She looked at Nie Qingru with a cold look in her eyes and retorted, "You are the least qualified person to say these things here! You asked me not to involve irrelevant people, but have you done it yourself?"
Nie Qingru's eyes moved slightly. After all, she was in the wrong on this matter.
His voice was choked for a moment, and his face looked extremely ugly!
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Qiao Nian showed no interest. There was still hostility around him, but his anger was not as strong as before. He returned to his cold attitude, not even wanting to look at her.
"Zhai Xicheng is not here with me."
"You lied."
Nie Qingru obviously didn't believe it and reacted strongly.
Qiao Nian had no interest in arguing with her. She took a sip of the water that Jian Jin poured for her, then slowly put the cup down with a normal expression: "Believe it or not."
Seeing her like this, Nie Qingru couldn't make up her mind for a while. She frowned slightly and her sharp eyes fell on Qiao Nian.
Like examining, like considering.
There just isn't any blood bond or gentleness that an elder should have.
"What about Xue Qing and those people? They are always in your hands." She finally stopped harping on Zhai Xicheng's affairs and instead mentioned other people.
Her main purpose of coming to the illegal area this time was to find Zhai Xicheng, and her secondary purpose was to get her people back from Qiao Nian.
She didn't even think about why Qiao Nian should let him go.
"When do you plan to release them?" Nie Qingru asked as if it was a matter of course, and even narrowed his eyes to show his dissatisfaction.
Qiao Nian probably heard the funniest joke of the day. He finally looked up at her. His black and white eyes looked her up and down, with a strange expression on his face.
"You...let me release him?"
Nie Qingru suppressed her dissatisfaction and tried to calm her tone: "Those people were not involved in what happened back then, and they have nothing to do with your mother's death."
It would have been better if she didn't mention Ji Qing, but she did.
Qiao Nian was filled with anger and interrupted her: "Do you think that as long as you tell me, I will pretend that nothing happened for your sake and make a big deal out of a small matter?"
Nie Qingru's face froze when she saw the most secret thoughts in her heart. She called out to her with a warning: "Qiao Nian."
Qiao Nian ignored her, smiled in a dull manner, pulled the corner of his mouth, and slightly curled up his red lips, which was extremely sarcastic.
"But why should I give you face? Who are you to me?"
"I'm your grandma!"
Veins bulged on Nie Qingru's forehead. He stood up in rage and looked down at her fiercely.
"Whether you admit it or not, my blood runs in your veins, and the fact that I am your grandmother will never change!"
"Heh." Qiao Nian looked at her unable to maintain the false appearance of calmness, and saw her true face revealed under the gentle coat, and he found it much more pleasing to the eye.
Nie Qingru suppressed her anger: "What are you laughing at?"
Everyone had already fallen out, and Qiao Nian was too lazy to play tricks on her, so he stood up, put his hands in his pockets, and confronted her face to face.
"When I laughed at you for using your own daughter's life to get your current position, did you ever think that one day you would stand in front of me with gnashing teeth, and could only rely on your status as a grandmother to pressure me to let your people go?"
She didn't wait for Nie Qingru to answer and answered for her: "You probably have never thought about it!"
To be precise, Qiao Nian spoke to me in an extremely cold tone. It was not sarcasm or anything, he was just stating a fact frankly.
(End of this chapter)