love addiction

After Yan Xiao went out, it was much more convenient for Yuan Lan.

After many inquiries, she saw that Qiao Xingchun and Cheng Yu had been dealing with official business in the study, so she sneaked into Yanxiao's room again, trying to find what Xu Yitang wanted.

That's why she's here.

Xu Yitang entrusted her with stealing the formula and the incense beads, and even ordered her to steal the things, otherwise she would not go back to see him.

She found nothing last night, and thought it would take a while before she found a chance.

But she didn't expect the opportunity to come so soon, Yuan Lan rummaged around in her room.

Xu Qingying said that the box of incense beads in Yan Xiao's hand was packed in a dark blue box.

But she couldn't find the box that Xu Qingying described, and she felt a little disappointed. When she heard footsteps outside, she quickly stopped and waited until the outside sound left, and then restored all the places she had searched to the original place, and quietly She slipped out of the room and returned to the living room as if nothing had happened.

In the living room, Qiao Xingchun was drinking tea, and when he saw Yuan Lan, he just nodded slightly.

Cheng Yu was calling Zhou Bu and asked him to send the documents that Young Master Qiao needed.

After Cheng Yu finished making the phone call, Qiao Xingchun put down the teacup, and said casually, "Cheng Yu, Yan Xiao hasn't been to the studio for several days, right? She doesn't seem to be very busy recently?"

Cheng Yu was a little dazed at first, wondering why Young Master Qiao would mention this.

But Cheng Yu is also a quick-response person. Seeing Yuan Lan cleaning the vase, he was clearly eavesdropping. He paused and said, "Yeah, Miss Yan has finished her work and hasn't been to work for the past two days." room."

"It's a bit messy in there, find two cleaners to clean it up for her, so she won't have to clean it herself." Qiao Xingchun ordered in a calm and elegant manner.

"Okay, young master." Cheng Yu was recording.

Yuan Lan interrupted the conversation between the two, and said in a low voice, "What do you want to clean? I'll go. You don't need to spend money to call for cleaning. I'll just help clean it."

"This..." Cheng Yu was a little embarrassed, "You are Miss Yan's mother and a guest of our eldest son, how can you be allowed to do this kind of thing? Besides, Miss Yan's studio is quite messy, and there is nothing to be done alone. It's too busy."

"It's okay, I'm idle anyway, so let me clean it." Yuan Lan insisted.

Qiao Xingchun looked cool, and said with eyes half down, "Since Auntie insists, let her do it, it's time to stretch your muscles, but Yanxiao's studio is full of weird things, don't touch them randomly." , if it gets messed up, she will be angry."

"Okay." Yuan Lan agreed, and after asking about the location of Cheng Yu's studio, she happily went there.

After Cheng Yu waited for her to leave, he went over and asked Qiao Xingchun in confusion, "Master, are you testing her?"

Qiao Xingchun nodded indifferently, "Her appearance was not normal. When she came out just now, she obviously had some light fragrance on her body. That's the fragrance that Yanxiao can only have. She probably went into Yanxiao's room to find something. something."

Cheng Yu's heart trembled, this Young Master Qiao's nose is really sensitive, he can tell if it is Miss Yan's smell or not.

"Go and have a look." Qiao Xingchun raised his chin slightly, motioning him to follow.

Cheng Yu immediately took the order and went there, and after a quarter of an hour, Cheng Yu came back and told Qiao Xingchun the situation truthfully, "As the young master expected, Miss Yan's mother was rummaging in her studio and It doesn't look like it's cleaning."

Qiao Xingchun's dark and familiar eyes were full of sharpness, and he steered the wheelchair to Yanxiao's studio.

Cheng Yu hurriedly followed.

Yuan Lan was rummaging vigorously, and didn't even notice that the two of them had come, and was still hunched over and rummaging in the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers.

Cheng Yu had to cough loudly to remind her.

Yuan Lan had a guilty conscience, and when he heard this voice, he was so frightened that he even knocked over the test tube beside him in a panic.

The liquid in the test tube fell to the ground, emitting a strong smell.

The smell was a bit pungent, which made her cough continuously.

Qiao Xingchun looked at all this coldly, without any heaving in his eyes.

Cheng Yu felt a burst of pressure, and hurried over to help Yuan Lan up.

Yuan Lan walked out following Cheng Yu tremblingly, and explained in a panic, "Young Master Qiao, I... I accidentally knocked over something, I'm sorry..."

Qiao Xingchun slightly raised his hand and interrupted her. There was no warmth on Qingjun's face, and his eyes were terribly cold.

He said in a cold voice, "You didn't come here to join Yanxiao, but to steal something?"

Yuan Lan's face was pale with fright when her mind was exposed, her legs trembled tremblingly, "No, it's not."

"It's already this time, do you still want to argue?" Qiao Xingchun's icy voice seemed to have a biting chill, making people shudder.

Seeing his expression, Yuan Lan was so frightened that her legs went limp, and she knelt down on the ground, trembling as she spoke, "I, I..."

"The door of Yanxiao's room is equipped with a surveillance camera. I just need to check it casually. I didn't reveal it. It's to save you the last bit of face. If you don't want it, I don't mind making it public." Qiao Xingchun didn't say anything. Because of her fear, she softened her hands and reminded her reasonably, "Of course, this can also be submitted to the police as evidence."

"I... I didn't do it on purpose." Yuan Lan was terrified after all, and burst into tears.

She was a woman who had never seen the world. After marrying Xu Yitang, she had been treated as a servant by Xu Yitang.

Without any background, he can only be constantly squeezed by others, and has long formed a timid character. How can he stand up to Qiao Xingchun's intimidation?
Cheng Yu watched so much that he was sweating for her.

Of course, this was not the most terrifying time for Young Master Qiao. After all, the other party was Yan Xiao's mother, so he saved some face.

Seeing Qiao Xingchun's unmoved expression, Yuan Lan knew that she had no other choice, so she could only say, "I did come with a purpose, I didn't intend to hurt Yanxiao, she is my daughter after all, I just If you want to get what Xu Yitang wants, then leave, Ke Yanxiao just refuses to give it, I can only use this method..."

She explained to herself while crying, "I didn't intend to hurt her. In fact, as long as she gives the formula, everything will be fine, but if she doesn't give it... I really can't help it."

Qiao Xingchun narrowed his eyes and asked, "Recipe? What kind of recipe?"

"It's just that Yan Xiao has some formulas that she made up by herself. She prepared some soothing water for her grandmother before. Xu Yitang wanted the formula for the soothing water, but Yan Xiao wouldn't give it to her, even if she was locked up. Here, I escaped by myself..."

When Qiao Xingchun heard that Yan Xiao was still locked up by them, his eyes suddenly sank, with some killing intent.

Yuan Lan just cried and complained, didn't notice all this, and continued to say, "And this time, she doesn't know where she learned the skill, she can make fragrant beads, Xu Yitang said that it must be impossible for Yan Xiao to give the formula of fragrant beads Let me come to Yanxiao to steal the incense beads, saying that the incense beads are priceless and can save the Xu family, so I came here."

Cheng Yu was ashamed to listen anymore, how could this Xu Yitang be so despicable?
After Yuan Lan finished speaking, she looked at Qiao Xingchun begging for mercy, but was startled by the coldness in his eyes, she was stunned for a while, and a cold air spread directly from her knees to her whole body.

She said with a pale face, "We don't mean to make jokes, we just want some incense beads..."

"Did you imprison her for the formula?" Qiao Xingchun asked Yuan Lan with serious eyes.

Yuan Lan nodded shyly, wanting to explain.

But Qiao Xingchun interrupted him coldly, his eyes filled with anger, "I didn't intend to embarrass you, or the Xu family, but it's very embarrassing for you to treat her like this, if I want to let her go."

"Young Master Qiao, I, I really didn't mean it, we didn't mean to hurt her." Yuan Lan anxiously wanted to explain.

It's a pity, Qiao Xingchun won't listen at all right now.

The image of a thin girl locked in a room from which she could not escape kept appearing in his mind.

Just thinking about it made him feel extremely distressed, how could he let it go?
"What else did you do to her?" Qiao Xingchun squinted her eyes and asked.

"No, no more..." Yuan Lan was obviously guilty, and didn't dare to look into Qiao Xingchun's eyes.

"If you don't tell me, I have plenty of ways to find out, and I can also ask Yan Xiao, but then I may not be as easy to talk to as I am now." Qiao Xingchun looked down at her with overwhelming coldness.

Seeing his eyes, Yuan Lan backed away in fright, put her hands on the ground, trembled all over, and then said tremblingly, "She, she didn't come to Xu's house until she was 15 years old. ...Worried that Xu Yitang would have other thoughts, I sent her to do some servant work..."

Under Qiao Xingchun's coercion, Yuan Lan explained everything that happened after Yan Xiao came to Xu's house.

Qiao Xingchun pressed all the questions, and every time he heard something, his eyes became colder.

By the time Yuan Lan finished speaking, his eyes were already glacier.

Cheng Yu silently lit a piece of wax for the Xu family, Xu Yitang and Yuan Lan in his heart.

"I, I've already finished talking." Yuan Lan said tremblingly, "Young Master Qiao, can I go?"

"I'll be back after a while, you'd better pretend nothing happened, I don't want to see you tomorrow morning." Qiao Xingchun said calmly.

Yuan Lan nodded hastily, "I know, I will leave quietly."

"Cheng Yu." Qiao Xingchun called out.

Cheng Yu hurried over and pushed him back to the room.

As soon as he arrived at the study, he ordered, "Investigate everything about the Xu family, including the current situation of Xu Yitang's company."

When Cheng Yu heard this arrangement, his heart was full of awe, "Yes."

Xu Yitang actually provoked the person that Young Master Qiao cared about the most, his company, just wait and see.

Not to mention that the Xu family is just a small company in Liangcheng, which is the current city of S, which one Qiao Xingchun wants to get is simply a piece of cake.

Enterprises in the entire city of S still remember the iron fist and means of the president of the chamber of commerce.

Many people still remember the fear of being dominated by Qiao Xingchun.

When Yan Xiao came back, he didn't know all these things, and he was still the same as before, learning the piano with Qiao Xingchun after dinner.

Qiao Xingchun seemed to be very patient and gentle with her tonight, and he always stared at her when she was playing the piano.

That gaze was so hot that it made Yan Xiao's heart twitch wildly, and he was so nervous that he made mistakes several times.

In the end, she had to give up playing the piano, and looked at Qiao Xingchun innocently, "Is there something on my face? Why do you keep staring at me? You still have that distressed look in your eyes?"

"No, I just think you're pretty." Qiao Xingchun hid the distress in his eyes and said dotingly.

"Of course I know I'm good-looking, like a celestial being, but it's not the first time you've seen it, are you still so obsessed with it?" Yan Xiao is very proud.

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Off topic

Let's guess, is it scary to provoke Qiao Xingchun, or to provoke Yan Xiao?