Someone Was Investigating You

"Mengqi?"

Noticing her cousin was there too, Chen Yushan's eyes lit up. She immediately walked over. "What a coincidence! You're here too?"

Han Mengqi nodded a little shyly. "Yeah... I'm doing my master's under Lu Zhou. Where else would I be?"

Holding her cousin's hand and looking her over carefully, Chen Yushan said wistfully, "Time really flies. You were still in high school back then, and now you've already graduated from college. Come to think of it, didn't you used to love wearing twin ponytails? Why did you switch to just one?"

Touching the ends of her hair, Han Mengqi said with some embarrassment, "It makes me look more mature..."

Watching the cousins catch up, Lu Zhou cleared his throat and asked, "Why did you suddenly come over? You didn't even tell me."

"You're always so busy. How am I supposed to track you down?" Chen Yushan rolled her eyes at him, then continued, "I've been handling business here in Su Province these past few days, so I stopped by to see you. And to give you an update on my work."

Lu Zhou asked, "An update on your work?"

Chen Yushan blinked. "Did you forget?"

Lu Zhou hesitated. "Forget what?"

"This isn't really the place to discuss it. Since we don't get many chances like this, how about I buy you a drink?" Chen Yushan turned to her cousin and asked with a smile, "Want to come along, Mengqi?"

Han Mengqi immediately nodded, then asked quietly, "You're going to discuss business, right? Would I be getting in the way?"

Chen Yushan smiled. "It's nothing secret, just not something we should discuss in public... Of course, that depends on whether Professor Lu minds."

"Why would I mind?" Lu Zhou smiled and said casually, "You two haven't seen each other in