Chapter 990: Gospel (5)
Help me investigate...
When Ji Liushuang realized what the person in front of her had said, undisguised shock spread across her face.
"Why?"
She had accidentally stirred up a hornet's nest and failed to deceive him and leave unscathed. She had already braced herself for a rather bleak outcome.
Admittedly, she was the so-called heiress of the Ji Clan. But given what he had done and how difficult it was to gauge his standing, she seriously doubted how much weight that identity carried.
In fact, he had called out to her knowing full well who she was.
And yet someone like him had actually offered to help her?
"Simple. You just said that aside from your mother's safety, you don't care about anything else. So I don't think we have any irreconcilable differences."
Fu Qian naturally understood how Ji Liushuang felt. He had even prepared an answer to her question long ago.
As he'd said earlier, rather than fully provoking the Ji Clan and drawing as many of its people as possible into the open, then painstakingly identifying them one by one to find the parasites, it was worth considering a little screening first.
And because she was worried about her mother's situation, Liu Shuang was clearly doing everything she could to investigate.
With no conflict of interest, she was a suitable point of entry.
That was the reasoning from the perspective of mutual benefit. As for personal preference, given his relationship with her, helping her out was no trouble at all.
"I understand."
After considering Fu Qian's explanation for a while, Ji Liushuang actually seemed to believe him.
She might not have realized they had any personal rapport, but from a purely practical perspective, his secretive actions clearly meant he was preparing some kind of