The Favored Heiress
Chapter 262: It’s Not Her Turn to Tip Off

Chapter 262: Chapter 262: It’s Not Her Turn to Tip Off

At this moment, Li Qiao looked at Yun Ling with a faint expression, "Otherwise?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Ling stood up in astonishment, inadvertently knocking over the rattan chair with his legs, "Really? Why, why would you help me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll seek revenge?"

He had been shot in both wrists, courtesy of her and Shang Shaoyan.

Then Yun Ling heard something deeply upsetting, "Last night you brought twenty First-Class Mercenaries and still failed, and you have the gall to talk about revenge?"

After saying this, Li Qiao left.

Yun Ling stood there in a daze, watching Li Qiao’s retreating figure, vaguely recalling something.

At the International Club, there were two individuals with mysterious identities.

One was the founder, the association leader, and the other was the hidden figure K of the Mercenary Group.

No one knew who K was. Yun Ling remembered his brother once saying that if it weren’t for an accident with K, the second-in-command of the Mercenary Group would never have been his turn.

So... could she be one of them?

Perhaps because Li Qiao shocked him too much, Yun Ling overlooked something.

The ICC system, he had logged into his account but forgot to log out.

...

Half an hour later, Zuo Xuan took Yun Ling back onto the helicopter.

Li Qiao stood in front of the living room’s floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at her phone screen, the corners of her mouth curling into an almost imperceptible smile.

Employer: Shang**

Commission: Two hundred million

Target: Shang Shaoyan

Note: If the operation is successful, the commission will double.

The last two characters of the employer’s name, due to confidentiality rules, were not displayed.

But this surname was all too familiar.

At that moment, steady and forceful footsteps came from behind, and Li Qiao slowly turned around, bumping unexpectedly into the fresh and warm chest of a man.

She looked up and met Shang Yu’s eyes, then glanced over his shoulder, "Qiu Huan left?"

"Mhm," Shang Yu responded, draping his arm over her shoulder as they both stood at the window, watching the direction of the helicopter’s departure, a slight arch to his thick eyebrows, "What did you talk about with him?"

Li Qiao handed her phone to him, "Take a look at this."

The man lowered his gaze to take the phone, giving her a deep look as he did so, "The ICC system?"

"You know about it too?" Li Qiao raised an eyebrow in surprise, her eyes shimmering with intelligence.

Shang Yu affirmed, then swiped the screen a few times, "I’ve seen it before, where did you get it?"

Li Qiao pointed her chin towards the window, "Yun Ling gave it to me." Finishing her words, she turned her gaze to the man, "Take a look at the employer information, it has the Shang surname, I guess..."

Before she could finish, Shang Yu had already handed her phone back to Li Qiao, his profound eyes containing hidden mirth, "Did you talk to Yun Ling to negotiate on my behalf to check the employer’s information?"

Li Qiao glanced at him, "Not entirely."

What was more important was to have Yun Ling come forward... and kick Shang Fu out of the International Club.

She thinks so highly of herself, right? Then let her taste the bitterness of falling from her pedestal.

Shang Yu’s thin lips curved into a faint arc as he rubbed the top of her head, his voice magnetic and tender, "No need to go through so much trouble, next time you can just ask me directly."

"Oh? You know who it is?"

As he said this, Shang Yu led her by the hand back to the sofa, and as they sat down, he revealed a name, "Shang Fu’s aunt, Shang Qiongying, the acting head of the Collateral Branch."

Li Qiao blinked, it was just as she had thought.

The reason Shang Fu knew about the Mercenary Group’s actions was very likely because Shang Qiongying told her.

Now, Li Qiao looked at the employer information displayed in the ICC system again, her eyes narrowing, she murmured softly, "So, Shang Fu coming over last night was to tip you off?"

Suddenly, I felt annoyed!

The man took a medicine box out of the drawer of the coffee table, looked at her fixedly, and lazily lowered his eyelashes. His deep voice spiraled with a wild tone, "It’s not her place to send warnings."

Well, the feeling of annoyance disappeared.

Li Qiao smiled as she watched Shang Yu remove the bandage from her ankle and spoke meaningfully, "Master Yan wouldn’t have already prepared everything, would he?"

He didn’t show the slightest surprise about Shang Fu’s visit. It was as if he had everything under control.

Upon hearing this, the man half-knelt on the ground, took out a green gourd-shaped medicine bottle sideways, lifted his eyelids, and pinched her ankle with his fingers, his rich voice tinged with a laugh, "Not exactly prepared, after all, I still need my girlfriend’s help to deal with the sniper."

Those words seemed teasing.

But Li Qiao didn’t believe it for a second.

The appearance of Zuo Xuan and the others last night was proof enough that he had made thorough preparations.

Even if she hadn’t shown up, those snipers in the mountains would not have posed any threat at all.

Li Qiao subtly averted her eyes, her expression a bit conflicted.

If she had known this would happen, she wouldn’t have come last night.

Now that she had accidentally exposed herself, she guessed... Yun Lih would soon be knocking at her door.

Ah, what a hassle.

Li Qiao leaned against the armrest of the sofa, supporting her forehead as she silently fretted.

After a while, her hand slipped from her forehead to her cheek as she watched Shang Yu apply medicine to her, when suddenly a question flashed through her mind, "Oh right, Luoyu said last night that they had blocked signals on the highway side, and they couldn’t receive calls on their phones.

What about mine? I realized when I was in the mountains that my phone always had a signal. Didn’t you receive the messages I sent you?"

Shang Yu looked up, his gaze meeting Li Qiao’s suspicious eyes, his eyes mysterious, "Figure it out yourself."

Li Qiao: "..."

...

In the afternoon, while Shang Yu was busy dealing with matters in the study, Li Qiao took the opportunity to call Liuyun to inquire about the reason.

"Miss Li, it’s like this: both the boss’s and your mobile phones have been equipped with anti-blocking and tracking chips. So last night, in that area of the South Sea Mountain, only you could contact the boss," Liuyun explained.

Li Qiao paused her tea-drinking motion, "My phone too? When did this happen?"

She had kept her phone with her at all times recently, except when it was left in the lab, and she had hardly been apart from it.

After thinking carefully, Liuyun reminded her, "Do you remember the day when the boss waited for you for three hours under the lab building after coming back from Parma?"

The memory was somewhat distant, but Li Qiao still had an impression of it. She nodded for Liuyun to continue.

Seeing her nod, Liuyun cleared his throat, "That night, you went to your room to sleep and left your phone on the living room sofa, and then..."

Oh, that’s right.

She had left her phone in the living room that night, which was why she had only found out the next morning that her parents had called her many times, asking why she didn’t come home at night.

Coming back to her senses, Li Qiao thanked Liuyun and then stood up and walked to the window.

She caressed her phone, gazing into the distance at South Sea Mountain.

It seemed Shang Yu had done a lot for her without her knowing.

What could she do for him?

...

At three-thirty in the afternoon, Li Qiao received a message from Lian Zhen.

After looking at it a few times, she turned to Shang Yu, "When do you plan to let Yun Ling and the others go?"

At the moment, the man was single-handedly holding a cigarette while reading a document with narrowed eyes.

Hearing Li Qiao’s question, he blew out the smoke and tapped the ash, "Are you in a hurry?"

"Not in a hurry, just asking," Li Qiao glanced at her phone again, "The lab is urging me to return, so how about when you release them, you give me a signal?"