Chapter 171: Back So Quickly

Gu Qingjiu felt that this scene in front of her looked like those from dramas.

As she thought, she lowered her voice and steadied it. “I’m here to collect something under Huo Yingcheng’s name.”

In an instant, the old man looked towards Gu Qingjiu.

And his gaze clouded over with something ominous in an instance.

He sized Gu Qingjiu up. His gaze made her feel as if an insect was crawling all over her body.

This chill in the surrounding air irritated her skin, causing gooseb.u.mps to appear.

The way this man looked at her made her feel pressured and incredibly uncomfortable.

But it was a relief that the pressure wasn’t as bad as He Niancheng’s.

He only took around ten seconds to size Gu Qingjiu up, before he chuckled in a cold and dark tone. “Huo Yingcheng…”

With just those three words, it sounded so ominous on that chilly winter night that it scared people.

Gu Qingjiu forced herself to calm down. Even if it was in the past, she had never met a person as strange as him…

But he quickly turned around to retrieve a no bigger than the size of Gu Qingjiu’s palm ordinary looking box from the corner of the shop.

He took it and pa.s.sed it to Gu Qingjiu.

When Gu Qingjiu received it, she saw the man’s eyes who seemed to be testing her.

She calmed herself and steadily took the box over.

And without a single word, she left.

After Gu Qingjiu had entered the car, she pa.s.sed the box to He Niancheng. Only after she took her seat did she realize that the perspiration covering her back had already seeped through her clothes.

He Niancheng drove the car away immediately.

After sweeping a glance over the box, he casually placed it under his car seat.

Gu Qingjiu didn’t probe. It was only when He Niancheng sent her home did she hear him say a single word. “Thanks.”

It terrified Gu Qingjiu upon hearing that. She turned and shook her head. “Chief Instructor, you don’t have to be so polite.”

“Okay.”

He Niancheng looked at her meaningfully. “It will really be tough on you in the future.”

“…”

Before Gu Qingjiu could fully comprehend that statement, he drove away.

It seemed like the Chief Instructor still remembered what Huo Yingcheng said in the car earlier on.

Was he referring to her becoming his maidservant?

Shrugging her shoulder, Gu Qingjiu went up from the back entrance.

Gu Qingjiu still couldn’t wrap her head around with what happened. Why was she suddenly helping the Chief Instructor to do something top secret?

Gu Qingjiu could feel that when she went to collect the said item, the boss in that shop…

His eyes were bloodthirsty, and he exuded an aura that caused one’s heart to palpitate rapidly, as if the coppery scent of blood was choking her…

It felt so menacing that even until then Gu Qingjiu still felt tense.

But with the Chief Instructor by her side, that feeling seemed to have diminished a little.

She felt that even if it was dangerous, the Chief Instructor wouldn’t ask her to do such things.

But all of a sudden, it seemed like she obtained some incredible information.

Gu Qingjiu was still thinking about it after opening the door, so when Gu Qingmo opened his room’s door, she jumped in shock.

“Older brother, you’re back so quickly?”

He was walking out from his room, already clad in his pajamas so he probably have showered. It can be easily seen that he had been back for quite some time.

Gu Qingjiu probably went for around half an hour.