Ye Maoshan's stunned expression gradually turned into deep thought as Qiao Nian spoke calmly. He relaxed the vertical lines between his brows and sighed.
"I shouldn't be telling you this."
He didn't wait for Qiao Nian to speak again and took the initiative to change the subject: "Dinner is almost ready, let's go find your Aunt Lan and the others."
"Yeah." Qiao Nian responded and followed behind Old Man Ye.
Afterwards, Ye Maoshan seemed to have completely forgotten what he had discussed privately with Qiao Nian in the pavilion, and never mentioned it again at the dinner table.
I didn’t go to Ye Wangchuan to talk to him again.
Qiao Nian and the others stayed until the meal was over, and drank some water with the old man. They waited until Mr. Ye reached bedtime before they spoke up to leave the old house.
After walking out of the old house, Qiao Nian raised her hand to support her forehead and pressed her throbbing temple. Before getting in the car, she told Ye Wangchuan about the conversation that the old man had had with her alone.
"…I refused."
Ye Wangchuan had never thought that Si Xue could be related to the island. Seeing the girl's laziness and depression, he raised his hand to help her straighten her cap, raised his thin lips and said, "You don't have to think too much. The old man didn't mention it again, which means he thinks you are right. Otherwise, with his stubborn temper, if he doesn't agree with what you said, he will just find another opportunity to say it. He didn't continue to dwell on this matter because he agreed with what you said."
Qiao Nian raised her eyes slightly and looked at him: "What do you think?"
Just as she said, she didn't care much about other people's thoughts and it mainly depended on Ye Wangchuan's opinion.
To put it bluntly, this matter is between her and Ye Wangchuan, and Ye Wangchuan is the victim of the whole incident. If Ye Wangchuan also wants to give face to the island.
Then she forgets it.
Ye Wangchuan's deep eyes almost dragged her in and drowned her. His slender fingers gently touched the edge of her cheek: "What do you think?"
The skin of Qiao Nian felt hot where his fingertips touched, as if it had burned her heart. The throbbing heartbeat forced her to open her eyes and look at him, but she did not answer for a while.
"Tsk, I'll always stand by you!"
Ye Wangchuan didn't hear her answer and directly expressed his thoughts.
"You don't have to give me a choice. I never need a second choice for you." He always chose her firmly.
From the ring road to Beijing, and then to the independent island... they trust each other and make unwavering choices.
"Just do whatever you want to do without worrying about other people."
"good."
Qiao Nian half-closed her eyes and nodded. She was indeed a little annoyed by Si Xue's constant asking others to intercede for her. She had originally wanted to take it slow, but now she had changed her mind.
*
Qiao Nian had previously thought that Si Xue liked to manipulate public opinion, so she could just let public opinion hammer her to death.
But Si Xue and her fans were too unreasonable, even Tang Ning and several victims stood up to accuse Si Xue of her behavior.
The fans still insisted that those fans were Si Xue's black fans, and that the black fans were setting up a trap by doing things that hurt others in order to completely ruin Si Xue's reputation this time.
Si Xue was the most innocent person in the whole process.
She knows nothing.
The black fans secretly formed a small group and worked together with the professional fans in the group to do the bad things.
Si Xue's fans are very good at confusing right and wrong. The more they make up stories, the better they are at it. Later on, they even started to hint at the spectators who were unaware of the truth.
That group was created by Tang Ning.
It was said that Tang Ning was jealous of Si Xue's popularity and wanted to step on Si Xue to get to the top. She was trying to steal Si Xue's CP partner and clothes. It was just a small group, not impossible.
As their claims spread, many passers-by actually believed them. (End of this chapter)