"?" Qiao Nian obviously didn't understand.
Qin Si let out a deep breath, not caring about his own face: "I haven't been able to contact her since this afternoon. I'm a little worried."
Qiao Nian reached out and picked up the phone on the desk, saying, "She called me this afternoon and said she was going to meet a friend..."
Qin Si nodded, still looking at her anxiously: "I know, I just always have an indescribable feeling, my heart is beating very fast. I'm afraid that she will feel annoyed if I contact her, so..."
"I'll try sending her a message."
Qiao Nian stopped talking, lowered his eyes, edited a message and sent it to Guan Yan.
Five minutes passed.
There was no movement on her WeChat.
Qin Si was still waiting in the room.
Qiao Nian thought about it, stood up, walked to the window, dialed Guan Yan's phone number and called.
"Beep..."
As soon as she dialed the number, she heard the sound of an electric current connecting the phone.
At this moment, Qiao Nian didn't realize anything was wrong. He put one hand in his pocket and waited coolly for Guan Yan to answer the call.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
The phone rang more than ten times, but no one answered.
Qiao Nian began to frown slightly, his dark eyes sank as if he was thinking about something, and the expression on his face changed from nonchalant at the beginning to stern.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently unavailable. Please try again later." No one answered Guan Yan's phone, and a mechanical female voice rang out.
Qiao Nian hung up the phone, put the phone away, frowned, pursed her red lips into a straight line, and stared at the screen without blinking.
Qin Si noticed that her face looked strange and immediately walked over to her: "What's wrong? Sister Qiao, can't get through?"
"Yeah." Qiao Nian was calmer and called again: "Don't worry, I'll try again. Maybe she didn't notice the phone just now." Qin Si looked at her without blinking.
A minute passed.
Guan Yan's phone received another mechanical call from a girl: "Sorry, the number you dialed is currently unanswered..."
This time, Qiao Nian hung up before he finished listening, and walked out past Qin Si: "Guan Yan might have been in trouble."
**
downstairs.
Mo Xi was preparing dinner and having hotpot in the evening, and Ji Lin was also called in to help.
Huabi was familiar with the illegal area and was sent out to buy drinks and some authentic spicy hot pot ingredients from Country Z that were difficult to find in the illegal area.
The bone soup stewing in the kitchen exudes a rich aroma, and the warm orange light in the living room is soft and cozy...
When Qiao Nian came down, Ye Wangchuan was sitting on the sofa and making a phone call.
He had a laptop on his knees, probably doing a video conference or something, with his bangs slightly pulled back to reveal his smooth forehead.
What is rare to see is that he wears a pair of frameless gold-rimmed glasses on his nose. His eyes are moving, and he looks arrogant and noble, just like a gentleman.
Qiao Nian heard him speaking Country Y fluently to the people in the video, with extremely standard pronunciation, and he was leaning lazily on the cushion.
Probably noticed her coming down.
He raised his eyes slightly, a smile on his thin lips, and looked at her, not knowing what she said to the person on the other end of the video.
Qiao Nian saw that he hung up the video after a while, took off the headset in his ear and talked to himself: "Why did you come down? It's not time for dinner yet."
Mo Xi also came out, wearing strange plastic gloves on his hands, and greeted her with a smile: "Miss Qiao, we are not finished yet."
He called Qiao Nian: "Please sit down for a while. Ji Lin and I will call you when we are done."
(End of this chapter)