The chill winds of early spring seemed to have left Junsha overnight. Yan Qingcheng wore only a single thin layer, standing tall and straight. Compared with An Nuan's athletic, supple beauty, she looked slightly more slender.
Using the motion of fixing her hair as cover, her gaze drifted between An Nuan and Liu Chang'an. She let out a long breath. Knowing Zhu Juntang was watching her, she forcibly suppressed the rise and fall of her chest, making herself appear calm.
Yan Qingcheng naturally could not compare to queens like Bai Hui and Qin Yanan when it came to accumulating and properly utilizing fat, but if her emotions became too agitated, it was also easy for them to show on the outside and be noticed.
Zhu Juntang was always able to reveal crucial information in a few casual words. After it happened enough times, Yan Qingcheng could not help suspecting she did it deliberately... After spending enough time with her, Yan Qingcheng knew that anyone who truly regarded Zhu Juntang as a guileless, muddleheaded young heiress was the truly naive one.
"An Nuan is actually Professor Liu's daughter too..." Those words had stirred up towering waves in Yan Qingcheng's heart.
The implication behind those words was that Professor Liu already had a daughter.
Back at South Mountain Ranch, Zhu Juntang had once video-called Professor Liu and brought Yan Qingcheng over to join the call. Seeing Professor Liu's attitude toward Zhu Juntang, along with certain details, Yan Qingcheng had concluded that Zhu Juntang was most likely Professor Liu's daughter.
Yan Qingcheng simply did not dare gossip about it. Growing up, she had felt more of life's pressures than most girls and had become more cautious as a result. She would never naively think that "disaster comes from the mouth" was something far