Silence.
Shadow detected the disgust in her words. It was as if she did not care to find out if Qiao Nian was the one behind it. She just wanted to blame it on Qiao Nian.
He did not want to provoke Nie Qingru anymore. He lowered his eyes and said to the woman in the car, "The Old Master and the others have been waiting for you for a long time."
Nie Qingru endured it, picked up her bag, and strode into the villa without saying a word.
* * *
Qiao Nian did not know that Nie Qingru blamed her for this.
In her room upstairs, she sent the sorted data to Xu Yi, then chatted with him about the next experiment before turning off her laptop and going downstairs.
She had just left the room when her cell phone vibrated.
As Qiao Nian walked towards the stairs, she glanced down at the screen and was not surprised to see a certain someone's WeChat message.
[Y: Are you awake?]
