Su Qiao had not appeared for the past few days, and she had assumed Wang Cheng would not notice her.
Wang Cheng furrowed his brows slightly. "I heard she had a minor clash with Yuan Manni during the day, so I wanted to ask her about it."
"So that's what it was."
Su Yali had also heard her mother nagging about it earlier.
Her eyes flickered twice.
"My cousin has a very strange temperament. She rarely leaves her room. She should still be inside with her boyfriend."
Wang Cheng shook his head slightly. "They aren't in the room. I just went there."
Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu walked into the hall, each carrying a large chicken with its neck twisted broken. They immediately saw Wang Cheng and Su Yali talking on the sofa in the hall's rest area.
She paused, handed the chicken in her hands to Gao Jingyu, and sauntered over.
"I thought I heard someone calling my name?"
Su Yali cursed her luck inwardly and stood up. "Cousin, you're finally back."
"What? Were you really hoping I'd come back?"
Su Qiao unhurriedly found a small stool and sat down, raising her brows. "Are we close?"
"If I remember correctly, a few days ago, you still wanted me to take your place and serve Young Master Kang?"
Su Yali's breathing caught, and she was furious at Su Qiao's ingratitude.
She glanced at Wang Cheng from the corner of her eye and said in an exceedingly gentle tone, "Cousin, don't be angry. My father and mother were just getting senile when they came up with that idea. I'm apologizing to you on their behalf."
Su Qiao looked at her with a half-smile. "Your mother is indeed rather muddle-headed. To keep you from suffering, she actually went and climbed into Kang