Assistant He arrived at Qi Jincheng's office at his summons. As soon as he entered, he respectfully asked, "President, you wanted to see me?"
"Go and find out what tricks Qiao Guangyuan has been up to lately," Qi Jincheng instructed him directly.
He Fan was taken aback and couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"
Qi Jincheng said simply, "He went to see Xi'er yesterday. He must have said something he shouldn't have to Xi'er. I want to know what it was."
He Fan understood and said, "You can ask your husband directly..."
He received a warning look from Qi Jincheng halfway through his sentence, and immediately said tactfully, "I understand."
"It's all been found out," Qi Jincheng instructed him.
He Fan replied earnestly, "Understood."
During lunch break, the classroom was empty; it seemed everyone had gone to watch the club performance. Only Qiao Xi was sitting in the classroom, lost in thought.
Not long after, another person entered the classroom; it was Jun Jiuge.
Jun Jiuge had noticed Qiao Xi's unusual behavior long ago; spacing out from time to time was not her style.
"What's wrong?" Jun Jiuge rarely took the initiative to ask her with concern.
Qiao Xi belatedly looked at Jun Jiuge, who sat down at the desk in front of her and said, "Even Li Xiaoxiao noticed that something was wrong with you."
Is that so? Then her attempt at disguise was quite unsuccessful.
It's just that it's really difficult for her to pretend that nothing happened in this situation.
But Qiao Xi smiled reassuringly at her and said, "It's nothing, I just didn't get enough rest."
"When are you ready to rest?" Jun Jiuge said abruptly.
"I..." Qiao Xi was about to retort when Jun Jiuge immediately said, "Your husband works day and night, shouldn't you be with him too?"
Qiao Xi was a little overwhelmed by these words. It couldn't be as simple as it seemed on the surface, could it?
"Ninth Master, what you said makes me..." Qiao Xi deliberately thought in that direction and said, "I'm so embarrassed."
"So what exactly happened?" Jun Jiuge returned to the main topic.
Qiao Xi opened her mouth slightly, looking like she didn't know how to start speaking.
Jun Jiuge didn't want to force her anymore. "Fine, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't."
Qiao Xi felt Jun Jiuge's concern for her, but she really didn't know how to talk about that matter, or even how to talk to Qi Jincheng. She simply couldn't bring herself to say it.
Jun Jiuge got up to leave the classroom, but after taking a few steps, she turned back to her and said, "Maybe I can help you."
“If it’s about you and Qi Jincheng, I can’t help,” she added.
Qiao Xi suddenly asked with interest, "What about you and Professor Yan?"
Upon hearing this, Jun Jiuge started walking again, and quickened her pace.
"Don't go." Qiao Xi immediately called out to her and chased after her, coaxing her gently, "Look, I've already told you about me and Qi Jincheng, so as a friend, shouldn't you share about you and Professor Yan too?"
Jun Jiuge was very resistant to this, but Qiao Xi assured her, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."
After a two-second standoff, Jun Jiuge gave in and said, "The matter between us can't be explained in just a few words."
Qiao Xi nodded knowingly and said, "Okay, let's talk again sometime?"
"Did you have a fight with Qi Jincheng?" Jun Jiuge asked immediately, as if she were 'getting revenge' on her.
Qiao Xi's mind was filled with Qiao Guangyuan's words. She might really need to talk to someone, and perhaps her pent-up emotions could be released.
No one is more suitable than Jun Jiuge.
Qiao Xi took a deep breath and murmured, "If it were just a conflict, that would be fine. Conflicts always pass, but some things, once confirmed, have no room for change."
Judging from her tone, something must have happened.
Jun Jiuge didn't rush to ask, but waited for her to continue.
After calming herself down, Qiao Xi slowly said, "You know who I am, but you may not know much about my relationship with my father."
Jun Jiuge seconded, "I heard before that after your mother passed away, your father remarried and brought back a younger sister for you."
“Yes.” Qiao Xi laughed self-deprecatingly. “In my memory, at least before my mother went there, my father was very good to me. But after he brought that mother and daughter home, his attitude towards me gradually changed.”
“Actually, I can understand. I once thought that he was the one who suffered the most from my mother’s passing, so even if he remarried, I could accept it and wish him well. But slowly, he became more and more unfamiliar to me, less and less like him.”
"I blamed all the problems on myself, and started to tolerate that mother and daughter without any limits, tolerating him as well." Qiao Xi paused here, her eyes blazing with boundless anger, "Until one day, I saw through everything, and I began to rebel..."
Anger surged through every cell of her body. Trembling, she suppressed her rage and, after slowly calming herself, said, "He came to see me yesterday."
"Your dad?" Jun Jiuge asked.
Qiao Xi shook her head slightly with a wry smile, "I don't know if he's my dad."
“He told me that I was a bastard, that I was born to my mother and another man, and that my mother married him after she became pregnant, and that he only married my mother for money.”
As she spoke, her eyes reddened as she looked at Jun Jiuge.
She really needed to hide in a corner and have a good cry, but she quickly nipped that impulse in the bud.
Is it really worth it for such scum?
He doesn't deserve to waste her tears, even if she is his own daughter; things from their past lives will still happen.
Jun Jiuge was also surprised that Xiao Xi had feelings for her. She instinctively comforted Qiao Xi, saying, "It was probably just something he said in anger."
Qiao Xi shook her head again. "I don't think it was just said in anger. I think he was saying what he had been holding in his heart for all these years."
“He came to me asking for money, saying that the mother and daughter had transferred his inheritance and run away, and the company would go bankrupt soon. He needed me to pay him to save the company.”
“Of course, he really wanted money, but the mother and daughter transferring his assets was a lie.” Qiao Xi said firmly, “Because I didn’t give him money, he got angry and said that I wasn’t his daughter, but a bastard. He said that the only reason he accepted my pregnant mother was because she was the second young lady of the Bai family.”
Qiao Xi spoke those words in a very calm tone, but the calmer she was, the more unsettling it became.
Jun Jiuge couldn't help but reach out and place his hand on her shoulder. "He's deliberately provoking you to give him money."
"He thought you'd be afraid of him saying that, so he..."
“I previously suspected that my mother’s car accident was not an accident.” Qiao Xi looked at Jun Jiuge with certainty in her eyes.
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