The Favored Heiress
Chapter 366: A Big Idiot Named Huo Ming

Chapter 366: Chapter 366: A Big Idiot Named Huo Ming

Li Qiao carefully wiped the gravestone clean and cleared the surrounding weeds.

Soon, she arranged the ritual fruit offerings and all sorts of joss paper on the small altar, and lit three incense sticks.

Liqiao took out two cans of beer, opened the tabs, and poured them onto the ground, murmuring to herself, "Time flies, it’s been three years already."

Nearly two hours passed, and she just squatted in front of the gravestone, murmuring alone.

From calling off the engagement to talking about graduation, and from there, talking about Shang Yu.

With a tone of sharing, she quietly recounted her experiences.

These words, she certainly would not have spoken a single extra word to someone else.

But Huizai was different, he was the eldest of the Border Seven Sons, those years on the border he’d always been their good teacher and helpful friend.

That once stable and delicate man had, after all, been abandoned and let down by time.

The sunlight above had risen to its zenith, and Li Qiao slowly stood up, massaging her sore knees.

She’d been squatting a bit too long, and her legs were numb.

She steadied herself for a moment and then tapped the gravestone saying, "Boss Hui, see you next year."

The noontime sunlight struggled through the gaps in the tree leaves, pouring down and landing exactly on that stone slab: Xiao Yehui’s grave.

...

Li Qiao walked back down the original path to the foot of the mountain, her expression somber, her mood very low.

Back at the car, she sat leaning against the window for quite a while.

It wasn’t until her phone vibrated that the silence was broken, and Li Qiao looked at the dashboard.

She picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from Tang Yiting.

And at the top of the screen, there were several unread messages.

She hadn’t taken her phone with her when she went up the mountain, and with a light sigh, Li Qiao answered, "What’s up?"

Tang Yiting was still sniffling, seemingly not expecting Li Qiao to suddenly answer the call. After a two-second pause, she tentatively said, "Are you busy? I’m fine, just wanted to ask you if you’re finished with whatever you were doing..."

Hearing this, Li Qiao lowered her eyelids, a barely noticeable ripple forming in her eyes.

She knew Tang Yiting well; if she was in such a hurry to find her, it could only be... that she couldn’t contain her curiosity any longer.

Li Qiao rested her arm on the car door and glanced at the time, "Just finished, want to have lunch together?"

"Yes, yes, let’s go to Flower House, I’ll head straight there!" Tang Yiting’s instantly joyful tone overpowered even the nasal sound.

Li Qiao responded indifferently and, as she started the engine, she took another look in the direction of Huizai’s tsuka.

In an instant, the black car drove away from the Western Hills.

...

When Li Qiao arrived at the Flower House restaurant, Tang Yiting had already been looking around from a window-side seat for twenty minutes.

"Qiaoqiao, over here!" Seeing Li Qiao, she immediately waved her arms excitedly.

Soon after, Li Qiao took her seat, tore open the paper napkin on the table to wipe her hands, and scrutinized Tang Yiting carefully.

Her complexion wasn’t particularly good, her lips were pale, likely due to a cold; her nose was red, and her eyes were bloodshot.

"Did you take any medicine?" Li Qiao asked while wiping her hands.

Tang Yiting’s throat caught, and she petulantly slapped the table corner, "The medicine doesn’t work, I’m shocked and caught a cold. Qiaoqiao, I have to tell you..."

Li Qiao slowly raised her hand, interrupting the about-to-be inexhaustible Tang Yiting, and asked, "Have you ordered yet?"

Tang Yiting paused, picked up the menu on the table, and handed it to Li Qiao, "Ah, you order."

And so, while Li Qiao was ordering, she began her rant.

Just after speaking a few sentences, Li Qiao’s action of flipping through the menu halted as she lifted her eyelids, "You were pushed into the sea?"

Tang Yiting nodded forcefully, "Yes, I was pushed overboard on the yacht."

"Who did it?" Li Qiao’s fingers caressed the menu, her eyes narrowed slightly, and her thoughts began to leap to the people at the Shang Family Old House.

Could there be someone else behind Shang Fu and Wen Shi?

Even with Shang Qiongying, her methods shouldn’t be so low-level.

And then, Tang Yiting said through gritted teeth, "Some big idiot named Huo Ming."

Li Qiao: "..." Something wasn’t right.

The tone and context of this didn’t sound like the fear and aftereffects of being framed.

It sounded more like... intensely vicious, with an air of facing a battle to the death.

Li Qiao pondered over the name Huo Ming, who should be from the Huo Family.

"Why did he push you?"

Tang Yiting grabbed some lemon water from the table and gulped it down, settling her emotions before muttering, "I have no idea. I was standing on the deck just fine, and I don’t know what came over him, but suddenly he pushed me from behind.

Before I could even react, his push sent me tumbling over the side of the boat.

My cousin wasn’t on the deck at the time, and I was soaked in the sea for ten minutes before they pulled me up..."

Now understanding what had happened, Li Qiao wore an amused expression, "He is Lu Xiheng’s friend?"

The relationship between the Huo Family and the Lu Family was not shallow; moreover, Parma’s young masters were very cliquey.

If one wasn’t part of their circle, it would be as difficult as reaching for the heavens to blend in.

Tang Yiting nodded gloomily, "Mhm, a friend of my cousin. You know what the most despicable part is? After I was rescued, he didn’t even say sorry. I’ve never seen such a horrible man in my life."

It was apparent that Tang Yiting was truly filled with resentment.

Li Qiao found it funny deep down, her fingertips touching her chin, "Did he give any reason for pushing you into the sea?"

With a "clang," Tang Yiting slammed her water cup onto the table, ignoring the water that splashed onto the back of her hand, and angrily cursed with glaring eyes: "Don’t even mention it, I get even angrier thinking about it. He actually said it was because the deck was wet and he slipped into me.

"Do you believe such a lame excuse? If the deck was really that slippery, why didn’t he slip and do the splits himself?

"And to ’accidentally’ push me overboard? He was clearly targeting me."

Although Tang Yiting had returned to the South Sea, just the thought of Huo Ming made her teeth itch with hatred.

In the past few days at home, aside from recovering, she had been contemplating how to retaliate and cause Huo Ming trouble.

A man with no magnanimity, no grace, no politeness.

After pushing her into the sea, he didn’t even apologize. Instead, he looked at her with disdain and questioned, "What were you doing standing by the railing? Was the wind not strong enough for you, or were the waves not broad enough?"

Are these the words of a decent man?

The more Tang Yiting thought about it, the angrier she got, gripping the water cup tightly as if wishing it was Huo Ming’s neck.

After a while, the waiter brought the food.

Tang Yiting ordered a plate of spaghetti, while Li Qiao ordered some cream of mushroom soup and garlic bread.

Her appetite wasn’t great, she only took a few sips of soup, ate some vegetable salad, and then put down her utensils.

Before long, Tang Yiting was prodding at her spaghetti bowl with a fork, clearly still immersed in a mood of irritation.

Li Qiao curved her lips upward, tapped her fingers on the table, and spoke to bring back Tang Yiting’s wandering thoughts, "Is the fortune-teller appointment set?"

Tang Yiting nodded dejectedly, "It’s set, we’ll go there after we finish eating."

Seeing the unresolved conflict written all over her face, Li Qiao, after a few seconds of deliberation, offered a perfunctory consolation, "Since it’s all in the past, you shouldn’t dwell on it. He’s in Parma, you’re in the South Sea. In the future..."

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