"Grandpa, you don't need to be so polite. Just call me Ling'er. I'm here to see your grandson, Nie Yu. He got injured at school today, so I came to bring him medicine." Li Qingling shook the medicine bottle in her hand and smiled politely.

Upon hearing the word "grandfather," Nie Zhenyuan's face darkened instantly. Ke Min, standing beside him, awkwardly tugged at the corners of her mouth before explaining, "Ling'er, this is not Nie Yu's grandfather, but his father."

"Oh? So you're Nie Yu's father? Uncle, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. You're about the same age as my dad's father, so I mistook you for him~" Li Qingling smiled a little embarrassedly.

Nie Zhenyuan coughed lightly. Although he had a lot of complaints in his heart, he didn't dare to show them to Li Qingling. Then he pretended to be magnanimous and said, "It's alright, it's alright. Uncle had a son late in life. He was almost fifty years old when he had Nie Yu, his youngest son. Before, it wasn't just Ling'er who mistook me for Nie Yu's son!"

Ke Min chimed in, "Yes, yes, it's nothing, Ling'er. But you came to our house so late just to deliver medicine to Nie Yu?"

Li Qingling nodded, looked around but couldn't see Nie Yu anywhere. "Auntie, where is Nie Yu?"

Ke Min glanced at Nie Zhenyuan. Although they usually beat and kicked Nie Yu and treated him badly, they were still very sensible when outsiders were around in order to maintain the image of the Nie family. Naturally, they would not let Li Qingling know about Nie Yu's situation.

So she walked up to Li Qingling with a smile and said with a regretful look, "Ling'er, you've come at a really bad time. Yu'er is already asleep. Why don't you leave the medicine here, and I'll give it to him personally tomorrow when he wakes up?"

As Ke Min spoke, her hand reached towards the medicine bottle.

Li Qingling subconsciously took a step back, put the medicine bottle away, and her gaze fell on the family photo on the wall.

In the photo, Nie Zhenyuan and Ke Min are sitting in the middle, with two children standing on either side of them. One is Nie Yu, and the other is none other than Nie Fansheng, who bullied and injured Nie Yu at school today.

"Auntie, so Nie Fansheng and Nie Yu are both your sons?"

"Yes, yes." Ke Min awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth. "Although Nie Yu is not my biological son, I treat him like my own child."

For some reason, Li Qingling seemed innocent and well-behaved, but she was actually very perceptive and always asked unexpected questions. She could only try her best to brush off the topic and dared not say anything more.

Li Qingling glanced at the nervous Ke Min and said, "Auntie, since Nie Yu is already asleep, I won't disturb you two any longer."

She nodded politely, turned and walked out.

Ke Min, who was behind her, immediately pretended to shout, "Someone come here! It's too late now. You all follow Miss Ling'er and make sure to get her back to the Li family safely."

As Li Qingling walked out of the Nie family villa, several Nie family bodyguards caught up with her.

"Miss Ling'er, please wait a moment, let us drive you home."

Li Qingling turned her head, glanced at the bodyguards of the Nie family, and then looked at the fact that all the lights in the villa were off. She felt inexplicably uneasy.

When she entered the foyer, she saw a pair of men's leather shoes, a pair of high heels, and a pair of boys' sneakers. The family photo hanging in the living room showed four people in total.

Before this, she had never known that Nie Fansheng and Nie Yu were actually half-brothers.

Nie Fansheng bullied Nie Yu in front of everyone at school. Uncle Nie and Aunt Nie must have heard about it, but they seem to be indifferent to Nie Yu's injury and don't care at all. It's really strange.

Moreover, they kept saying that Nie Yu was already asleep, but she didn't see Nie Yu's shoes that she had taken off in the entryway just now.

For some reason, Li Qingling always felt that Nie Yu's parents were lying.

"Uncle, no need to trouble yourself, I can go back by myself." Li Qingling declined the bodyguards from the Nie family. She didn't want to be followed, after all, she still planned to sneak back to confirm her suspicions.

She walked out of the iron gate and pretended to go to the roadside to hail a taxi.

The bodyguards of the Nie family did not dare to be negligent and followed her out.

But the next second, more than a dozen black Mercedes-Benz cars suddenly appeared on the empty internal road and stopped at the gate of the Nie family. Then, the Li family guards and the elites led by Mo Feng all got out of the cars.

"Miss, we've finally found you! What are you doing here?" Seeing Li Qingling standing unharmed by the roadside, Mo Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Mo Feng? What brings you here?" Li Qingling was startled at first, then, realizing she might have been discovered sneaking out of the house, she immediately asked timidly, "Did Mommy find out I was missing?"

"Isn't that right? Miss, you must never sneak out at night again. Master Ting and the young mistress are worried sick." Mo Feng said as he took her little hand and carried her into the car.

The bodyguards behind him were startled by the scene before them. The leader of the group rushed forward to help hold the car door, bowing and explaining, "Mr. Mo, Miss Ling'er came to see our young master, but he is already asleep. Don't worry, even if you hadn't come, our master specifically instructed us to take Miss Ling'er home."

Mo Feng glanced at the bodyguards and said in a nonchalant tone, "Thank you for your trouble. We will take Miss home ourselves."

With that, he gave an order, and the dozen or so cars behind him started up at the same time, driving away from the Nie family's gate within ten seconds.

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