Top beauties: Beijing bigwigs gathered at Shura Field

Even though he had recognized the voice, when Jiang Wan instinctively turned around and saw the slender figure standing next to Ji Xingjing's car, his pupils shrank slightly. After being stunned for several seconds, he opened his lips and murmured, "Yuzu?"

After not seeing each other for a while, Song Youning's eyes and eyebrows are still as charming and innocent as ever, which easily makes people like her.

However, the other party obviously had not yet fully recovered from what he had just witnessed. His originally fair face flushed red, and he stared at Jiang Wan with a look of hesitation as if he wanted to say something, but he did not dare to glance at Ji Xingjing and Shao Ting.

It wasn't until she heard Jiang Wan call out her name that Song Youning hurriedly explained, "I heard from my cousin that Wan Wan was here, so I followed along."

As soon as she finished speaking, she looked at Ji Xingjing's back in front of her as if she had thought of something. She took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to ask, "Cousin, I haven't seen Wanwan for a long time. Since you and Mr. Shao have something to say, why don't you... let me take Wanwan home?"

After all, Song Youning came from a powerful family. Even though he had no idea about the relationship between the three people present and what entanglements they had, he could tell at a glance from the current scene and the almost suffocating atmosphere around him that Jiang Wan was in a very dilemma.

Therefore, even though she was quite afraid of Shao Ting and Ji Xingjing, she still pushed the door and got out of the car after a lot of mental preparation.

Of course, Jiang Wan didn't expect Song Youning to say this suddenly, but she knew that this crisis could finally be resolved.

She almost instinctively looked at Ji Xingjing following Song Youning's words. In the dim light, the man's facial expression was very expressionless, but the gaze he cast on her made her spine feel cold.

But he had no intention of stopping it anyway.

Jiang Guan pursed her lips, tried her best to calm herself down, and slowly looked up at Shao Ting beside her.

The moment their eyes met, the man raised his hand to tuck the hair that fell on her temples behind her ears, then lowered his eyes to look at her trembling eyes for a moment, then loosened his grip on her waist and whispered a few words.

"Go."

"Tell me when you get home."

When Jiang Wan heard the almost silent voice, her thick eyelashes trembled and her heart contracted for a moment.

She knew that Shao Ting had compromised again.

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The barrier at the guard post outside the mountain villa was raised, and the two men's figures in the rearview mirror completely disappeared until the black Maybach slowly drove out of the parking lot.

Song Youning gripped the steering wheel and glanced sideways at Jiang Wan, who was gazing out the window in a daze. After pondering for a long while, he hesitantly asked softly, "Wan Wan, is my cousin..."

She paused in the middle of her words, and she really didn't know where to start.

Jiang Wan, however, had already regained his composure. He turned to look at her and said softly, "Yuzu, thank you for helping me out. To be honest, I really appreciate you being here tonight."

Song Youning hurriedly shook her head. "Wanwan, I'm willing to do whatever you need me to do, especially for such a small matter. It's just that what I said just now...was half true and half false."

Half true?

Jiang Wan frowned in confusion, and then listened to Song Youning continue: "Before I came here, I actually didn't know I would see you tonight."

In fact, the journey here tonight was a completely terrifying experience for Song Youning.

You have to know that in the past few years, she almost took a detour whenever she saw Ji Xingjing, and the man who was always busy with his affairs rarely paid attention to her, his insignificant cousin.

But tonight, Ji Xingjing, who had just returned to the Ji family's old house less than half an hour ago, received a phone call and for the first time, he cast his unreadable gaze on her.

After that... Ji Xingjing asked her to get in the car with him.

She didn't dare to speak the whole way, her mind was full of thoughts about where the man was going to take her.

She thought to herself that she shouldn't have followed her mother to the old house to chat with Old Master Ji tonight, otherwise she wouldn't have accidentally offended this big Buddha at some point.

Therefore, Song Youning had never expected that she would see Jiang Wan at Shen's house not long after, with his back to them, talking on the phone to someone unknown.

The moment she saw the familiar figure, her first reaction was naturally surprise and joy, but she soon realized that something was wrong.

Especially after the one from the Shao family appeared in sight not long after.

Song Youning naturally never expected that Jiang Wan actually knew Shao Ting, but it was obvious that her cousin was not surprised at all by Shao Ting's appearance.

It was not until the other person walked behind the slender figure and said something that the girl turned around and was held tightly by the man again. Only then did the danger signal in the dark and cramped space inside the car become completely impossible to ignore.

No matter how scared she was of Ji Xingjing in the past, she had never seen a man like this before.

When she inevitably caught a glimpse of the man's eyes through the rearview mirror, which seemed to be gazing calmly ahead with his eyelids slightly lowered, she felt her scalp tingling and her back chilled even while sitting in the back seat.

It was at the moment when the physiological fear surrounded her that Song Youning suddenly realized why Ji Xingjing brought her here.

After explaining the whole story in detail, Song Youning glanced at Jiang Wan's still pale face, thought for a while, and then pursed her lips and said, "Wan Wan, although I have been afraid of my cousin since I was a child, we still have my great grandfather who is always sensible. If he really forces you to do something, we can ask him for help."

After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but feel a little guilty: "It's also my fault. I shouldn't have brought you to the old house so suddenly. Otherwise, your cousin wouldn't have seen you."

She instinctively thought that Ji Xingjing and Jiang Wan had only met after the day they went to the old house. Seeing that Jiang Wan looked a little tired at this time, she naturally put herself in the position of the culprit.

But Jiang Wan certainly couldn't let her take the blame for nothing, so she shook her head and said softly, "I can't blame you. In fact, I was the one who concealed something."

"The day I went to the old house with you was, to be exact, the second time I met your cousin. At the time, I really didn't expect that the cousin you were talking about was Mr. Ji. Not long before that, by chance, I joined the Shaw Group and became Mr. Shao's secretary, so I met your cousin once at a dinner party."

"It happened suddenly, and I wasn't really familiar with him at the time. Afterwards, Grandpa Ji asked him to take me home, so I didn't have time to explain too much to you."