Chapter 1123: Chapter 1122: Worthless Mud That Can’t Stick to the Wall
"Then does the whole ’having a little monkey’ thing also have to wait until after the mission?"
Gu Tong deliberately teased him, trying to ease the mood and relieve some mental and emotional pressure.
Li Yan froze for a second, then fell into thought, and said with a completely serious face, "Whenever it happens, we’ll keep it."
Uh...
"Pfft!" Gu Tong couldn’t help but burst out laughing. She’d just casually cracked a joke and hadn’t meant it seriously at all.
Who would’ve thought Li Yan would answer her this solemnly—and clearly after serious consideration, at that.
Li Yan was a little puzzled, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "What’s wrong?"
His face was full of confusion; he honestly had no idea what the little woman was even laughing at.
Gu Tong was laughing so hard that she was almost in tears, but she didn’t explain a thing. "I’m laughing at myself, for actually asking you such a dumb question. If it really happened, how could we not keep it."
Li Yan: "..."
His little woman was obviously not laughing at herself—she was laughing at him.
Li Yan was a bit speechless, completely at a loss, not understanding how his words could be so funny that they made her laugh like this.
The atmosphere in the car was very warm. The couple chatted and joked, their mood much lighter, and even time seemed to pass quickly.
...
On the other side.
In the Li Family’s villa.
Gong Qingwan was slumped against the sofa in the main hall, pressing at her temples, her expression unsteady, her face frighteningly pale. Ever since she’d woken up from that fainting spell, her head had felt unbearably heavy, her chest tight, even the veins on her forehead were throbbing.
Weakly lowering her voice, she said, "What you’re saying is, right now no one can get in touch with them?"
Chu Xiran sat opposite her, her expression more than a little tense. If she still hadn’t realized by now that Gong Qingwan was both overheated and furious and could explode at any moment, then she really would be an idiot. She said, "Father said he doesn’t dare make a big show of searching everywhere, so he can only slowly look through the few contact points ’Renya’ left behind.
But we don’t know what happened. They’re all gone, nests and all, and didn’t leave a single bit of information. Father suspects they took the money and ran, and don’t want to cooperate with us anymore..."
Chu Xiran forced herself to say these things, but she had very little confidence in them.
"Ridiculous!" As expected, Gong Qingwan slapped the table with her palm and instantly snapped, saying anxiously, "We’ve been working with them for so long—how greedy ’Renya’ is, you think I don’t know? If they wanted to embezzle money, they’d have done it ages ago! Why wait until now? Is Chu Qinyou brainless? He’s like mud that can’t stick to a wall! Useless trash!"
At this point, in order to shirk responsibility, Chu Qinyou could actually spit out such bullshit.
With that kind of explanation, whoever heard it would probably find it impossible to believe.
Gong Qingwan had worked with "Renya" many times, and understood their basic way of doing things and their goals, so she was certain in her heart that they would never rashly break faith!
On the contrary, it was Chu Qinyou—this was something he was supposed to keep a close watch on, and not only had he failed to do that, even when something went wrong he should’ve called her immediately so they could figure out a solution. Instead, Chu Qinyou hadn’t given her so much as a word in reply, leaving her to wait in burning anxiety, and now he was actually throwing out such an absurd excuse to fob her off.
Gong Qingwan was so furious she was about to lose her mind.
Chu Xiran’s eyes had nowhere to rest; she felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, her heart full of indescribable panic.
She had known long ago it would turn out like this, had known her father’s explanation had zero credibility. No matter how he tried to dress it up, her aunt would never believe it...
However, her father insisted, and with no other options, they had clung to this excuse as their only life-saving straw.
Chu Xiran, holding onto a "might as well try" mentality, had come to report back, and the final result was exactly as she’d expected.
Just as she’d foreseen...
Gong Qingwan was in a towering rage and could turn that anger on her at any moment.
Chu Xiran’s fear had her heart in chaos; she didn’t know what to do.
Originally, according to her plan, there was still time to stall...
But unexpectedly, Gong Qingwan had suddenly summoned her, completely catching her off guard.
