amaotonovel Chapter 30 His voice trembled, a rare occurrence.
Chapter 30 His voice trembled, a rare occurrence.
Beside Huo Sili, Li Xueqian glanced at Xie Youan, then at Jiang Qin, before quickly returning to Huo Sili.
An infuriating thought flashed through her mind, and her face instantly turned extremely pale.
"Brother Sili." Seeing the two men still staring at each other, Li Xueqian spoke up to interrupt.
Jiang Qin didn't care what the man opposite her thought about her, but the way Huo Sili was looking at her was clearly a case of rivals meeting and getting extremely jealous, which she couldn't ignore!
"We're going to be late, let's hurry up, Sili-ge, Grandpa's going to scold me again." Li Xueqian said anxiously in her sweet, soft voice.
On the other side of Huo Sili, Jiang Qin sat in her seat eating, looking relaxed and content.
Huo Sili shifted his gaze to the woman beside him, who seemed heartless to him, and finally glanced at Xie Youan.
He turned around, took long strides, and strode towards the door.
His pace showed no intention of waiting for her.
Realizing this, Li Xueqian felt a surge of resentment. She glared at Jiang Qin with resentment and anger, but the woman was leisurely eating her food, so her glare was like a heavy punch landing on cotton.
It did nothing to harm Jiang Qin, but it made her furious.
Looking back, Huo Sili was almost out of sight. Li Xueqian was startled and quickly sped up to chase after him.
"Sleeper, wait for me!"
"Are you free after dinner?"
With Huo Sili and Li Xueqian gone, the atmosphere finally returned to peace.
But what just happened made Jiang Qin, the host today, feel somewhat guilty, as she felt that she hadn't treated Xie You'an well.
Xie Youan didn't think much of it. "If you have time, would you like to invite me to...a movie again?"
He was handsome, with a refined and gentle demeanor, and a pleasant voice. When he spoke with a smile, it was easy for people to let their guard down and feel relaxed.
Jiang Qin looked relaxed just now, but she was actually a little tense. But now she felt truly relaxed.
Sensing a hint of playful banter between friends in Xie Youan's words, Jiang Qin smiled and replied sincerely.
"No, I was thinking we could go shopping together. You can buy whatever you want, and I'll pay."
Xie Youan smiled, as if he thought the idea was not bad.
Before picking up her chopsticks again, Jiang Qin said, "If you think it's okay, we can go there after we finish eating. It's nearby, not far."
"Of course," Xie Youan replied with a smile. "Let's go shopping together after dinner."
Jiang Qin met Xie You'an's smile and instinctively felt that something was amiss.
But the feeling that something was wrong disappeared in an instant. Xie Youan didn't look at her anymore and quickly picked up his chopsticks to eat.
Jiang Qin glanced at Xie You'an again, then thought she was probably overthinking it.
After all, she and he had absolutely no connection, neither in school nor now, so how could he possibly like her after just a few meetings? Her thinking was rather absurd.
However, at that moment, Jiang Qin suddenly remembered the scene she saw through the car window when she was about to leave the military hospital last Sunday: a man whose profile looked a lot like Xie You'an was embracing a woman, and the two were very intimate.
Jiang Qin's gaze fell on Xie Youan's suit today. It was a light-colored suit with light-colored trousers, and the tie he wore was also in a bright color. Her thoughts were involuntarily scattered again.
It shouldn't be, she thought. After all, the man's style of dress at the time, although formal, was dull in color, and looked completely different from Xie You'an's. Moreover, the man seemed to be wearing glasses.
Both in my memory and now, Xie Youan never wears glasses.
Indeed, there are quite a few people in the world who look alike, aren't there? She herself and Li Xueqian are a living example.
It's most likely just that the two people look alike.
……
Meanwhile, the black Cullinan drove directly into the Li family manor, stopping only near the red carpet in front of the banquet hall entrance.
In the driver's seat, He Xu was about to press the communicator to tell the two people in the back that they had arrived at their destination. Before he could say anything, the car door opened, and Huo Sili stepped out of the car and walked straight towards the entrance.
A dozen seconds later, Li Xueqian came out, fiddling with her hair as she walked.
For some reason, He Xu just didn't quite like this Miss Li. Seeing her fixing her hair, clearly wanting to chase after Huo Sili but failing to catch up, he couldn't help but slightly raise the corners of his mouth.
However, there was something he had been thinking about for a long time but couldn't figure out—why would President Huo agree to accompany Miss Li to this banquet when he clearly cared so much about his wife?
He Xu frowned when he thought about this. Over the years, President Huo had always found these kinds of banquets boring and a waste of time, and had never attended them.
Could it be that, as the saying goes, "the wild flowers smell sweeter than the garden flowers," and that President Huo has cheated on his wife?
*Thud*, before he knew it, his phone fell onto the car carpet. He Xu's eyebrows furrowed into a deep frown. No.
Can't you?
Meanwhile, inside the banquet hall, Li Xueqian was frantically chasing after Huo Sili, almost going crazy.
She initially thought the fall had only caused minor injuries, but after getting into the car, she belatedly realized that she was experiencing a dull ache in her right upper arm and neck area. She wondered if she had injured the bones inside when she was trying to protect her face.
Despite feeling unwell, Horstley didn't wait for her at all and continued walking on his own.
However, she didn't dare to really lose her temper with Huo Sili. This man was her only chance to turn things around.
At this moment, Huo Sili suddenly stopped, and Li Xueqian, caught off guard, couldn't stop in time.
Suddenly, his forehead bumped into Huo Sili's back.
Li Xueqian's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately softened her voice, "Brother Sili, I didn't mean to..."
Huo Sili glanced at her indifferently, took out his phone and looked at it. His dark pupils suddenly contracted, and he strode towards the exit.
They moved so fast that they created a gust of wind in front of Li Xueqian.
Li Xueqian was stunned. When she realized that Huo Sili was about to leave, her beautiful makeup, which she had just touched up in the car, instantly cracked.
"Sleeper!" she cried, running out in her high heels. "Where are you going? The banquet is about to begin!"
Before she could catch up, she saw a group of people entering through the entrance. The man in the lead was wearing a dark blue Zhongshan suit. He was in his forties and looked refined, but when he wasn't smiling, he had an imposing and dignified air. This man was none other than her father, Li Zhiyuan.
Li Zhiyuan's face was stern, and his deep gaze fell upon her. Li Xueqian immediately stopped running.
She stood up straight, her sweet, soft tone gone, and respectfully called out, "Dad." Her voice was clearly filled with fear.
Outside the banquet hall, in the driver's seat of the Cullinan, He Xu was looking at the mobilization message for the "Love Defense War" sent by Wang Ma on his phone, wondering whether he should participate, when he keenly noticed someone approaching.
He gave a cold glance, then instantly suppressed his coldness, unlocked the door, and turned back to look, "Mr. Huo?"
"Follow this navigation, quick!"
Huo Sili's face showed a rare panic. Before He Xu could react, the man placed the phone, which was playing navigation voice prompts, on the phone holder in front of him, and bang, the back door was slammed shut.
The man's voice trembled slightly, seemingly out of fear, "Qinqin, something has happened to Qinqin!"
He Xu's pupils contracted, and without daring to delay, he suddenly accelerated the car that had just started and drove off.