Chapter 198: Ordinary Online Friend

The manager didn’t order more things.

Who could be knocking on the door?

The manager paused and turned to look at Qin Ran and Yan Xi. “Great Master, I will take a look at who is outside.”

He walked towards the door and reached out to open it.

“May I ask…” The manager smiled and opened the door.

As soon as he looked up, he saw a pair of thick, peach blossom eyes.

The slightly narrowed eyes seemed to carry a coldness in them.

The manager couldn’t help but take a step back to look at the man in front of him. His eyes were dark and deep, and he wore a beige windbreaker that made his lazy face appear even more unruly.

There was an imposing air between his faint and brilliant eyebrows.

The corridor outside could accommodate three or four people at the same time, but the manager still felt like it was a little narrow at this time.

“There are two people inside?” Cheng Juan glanced at him and spoke calmly, his slender fingers carelessly gathering his trench coat.

The manager inexplicably felt a burst of pressure and was even a little breathless. “Yes, may I ask who you are looking for?”

He wanted to ask what this gentleman did.

After so many years of working as a manager, the most powerful person he had seen was the Jiang Corporation’s Shaodong family. This included the crown prince of the Jiang Corporation, whom the company and the capital held with reverence.

Even so, the manager felt like this man in front of him didn’t lose in aura to the crown prince of the Jiang family.

Cheng Juan narrowed his eyes somewhat dangerously and didn’t hurry to reply to the manager. Instead, he just glanced behind him.

Following his gaze, the door behind the manager opened.

Qin Ran held her black coat in one hand and put the signed photo in her pocket.

Behind her was Yan Xi.

She kept the photos and raised an eyebrow when she saw Cheng Juan. “You reached so soon?”

Cheng Juan responded casually and quickly set his eyes on Yan Xi.

With Yan Xi’s current popularity, he had to wear a mask, a cap, and a scarf every time he went out.

He was putting on his mask when he felt a sense of inexplicable pressure on his head.

He paused and raised his head to see a clear, handsome face. The man had already looked away from him to the person in front.

“Do you have anything else?” Cheng Juan glanced at Qin Ran and asked patiently.

“No.” Qin Ran walked towards him while slowly wearing her coat. “Let’s go back.”

Cheng Juan nodded at this and glanced thoughtfully at the manager. “Are you not inviting your friend for dinner?”

Yan Xi might not have noticed, but the manager definitely heard a kind of declaration of sovereignty.

The manager’s expression changed a little, and he felt like he might have misunderstood something just now?

G.o.dd.a.m.nit, was this really not love?

“No.” Qin Ran buckled up her hat and glanced at Yan Xi. “You still have a shoot to do, right? Let’s go.”

She followed Cheng Juan downstairs.

Yan Xi didn’t think of anything other than music and had very few distractions in his mind, so he just stared at Qin Ran’s thoughtfully for a while before following his manager downstairs.

The manager stared at the back of the two and felt like his mind had exploded. He was simply dumbstruck. So everything he saw just now had been a figment of his subjective imagination?

Great Master Jiangshan didn’t have that kind of intention? Then why did she always pay so much attention to Yan Xi?!

The manager couldn’t figure it out. He wasn’t a greenhorn like Yan Xi and naturally thought more about things like that. Yan Xi had become very close to the person who had always been taking care of and supporting him.

Who would send warmth for no reason?

Or… The manager stared at Qin Ran’s back and thought, Are there other people behind Qin Ran?!

The manager felt like his brain was about to explode.

“Yan Xi, are you not curious about the man’s relations.h.i.+p with the Great Master?” The manager whispered to him.

Yan Xi glanced at the two of them in front and his eyes behind the sungla.s.ses remained unchanged. “What does it matter?”

“Just… sigh. Great Master has helped you for so many years without reason, are you not curious why?” the agent asked again.

“It’s not without reason. I gave her money…” Yan Xi replied.

For the very first time, the manager looked at Yan Xi and found it hard to explain himself in a few words. “The Great Master’s clothes are all limited to the store L and are not for sale. Do you think she lacks your hundreds of thousands of yuan?”

In the past, the manager thought Jiang Shanyi had taken a fancy to Yan Xi’s beauty and talent.

But now…

Yan Xi was indeed a beauty of the prosperous age in the entertainment industry, but he was incomparable to those two…

Talent…

Was the name “G.o.d-level arranger Jiang Shanyi” blindly bestowed by netizens?!

**

Outside the door, Cheng Mu was still in the car.

He immediately put down his phone and got out of the car when he saw Qin Ran and Cheng Juan coming down.

Cheng Juan didn’t say anything and Qin Ran only nodded at him.

Then, she turned sideways and waved casually to Yan Xi and his manager.

“Amazing, Miss Qin.” Cheng Mu looked behind her and happened to see Yan Xi, who had already wrapped himself up like a mummy.

This was Miss Qin’s friend?

What kind of weird dressing was this?

Cheng Mu glanced at them and felt like those two people were much better than Yang Fei and Gu Xichi, so he simply looked away.

Cheng Juan also drove over.

Cheng Mu drove back alone, and when he returned to his driver’s seat, he picked up his phone and placed it on the pa.s.senger seat to take a look.

He had sent Ouyang Wei a message, but she had not replied yet.

He put down his phone again.

In the other car.

Qin Ran sat on the co-pilot’s seat while Cheng Juan drove the car slowly.

Other than the two traffic lights at the beginning, the others were elevator roads. It wasn’t a holiday, so the road was un.o.bstructed.

In less than half an hour, the two cars drove into the parking garage of Gu Xichi’s home.

Cheng Mu arrived a little later.

He went to collect the meals back halfway.

It was almost two o’clock in the afternoon and they had yet to eat lunch.

Lu Zhaoying was already sitting at the dining table and had set all the tableware.

When Qin Ran came in, he was talking to Xiao Er, but Xiao Er was mostly ignoring him.

“You’re back?” Lu Zhaoying was extremely hungry and had wanted to order food, but ordinary people couldn’t enter the house, and he didn’t know how to open Gu Xichi’s door either.

He was afraid that he would not be able to return if he went out.

He was famished by the time Qin Ran came back.

“Yeah.” Qin Ran threw her coat on the sofa while Cheng Juan was still parking. “I will go up and call them down.”

She went up to the third floor.

Gu Xichi was still standing next to a bunch of instruments. The mobile phone on the table next to it kept ringing, but he basically ignored it.

“Brother Gu.” Jiang Dongye took his phone and glanced at it. “It seems to be an overseas call.”

Gu Xichi didn’t even look up. “Decline it.”

These were all calls from the elders of the medical profession. The statement issued by the medical organization this morning shook the entire medical profession.

“Okay.” Jiang Dongye declined the call directly.

Qin Ran looked at the two of them by the door for a while and touched her chin.

Once Jiang Dongye saw her, she asked, “How old are you this year?”

“26,” Jiang Dongye paused before answering.

“Oh.” Qin Ran nodded and asked again, “Do you know how old he is?”

She reached out and pointed in the direction of Gu Xichi.

Jiang Dongye smiled. He had obtained information on Gu Xichi all these years and was naturally very clear about this. “He’s 24.”

Qin Ran was speechless.

So he already knew?

**

Cheng Mu and Cheng Juan had just returned when the three of them went downstairs together.

Lu Zhaoying was setting the dishes.

“Qin Ran, I received three G.o.d cards.” Lu Zhaoying finally sighed in relief now that it was lunchtime, but he suddenly remembered something and asked, “Why do you have so many G.o.d cards?”

Lu Zhaoying didn’t know much about the G.o.d cards.

However, he had read comments before and remembered very clearly that even in Team OST, if the player wasn’t a starting member, he might not be able to get the G.o.d cards.

Three years ago, Qin Ran had given the three G.o.d cards to Cheng Juan even before they appeared in OST.

Then, she had given him the three cards so easily as well.

In particular, neither of them was a member of OST.

“I asked someone for it.” Qin Ran responded casually. She had just eaten two cakes in the coffee shop and wasn’t particularly hungry.

But Lu Zhaoying’s intuition told him something was wrong.

But he couldn’t think of what it could be.

He simply put this matter aside and thought of another question. “By the way, which friend of yours did you meet today?”

Hearing this, Gu Xichi also looked up and asked in surprise, “What other friends do you have here?”

“No.” Qin Ran grabbed a piece of meat with her chopsticks. “Just an ordinary online friend.”

“Online friend?” Cheng Juan had not seen Yan Xi’s face clearly today, but even if he had, he wouldn’t know that he was a famous singer.

“Yeah, we have known each other for several years but have never met,” Qin Ran replied slowly after eating the meat. “He happened to be in Shanghai tonight, so we just decided to meet.”

Cheng Juan glanced at her and nodded.

Jiang Dongye and Lu Zhaoying didn’t relax after hearing Qin Ran say it was just an “online friend”.

The two of them still remembered that the “showman” was Elder Wei.

Lu Zhaoying looked directly at Cheng Mu.

Cheng Mu felt their gaze on him, so he put down his chopsticks, raised his head, and recalled the people he saw today. “It seemed like two people, but I have never seen them before.”

He couldn’t see Yan Xi’s face, and he had indeed never seen the manager’s face before.

Lu Zhaoying sighed in relief. Qin Ran finally had an ordinary online friend. It wasn’t an easy feat.

**

At five o’clock.

In Yun Cheng.

It was Monday and Qin Yu had already left Yun Cheng to head towards the imperial capital. Ning Qing had originally planned to go with her.

However, since Ning Wei was sick, n.o.body else could take care of Chen Shulan. Worried, Ning Qing had decided to send Qin Yu off and stay in Yun Cheng.

She returned to the Lin family’s house from the beauty clinic in the afternoon.

Aunt Zhang came up respectfully to help her take off her coat. Her att.i.tude towards her was as respectful as that towards Lin Wan.

As soon as Aunt Zhang hung her coat on the hanger, Ning Qing’s phone rang in her bag.

She walked to the sofa and lowered her head to take the phone out.

When she saw that it was the doctor, she paused for a moment before picking up. “Doctor?”

They didn’t say much and directly asked her to come over to the hospital.

Lin Qi also just came back and saw that Ning Qing was frozen in place. He turned and asked gently, “What’s wrong? We’ll go to my dad’s house to eat later.”

Ning Qing panicked and her right eyelid twitched violently. She grabbed Lin Qi’s arm firmly and said, “Go… go to the hospital!”

Lin Qi naturally knew without thinking that something had happened to Chen Shulan.

He put on his coat again and took out his phone to call Old Master Lin.

Now was the peak period after work.

The traffic jams were severe.

They reached the hospital in forty minutes.

Chen Shulan was in the emergency room.

“Doctor.” Ning Qing didn’t even bring her bag nor phone. She directly grabbed the attending doctor that came out of the emergency room and asked, “How’s my mother?”

Chen Shulan’s attending doctor sighed and his eyes were a little dark. “Her body was already at the end of a crossbow. Anyway…”

“Why? You have CNS, right? Is it gone again?” Ning Qing’s body shook a little.

“No, this morning’s news…” The doctor paused halfway and sighed again. “I’m foolish, why would I tell you. Let’s go and see Ms. Chen first. She’s sober now and her spirit… is very good. Notify the rest of your family members.”

With that said, he walked outside and took out his phone to call Qin Ran.