"This..." The counselor hesitated. "Maybe we should keep looking. Xiao Xiao might contact us tonight. Besides, we can't report a missing person until it's been over 24 hours."
For some reason, Xiao Xiao's mother felt a strong unease in her chest. "But... Xiao Xiao has never done something like this before. I'm worried something happened to her."
"It's unlikely. Xiao Xiao is an adult now. What could happen to her? Let's keep searching." The counselor tried to reassure her.
"...Alright."
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Xiao's mother felt restless. Her eyelid was twitching incessantly. She had a feeling that something had happened to Xiao Xiao.
But she didn't know where to look for her. Xiao Xiao had always been obedient and never caused her to worry. It was only these past two years when her husband fell ill that this child had suffered.
Every time Xiao Xiao sent her money, she would ask where it came from. Xiao Xiao always said she earned it from tutoring.
But could tutoring really earn so much money? Whenever she questioned it, Xiao Xiao would say, "Why not? Tutors charge 200 yuan per hour, and I tutor five children a day. That's over 1,000 yuan. Plus, I make some money from filming videos and writing articles. It's easy to earn 40-50,000 yuan a month."
Xiao Xiao made it sound easy, but in reality, she couldn't get that many students for tutoring, and it wasn't possible to earn that much money from online videos all at once. It took time to accumulate. But her father needed money for treatment urgently, and they couldn't wait that long. That's why she resorted to selling her body to make quick money.
If she had any other way, she wouldn't have chosen this path.
In fact, Xiao Xiao used to have a boyfriend whom she dated for two years. When her father fell ill and needed money urgently, Xiao Xiao went to borrow money from her boyfriend.
It was called borrowing, but they both knew that once the money was lent, it wouldn't be returned.
It was a bottomless pit.
So she intentionally distanced herself from Xiao Xiao.
She didn't even break up with him, didn't answer his calls, and didn't return his messages.
Even though Xiao Xiao was naive, she understood what her boyfriend meant. In a fit of anger, she sold her virginity and got 100,000 yuan to treat her father.
That's how she ended up on this path.
She truly was a pitiful child!
...
Huang De Han was worried about being questioned by the police about why he rented the house, so he brought his new girlfriend to sleep in the rented apartment that night and asked her to move in.
The woman was sharing a house with her friends, so when she heard that Huang De Han had rented a place for her, she couldn't have been happier. That very night, she packed her things and moved into the one-bedroom apartment Huang De Han had rented.
You should know that in a first-tier city like Shenzhen, even a one-bedroom apartment costs several thousand yuan.
She couldn't afford to rent it alone.
Now that a man was renting a place for her, she would be crazy not to be happy!
Huang De Han also took his girlfriend to buy a lot of household items to let others know that he had rented this apartment for his girlfriend to live in.
That night, the two of them passionately enjoyed themselves in the rented apartment.
...
Xiao Xiao's mother was so worried that she couldn't sleep all night. She kept dialing Xiao Xiao's phone, but it was always turned off.
The school couldn't reach Xiao Xiao either. They asked many classmates, but none of them knew anything.
As soon as dawn broke, Xiao Xiao's mother hurriedly called the counselor to inquire about any news regarding Xiao Xiao.
"We have also been unable to contact Xiao Xiao," the counselor said in a grave voice.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao's mother's heart started pounding uncontrollably, and she anxiously exclaimed, "Let's report it to the police. Xiao Xiao is a responsible child; she wouldn't go a whole day and night without contacting the school. Something must have happened to her!"
