Chapter 719

In Jing City, these people all knew that Li Yuan did not pay much attention to women; he kept quite a few women by his side, and there were certainly many who were as beautiful as Shu Xia.

A girl like Shu Xia would likely not be, nor would she disdain to be, one of the many women by Li Yuan's side.

Qiao Guanqing sneered, "It sounds a bit unbelievable, doesn't it? Perhaps Li Yuan is deliberately finding an excuse to put me off; I fear he has also taken a fancy to Shu Xia."

"Actually, it wouldn't be strange if he had; after all, Mu Ting can also value Shu Xia so much, which shows that Shu Xia is not the kind of ignorant country woman we simply thought she was," said Hua Qian.

Qiao Guanqing's face was like cold frost, "Regardless of whether she is simple or not, her status is not worthy of being a daughter-in-law of my Qiao Family. Since Li Yuan has refused now, it means he absolutely will not take on this business, but he also won't leak our conversation. You go find someone else; if it weren't for the fear that Mu Ting might notice, it would be most convenient to use people from the Qiao Family, and there would be no need to find Li Yuan. A mere Shu Xia is actually so difficult to deal with."

From Qiao Guanqing's words, one could already hear that he was even more dissatisfied with Shu Xia.

Hua Qian also felt that the matter was trickier than she had imagined.

No, it should be said that Shu Xia was trickier than she had imagined.

Thinking of how Shu Xia was able to deal with her with such extreme calmness that day, a trace of an ominous premonition suddenly arose in Hua Qian's heart.

In this matter, I fear that no matter what they do, they cannot separate Qiao Muting and Shu Xia.

"No one else is as reliable as Li Yuan," Hua Qian said in a low voice.

A fact that had to be acknowledged.

Otherwise, Qiao Guanqing would not have taken the initiative to call Li Yuan.

Qiao Guanqing frowned, "A mere woman is actually so troublesome."

"If it doesn't work, I'll find people from abroad, striving to ensure there are no traces left," Hua Qian said after thinking for a moment.

After some deliberation, Qiao Guanqing nodded, "That is feasible."

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When Shu Xia returned to Xinghai Villa, she happened to run into Qiao Muting, who had just returned.

"You just got back too?" Shu Xia asked with some surprise.

"I went to handle some matters temporarily. Do you know Li Yuan?" Qiao Muting asked in a somewhat casual tone.

Shu Xia said truthfully, "I didn't know him before today. I know his younger sister, Li Qianqian. Today, I was invited by Qianqian to her home to help appraise some antiques."

Hearing Shu Xia's answer, Qiao Muting nodded, "So that's how it is."

Shu Xia had originally wanted to ask if Qiao Muting also knew Li Yuan.

But then she immediately thought that since both of them lived in Jing City, it was normal for them to know each other.

As the two of them just entered the house and were changing into slippers, Shu Xia heard the sound of Qiao Muting's stomach growling.

The sound was not loud.

But only the two of them lived in Xinghai Villa, so it was somewhat empty, and since it was night now, any sound would be amplified in the very quiet environment.

Qiao Muting tightened his brow slightly.

In the past, not eating dinner at night was the norm, and it was normal for his stomach to growl.

But during this time living with Shu Xia, some habits had been quietly changed; eating dinner had become the norm, and for it to be missed once, his stomach and intestines were actually not used to it.

"Are you... too busy to have eaten dinner?" Shu Xia asked hesitantly.

In fact, she was also a bit hungry.

It was her first time eating at the Li family's home, so naturally, she couldn't eat to her heart's content and had eaten relatively little.

"I forgot to eat."

Shu Xia smiled, "Alright, it just so happens that I didn't eat much at the Li family's place and I'm also a bit hungry. I'll go make two bowls of noodles."

It was too late; if she were to cook something from scratch at this hour, it would already be the middle of the night by the time it was ready to eat.

"Okay."

Qiao Muting went to the kitchen with Shu Xia.

Seeing Shu Xia take two bowls of instant noodles out of a cabinet, Qiao Muting raised an eyebrow, his lips curling slightly, "When did you buy instant noodles?"