Qiao Nian was supporting her chin. Upon hearing Gu San talk to Ye Wangchuan about the ores and the Red Alliance, she replied him seriously.
[Sun: This time was an accident. Don’t worry, there shouldn’t be a next time.]
Back then, she was unsure how she could return the favor. Perhaps this batch of ores would help her repay part of it.
Qiao Nian exited the app after replying, not intending to reply any further. Slim Waist Control was the most talkative of the few of them. They had no idea what he usually did during the day, but it appeared that he had a lot of time to chat in the group. No matter who was replying him, he could manage to drag on the conversation for two hours. Since she knew that this was his unique ability, she couldn’t be bothered to go on chatting with him for now.
The moment she exited the Red Alliance app, a call came in.
Qiao Nian took a look at the caller ID. Her carefree expression faded, and she was more serious now as she answered the call. “Hello.”
Her voice wasn’t gentle and girly like Qiao Chen’s and Wu Jie’s. For some reason, her voice was slightly hoarse.
But it was a nice kind of hoarse. When she spoke slowly, it sounded like the alluring tune of a cello.
Ye Wangchuan was on the phone with Gu San initially. But he was getting distracted while listening to him talk about the batch of goods.
“Master Wang, I hear Miss Qiao’s voice. Are you with her?” Gu San was extremely vigilant, since he was talking about something so confidential. He immediately stopped talking about the Red Alliance, Ninth Branch, and the restricted area, and instead said, “I’ll wait for you to be back, then.”
He wasn’t guarded against Qiao Nian. It was just that Qiao Nian was, at best, slightly better than an ordinary high school girl. He didn’t think much of it.
He would assume that what they were discussing—the Red Alliance, Ninth Branch, restricted area—was unheard of to her.
He wasn’t looking down on Qiao Nian, either. He just didn’t think that she would be exposed to this sort of information.
These affairs were also very confidential, and a lot of larger and more powerful households in Beijing wanted to get hold of it. He was afraid that Qiao Nian would accidentally talk about it when chatting with her classmates, leading to consequences that would be too much to handle…
Ye Wangchuan understood his worries the moment he sensed Gu San’s alertness. He himself was not fully certain of how Qiao Nian and Sun were related. Even if he knew, he couldn’t reveal it without their permission. Hence, he did not ask Gu San to go on and instead said a quiet ‘Mm’ before hanging up.
The car quietened all of a sudden.
So, he could hear the person on the line with her.
“Now? Nothing much now, actually. I went to see Uncle Chen today, he’s not really in a very good state. I spoke a little to his doctor and plan to take a look at some overseas data to see if there are any similar to his… Oh, it’s very serious? Oh… I can go over. What time?”
Ye Wangchuan heard her discuss the time with the other party in a very close and familiar manner before she hung up.
When she was done with the call, he raised his brow but asked neutrally, “What happened?”
Qiao Nian put her cell phone down and turned to look at him with her beautiful face. She said with some frustration, “An elderly in my friend’s family is ill, I heard it’s very serious. They want me to have a look at him. I’ll be going to Beijing tomorrow.”
Her friend was from Beijing?
Ye Wangchuan looked surprised, but not especially so. He just found it strange that she did not ask that friend out for a meal when she took her examinations in Beijing.
“Do you want me to book you the flight tickets?”
