"Hey, Brother Shang, you're already here! Where are Teacher and Madam?"
"They're tidying up things in the inner room! They'll be out in a while."
"Oh, I ran into Zhang Chaoxian at the entrance just now. He wanted to come in with me. What exactly is going on with him? Hasn't he gone back to the Beacon?"
Li Ye knocked on Zhang Qiyan's door, only to find that Shang Ruilin had opened it for him. Diao Wenyao and Gu Yuetong had arrived as well.
So Li Ye told everyone about Zhang Chaoxian. Then everyone looked at Li Ye with extremely strange expressions in their eyes.
After a long while, Shang Ruilin finally said with a meaningful smile, "You still don't know what happened to Zhang Chaoxian? He owed the country twenty thousand dollars in overseas study expenses, which delayed his departure from the country.
"In the end, I heard he borrowed loan-shark money from the Minnan Gang before returning to the Beacon. But he was too late. His Wall Street job was gone, his big villa had been seized, and then he came back here to make a living."
"Oh~ I really didn't know that!"
Li Ye suddenly understood, wearing an innocent expression that plainly said, "This has nothing to do with me."
But who here didn't know who everyone else was?
Back in school, they might not have known who Wen Leyu was. But more than ten years had passed. Shang Ruilin, Diao Wenyao, and the others were no longer college students with nothing but clarity in their eyes. How could they not have asked their teacher, Zhang Qiyan, about it?
Zhang Qiyan knew exactly who Li Ye's mother-in-law was.
Li Ye's expression only made everyone's gazes more amusing and more suggestive.
Li Ye blinked rapidly and asked curiously,