Qiao Nian saw that he didn't believe her: "I can't be 100% sure that he was rescued by someone, I just guessed that there is this possibility."
"As for who saved him? Why did he appear there? Including why he didn't contact you in the past few days from the Independent State... These are still mysteries for the time being."
Ji Nan looked at her nervously with sweat on his forehead. He clenched his fists and then unclenched them, and clenched them again. He wanted to say something several times but didn't know what to say.
Qiao Nian saw that he was anxious to find out the truth, especially to know whether Ji Lingfeng was still alive...
But she couldn't give him a definite answer right away.
Just then, Qiao Nian's cell phone suddenly rang.
She stopped and took out her cell phone, then looked down casually. She was stunned for a moment when she saw the caller ID on the screen, and then handed her phone to Ji Nan, who was still digesting the news that Ji Lingfeng might have been rescued.
"It's a call from Aunt Xie."
Ji Nan came back to his senses, reached out to take the call and saw that it was indeed his mother calling.
His cell phone fell into the sea and was broken long ago.
He had called Xie Yun before using Qiao Nian's phone, so it was normal for Xie Yun to call him again. Ji Nan pursed his lips and whispered to the girl, "I'll take a call."
"Go ahead." Qiao Nian put his hands in his pockets, quite casually.
Ji Nan picked up his phone and walked aside to answer it.
Qiao Nian couldn't put the phone back since he was holding it, so she could only wait for him to finish using it.
She was about ten meters away from Ji Nan, and could vaguely hear Ji Nan saying, "Now? But I don't have any results yet."
Then Jinan was silent for a while.
After a brief silence.
Qiao Nian heard Ji Nan's hoarse voice: "I know."
Then she saw Ji Nan coming back with her cell phone, apparently he had finished his call.
Ji Nan returned the phone to her and did not hide the truth from her: "My mother asked me to return to Independent Island, saying that things were not going well at home recently, so Ji Ziyin went back."
She raised her eyebrows and said with a half-smile, "She is never absent."
Ji Nan knew that she was talking about Ji Ziyin, who would rush to her when she smelled benefits. Her young and resolute face looked a little depressed and helpless. "My mother never intervened in the family affairs before. My father was the only one who managed them. Now that my father and I are not at home, the old guys in the family will not take her seriously. She can't hold on for long on her own. So I have to go back. I can't leave her alone to face these people..."
Qiao Nian's delicate eyebrows were tinged with coldness. She raised her eyes to look at him and said, "Do you think they will consider you?"
Ji Nan was stunned by her straightforward question, then he smiled bitterly, shrugged his shoulders, and looked back helplessly: "What else? My mother is alone at home, they are even more fearless! At least I am still the direct descendant of the Ji family, they have to be more concerned about my identity."
Qiao Nian was a person who had fought his way out of the pile of dead bodies in F Continent. He was very aware of the weaknesses of human nature, so he didn't take Ji Nan's naive words seriously: "Ji Ziyin wants the position of the head of the Ji family. As long as he doesn't go back, you alone can't stop anything by going back."
"They don't care about direct lineage, collateral lineage, or bloodline."
"… "
Ji Nan was involuntarily attracted by the girl's cold expression and looked at her involuntarily.
Qiao Nian said nonchalantly: "When faced with huge interests, people are like returning to the animal age. When an elephant falls down, no one cares whether the baby elephant is at home or not. They just gather together to discuss how to divide this huge beast."
(End of this chapter)