She did this to prevent Zhou Jiajia from attempting suicide in the middle of the night, which was not what she wanted to see; so she had to hold on tight.
Lying on her side, Zhou Jiajia's tears kept dripping down. To tell the truth, no matter how much she pretended, her heart was in pain.
On the other side of the sky, Lin Yifan didn't know that he would be facing a severe interrogation the next day.
The next morning, with no buses running, Lin Yifan took a taxi to An Qi's house.
After waiting outside for a while, Uncle Fu drove out.
As he passed by Lin Yifan, Zhou Jiajia said from inside the car, "Uncle Fu, don't bother with him! Keep driving!"
"Uh..." Uncle Fu didn't know why this was happening, so he looked at An Qi for her opinion.
"Uncle Fu, open the door and let him in. Jiajia is just speaking out of anger," said An Qi, before going to soothe Zhou Jiajia's angry mood.
Lin Yifan, who was outside the car, also heard what Zhou Jiajia had just said, and to be honest, he was confused by those words. Things were fine yesterday, so why had they suddenly changed today? Was she still blaming him for not protecting An Qi well enough?
Leave that aside for the moment, he thought, and get in the car first.
He sat in the passenger seat and then, peering through the rearview mirror, saw that Zhou Jiajia's expression was very off, seeming very angry.
"What are you looking at?" Suddenly, Zhou Jiajia snapped this at him.
Startled, he immediately withdrew his gaze and sat obediently in the passenger seat, not daring to sneak another glance.
The atmosphere in the car was extremely awkward, chilling to the core, and Lin Yifan didn't understand what was wrong with Zhou Jiajia, why she was so angry.
He sneaked a glance at An Qi in the rearview mirror, hoping to understand what had happened.
But An Qi frowned tightly and signaled him not to worry about it for now.
With no other option, he decided not to look any longer and settled down for the ride.
And so, fraught with nervous anxiety, he arrived at the office with An Qi and Zhou Jiajia.
Getting out of the car, Zhou Jiajia didn't even give him a glance and walked ahead.
Lin Yifan followed quietly, silently offering protection.
When they were taking the elevator, he secretly poked An Qi's back, hoping to communicate through eye contact and understand what was wrong with Zhou Jiajia.
But the random gestures An Qi made were incomprehensible to him.
Soon, the elevator reached the fiftieth floor; then, one after the other, the three of them walked out.
As soon as they entered the office, Zhou Jiajia stopped him, "Come to my office with me."
So he meekly followed, like a little mouse that knew nothing.
The moment the door shut tightly, Zhou Jiajia erupted in anger, "Kneel down!"
"Kneel down? Why?" Lin Yifan didn't understand the reason.
"Don't play dumb. Do you not know what terrible thing you've done outside?" Zhou Jiajia snapped.
"Terrible thing? I haven't done anything terrible," Lin Yifan remained dazed, unaware of what had happened.
"Still making excuses, do I need to make you kneel on the keyboard to admit your mistake?" Zhou Jiajia challenged him.
"Uh... Secretary Zhou, I want to know what I did wrong to make you so angry," Lin Yifan finally asked for the reason.
"No need to call me Secretary Zhou anymore, there are no outsiders here," Zhou Jiajia said.
"Does President An know about our relationship?" Lin Yifan asked knowingly.
"That's not the point. The point is, why did you betray me? Why did you fall for another woman?" Zhou Jiajia let out her anger.
"Did she tell you?" Lin Yifan pointed at An Qi and asked Zhou Jiajia.
He felt it must have been the case, otherwise Zhou Jiajia wouldn't be so furious. But he hadn't told An Qi about Su Qingqing and Li Xiangmei, so how could An Qi say they had a chance encounter outside? This made him very curious.
"I don't care who said it, I just want to ask one thing, did it happen or not?" Zhou Jiajia demanded.
With a glance out of the corner of his eye at An Qi behind Zhou Jiajia, he saw An Qi waving her hands, urging him not to speak. So, Lin Yifan replied, "No!"
"Are you sure you truly didn't?"
"I really didn't!" Lin Yifan answered with conviction.
"Take out your wallet and let's see!"
"The wallet's already been lost to the depths of the ocean," Lin Yifan replied.
"You're lying! You're just too guilty to show it," Zhou Jiajia didn't believe.
"What's there to be afraid of? It's genuinely lost at sea." Lin Yifan replied, and then asked curiously, "Why do you want my wallet? Is there evidence of infidelity in there?"
"Little Sister An Qi told me herself that your wallet contains a photo of you being intimate with another woman. She wouldn't lie to me; so you definitely have another woman out there," Zhou Jiajia answered. Get full chapters from novęlfire.net
At that moment, Lin Yifan really wanted to say: I'm not afraid of godlike opponents, but teammates like pigs.
His wallet didn't contain any intimate photos with other women at all. All those photos were on the phones of Su Qingqing and Li Xiangmei; he hadn't kept a single one.
"Are you sure she didn't see it wrong?" Lin Yifan questioned.
"Little Sister An Qi is not blind. How could she see it wrong?" Zhou Jiajia countered.
"Maybe she got scared and saw wrong in that dangerous situation?" Lin Yifan tried asking.
As long as An Qi continued to cooperate, this act could go well.
Indeed, hearing him say this, Zhou Jiajia immediately became suspicious and turned to ask An Qi behind her, "Is that so, Little Sister An Qi?"
She didn't want to misunderstand Lin Yifan lightly, nor did she want their relationship to sour; so she had to ask clearly about the situation.
"Maybe that's the case. At that time, when the big lecher was fiercely battling with the kidnappers on the speedboat, I only saw something special inside the wallet he dropped, it looked like a photo, but it might not have been," An Qi replied.
"See, I didn't say anything wrong, did I?" An Qi's perfect cooperation allowed Lin Yifan to breathe a sigh of relief; he then went over to hold her, soothingly saying, "All right! Honey, don't be mad anymore, I wouldn't do something to betray you."
"Empty words prove nothing, swear it now!"
Lin Yifan promptly took an oath, and after doing so, he asked, "Are you satisfied now?"
"I'm satisfied." Zhou Jiajia nestled contentedly in Lin Yifan's arms, feeling very sweet.
Seizing the opportunity, Lin Yifan asked curiously, "By the way, if I did have an affair, what would you do to me?"
"I would kill you, and then kill myself," Zhou Jiajia replied fiercely.
"Jiajia Sister is fooling you, she said last night that if she really couldn't persuade you to leave the other women, she would become the master of Red Palace, killing all the Imperial Concubines you brought in," An Qi added at this moment.