Outside the band's camp, everyone stared solemnly at Lin Qing, and the atmosphere turned strangely awkward.
"Uh, well—I'm telling the truth. I absolutely didn't lie to anyone," Lin Qing reiterated.
Yet the response was still silence.
Clearly, not a single band member believed her.
She couldn't help but sigh.
Had I known it would be this awkward, I should've just talked to Li Bo alone.
"Ahem—" Li Bo cleared his throat and stepped out from the crowd. "The band doesn't forbid people from leaving. Swift, you know that last year, when A Guai injured his leg in an explosion, I was the one who urged him to retire. But—but—"
He was still hesitating over how to phrase it when Liu Yi cut in, "Tell us, were you threatened? Or is there some other reason? Just tell us boldly, and we'll settle it for you!"
"Yeah! Just say it!"
"I refuse to believe Sister Swift would ever say she wanted to stay at the subway station!"
Everyone spoke with righteous indignation.
Lin Qing scratched her head awkwardly. She knew retiring would meet some resistance, but she hadn't expected the conversation to veer this far off course.
It was all because she had worked too hard in the past, running around the wilderness every day. Now that she suddenly said she didn't want to do it anymore, no one could easily accept it.
"Sister Swift, someone's here to see you!" a young team member ran over and called out.
But another familiar figure quickly appeared in her field of vision.
"How did you get in here—" someone hurriedly tried to stop him, only to be shoved aside.
"Chen Xuan?" Lin Qing froze.
Hadn't they agreed he shouldn't show his face in a situation like this?
"Come with me." Chen Xuan grabbed her