Chapter 162 What Kind of Person Is He? (1/2)

Tang Xia got more and more nervous as she thought about this and didn't know what to do. She took some time to find the office where Chu Tiankuo had worked and broke in without even knocking at the door.

The whole world became strange. There was nobody stopping her as she burst into the president's office.

A middle-aged man was going through some files in his seat and was startled when he saw her break in hurriedly.

He was in a business suit but looked obese because of his bloated figure and potbelly. Instead of giving others a feeling of being too fat, he had a look of a successful businessman on account of his nicely featured face.

”What do you want? Why did you break into my office all of a sudden?” The middle-aged man calmed down quickly. He frowned and questioned Tang Xia, who had burst in suddenly.

Tang Xia couldn't think of anything else. She looked blank and kept asking, ”Where's Chu Tiankuo? Have you seen Chu Tiankuo?”

She looked around and searched every corner of the president's office where someone could hide but didn't see the familiar, tall figure from her memory.

The middle-aged man watched her act in bewilderment, but didn't stop her.

Tang Xia was in despair because she couldn't find Chu Tiankuo anywhere. Her eyes, which used to be so vigorous, now became like a pool of stagnant water without any waves in it.

The president's office remained unchanged, but Chu Tiankuo was missing.

The cabinet was as brown as before, where the books that Chu Tiankuo had read lay peacefully. And the sky outside of the French window was as bright as usual. Everything was so usual.

But she felt something was wrong, awfully wrong.

Suddenly, her eyes fell on the middle-aged man beside her. She approached him and asked, ”Have you seen Chu Tiankuo? He's missing.”

”Chu Tiankuo? Who's Chu Tiankuo?” The middle-aged mand was puzzled. ”I never heard of such a person in the company. Is this woman a maniac?”

He sized Tang Xia up and down. She wore a floral dress with her hair tied back, looking unadorned and in good taste, which was certainly not what a maniac should look like.

In front of him was a nice-looking girl, after all. So the middle-aged man coughed slightly and explained in an amicable voice, ”Miss, I think you've made a mistake. There are about 100 employees in our company, but I have never heard of anyone named Chu Tiankuo.”

”What?” The spectators in the broadcast room were in an uproar, not knowing what had happened.

”How did Chu Tiankuo disappear without a reason?”

”What are we here for now that the hero has gone?”

A cat that never has dried fish: ”That's awful. What should Xiaxia do now that Chu Tiankuo has disappeared?”

Beauty Li: ”That's so horrible, thinking that a living person should have disappeared suddenly! That's too horrible.”

The longer my net name is, the more handsome I am: ”I think maybe there appears to be a bug in the system! That's not in line with the script!”

A fickle lot: ”Yes. I agree with the last poster.”

Please @ me if you see a beauty: ”Isn't there someone who can handle this system crash?”

Bowknot: ”Ah! Manager Chu! My Manager Chu, where the hell have you gone?”

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Tang Xia sat on the ground helplessly after hearing the middle-aged man's words. She felt full of regret now for letting Chu Tiankuo go then.

Would there be a different ending if she had forced him to stay, say, impudently?

The scenes in which Chu Tiankuo had been so nice to her began flooding into her mind: giving her medicine when she had sprained her foot, helping vent her anger, and attending her when she had been abandoned by Jiang Yuecheng and ill...

He was such a good man. Why hadn't she stopped him then?

”Tang Xia, you stupid fool. You've planned and schemed so much, but you lost the most important one in the end!”

Tang Xia sat on the ground feebly and held her legs in her arms as if all her energy had been taken away.

”It's all my fault. Chu Tiankuo... where the hell are you?”

The receptionist had said that their president's name was not Chu Tiankuo, while now the middle-aged man in front of her also told her that there was no such a person named Chu Tiankuo in the company.

He was nowhere to be found. Had he holed up?

”No, he couldn't have holed up.” She remembered the serious look on the receptionist's face and thought this couldn't be fake.

Chu Tiankuo was like a gust of wind and disappeared all of a sudden. Even everything related to him in the world also changed its appearance.

”Then there's only one possibility.” Tang Xia bit her lips. ”Chu Tiankuo has vanished!”

The world in her eyes turned grey as that notion came to her mind.

Tang Xia looked up and saw a line of words in the sky ahead: ”Mission success. Miss Tang Xia, please leave the virtual world right away because this world is going to collapse. 60 minutes remaining, starting now!”

Though feeling a void in her heart, Tang Xia was not that foolish. She turned back and looked again at the seat where Chu Tiankuo used to sit, and then clicked the ”Quit” button without hesitation.

She returned back to the real world in about one minute.

There had been a mass of remarks on the screen, most of which were about what had happened to Tang Xia and why would Chu Tiankuo disappear.