Mr.President, Let's Get a Divorce
Chapter 315: Madam 318, you have left the President Mansion alone!

Chapter 315: Madam 318, you have left the President Mansion alone!

"I’ve always trusted you unconditionally, even when many things I couldn’t explain, after all... there are too many unexplainable things in this world."

It was only then that she truly felt the wisdom and breadth of Lu Ziqing’s perspective.

"The Lu Family has never been peaceful, actually not much better than Wen Nian’s family. From a young age, I lived at the center of the family conflicts, the failed and pathetic marriage of my parents caused me great pain. The year I saw you, you had fallen and your face was covered in dog shit, yet you were still saying how beautiful the flowers were... At that glance, I had already taken a liking to you."

"..." Tang Xiaohua was taken aback for a moment, she really hadn’t expected it to start there.

"Only a rebirth could explain the phenomenon of your mind and appearance not matching your age, I guess."

Tang Xiaohua smiled, "Some day, I’ll treat you to a meal properly, guaranteeing it won’t be like today..."

"Enough. These past few years I’ve treated myself like I was raising an ingrate," joked Lu Ziqing.

Tang Xiaohua looked deeply at Lu Ziqing, then turned and walked out. Behind her, Lu Ziqing’s voice rang out again,

"That night of the officer candidate selection in the tent, I asked Wen Nian, ’You are our country’s President, if you keep acting recklessly and constantly put yourself in danger, how can the citizens feel secure? If anything happens to you, what will become of the country?’ Guess what he said?"

"...I can’t guess."

"He said... Presidents can be reelected, the country will not be without a President, but Lili is one of a kind, if she is gone, she can never come back."

"..."

Tang Xiaohua straightened her back and walked out of the private room.

Lu Ziqing sat alone in the chair, looking dazedly at the cake on the table, and at the empty but cozily decorated room.

He used to think he wasn’t foolish, but in the end, wasn’t he still being foolish...?

Perhaps... he couldn’t bear to see her like this.

Always tangled up in the feelings Wen Nian had for her...

If what she said about rebirth was true, then in a past life, he and she had no intersection at all, this life... by now he should be content.

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Tang Xiaohua left the restaurant, it was almost nine o’clock.

She took a deep breath, thinking that Wen Nian’s meeting should also be almost over...

Just as she started driving toward the President Mansion, Qu Yu’s call came through, Tang Xiaohua answered, "Qu Secretary—"

"The President isn’t in the meeting! The President hasn’t been in the conference room at all! It’s Vice President Zhuo who is conducting the meeting!"

"Clunk!"

With a sudden brake, the jeep stopped by the roadside, "What did you say?"

"Madam, the President left the President Mansion alone!"

Tang Xiaohua immediately became annoyed, "Didn’t I tell you to watch him! Didn’t I already say that today is not safe! He cannot be allowed to leave the President Mansion! Qu Yu, can’t you understand what I say?!"

"I, I... The President deliberately shook me off, I couldn’t help it!"

Qu Yu was completely bewildered!

He had seen Wen Nian enter the conference room for the meeting, he and the other foreign envoys’ secretaries were all waiting outside. Just as the meeting ended, the door opened from the inside, but it was Zhuo Ting who came out, he said innocently,

"It was Wen Nian who asked him to come and conduct this meeting; the President left at seven-thirty."

Originally, Qu Yu didn’t really take Tang Xiaohua’s words seriously, because on this day, Wen Nian indeed needed to be busy with meetings, with no time to go out.

But now, with everything connecting, his heart inexplicably hung in suspense.

"You can’t even take care of this! How can you still be his secretary!"

Tang Xiaohua was so agitated, she completely took on the attitude of the President’s wife, scolding Qu Yu who was bewildered by her rebuke.

"You immediately get Minister Long Siyan to gather all the guards from the Guard Department, except those guarding the President Mansion, and get to the Great Bright Light Cinema right away. You must ensure Mr. President’s safety!"

"The Great Bright Light Cinema?"

Tang Xiaohua took a deep breath, "Row 12, seat 7 or 9 in Theater One. That should be his location, I’m heading there now!"

"Which Great Bright Light Cinema?" Qu Yu asked again.

This question stumped Tang Xiaohua too, she had only seen the name of the cinema, not which branch it was, and she didn’t have the ticket on her...

"’I Belonged to You’ is showing at eight o’clock. Check it out and you’ll know."

Qu Yu quickly acknowledged.

Tang Xiaohua was also searching on her phone; only one Bright Light Cinema had a showing in Theater One at eight o’clock for that movie. She instantly drove there, while also trying to call Wen Nian.

Wen Nian’s phone didn’t connect, and as she was only a turn away from Bright Light Cinema, she encountered a traffic blockade.

Tang Xiaohua was startled; she hurriedly got out of the car and squeezed through the crowd of onlookers. Noticing that it wasn’t just traffic police but also armed police present!

No way...

She pushed through the crowd, pulling out her security badge from her bag, "Excuse me! Excuse me!"

The traffic officer at the blockade line saw Tang Xiaohua pushing forward relentlessly and frowned, "What are you doing?"

Tang Xiaohua silently handed over her security badge, which startled the officer.

She took back her badge and asked, "What’s going on?"

The traffic officer whispered, "Bright Light Cinema, someone was kidnapped at gunpoint."

"..."

Tang Xiaohua’s face turned instantly pale, "Who was kidnapped."

"Cinema Theatre One."

"I’m asking you who!"

Tang Xiaohua pressed, lowering her voice and frowning!

The traffic officer repeated, "The entire Theatre One... all the people have been taken hostage."

"...How is that possible?"

"Officer Tang, for specifics, you should ask the armed police commander. We’re in charge of blocking the road and dispersing the crowd; I don’t really know the details inside."

Without waiting for the traffic officer to finish, Tang Xiaohua ran towards the armed police officer!

"More than a dozen people?"

After hearing the armed police officer’s words, Tang Xiaohua found it hard to comprehend; wasn’t it supposed to be just two robbers from a bank? How did it become more than a dozen people now...

"They’re not from our country; at first glance, it seems they’re spies from M country."

M country...

The country that has always been allied with G country, yet has never stopped its underhanded acts.

Even she could be considered to have died at the hands of M country.

If it was a spy organization from another country, suddenly hijacking a cinema in G country’s capital and taking nearly two hundred people in Theatre One hostage... Such a large-scale hijack must have a significant purpose.

"What do they want?"

"Money."

"How much?"

"3 billion US dollars."

"What?"

Tang Xiaohua frowned, she couldn’t even count how many zeros were behind that number; these criminals were making outrageous demands.

Converted into G country’s currency, it was almost one hundred eighty billion.

"To exchange the lives of two hundred people for one hundred eighty billion..."

Tang Xiaohua’s entire being was overwhelmed; daring to ask for this amount indicated that these people had a plan and premeditation.

Was the choice of Bright Light Cinema Theatre One a coincidence or...?