Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 430 - 443: The Barren Mountain

The driver was overcome with emotion and drove with the utmost dedication, overtaking several cars along the way, truly getting them to the kindergarten at the fastest possible speed humanly achievable in such terrible weather.

By now, it was already half past eight in the evening.

There was also a fierce storm at the kindergarten, but luckily, it seemed to be in a fortunate location surrounded by mountains, suffering little damage. Even though two saplings in the greenbelt were broken, the buildings and facilities were largely intact. In the brightly lit playroom, many children were gathered, waiting for their parents to pick them up.

Su Xingyu went in and looked around but didn’t see Han or Jue. Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly ran to find the on-duty teacher, "Mr. Qu, where are Lu Jue and Su Han? The autistic child and the chubby, smiling boy, I’m their mother, here to pick them up!"

The on-duty teacher, Mr. Qu, glanced at her, "You are the parent of Lu Jue and Su Han?"

Then he looked at Lu Shifeng standing beside her, with a full smile, "You two must be Mr. Lu and Mrs., right? The children waiting for their parents are all in the playroom, aren’t they?"

Hearing the word "all," Lu Shifeng also got anxious, "No, they’re not."

Mr. Qu’s expression changed slightly, "Just a moment, let me check."

She took out the duty record manual and checked, indeed not finding any record of the two children being picked up, then searched through the playroom and other areas, flustered, "Where are Lu Jue and Su Han?"

Quickly, she called out other teachers, nannies, and security personnel in the kindergarten, anxiously asking, "Has anyone seen Lu Jue and Su Han?!"

"Lu Jue and Su Han?" One of the security guards seemed to remember something, surprisingly said, "Wasn’t Lu Jue picked up half an hour ago? In a black private car, a couple affectionately carrying the child to the car, I thought it was Mr. Lu and Mrs. picking him up!" Today, this heavy rain was a once-in-a-century occurrence, and many children who usually take helicopters to and from school temporarily switched to private cars, causing some chaos. The security guards could not tell which car belonged to whom and assumed the children had all completed the handover procedures with the teachers, so they didn’t check.

Lu Shifeng’s gaze turned cold, asking, "What was the license plate number? What did the car look like? Show me the surveillance footage!"

The security guard was intimidated by his presence, stammering a bit, "The, the license plate number I didn’t note down... the surveillance, the surveillance does exist, but with the heavy rain, the visibility is poor, so it probably won’t be very clear..."

"Take me to the monitoring room!" Lu Shifeng said sharply.

The security guard dared not delay and quickly led him there.

Su Xingyu was initially following them but suddenly stopped after a few steps and asked, "You just said Lu Jue was taken away, what about Han?!"

"I, I only saw one child." The security guard was so frightened he was almost incoherent. Oh my, if the children were really lost and the security room staff didn’t check, it would be hard to escape responsibility! These children here were either rich or noble, even if nothing was missing, just a bruise or bump would be unaffordable!

"What about the other one?!" Su Xingyu’s voice also became stern.

"The, the other one... I don’t know..."

Su Xingyu, struck by urgency and anger, did not bother to ask him further, turned around, and went to find the teacher again.

Lu Shifeng initially wanted to follow her but then thought that since there were two children, having two adults search separately would be the most efficient decision, so he instructed the driver beside him, "Go assist the madam."

He himself followed the security guard in the direction of the monitoring room.

Su Xingyu was almost going mad with anxiety, asked everyone in the kindergarten, yet none had seen any trace of Han.

Finally, a cleaning auntie said, "That chubby little kid who loves to laugh, is he often seen clinging to that autistic child? Called Han... Oh right! That’s him! I saw him heading that way this evening," the cleaning auntie pointed toward the storm-ravaged back garden, "maybe he went to watch the bugs out of curiosity, as there are many bugs hiding from the rain under the eaves."

Su Xingyu hurried toward the back garden, where the storm raged on, faintly illuminated by dim lights.

Su Xingyu rushed into the rain, searching as she loudly called out, "Han—Han—!"

The driver also braved the storm with her, cupping his hands around his mouth to shout loudly, "Young Master Han—Young Master Han—!"

But amidst the heavens and the earth, other than the wind and rain, there was no response.

Su Xingyu was so anxious that she was about to cry, searching deeper into the garden, yet no matter how thoroughly she searched, she did not see the child.

By this time, everyone in the kindergarten had been alerted, and numerous teachers also came out with flashlights to search, from near and far, faintly and intermittently, the calls of "Han—" echoed one after another.

Beside a clump of bushes in the back garden, there was a small iron gate, half-open, leading to a path overgrown with weeds extending into the distance.

Seeing that small iron gate, Su Xingyu’s heart skipped a beat uncontrollably, could it be that the child had run out of the kindergarten through this gate?

Without thinking, she headed in that direction.

The driver hurriedly stopped her, "Madam! It’s dangerous, going out this way likely leads to the wilderness, who knows what’s on the mountain!"

Su Xingyu said, "All the more reason to go, what if Han went up the mountain?"

The driver anxiously said, "Let’s go back and find the young master, and also people from the kindergarten, to organize a search of the mountain!"

Su Xingyu said, "You go back and get reinforcements, I’ll go up the mountain first!"

The driver couldn’t dare leave her alone; with the two young masters already missing, if something happened to the young madam, the young master would surely flay him alive!

He hurriedly said, "Then I’ll go up the mountain with you!"

Su Xingyu was resolute, "No, you go get reinforcements!"

The driver said, "I’ll call the young master’s side; he will send reinforcements. Madam, I must stay with you; I can’t let you be in danger!"

Su Xingyu couldn’t argue with him, so she agreed to let him make the call.

In the roaring wind and rain, the driver took out his phone and dialed Lu Shifeng’s number.

The weather was too bad, the signal was poor, and the call couldn’t go through, but he didn’t dare tell the madam the truth, afraid she’d send him back, so he pretended to hold the phone and shouted loudly, "Yes, young master, we will wait for reinforcements, thank you for your arrangements!"

Ending the call, he said to Su Xingyu, "Young master said he would arrange a search party for the mountain."

Su Xingyu nodded and trudged on the mountain path.

"Han—Han—!" She kept calling as she walked, her throat hoarse, her lungs burning with pain, but she seemed numb, not caring about her physical discomfort, focusing only on calling for the child.