
Yin Shaoyuan returned very quickly, and behind him was a beautiful officer in uniform with a food cart.
The food cart stopped beside the glass table in the middle of the sofa, and Jiang Shuxuan grabbed a small bowl of herbal soup that he prepared for Gu Xiqiao that was similar to the one Madam Zhang had always made for him.
Seeing Yin Shaoyuan enter the room, the few women playing billiards put their cues down and stepped in graceful steps.
This meeting was held by Yin Shaoyuan from the very beginning, and the invited were all from influential families and powers in N City. These women were all the best of the crops chosen by those families to represent them after hearing that Jiang would be present. They thought that he had returned to Jing Capital, and while they did not know why he had returned to N City out of nowhere, it did not stop them from trying to attract his attention with beauty.
That was his plan before they realized that this sort of thing had not worked out at all on Jiang Shuxuan.
Different from the other men in the upper society in N City, Jiang Shuxuan's graceful and dignified aura seemed to be completely natural and radiated from him, such that her combined aura with her perfect features caught the attention of everyone in the room, while making it extremely difficult for the women to try and approach her.
So, they choose the next best destination to approach — Yin Shaoyuan who is famous as a playboy and flirtatious man who will make them valuable if they get his good graces.
Upon seeing Yin Shaoyuan, many of them swarmed over him.
Yin Shaoyuan was not the type of person to do things regardless of time and place, however, and accompanied by so many influential figures, he remained polite and did not accept their progress.
Jiang Shuxuan's phone suddenly rang, and he looked at the caller's name before glancing at Gu Xiqiao, seeing Gu Xiqiao munching on an apple while studying the painting album and walking out to receive the call.
After he exited the room, everyone else in the room seemed to lift weights from them and started chatting to each other shamelessly, she said, and some brave young men even tried to talk to Gu Xiqiao and tried to persuade him. . They came to the conclusion that this girl must be related to Lord Jiang in some way, so they tried to give her a good impression.
Upon seeing the young girl turn the pages of her painted album without too much stirring their words as if she were in another world, their words stuck in their throats.
Then, they sat back in their seats, not daring to interrupt again. After all, how weak was someone connected to Jiang Shuxuan?
Meanwhile, the, the women who had just finished playing billiards and had not seen their interactions from before did not know who she was and why she was here and only concluded that she was a new toy of Yin Shaoyuan when they saw him talking to him. .
Meanwhile, Xia Zilan was about to call Gu Xijin, but after thinking about the latter's state, she put down her phone and put her makeup back on before coming out of the toilet. As he stepped out, he bumped into someone, but the sensation was similar to hitting a brick wall!
After the impact, Xia Zilan's meticulously performed hairstyle became loose and she almost fell to the ground, and she immediately regained her position and tidied herself up. When he did not hear any apologies, he would reprimand the others before he saw that the figure in front of him was a thin and tall figure with a phone in one hand and an expressionless face.
Seeing who the culprit was, his anger was immediately extinguished with a bucket of cold water and replaced with a strange excitement, and he hugged his bag nearby in hopes of calming himself down before speaking in a cautious tone, “Mr. Jiang's? ”
His face was made thin, and his wavy hair was rubbed off from his shoulders somewhat messy from the impact. Arguably, this gave her a kind of lazy beauty under the club lights.
Jiang Shuxuan simply glanced at him quickly before walking away in the other direction, receiving a call without much delay.
Xia Zilan did not dare to follow behind him, but he was so anticipating that his heart could explode. Did he just get a chance to get close to this person?
When he returned to the room, he had already calmed himself down. Walking to the pool table, one of his friends put down a cue and spoke to him. “Lan Lan, did something good happen to you? You really are shining! ”
Then, he realized how most of the people had left, and his expression turned into confusion. “Where is everyone?”
“Young Master Yin is back, so everyone has arrived at the resting place.” Another woman flipped her hair behind her shoulder before bending over and hitting the billiards with her cue, and after a few collisions sounded, one of the billiards netted.
Xia Zilan thought about it for a while, before deciding that she wanted to see what was special about this illegitimate daughter of the Gu family.
Meanwhile, most of the attention of the young men in the room was attracted by the beautiful girl who came with Yin Shaoyuan. To be honest, it was hard not to because she not only had beautiful features overall, she said, his pure and sincere aura was an extremely rare one among nobles where everything was hidden behind a veil of lies and deceit.
“Second Gu Miss, what do you see?” Xia Zilan walked towards Gu Xiqiao with a gentle smile.
Once they heard this, most of the people stopped what they were doing and looked towards Gu Xiqiao.
Their social circle was not very broad, and almost everyone knew about the second daughter of the Gu family but never knew exactly what she looked like.
Speaking of Gu Xiqiao's reputation, it had already spread and modified beyond repair among the nobles, it was already spread out and modified beyond repair, the concept of an illegitimate child became the laughingstock of these people who thought that their blood was better than ordinary people.
Ever since the events with the stolen oil painting, everyone had become increasingly curious about the girl who almost destroyed the Gu family and caused Gu Xijin to lose everything overnight. Is he as scary and vile as the rumors that say he is?
However, as soon as they saw it, they all thought that the rumor must have been wrong — Who can equate the subject of the rumor being said to be venomous, gloomy, and greedy with this pure and gentle girl?
Gu Xiqiao completely ignored all the gazes he had on him.
He knew who Xia Zilan was, he was one of Gu Xijin's best friends who had just returned from abroad, and a fairly arrogant person who had no talent to back up his courage. The Xia family could not even be compared to the Gu family, and only Xia Zijun could be said to be talented and even have a slight resemblance to a working brain.
Seeing she was completely ignored, Xia Zilan stopped smiling. Realizing Yin Shaoyuan's calm gaze at the two of them, he concluded that he had no plans to help Gu Xiqiao even if something happened and he calmed down quickly. He knew about the capricious Yin Shaoyuan personality that many women had heard of, and how could this illegitimate daughter make him act otherwise?
Thinking of this, he became stronger and reached out and held the painting album in Gu Xiqiao's hand with two thin and attractive fingers?
Xia Zilan's expression changed, but no matter how hard she tried, the album seemed to stick in Gu Xiqiao's hands!
Xia Zilan bit her lower lip and put down her bag, grabbed the album with her two hands and tried to pull the book out of Gu Xiqiao's hands. Surprisingly, the book still did not budge even a little.
Raising his head, Gu Xiqiao's gaze flashed before he suddenly released his grip on the painting album.
Bang out!
Suddenly, Xia Zilan fell back to the ground from the inertia of her strength on top of the book, falling to the floor with a loud noise and making the room go quiet.
Gu Xiqiao reached out and gracefully picked up the album of the painting, her eyelids slightly hooded, and a hint of a smile was on her lips as she spoke. “Rindu. Xia, no need to humble yourself in front of me. ”.