Ye Wangchuan contacted her every day these days, but never mentioned the tense situation between him and Sai Lan.
It wasn't that he didn't say anything, but he only talked about trivial things, which led to Qiao Nian not knowing that they had reached the point where Sai Lan was secretly looking for someone to assassinate her until Eleanor mentioned it.
"She..." Qiao Nian frowned unconsciously, then relaxed her brows after a while, stretched out her hand and patted his shoulder gently, as if silently standing in line: "You and I, Mr. Ye, Chenchen, we Always your family.”
"Tsk." Ye Wangchuan relaxed and chuckled, with deep affection in his eyes: "I know."
Qiao Nian nodded at him, and immediately turned away from Sai Lan's topic, looked into his eyes, and asked without any emotion in his dark eyes: "Can you tell me now, what are you hiding from me?"
Ji Lin was sweating for his Mr. Wang beside him. He thought that Miss Qiao had just changed the subject and comforted Mr. Wang so gently, which meant that she had put down the sharp questions before.
Unexpectedly, people turned a corner and returned to the starting point.
Ye Wangchuan sighed: "I said I didn't hide it from you, but you don't believe it."
"Yeah, so you can save this sentence." The girl straightened up one leg and leaned on the island. Her raised hibiscus face was extremely delicate, but it was extremely difficult to mess with or deceive.
Ye Wangchuan avoided her misty eyes, walked around her, walked to the island to get a cup, and took out lemon slices from the refrigerator.
He put two slices of fresh lemon into the cup for Qiao Nian, then added warm water to brew it. He raised his head and asked her, "Do you want some sugar?"
Qiao Nian frowned: "No." She didn't like the feeling of asking a question three times without answering directly. At this moment, an extra hand appeared in front of him and handed over the cup.
His slender fingers looked like works of art carved from white marble against the light of the folded cup, revealing the beauty of clear muscles and bones everywhere.
Qiao Nian liked good-looking things, so she stared at them for a while, and the annoyance in her chest was transferred to what kind of ring would look good on his hand.
"Thanks." She took the glass, took a sip absentmindedly, looked at his hand again, paused for a few seconds, pulled it away casually, and lowered her head to take a sip of water.
Ye Wangchuan seemed to notice her shifting gaze, but as if he didn't notice, he casually curled up his knuckled hands to unbutton his shirt cufflinks, took off a pair of obsidian cufflinks and placed them on the sink. , his fingertips brushed against the marble table, he rolled up his sleeves again, and wiped his hands leisurely.
"I didn't want to hide anything from you."
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Qiao Nian didn't move her eyes away, still looking at the towel he was wiping his hands with, but she devoted half of her energy to listening to him and didn't plan to talk to him before he spoke clearly.
"What happened in Port-au-Prince you mentioned was because of Theron's instructions. He is old and doesn't want his daughter to grow up enough to influence him. He needs to put a nail in it."
"He was unwilling to do it himself, so he had to find someone to do it for him. Sailan also knew this, but Sailan didn't care. She also had her own purpose. Shi Lao planted a nail into Port-au-Prince through the explosion in Port-au-Prince. If she remains indifferent, her father will wonder if she has other hidden cards. In addition, there are so many pairs of eyes watching her. If she doesn't make a fuss after suffering a loss, those people will also doubt her strength, and then she will. I don’t want to follow her anymore.” (End of Chapter)