Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Alice’s Insanity III (1/2)

Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Alice’s Insanity (III)

Everyone looked towards the entrance in the direction of the voice. When they saw the speaker, they had very different reactions.

Xiao Yu tried rushing towards their savior and almost fell out of Yan Jin’s pocket. Luckily, Yan Jin managed to grab him and stuff him back into his pocket.

“You’re very late.” Yan Jin didn’t forget to mock him while rapping Xiao Yu on the head as punishment.

“… Shut up.” Chu Ge had rushed over here. After his shout, he could barely catch his breath.

Nan Chan was still frozen in place. She hadn’t even noticed what had happened between Yan Jin and Xiao Yu.

“Sir, you can’t go in there! Sir!” A delicate-looking secretary chased after Chu Ge. She was probably Nan Chan’s personal secretary.

The secretary had unsuccessfully tried to stop Chu Ge from entering the entire way. Chu Ge had forcefully broken into Nan Chan’s office. When the secretary saw Nan Chan’s messed-up attire, she broke into a cold sweat. “M-miss, I don’t know what this gentleman here wants. I’ll go call the police…”

Nan Chan didn’t respond.

The secretary was about to cry but made one last valiant effort. “Sir, what is the meaning of this? If you don’t leave, I’ll call the police!”

“This is my friend,” Yan Jin said. “He came with me. Miss secretary, please just treat him as my bodyguard.”

The secretary knew Yan Jin. She looked between him and Nan Chan with a difficult face. “But, but he can’t just break in like this…”

Normally, this wouldn’t have been a problem. But, today’s situation was special…

The secretary snuck a look at Nan Chan and was scared out of her wits by Nan Chan’s expression.

“You can leave,” Nan Chan finally said.

The secretary felt a buzzing in her head and blankly said, “But, but, Miss, you…”

Nan Chan gave her a cold glare. The secretary felt like a cold-blooded hunter was staring her down. Her joints began to shiver.

“You don’t even recognize this person and you have the face to be a part of the Nan Family?” Nan Chan’s voice was like frost cutting to the bone. “Get out! I don’t want to see you again.”

The secretary’s face became deathly pale. Not daring to speak a word, she staggered out of the office and quietly closed the door.

The second before she closed the door, the secretary saw a sight she’d never seen before: an innocent yet warped smile on Nan Chan’s face.

She aimlessly staggered to the top of the stairs. A gust of cold air blew from outside and her brain finally restarted.

That guy… who is he?

She felt like she should recognize him, but the atmosphere had been too tense earlier. She hadn’t had the time to react or slowly think about it.

She and Nan Chan were actually cousins. When they were younger, they had actually played together a few times. However, when the main line of succession had had some problems, Nan Chan’s genius talent had caught the Nan Family’s attention, and Nan Chan surged past all the others to become the successor. Their two positions within the family changed to the extent that they couldn’t be more different.

Chu Ge had left a much deeper impression on Nan Chan, so Nan Chan had instantly recognized him despite not seeing him for ten years. On the other hand, Nan Chan’s secretary wasn’t as familiar with Chu Ge, but she had been with the Nan Family for many years and understood some of their family’s history that couldn’t be bandied about. Combined with Nan Chan’s words and her smile, an answer suddenly presented itself to the secretary.

After suddenly realizing this, the secretary covered her mouth with both hands to stop an irrepressible scream already at the edge of her mouth.

……

“Long time no see.”

Nan Chan fixed her dress’s shoulder strap without a hint of awkwardness. She gave them both a sweet smile.

But, Xiao Yu was already almost scared to death.

When Nan Chan had undone her shoulder strap, Xiao Yu had felt more than the indignance of catching his husband in an affair. It was more of a deep-seated fear.

In the first place, Xiao Yu had been there the entire time and knew how the situation had reached that point. An affair wasn’t possible. He himself could verify Yan Jin’s innocence. Secondly, when Yan Jin had avoided Nan Chan’s lunge, Xiao Yu had been thrown halfway out of Yan Jin’s pocket. At that moment, Xiao Yu had coincidentally met Nan Chan’s eyes from a strange angle.

To be more accurate, Xiao Yu had seen Nan Chan’s head-on gaze.

It had only been for a moment, but it was enough for Xiao Yu to see those frenzied eyes.

There was neither love nor hatred in them, only an unidentifiable emotion—

—Like a young girl whose doll had been snatched from her.

If it were his past self or if he hadn’t known Nan Chan’s feelings towards Yan Jin, Xiao Yu now definitely knew the gaze of someone in love.

At least, it definitely wasn’t that. That was a gaze that instilled fear.

“You’ve grown up.” Those were Chu Ge’s first words to Nan Chan.

Then, the office fell into a heavy silence.