Chenglei got out of the restaurant and scouted the street for Xing but she was nowhere to be found. It felt like the devastated her he met a minute ago was a dream and as if she disappeared into thin air.
Chenglei cursed himself for letting some woman use his name. He had known the Liang family was using his name around but he didn't care since he had no intention of giving them the exposure of exploiting him but he should have handled these rumours since he decided to make Xing his woman.
Chenglei heard that Lord Ming entered the city gates that morning and the Emperor have summoned him to meet and so he wondered if he joined her brother to meet the Emperor and went back to the palace. But alas, she wasn't there either.