Chapter 538: This Was the Only Way

She had always thought of it as a small white rock. She didn’t know when she started wearing this white rock around her neck but it had been with her for the longest time. Moreover, she found it ugly, so she decided to give it to the older boy.

In the bedroom, Su Ye placed those two necklaces in a small box. The box was silver and was engraved with the drawing that he drew when he was a child.

He placed this box in a cabinet in front of his bed and this box contained his most unforgettable and painful memory.

“Tang Tang, I’m sorry!” Su Ye softly whispered as he looked out his window at the snowflakes that floated down from the skies. He didn’t know what else he could do but to apologize.

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He Xiyan saw the documents that Ye Hao brought home with him and there were more than a hundred pages. Each page contained a girl’s self-introduction and photograph.

She carefully looked through each page. These girls were all born between January to March 1997 and they were also all orphans who had gone missing. There were even some among them who had passed away. They were all spread across various cities in the country and worked in different occupations.

She would shake her head helplessly after looking at each document because she didn’t see anyone who looked like her sister. She had seen photographs of her younger sister when she was around a year old, so she quickly eliminated those who didn’t resemble her sister at all.

Ye Hao emerged from the bathroom after his bath and rubbed at his damp hair as he asked, “How was it? Did you find any leads?”

He had obtained these documents from the police station based on the basic information he had provided them with. For example, girls who were born in spring 1997, children who had gone missing at Xiang Province, children who went missing around 1.5 years of age, who wore blue jeans and red woolen jackets when they went missing, and so on.

He Xiyan sighed heavily and shook her head dejectedly after she looked through the final profile.

“None of them resemble her,” she said softly. She felt as though something was stuck in her heart.

More than twenty years had passed and she didn’t hope to reconcile with her sister but she only hoped that her sister was still alive. Then, her parents would be able to rest in peace and she would be able to fulfill her wish.

Ye Hao sat by her side and gently patted her back as he said, “Don’t be too upset. There are other methods around this. Why don’t I contact the city-wide television channel of Ye City on your behalf? They have a program where people go on to look for their missing relatives, so why don’t you go on the program and talk about He Yiyi and describe her basic profile, and when she went missing? Let’s see if we’ll be able to reunite with your sister through this program and the power of the internet or find someone who might know something. It is highly likely that He Yiyi was kidnapped by a human trafficker and sold to a couple who couldn’t have children of their own. If the couple comes across this program, they might even come forward.”

Ye Hao calmly proposed a solution. He knew that this matter had been on her mind for a while, so he had been thinking of many possible methods to search for her missing sister.

He Xiyan looked at him doubtfully and asked, “Do you think this method would work?”

Ye Hao replied, “Let’s give it a shot. It’d be hard to find her if we rely solely on the police since there were so many children who went missing more than twenty years ago and they might have even lost some of their documents, so it would be almost impossible to find her. Our chances might be higher if we utilize the media to find her.”

He Xiyan finally nodded after she carefully contemplated his words.

She guessed that this was the only possible solution and making use of the internet and media might be the only solution. If they still weren’t able to find her after that, maybe they just weren’t fated to meet in this lifetime.