The Mo family castle is very large. On the second floor alone, there are more than a dozen rooms of various sizes.

Lu Jingxiao and Lin Yusheng shared a room, while Song Zhan and Song Shiyi each had a room.

After Mo Yunxi arranged everything, he looked at the others and said:

"I need to go out for some family business and will not be staying in the castle today. If you need anything, please call the butler. I will have the servants bring you dinner later. After dinner, go to bed early. I will come back tomorrow to take you to the auction site."

"Ms. Mo, if you have something to do, go ahead and do it first." Song Zhan said, "We will be fine."

Mo Yunxi nodded, turned and left.

After dinner, Lu Jingxiao had to attend a remote meeting and was forced to get into work mode.

Lin Yusheng lay on the bed looking at Lu Jingxiao, and suddenly felt sleepy and fell asleep.

Lu Jingxiao suddenly heard snoring in the middle of the meeting. He glanced at the girl on the bed and saw that she had fallen asleep as soon as she touched the bed. He felt helpless.

He ended the meeting, walked over to cover her with the quilt, and gently touched her head before returning to the computer to continue the meeting.

-

When Lin Yusheng woke up, there was only a night light on in the room.

The quilt was tightly covering her, and next to her was lying Lu Jingxiao.

Lu Jingxiao still had one hand on her waist, as if he was afraid that she would roll off the bed.

Lin Yusheng glanced at the Roman clock on the wall.

Three twenty-five in the morning.

Lin Yusheng frowned and sat up from the bed.

She did not wake up naturally, but heard a strange sound coming from somewhere in the castle, as if someone was chanting scriptures. The sound was long and distant, impacting the brain inch by inch. Although it sounded very hypnotic, for Lin Yusheng, it made her feel threatened and she subconsciously resisted.

She glanced at Lu Jingxiao and saw that he didn't seem to be woken up by the sound, so she tiptoed out of bed, left the room, and walked towards the source of the sound.

The interior structure of the castle was very complicated. Lin Yusheng walked through a passage and went up along a spiral staircase.

Because she felt that the sound came from upstairs.

After exiting the spiral staircase and passing through two hundred-meter-long passages, Lin Yusheng saw a hall. This hall had the same structure as the one when he first entered, but it was on the third floor. There were no sofas or other furniture, only a large candlestick in the middle with candles of various sizes on it.

The candles were burning, but no wax was dripping, and no one knew what material they were made of.

Lin Yusheng speculated that the hall where the candlesticks were placed should be directly above the main hall.

In other words, she had now left the living room and entered the main hall area.

At this moment, the strange voice disappeared.

Lin Yusheng walked forward and entered another passage. The voice just now came from the end of this passage.

There were rooms of different sizes on both sides of the passage. Lin Yusheng walked along and smelled the faint scent of lilac floating in the air, as if it was left by someone who had just been there.

At the end of the passage was a room that was larger than any of the rooms we had just passed.

There was a faint light coming through the crack in the door, obviously someone was living there.

Lin Yusheng stood in front of the door and paused for a few seconds. Not wanting to disturb him, he turned around and left back to his room.

In the second half of the night, she didn't hear the strange sound again and slept soundly.

-

The next morning, in the restaurant, Mo Fan sat in the restaurant with a dignified look on his face, eating breakfast.

"Miss, didn't you get enough rest?" The housekeeper saw that Mo Fan's face looked a little different from usual and showed a worried look.

Mo Fan pressed his brows and said, "I feel a little headache, I don't know why."

"After dinner, I'll ask the doctor to see you."

Mo Fan nodded and said nothing.

She took another sip of porridge and reached into her windbreaker pocket as usual, only to discover that the jade token that was supposed to be in her pocket was missing.

Mo Fan's expression changed immediately.

She stood up as if facing a formidable enemy, "Notify everyone! The entire castle is under martial law! From now on, no one is allowed to leave the castle without permission!"

"Miss, what happened?" The housekeeper looked at her in confusion.

Mo Fan's face was as cold as ice, "My jade token is gone!"

The butler's expression changed upon hearing this. "How could this happen? Who is so bold as to steal your jade token?"

"I'll put the guards on guard right now!"

The housekeeper didn't dare to delay for a moment and left in a hurry.

Jade plaques are family tokens and also a symbol of identity.

Those who hold the jade token can enter and exit important places such as the family's main hall, mobilize the family's power, and use any resources within the family.

In Beihanzhou, almost every family with a certain status has its own jade token.

This is something extremely important to the core members of the family, so they usually carry it with them.

Mo Fan never imagined that such a thing as the theft of the jade token could happen in her own home!

The butler came to the first floor of the castle and looked at the captain of the guards with a serious face. "The young lady's jade token was stolen. Was there anyone suspicious entering or leaving the castle last night?"

When the guard leader heard that the jade token was lost, his pupils trembled slightly and he quickly said, "No suspicious people were seen entering or leaving last night!"

"You are to immediately arrange for a group of people to search every corner of the castle to see if the young lady accidentally left it somewhere. Also, go check the surveillance footage."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

On the other side, Mo Fan returned to his room and searched everywhere, but still couldn't find the jade token.

Mo Fan's expression grew increasingly ugly.

She walked to the hall, saw the housekeeper, and asked coldly, "How is it?"

"The guards said that no one entered the castle last night, and no one has left the castle until now."

"How could a jade token like that actually grow legs and run away?" Mo Fan snapped. "Show me the surveillance footage! I want to see who is so blind as to even dare to steal my Mo family's jade token!"

At this moment, the guard captain had retrieved the surveillance video and handed the screen to Mo Fan.

Mo Fan sat down with a dark face and began to watch the surveillance footage from last night.

After just one glance, she frowned, "Why is the surveillance camera in the main hall black?"

"The surveillance in the main hall has been tampered with," the guard captain said. "But the surveillance in the living room and side hall is fine. I checked the surveillance and found that between 3 and 4 last night, a suspicious person came out of the side hall and headed towards the main hall..."

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