Chapter 402: 402
Twelve midnight .
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The study door was suddenly thrown open . His tall and broad frame appeared . Then, like he was minding a straying chick, he shooed Qiao Lian out of the study room .
He only made one remark before slamming the door behind her with a thud .
“With your imagination, you should try writing trashy novels . Go to bed now . ”
Qiao Lian stood outside the room door, twitching her lips .
It looked like she had made the wrong guess then .
If that wasn’t the case, then who was Song Yuanxi?
Mulling over this question, she returned to the bedroom and got back into bed .
The nap she took in the afternoon made it hard for her to fall asleep now, but she must have eventually done so after tossing and turning for some time .
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Or did she?
In a semi-conscious state, she thought she heard Shen Liangchuan returning to the bedroom .
He placed a cold hand on her face, which made her squirm and reach out to push it away .
Then, she thought she heard him speak in a somewhat muffled voice, “Xiao Qiao, we’ll be okay…”
When Qiao Lian woke up the next morning, there was no one next to her .
She reached out for his side of the bed . It was cold . Shen Liangchuan mustn’t have returned last night .
That hand, his voice… It must have been a dream .
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She got out of bed and went downstairs after washing up . Auntie Li was packing .
They were moving to Xia Yehua’s apartment . Xia Yehua was probably feeling lonely since Song Yuanxi had left to join the filming crew .
Shen Liangchuan was not in the room .
Qiao Lian asked curiously, “Auntie Li, have you seen Sir?”
Auntie Li replied with a smile, “He left at six in the morning . He said something about Mr . Song looking for him . ”
Qiao Lian nodded as she recalled he had mentioned some unfinished business the night before . It looked like there really was an urgent matter .
Auntie Li added, “Madam, breakfast is ready . Have some before you go to work . Let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to move for you . ”
“I don’t have much . I’ll pack whatever I need and you can help me move that . ”
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Qiao Lian walked to the dining room and took a look at the table—it was a Chinese-style breakfast .
A bowl of thick century egg and lean meat porridge, with a few small side dishes and two steamed dumplings .
She sat down and started to eat .
Auntie Li walked over and was just about to tidy up the kitchen . She took a look at the dishes and smiled again . “Madam, actually porridge is not that nutritious . I say, you should be drinking more milk . ”
Hearing this, Qiao Lian’s expression darkened .
Realizing that she had said the wrong thing as well, Auntie Li coughed once and changed the topic . “Wang Lan has left, so they have forgotten to prepare the milk . From tomorrow, I’ll make sure Madam gets her milk . ”
Wang Lan was the housekeeper who had leaked the photograph .
She had been with the Shen Family for many years and had cried up a storm after the incident happened . For old times’ sake, Xia Yehua didn’t want to make life difficult for her .
But having heard what Auntie Li had just said…
Qiao Lian looked up suddenly . “Are you saying the milk that I drank used to be prepared by Wang Lan?”
Auntie Li nodded . “That’s right . ”
Now she remembered!
One morning after she had just moved in with the Shen Family, she had seen a housekeeper preparing milk for her . And the housekeeper had added something into the glass of milk . So that housekeeper was Wang Lan .
Something began to stir in Qiao Lian’s mind and it was about to surface . She suddenly asked, “How was Wang Lan’s relationship with Song Yuanxi?”