"Jingli tell me the truth, what did you do here? Did you meet with Qi Lu?" it's so hard to have intelligent friends who can catch on fast, keeping a secret to them is as hard as walking through a bed of roses barefooted.
Li Jingli sighed and maintained his composure, to fool a clever person, one should be cleverer. "We just talked about Wenna's issue and it seemed like we can work on it in three months' time. We also discussed about a tighter safety precautions for her because of the sensitivity of this matter."
He kept a straight face because once he wavered, even in the slightest Xi Ana would immediately realize that he's deliberately hiding something from her. Also, it's not like he's lying to her because they did talk about it, it's just that he didn't say everything.