"Sis? Sister!"
Xia Qingyu called out twice but couldn't see Xia Qingtian's figure, so she quickly got out of bed.
She had slept too soundly to even know when Xia Qingtian had left.
Opening her bedroom door, she saw a maid passing by and asked, only to learn that Xia Qingtian had been invited out.
"Gone out? With her leg like that, she can barely walk properly. Where did she go?" Xia Qingyu frowned. Why was this Xia Qingtian so troublesome?
The maid shook her head, looking troubled.
She was just a worker, how could she know anything about Xia Qingtian?
"You can go about your business," Xia Qingyu knew she wouldn't get anything out of the maid.
After tidying up her room, Xia Qingyu immediately prepared to go out to find Xia Qingtian.
As she reached the corner of the stairs, Xia Qingyu saw Nie Qingkong, who was also about to go downstairs, and immediately frowned.
Nie Qingkong caught the look of disgust in Xia Qingyu's eyes and raised an eyebrow unhappily.
This ungrateful girl, why did she always look at him like that the moment she saw him? If he hadn't stopped it in time last night, this ungrateful girl would likely have been drowned as Tang Jiaming's wife!
"Good morning, you all just woke up too?"
A male voice made Nie Qingkong and Xia Qingyu turn their heads simultaneously.
"Young Master Bai? Why are you here?" Xia Qingyu was surprised to see Bai Yuqi there.
"It's a long story," Bai Yuqi said with his arms crossed. "Or rather, let's not talk about it~"
After all, waiting outside all night was not something that showcased his magnificent heroic posture. Moreover, being treated as a suspect was nothing worth mentioning.
Looking at Bai Yuqi, Xia Qingyu thought of Xia Qingtian, who had been invited out. The invisible crisis antenna above her head immediately warned her with a beep, beep, beep.
"Did Young Master Bai come alone?" Xia Qingyu suppressed her unease and asked tentatively.
"No, why would I come alone? I came with a friend," Bai Yuqi waved his hand. There were very few men as loyal as him nowadays.
"Then..." Xia Qingyu swallowed hard and asked, "Is it that chef friend from the boat?"
She hoped it wasn't him!
"Eh? You guessed it right!" Bai Yuqi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Xia Qingyu with newfound admiration. This little girl was quite clever.
Just like her sister.
Hmm?
Bai Yuqi tilted his head and looked at Xia Qingyu more closely. Why did Xia Qingyu look a little familiar?
Her brain, which had just rested, spun quickly, and Bai Yuqi's eyes lit up.
This Xia Qingyu bore some resemblance to the wife of the Li family patriarch he had seen at the Li family banquet yesterday!
What was her name again?
Bai Yuqi couldn't recall the name of the Li family matriarch at all.
It seemed... her surname was Liu?
"Are you..." Bai Yuqi was about to ask Xia Qingyu a question when he saw Xia Qingyu run out without a word.
Nie Qingkong beside her, thinking something had happened, followed her without a second thought.
"...a relative named Liu..." Bai Yuqi looked at the retreating figures of Xia Qingyu and Nie Qingkong and weakly asked the question he hadn't finished.
Afterwards, he shrugged and slowly walked downstairs.
He was a bit hungry after sleeping. Let's see if the Yue family had anything good to eat~
Xia Qingyu ran out of the Yue family's main gate and looked around. She frowned and took out her phone to call Xia Qingtian, but Xia Qingtian called her just then.
Xia Qingyu immediately answered the phone and asked, holding the phone to her ear, "Where are you?"
"Qingyu darling, you're awake?" Xia Qingtian's voice was clear and cheerful. "I'm shopping. I just saw a bag that would be perfect for your lotus root-colored dress. There are white and pink ones, which color do you want? Or maybe buy both colors! There's a promotion today, and the prices are very reasonable."
"Your leg is injured like that, why are you still going shopping?" Xia Qingyu frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid your leg will be crippled like this? Can't you be more mature!
When can't you go shopping! Why must it be now? Do you know how I felt when I woke up and couldn't find you..."
Xia Qingyu's peripheral vision caught Nie Qingkong looking shocked and stunned by her outburst. She knew her tone was a bit harsh, so she swallowed the rest of her words.
"Don't be angry, I left early this morning. I didn't want to wake you up. You took care of me so late last night, I wanted you to sleep a little longer." Xia Qingtian said, pointing to the two bags in front of her and signaling the sales associate to bag them.
Both colors, perfect for Xia Qingyu to switch between.
Who would have too many bags?
"Then why did you have to go out today? Is it... someone deliberately..." Xia Qingyu didn't have a good impression of the chef she hadn't met, but she couldn't bring herself to say "seduce" directly. She could only awkwardly say, "Said something that made you so moved that you couldn't control yourself?"
"No, I heard the butler say this morning that my uncle is getting his marriage license with his fiancée today. This is a happy occasion, so I have to show some gesture, which is why I asked a friend to accompany me shopping to pick out a congratulatory gift for them," Xia Qingtian replied.
"Getting married? Today? So suddenly?" Xia Qingyu found it somewhat unexpected. She hadn't heard about this yesterday.
Recalling Yu Zixuan's gloomy expression yesterday, Xia Qingyu frowned. Something felt off.
"Right! I also think it's very sudden." Xia Qingtian said, while asking the sales associate to bring over a new chain bag and trying it on. "This one is a bit heavy, but Aunt Liu would look good carrying it. Yes, bag this one too."
Hearing Xia Qingtian's explanation and knowing that she hadn't forgotten to pick out gifts for herself and her mother, Xia Qingyu's anger had almost completely subsided.
"Are you with that chef from the boat?" Xia Qingyu's tone was a little sour.
She wasn't angry anymore, but that didn't mean she didn't care.
Xia Qingtian glanced at Gu Yaoyang and gave a dry laugh. "We can't really say that about him..."
He was the dignified Mr. Gu. Asking him to cook was already a condescension, so how could she directly call him a chef?
"You're still defending him?" Xia Qingyu's beautiful eyes widened, and she said angrily, "Where are you? I'm coming to find you!"
She wanted to see what kind of person that chef was!
Not only did he lure her sister away early in the morning, but her sister was also protecting him with all her might!
"I'll be back in a moment. You don't need to come, it's too much trouble." Xia Qingtian blinked, holding her phone with a bit of confusion. Was she scared by the accident last night?
Why did Xia Qingyu seem so strange?
Although Xia Qingyu was usually proud, she was actually easy to talk to. But today, Xia Qingyu was particularly difficult to appease.