Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

Through the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, the man in the white robe saw Qin Xin standing indoors, her hand on an apricot-colored Spirit Stone. She lightly opened her lips, admitting that the one she likes is Nalan Ye Jue.

His heart surged with emotion.

Just about to push the door open.

He saw the Spirit Stone emit an abnormal movement, and Master Jing Chen’s face changed: ”You lied! You don’t like that man.”

Nalan Ye Jue’s breath tightened.

She doesn’t like him?

Jing Chen seemed a bit irritated: ”So after all this, you’re still interested in my nephew, right? That so-called Nalan Ye Jue is just your guise?”

Nalan Ye Jue outside the door was equally slightly angry.

His wrist grasped the door handle with slight force, as if the floor-to-ceiling glass was trembling.

At the moment when both men were deeply agitated by her words, Qin Xin spoke calmly:

”Why rush? I haven’t finished my sentence yet—’I like him’ isn’t entirely accurate; what I feel for him, should be love, right.”

Should be love.

These simple five words again caused the emotions of the two men inside and outside the glass door to surge intensely!

The Spirit Stone was very calm.

She wasn’t lying; the man in her heart was only one, Nalan Ye Jue.

And it’s not just liking; it’s love.

Master Jing Chen closed his eyes: ”I understand.”

At this moment, he wasn’t sure whether he should be happy or disappointed for his nephew Jing Zhichen.

The Jing Family had been overly worried; the girl hadn’t even taken a fancy to Chen’er. She had her heart set on a man, and that man was a descendent of the Nalan Family.

A descendent of the Nalan Family, the eldest daughter of the Nalan Family who met him briefly years ago after traveling through the Time Gate, radiating such magnificence—the familiarity he felt about Qin Xin made perfect sense.

Because she was the woman chosen by the Nalan Family, with an inexplicable similar aura to the Nalan Family.

However, upon closer thought, Jing Chen felt an indescribable bitterness sweep through his heart.

If Chen’er is one-sidedly fond of this girl, only to find the feeling unreciprocated, he might repeat the mistake he made years ago.

Qin Xin, seeing him stop asking questions, removed her hand from the Spirit Stone: ”Second Elder, I have answered all your questions; do you have any others?”

Jing Chen’s mood was complex: ”No more. You... may go.”

Yet Qin Xin extended her fair hand: ”Don’t forget the wager.”

Jing Chen was taken aback, then remembered that before proposing the Spirit Stone lie detection, this woman agreed to his condition: if the lie detection proved true, he must cover the one million deposit Jing Zhichen failed to pay during his investment.

This woman really is... all business, incredibly smart!

With a sense of helplessness, he opened the drawer of his desk, took out the check, signed his name personally, and fulfilled his promise: ”One million. Apologies.”

Qin Xin accepted the check: ”I’ve taken both the apology and the check; we’re even from now on.”

Jing Chen couldn’t help but blurting out: ”Wait!”

Qin Xin: ”Hmm?”

Jing Chen deliberated for a moment, then pleaded: ”Miss Lan, if you wish to leave here, please come to me. Do not mention it to Chen’er. I am willing to help you leave.”

Qin Xin couldn’t have anticipated the Second Elder would proactively offer to help her leave.

The key point was, how did the Second Elder know she didn’t belong to this world? Did she say something inappropriate earlier, and he figured it out?

No matter how she recalled, she couldn’t understand where the error occurred.

She watched him warily, without responding lightly: ”What do you mean leaving here, you’re overthinking.”

Jing Chen sighed, just about to continue persuading her to stay away from Jing Zhichen, and to come to him for solutions in case of trouble.

Unbeknownst to him, the glass door was suddenly pushed open with a ”bang—”.

Nalan Ye Jue strode into the study with his long legs, his face cold and stern: ”She doesn’t need to come to you, old man, nor do you need to act like some sentimental protector.”