Chapter 1867: Chapter 1867: A Few Footprints
She mustered up the courage to turn her head, but didn’t see anyone suspicious?
Mo Lan continued walking for a bit longer, and it really felt like someone was following her.
Could it be that they saw she wasn’t local and planned to rob her?
She didn’t dare to keep walking and stood in a crowded area, then took out her phone to call Ruan Tianling.
Ruan Tianling quickly sent someone to drive over and pick her up. Mo Lan felt much calmer after getting into the car.
Back at the estate, Jian Yufei, who had heard the news, was already waiting for her in the living room.
Seeing her return, Jian Yufei asked with concern, "Mo Lan, are you alright?"
"I’m fine, I think I might have been overly sensitive," Mo Lan said with a smile.
Jian Yufei, still worried, said, "Maybe someone really was following you. It’s best to go out with more people next time."
"I’ll just go out with you all from now on. I don’t dare to go out alone anymore."
Mo Lan had always been timid, and her long-term lack of social interaction made her fearful of the outside world.
In fact, she went out alone today to build up her courage and try to integrate into society.
Who would have thought something like this would happen, and it seemed her courage had grown even smaller.
"There aren’t that many bad people out there," Jian Yufei comforted her, and Mo Lan managed to shed some of her fear.
She soon forgot about the incident, and it left no shadow in her heart.
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At night when she went to bed, Mo Lan closed the doors and windows.
The weather was cold now, and even a slight breeze would make her shiver.
There was heating in the house, but the temperature was not high; it was just enough to keep her from feeling cold.
Mo Lan leaned against the bedhead, habitually flipping through some books and turned off the light after reading a few pages.
In the middle of the night, she drowsily felt the window moving, thinking it was just the wind, so she didn’t pay attention.
The next morning, after getting dressed and washed up, she opened the door leading to the balcony, letting in the fresh air from outside.
Stepping onto the balcony, she stretched lazily, and then noticed a few faint, hard-to-distinguish footprints on the clean floor.
Mo Lan was certain that the balcony floor had been clean the day before.
She always wore slippers inside the house, making it impossible to leave any footprints, and if she did, they wouldn’t be in that spot.
The footprints weren’t hers, and they were left before dawn.
Mo Lan remembered the sounds she heard in the middle of the night.
There was a window between the balcony and the bedroom; the footprints were beneath this window.
Last night, someone had tried to open the window to get into her room.
But the window was closed, so that person left empty-handed!
Mo Lan’s face turned pale as she hurried to find Ruan Tianling and the others.
This was a grave matter.
Such a large estate with strict security, and yet a thief managed to appear—this was completely disregarding Ruan Tianling’s abilities.
However, that was secondary; the main concern was that Mo Lan was a frail woman, and if the thief only intended to steal, it was one thing, but what if they meant to do worse?
Therefore, Ruan Tianling was very angry and immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the estate, leaving no area unchecked.
They also checked the surveillance to see who the person was.
However, it seemed that the person was very familiar with the location of the cameras and never appeared on them.
Jian Yufei said with a grim expression, "Could it be someone familiar with the estate?"
Who could be familiar with the surveillance?
Besides the estate’s owners, it could be the people who manage the estate, or someone who rented it in the past and got to know it.
But the most familiar ones would be the first two groups.
And the most, most familiar, would be the third group—the people managing the estate.