Chapter 640: Chapter 694: Harassing her is not allowed, so a lesson must be taught. Chapter 640: Chapter 694: Harassing her is not allowed, so a lesson must be taught. The venue was bustling with people, and security was extrely strict.
Mrs. Qin supported Old Mr. Qin, dutifully playing the role of a caring daughter-in-law wrapped in cotton padding.
Because they had VIP cards, they took the VIP channel. Just as they entered the venue, Lu Shiran also happened to pass through the security check.
Mrs. Qin wasn’t interested in such events, and her gaze swept around boredly until the next mont when it froze; her pupils unconsciously contracted, revealing an expression of disbelief on her face.
Her gaze rested on Lu Shiran, who was waiting for Qiao Yun to co out of the security gate, and she couldn’t look away.
This…
This was too much like that woman!
Mrs. Qin had seen a photo of the woman with whom Old Mr. Qin had an affair years ago, a photo that her father still kept to this day.
From the words written on the back of the photo, she even knew that woman’s na was Lu Wan.
And now, the young man she was looking at resembled Lu Wan so much it was striking.
Anxiety and conflict appeared on Mrs. Qin’s face.
Was it a coincidence?
“What are you daydreaming about?”
The displeased voice of Old Mr. Qin pulled Mrs. Qin back to reality. Her hand trembled slightly, and driven by so psychological impulse, she subconsciously blocked Old Mr. Qin’s line of sight.
“Dad, there are so many people here. Why don’t we go back for now? We can co back another day when it’s not so crowded. As far as I know, the exhibition will run for three days, so we have plenty of ti,” she said.
Mrs. Qin forced a smile, desperately wanting to take Old Mr. Qin away. Regardless of whether the young man had any relation to Lu Wan or not, she didn’t want her father to see him.
“If you want to go back, then go back. Qin Yuan will stay with ,” Old Mr. Qin felt his daughter was making a fuss over nothing.
Mrs. Qin was anxious but didn’t show it: “I’m just worried you might get jostled by the crowd.”
Old Mr. Qin narrowed his eyes, “Are you hiding sothing from ?”
“No, not at all,” Mrs. Qin imdiately shook her head.
Qin Yuan spoke up, “Mom, if you’re bored, you can go back first. I’ll stay here with Grandpa.”
“No way!” Mrs. Qin’s voice rose sharply in her agitation.
She startled Old Mr. Qin with her reaction, and he looked at her in surprise.
What was going on? She had been fine just a mont ago.
Qin Yuan was also confounded, his expression one of surprise: “What’s wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?”
Mrs. Qin said guiltily, “It’s nothing, I’m fine.”
She stealthily glanced behind her, saw the young man walking in another direction, and feared that Old Mr. Qin and the others would bump into him. She softened her tone and said, “Dad, let’s go this way.”
Old Mr. Qin frowned but seeing that his daughter didn’t seem to be physically unwell, humd in agreent and walked in another direction.
Mrs. Qin finally breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart remained uneasy.
She thought to herself that they needed to find out who that young man was.
However, she seed to have seen that Qiao Yun was with the young man. What was their relationship?
Suppressing her unease, Mrs. Qin pondered as she accompanied Old Mr. Qin around the exhibition.
…
“Why do I feel a chill down my back?”
Lu Shiran turned to look behind but saw nothing.
Yu Fan said, “Maybe you’re cold?”
“Maybe. I wish I’d worn more,” Lu Shiran brushed off the eerie feeling rising in his heart and, taking hold of Qiao Yun, said, “Sister, let’s go.”
Qiao Yun humd in agreent, obediently following Lu Shiran’s lead.
The venue was quite large; the group walked and stopped, exploring for nearly an hour.
Lu Shiran, Yu Fan, and Cheng Yi, like greenhorns seeing the world for the first ti, couldn’t move past each innovative technology they encountered.
Qiao Yun followed behind them with a benevolent gaze, thinking to herself how good it was to be young.
Worried Qiao Yun might get tired after exploring half of the exhibition area, Lu Shiran took her to a rest area to sit down for a while.
“Sister, you sit here, I’m going to the bathroom,” Lu Shiran instructed.
Qiao Yun nodded in agreent.
The bathroom was a bit of a distance away, and it would take a few minutes to go back and forth. Fearing his precious little sister might get bored in these minutes, Lu Shiran also went and bought her a drink to hold and sip.
Qiao Yun held the drink with both hands, sitting in the rest area on a chair, waiting for Lu Shiran.
Yu Fan and Cheng Yi, seeing this, hooked arms with Lu Shiran and went with him.
Qin Yuan had not expected to see Qiao Yun.
The delicate and pretty girl was sitting dully on the chair, looking as if she wanted no one to approach her.
Finding Qiao Yun alone, without anyone else around her was rare, and naturally, Qin Yuan would not miss this opportunity to hit on her.
He adjusted his expression, walked up with a smile, and his voice carried an inexplicably intimate tone.
“Miss Lu, what a coincidence.”
Qiao Yun raised an eyebrow and didn’t even glance at Qin Yuan, as if the person in front of her was invisible.
She didn’t like the way Qin Yuan looked at her, so she didn’t want to deal with him.
Qin Yuan didn’t know he was being scorned, seeing that Qiao Yun wasn’t responding, his smile froze on his face.
But soon, he put on a smile again, “Are you here alone? Want to join ? I’m quite familiar with these things, I can introduce you.”
Before his intentions towards Qiao Yun beca clear, he was a person who could keep his composure.
His gaze fell on Qiao Yun’s fair face, and he felt a fire in his chest, burning fiercely.
This face, he wondered if it would show any change when on the bed?
Qiao Yun frowned slightly, the way Qin Yuan was looking at her had escalated from dislike to loathing.
She lifted her eyes, her indifferent black pupils eting Qin Yuan’s probing gaze. After a long while, she seed to have an epiphany, “Oh, you’re hitting on ?”
Qin Yuan was taken aback by Qiao Yun’s straightforwardness.
But that was just fine, he didn’t like to beat around the bush. Since Qiao Yun had figured it out, it made it easier for him to push the boundaries, didn’t it?
In that instant, Qin Yuan changed his deanor, shedding the gentlemanly mask on his face, his whole temperant beca sowhat roguish.
“What if I say I am?”
“I understand.”
Qiao Yun gently nodded her delicate chin. Before Qin Yuan could grasp what Qiao Yun ant, he saw her taking out her phone and dialing a number.
“I’m at the Science Museum, there’s soone harassing right now, call security.”
Pei Ya: ????? completely baffled.
Qin Yuan: “…!”
Finally, Qin Yuan’s expression cracked, as he stared at Qiao Yun in stunned disbelief.
After giving her instructions, Qiao Yun hung up the phone and then continued to sip her milk tea in small slurps, completely ignoring Qin Yuan’s presence.
This was the first ti Qin Yuan had co across soone like Qiao Yun. It took him a while to snap back to his senses, and he laughed in exasperation, “I can’t believe you don’t realize that I want to pursue you.”
Qiao Yun’s response was still very cold, “Hmm, rejected.”
Qin Yuan finally understood that Qiao Yun wasn’t soone who played by the rules, so he couldn’t play by the rules either.
So he said bluntly, “It’s your business if you want to reject , but it’s my business if I want to pursue you.”
He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but after he said that, he seed to see Qiao Yun glance at him with contempt.
That look… as if she was looking at a big fool?
He thought for a mont and then tempted her, “Don’t you want the Lu Family to collaborate with the Qin Family? You might not be aware, but collaborating with the Qin Family will bring many benefits to your Lu Family.”
Qiao Yun gave him another look, her eyes conveying that she had gone from seeing a big fool to seeing an idiot.
Qin Yuan: “…”
Although he was fond of Qiao Yun, this fondness wasn’t enough to let him remain indifferent after being rejected by her over and over again.
He said with an indifferent tone, “You wouldn’t want the Lu Family to run into any trouble in business, would you?”
Qiao Yun paused, her voice uncertain, “Are you threatening ?”
Qin Yuan smiled, “Not a threat, I just want to have dinner with you, just the two of us, of course.”
At that mont, several security guards rushed over, eyeing Qin Yuan warily.
“What’s the matter, sexual harassnt?”
Qin Yuan’s expression stiffened; he hadn’t expected Qiao Yun to really call security. Thinking of Grandfather Qin still being there, he didn’t want to cause trouble and ruin his image in his grandfather’s eyes, so he pulled out the fountain pen he always carried, pulled a paper tissue from the table, and wrote down a ti and place, placing it in front of Qiao Yun.
He looked down, his gaze lingering, and whispered softly, “I’ll be waiting for you.”
Qiao Yun put down the drink she was holding, glanced at Qin Yuan’s retreating figure, and then made a phone call to Pei Ya.
Pei Ya answered almost instantly.
“What happened, did the security get there? By the way, who’s the dead man who dared to harass you?”
Qiao Yun said, “You ntioned before that the Qin Family wanted to collaborate.”
“Yeah, collaborate my ass; they still want to partner up after bothering you, dream on. I’m already being nice by not killing them.”
Qiao Yun said, “Set up a eting with Qin Yuan.”
“Huh?” Pei Ya was puzzled. “Why et with him?”
“To talk about collaboration.” Qiao Yun took the tissue with the written address and ti from the table, slowly crumpled it into a ball, and casually tossed it into the trash can.
“If he wants to wait, then let him wait.”
Professor Qiao expressed that harassing her was not allowed, so a lesson was in order.
…
Qin Yuan was still thinking about eting Qiao Yun the next day.
He was certain that Qiao Yun would et with him; for the sake of the Lu Family, she had to co.
He could have played a love ga with Qiao Yun, but alas, Qiao Yun had to expose his intentions, so he had no choice but to opt for forceful asures.
A smile played on Qin Yuan’s lips; he never failed to win over soone he set his sights on.
Or to put it another way, those he fancied would always end up loving him desperately.
At that mont, his phone rang.
Qin Yuan picked it up and saw that it was from his secretary.
“What’s up?”
The secretary’s voice was tinged with excitent: “President Qin, the director of Shengqiao Group has agreed to a eting.”
Qin Yuan had been fretting over how to arrange a eting with Pei Ya, and now the opportunity had presented itself?
Although he found it strange, as long as he could et, it would be good, and he could explain to his grandfather.
“When?”
“Tomorrow morning at nine o’clock, at Shengqiao Group.”
Qin Yuan frowned. So early?
“Alright, I got it.”
He didn’t think too much of it; maybe Pei Ya was only available tomorrow morning.
Qin Yuan, with a heavy heart, returned to his mother’s side but didn’t see Grandfather Qin, so he asked, “Mom, where’s grandfather?”
“Your grandfather went to the restroom,” Mrs. Qin said, with the fine lines at the corners of her eyes slightly furrowed, feeling unsettled for so reason.
“He’s been gone so long, how co he hasn’t returned? Never mind, I’ll go take a look.”
Qin Yuan said, “Let’s go together.”
…
On his way back, Lu Shiran was swindled by an old man.
This old man was particularly odd, keeping his gaze fixed on Shiran without clear intent.
“Sir, do you know ?”
The old man was indeed Grandfather Qin, who had suddenly seen a youth in the restroom who resembled Lu Wan trendously; he hadn’t thought twice before stopping him.
Hearing the youth’s question, his expression was complex, yet he felt the age didn’t match.
If his illegitimate child were still alive, he would be in his forties by now, not this young.
With this thought, a look of disappointnt crossed his face.
Lu Shiran beca even more perplexed. What now?
He made eye signals to Yu Fan and Cheng Yi.
Yu Fan and Cheng Yi were even more baffled than Lu Shiran.
With an inexplicable mood, Grandfather Qin asked, “Have you ever heard of the na Qin Su?”
Lu Shiran exclaid, “Who? Never heard of him.”
Grandfather Qin’s face showed disappointnt again.
When Mrs. Qin arrived, she saw this scene and felt her world spinning.
How could they have run into each other despite all the precautions!
“Dad, what are you doing here?” Mrs. Qin wanted to lead Grandfather Qin away.
Lu Shiran, also worried about making his sister anxious, saw that the old man’s family had arrived and was about to bypass the old man to leave.
Suddenly, the old man spoke again, “Do you know soone nad Lu Wan?”
“Who?” Shiran didn’t imdiately catch on.
His reaction didn’t seem feigned, so Grandfather Qin just assud he was confused and had mistaken soone else, so he didn’t insist further.
Waving his hand, he said, “It’s nothing.”
Lu Shiran gave a rueful shake of his head and left under Mrs. Qin’s glaring gaze.
anwhile, Qin Yuan watched Lu Shiran with a sowhat heavy look.
Grandfather Qin, with his astute vision, mused, “Do you know him?”
Qin Yuan pondered for a mont and said, “I don’t.”
Grandfather Qin was restless, thinking of the youth’s eyes, strikingly similar to Lu Wan’s, and stubbornly said, “Find out who he is, what family he has.”
“Dad, why are you looking into him?” Mrs. Qin was displeased.
“Just do it when I tell you to, why so many questions?” Grandfather Qin said irritably.
Mrs. Qin bit her lip, signifying she understood.
Qin Yuan’s face revealed nothing unexpected.
Of course, he recognized the youth from earlier; they had once encountered each other at the holiday resort, and at that ti, he had found the resemblance striking.
After investigating, he learned that the youth was from the Lu Family, Qiao Yun’s cousin, the biological son of Lu Family’s elder; definitely not a blood relation to the Qin Family.
But now Grandfather Qin had taken notice of him.
Qin Yuan thought to himself that, just to be safe, he needed to confirm whether or not Lu Shiran really had any connection to the Qin Family, and if so…
A dark gleam flashed in the depths of his eyes, harboring a hint of murderous intent.
…
“Sis, have you been waiting long?” Lu Shiran hurried back.
Qiao Yun shook her head, “Not long.”
Lu Shiran apologetically said, “Sorry, I ran into a strange old man on the way who wouldn’t let go of , and he kept asking if I knew… uh, who was it.”
Cheng Yi reminded, “Qin Su, Lu Wan.”
“Right,” Shiran half-joked. “Lu surna, eh? Maybe we really are related.”
Qiao Yun nodded in agreent, “Indeed.”
“What?” Shiran didn’t understand.
Qiao Yun said, “Lu Wan, Granny.”
Shiran paused, then hit his head, “You didn’t ntion it and I totally forgot, our granny’s na is Lu Wan, isn’t it?”
But soon after, he thought, “It’s probably just a coincidence, what are the odds that I would go to the restroom and happen to et soone who knows Granny?”
After saying that, he laughed heartily as if he found it amusing.
Watching Shiran laugh, Qiao Yun felt an inexplicable surge of sympathy.
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