His confidant also tiptoed out and closed the door behind him.
He was suddenly the only one left in the room.
Leonard took two sips of warm water, feeling rather heavy-hearted, so he stood up and walked to the window to look at the night view of Independence Island.
He went back and didn't call Qiao Nian. This time he made a smart choice to call Feng Yu.
…
Feng Yu had just returned home when he received a call from Leonard.
"Sir, there's a call for you." The servant handed him the phone.
Feng Yugang had just changed his clothes and took the phone from the servant. He lowered his eyes to check the caller ID, and his wheat-colored face became serious: "You guys go out first."
All the servants in the house were out.
Feng Yu then slowly picked up the phone and smiled without missing a beat: "Mr. Lei, what brings you here? It's so late, is there something you want to talk to me about?"
Leonard didn't beat around the bush: "I want to see Qiao Nian."
Feng Yu had expected that he was coming for Qiao Nian, and he subconsciously frowned, then immediately relaxed his brows, still maintaining a smooth and polite attitude: "This... This is not something I can decide, you can go find her directly."
Leonard was not a smooth talker and interrupted him immediately: "You know she won't answer my call. She didn't respond to my message. I can't find her, so I can only look for you. Just tell me whether you can help me or not!"
If I reject him explicitly, it would be too offensive.
Feng Yu hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry, I need to ask her opinion on this."
Leonard didn't expect that he would still reject him. He smiled and said in a voice that was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, "I came to talk to her about painting."
"Painting?" Feng Yu didn't know that Leonard had stayed in the Independent Island looking for the painting, and he didn't know that Qiao Nian had got the painting first.
Leonard didn't explain too much to him: "Just tell her that I want to talk to her about the painting. She can set the conditions, I want the painting!"
He didn't give Feng Yu a chance to refuse again. He gave a time and place and hung up the phone.
Feng Yu heard the busy tone on the other end of the phone, slowly put down the hand holding the phone, frowned and thought for a moment, and then conveyed Leonard's words to Qiao Nian. **
"Reynard has arranged to meet me in the basement garage of the InterContinental Hotel at 5pm tomorrow."
In the car, after answering the phone, the girl turned her head and said to the man: "He wants to get the painting from me. In exchange, I can ask him for a favor."
"What do you want him to do?" Ye Wangchuan had long guessed that she wanted to take the painting only to exchange it with Leonard. After all, Qiao Nian had no use for it.
Qiao Nian raised the corners of her eyes, supported her chin with her hand and looked at the flashing neon lights outside the window. The light reflected on her face, which was half bright and half dark and it was impossible to tell her emotion.
"I want to ask someone."
Ye Wangchuan thought she was going to ask Ji Qing: "Aunt?"
Qiao Nian shook his head: "No."
She didn't say who it was.
Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Ye Wangchuan slightly closed his eyes, considerately didn't ask any more questions, and said, "I'll go with you tomorrow."
Qiao Nian originally thought it was inappropriate, but after thinking about it, he agreed: "We'll see when the time comes."
…
The next afternoon.
Because Leonard made the appointment at five o'clock in the afternoon, Qiao Nian didn't go there so early.
She stayed in the laboratory from morning to noon, working on the last experiment left in Ji Qing's USB drive.
This experiment is extremely complex.
Even though Qiao Nian is a genius, he has suffered a lot in this experiment during this period.
She has been working hard for several days since she came back from Continent F, but the progress of the experiment is pitifully slow and she is still just at the beginning.
(End of this chapter)