1090 Perplexed and Smitten 150 (1/2)
”We'll be spending quality time only when it's just the two of us.”
”I've spent too much time with just you alone. I'm getting sick of it.”
”We can't continue like this anymore! Mei Yangyang, I'm your dearest husband, how could you treat me like this!?!”
Mei Yangyang smiled at him and said coaxingly, ”Be good, Hubby, stop whining. Muacks.”
Why does she sound like she's cajoling a pet dog…
More than ten minutes later, An Xiaoning alighted from Pei Yi's car while Pei Yi's underlings began to leave as well.
”Please drive.”
The taxi driver continued on their intended route.
Long Tianze looked at Jin Qingyan and noticed that the latter did not ask any questions at all. Unable to contain his curiosity, he quickly asked, ”Sis-in-law, just what did Pei Yi say to you?”
”It's a secret.”
”…”
Seeing that she refused to speak, Long Tianze had no choice but to keep his curious questions to himself. Little did he know that Jin Qingyan was far more curious than he was, despite being calm and composed.
However, Jin Qingyan was well aware that it would be inappropriate to discuss the matter in the car.
Hence, when they boarded the plane, Jin Qingyan brought An Xiaoning to a private room, away from Long Tianze and Mei Yangyang.
”Just what did he say?”
”Nothing, he just said some redundant rubbish. There wasn't a need for him to tell me those things.”
His curiosity was piqued even further. ”What do you mean redundant rubbish?” he probed.
An Xiaoning smiled and asked, ”Must you really know?”
”Yes.”
”Okay then, I'll tell you. He said that Xihou Jiaping has made up his mind to kill you, but he won't lay a finger on me for the time being.”
”Why?”
”He said that Xihou Jiaping thinks I don't know who he is at all and that neither you nor Xiao Chenyang has told me about him yet, hence…”
”From the looks of it, he's still so… incredibly foolish. Does he really think I'll be the same person as I was in my previous lifetime and hide things from you because I don't want you to be worried?” Jin Qingyan said while stroking his chin.
An Xiaoning asked in astonishment, ”The same person as you were? Did you dream of our previous lifetime too?”
”I dreamed of it almost every day when I was in Mount Wanyan. I then reached a conclusion,” he said, pinching her face gently.
”What conclusion?”
”All the misunderstandings stemmed from the fact that neither of us could be honest with each other. If we trusted each other and told each other truthfully about everything instead of hiding some details, what can come in between us?”
An Xiaoning agreed, ”I think so too. However, we decided to keep some things from each other, simply because we were worried that the other party would be worried, didn't we?”
”I used to be like that in our previous lifetime. Hence, he probably thinks that I'll be the same in this one too and hide some things for you. However…” After some thought, Jin Qingyan continued, ”I still think Pei Yi has an ulterior motive.”
”What ulterior motive could he have…? He just doesn't want me to die so soon. In his eyes, it's a piece of cake for Xihou Jiaping to kill me. He probably just doesn't want to stir trouble.”
”Let's not talk about him.” He hugged her and sat down. ”Are you tired?”
”Not at all.” An Xiaoning removed her shoes and sat cross-legged on the bed. She asked, ”How do you think I should settle the issue with No. 8? That Sister Zhang has the Flying Tigers gang as her backing. They gave me a compensatory sum of 10 million dollars because she had harassed us previously.”
”Try not to go toe-to-toe with these gangsters. In my opinion, the Flying Tigers will definitely contact you first once we're back in S Nation, unless they've decided to give up on that Sister Zhang.”
Finding his words to have made sense, An Xiaoning said, ”I was really frightened when Pei Yi stopped us from proceeding.”
”Why?”
”I thought it was Xihou Jiaping.”