The black luxury car stopped at the gate of the Ling family manor. Qi Jin got out of the car and opened the back door.

Ling Che looked at the person next to him. She was wearing a light green Chinese-style long dress that wrapped her figure just right. Her long curly hair like seaweed was tied into a low bun with a jade hairpin of the same color. The delicate buttons at the collar were tied to cover her fair and slender neck.

Her delicate face was already very beautiful, and after a little makeup, the color of the clothes made her look even whiter and brighter. When she looked at him, her big eyes sparkled like two glass beads.

Although she didn't show it on her face, Ling Che could clearly see the restraint in her eyes.

"Don't you dare get off the car?" Ling Che asked her.

Qiao Ruyi, who has always been fearless, is actually a little afraid to see Ling Gu now.

"It's not that I don't dare." Qiao Ruyi denied in a low voice, "I just don't know what to say."

Even if there was no hatred for her father's murder between them, Ling Gu's attitude towards her was already very clear. In addition, Ling Gu selfishly wanted to match Ling Che and Xu Zhaozhao. Now that such a big thing happened in Xu Zhaozhao's family overnight, she really didn't know what to say to Ling Gu.

But the old man is Ling Che's biological grandfather. She can be rude to anyone, but she cannot be presumptuous in front of Ling Gu.

"You don't have to say anything. Just answer whatever Grandpa asks. If you don't want to answer, don't answer." Ling Che's fingers brushed away the strands of hair that fell from her forehead and said with a smile, "If he says anything you don't like, just find an excuse to go out and play."

After Ling Che finished explaining, he saw her nod obediently, then took her hand and got out of the car.

As soon as I entered the yard, I ran into Ling Shuang who was about to go back.

"Ache?"

Ling Shuang was a little surprised to see him, "Are you here to see grandpa?"

The old man's health has not been very good recently, so Ling Shuang would come over whenever he was free, but he almost never met Ling Che, which showed that he didn't come over very often.

"Aunt." Ling Che saw her and asked with a smile, "Are you preparing to go back?"

"Yes, I played chess with your grandfather all morning, and he wanted to send me back because I was nagging."

Ling Shuang smiled and his eyes fell on the woman next to him.

She was tall, with bright and beautiful features, even more beautiful than the stars on TV. She looked so well-matched next to Ling Che.

Qiao Ruyi saw her looking at him with a smile, and followed Ling Che in calling out, "Auntie."

"Ruyi?" Ling Shuang smiled gently, "It's been a long time since we last met."

Qiao Ruyi hadn't seen Ling Che's aunt in a long time. She had forgotten the last time they met. She wasn't very good at small talk, but she was sure to be nice to her elders.

She smiled faintly, "It's true that I haven't seen you for a long time, but you are still as young and beautiful as before."

Sure enough, after hearing this, the smile on Ling Shuang's face became even more intense.

She stepped forward, took Qiao Ruyi's hand, and said with a smile, "Ruyi is so good at talking."

She looked at Ling Che and said, "If Xiaochen could bring me a girl like Ruyi like Ah Che did, I wouldn't have to worry about him anymore."

Qiao Ruyi had gotten a glimpse of Han Luochen's romantic ways from the few phone calls he'd received. She raised her eyebrows and smiled. It would be very difficult to get a playboy like Han Luochen to settle down and get married.

When Han Luochen was mentioned, Ling Shuang's smile faded. "Ache, Xiaochen has not been in the country recently. Do you know where he has been?"

There are 365 days in a year, and Ling Shuang can't see him for 360 days.

Ling Che suddenly remembered a photo he had found on his WeChat Moments a while ago, "In the Arctic."

"Arctic?"

Hearing something so far away, Ling Shuang's voice rose, and the gentleness from before disappeared. "Why would he go to the North Pole for no reason?"

"Let's watch the aurora." Ling Che said.

He saw Han Luochen shouting in his circle of friends that he wanted to see the aurora.

"I think he's crazy!" Ling Shuang's face darkened. "Don't look at Jiguang anymore. Come back and see the doctor!"

She gets angry when she mentions Han Luochen. He is in his twenties, but he does nothing all day long and just travels around the world all year round.

"Ache."

Ling Shuang looked at Ling Che and said earnestly, "He doesn't listen to me. You're his brother. If you have a chance, please help me persuade him. Some things have happened seven years ago. It's time for him to grow up."

Ling Che didn't say anything, just nodded.

Seeing that he agreed, Ling Shuang gently patted the back of Qiao Ruyi's hand and said, "Ruyi, when you have time, come to your aunt's house for dinner with A Che. Your aunt is leaving first."

"Okay, Auntie. Take care." Looking at Ling Shuang's departing figure, Qiao Ruyi looked up and asked Ling Che, "What happened seven years ago?"

Ling Che looked at her curious expression, chuckled, and scratched her pretty nose. "Why are you curious about other people's affairs?"

Ling Che said nothing and took her hand to go find Ling Gu.

......

In the huge Chinese tea room, Ling Gu sat on a mahogany chair with a cane, with an unfinished chess game in front of him.

When Ling Che brought Qiao Ruyi in, he found him sitting in front of the chessboard, as if thinking about something.

He called out, "Grandpa."

Qiao Ruyi's hand was held tightly by Ling Che. She looked at Ling Gu and called him Grandpa.

Ling Gu raised his head, glanced at the two of them, and said calmly, "Here I come."

He raised his chin and said, "Ache, finish this game of chess with grandpa."

After that, he looked at Qiao Ruyi again, "Ruyi girl, I haven't had the tea you made for a long time. Go and make a pot of tea for grandpa."

Ling Gu's tone was calm, without any other emotion, as if what had happened before had never happened.

Qiao Ruyi glanced at Ling Che, nodded, and walked to the tea table next to her to take a look at the window displaying precious teas from all over the country.

She turned around and asked Ling Gu with a smile, "Grandpa, would you like to drink Yunnan Golden Pumpkin Tribute Tea or Taiping Monkey King Tea today?"

Ling Gu thought for a moment and looked at Ling Che, "I remember you gave me the Taiping Houkui last year, right?"

"Grandpa still remembers." Ling Che smiled, "I know you like tasting tea, so I bought it at the auction specifically as a gift to you."

Qiao Ruyi thought Ling Gu meant that he wanted to drink the Taiping Houkui tea Ling Che had given her. Just as she was about to take the tea leaves, Ling Gu suddenly turned around and said to her, "I want to drink black tea today. Let's drink the Dahongpao tea from the Wuyi Mountain mother tree next door."

Qiao Ruyi didn't think much about it, thinking that he really wanted to drink black tea, so she took the tea leaves he mentioned and prepared to make tea.

Only Ling Che understood the meaning of Ling Gu's words.

This Dahongpao was given to the old man by Xu Zhaozhao. It was the tea that Xu Tiancheng spent tens of millions to buy and was specially given to him.

Ling Che understood that the old man suddenly called him to come over because of the Xu family's matter.

He glanced at the chessboard in front of him. No wonder the old man stared at it for so long.

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