"Do you always speak in such an embellished manner?"
"Occasionally."
"Oh."
Xiao Qing’s phone rang, so she stopped paying attention to him and looked down at her phone instead. It was a ssage from Lu Jinyang, which read: "Good to know, you should treat better in the future."
She scoffed internally, but her face broke into a smile as she replied: Aren’t I already treating you well? Have you had dinner? I’m eating out right now and bumped into soone I didn’t want to see.
After sending the ssage, she looked up to find Song Zhiqing staring at her, his smile tinged with an indescribable emotion, startling Xiao Qing.
"Why haven’t you left yet?"
Song Zhiqing withdrew his gaze, reverting to his gentle deanor. "You didn’t say I couldn’t sit here, did you?"
On hearing this, Xiao Qing gave him a deep look before grabbing her phone and bag and walking away.
Just then, there was an empty seat in another corner, where a mother and daughter were eating.
She walked over, asked politely if she could join them, then sat down without giving that man behind her any further thought.
After she finished eating and left the restaurant, she instinctively looked back, but Song Zhiqing was nowhere to be seen.
Back in the office, Xiao Qing finally received a call from Lu Jinyang. She quickly picked up, a bit petulantly, "Why didn’t you reply to earlier?"
"I was having dinner with a client. What’s up, bumped into soone you didn’t want to see?"
"It’s your classmate. He insisted on sharing a table with , and then I had to leave and eat with soone else."
Although it was nothing major, Xiao Qing felt it necessary to inform Lu Jinyang since he had told her to stay away from that person. It would be bad if it was discovered later that she had shared a al with Song Zhiqing, causing any conflicts.
Upon hearing this, Lu Jinyang instantly grew colder, "Song Zhiqing? How could he coincidentally bump into you?"
"I have no idea..."
Detecting Xiao Qing’s poor mood, Lu Jinyang didn’t press further but instead said, "If you’re okay, just stay in the office and don’t go out. I’ll co to pick you up, alright?"
"Alright, but you must rember to co get ~"
He chuckled, "Okay."
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An hour later, Lu Jinyang appeared in front of Xiao Qing, leaving her with her mouth agape in shock.
"Didn’t you say you’d co for after work?"
Lu Jinyang walked over and ruffled her hair, "Well, a CEO sets his own quitting ti."
Xiao Qing: "..."
"Let’s go, get ho early and spend ti with the kid."
Thinking she had nothing else to deal with, she followed Lu Jinyang ho.
But before they went ho, he took Xiao Qing to the police station.
It was a place that once gave Xiao Qing nightmares.
If Lu Jinyang had paid close attention, he would have realized that she hardly drove on her own after regaining her mory.
They parked the car in front of the police station, and Lu Jinyang did not get out.
After waiting for around five minutes, a slightly overweight middle-aged man rushed out, looked around to make sure no one was watching, pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket, quickly tossed it into the car, and ran back inside.
The note landed on Xiao Qing, who picked it up and handed it to Lu Jinyang, but he said, "I’ll drive, you open it and tell what’s inside."
"Okay~"
Xiao Qing opened the note, her eyes widened in shock. After a sharp intake of breath, she read out the content: The wound on the deceased’s wrist was fake, the bloodstains on the ground didn’t match the victim’s blood type. The fatal injury was the strangulation mark on the neck – the victim died of asphyxiation~
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