Bai Cheng'an dialed Qian Sisi's cell phone over and over again. At first, it would ring but nobody answered, but later on, it went straight to a turned-off state.
Bai Cheng'an suddenly remembered to ask the banquet hall manager whether any guests had left behind a purse or bag.
Only then did the banquet hall manager recall that during the cleaning, they indeed collected a guest's purse and coat. Because they were rather valuable, they had been put under safekeeping, waiting for the guest to come back and claim them.
When the manager brought out the clothes and purse, Bai Cheng'an recognized them at a glance—they were Qian Sisi's!
And the phone in the purse, because it had been set to silent, did not make a sound even though Bai Cheng'an had called it until the battery died and it shut off.
"She didn't leave this place!" Bai Cheng'an asserted with certainty.
"Manager Zhang, have your people help look around, search each floor thoroughly!" Xie Qishan ordered.
