Nianyang looked at Old Master Chu thoughtfully and said,

"To tell the truth, Grandpa, I miss Ah Yan, and I feel like Ah Yan is hiding something from me. I want to see him to feel at ease."

Old Master Chu almost felt his legs give out and sat down by the edge of the sofa,

"Silly girl, what nonsense are you thinking about? That boy Tingyan is straightforward, how dare he hide anything from you? If he dared, I’d be the first to not let him get away with it."

Nianyang asked, "Grandpa, do you know something?"

Old Master Chu’s body stiffened, and faced with Nianyang’s earnest eyes, he almost couldn’t resist spilling it all.

His granddaughter, Chu Zhen’s, is so smart that she can sense things without a word being said.

But this matter cannot be revealed to anyone for now, especially not to Nannan, so Old Master Chu feigned ignorance,

"What could I know, Grandpa? If Tingyan dared to hide something from you and I found out, I’d be the first to not let him off. Nannan, are you suspecting Grandpa?"

Nianyang shook her head, "Of course I’m not suspecting Grandpa. Since Grandpa doesn’t know, I’ll go see for myself whether I’m overthinking it. If there’s nothing with Ah Yan, I’ll come back and accompany Grandpa."

Having said so much, if Old Master Chu continued to obstruct, Nianyang would surely sense it.

So even though Old Master Chu was anxious, he had no choice but to watch Nianyang leave for the train station.

Old Master Chu turned around and went upstairs, intending to call Li Tingyan to tell him about Nianyang’s visit, but unfortunately, Li Tingyan didn’t pick up.

Sigh.

Forget it, forget it.

Let Nianyang go, and Li Tingyan will handle it as he sees fit.

With Li Tingyan’s intelligence, he’d surely be able to fool Nianyang.

Old Master Chu trusted Li Tingyan completely, but he never expected that life is full of unforeseen events.

Looking back later, he deeply regretted not stopping Nianyang today. If he had, then the subsequent events might not have happened, but that’s a story for another time.

Nianyang boarded the train to Jiangcheng and tried calling Li Tingyan again on the way, but there was still no response.

Nianyang angrily tossed her phone down, really wondering what that dumb man was so busy with, was he that busy?

Just wait, when she gets there, if she finds him not busy at all, he’d better be ready for her ten-question interrogation!

Hmph.

Nianyang fumed for a while but then cheered up at the thought of soon seeing the man, even humming a tune.

But soon, Nianyang couldn’t stay cheerful because she wanted a sip of Spiritual Spring water, only to find the space sealed off. She couldn’t enter, and Tuanzi was silent.

What’s going on?

Is there a malfunction in the space?

Nianyang panicked a bit, forced herself to calm down, and recalled Tuanzi’s warning yesterday. She was halfway through collecting Faith Value when it was sabotaged. Tuanzi had warned her there’d be serious consequences. She had intended to remedy the situation, but the proof got smashed by Mrs. Li, and she didn’t get a chance to clear things up with the store, causing customers to leave and the Faith Value to remain unrectified.

But later, Nianyang got so flustered that she pushed the incident to the back of her mind, not expecting today’s vanishing space.

Could it be that failing to handle the aftermath properly led to damaging Nianyang’s medical reputation, causing customers’ trust in traditional Chinese medicine to decline, thus resulting in the punishment of retracting the space?

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Attention, the Female Lead has been penalized, and is now even weaker than an average person. Do not view the Female Lead with a God’s-eye view!