Qiao Nian watched her car disappear around the bend before she raised her leg and prepared to go back.
Just as she was about to reach the small Western-style building, she received a call from Guanyan.
Qiao Nian glanced at the caller ID and picked up the phone, her movements casual and unrestrained: "Qin Si said you haven't come back yet, where are you?"
"Why is he staring at me all day long to see if I'm coming back? I'm not his mother."
Guan Yan complained, then turned to business: "By the way, I called to tell you something. A friend I met in the slums is coming to see me, and I need to go meet him. I'll probably have dinner with him, and I won't be eating dinner at home after dinner. Please tell Young Master Ye that he doesn't need to worry about my meal tonight."
Since coming to the illegal area these past two days, Ye Wangchuan has been taking care of their meals.
Of course Guan Yan knew very well that he was just the one who was brought along, and Ye Shao was definitely not cooking for these minions.
But no matter what, she had been eating free meals for so many days, and she still understood the principle of being grateful to the person who fed her. Even if she didn't go back for dinner this time, she at least knew to say hello.
Qiao Nian stopped walking up the stairs and asked, "Do you want to meet a friend?"
The timing was such a coincidence that she couldn't help but think about it.
She didn't think that Nie Qingru could arrange things right after she separated from him.
But I always feel uneasy.
Guan Yan was quite relaxed: "He's an old friend, reliable, you don't have to worry."
When Qiao Nian heard her say that, he was silent for a moment and said softly, "Be careful."
Guan Yan responded immediately.
The two of them talked for a few more words, and it seemed that Guan Yan's time was up, so he simply told her the time he would be back and hung up the phone in a hurry.
Qiao Nian also hung up the phone, which was left with a busy tone, put away his phone, stared at it with dark eyes and thought for a while. Thinking that the friend Guan Yan had mentioned several times was reliable, he stopped thinking about it.
She put her phone in her pocket and took two steps forward into the building.
"Sister Qiao, you're back?" Qin Si heard the noise at the entrance and stretched his neck to see the person who came back. Although he didn't see the person he wanted to see, he still greeted Qiao Nian happily when he saw her come back.
Qiao Nian put down the box of cake that Jian Jin had forced upon her and walked in. She saw that in addition to Qin Si, Hua Bi, Mo Xi and Ji Lin were all in the living room.
The few people seemed to have become familiar with each other.
Huabi saw her and called out, "sun."
Others called her respectfully: "Miss Qiao, you are back."
Ji Lin and Qiao Nian have always been on a half-familiar relationship. They had some unpleasantness before, but Qiao Nian didn't take it to heart. Ji Lin has always been thinking about it and didn't dare to get too close to her.
Mo Xi was much better. He was a very versatile person, and he was also very perceptive, so he never thought that Qiao Nianpu was passing him by.
At this moment, he smiled and greeted the girl, then pointed to the study and said meaningfully, "Mr. Wang is on the phone inside."
Qiao Nian just happened to have something to discuss with Ye Wangchuan, so without thinking too much, she said politely to him and went straight to the study to find him.
Only a few people were left outside looking at each other.
Mo Xi watched Qiao Nian enter the study and close the door. He then patted Huabi's shoulder and smiled like a fox: "Brother, I think we are a family!"
Huabi is a straight man who hates being too intimate with the same sex. He immediately frowned and slapped his hand away, saying coolly, "I know."
(End of this chapter)