Chapter 327: Chapter 327 Recovery_1
I lost interest in continuing with my work and hastily packed up my things before leaving the company.

After calling Ding Xiao, I hurried to the school.

The young female teacher was being scolded by the principal, tears streaming down her face.

“It was my negligence. I had no idea the child could crawl through the railing. I thought she had gone to the restroom, and I was too busy to report the situation immediately. I’m sorry, it was all my fault; I was wrong…”

Ding Xiao stood by, his eyes betraying his panic.

I pulled him aside to ask for details,

“When did Ruirui go missing?”

“The teacher said she hasn’t seen her since after the third class. She didn’t know where she went and was too busy to think much of it, and she didn’t call me until the fourth class.”

“Have you checked all the nearby surveillance footage?”

“The footage near the school’s side gate showed Ruirui crawling out by herself. I watched that video repeatedly, and it seemed like there was someone across the street waving to her, so she went over.”

Being a man, Ding Xiao was anxious, yet his complexion seemed stable and his thoughts clear.

He pointed towards the road opposite, and after observing carefully, I realized that the area across the street was actually a blind spot that was out of the camera’s view.

Based on my observations and comparisons on the scene, I deduced that Ruirui had been kidnapped.

A bad premonition suddenly arose in me…

“Big Brother Ding, don’t panic; I might have a lead on this end,” I said.

“Who is it?”

“I can’t be sure at the moment, but I’ll go check it out right away.”

Ding Xiao looked worriedly at me,

“No matter who it is, no matter what conditions they offer, I’m willing to agree! I just want my daughter alive. This child has suffered a lot since she was little. As a father, I’ve failed to fulfill my responsibilities, failed to protect her.”

“I know. I’m on it,” I replied.

I turned around and walked a few steps down the street, a little farther from the school, then I dialed Gu Yuanzhou’s mobile phone.

“It was you who did this, wasn’t it?”

As soon as the call connected, I cut straight to the chase.

Gu Yuanzhou was laughing,

“Why, are you anxious?”

“I’m asking if it was you. Gu Yuanzhou, you beast, Ruirui is only five years old, the same age as your daughter. Have you gone mad? If you dare to hurt her, you are lower than pigs and dogs.”

Enraged, I began to curse him outright.

I admit, I had lost my reason, and right now I truly wanted to strangle him.

Gu Yuanzhou, after being cursed out, was also overcome with emotion and began shouting back at me,

“My darling is much more precious than her. She’s nothing but a bastard with the Ding surname. How dare you equate her with my darling!”

“Return Ruirui immediately, or I’m going to the police!”

“Are you threatening me?”

“Gu Yuanzhou, do you really think you can cover the sky with one hand, acting recklessly here? I tell you, no matter what your purpose is, you won’t achieve it. You’d better return Ruirui right now!”

Gu Yuanzhou snorted coldly,

“Or what? What can you do to me?”

“Think about Ayu. You’ll end up with the same fate as him! Too many wrongful deeds will lead to self-destruction! You won’t meet a good end.”

“Really? Then, we’ll see!”

With that, he hung up the phone.

When I called back, he had turned his phone off.

The bastard, how could he be so inhumane.

Anger dominated my emotions, and for a moment, my mind went blank.

Arguing with Gu Yuanzhou was obviously not the right move; such impulsivity wouldn’t result in anything.

I should go to the police. Ding Xiao had already done so, but with Gu Yuanzhou’s careful ways, he would surely cover his tracks well, and who knows if he would resort to killing to evade punishment.

The safety of the child made me look before and after, unable to make a decision.

Just then, Wenya called me.

“Ayun, hurry to the hospital! There’s a situation!”

This morning, when I went to the school to investigate Ding Rui’s issue, I had asked Wenya to come over and help me watch over Ding Yinuo.

Now that she suddenly called me, I realized something must have happened to Ding Yinuo, so I stretched out my hand to hail a taxi and rushed to the hospital.

I ran wildly all the way.

When I arrived at the door of the ward, Wenya was on the phone with Su Peisheng,

“You hurry over, there’s great news!”

Seeing me come over, she hung up the phone and came to greet me.

“What’s wrong, how’s Ding Yinuo?”

“President Ding can move!”

Wenya was extremely excited, dancing around like a child, and used gestures to describe what had just happened.

“When the nurse came to change his IV, I saw his finger move, really, it’s definitely not my eyes playing tricks.”

I looked at the man on the bed, his eyes still tightly shut, complexion pale as paper.

He lay quietly, just like he was sleeping.

This state had been going on for a whole month now, and every day I was hoping for his awakening.

But he never gave me any response.

“Really?”

“Really really, don’t you believe me?”

“Then show me!”

I smiled at Wenya.

In fact, I was more eager than anyone for Ding Yinuo to wake up.

Every day after giving him an injection, I would quietly observe his reactions, sometimes thinking too deeply, becoming a bit obsessed.

I would even have hallucinations, as if I saw Ding Yinuo blink sometimes, or move a bit, but after careful examination afterward.

I found these were just illusions of my own.

After several times like this, my hope in my heart was also diminishing day by day.

I had become much calmer.

At this moment, when Wenya said these things to me, my heart was calm like still water.

“Wait, let me try…”

Wenya pulled out Ding Yinuo’s left hand, laid it flat at the edge of the bed, and then said to him,

“President Ding, President Ding, Ayun is back. She wants to know if you miss her. If you do, move your finger, let her see.”

After saying that, Wenya stared closely at Ding Yinuo’s fingers.

Next, a miracle occurred.

Ding Yinuo’s index finger gently wobbled, although the movement was extremely small, we still caught it.

Wenya jumped up excitedly,

“Ayun, did you see that? You saw it, right?”

I stared at the scene in shock, momentarily doubting whether it was an involuntary twitch of his peripheral nerves.

“Let me try again!”

I walked up to Ding Yinuo, crouched down slightly, and grabbed his left hand, “Yinuo! I’m Ayun! If you can hear my voice, move your finger three times!”

After saying that, I held my breath, nervously watching his finger.

A few seconds later, his index finger began to move: once, twice, thrice…

Only after watching him clearly move three times did I become truly astounded.

If it were an unconscious twitch, it definitely wouldn’t be exactly three times; he must have understood my words and even followed my instructions.

“Look, there it moved, Ayun, I didn’t lie to you, did I?”

Wenya was also overjoyed.

I was so excited that I couldn’t speak for a while, and it took me a long time to recover before I said, “Let’s go find a doctor to examine him and see what’s going on.”