Looking at him, Zhu Qianying answered almost without thinking.
"I went out to chat with Qi Xiao for a while at noon, and then spent the afternoon with my mom after I came back."
In Zhu Qianying's view, going out with Qi Xiao was perfectly aboveboard, and there was no need to hide it.
Having known Yan Shao for so long, she has gradually come to understand his temperament.
That is, talk things out calmly; the more you try to cover things up, the more he will overthink it.
Because he was not someone with ordinary intelligence who could be easily fooled.
Hearing her straightforward answer, Yan Shao's gaze softened even more.
"Okay, get up, it's time to eat!"
Zhu Qianying said "oh" again. Yan Shao watched her get out of bed and go into the bathroom. For some reason, he let out a soft sigh.
The two chatted casually about the weather and current events as they went downstairs. During dinner, Zhu Qianying suddenly said something that left Yan Shao puzzled.
"Young Master Yan, thank you!"
Yan Shao hadn't asked her about buying the house, wanting to see if she would explain it to him on her own initiative. But when he suddenly heard her thank him, even someone as smart as Yan Shao was a little confused.
She made it clear to Qin Xiu that she wouldn't buy a building; in other words, she refused his offer to give her an apartment as a gift.
So, what did she thank him for?
Unable to guess why she was thanking him, Young Master Yan looked up at her with a puzzled expression.
"Thank me for what?"
"I asked Qi Xiao about my dad and his family a couple of days ago, and he asked me out today to talk about this."
"Hmm..." Young Master Yan responded, and didn't ask any further questions.
Clearly, Zhu Qianying's "thank you" was directed at the right person.
After Mingxuan Hotel resubmitted its loan applications to various banks, it has received replies from the banks from yesterday to today, and has been rejected for the same reasons as before.
Even after the Zhu and Yan families had formed a marriage alliance, the Mingxuan Hotel's loan application was still rejected. What does this indicate?
This indicates that the Yan family has clearly stated to the major banks that all of the Zhu family's economic activities and business operations are unrelated to the Yan family.
"You've laid your cards on the table with all the major banks, haven't you?"
Why did Zhu Qianying come to this conclusion?
Although the Yan family had issued such a statement before, at that time the Zhu family and the Yan family actually had no relationship. Therefore, it was quite normal for the bank not to support the Zhu family.
However, once the marriage between the Yan and Zhu families became a reality, the persuasiveness of the statement was clearly not as strong as the fact of the marriage itself. Therefore, unless the Yan family made a special emphasis, the major banks would not have refused so decisively.
As for the Ji family, anyone with a modicum of common sense can understand that the Ji family holds the same attitude and stance as the Yan family. They will not provide any support or participate in the Zhu family's finances and internal affairs.
Therefore, even though everyone knows that the two youngest daughters of the Zhu family, one married into the Yan family and the other is in a relationship with the second young master of the Ji family, no bank still dares to lend a helping hand to the Zhu family.
"In fact, Young Master Ji did the same thing."
Yan Shao's answer not only confirmed Zhu Qianying's guess, but also surprised her.
"How did you know?" If she remembered correctly, Yan Shao and Ji Huan's relationship seemed to be just so-so. The two didn't seem like the kind of people who would call each other and chat casually.
"The cooperation between Yanhuang and the Ji family has recently been mostly handled by the second young master of the Ji family, so we can meet occasionally."
Zhu Qianying had heard her younger sister Xiaoyu mention this matter, but she didn't pay much attention to it at the time, or rather, she didn't expect that Young Master Yan and Young Master Ji would get along so well.
After all, these two people are clearly not on the same wavelength.
She forgot that although the two had different personalities, they had many things in common.
For example, both of them are intelligent and shrewd, come from prominent families, and share the traits of being proud and arrogant.
Therefore, different personalities do not prevent two equally outstanding people from appreciating each other.
Most importantly, their partners are sisters, making them relatives as well. They'll be seeing each other all the time, and given the long-standing good working relationship between the Yan and Ji families, the two men are actually getting along quite well.
However, Yan Shao usually doesn't bother to mention such things to Zhu Qianying.
"So it was the Yan and Ji families who joined forces. No wonder Mingxuan was wiped out so thoroughly!"
As Zhu Qianying spoke, she couldn't help but chuckle with schadenfreude, "My dad can finally die in peace now. After all, it's impossible for an ordinary person to be dealt with by the Yan and Ji families working together!"
Yan Shao, who was initially worried that she would be angry, couldn't help but smile when he saw her laughing like a child.
"Why did you send Qin Xiu away when he came over this morning?"
Young Master Yan is indeed a smart man. He was the one who angered Zhu Qianying, causing her to refuse to cooperate with Qin Xiu.
By twisting the facts, he made it seem as if Qin Xiu had offended her, causing the house purchase to fall through. With just one sentence, he completely absolved himself of any responsibility as the culprit.
However, Zhu Qianying was too lazy to bother with the matter.
"I didn't kick him out, I just suddenly didn't want to buy it anymore."
To be honest, when she heard Qin Xiu say that Young Master Yan was going to give her the house this morning, she was really furious and angry for quite a while.
But after Qin Xiu left and she calmed down, she realized that she had no right to be angry.
From beginning to end, apart from promising her a dowry of 200 million and a legal identity, Young Master Yan never promised her anything else.
Of course, from a conventional perspective, loyalty and honesty in a relationship are the most basic requirements for a couple.
But her relationship with Yan Shao was based on a transaction that was entirely financial; there was absolutely no affection involved.
Therefore, even she herself was not quite sure whether she had any right to make demands in this transaction.
After all, she couldn't go further after taking the money and try to take Yan Shao as well.
Not only has Young Master Yan never said he would give it, but she herself has never even thought of asking for it.
Besides, relationships are always mutual. They gave each other their bodies a long time ago, but what about their hearts?
Regarding this, she admitted that from beginning to end, she had never truly opened her heart to Yan Shao. So, what right did she have to ask him to open his heart to her?
After thinking it through, she realized that his attitude last night was indeed a bit bad, so if he really wanted to apologize, he only needed to apologize for his bad attitude.
But she was also wrong, and she was wrong first. She shouldn't have touched his things without permission and touched his sore spot without realizing it.
So, in terms of what happened last night, she and he were actually even. She reopened his wounds first, and he couldn't help but lose his temper with her. So, the matter was even, and neither of them should blame the other anymore.
As for his offer to give her a house to make up for his blunder last night, that's completely unnecessary.
He owed her nothing, so why should he make amends?
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