"Is that so?" Gu Zhiqi drawled lazily before leaning forward slightly, her fingertips sliding across the phone screen, changing the photo displayed.
Watching the signature on the phone screen, Qiao Nan, who had stood up and not taken her seat again, saw her pupils contract and her body stiffen on the spot.
Gu Zhiqi lifted her gaze to look at Qiao Nan and asked unhurriedly, "Why does Miss Qiao’s post-amnesia signature look so similar to Meng Xiao’s?"
At Gu Zhiqi’s words, Gu Mengyang looked at Qiao Nan strangely.
Qiao Nan had amnesia?
Listeining to Gu Zhiqi’s question, Qiao Nan’s face changed slightly, and she couldn’t help but stagger back several steps.
Gu Zhiqi smiled, "Please enlighten me, Miss Qiao."
"I—I don’t know. It must be a coincidence. It’s really unexpected; I didn’t think that my signature style would resemble Senior Meng’s so closely. However, my signature was designed with someone’s help, maybe—I and Senior Meng just happened to have found the same person." At the beginning of her response, Qiao Nan’s tone was a bit unnatural, but by the end, she had completely calmed down.
"What a coincidence indeed," Gu Zhiqi said languidly.
"Yes, indeed a coincidence," Qiao Nan replied dryly, and as she spoke, she glanced tentatively at Gu Zhiqi, trying to see if Gu Zhiqi believed her or not.
But to her disappointment, she couldn’t see through Gu Zhiqi at all.
While filled with doubt and trepidation, Qiao Nan looked up and met Gu Zhiqi’s deep, misty eyes that seemed to see through everything. Subconsciously, she averted her gaze.
Gu Zhiqi, with a curved smile, looked at Qiao Nan and asked, "Does Miss Qiao know Qiu Mingzi?"
Originally panicking from making eye contact with Gu Zhiqi, upon hearing a familiar name from Gu Zhiqi’s mouth, Qiao Nan’s entire body shuddered, and she stiffened on the spot.
It took her a while to recover, and she took two steps back, stammering, "Gu—Miss Gu, what are you talking about? I don’t know any Qiu Mingzi."
Hearing Qiao Nan’s response, Gu Zhiqi remained expressionless and continued leisurely, "However, Qiu Mingzi says otherwise. He claims to know you and says that you bought the Fiendishly Formation talismans from him."
Upon hearing this, Qiao Nan took two sharp steps back, repeatedly denying, "No, I’ve never bought anything, what Yin Sha Formation? I’ve never even heard of it."
Gu Mengyang, listening to Gu Zhiqi’s words, also cast a puzzled glance at her.
Wasn’t it Meng Xiao who bought talisman papers from Qiu Mingzi?
How did it become Qiao Nan?
Thinking this, he looked toward Qiao Nan, his eyes narrowing slightly, a fleeting shadow crossing the depths of his eyes.
Though Qiao Nan didn’t admit it, the way she was acting made it clear that she couldn’t be completely disconnected from the matter, even if she hadn’t bought the talisman papers.
"Miss Gu, there must be a mistake, I don’t know such a person," Qiao Nan said, her eyes tinged with an unmistakable color of panic, her face paling slightly as she looked at Gu Zhiqi.
"No only has Qiu Mingzi said so, but our review of the surveillance footage also clearly showed it was you who placed the talisman papers," Gu Zhiqi said, watching Qiao Nan.
Upon hearing this, Qiao Nan paused momentarily, then continued to explain, "Impossible, I haven’t..."
"Miss Qiao had mentioned earlier that you have selective amnesia. It seems it was selectively forgotten by you," Gu Zhiqi said, her mouth curving with a smile as she looked at Qiao Nan.
The corners of her mouth held a leisurely smile, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes.
"No, it can’t be, it’s not..." Facing Gu Zhiqi’s eyes directly, Qiao Nan suddenly lost her voice.
For a moment, Qiao Nan couldn’t help but doubt—had she also bought talisman papers from Qiu Mingzi to harm Gu Mengyang?