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Chapter 1280 Yun Rui's sincerity: Unknowingly important people

It was not difficult for them to stop Gu Yunxi from going to England.

Gu Yunqian chuckled. There was not much emotion in his laughter, but it made Lin Junze on the other end of the phone feel a chill for some reason.

"Why stop her?" He stood up and walked to the French window, overlooking the night view of the city below. The lights were brilliant, but they could not illuminate the deepest corners of people's hearts. "If she wants to go, let her go."

Lin Junze was a little puzzled: "But sir, what if she finds something over there..." After all, there was something fishy about Lin Xu's affairs. If Gu Yunxi insisted on investigating, there was no guarantee that more would be involved.

"So what if they find out?" Gu Yunqian said calmly, as if he was talking about an insignificant matter. "Some things, the more you deliberately stop them, the more likely they are to arouse suspicion. She is already uneasy, and stopping her at this time is like trying to cover up one's own faults, isn't it?"

He paused, his eyes falling on a lighted building in the distance. That was the university where Gu Yunxi studied. "She is my sister. It is reasonable for me to care about my students. It is safest for us to do nothing."

Lin Junze was silent for a moment, and understood what Gu Yunqian meant. This seemed to be a laissez-faire approach, but in fact it was a more intelligent response. If he didn't stop her, he wouldn't leave any evidence for Gu Yunxi, nor would it deepen her doubts.

"Then... do we need to send someone to follow?" Lin Junze asked. London is different from China, and it is always worrying for Gu Yunxi to go alone.

"Yes." Gu Yunqian responded, "Find a few reliable people to follow her quietly and protect her safety. Don't let her find out." He paused and added, "Also, keep a close eye on her movements over there. If there is any situation, report to me immediately."

"Yes." Lin Junze responded and hung up the phone.

The office returned to silence. Gu Yunqian looked at the night outside the window and frowned slightly.

He knew his sister. Although she seemed gentle, she was actually very stubborn.

This time she goes to the UK, she will not just go for a visit.

After all, his sister fell in love with Lin Xu.

He didn't dare to think too deeply whether this concern was simply the friendship between teacher and student or mixed with something else.

He walked to the wine cabinet and poured himself a glass of whiskey. The amber liquor swayed gently in the glass. He raised the glass, saluted the night outside the window, and then drank it all. The spicy liquor slid down his throat, bringing a burst of burning warmth, but it could not dispel the haze in his heart.

"Yunxi, Yunxi," he murmured softly, "I hope your trip this time will be in vain."

At this moment, Gu Yunxi was packing his luggage.

She carefully put the Thames pebble into her bag and put on the ginkgo leaf necklace given by Lin Xu around her neck. The cool metal against her skin seemed to bring her a little strength...

At four o'clock in the morning at the airport, the lights at the check-in counter were as pale as paper.

When Gu Yunxi stuffed the passport into the staff's hand, the trembling of her fingertips could not even be covered by concealer.

The suitcase wheels made a harsh sound on the tiled floor, as if cutting her already tense nerves.

The conveyor belt at the security check swallowed up her laptop. The moment the screen went dark, she suddenly remembered what Lin Xu had said: "Professor, it's time to change the wallpaper on your computer. When I put on my bachelor's gown and stand next to you, I will look ten times better than this."

The announcement at the boarding gate echoed in the empty hall, and her knuckles turned white as she clutched her boarding pass.

The economy class seats were suffocatingly cramped. The old lady sitting next to me was praying softly in Russian, the cross on her chest swaying gently in the air flow.

Gu Yun was looking at the gradually shrinking city outline outside the porthole, and suddenly took out the Thames River pebble from her bag - the cold touch spreading along her palm reminded her of the red ears from nervousness when Lin Xu asked the question for the first time.

The flight of more than ten hours was like a long torture. The pasta in the lunch box was stuck together, but she stuffed it into her mouth mechanically until her stomach started to sour.

The screen went black halfway through the movie. She stared at her blurry reflection in the porthole and suddenly realized that her eye sockets were already red and swollen.

The old lady sitting next to her handed her a tissue and asked in a slightly shrill voice, "Are you going to look for someone important?" She nodded, her throat choked with sobs and she couldn't speak - it turned out that even strangers could see through her thoughts.

It was early morning when we landed in London, and the cold rain slanted down on the glass of the terminal. Gu Yunxi followed the crowd out, and his phone vibrated in his pocket. It was the hotel's message that the reservation was successful.

The taxi passed through the foggy streets and the red double-decker bus was looming in the rain, but she felt that the city was so strange that it was like a trap.

The heating in the hotel room was turned on very high, but she sat by the window wrapped in a down jacket, watching the rain draw winding traces on the window glass until the sky brightened completely.

The bath water was so hot that it could peel off a layer of skin, but she was completely unaware. The person in the mirror looked haggard, with the dark circles under her eyes like smudged ink.

She forced a smile in front of the mirror, but the curve of her mouth was uglier than crying.

When she was lying in bed, the unfamiliar smell of the sheets made her toss and turn. When she closed her eyes, she saw the passport floating in the news. When she opened her eyes, she saw Lin Xu's back squatting in the laboratory organizing data.

At three o'clock in the morning, she simply got up and wrote a line in her notebook: "Find Lin Xu. If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body."

The next morning, Gu Yunxi went to Cambridge University. The autumn rain soaked her windbreaker, and the ginkgo leaves made a crisp sound under her feet.

Lin Xu's mentor, Professor Johnson, was sitting in an office piled with papers. When he saw her, a trace of panic flashed through his eyes behind his glasses. "Lin Xu? He hasn't been to class for a long time."

The professor's fingers tapped out a chaotic rhythm on the table. "I heard... he seems to be in some trouble."

"What trouble?" Gu Yunxi asked, his heart beating as if it was going to burst his chest.

The professor was silent for a moment, and then he said vaguely, "I don't know the details. You know, the matter of international students..."

He avoided her gaze, not daring to look her in the face. Gu Yunxi's heart sank, and as he turned to leave, he heard the sound of papers rustling behind him, so fine and timid that it seemed to be covering something.

The apartment that Gu Yunqian arranged for Lin Xu was on the outskirts of the city. The white building was covered with ivy.

The landlady was a fat old lady. When she saw Gu Yunxi, her cloudy eyes were full of vigilance. "Are you Lin's friend?" She said hesitantly, "He moved out last week and said he was going back to his country."

"Didn't he say when he left?" Gu Yunxi's heart sank.

"It seemed to be... a rainy night." The old lady frowned and recalled, "It was raining heavily that night. He dragged his suitcase out of the house, and his face was as white as paper."

Coming out of the apartment, Gu Yunxi walked aimlessly in the rain. Suddenly, the phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number. After answering, a cold female voice came: "Ms. Gu? I'm Anna. I took care of Xiaolin in the UK!"

When we met at the cafe, Anna was wearing a black suit and had bright red nail polish on her nails. "Before Lin Xu disappeared, she sent me a message."

Anna stirred the coffee cup with a complicated look in her eyes, "He said that if something happens to him one day, let me give this to you." She took out an envelope from her bag and pushed it in front of Gu Yunxi.

Gu Yunxi's fingers trembled as he opened the envelope. Inside was a folded piece of paper with Lin Xu's elegant handwriting on it: "Yunxi, I'm sorry, I may have let you down. If I can't come back, don't be sad, and don't look for me. I've seen the sunset over the Thames for you. It's beautiful."

Tears fell without warning, hitting the paper and blurring the ink. Gu Yunxi looked up and saw Anna looking at her with a hint of pity in her eyes. "Ms. Gu," Anna said softly, "some things may be better left unknown."

Gu Yunxi didn't say anything, but folded the paper carefully and put it in his pocket...