The Mind-Read Heiress: From Impostor to Family Favorite

Chapter 121 - 121 120 Not Letting Her Feel Embarrassed

?Chapter 121: Chapter 120: Not Letting Her Feel Embarrassed Chapter 121: Chapter 120: Not Letting Her Feel Embarrassed The “Mr. Shen” the server had spoken of was at this moment standing with his back toward her, in front of the colossal floor-to-ceiling window.

As he turned around and strode toward Qiao Kexin, she felt her breath instantly becoming difficult.

It was Shen Jingxiu.

He was imposingly tall, exuding an overwhelming presence.

His features were handsome but icy cold, and his pair of pitch-black eyes seemed as unfathomable and intimidating as an abyss.

Qiao Kexin didn’t dare look him in the eyes, her heart thumping incessantly out of fear and nervousness.

“…Mr. Shen.”

Shen Jingxiu glanced at Qiao Kexin, unbuttoned his suit jacket, and sat down on the sofa opposite her.

His voice was extremely cold, “Do you know why I asked you to come here?”

Head bowed, Qiao Kexin shook her head, “…I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?” Shen Jingxiu tapped the sofa armrest twice and slowly curved up the corners of his lips, “Just now on the terrace, weren’t you telling Wenyan you were going to expose her crimes to her elder brother? Date-rape drugs, nude photos, have you forgotten so soon?”

“!!!” Qiao Kexin felt as if she had been struck by lightning, her eyes widening as she suddenly looked up, “You heard everything?! I…”

Qiao Kexin’s mind was in utter chaos!

What should she do?!

Wenyan forbade her from revealing the matter, and if she did, Wenyan would spill her own secrets to her stepfather and stepbrother.

If her stepfather and stepbrother found out she had almost caused the death of her stepbrother, she would be doomed!

“No!” No, she couldn’t tell.

Desperation nearly brought tears to Qiao Kexin’s eyes as she shook her head vigorously at Shen Jingxiu.

“No, you heard it wrong. No, I misspoke, I was just kidding! There really is no such thing, I was just talking nonsense because Wenyan wouldn’t help me, so I started making things up, really, there’s nothing to it! Please don’t take it seriously, and please don’t ask Wenyan about it, okay?”

Heh.

What answered Qiao Kexin was a mocking laugh.

Shen Jingxiu rebuttoned his suit jacket and stood up, advancing step by step toward Qiao Kexin.

“It seems my sister has got you wrapped around her finger. But do you really think I’m that easy to fool? Hmm? I don’t know how my sister has tamed you, but maybe you’d like to experience some of my methods.”

“No!” Qiao Kexin was driven to collapse onto the sofa behind her, “It’s really all nonsense I’ve been spouting, I don’t think you’re easy to fool, nor do I dare to fool you, could we just pretend nothing has happened, please?”

“Qiao Zhigao, your stepfather. With just one call, he would appear before me within a minute. Are you planning to tell the truth to just me, or would you prefer to do it in front of him?”

Shen Jingxiu took out his phone and in front of Qiao Kexin, looked up her stepfather Qiao Zhigao’s number.

With a light press of his thumb, the call was dialed.

Qiao Kexin knew that Shen Jingxiu wasn’t exaggerating; the moment the call connected, her stepfather would grovel before Shen Jingxiu like a grandson.

But if that meant offending Shen Jingxiu, offending the Shen Family, and dragging her stepfather down to humiliate himself before Shen Jingxiu, then the backlash she would face upon returning home would be a living hell!

So the call must not go through!

Qiao Kexin instantly made her choice.

“Tell me! I’ll tell you everything! Please hang up and don’t call my stepfather! But if I tell you the truth, can you let me go? Because I now realize I was wrong, truly.”

Having achieved his purpose, Shen Jingxiu hung up the phone and put away his mobile.

“Do you think you have the right to bargain? Tell me everything about how this started, from beginning to end.”

Qiao Kexin was on the verge of tears, but at this point, she had no other choice but to confess how she had instigated Wenyan to drug Shen Jingxiu unsuccessfully.

“…It was agreed that she would drug you so she could stay with the Shen Family forever. The drug, the drug was provided by me. But on the night of Mrs. Shen’s birthday, when I texted her to ask about the result, she suddenly changed her tune and told me she had been joking all along, that she was playing me, saying she always saw you as an older brother and would never do that sort of thing to you.

“A few days later, she cut ties with me. The night we broke off our friendship, I happened to see you at the restaurant while dining with her, and at that time you were on a blind date.

“Everything I’m saying now is true, I know it’s my fault, my jealousy got the better of me. Wenyan has also ended her friendship with me; I’ve long since lost her as a friend.

“She didn’t do anything to you, it was just to play me. So, the things I’ve confessed to you, could you please not tell her? Pretend you never went to that terrace tonight and heard nothing, okay? I beg you, Mr. Shen, this really matters to me.”

After hearing all of this…, Shen Jingxiu remembered the night of Su Yang’s birthday.

It was also the night he suddenly found he could hear Wenyan’s thoughts, when she inexplicably stood at her door with a glass of juice in her hand.

And then one day at the restaurant, he happened to sit behind Wenyan; indeed, he heard Wenyan asking Qiao Kexin for a debt and preparing to sever ties with her.

Narrowing his eyes, Shen Jingxiu’s gaze returned to Qiao Kexin’s tear-streaked face.

“I hear you have chat logs?”

“No!” Qiao Kexin immediately denied, “Deleted! Wenyan just made me delete everything.”

“You don’t have a backup?”

“No! I swear!”

“What if I said I don’t believe you? Or do you want to learn your lesson the hard way?”

“No,” Qiao Kexin shook her head, “I don’t want that, I’ll show them to you now.”

In front of Shen Jingxiu, Qiao Kexin opened her cloud on the phone.

“It’s all here, there’s nothing else anywhere else. Take a look.”

Shen Jingxiu briefly scanned through them; there were screen recordings that didn’t seem to be edited.

Regardless of what instructions Wenyan might have received before or the confusions she might have had, he only knew that nobody had ever succeeded in drugging him.

Nor had she spoken or thought a single bad word about him in her heart or aloud.

After a cold glance at Qiao Kexin, Shen Jingxiu commanded:
“Delete everything completely. Leave A City and never appear before her again, or I won’t mind making arrangements to send you away myself, understand?”

Leave A City? Qiao Kexin didn’t want to. But it seemed she no longer had a choice.

She looked at Shen Jingxiu and asked, “So, does this mean you agree not to tell Wenyan about this?”

If he told Wenyan, and Wenyan reported her to her stepfather, then it would be even harder for her to leave A City.

However, the only response Shen Jingxiu gave her was one word.

“Go.”

Indeed, he had no intention of asking Wenyan about it because from the start he didn’t want to put her in an embarrassing situation.

So the only option was to bring Qiao Kexin in for questioning.