The Baby I Lost Is Actually with My Ex-Husband!

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: A Fine Line Between Life and Death

Huace Tower.

Inside the meeting room.

Huo Tingdong raised his hand, signaling for the meeting to pause.

He held his cell phone, and all he could hear from the other end was the howling wind; Lin Qi’s voice was intermittent, unclear about the substantial content.

“What are you saying?” Huo Tingdong said, “I can’t hear clearly.”

“Huo Tingdong… you… save…” Lin Qi’s intermittent voice came again.

Then, only the sound of the wind tearing through air could be heard, followed by a loud “bang”, and the line went dead with a “beep beep beep” busy tone.

Huo Tingdong stared at the dark phone screen, a look of confusion in his eyes.

“Mr. Huo, shall we continue the meeting?” the meeting assistant stood by, timidly asked.

Huo Tingdong casually picked up the planning proposal, looked up and glared at his face, coldly retorting, “Are you wasting my time with this kind of proposal?”

With a “whoosh”.

He fiercely threw the planning proposal away.

The binder immediately fell apart, and the white A4 papers fluttered like snowflakes, scattering across every corner of the meeting room.

Huo Tingdong stood up and said, “Use your brains for everything. Such a planning proposal should go directly into the bin, not waste my time in front of me! I’ll say it again, I don’t breed incompetence under my command. Those who can’t handle it, leave!”

After speaking, he walked out of the meeting room.

The vast meeting room was filled with a succession of gasps.

Everyone sat stunned in place, not daring to move.

Mo Ke cleared his throat and announced, “Meeting adjourned.”

He rushed out of the meeting room, following after.

Huo Tingdong slowed his pace, he redialed Lin Qi’s number, but it was indicated as unreachable.

Mo Ke asked, “Mr. Huo, was that call from Miss Lin just now?”

Huo Tingdong replied, “Unreachable. Her phone is off.”

Mo Ke furrowed his brows.

He said, “During the meeting just now, I received a call, saying there was an incident at Yuanzhou Building, someone is standing at a high spot, threatening to jump. Someone uploaded a live video, reportedly, one of the jumpers is Mrs. Fang…”

Huo Tingdong’s gaze sharpened, thinking of something, he immediately said to Mo Ke, “Prepare the car, prepare the car!”

Mo Ke hadn’t yet reacted, simply following his instinct, took out his phone to contact the driver.

“It’s too late.” Huo Tingdong spread his hand, “Keys.”

“Huo…”

“The car keys!” Huo Tingdong demanded loudly.

Mo Ke immediately took out a set of car keys and handed them to him.

Huo Tingdong took the keys and hurried towards the elevator.

“Mr. Huo…”

Mo Ke snapped back to reality and chased after him, rushing to the elevator entrance, but Huo Tingdong had already entered the elevator, the doors closed, heading downward.

…

The Aston Martin darted across the road, running through over a dozen red lights, without stopping.

Huo Tingdong drove the sports car at high speed, staring fixedly ahead, radiating a chilling aura.

The excessive speed and the roar of the engine seemed to tear through one’s eardrums.

The car had just entered Yuanzhou Building when Huo Tingdong parked it, not even bothering to turn off the engine before opening the door and stepping out.

Below the building, a yellow rescue air cushion was being inflated.

The fire department set up a cordon and evacuated the crowd, but still many people gathered below, looking up toward a spot on the high building.

Huo Tingdong just looked up and saw two people standing on a narrow ledge of the twentieth-something floor.

The crowd was abuzz.

“What has upset Mrs. Fang so much that she’s trying to jump off the building with an employee!”

“Early this morning, I saw Mrs. Fang beaten all over, even her prosthetic face was knocked askew. She hurried around, looking for someone, apparently named Lin Qi…”

“Domestic violence? Mr. and Mrs. Fang have always been affectionate, how could there be domestic violence?”

“It’s said that Mr. Fang had an affair and wants to divorce her, and doesn’t even want their son! Mrs. Fang used to be glamorous, but now she’s been kicked out and become an abandoned wife. She couldn’t bear it…”

Suddenly, a gasp erupted from the crowd.

A person fell from a window twenty-something floors high, seemingly caught by something, dangling dangerously.

“They are about to fall!”

“Twenty-three floors high, a fall would be fatal or severely injurious, right?!”

“Oh my! That’s a half-open window, the rescue is extremely difficult. Two people standing on the window ledge, the fire brigade can hardly carry out a rescue…”

Huo Tingdong clenched his fists and was about to rush up.

As he turned, another deafening gasp erupted from the crowd.

“Someone fell down!”

“Ah—!!”

Amid the intermittent screams from the crowd, a heavy weight thudded onto the airbag, deeply indenting it.

Lin Qi…

Huo Tingdong’s pupils constricted, and he immediately broke through the police cordon toward the airbag.

“Sir, please don’t go over there…”

A firefighter immediately stopped him.

Huo Tingdong, in his agitation, shoved the firefighter aside and rushed to the airbag, finding a person lying at the center, their arms and legs twisted out of shape.

From behind, a trembling voice discussed amongst the crowd: “Even with the airbag, falling from such a height could be deadly…”

“The protection of the airbag is limited… I’ve seen someone jump from a dozen floors high, hit the airbag, and due to insufficient air, ended up severely mangled…”

Some, who were faint-hearted, had already covered their eyes, unable to watch any further.

Huo Tingdong’s breathing began to falter.

He climbed onto the airbag, grabbed the woman’s shoulders, and turned her over. The woman had already passed out.

Huo Tingdong saw her face and his breath hitched.

Mrs. Fang…

Huo Tingdong loosened his grip and, nearby, the fire brigade shouted.

“There’s another person upstairs! Hurry and rescue them!”

Twenty-third floor.

Lin Qi watched in horror as Mrs. Fang fell.

Just minutes ago, her hand had been tightly handcuffed to Mrs. Fang’s.

With her persuasion, Mrs. Fang had gone from an emotional collapse to gradually regaining calm and no longer impulsively wanting to jump. Perhaps, people instinctively fear death, and facing it, Mrs. Fang regretted her impulse.

But just as they were trying to climb back, Mrs. Fang misstepped and fell accidentally.

Lin Qi almost got dragged down—if not for her tightly gripping the window ledge.

But she couldn’t support Mrs. Fang’s full weight.

For a moment, Lin Qi felt she could no longer hold on, and just as she was struck by fear, unexpectedly, the handcuffs slipped off her wrist.

She was too thin, such that the handcuffs had scraped a layer of skin off her bone.

Mrs. Fang lost her balance and plunged downward!

“Give me your hand!”

A hand reached out from inside the window.

Firefighters leaned out halfway and pulled her back to safety.

Lin Qi’s arm was dislocated, causing her to break into a cold sweat from the pain.

“Lin Qi…” Amid the noisy crowd, a distinctly recognizable voice came from above.

Lin Qi looked up, and Huo Tingdong stood before her, his face ashen.