The Mr. Shen that the waiter mentioned was standing with his back to her in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window.
When he turned around and strode towards Qiao Kexin, Qiao Kexin even felt that breathing became difficult for a moment.
It is Shen Jingxiu.
He was so tall and imposing that he was incredibly intimidating.
Although his face was handsome, it was cold and aloof, and his dark eyes were as deep and intimidating as an abyss.
Qiao Kexin didn't dare to look him in the eye; her heart was pounding with fear and nervousness.
"...Mr. Shen."
Shen Jingxiu glanced at Qiao Kexin, unbuttoned one of his suit jacket buttons, and sat down on the sofa opposite her.
His voice was icy: "Do you know why I called you here?"
Qiao Kexin lowered her head and shook her head: "...I don't know."
"Don't know?" Shen Jingxiu tapped the sofa armrest twice, slowly curving his lips into a smile. "Didn't you tell Wen Yan on the terrace just now that you were going to expose her crimes to her older brother? Date rape drugs, nude photos, have you forgotten so quickly?"
"!!!" Qiao Kexin was struck dumb, her eyes widening as she looked up. "You heard everything?! I..."
Qiao Kexin's mind is a complete mess right now!
What should she do?!
Wen Yan forbade her to reveal this matter. If she did, Wen Yan would expose her secret to her stepfather and stepbrother.
If her stepfather and stepbrother knew that she had almost killed her stepbrother, she would be dead!
"No!" No, she can't say it.
Qiao Kexin was so anxious that tears were about to come out. She looked at Shen Jingxiu and shook her head.
"No, you misheard. No, I misspoke. I was just kidding! There's nothing to it at all. I asked Wen Yan for help, but she refused, so I started making things up. It really isn't true! Please don't take it seriously, and please don't ask Wen Yan, okay?"
Oh.
Qiao Kexin's response was a sarcastic remark.
Shen Jingxiu buttoned up his suit jacket and stood up, approaching Qiao Kexin step by step.
"It seems you've been completely controlled by my sister. But do you really think I'm that easy to fool? Hmm? I don't know how my sister managed to subdue you, but perhaps you'd like to see what I'm capable of."
"No!" Qiao Kexin was forced to slump onto the sofa behind her. "It was all a lie. I didn't think you were easy to fool, and I wouldn't dare to fool you. Just pretend nothing happened, okay?"
"Qiao Zhigao, your stepfather. He'll be in front of me within a minute of me making a phone call. Are you planning to tell the truth to me alone, or to him?"
Shen Jingxiu took out his phone and, in front of Qiao Kexin, found out her stepfather Qiao Zhigao's phone number.
With a light press of the thumb, the call was made.
Qiao Kexin knew that Shen Jingxiu wasn't exaggerating. As long as he got through on the phone, her stepfather would fawn over Shen Jingxiu like a grandson.
But if she offends Shen Jingxiu and the Shen family because of this, and also has to make her stepfather grovel before Shen Jingxiu, then she will definitely feel worse than dead when she goes back!
So this call cannot be made!
Qiao Kexin made her choice immediately.
“Tell me! I’ll tell you everything! Please hang up and don’t call my stepfather! But if I tell you the truth, can you let me go? Because I know I was wrong now, really.”
Having achieved his goal, Shen Jingxiu hung up the phone and put it away.
"You think you have the right to bargain? Tell me the whole story, from beginning to end."
Qiao Kexin was on the verge of tears, but she had no other choice but to tell Wen Yan about her failed attempt to drug Shen Jingxiu.
"...We originally agreed to drug you so you could stay in the Shen family forever. I was the one who gave you the drug. But on Madam Shen's birthday, when I messaged her to ask about the results, she suddenly changed her story and told me that she was just joking with me, that she was playing me, and that she had always treated you like her own brother and would never do such a thing to you."
"A few days later, she broke off all contact with me. On the night she broke off contact, I ran into you while we were having dinner at a restaurant. At that time, you were on a blind date."
"What I'm saying now is all true. I know it's my fault, it was my jealousy that caused this. Wen Yan broke off all contact with me a long time ago, and I've already lost her as a friend."
“She didn’t do anything to you, she was just playing me. So please don’t tell her what I’m telling you. Just pretend you never went to that terrace tonight and didn’t hear anything, okay? I’m begging you, Mr. Shen, this is really important to me.”
After hearing all this, Shen Jingxiu recalled the night of Su Yang's birthday.
It was also the night he discovered he could suddenly hear Wen Yan's thoughts that Wen Yan inexplicably stood at his door with a glass of juice.
And then one day at a restaurant, he happened to sit behind Wen Yan, and at that time he did hear Wen Yan asking Qiao Kexin for a debt and preparing to sever ties with Qiao Kexin.
He narrowed his eyes, his gaze returning to Qiao Kexin's tear-streaked face.
"I heard you have the chat history?"
"No!" Qiao Kexin immediately denied. "I deleted it! Wen Yan already told me to delete it all."
"Don't you have a backup?"
No! I swear!
"What if I say I don't believe you? Or do you want to suffer a little?"
“No,” Qiao Kexin shook her head, “I don’t want to, I’ll take it out and show it to you right now.”
In front of Shen Jingxiu, Qiao Kexin opened her phone's cloud storage.
"It's all here; there really isn't any more anywhere else. See?"
Shen Jingxiu glanced at it briefly; there was a screen recording, and it didn't seem to be photoshopped.
Regardless of what kind of instigation Wen Yan had received or what kind of foolish mistakes he had made in the past, he only knew that he had never been drugged by anyone.
She never said a bad word about herself, either verbally or in her heart.
After giving Qiao Kexin a cold look, Shen Jingxiu commanded:
"Delete her completely. Leave City A and never appear in front of her again, or I won't hesitate to personally arrange for you to leave, understand?"
Leaving City A? Qiao Kexin didn't want to. But it seemed she had no other choice.
She looked at Shen Jingxiu and asked, "So you've promised me you won't tell Wen Yan about this, right?"
If he tells Wen Yan, and Wen Yan then reports him to her stepfather, it will be difficult for her to leave City A.
However, Shen Jingxiu's response to her was only one word.
"roll."
He certainly wouldn't ask Wen Yan directly, because from the beginning he had no intention of embarrassing her.
So the only option was to call Qiao Kexin over and interrogate her.
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