office.


    As he entered the office, Bai Zhiqing’s voice reached Lu Tianxing’s ears.


    "Back from your dalliances outside?"


    "Uh."


    Hearing Bai Zhiqing’s words, a surprised expression appeared on Lu Tianxing’s face, and he said with a bitter smile, "Honey, where did you hear about my dalliances outside? Don’t you know where I’ve been? I came back honestly after dinner, didn’t do anything at all."


    "Really?"


    Bai Zhiqing looked up at Lu Tianxing, sneering, "Why did Xiao Bing call me half an hour ago and tell me you were already in the car back? Bai’s Group isn’t more than fifteen or twenty minutes from Arch of Triumph Restaurant, yet you took over half an hour. Tell me where you spent those extra minutes, doing what."


    Listening to Bai Zhiqing’s words, a helpless expression immediately appeared on Lu Tianxing’s face. What the seniors said online was indeed true; women, before marriage, are fools; after marriage, they’re Sherlock Holmes, how imaginative.


    "Honey, are you teasing me? What can I possibly do in those extra minutes?"


    "Really? You can’t do much in a few minutes, but it’s enough time to flirt with some woman."


    Bai Zhiqing twirled a pen in her hand, a cold smile emerging on her pretty face, her gaze fixed firmly on Lu Tianxing.


    Feeling Bai Zhiqing’s gaze with a hint of killing intent, Lu Tianxing hurriedly said, "Honey, you’re wronging me. I really didn’t do anything; Minister Xue just wanted to ask me something, so I went to her. You have to trust me; really, I didn’t do anything."


    "You went to Xiao Man again."


    Upon hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, Bai Zhiqing’s previously cold face becamepletely frosty, an icy aura emanating from her, seemingly reducing the office’s temperature.


    Seeing this, Lu Tianxing knew Bai Zhiqing was about to lose her temper and quickly said, "Honey, going to Minister Xue wasn’t what you think; she wanted to ask me about Hong Yue."


    "Hong Yue?"


    "Yes!"


    Lu Tianxing nodded, "Minister Xue told me you were nning to hold a farewell party for Hong Yue, but her phone wasn’t reachable today, so Minister Xue asked me to help see if Hong Yue had any problem."


    Lu Tianxing didn’t dare to tell Bai Zhiqing everything that happened in Xue Man’s office; otherwise, Bai Zhiqing might chop him up.


    Bai Zhiqing heard Lu Tianxing’s words, and the frost on her face gradually dissipated a lot. After she came off work yesterday, she indeed heard Xue Man say that he nned to hold a farewell party for Luan Hongyue. At that time, Lu Tianxing had already left. If Xue Man hadn’t told him, he wouldn’t have known at all.


    "Besides this, are you sure you don’t have anything else you’re hiding from me?"


    "Of course not. You have to trust me, dear. I might lie to anyone, but I won’t lie to you, right?"


    Lu Tianxing said sincerely while looking at Bai Zhiqing.


    "Do you have any news about Hong Yue now?"


    "I’m here to give you a heads-up before going to seek someone’s help, aren’t I?"


    Lu Tianxing shrugged at Bai Zhiqing. Before he could finish talking, a melodious ringtone rang from his mobile phone.


    Lu Tianxing looked at the caller ID, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. He had no memory of this phone number; it was a stranger’s call.


    Bai Zhiqing was watching Lu Tianxing, and upon seeing his expression, she asked, "Lu Tianxing, what’s wrong? Whose call is it?"


    "I don’t know, there’s no caller ID."


    Lu Tianxing shook his head lightly at Bai Zhiqing, hesitated for a moment, and answered the call.


    "Is it Lu Tianxing?"


    A low, hoarse voice immediately came from the receiver.


    "Yes, who are you?"


    Lu Tianxing furrowed his brow tightly, searching his memory, but he had no recollection of the voice; it was obviously a stranger’s call.


    "You don’t need to know who I am. I just want to tell you, Luan Hongyue is in my hands now. If you want her to stay alive, obediently follow my instructions. Come right now to the abandoned dock in the southern suburbs, the first abandoned warehouse to the east. I’ll be waiting for you there. Remember, don’t sneak in recklessly, or else face the consequences."


    The voice on the phone was hoarse to the extreme, without any emotional fluctuation.


    As soon as the words fell, the call was directly hung up.


    "Crack!"


    Listening to the busy tone from the phone, Lu Tianxing’s face became extremely somber in that instant. Threads of icy killing intent spread from him, and with a slight force of his fingers, the cell phone in his hand was directly crushed, bursting into mes, yet was instantly obliterated cleanly by True Qi.


    Only a strong burnt odor lingered in the air.


    Bai Zhiqing saw Lu Tianxing’s expression, and quickly asked, "Lu Tianxing, what happened?"


    "Hong Yue has been kidnapped."


    Lu Tianxing took a deep breath, suppressed the killing intent in his heart, and said in a deep voice, "Darling, I’m heading out for a while. Be careful at Bai’s Group."


    "Okay, be careful yourself." Bai Zhiqing looked at Lu Tianxing, speaking with a hint of concern.


    "Don’t worry, it’ll be fine, trust me."


    Lu Tianxing smiled slightly at Bai Zhiqing, said nothing more, and directly turned to walk outside.


    It was around one o’clock in the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, although there were quite a few pedestrians on the road. Lu Tianxing, after leaving Bai’s Group, directly chose a corner, looked around, and, finding no one paying attention to him, his figure flickered, and the whole person soared like an eagle, stepping on the windows of the building next to Bai’s Group, flying towards the distance.


    At this time, in one of the offices of that building, two bare bodies were entangled together, a woman dressed as a secretary sitting on a fat middle-aged man, continuously moving up and down, making sounds simr to a cat’s cry.


    Suddenly, the woman’s movement paused, her whole body stiffened, and she stared wide-eyed, full of incredulity at the silhouette outside the window passing through the sky like an eagle, mouth agape in shock. This was the twenty-third floor, someone flying past on the twenty-third floor—human or ghost?


    "What are you doing! Keep moving."


    At this moment, feeling the woman had stopped, the middle-aged man lying on the sofa pped her hard twice on the rear, yet found she made no movement, instead staring straight outside. Following her line of sight, he saw Lu Tianxing’s silhouette disappearing on the rooftop of a distant building.


    "Ah...!"


    A few secondster, two blood-curdling screams that sounded like they’d seen a ghost rang out in this office.