Chapter 97
Just one sentence made the girl freeze in place.
All the arguments she had prepared fell apart after hearing this sentence.
"What you said... is it true..." She wanted to hear a negative answer from Xia Yi's mouth, but the fact is the fact after all.
Xia Yi still nodded, "It's true. There's no need for me to lie to you under such circumstances."
Qiao Anning's body shook, and then she collapsed on the sofa.
After a long while, she slowly raised her head and looked at him with a final hope, "Then can you... tell me why she doesn't want to? No matter what happens, there must be a reason..."
Xia Yi originally didn't intend to say it, but seeing the girl looking at him so pleadingly, just to get a real answer, he couldn't bear it.
But he couldn't bring himself to talk about Qiao Ye behind his back.
He could only speak while organizing his words, "What Mr. Qiao hates most in his life is betrayal. I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying."
No matter what the girl thought, she was not a fool, so she knew what he meant after his first words came out.
She stood up and gave a forced smile, as if trying her best to maintain her dignity.
"I see... Then I understand. Thank you for telling me this."
She walked outside step by step.
Xia Yi sat in the office and did not say anything to stop her. To him, Qiao An Ning only needed to know the truth of the matter.
As for the rest, he couldn't stop them.
He sighed softly and walked back to his office.
After being with Qiao Ye for two years, he felt that he had aged a lot and even felt numb to life.
Ding Dong~
A text message was sent to his mobile phone.
One glance nearly made him fall out of his chair.
The text message was from Shang Yiran and contained only a short sentence.
"Joe is awake too."
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Joe also opened his eyes, looked at the unfamiliar ceiling, and blinked hard, trying to search out some trace of memory about the surrounding environment from his memory.
But they all ended in failure.
She didn't react until a familiar figure appeared in front of her.
We should be on Shang Yiran’s own territory now.
She was about to open her mouth to say something, but found that she couldn't make a sound at all.
"Your vocal cords are damaged, and you may not be able to speak for a while."
Anna, who had been standing beside her and observing her situation, spoke up.
Is this actually the case...
Since you can't speak, just lie in bed.
While recording the data, Anna warned, "You can only lie in bed now. You can't do anything else. The nutrients your body needs will be transported into your body through glucose."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Shang Yiran beside her and said, "It's best not to talk to her for more than half an hour. She's just awake now, but she still needs to rest."
This is a very obvious reminder.
Although Anna was not one of them, it could be inferred from the few words between them that Joe must have told her a lot of important news during the time he was unconscious.
"Ahem... I understand, I understand. I will definitely keep the time within half an hour." The woman coughed twice awkwardly.
"I hope it's the best for you."
Anna glanced at them and left with her notebook.
Qiao Ye and Shang Yiran were the only ones left in the room.
Although Qiao Ye had just woken up, he could feel that he seemed to have slept for a long time and he had almost no strength to lift his body.
Shang Yiran found a bench and sat down, then looked at her and told her all the important recent events that he had recorded.
But when she read the last part, she suddenly stopped.
I was a little hesitant, not knowing whether I should say it.
Hearing that she didn't continue, Qiao also opened his eyes and gestured to her, "Why don't you continue?"
The reason was simple, because the last thing was that Pei Qing had already resigned from the Xue Group, and at this point in time he had almost arrived in Country M.
Once this matter is revealed, it is uncertain whether Joe can still lie in bed.
She looked at her notebook, then looked at Qiao Ye who was lying on the bed and could only breathe weakly.
Finally, I talked about this matter.
As he spoke, he carefully observed Qiao Ye's expression.
Even though her face was covered in bandages, she showed almost no emotion.
Unexpectedly, apart from the fact that her body just moved a little when she first heard about this, Qiao Ye did not show any obvious emotional fluctuations.
The person lying on the bed took a deep breath and moved his hands on the edge of the bed.
Being able to move her index finger was the best she could do at the moment.
Realizing what she wanted to say, Shang Yiran took the tablet from her hand.
Relying on his familiarity with the keyboard, Joe laboriously typed out a line of words in English.
In this case, English is indeed expressed faster than Chinese.
Shang Yiran looked at the words on the tablet, confused.
“I see, and protect her.”
"But the situation in Mishiroda is so tense right now, it's inevitable that there will be omissions..."
Before Shang Yiran could finish his words, he saw Qiao Ye's index finger start typing on the tablet again.
“Try your best.”
After typing this sentence, she seemed to have released all the strength in her body, lay on the bed, and slowly closed her eyes.
The exhaustion was palpable.
Shang Yiran wanted to say something, but in the end he could only swallow everything that came to his mouth.
He tucked the corner of the quilt for her and said, "Then you should rest first."
After saying that, she walked out.
Anna was still sitting on the sofa, "Are you done?"
"She is no longer in a condition to continue speaking."
"That's right. For her, the most important thing right now is to recover." Anna spat out the betel nut in her mouth. "Okay, I'm going in to change her dressing."
"Okay. Sorry for bothering you lately."
"Why would it be such a hassle? Qiao pays me, and I provide her with services. It's only natural."
Shang Yiran sat on the sofa.
She didn't quite understand why Qiao Ye could still be so calm at this point.
Then, she laughed again. She was thinking about all sorts of messed up things.
It is because she can remain calm in such situations that she is Qiao Ye, and not some other messed up person.
She dialed Xia Yi's number, and the call was picked up after only one ring.
Before she could speak, Xia Yi's voice came first.
"Things are not good."
"What?"
"Pei Qing disappeared after landing. Even though I've located her phone, it's clear someone is faster than us. Now we're even more passive."
These words made Shang Yiran stand up from the sofa in an instant.
"What did you say?!"
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Pei Qing looked at the man in front of him.
If she wasn't sure that she had met Qiao Ye's father, Qiao Yang, she would hardly believe that the gentle man in front of her was Qiao Ye's father.
"Mr. Qiao, long time no see." She smiled, revealing a flawless smile.
"Long time no see, Miss Pei." The man also smiled faintly.
He sat in a wheelchair with his legs on it. This look, which should have seemed very embarrassing to others, now looked very noble on Qiao Yang.
"I wonder what purpose Mr. Qiao has in calling me here this time?"
Her intuition told her that Qiao Yang brought her here as soon as she got off the plane, and that he had no good intentions.
"Actually, I took great pains to invite Miss Pei to come to my place." Qiao Yang smiled bitterly. "Although Miss Pei has been in China for a long time, she must be familiar with the current situation in Country M. To be more precise, the current situation in Mishiroda State."
"I only know a little bit, Mr. Qiao thinks very highly of me."
"A little knowledge is enough."
Qiao Yang pushed the wheelchair towards the huge manor behind him.
As he walked, he said, "Recently, my daughter Qiao Ye and I have had some conflicts. As a result, our relationship has become irreconcilable. But as a father, I don't want to see this happen. So I can only ask Miss Pei to stay with me for a few days."
Pei Qing understood what he meant.
She didn't expect that she had just left the country and was brought here by Qiao Yang.
She followed him, "You mean the one in the country?"
"What exactly do you mean, Miss Pei?" Qiao Yang still maintained the smile on his face.
"Qiao Group is trying to poach Xue Group's employees."
"Haha... I see." The man chuckled. "That's what I meant. But job-hopping should be very common for you."
"So you can also use such despicable means." Pei Qing sneered.
"Miss Pei, what you said is a little wrong. After all, it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches the mouse, it is a good cat, right?"
Pei Qing didn't want to continue this topic with him, but she still wanted to get some news about Qiao Ye from Qiao Yang.
"I don't know, does Mr. Qiao know how Ah Ye is doing recently?"
She hasn't contacted Qiao Ye for more than a month.
Although they knew that Xue Xiaochen had a way to contact her, they didn't seem to want her to know.
When he heard her question, Qiao Yang did not speak immediately. Instead, he came to the bar in the manor, mixed a glass of wine for her, poured it into a highball glass, and handed it to her.
The meaning is very clear, drink and I will tell you.
Pei Qing stared at him, then looked at the wine in his hand, took it and drank it all in one gulp.
"Can you tell me now?"
"Of course." The man smiled.
I have to say that Qiao Yang is a very perfect businessman. He knows too well what it means to "don't hit someone who smiles at you". No matter how Pei Qing's emotions fluctuate, the smile on his face never changes.
"Do you see what I look like now?"
He looked at his wheelchair.
Following his gaze, Pei Qing also looked in that direction.
It's a normal wheelchair, nothing special.
But when Qiao Yang rolled up his trouser legs, his bandaged legs were exposed.
Even though it was wrapped in thick bandages, you could still see traces of blood seeping out.
"I wonder if Miss Pei has ever heard of this saying?"
An ominous premonition filled Pei Qing's heart, and she seemed to have guessed what Qiao Yang would say next.
"What?"
"The victor in the Xuanwu Gate fight will be the emperor; the loser in the Xiangji Temple fight will be the traitor."
My right eyelid twitched faster and faster.
The man looked at her and continued, "This is not just a joke. It applies to me as well."
Qiao Yang smiled again, but that smile was unfathomable. He said in a nonchalant tone, "So, Miss Pei, who do you think is more seriously injured, Xiao Ye or me?"
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