Supervisor Liu, or rather Lin Lang, was far more impatient than Yan Xianjue and Yan Yi'an had imagined.
But since their thoughts happened to align with his, he did not mind going along with them.
The only issue was that they ran into a little trouble when trying to send the others away.
Ji Xi and Shen Fangli had met Supervisor Liu before. They already thought his smiling Buddha-like expression made him look like the sort to hide a knife behind his smile.
But why was Lei Xuan refusing to leave too?
Yan Xianjue felt a headache coming on. "Lei Xuan, take them back. Wasn't that what we agreed on over dinner?"
Lei Xuan flatly denied it. "I never said I was going back. I said I was finding somewhere to store our things."
He glanced at Yao Weiran and Jiang Miaomiao. They were the only two children from ordinary families here. They should not be going to a place like that.
Shen Fangli was also a girl, so he guessed Yan Xianjue did not want her to go either.
He suggested, "How about we have two bodyguards send Shen Fangli and those two back first?"
Yan Xianjue considered it and thought it was workable. Just as he was about to nod, Shen Fangli rejected it even more firmly than Lei Xuan had.
"No! I'm going with you."
She had only heard from his inner thoughts that Yan Xianjue was preparing to take on the plot meant for his second brother. But those thoughts had not said what plot belonged to Yan Xianjue's second brother. Still, whether it was cannon fodder or villain material, what good could possibly come of it? How could she rest easy?
Yan Xianjue's headache worsened. But seeing Shen Fangli's little face set with the determination