Chapter 173

Here, Su Yun Jiao had already returned to Jingyuan.

It was already past eleven at night; Su Yun Jiao thought Lu Jingqing should have been asleep by then, but who knew the lights in the upstairs study were still on.

Su Yun Jiao knocked on Lu Jingqing's study door and asked, "Brother Jingqing, why are you still awake so late?"

"Waiting for you to come back."

Lu Jingqing closed his computer; in fact he should have slept long ago, he was just waiting for Su Yun Jiao to return.

Seeing Lu Jingqing about to go back to his room, Su Yun Jiao blinked and said, "Brother Jingqing, are you going to sleep now?"

"You're already back, of course I'm going to sleep."

Secretary Li at the door saw Boss Lu's insincere expression and almost burst out laughing.

Who knows who it was, but someone had been waiting all night for Miss Su to return.

"If Miss Su doesn't come back, he won't go to sleep."

"Then... good night, Brother Jingqing."

Su Yun Jiao seemed still unaware that Lu Jingqing had been deliberately waiting for her all evening, so she naturally said good night to him.

On the contrary, after hearing Su Yun Jiao's words, Lu Jingqing felt a stifled sensation in his chest.

Could it be that Su Yun Jiao had nothing else to say to him?

For example, what the three of them did at Zhou Xian's house.

While Lu Jingqing was pondering these things, Su Yun Jiao suddenly said, "By the way, this is a gift from Madam Zhou; I think it's too valuable, so I brought it for Brother Jingqing to look at."

Having said that, Su Yun Jiao placed the gift box from Madam Zhou in front of Lu Jingqing.

Lu Jingqing merely glanced down and noticed that the contents of the gift box were unusual.

Sure enough, inside were a pair of jade bracelets worth eight figures.

This doesn't look like a first-meeting gift from an elder to a junior.

If this were merely a meeting gift, it would be far too valuable.

Lu Jingqing's eyes darkened.

Su Yun Jiao naturally knew that as a meeting gift this present was overly weighty, so she deliberately showed it to Lu Jingqing.

It must be that Madam Zhou wanted to get to know Lu Jingqing, hence she sent such a gift—also a case of loving the house and thus loving its crow, i. e., catering to his tastes.

"Since it's a gift from the Zhou family, keep it; I'll handle the return gift—you don't need to worry about it."

Having said that, Lu Jingqing glanced at Secretary Li by the door and said, "Xiao Li, go to the storeroom pick some nice gifts and send them to the Zhou family."

"Yes, Boss Lu."

Secretary Li promptly agreed.

Su Yun Jiao said, "Brother Jingqing, don't you need to find a reason?"

"You've been bothering the Zhou family quite a bit lately, so I specially sent some gifts to Madam Zhou—does this reason work?"

Su Yun Jiao thought it over carefully and felt the reason was indeed appropriate.

"Hmm, not bad."

Su Yun Jiao nodded.

Lu Jingqing looked at Secretary Li and said, "Just do as I said."

"Yes, Boss Lu."

Secretary Li quickly went to prepare.

"Before sleeping, I'll apply medicine to you once more."

"Alright, then use this."

Su Yun Jiao directly placed the medicine Zhou Xian had given her today in front of Lu Jingqing and said, "This is the medicine Zhou Tingting gave me; the class monitor also said it's effective for my wound, I think we can try it."

"The Zhou family is a medical lineage; if they say the medicine is good, it probably is."

Although Lu Jingqing said that, he did not choose to use the medicine Zhou Xian sent; instead he applied his own previously prepared ointment to Su Yun Jiao.

Su Yun Jiao felt Lu Jingqing was doing it on purpose.

Intentionally targeting Zhou Xian.

After applying the medicine, Lu Jingqing carefully wrapped gauze around Su Yun Jiao's neck and said, "During this period you cannot bathe, this spot must not get wet; in a moment I'll have a servant help you wash your hair."

"Okay."

Su Yun Jiao nodded; indeed she hadn't washed her hair for two days.

Lu Jingqing quickly had a female servant approach Su Yun Jiao, gave a simple instruction, and the servant took her to wash her hair.

To ensure Su Yun Jiao's wound wouldn't touch water, Lu Jingqing stood guard beside her the whole time.

After Su Yun Jiao finished washing her hair, Lu Jingqing then said, "From now on, whenever you want to wash your hair, just find her; in a few days, if your wound looks mostly healed, you can take a bath."

"Okay."

Lu Jingqing had already asked the doctor earlier; Su Yun Jiao's wound will heal before school starts.

At that moment, Su Yun Jiao returned to her room and discovered many missed calls from Qin Xue on her phone.

Su Yun Jiao actually didn't want to bother with it; after all, everyone in the class knew her relationship with Qin Xue was bad, and she saw no need to maintain contact with Qin Xue.

Just as Su Yun Jiao was about to hang up her phone, Qin Xue's call came through again.

This time, after hesitating a moment, Su Yun Jiao decided to tell Qin Xue clearly that she and Lu Chi had long since broken off all ties, so there was no need to keep contact information.

Who would have thought that as soon as Su Yun Jiao answered the call, Qin Xue anxiously said on the other end, "Su Yun Jiao, I can't get hold of Lu Chi; can you still reach him? Do you know where he is?"

Hearing Qin Xue's anxiety about finding Lu Chi, Su Yun Jiao merely replied flatly, "I don't know."

"How could you possibly not know? You two are childhood sweethearts; I just went to Lu Chi's house and found no one there—do you know something? Lu Chi isn't answering calls or replying to messages; I'm really worried something might have happened to him."

I don't know if something happened to him, but they probably have nowhere to live.

"Qin Xue, there's something I need to make clear: I have no relationship whatsoever with Lu Chi now; if you want to know what he's doing, go find him yourself—don't call me again."

After saying that, Su Yun Jiao hung up the phone with a backhand, and then this time she directly deleted Qin Xue.

After the second half of the senior year ends, she estimates she will no longer have any dealings with Lu Chi and Qin Xue.

After hanging up the phone, Su Yun Jiao lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

At this moment, Lu Jingqing returned to the room, and Secretary Li followed him in, saying: "We have been sending people to watch Zheng Hongyu and Lu Chi; we discovered they likely hid money, so we found a second-hand house, presumably intending to buy it."

Lu Jingqing said unhurriedly: "It seems their life is better than I thought."

"Has the house been bought already?"

"Not yet; currently they should have found a hotel to stay in, because we got the news quickly, so that apartment is now being held by our people; if Boss Lu says he won't sell, the real estate agency wouldn't dare to sell either."