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Yin Qinghuan lowered her eyes to look at the bracelet on her wrist. This bracelet was designed for her by her mother and belonged solely to Qiao Yino.

"Brother …"

She did not retract her hand. A few ripples appeared in her eyes as she feigned ignorance and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"I didn't want to do it before, but now I'm giving it to you."

Hearing the word 'gift', the woman's expression gradually darkened. She had taken back what had originally belonged to her. She should have been happy, but Yin Qinghuan couldn't laugh now.

She did not dare to guess what this meant.

Did Yin Xiangze suspect something?

"No, I can't take this."

No matter what Yin Xiangze's intentions were, she could not easily accept him. As she said this, she took off her bracelet and put it back on the table. Then, she shook her head.

"Why not, eh?"

Yin Xiangze's beautiful eyes narrowed as he stared at the woman's face. Such a gaze made Yin Qing feel cautious. She thought for a moment, then explained, "I thought that you would give this bracelet to the woman you like. You should be giving it to big sister Zixi. "

She didn't want to see the man's calm expression in the next moment, which completely froze her expression.

"She is not worthy."

Lin Zixi was not worthy.

He didn't deserve to wear this bracelet, didn't deserve to be the woman he liked.

Is that what you mean?

In this way, Yin Qing's heart became even more flustered. If Lin Zixi was not worthy, then she, Yin Qinghuan …

"Brother, do you know what you're saying?"

She didn't look at him again, nor did she look at the bracelet on the table. Even if she really wanted to take back what belonged to her, with the current situation, she could only choose to turn around and leave.

Behind him, that person's voice sounded once again. This time, it was filled with coldness.

"Put it on."

This time, it was a forceful command, she could hear it clearly.

Yin Qinghuan's footsteps stopped. With her back facing that person, a cold aura rose up from the bottom of her feet and gradually surrounded her.

Gritting her lips, she clenched her fists so tightly that a thin layer of sweat appeared on her heart. Unwearing it was going against his wishes.

However, if he were to wear it, wouldn't that mean …

Trying hard to control her emotions, she turned around and leisurely said, "Brother, I don't like this bracelet anymore. The style is too old."

When Yin Xiangze heard this, he didn't seem to care. The light in his eyes explained everything.

Even if she didn't like it, she still had to wear it.

In the end, she had to choose to retreat. He strode back to the table, picked up the bracelet, and put it back on in front of him.

That should be fine, right?

But the facts proved that Yin Xiangze was much worse than this.

"Help me send the wedding invitation to Qi Yan Shang."

Yin Xiangze took out an invitation card from a drawer nearby and handed it to the woman. The woman looked at the invitation card and remained silent, not accepting it immediately.

"What, you want me to go personally?"

As the man's voice faded, Yin Qinghuan extended her hand to receive the invitation. With a smile, she nodded and said, "I'll send it."

That night, she didn't fall asleep. She leaned against the edge of the bed and stared blankly at the bracelet in her hands. She couldn't understand why Yin Xiangze would suddenly want to give this to her.

This was also the only relic left behind by Qiao Yonuo. How could he bear to part with it?

He had originally thought that since Yin Xiangze had given up on Qiao Yifan and had chosen to accept Lin Zixi, he no longer wished to leave behind anything that would cause his death. However, his words' she is not worthy 'did indeed cause Yin Qinghuan to be astonished.

He placed the bracelet inside the box and placed it on the second layer of the cabinet beside the bed. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the invitation on the cabinet and the woman's frown deepened.

Qi Yan Shang... He wasn't sure if he had angered that fellow the last time, even though he had broken the ambiguous relationship between them, reality always seamlessly matched the two of them.

She had to figure out how to send this invitation out.

However, the next day, Yin Qinghuan felt that her worries from last night were unnecessary.

"Miss Yin, please."

When he came out of ST in the afternoon, he saw that the assistant seemed to have been waiting for her for quite some time.

The woman chuckled. It just so happened that she didn't need to bother looking for him.

It was still the same Western Restaurant that he had "dated" with Qi Yan. The night scene at the upper level was very beautiful, but the difference from the last time was that the piano piece played this time was very artistic.

It really did feel like a date.

"I thought Director Qi didn't want to see me anymore."

After taking her seat, she looked at the man opposite her with a hint of ridicule in her eyes.

Qi Yan Shang shook the red wine in his glass, his thin lips curled up into a smile that was neither deep nor shallow.

"You can have tonight's dinner."

"I don't want to." That person spoke in a neither cold nor warm manner. Yin Qinghuan did not seem to react to what he was saying. Her brows slightly knitted together. "Hmm?"

"Why?"

It wasn't that he was being fussy, but he had to give her a reason. He was the one who asked her to come.

"I helped you solve a problem, shouldn't I thank you?"

He solved a problem for her? Is there?

After Yin Qinghuan thought about it carefully, her mind only recalled the scandals caused by Fiona.

"The Fiona thing, you asked someone to do it?"

Therefore, it wasn't Yin Xiangze.

Since the man didn't deny it, then that was it.

No wonder she felt this method of doing things was so similar to the incident with Lin Qi.

So it was Qi Yan Shang, no wonder.

However —

"It's just a scapegoat, could Director Qi feel a sense of accomplishment?"

Do you understand for the dead man? If he really has the ability, then he should punish the culprit. He was the only one who was clear on whether he wanted to make an example out of her or to just lie to her.

At the end of the day, he still couldn't bear to part with Joanne.

"How do you know she's a scapegoat, eh?"

Qi Yan Shang's smile became colder and colder. Didn't she say that she had forgotten what happened that night? She pretended to have forgotten, but the truth was, she knew it better than anyone else.

Yin Qing pursed her lips into a smile and chose to remain silent. She was unwilling to be entangled with him on this topic any longer.

She took the invitation out of her lady bag, placed it on the dining table, and pushed it towards him.

"At the beginning of next month, it will be my brother's engagement banquet. I hope Director Wei can show us some respect."

The man glanced down at the invitation card. Yin Xiangze's engagement party?

"What if I don't want to honor you?"

Yin Qinghuan: "…"

The expression on her face was stiff, but her heart wished for nothing else.

However, he had been with Qi Yan Shang for a while now, and he had a good understanding of Qi Yan's personality in the past. He had a bad taste in people. The more she thought about it, the more he refused to give it to her. The more she didn't want to do it, the more he wanted to do it.

The woman pretended to be unhappy and frowned. Qiming Yin said, "Although the Yin family and the Qi group don't work together, my brother really wants to invite you to his engagement banquet."

Since she said so, he probably wouldn't go, right?

However, he had not expected that the fellow's response would be —

"Since you are so sincere, I have no choice but to agree."

Yin Qinghuan: "…"

Qi Yan Shang was a man who didn't play by the book.

Pursing her lips, the woman nodded and smiled, "Thank you, Director Qi."

After she finished this sentence, the atmosphere fell into silence.

Until the end of dinner, she still did not understand what Qi Yanqi was up to tonight.

After exiting the restaurant, she saw that the car had stopped in front of her. Yin Qinghuan shook her head and said, "No need. I can go back by myself."

"Get in."

She curled her lips at the soft word of the man in the car. It seemed to her that he still had something to say.

Could it be that the words she had unintentionally said that night, those words she had hated him for, had made him suspicious?

No, it should be from the beginning to the end. Qi Yan Shang was wary of Yin Qinghuan.

After getting in the car, she turned her gaze to the window of the car and looked at the scenery along the road. It didn't seem like the way back to the Yin house.

Then, the car got further and further away from the suburbs. After turning that corner, the light in Yin Qinghuan's eyes suddenly trembled. She saw the sign not far away from her.

This is not...

"This is not my way home."

If they continued down this road, they would reach the lake where they found Qiao Yino's corpse.

Qi Yan could hear the slight tremor in the woman's voice, but he remained silent. And without the CEO's instructions, Fang Xu would naturally not have stopped the car.

Yin Qing couldn't help but feel her heart tighten. Although the person beside her wasn't that pervert Yin Xiangze, he was the one who spoke to her.

However, this fellow had suspected that she had something to do with Qiao Yino's death. He specially brought her here. Could it be that he wanted to …

With a shudder in her heart, the woman spoke again: "Where are we going? It's late, I have to go back. "

"Don't you know where we're going?"

At this moment, the person responded to her, but this response was even more terrifying than not responding at all.

"I shouldn't have gotten on this car." Yin Qinghuan was still regretting her decision.

When the car stopped at its destination, the woman sat in place, unmoved.

Fang Xu got out of the car and opened the door for her, still saying the same words —

"Miss Yin, please."

Please?

She didn't want to 'invite' him at all, but it seemed like the situation now was not up to her.

Unlike the previous two times when he came here late at night, this time it was dusk, and sunset. This place did not look very eerie, but rather a bit more peaceful.

Yin Qinghuan looked around her surroundings. Ever since she found the body here, the police had set up surveillance in this area. This was to prevent anyone from being killed and to prevent them from finding the murderer.

Thus, Qi Yan Shang should not dare to do anything to her.

She followed the man to the bridge over the lake. She looked at the calm surface of the lake. The sun was setting and its reflection was clear.

This was a scene that could not be seen in the middle of the night.

If no one had died here, then it would be a pretty good scenic area.

Qi Yan didn't speak a word along the way. When he arrived, his eyes were even colder.

He had never been to this place ever since he found out about the accident that had happened to 'her'. When he thought about how he had stayed here in this ice-cold lake for three whole months …

The position of his left atrium was in sudden pain. Qi Yan Shang's eyes were cold and thin.

When Yin Qinghuan saw him like this, she lightly bit her lip and stuttered, "Come here …" "What for?"

Don't tell her. He brought her here.

If that was the case, she really wanted to turn around and leave immediately. She didn't want to see that person's fake appearance.

"Tell me, will she be cold here?"

As if she was mumbling to herself, as if she was really asking her a question, Yin Qinghuan's expression froze for a moment. If she remembered correctly, Yin Xiangze had also asked this question in the past —

Are you cold in the lake?