Chapter 147 — The Long-Awaited...
Years of Heartflutter · Page 475 of 501
Zhang Bin and Wang Mei, afraid of making Huang Yan lose face, both dressed themselves up with care. Yang Ce, by contrast, was still in casual clothes—though Huang Yan was not dressed very formally either, in a pure-looking woolen suit that actually matched Yan rather well.
At four in the afternoon the four set out from the hotel on time, again in Huang Yan's Toyota business van. It turned out Huang Yan's family villa was also over on Coloane; it seemed many rich people liked to buy villas out that way.
Yang Ce was already quite familiar with the terrain here, having often been in this area in recent days. On the way, as they passed Liu Jihao's villa, Yang Ce deliberately stole a glance at the situation inside.
He did not know whether the police had discovered the bodies inside, but from the look of things they seemed not to have been found yet; those corpses still lay cold inside the villa. Because it was winter, the bodies were not rotting quickly, so there was no smell to speak of.
But then again, even if the bodies had rotted and given off some odor, it would have been hard to detect anything unusual from outside the villa. In other words, if no one ever went into Liu Jihao's villa, those corpses would lie there forever.
Yang Ce even wondered whether, the next time he came to Macau and passed this way again, he would see a few skeletons inside the villa.
At last Huang Yan drove the car into the courtyard of a villa. Two guards on duty stood at the villa entrance, but when they saw Huang Yan's car they did not stop it for inspection the way they did other vehicles.
It must have been because the car belonged to the Huang family—and even if they did not recognize the car, could they fail to recognize the eldest daughter of the Huang family sitting in the driver's seat?
The villa courtyard was already packed with cars, not a few of them expensive. It seemed the people who ordinarily associated with Huang Yan's family were either rich or noble.
To be continued
879. A Party of the Wealthy (Part Two)
879 A Party of the Wealthy, Part Two. Huang Yan did not park in the villa courtyard—this was her home, after all—so she naturally drove the car down into the underground garage.
After coming up from the garage, the four walked together toward the villa's main entrance. Nearly everyone who came here held an invitation in hand; the occasional guest without one entered the villa only on the recommendation of someone who had one.
Huang Yan, obviously, had no need of any of that. The security staff checking invitations at the door saw her and naturally greeted her with a smile: "Miss."
"These are my friends," Huang Yan said to the guards, indicating Yang Ce, Zhang Bin, and Wang Mei.
"Sir, madam, welcome," the guards said hurriedly to Yang Ce and the others.
Yang Shuoxuan found nothing strange in this. These people drew their wages from the Huang family, so it was only natural they were utterly respectful to Huang Yan; and their respect for the rest of them was entirely on Huang Yan's account. Yang Ce did not flatter himself that he radiated some air of majesty.
The villa's ground floor was vast—a single great hall, perfectly suited to dances, cocktail parties, and the like. By now quite a few people had already arrived, most of them young, standing about in little groups of three or five, chatting.
"Wait here a moment, all of you—I'm going to find my second brother," Huang Yan said to Yang Ce and Wang Mei and the others.
"All right, go on," Yang Shuyu said. Huang Yan surely had her own business to attend to now that she was home. So Yang Ce and the other two found seats in a corner of the hall and sat down.
Huang Yan, meanwhile, hurried quickly up the stairs.
"Lele!" Someone in the crowd spotted Huang Yan and immediately came over to greet her.
Huang Yan turned and saw a friend she knew well: "Li Yu, you came too."
"Mm, I came with my brother." Li Yu smiled. "My brother's been thinking about you nonstop."