Qiao Nian pulled a chair nearby and sat down, with a shrewd look on his face: "You don't know?"
Mrs. Xie stood there with cold sweat on her back, but she didn't dare to wipe it off. She forced herself to play dumb and said, "I really don't know what you are talking about."
"… "
Qiao Nian looked at her for a few seconds and then looked away. Her slightly drooping bangs covered her brow bones, making her features look sharper. In her hand, she was playing with a lighter.
Old Mrs. Xie watched her flick the lighter and a faint blue flame lit up.
It was a simple action, but the murderous intent hidden in it was obvious.
Qiao Nian wanted her to die.
This realization made Old Lady Xie take a deep breath, and a chill ran up from the soles of her feet. She looked at the girl who pursed her lips and said nothing in horror, and whispered before she could speak: "You know Tingyun and Yun'er. I am also half your elder. According to the seniority in the family, Yun'er is your aunt. You should still call me grandma..."
She has the nerve to say this with such a flattering face.
It’s a pity that these words had no effect on Qiao Nian, but instead exposed the fact that she was guilty.
Qiao Nian raised an eyebrow and watched her impatiently bring up Xie Yun and Xie Tingyun to plead for mercy. Her eyes were grim and lacked much emotion.
"I have limited patience."
“…” Old Mrs. Xie was still stubborn and unwilling to speak.
Qiao Nianying held the lighter in her white hand and flicked it into a spark. She lazily reminded her, "If I didn't know anything, I wouldn't have asked you to come."
"Since I have come to this illegal area, I won't look for you for no reason. So if I were you, instead of playing dumb here, it would be better to be straightforward. This way everyone will be better off. Maybe for Aunt Xie's sake, I will let you go."
"How much do you know?" Mrs. Xie is not a stupid person.
After Qiao Nian said this, it was no longer realistic for her to say that she knew nothing.
She wasn't sure how much Qiao Nian knew. "All of it."
"… "
Old Mrs. Xie took another breath of cold air. The cold air entered her stomach and caused spasmodic pain, which stimulated her temples and caused them to ache.
She didn't completely believe what Qiao Nian said, and asked tentatively: "So you know why Ji Qing died?"
Qiao Nian didn't answer her immediately.
The expression of doubt on Mrs. Xie's face gradually calmed down. She clenched her palms and said calmly, "Qiao Nian, I advise you not to pursue it. The dead are dead, and the living have to live on! I admit that you are very powerful, even more powerful than Ji Qing..."
Her tone suddenly changed and became sharp: "But you have to understand that even if Ji Qing was replaced by you now, you would still be killed if you got involved in this matter!"
Her righteous warning did not sound false, and it seemed as if she was thinking about Qiao Nian in her words. Even if there was not much sincerity in it, it sounded like the sincere concern of an elder for the younger generation.
The girl just glanced at her calmly and replied nonchalantly: "Because of nuclear dissolution?"
"you?!"
Old Mrs. Xie seemed to be frightened. She looked at her with horror, her eyes filled with shock as if she had seen a ghost.
"You...you know?"
Her tongue seemed not to be her own, and she stammered out a sentence.
The shock in his eyes did not diminish at all.
Qiao Nian knows
How could Qiao Nian even know this
This is a secret within a secret!
If Qiao Nian knew even this, then what she said before, 'everything', was true, she really knew everything!
(End of this chapter)