As soon as the class ended, Cheng Yu gathered her things hurriedly and looked like she was in a rush to go sowhere.
Cedric noticed this and hurried over to her before she could leave.
"What do you want?" Cheng Yu snapped in annoyance when she saw him standing in her way.
Cedric was taken aback. Wasn’t she friendly earlier? They even had espresso together and took a peaceful walk. They even exchanged phone numbers and she had agreed to give him a call if she ever needed help with anything. Why was she suddenly snapping at him so coldly?
Then again, this was probably her normal attitude towards him. He shouldn’t have thought too much just because she was slightly less hostile earlier. He cleared his throat and smiled. "Are you free to have lunch together? I know of..."
"I’m busy." Cheng Yu cut him off ruthlessly and went on her way. She was just too embarrassed to face him after thinking too much for so long.
Aside from sounding rude, she was not lying about being busy. She hadn’t spoken to Jiang Xingyu earlier and had decided to et him after her class.
The man was actually still waiting in the employees cafeteria. Jiang Xingyu was usually friendly to his employees, so they were not afraid of sitting in the sa cafeteria as him and having their lunch.
When he saw her, he stood up to et her. "Let’s go sowhere else."
"Okay." Said Cheng Yu, starting to wonder why he was being so mysterious. What could he possibly want to talk about that they needed to go sowhere else?
She silently followed him to his car and when he asked her to get in, she silently entered. Even so, she sat as far as she could from him, not even fastening the seat belt.
Jiang Xingyu watched her actions and laughed. "Are you scared? Don’t you trust ?"
"I should trust you?" Cheng Yu huffed, still not making any move to fasten the seat belt.
Jiang Xingyu looked at it then at her and said seriously, "the belt is ant for your own safety." Realizing that she was actually scared, he frowned. "Even if you don’t feel safe around , you should consider the fact that I would never want to wrong Luna. She would hate if I did anything to hurt you."
When she heard him say this, she let out a small sigh in relief and fastened the seat belt. Even so, she looked like she was ready to flee.
Jiang Xingyu couldn’t help raising an eyebrow. What was she so afraid of anyway? It was none of his business, so he didn’t ask. He accelerated so they arrived at Jiang Corporation within half an hour.
Cheng Yu let out a small, awkward smile when she realized that they were probably going to his office.
He pulled up into the underground parking lot at Jiang Corporation and they got off at almost the sa ti.
Jiang Xingyu led the way to the elevator, and the entire elevator ride to the forty-fifth floor was silent.
The elevator doors slid open with a ding. Just as they stepped out, a young woman rushed over to Jiang Xingyu. "CEO, welco back. President Han is here and..."
"I’ll et him in thirty minutes." Jiang Xingyu said to the female secretary and continued walking to his office.
The secretary went on her way and did not say a word of greeting to Cheng Yu—not that she minded it. It was just that the look Jiang Xingyu’s secretary gave her was a bit weird. She frowned and followed Jiang Xingyu to his office. Why would she care about the secretary’s gaze?
_
Jiang Xingyu invited Cheng Yu to a seat then offered her a drink. She politely rejected it, so he went straight to the point. "You are close to Luna, that is why I looked for you."
Cheng Yu waited for him to continue.
"Is there perhaps... sothing I don’t know about? You should tell everything. That is the only way we could figure out..."
"I know just as much as you know." Cheng Yu didn’t need to hear the rest of it. "You do know what kind of person Luna is. Do you think she would tell anything that no one else knows?"
"I see." Jiang Xingyu rubbed his palms together in slow motion. He had thought that Cheng Yu would know sothing helpful. Reaching another dead end, he could only sigh.
_
After thinking about it for days, Lanni finally thought she should accept the fact that Luna had been imprisoned. She decided to visit her.
Luna was only allowed two visits in a month and they were only one hour each. Lanni sighed and went nonetheless.
However, she didn’t expect that upon arrival, she would be denied the chance to see her sister.
"Why? I’m her sister." Lanni was confused when the prison officer told her that she could not see Luna.
"I’m sorry Miss Li, but she listed you among the people who could be a threat to her, so you cannot visit her." The prison officer said expressionlessly.
Lanni’s face paled in shock. She did what? She shook her head in disbelief. "No, that’s impossible. Maybe you made a mistake. Listen, please let have a word with my sister. Just one minute... I’m sure she wouldn’t reject my visit."
"I can’t. Please leave."
Lanni knew he would no longer be polite if she insisted on seeing Luna so she robotically turned to leave.
But how was it possible? How could Luna do such a thing? The more things progressed, the more it felt like she didn’t know her sister anymore. It was as though Luna had been possessed by a demon of sorts.
Lanni sat in her car and didn’t start it. Instead, she leaned her head agaisnt the steering wheel as she thought of every possible reason for Luna’s behaviour. Finding none, she closed her eyes to mask her sadness.
Her phone vibrated. Lanni searched for it in her handbag and when she found it and saw who the caller was, she coughed twice to ensure her voice didn’t sound like anything was wrong, then she slid her thumb across the screen to answer it. "Xiehan?"
Ji Xiehan paused for a mont as though detecting sothing before he spoke, "Honey, did sothing happen?"
"Uhm..." Lanni was shocked. How coukd he tell that sothing had happened when all she said was one word—his na?
"Where are you? I’ll co to pick you up." He decisively said, and she could hear a small clank from the other side. He had probably just picked up his keys.
"Xiehan, you don’t need to pick up. I’m alright actually. I’ll just go ho and have a rest—you don’t need to leave your work for ."
"Leave my work? But..." He stopped mid-statent as though thinking about sothing then continued a mont later, "Be careful on the road. If you can’t drive, give your chauffeur a call."
"What were you going to say?" It was obvious that he had left sothing out.
"It’s nothing, love. Go ho and rest, okay?"
"Mmh." Lanni hung up after blowing him a kiss, but she still felt she was forgetting sothing.
_
As soon as Lanni arrived, she went to her room and flopped on the bed.
"I can’t believe she did that." She mumbled, still in disbelief. "Perhaps she was scared I would scold her or try to force the truth out of her? Good lord, what made her think I would do that?"
Lanni’s lips twitched. Fine, maybe she would be tempted to do just that.
She didn’t need to ask to know that Luna had already done the sa for Li Yuming and everyone else. She mustn’t want to be visited by anyone. With a thousand thoughts flooding in her mind, Lanni fell asleep.
She only woke up three hours later when her phone chid with a ssage notification. She checked the ssage, which turned out to be a spam ssage from the online mall she usually shopped.
She stretched her limbs lazily. Lately, she hadn’t been having enough rest with everything on her mind. She dragged her body to the bathroom and washed her face, then realization dawned on her as she looked at herself in the mirror.
She was supposed to go on a picnic with Xiehan this afternoon! How could she forget?
Checking the ti, it was already 5pm. She dialed Xiehan’s number and he picked the call after just one ring.
"Xiehan, I’m so sorry I forgot about our picnic. You even took a day off for this..." she facepald at the thought of it. "Oh god I’m such a horrible girlfriend."
"Heh." Xiehan chuckled and she knew she should be wary against that laugh.
"I’m so sorry my love. I’ll make it up to you."
"Okay." Xiehan said in a tone that gave her chills. "You have to make it up in a satisfactory way."
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