Top beauties: Beijing bigwigs gathered at Shura Field

Chapter 248 Long Memory

Shao Ting's eyes finally showed some emotion, and his gaze slowly fell on her face.

The girl's eyes, which were always dark and clear, looked at him for the first time tonight as if begging. She looked particularly well-behaved and sympathetic.

She said softly, "Sir, I really feel a little uncomfortable. Can you take me outside to get some fresh air first?"

She lowered her voice, but the people present could still hear it clearly.

Guan Li noticed Jiang Wan's unconscious dependence on Shao Ting, and couldn't help but glance at the man in front of him. He felt a rare mix of emotions.

After being with Xie Shiqian for so many years, how could he not see the man's special feelings for Jiang Wan.

In the past, he believed that people of Xie Shiqian's status were destined to be alone in a high position and could not and would never be bound by so-called love.

But now that he really saw the woman his husband had feelings for being intimate with another man, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Apart from this, he couldn't help but be surprised by Shao Ting's indulgence of Jiang Wan.

In this situation, when Jiang Wan said she wanted to go out, Shao Ting really stood up and said excuse me, then took her hand and led her away.

To this extent, it is obviously not just ordinary care.

But this can actually be seen from the incident just mentioned.

A man like Shao Ting, who has an extremely strong and restrained temperament and a very clear bottom line, could not let go of his beloved woman even after she chose to seek help from another man or his old enemy in that situation, and even continued to be entangled with her. This was really beyond Guan Li's past understanding of Shao Ting.

Fortunately...it shouldn't be possible for Xie Shiqian to get to this point?

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On the other side, Jiang Wan, who stood up with Shao Ting holding his hand tightly, could of course clearly feel that countless obscure gazes were falling on him.

But at this moment she could no longer care about too much and just wanted to escape from the situation as quickly as possible.

When she was about to leave the hall, she subconsciously looked back and met that abyss-like, compelling gaze again.

With her heart beating fast, Jiang Wan finally understood why the man wanted Guan Li to mention the matter of Pan Mingqi.

For both Shao Ting and her, what happened that day had already become a taboo that no one dared to touch easily.

For such a long time, Shao Ting had never once asked what happened that day, and it was even less likely that she would mention it on her own initiative.

However, no matter how much she tried to avoid mentioning it, the fact that she had used him or given up on him was something that could never be erased.

But this matter was exposed by an outsider. The process was torture for her and even more heartbreaking for Yu Shaoting.

For a man like Xie Shiqian who sees through people so clearly and has no secrets under his nose, it is very easy to make someone unhappy.

Only then did Jiang Wan become certain that the displeasure he felt at that moment was not an illusion. No matter what the reason, she must have made him unhappy tonight.

This reward was indeed enough to teach her a lesson.

Seeing the two figures walking further and further away until they completely disappeared from sight, and Jiang Yan also left the table, Guan Li looked at Xie Shiqian and whispered:

"Sir, the Shao and Ji families have been at odds with each other lately. They've probably already fallen out behind the scenes. You just took the initiative to point it out. If that happens, the two will lose all scruples. Will the situation..."

Xie Shiqian didn't even move his eyes or eyebrows, and his voice was so low and deep that even Guan Li held his breath.

"Didn't you say that the Tang family has been quite active recently?"

"It just so happens that the more chaotic the situation is, the more opportunities it will give him to exploit loopholes."

"Keep a close eye on the people and eradicate them completely."

Guan Li's brows lowered even more after he responded, "Then if Director Shao can indeed find clues about the person behind Pan Mingqi's incident, what should we do?"

Guan Li had only confirmed it two days ago. Not long after the incident at Zhenfu Guildhall, not only was Pan Mingqi tortured half to death, but even the Pan family showed signs of collapse. It was highly likely that more than just Shao Ting and Ji Xingjing were behind this.

However, the person behind this was obviously quite powerful, and his identity was probably quite sensitive, so everyone involved kept their mouths shut and didn't reveal anything.

The Xie family could not openly investigate, but the Shao family, as a military and political family, could. This was the main reason why Xie Shiqian intended him to mention this matter to Shao Ting.

Of course, Shao Ting couldn't have been unaware that there was a third person hiding behind Ji Xingjing, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to trace it back to the Xie family.

And precisely for this reason, only if the Xie family makes its position clear can things proceed more smoothly.

But Guan Li really didn't expect Xie Shiqian to choose this opportunity.

He originally thought that the man would take a more subtle approach, and it should be when Jiang Wan was not around.

What happened just now... not to mention Shao Ting, it is very likely that Miss Jiang was scared to death.

Xie Shiqian was unaware of his inner criticism and replied calmly, "No rush."

Guan Li had to retract his thoughts: "Yes."

But before he finished speaking, he remembered something, "Oh, sir, Mr. Shen just stopped me and said that he hadn't seen you for a while and wanted to invite you to the study on the second floor to chat for a while after we finish here."

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After all, tonight is Mr. Shen’s 70th birthday, so naturally there are many people visiting the Shen family, but surprisingly, there is no noise around until now, and the garden outside the hall is especially quiet and cool.

When Jiang Wan was led to the corner of the courtyard path, there was no one around.

After looking up at the man's unusually silent profile, her eyes trembled slightly, but she pursed her lips and muffledly called out his name.

"Shao Ting."

The moment the words fell, the two of them stopped at the same time.

In the silent atmosphere, Shao Ting turned sideways, lowered his eyes to hold her in his sight for a moment, and then whispered, "What do you want to say?"

The man's tall figure cast a shadow in front of him. Jiang Wan stared into his eyes, which were darker than the night. Her nose felt sore and she suddenly felt uneasy. "Don't you have anything you want to ask me?"

The girl who he thought about almost day and night just looked up at him with her little face, and no matter how many questions she wanted to ask, they were actually not that important.

But looking at the red corners of her eyes and her stubborn look, Shao Ting was silent for a moment, then he put his arm around her waist and lifted her up the steps at the edge of the path so that she could barely look at him.

"Then tell me, what should I ask?"

The man's silent and insightful gaze made people tremble. The sour emotion could no longer be suppressed and rose into Jiang Wan's eyes, gradually condensing into a wet mist.

Jiang Wan could no longer look him in the eye. She lowered her head and spoke in a stiff voice, "You should have asked me too much. For example, where was I when you called me last night? Where was I when you called me after getting off the plane? What happened on the day Pan Mingqi drugged me? You should have asked me all that, you..."

As she spoke, it became increasingly difficult for her to speak. While she was babbling, the man's warm big hand stroked half of her face, forcing her to look up at him.

The man's eyes finally overflowed with some helplessness, but he still raised his fingertips to wipe across the soft and moist corners of her eyes and whispered:

"I've asked you this many times in the past. Even when I told you I could cover for you no matter what you did, you still chose to evade me."

"Wanwan, I don't want you to forget even this."

Jiang Wan felt her heart burn with the rare tiredness in his voice, and the tears that she had held back with great difficulty could no longer be held back and rolled down like beads.

She shook her head, and her helpless voice was inevitably filled with a hint of grievance: "I haven't forgotten..."

Shao Ting looked at her pitiful appearance with tears in her eyes, and finally sighed. He hugged her in his arms and asked in her ear in a hoarse voice: "You haven't forgotten, so why are you crying?"

In fact, even Jiang Wan herself didn't know why she couldn't help crying in front of Shao Ting.

At first her tears were just a means to gain sympathy and achieve her goals, but now she couldn't tell whether they were out of fear, guilt, or perhaps something else.

But when she was enveloped by the familiar hot breath of the man from all directions, her heart fell back.

Jiang Wan couldn't help but mock herself for being greedy and shameful, but she couldn't help herself any longer and put her arms around his waist, burying her little face in his arms.

It was this action that made Shao Ting close his eyes resigned to his fate. He sighed softly, pressed his lips lightly on the top of her soft hair, then lifted her face, stared at her deeply with his dark eyes for a moment, then lowered his head and kissed her.

Perhaps due to the occasion, the man's kiss was much more lingering and gentle than before, yet still strong. Jiang Wan couldn't resist it at all, and her whole body trembled.

As the air became increasingly damp and sticky, Jiang Wan's vision became increasingly blurred.

However, just when she was about to be completely immersed in it, and even unconsciously clung to Shao Ting's chest, a figure that she accidentally caught a glimpse of in the corner of her eye made her originally dazed pupils suddenly widen, and the blood in her body suddenly dropped to freezing point.

There was complete silence all around. In the dim light, the man appeared at the window at the corner of the stairs on the second floor. The man's obscure gaze stared at her from an almost condescending angle, making people shudder and unable to hide.