novelraw Chapter 417
Chapter 417
Hearing his words, Shi Yan and Qin Yu exchanged a glance before turning to Qin Jinchuan. "So, what do you mean by that?"Qin Jinchuan took a drag from the cigarette he had just lit. "Can’t I test the waters a bit?"
"Test the waters?" Qin Yu didn’t understand.
Qin Jinchuan said, "Today I grabbed the wrong person. I want to know if that thing is the original! If it wasn’t, then the plan for tomorrow would have to continue. Even if it meant provoking such a woman, he wanted to do so without any lingering worries...!"
"So you mean, if she still has it, you really plan to go snatch it again?" Shi Yan was shocked.
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Qin Yu looked at him worriedly.
Qin Jinchuan chuckled. "The thing definitely can’t stay in that woman’s hands."
Alright, they understood now. That item couldn’t remain in that woman’s possession.
Picking up the phone, he dialed Xiao Linye’s number. It was quickly answered, Xiao Linye’s deep voice coming through, "Hello."
"Where are you?" Qin Jinchuan asked.
"At the entrance of the clubhouse!"
"Okay, okay." Hearing that Xiao Linye had arrived, Qin Jinchuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He truly hadn’t intended for things to go this way today.
After hanging up, he shot Ji Nan a fierce look. Ji Nan felt wronged. He still believed, even now, that he hadn’t grabbed the wrong person!
Ye Yuning made arrangements for the villa, asking the maid to clean it up well, and then left Xiangti with Chen Wei. Chen Wei was still driving.
As they left through the main gate and passed by the clubhouse, they saw a Silver Angel parked at the entrance. The man getting out of the car seemed so familiar at first glance.
Ye Yuning instinctively glanced at him through the rearview mirror and saw the doorman respectfully greeting the man and escorting him inside.
His profile looked so much like her husband, Xiao Linye.
"Boss, what are you looking at? Should we go back and check?" Chen Wei asked softly, noticing Ye Yuning still craning her neck to look.
Hearing Chen Wei’s voice, Ye Yuning sat up straight and shook her head. "No need to go back."
She must have been mistaken; how could Xiao Linye possibly drive a Silver Angel? Even if he held some status in the Xiao Group, they wouldn’t indulge a subordinate like that, right? Just like with her own G-Wagon, she would never allow a subordinate to use it exclusively.
Still puzzled, Ye Yuning took out her phone, intending to call Xiao Linye.
When she saw two identical phones, her head throbbed. "Why did you have someone deliver two of the same phones today?"
Chen Wei explained, "They’re from the brand. I even suggested swapping one out, but you’d already started using it."
Ye Yuning was speechless.
After carefully checking which phone had her personal number, she picked one up and sent Xiao Linye a message.
[What are you doing? Are you busy?]
Xiao Linye replied quickly, "[In a meeting!]"
Just that simple, three-word reply, and Ye Yuning immediately believed she must have been mistaken earlier.
Soon, Xiao Linye sent another message, "[Is your foot hurting again?]"
Ye Yuning replied, "[No, you carry on with the meeting. Come pick me up early after work.]"
"[Okay!]"
「Back in the studio.」
Ye Yuning was so hungry she practically collapsed on her desk. The back-and-forth today had left her with no time to eat. The meal Chen Wei had ordered for her earlier was now nearly cold.
With no other choice, Chen Wei quickly went downstairs to get her some takeout. Ye Yuning finished eating, but she was far from full.
Chen Wei knew her boss’s appetite. Seeing that Ye Yuning clearly hadn’t had enough, she asked softly, "Do you want me to get you some cake or something?"
"No need, it’s almost time to leave work."
Chen Wei nodded. "Okay then."
Now that things had finally calmed down, Chen Wei looked at Ye Yuning and breathed a sigh of relief.
Clearly, she too thought Ye Yuning had been incredibly unlucky today.
Lost in thought, Ye Yuning suddenly asked, "Is there a restaurant called Green Tea?"
"Huh?" Chen Wei froze.
’Green Tea’? The name of the restaurant sounded odd, didn’t it?
The more Ye Yuning thought about it, the more convinced she became that Ji Nan’s call earlier, where he mentioned the restaurant, had been Qin Jinchuan’s way of mocking her.
This man was truly despicable...! And then there was everything that happened today—she couldn’t help but feel Qin Jinchuan was behind it all, whether it was the robbery or the theft at Xiangti!
Chen Wei said uncertainly, "I don’t think anyone would name their restaurant that, right?"
Ye Yuning asked, "Right?"
She just knew it. Qin Jinchuan was definitely alluding to how she’d deceived him before. The nerve of that man! If he hadn’t been susceptible to that kind of act, could she even have fooled him? And now he was passive-aggressively calling her a ’green tea’ just because she wasn’t playing his game anymore?
Chen Wei nodded. "Right."
Ye Yuning fought back the urge to go find Qin Jinchuan and settle the score immediately. After all, it was almost time to get off work, and Xiao Linye would surely come to pick her up on time.
But she couldn’t resist calling Qin Jinchuan.
No sooner had Chen Wei left than Ye Yuning dialed Qin Jinchuan’s number using the company landline.
The call was picked up quickly on the other end. "Hello."
"You said we’re having dinner together, right?" Ye Yuning asked.
At that moment, Qin Jinchuan was playing mahjong with Xiao Linye, Shi Yan, and Qin Yu. Hearing Ye Yuning mention dinner, his hand, holding a mahjong tile, froze. In his distraction, he accidentally played the tile he had intended to keep.
The next moment, Qin Yu overturned his tiles. "Hu!"
Qin Jinchuan was speechless.
His breath hitched. But since Ye Yuning was talking about dinner, he decided to swallow the loss from that hand of mahjong.
A smile curled on the corner of his mouth. "What do you want to eat?"
"I want to eat at the Scumbag Restaurant!"
Qin Jinchuan was speechless again.
The entire private room fell silent.
Qin Jinchuan’s phone was on speaker, and the volume was up. The word "scumbag" seemed to have a physical force, piercing the eardrums of everyone in the room.