"Since you refused to come back in the first place, there is no need for you to come back now!" His face darkened and he spoke very impolitely.
He Lin was frightened when he heard this, fearing that Qiao Nian would just walk away.
He quickly looked at the girl, closely watching her reaction, ready to step in and smooth things over at any time.
After all, Qiao Nian has now entered the First Research Institute and won the first place in the December group assessment. He has the qualification to visit the Level 8 laboratory, which even Ji Zinyin does not have.
Although the Ji family is powerful, they are not to the point where they can cover the sky with one hand. The First Research Institute is not a place where they can have the final say.
For decades, the Ji family has been carefully cultivating and planning the family's influence in the First Research Institute. Qiao Nian is almost a genius in the field of black gunpowder.
Why doesn't He Lin want Qiao Nian to come back
So he reacted quickly, almost singing the same tune as Ji Hongyuan, and immediately sang the red face: "Sixth Elder, Miss... Miss Qiao is also young. Since she has come to our house, let's listen to what she says first."
After he finished speaking, he stared at the girl without blinking, his eyes full of expectation, and seemed to encourage the girl to speak out.
Qiao Nian watched their performance coldly. When everyone stopped talking, she raised her cap and said lazily, "Are you done?"
This attitude is extremely arrogant!
Everyone in the Ji family changed their expressions.
This is the old house of the Ji family in Independent Island!
There are few people in the Independent Continent who dare to have the same attitude as her.
There seemed to be a sense of tension in the air.
Mo Xi half-narrowed his eyes, put his hand in his pocket, and touched the weapon he brought with him, with a murderous aura that could erupt at any time.
Ji Lingfeng also saw him, and he glanced at Mo Xi out of the corner of his eye. The heavy sense of pressure from a superior weighed down on him.
The pressure was so great that Mo Xi could hardly breathe.
“…” Is this the courage of the head of the Ji family
Mo Xi pursed his lips into a straight line, his nerves tense, and withstood the overwhelming deterrent force pressing down on him, staring expressionlessly at all the people in the Ji family in the living room.
Fortunately, Ji Lingfeng only glanced at him and then looked away, returning his gaze to the girl, still unable to tell whether he was happy or angry: "What do you want?"
Qiao Nian didn't waste any words. He unzipped his shoulder bag and threw out a recorder.
In front of everyone in the Ji family, she simply turned on the recording pen.
It contained a record of the bet she had made with Ji Hongyuan at the underground auction a few days ago, as well as the final words Ji Hongyuan had said.
Qiao Nian finished playing the contents of the recorder, picked it up again, and casually glanced at the people in the living room.
"I'll come get the prize I won."
With just one sentence, everyone in the Ji family changed their expressions.
Ji Hongyuan was confident from the beginning, even a little contemptuous and arrogant.
Now, in a flash, he fell into the mud, was covered in dirt and looked miserable, with his thin face almost bursting.
He widened his eyes, grasped the handrails beside him with both hands, panted, and glared at Qiao Nian: "You...you...!"
Qiao Nian, however, didn't take his anger and shame seriously at all, and looked at Ji Lingfeng and the others nonchalantly: "I came here today to ask if the previous bet still counts. If it counts, you have been preparing for a few days, so you should be ready, right?"
He Lin was dumbfounded: "Ms. Qiao, you..."
She came here today to ask for the secret recipe of black gunpowder. No matter what the result is, this is an open enmity against the Ji family!
(End of this chapter)