She looked at the rebellious and unruly girl who sat down right under her nose, and a surge of anger rose between her brows, but she suppressed it forcefully.
Nie Qingru suppressed her temper and sat back with a cold face. She never took her eyes off Qiao Nian and asked in a pressured tone, "Where's Xicheng? What did you do to him?"
Jian Jin pushed the door open outside.
He walked up to Qiao Nian and handed her the water: "Warm."
Qiao Nian seemed not to hear Nie Qingru's aggressive questioning. She gently took the water from Jian Jin's hand, held the glass and said, "Thank you."
Jian Jin also smiled at her intimately: "I'm going out first, call me if you need anything."
"OK."
Qiao Nian put the water on the table.
Before going out, Jian Jin glanced in the direction of Nie Qingru, said nothing, and silently retreated, closing the door behind her.
Suddenly, there were only three of them left in the office.
Nie Qingru had just been completely ignored, her face became even darker, veins on her neck bulged, and it was obvious that she was trying hard to suppress her emotions.
But disgust, coldness and hatred towards Qiao Nian leaked out from his eyes.
She seemed to have reached the limit of her patience, and she raised her voice again: "Qiao Nian, you know why I came to you today. There is no need for you to act stupid here, my patience is limited..."
"You can go." The girl raised her head at this time, revealing a delicate and beautiful face under the baseball cap. The distant mountains were indigo, far more stunning than Nie Qingru's life.
And she has a unique temperament that cannot be ignored. She seems nonchalant and has no interest in anything around her, but her aura is so strong that it cannot be ignored.
Nie Qingru frowned coldly.
She watched the girl sitting on the sofa opposite her slowly take out a lighter from her pocket and play with it, curled up on the sofa, with an even worse temper than hers, and she didn't even bother to look at her.
"I agreed to come and see you because you begged me, not me. Please clarify the current situation before talking to me."
"..." How could Nie Qing have ever suffered such a humiliation
The way she looked at the girl was more than just wanting to tear her apart. She was already like a poisonous snake and couldn't even appear gentle on the surface!
What comes out is the deepest disgust in my heart: "I really should cut off the roots!"
She regretted it.
If she had known that after Ji Qing's death, she should have listened to the advice of people around her and carefully investigated Ji Qing's life and interpersonal relationships.
Instead of ending the matter hastily and letting Qiao Nian grow up.
Qiao Nian listened to her resentful curse and met her gaze expressionlessly. His emotions were calm and he was not affected by her at all. "You came to me today just to say this? That's not necessary. I'm tired of hearing it."
Nie Qingru suppressed the anger of being provoked, clenched his hands on his knees, and tried his best to calm down and talk about the matter.
"Qiao Nian, what do you want in exchange for letting Xicheng go?"
'Pah-chi'.
The girl casually lit the lighter in her hand.
Then her fair hands extinguished the flame again, and her dark eyes were bottomless, as if filled with some inexplicable emotion.
But at this moment, Nie Qingru's mind was full of Zhai Xicheng's safety. She didn't notice the sudden change in Qiao Nian's mood when he heard her words, and continued to talk about this topic.
"You arrested him just to threaten me. Now I'm here to find you. If you have anything to say, just come to me directly. There's no need to involve irrelevant people!"
"Are you qualified to say this to me?"
Qiao Nian's emotions were ignited in an instant, and he pinched the silver lighter in his palm with a snap.
(End of this chapter)