Hearing Ji Qinglin's words, Ai Li's heart stirred slightly as she keenly caught the flaw.
Her pink-and-blue twin ponytails perked up slightly as she asked, "When did you run into her?"
Ji Qinglin hesitated briefly before saying, "Around ten thirty, I think."
Ai Li let out a slightly disappointed "Oh~."
Ji Qinglin adjusted his glasses and gave her a suspicious look. "Why that expression? Did you think of something?"
Ai Li leaned her soft body back and said casually, "Nothing."
"I was just thinking that Qiu Tu is a handsome guy, while Guan Xiao is a stunning beauty. There might be something going on between them."
She paused, then said indifferently, "You know how beautiful female subordinates love throwing themselves at young, handsome bosses."
"And Qiu Tu never turns away a beautiful woman. The two of them might have some ambiguous relationship."
Hearing Ai Li's words, Ji Qinglin shook his head. "That probably isn't it."
"When I saw Minister Guan, it was already ten thirty, during working hours. They couldn't exactly be fooling around in broad daylight, could they?"
After saying that, Ji Qinglin seemed to think of something and suddenly froze. He adjusted the black-rimmed glasses on his nose, looking utterly baffled as he said, "Wait a minute."
"You said beautiful female subordinates like throwing themselves at young, handsome bosses?"
"Why has that never happened to me?"
Ai Li glanced at Ji Qinglin's utterly average face, which looked even older than Huang Shangzong's:
Ji Qinglin paused, blinked, then turned to Lu Cheng, who had not spoken a word the entire time. "Old Lu, has that ever happened to you?"
Lu Cheng was a young man with a buzz cut. He looked fairly good and did not seem very old.
Hearing Ji Qinglin's question, he scratched his head somewhat foolishly