Qin Xin coldly hung the room card on the door handle and turned to leave.

As she walked toward the elevator, she made a call: "Xiao Shuang, where are you? Mm, stay where you are, I’ll meet up with you."

Just as she pressed the elevator button, she heard a flurry of footsteps in the corridor:

"Where is our Rou’er? She has an important piece to perform, and she absolutely can’t miss it."

"It’s all Xin’er’s fault. If Xin’er hadn’t come, this wouldn’t have happened, making Rou’er go to find her and wasting time."

"2019, yes, she said she’s at 2019, let’s go check quickly!"

Mrs. Qin was so anxious.

Aside from worrying about her daughter’s whereabouts, she was even more concerned about her daughter’s future.

She really wanted Qin Wenrou to succeed, so much so that anyone standing in Qin Wenrou’s way seemed like an eyesore, so annoying.

Her lips tightened, and she let out a faint mocking laugh.

She wasn’t sad.

Not sad at all.

Wasn’t this expected?

She just couldn’t help but wrap her coat tighter, pulling the hood of her hoodie closer.

"Ding—"

The elevator arrived.

Without looking, she went straight in and stood by the elevator control panel, pressing 1.

The elevator doors slowly closed.

She vaguely heard another explosive cry of anguish from the corridor: "My Rou’er, how could you, how could you do such a thing with a man... Ah, it must have been him, he forced you, right? Speak up, Rou’er, today is your first concert, how could you two do this here..."

Unlike Mrs. Qin’s disbelief and loss of composure, the relatives were pointing fingers and enjoying the spectacle for free.

Everyone watched with interest as piano prodigy Qin Wenrou, who was once seen as promising, now looked like a puppy pinned by a drunk... what an eyesore indeed.

"Thunk—!"

The elevator door closed.

Sealing all the scandalous mess outside.

Qin Xin closed her eyes, leaning slightly against the side of the elevator control panel to rest.

As the elevator descended.

The next second, she felt a force approaching from behind.

Too careless.

All her attention was on the commotion in room 2019, and she hadn’t noticed there were others in the elevator.

Just as she was about to elbow back defensively.

Suddenly, a man’s clear and elegant voice resounded calmly: "It’s me."

The next second, the man clasped her slender waist and carried her horizontally in his arms.

Mr. Nalan!

"Why are you here?" Qin Xin was slightly stunned.

Nalan Ye Jue smirked: "Perhaps to catch them in the act."

Qin Xin: "..."

Catch Qin Wenrou?

This man can’t be that boring!

Nalan Ye Jue took out a phone, swiped open the screen, and showed her.

It was a message Xiao Shuang had sent him.

Qin Xin instantly knew Xiao Shuang couldn’t have sent it. Xiao Shuang detested Lan Yingjun so much, she would never report him and herself to Mr. Nalan!

Xiao Shuang definitely wasn’t that kind of kid.

The message was clearly faked by Qin Wenrou.

"You believed it?" she frowned.

The man, serious: "Yes."

Qin Xin was speechless: "..."

But then.

The man smiled: "What I believe in is my little wife."

His tone was so certain, his gaze so deep and focused, that Qin Xin’s face couldn’t help but blush: "You believe in me that much?"

The man thought for a moment: "I’m still a little worried, so I came personally to handle it." He glanced at his watch, "The reporters should already have gone up in the other elevator. Today’s Imperial City Evening News, the gossip section’s headline is left for them."

Qin Xin was suffocated: "..."

The man brought reporters?

Did he really trust her? 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

And, so cunningly, had it all planned out?

Nalan Ye Jue smiled and said, "Doesn’t my little wife seem a bit unstable? Want your husband to help calm you down?"

Qin Xin: "How to calm down?"

The man said nothing and leaned down to kiss her!

There’s nothing a kiss can’t solve.

If one kiss doesn’t work, then two!

[Master Yun: Goodnight kiss! Love you all!]