Before she reached the place, she heard a commotion coming from the stairs.
"We're here to look for someone."
"Sorry, you can't go up."
"Get out of the way! I said, we are not here to cause trouble, we are here to look for someone."
"Feel sorry… "
Qiao Nian's head hurt from the noise and was about to walk faster when he heard a familiar name coming from the source of the noise.
"…We are here to look for Master Ye. Isn't he having dinner at your place today? We know him and we have something to ask him."
Qiao Nian paused slightly.
There are many people with the last name Ye in Beijing, but she intuitively felt that the 'Ye' the other person was referring to was the Ye she knew.
She turned her head to look and saw a corner of stairs below. The hollow opening was just enough to see the noisy crowd below.
There are three people in total.
Two men and one woman were arguing with several Xi Palace staff members.
Two of the men stood nearby without saying anything or bothering the staff. The noise she had just heard came mainly from the woman in front of her.
The woman was meticulously maintained from head to toe, with slightly curly hair tied up. Her age could be vaguely seen, probably around forty years old.
The two men following her were also quite old, in their forties.
"Hmm." Qiao Nian became interested and stopped where he was to listen for a while longer.
The middle-aged beautiful woman was still pulling the waiter, insisting on getting in. The waiter insisted on not letting non-guests go up to the top floor, and a conflict broke out between the two sides.
Perhaps because she was rejected repeatedly, the beautiful middle-aged woman gradually lost control, grabbing her cloak and speaking hysterically.
"Why don't you believe that we're not going to cause trouble! We just want to see Master Ye. It was his fiancée who told us that he was here! His fiancée agreed to our coming, but you insisted that we were disturbing him... This is totally inexplicable!"
Qiao Nian emerged from the shadows when he heard this: "Did Elena ask you to come?"
The people downstairs suddenly heard a female voice coming from upstairs. They all looked up and saw a girl wearing a baseball cap appear and walk towards the stairs.
The Xi Palace waiter was very considerate: "Miss Qiao."
The two men and one woman seemed to finally react and looked at Qiao Nian with surprised expressions.
One of the men, who looked elegant, gentle and polite, stepped forward and said to Qiao Nian, "Are you Qiao Nian, Miss Qiao?"
Qiao Nian put his hands in his pockets: "I am Qiao Nian."
As for whether it was Miss Qiao, she didn't know.
Si Chuyue stared at the girl in front of him in a daze. He couldn't connect the girl in front of him who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with her sleeves half rolled up to reveal her arms with the man who had sent his daughter to the police station in such a swift and decisive manner.
He later saw photos of the event on the day when Qiao Nian and Si Xue had a conflict.
Qiao Nian has an exquisite appearance. She and Ye Wangchuan walking hand in hand are like a pair of lovers. He subconsciously puts Qiao Nian in the role of the canary that is essential for a man.
She is pretty and has a gentle and soft personality.
No matter how cruel one is in private or how vicious one's methods are, at least one should appear gentle and harmless on the surface.
Si Chuyue's gaze didn't linger for a few seconds before he met the girl's sharp gaze as she squinted her eyes.
That gaze made his heart shrink suddenly, and his heart felt heavy. He subconsciously avoided the excessive gaze.
"Qiao, Miss Qiao." Si Chuyue had seen a lot of things in life. After taking a deep breath, he calmed down and introduced himself to the girl: "I'm Si Xue's father, Si Chuyue."