Yan Xianjue was speechless for a long while, unable to figure out how Ni Qiu had gotten carried away again.
He really wanted to ask: would Ni Qiu have dared to say that while Old Master Lin was still alive?
But this also indirectly showed that after Old Master Lin's death, Lin Lang and Lin Shi had been too busy fighting for power within the family. The Lin Household's standing in Shenzhen had declined overall.
Otherwise, given Ni Qiu's knack for never offending anyone, he would not have said something so openly no matter how close they were.
Still... Yan Xianjue thought back to Ni Qiu's frivolous habit of changing girlfriends every time they met and decided he needed to tighten the reins on him.
"You'll be in charge of Lin Shi while he's hospitalized. You've got experience, anyway."
After a moment of silence on the other end, Ni Qiu cautiously asked, "Brother Yan, did I do something to offend you again recently?"
Yan Xianjue answered bluntly, "No."
Ni Qiu got it. After all those excuses, wasn't Yan Xianjue simply too lazy to find someone else?
Back when he had not yet understood Yan Xianjue's way of doing things, he had wondered just like the rest of their classmates. There was no way Yan Xianjue could ever be short-handed, so why did he keep piling everything onto Ji Xi alone?
Now, he finally understood. Entrusting important tasks to people he trusted, his ass. Yan Xianjue was simply too lazy to find anyone else. Whoever happened to wander in front of him got drafted as labor.
Thinking of the guarantee he had just made to Yan Xianjue, Ni Qiu fell silent.
Who understood the pain of casually bragging and trapping yourself in it?
But what else could he do? Could he