She didn't go on New Year's Eve, but when she went on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Yisheng was not there, nor were Anu and the elderly nanny.
Gu Jiao knocked on the door of the Liu family mansion once again.
To her surprise, there was still no response.
"No one again? Did they go out, or has it been empty these days?"
Gu Jiao listened quietly for any movement inside. With Liu Yisheng's special identity, too many in Capital City wanted to bully him. Gu Jiao wasn't sure if something had happened to him. She grabbed a tree trunk with her left hand and pulled herself over the wall with a strong tug.
The courtyard was covered with snow, with no strange footprints.
The courtyard door was bolted from the inside, not locked from the outside, but if one passed through the hall to the back door, they would find that the back door was locked from the outside.
So they really had gone out.
A layer of dust had settled inside the house, yet there were no signs of a struggle.