Chapter 4025: Lu Zhi Comes to See Them Off

Chapter 4025: Chapter 4025: Lu Zhi Comes to See Them Off

It seems there are always a few people from yesterday’s event who love to gossip and have spread the news.

Zhong Yiliu must have caught wind of something.

He talked about the dramatic reversal during the voting process yesterday, and how Nie Qingru departed in anger before the Privy Council announced the results...

Zhong Yiliu himself doesn’t have a favorable impression of Nie Qingru, and he certainly didn’t hold back when ridiculing her: "Anyway, since the voting results yesterday, she has become the laughingstock of Continent M. Many people are watching her joke, curious to see what the empress looks like after falling from grace."

"She hasn’t appeared in public since yesterday. I guess she knows her predicament and doesn’t want to be the subject of public ridicule."

"Nie Qingru isn’t that kind of person," Qiao Nian said blandly.

Zhong Yiliu frowned slightly, just as a nonchalant female voice came through the receiver: "She’s staying at home not because she’s afraid of being seen, but because she’s plotting her next move."

Zhong Yiliu initially disagreed with this notion; most people, after such a public embarrassment and being pulled down from a high place, would take a few days to adjust.

But it seemed Qiao Nian implied that Nie Qingru had a heart hardened like iron and wouldn’t be influenced by it.

He pondered: "You’ve really angered her this time. What do you plan to do next?"

"Return to Beijing first."

Qiao Nian called him mainly to probe for details about the internal affairs of the Privy Council yesterday, something she couldn’t easily ask Luke.

She lowered her dark eyes, absent-mindedly looked at the sunlight outside the window, lazily tossed away the covers, and stepped into slippers, heading for the bathroom.

"I need to accompany him to an engagement party."

Zhong Yiliu almost heard it as ’I’m going to have an engagement party with him,’ but thankfully he came to his senses, realizing Qiao Nian meant she was accompanying Ye Wangchuan to someone else’s engagement party.

He asked regretfully whose engagement party it was, and upon learning it was someone he wasn’t familiar with, he didn’t suggest going together to offer moral support.

...

Today is the designated rest day in the illegal zone.

There wasn’t much traffic on the road.

It took them only half an hour to reach the airport.

Ye Lan had arranged a private plane to wait at the airport, but it required coordination through the illegal zone control tower for takeoff.

They arrived at the airport at ten in the morning. There wasn’t much crowd at the airport.

As soon as Qiao Nian got out of the car, she saw a black Bentley waiting by the roadside, and a handsome young man sitting in a wheelchair next to the car.

Lu Zhi didn’t bring his signature bodyguard today, the one resembling an iron tower. Instead, Jian Jin stood behind him, pushing the wheelchair.

When Jian Jin saw Qiao Nian get out of the car, she bent down to whisper in Lu Zhi’s ear: "QIAO, they are here."

Then she pushed Lu Zhi over.

Today, Tattoo Arm was driving them.

In addition to Tattoo Arm, Guan Yan was also present.

Guan Yan saw Jian Jin, greeted her, then glanced at Lu Zhi in the wheelchair, pursed her lips, and looked towards the girl.

"QIAO, could we have a private word?" Jian Jin spoke first.

Outside the airport, people were coming and going.

Not wanting to embarrass Jian Jin in front of so many people, Qiao Nian turned back, her gaze tranquil and undisturbed, and said to the man who had just been helped out of the car by Ye Lan: "I’ll go chat with them for a bit and be right back."

Ye Wangchuan and Lu Zhi exchanged glances that sparked in the air but then seamlessly averted their eyes, pretending not to notice each other.

Ye Wangchuan’s deep eyes were as profound as the sea, and he lowered his head, addressing the girl: "Should we wait for you inside or outside?"

"Inside then." Qiao Nian thought for a moment and added, "It’s windy outside."