"If it were you, faced with such a desperate situation, and someone capable stepped forward to take charge without undermining your prestige, would you refuse to cooperate?"
After pondering briefly, Luo Yan asked again.
Baili Yue's eyes flew wide open.
She stared blankly at Qin Shaofeng and Luo Yan.
Without Luo Yan's explanation, no matter how clever she was, it would probably have taken her a long time to realize there was another way.
Luo Yan felt quite uncomfortable under her stare.
"You don't need to look at me like that. At most, I was slow on the uptake, and I only fully understood it when we left the main hall. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and had to think up such a method myself, I never would have come up with it." Luo Yan explained with a bitter smile.
Baili Yue gave him a half-believing glance, then looked at Qin Shaofeng with even greater shock in her eyes.
Baili Yue was the woman Luo Yan had set his heart on.
Yet at this very moment, he did not feel the slightest jealousy.
After all, having witnessed Qin Shaofeng's methods firsthand and understood them afterward, his shock toward Qin Shaofeng had already reached its peak.
He believed that even his father might not necessarily have been able to devise such means.
"Aren't you two overthinking this?"
Seeing their gazes, Qin Shaofeng felt increasingly speechless. "They're a thousand times unconvinced and ten thousand times resentful toward me. I can't be bothered to care about those matters. I merely want to be a hands-off shopkeeper. Do you really have to spin conspiracy theories to this extent?"
"You only want to be a hands-off shopkeeper?"
Luo Yan's eyes were filled with disbelief.
What he did not know was that