Chapter 166: Reconciliation
After all of Huo Juncheng's "operations", Lin Yilan was no longer angry with Huo Juncheng. Of course, more than that, Lin Yilan was still shy because of the kiss Huo Juncheng had just given her.
"Not angry anymore?"
Huo Juncheng raised his thin lips slightly, his voice was thin, but full of charm. Lin Yilan heard Huo Juncheng's words so close to her ear and nodded in a daze.
When Huo Juncheng saw Lin Yilan's reaction, he raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.
But Lin Yilan soon thought of something and shook her head. "Although your reasons just now were very convincing, Ah Si's story is completely different from what you and I said. Are you afraid that I will know about your relationship with Chu Xi, so you lied to me here?"
"Do you trust that Ah Si so much?"
Facing Huo Juncheng's questioning, Lin Yilan was speechless for a moment...
"Okay, let me put it another way. Compared to me and Ah Si, do you think Ah Si, who you've only known for less than a month, is more worthy of your trust?"
"Huo Juncheng, what do you mean? Although I haven't known Ah Si for long, I still know what kind of person he is. Are you saying that Ah Si has been lying to me all this time?"
"He's been lying to you."
Facing Lin Yilan's stubborn little face, Huo Juncheng felt as if a ball of cotton was stuck in his heart, and he felt a little uncomfortable for some reason. However, he did not show it and kept a cold look.
"You!" Lin Yilan realized her own loss of composure, pursed her lips, and adjusted her mood. "I don't believe that Ah Si has been lying to me all this time. This is impossible."
Faced with Lin Yilan like this, Huo Juncheng shrugged helplessly, then took out an audio clip from somewhere and projected it onto the big screen.
Lin Yilan looked in the direction of the screen, and the person on the screen was exactly Ah Si.
Ah Si still had injuries on his face, and his left cheek was abnormally swollen. Lin Yilan looked at Huo Juncheng in confusion, begging to ask what was going on.
"Don't forget that a few days ago, a group of people beat up Ah Si. The injuries on his face had nothing to do with me."
After hearing Huo Juncheng's explanation, Lin Yilan thought of what happened two days ago, and then turned her attention to the big screen.
"Sister Yilan, I'm sorry. I lied to you about Mr. Huo going to the Chu family's eldest daughter's room the other day. Mr. Huo really did eat something he shouldn't have, so he fell into Chu Xi's trap. I was working part-time at the hotel at the time, and I saw Mr. Huo enter the Chu family's eldest daughter's room. I was worried that something might happen, so I barged in."
Ah Si finished his ramblings and suddenly lowered his head in shame. It took him a long while to raise it again. "As for those who beat me up in the inner world, they weren't Mr. Huo's men, but people sent by Chu Xi. She said that doing this would widen the gap between you and Mr. Huo, so I..."
After hearing all this, Lin Yilan couldn't believe her ears. She didn't expect that such an honest man like Ah Si would lie and even collude with Chu Xi!
"Sister Yilan, I'm so sorry. It's Ah Si's fault. This is all my fault. I didn't explain it clearly to you, and it made the relationship between you and Mr. Huo increasingly distant. I really know I was wrong."
When the video reached this point, Huo Juncheng immediately pressed the power button and looked at Lin Yilan, who had been standing there in a daze. "He really is lying."
"But...but what exactly is he doing this for? Did Chu Xi threaten him? Or did Chu Xi tempt him with some benefits?"
Lin Yilan really couldn't understand why Ah Si lied to her. She had always treated Ah Si as a friend sincerely, but she never expected that Ah Si would betray her!
To be honest, this feeling of betrayal is very uncomfortable...
"Then maybe you can ask him when you have a chance. As for why, I'm not curious. I just know that because of him, the misunderstanding between us has grown. If that's okay..."
"Can't!"
Lin Yilan interrupted Huo Juncheng before he finished speaking. Although she didn't know what Huo Juncheng was going to say, she guessed that he was most likely going to cause trouble for Ah Si. After all, if it weren't for Ah Si, Huo Juncheng wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to explain everything.
"You know what I'm going to do, and you just say no?"
Facing Lin Yilan who was interrupting him in a panic, Huo Juncheng found it funny and wanted to tease her.
"You just want to cause trouble for Ah Si, even though Ah Si told so many lies, but no matter what, it was Ah Si who saved you at the hotel. Otherwise, you and Chu Xi..."
"I didn't say I was going to cause trouble for Ah Si."
Huo Juncheng put his hands in his trouser pockets, leaning against the wall beside him, looking very cocky.
"But, after hearing what you said, I really should settle accounts with this Ah Si. If it weren't for him, we..."
"Alas, Huo Juncheng, you can't do this."
Hearing Huo Juncheng say this, Lin Yilan instantly became anxious and rushed to Huo Juncheng.
"I was just kidding. I don't have the energy to feel bad for Ah Si. Now that the misunderstanding is resolved, I mean, I'll treat you to a steak."
“…”
Lin Yilan felt that she had just been tricked by Huo Juncheng, but she couldn't find any evidence... Forget it, as long as there was something delicious to eat, it was fine.
"But I don't want steak. I want spicy crayfish. Hmm...it would be best if Si Ran could come along, but it would be even better if Jung Yong Ram could come along."
Hearing Lin Yilan say this, Huo Juncheng felt like two black lines had appeared on his head. Lin Yilan really didn't understand romance at all. Huo Juncheng originally wanted to be alone with Lin Yilan, but Lin Yilan directly pulled two people together...
Huo Juncheng held his forehead helplessly and thought, forget it, as long as Lin Yilan is happy.
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After their last in-depth discussion, Chu Xi's misunderstanding was completely resolved, and Lin Yilan's recent gloom instantly vanished. She even worked harder than before to help Chu Siran manage the milk tea business.
"Ah, Chu Siran, I just don't understand. Your Chu family has so much wealth, but you left it alone and ran to this shabby place to open a milk tea shop. What were you thinking?"
Zheng Ronglan had nothing to do these two days, so she came to Chu Siran's milk tea shop to drink milk tea, under the pretext of taking care of Chu Siran's business. However, looking at the increasingly long queue outside, it seemed that Zheng Ronglan didn't need to come all the way to take care of her business.
"Do you think everyone is like you, fooling around all day, relying on your family's money to be content with being a rice bug?"
"Oh, I don't like what you said!" Zheng Ronglan heard Chu Siran's sarcasm and stood up in an exaggerated manner, wanting to have a good argument with Chu Siran.
But who is Chu Siran? She saw Zheng Ronglan's actions, but she still looked indifferent. "What I said is the truth. If I stay at the Chu family every day, my mother will block my bank account when she is unhappy. Will I still have some personal freedom?"
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