If You Could Hear My Heart
Chapter 977 - Chapter 977 Chapter 977 Found the Person You Were Looking For

Chapter 977: Chapter 977: Found the Person You Were Looking For Chapter 977: Chapter 977: Found the Person You Were Looking For Xiao Mo snapped back to reality, steadied his expression, his eyes a boundless expanse of calm and depth.

“Your mission is now complete,” Xiao Mo said, “Go home for the New Year.”

“Thank you, Secretary Xiao. Don’t work too hard yourself. It’s the first day of the new year in five days, remember to go home for the celebrations,” the man said.

“Understood.”

Xiao Mo hung up the phone, gazing long at the white walls with his profound eyes.

At that moment, it was still dark outside, and Xiao Mo hadn’t turned on the lights; the vast room was pitch black, and he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.

Everywhere was extremely quiet, and Xiao Mo could hear his own shallow breathing.

He hadn’t expected Xu Chaomu to go to a place she had never been before, Jin City.

He knew she wasn’t there for sightseeing; she was prepared to spend her life there.

If that was her mindset, even if he found her, he couldn’t bring her back.

But, knowing she was alright, a weight had finally lifted from his heart.

He planned to make the trip to Jin City personally.

By six in the morning, he was driving there.

He had already called the contacts in Jin City to find Xu Chaomu before his arrival.

Jin City wasn’t large, finding a person was as easy as flipping one’s hand, three hours would be more than enough.

The sky over C City was gloomy, and as Xiao Mo drove in the direction of Jin City, he kept this matter from Shen Chi.

The entire sky was dark, laden with a heavy sense of oppression, growing heavier as he neared Jin City, with cold winds whipping around.

The winds rubbed against Xiao Mo’s car windows, filling his ears with their relentless howling.

The surroundings were continuous mountains, undulating in waves, enveloped by a misty water vapor.

There was not a single car on the road, and Xiao Mo drove ahead alone.

It was raining in Jin City, and when Xiao Mo’s car arrived inside the city, the raindrops “pattered” against his windshield.

Xiao Mo turned on the wipers, his gaze fixed ahead.

The rain was quite heavy, the streets speckled with people on bikes wearing rain ponchos, and pedestrians walking with umbrellas.

Xiao Mo had only been here a handful of times, the place lagged in commercial development, heavily reliant on tourism.

Yet, it had to be admitted, the scenery was gorgeous along the way and conducive to residing.

Xu Chaomu’s choice of this place showed her good taste.

At a red light, Xiao Mo brought his car to a stop.

Right then, his phone rang.

“Secretary Xiao, as soon as we received your call, we started the search,” someone from Jin City said, “Where are you now?”

“What have you found?”

“Jin City isn’t big, you just need to inquire around to know which community, which street has seen a new face.”

“And then…”

“Yes, we found the person you’re looking for in an old neighborhood called ‘West Garden’.”

“Specific location.”

“I’ll send it to your phone right away.”

“Okay.”

“Secretary Xiao, are you coming over in person?”

“This matter, it must not be disclosed to anyone, including the fact that Mrs. Shen is in Jin City, and that I’m coming to Jin City,” Xiao Mo said sternly.

“Understood, I won’t tell anyone.”

“Okay, I’m driving, hanging up now.”

“Alright, alright.”

Xiao Mo hung up the phone just as the red light turned green. He changed the navigation destination to West Garden.

The rain was heavy, still falling, incessantly pouring like strung pearls, showing no sign of stopping anytime soon. The sky was overcast, the whole city damp.

Soon, a new message appeared on his phone, and he glanced at it.

West Garden, Building 2, Unit 2, Apartment 502.

A smile curved the corners of Xiao Mo’s lips.

So many “2”s, quite fitting her character, truly “2”.

Xiao Mo parked his car and walked alone towards the specific location with a black umbrella over his head. Because of the rain, he had to walk a long distance before seeing one or two people.

The Spring Festival was approaching, and the surrounding area was filled with festive vibes.

Dressed in a long black coat, Xiao Mo stood tall and slender in the rain.

He looked up at the numbers painted on the building facade.

Building ten, building nine…

He took a few steps forward, and with a turn of his head, there it was, Building 2.

He stood in front of the building for a very long time, one hand holding the umbrella, the other tucked into his coat pocket, gazing up at where the fifth floor was located.

Since this was an old residential area, there were no elevators, and the fifth floor was the topmost level.

Light emanated from Apartment 502, exceptionally bright against the dim daylight.

He stood silently below, raindrops pattering on his umbrella, making a ‘tick-tock’ sound. Rainfall was all he heard, and all he saw was the light from that window.

Raindrops hit the ground and splashed up, forming tiny blooms around the edges of Xiao Mo’s black leather shoes.

The winter wind carried beads of rain onto his face, causing him to squint, yet he remained silent.

As time slowly ticked by, he just kept standing.

…

“Excuse me, sir, you’ve been standing down here for quite some time now.”

Just then, a girl descended from the stairwell.

She leant against the wall, staring intently at Xiao Mo.

It was none other than Xia Chuqing.

From her second uncle’s apartment upstairs, she had a clear view of everything happening below.

He was there when she brushed her teeth and washed her face, and when she finished breakfast, he was still there.

Later, after twenty minutes of yoga in her bedroom, she looked downstairs and he was still standing there.

“Hey, aren’t you cold?” Xia Chuqing asked.

Only then did Xiao Mo divert his gaze and glance at Xia Chuqing, his lips pressed together, not uttering a word.

He walked into the stairwell and closed his umbrella.

“Why are you not saying anything?” Xia Chuqing felt the man was quite rude.

“Are you talking to me?” Xiao Mo asked, his head down as he closed his umbrella, his tone indifferent.

“Is there anyone else here?”

“Cold,” Xiao Mo replied bluntly.

Having said that, he took his umbrella and started climbing the stairs.

It was the first time Xia Chuqing had encountered a man so cold and discourteous. She blocked his way at the stair entry, “Let me guess, you’re here to see someone.”

Xia Chuqing was sharp-witted; in fact, she started guessing while she had breakfast.

In this building, from the first to the fifth floors, most of the residents were middle-aged to elderly people and mostly children.

The man before her appeared well-dressed, like an elite professional.

Now that she was close, she realized that her guess was correct; he indeed was an upper-class individual because the watch on his wrist was worth upwards of a hundred thousand.

Having stayed at her second uncle’s place for so long, she hadn’t heard of anyone in the building with a son or son-in-law quite so accomplished.

A watch alone worth more than a hundred thousand, what more to say?

That meant, this man wasn’t from around here. Eliminating that, her conjecture was, he was here to visit someone.

So, she pondered further.

The man had been looking up at the upper floors consistently, clearly, the person he sought was not a resident of the first or second floors.

On the third, fourth, and fifth floors, several families lived and having a few relatives over near the New Year was common.

But he didn’t carry any gifts, implying that he wasn’t here to visit relatives.