Yan Yan reached out into empty air, then looked down and met her particularly cold and silent eyes.
He paused, unable to understand why she suddenly stopped talking to him.
Weren’t things fine last night?
He looked at the young girl’s snow-white face, trying to find some clues, but all he saw was lifeless stillness.
"Little Gua, what’s happened?"
The young girl didn’t respond and turned to walk alone in the direction of the apartment.
Watching her slender back, the man’s heart tightened, feeling a wave of pain spreading from his chest.
He stood still, his fingertips slightly stiff, and his phoenix eyes tinged with a bit of dejection.
After a long while, he started to follow her.
Yun Qiqi’s ear twitched as she sensed him following again, and she pursed her lips, her eyes growing even colder.
Her steps quickened considerably.
She usually walked slowly and gracefully, like a noble young girl from Central Europe.
Now she didn’t want him to follow, so her pace became very fast.
But Yan Yan had long legs and caught up with just a couple of strides.
He could see she didn’t want to talk to him, and though he longed to pull her aside and ask what was going on, he restrained himself, following ten steps behind her, neither fast nor slow.
Yun Qiqi quickly realized she couldn’t shake him off no matter what.
Her small face grew even tighter.
What should have taken ten minutes, she covered in just seven or eight.
Yan Yan watched her back, which never once turned around, and recalled how she looked at him earlier with eyes cold and indifferent, as if gazing at a stranger; his heart felt utterly hollowed out.
He had thought their relationship wasn’t so distant anymore.
At least she was willing to let him accompany her home, and sometimes she even agreed to rides in his car.
The second time he carried her in his arms horizontally, she didn’t resist much.
He thought that if it went on like this, Little Gua would gradually accept him. But who knew it’d all revert suddenly like this.
Yan Yan stood silently beneath the apartment for quite a while, suppressing his emotions, then turned to leave.
He had to have Fu Lifei check what happened today.
There was no reason for her sudden change.
This matter was actually difficult to investigate because Yun Qiqi indeed hadn’t interacted with anyone all day.
She was originally withdrawn and aloof, without friends at Hepburn’s.
The only interaction she had was when the new personnel manager arranged for her to go to the wine cellar.
That male bartender and the other two female employees were quickly called out for questioning.
After listening, Fu Lifei didn’t identify any issues.
But Fan Xinglan thought something might be wrong: "Could it be that Little Sister-in-law thinks Brother Yan is too ruthless, and that’s why she feels he’s not a good person, so she distanced herself from us?"
"....."
Fu Lifei’s mouth twitched hard.
He thought, you clearly hadn’t seen the personnel manager’s miserable state at that time. If you had, you wouldn’t say this.
Little Sister-in-law is evidently more ruthless!
Fan Xinglan quickly scratched his head again: "But Brother Yan was just helping her vent her anger. Little Sister-in-law isn’t someone who doesn’t know right from wrong. Something else must’ve happened, it’s really strange."
Yan Yan remained calm and didn’t speak.
He even started to wonder if he’d gone too far with the personnel manager.
He knew he’d been somewhat brutal in his methods for the past two years.
Was he too fierce, and did that scare her? Or had she heard about his reputation outside and thought he wasn’t someone easy to provoke?
If it were the Little Gua from before, he would never have worried that she would be afraid of him.