I was surprised by how quickly Chen Xiao Qiu had arrived, but I didn't think much of it.
Perhaps a long time had passed, and I simply hadn't noticed because I'd been lost in a jumble of memories.
Perhaps the hospital where I was staying wasn't far from Chen Xiao Qiu's home. In that case, it wasn't strange that she'd arrived so quickly.
Chen Xiao Qiu said nothing. She walked over to the hospital bed, grabbed a chair from beside her, and set it down in front of me. Then she sat down.
Something felt off. I stared at Chen Xiao Qiu and realized her expression was unusual.
My heart clenched. I immediately thought of Wu Ling and Liu Miao, and of the premonition Xue Jingyue had seen, according to Fatty.
Chen Xiao Qiu leaned forward slightly, as if picking up something beside her feet.
She placed a laptop on her lap and turned the screen toward me.
"We found this in the hotel room," Chen Xiao Qiu said calmly.
The laptop screen lit up. From the image, it looked like surveillance footage.
A figure soon appeared in the video. The footage zoomed in, letting me see his face.
It was Nan Tian!
My heart skipped again.
"They'd been watching Nan Tian for a long time. Nan Gong Yao had been keeping an eye on him ever since they first met." Chen Xiao Qiu's tone remained even. "Maybe only Nan Gong Yao knew about it, or maybe all of them did. They may have been watching him to protect him, or because they realized something was wrong with him."
The footage switched to an apartment building I recognized.
"On the day Bai An had her accident, they found out Nan Tian had been there too. Nan Gong Yao monitored him