Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Overestimating Oneself Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Overestimating Oneself Shang Yu looked at Li Qiao, who was still drinking water.
The young girl’s expression was indifferent, her eyes drooping at the corners, inadvertently revealing a hint of defiance.
His thin lips curved slightly, and he lowered his head to straighten the cuffs of his shirt, “Not at all, since I promised you, no matter how busy I am, I’ll keep my word.”
Li Qiao suddenly met his gaze, the deer-like eyes brimming with shimmering light.
Soon, Shang Yu asked again, “Have you learned to suture wounds before?”
Li Qiao pinched the mineral water bottle in her hand and gave a reserved smile, “Hmm, sort of.”
Clearly, she was holding something back.
Shang Yu gave her a meaningful look for a while and made a candid assessment, “Not bad technique.”
Li Qiao’s eyes flickered, and she suddenly remembered hearing that Parma’s Shang family was a long-standing traditional Chinese medicine family.
Shang Lu was a famous doctor, so that would mean Shang Yu…
Before Li Qiao could ask more, Shang Yu uncrossed his long legs and stood up slowly, “Let’s go, time to eat.”
At two in the afternoon, Li Qiao and Shang Yu were driven back to the South Sea, while her Mercedes was driven back by the Bodyguard Team.
Halfway through the journey, a fine drizzle began to fall outside the window.
The speed of the convoy consequently slowed down noticeably.
The increasingly dense rain lashed against the car window, waking Li Qiao up.
She opened her bleary eyes, shrugged her shoulders, and looked at the rain-washed window, furrowing her brows slightly.
Li Qiao sat up straight, and as she turned her head, her gaze collided with Shang Yu’s.
The man grinned, his usual lazy posture exuding a laid-back and comfortable vibe, “Awake?”
Li Qiao pressed her lips together, squinting her eyes, her voice husky, “What’s going on outside?”
At that moment, Wang Yue in the front seat turned to look outside the window, snorted coldly, “Boss, it’s the same guys from last night, damn it, they really have no fear of death!”
The car continued at a steady pace, and although the rain-covered window was blurry, it was still possible to make out several heavy off-road vehicles closing in from both sides, seemingly trying to bring the convoy to a halt.
Shang Yu pinched his brow, speaking lightly, “Take care of it.”
Wang Yue gave a cold smile and immediately started issuing orders to the vehicles behind them using the car’s intercom.
Li Qiao’s calm gaze moved between the inside and outside of the window, and suddenly she asked, “Who are those guys?”
Wang Yue turned around from the front seat, eyeing Li Qiao’s nonchalant demeanor, and decided to intentionally scare her, speaking maliciously, “A bunch of desperados.
Li Qiao uttered an ‘Oh’, her face expressionless as she nodded, “Quite scared.”
“???” Why didn’t he feel her fear at all?
Li Qiao no longer paid attention to Wang Yue, glanced outside the window, and turned to ask Shang Yu, “Are they coming for Master Yan?”
The man smirked at the corner of his mouth, leisurely pulling a cigarette from his pocket and placing it between his lips while his eyes stayed fixed on Li Qiao, his tone playful, “Hmm, they probably want to take me out.”
Upon hearing this, Li Qiao laughed understandingly and bluntly threw out five words, “Quite overestimating themselves.”
“What makes you say that?” Shang Yu raised his eyebrows lightly, a hint of amusement lurking in his deep eyes.
In the face of such a perilous situation, the man still chatted with Li Qiao in the back seat casually, as if the four heavy off-road vehicles outside the window didn’t exist.
Li Qiao cleared her throat, then, leaning against the center console, tilted her chin towards the window, “Modified off-road vehicles might look tough, but apart from having speed, their body structure is quite fragile.
One collision and they shatter.”
After speaking, she turned her eyes to Shang Yu and said with a sly smile, “Those who drive such cars don’t have what it takes to take you out.”
The young girl wasn’t old, but she sure had an audacious way of talking!