The Favored Heiress
Chapter 426: Hesitation is Human Nature

Chapter 426: Chapter 426: Hesitation is Human Nature

Shang Qiongying’s eyes sharply pierced Li Qiao as she looked at the bilingual document.

Someone who could get Parma to issue a consent letter in such a short time must be Shang Shaoyan helping her.

Of course, Shang Qiongying was ultimately taken away by force.

The first domestic medical event turned out to be quite a memorable and unusual experience.

...

Afternoon, State Guest Hotel.

Li Qiao and Xia Siyu sat in the hotel suite with Ah Jie standing in front of them, reporting in a low voice.

"I didn’t go into the police station after I sent her there, but later I saw the police cars heading to the exhibition center, so I guess she might have called the police. That’s pretty much what happened."

Upon hearing this, Xia Siyu leaned back against the sofa, curling her mouth corner in disdain, "This young lady is quite interesting. It seems she wants to help you too."

While speaking, she turned to look at Li Qiao beside her, but noticed she seemed lost in thought. She nudged Li Qiao with her shoulder and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Li Qiao came back to reality, glanced at Xia Siyu, and said in a light tone, "Just making amends for past deeds."

Xia Siyu and Ah Jie exchanged glances, both looking puzzled. Xia Siyu asked, "What do you mean?"

Li Qiao crossed her long legs and leaned back on the sofa armrest, "Guan Mingyu must have hesitated at first, or Shang Qiongying wouldn’t have wasted so much time on her."

"You mean... she had thoughts of betraying you?"

Li Qiao looked at Xia Siyu impassively, "If she had refused decisively, Shang Qiongying wouldn’t have kidnapped Guan Mingchen to threaten her."

Similarly, there were so many people in the lab, so why did Shang Qiongying specifically target Li Xiaoxiao?

It was because they had the traits Shang Qiongying needed that they were chosen as targets to be conquered.

Xia Siyu stopped talking.

She had thought Guan Mingyu was indeed steadfastly on Li Qiao’s side, not realizing there had been hesitation.

"She’s not wrong," Li Qiao turned her head to look out the window, "Hesitation in the face of choices is human nature."

Moreover, there had never been trust established between her and the Guan Family Siblings, so whatever choice they made was within reason.

Today Shang Qiongying was taken away, and Guan Mingyu played a significant role.

She took the initiative to appear at the scene to identify Shang Qiongying, it wasn’t a deliberate arrangement by Li Qiao, but just giving her the leeway to make one of two choices.

Guan Mingyu could report to the police or not, but the outcome wouldn’t have changed regardless.

However, her personal testimony did indeed save a certain amount of time.

At this moment, Xia Siyu looked at her profile, unsure what else to say.

After a brief silence, Li Qiao, supporting her forehead, looked at Ah Jie, "Send all the illegal information about Shang Qiongying to the police station, including Guan Mingyu’s hospital admission record from last night and the surveillance footage of Guan Mingchen’s kidnapping, along with the injury report, all of it."

Ah Jie nodded, "Okay, Miss Qi. Also, the siblings said they want to see you and are waiting in the next room."

Li Qiao raised her eyebrows and sighed, "Let’s go. This afternoon, you will return to South Sea with them."

...

In the next room, the Guan Family Siblings sat in the living room, anxiously waiting for Li Qiao.

Because she was injected with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), Guan Mingyu’s body was still weak, but her eyes stubbornly fixed on the door, eagerly waiting.

Before long, the door opened and Li Qiao walked in alone.

Guan Mingyu and Guan Mingchen simultaneously stood up, "Miss Li."

Li Qiao nodded her head, gesturing for them to sit down.

She walked to the middle of the living room, her gaze sweeping over Guan Mingchen. His face was bruised, likely as a result of struggling when Shang Shaoyan’s people kidnapped him.

Li Qiao cleared her throat and looked back at Guan Mingyu, "How’s your health?"

She moved her lips hesitantly, "Much better. Miss Li, I didn’t betray you..."

"I know," Li Qiao responded calmly, her eyes shifting between the siblings, "I’m the cause of this incident. I dragged you both into it, and I’m very sorry."

The Guan family siblings exchanged glances, and Guan Mingchen quickly waved his hand, "Miss Li, please don’t say that. It has nothing to do with you; it’s clearly that old woman who had malicious intentions."

Guan Mingyu nodded along as well.

Li Qiao curved her lips, looking at Guan Mingyu’s slightly flickering eyes, "Now that this is all in the past, I will send someone to take you both back to South Sea this afternoon. As for the drug that was injected into you, the lab will prepare an antidote for the detoxification. Don’t worry too much."

Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, is a type of hallucinogen, not too far off from being called a drug.

Li Qiao briefly explained a few things to the siblings and left the room in less than five minutes.

Once again, the living room regained its tranquility. Guan Mingchen touched the bruise at the corner of his mouth with his thumb, then looked at Guan Mingyu very seriously and asked, "Mingyu, tell me, at first, did you really think about joining that old woman?"

Guan Mingyu’s expression stiffened, and she retorted with little confidence, "Brother, I, I didn’t."

"You did!" Guan Mingchen, naive and straightforward, pointed it out directly after seeing her evasiveness, "When that old woman sent people to capture me, she said you clearly agreed to cooperate with her, but then you reneged."

"Mingyu, do you realize that if you had really agreed to her, today it would have been the both of us siblings ending up in jail?"

Guan Mingyu’s usually compact features seemed to squeeze even tighter together in fright.

She breathed rapidly, shaking her head and murmuring, "Brother, please don’t say that. I, I did waver, but in the end, I chose Miss Li. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have gone to report to the police on my own today..."

Guan Mingyu’s mood was probably just as Li Qiao had said, it’s not too late to make amends.

She had wavered and hesitated because the terms Shang Qiongying offered were too tempting.

In the end, she couldn’t overcome her conscience, thinking she had to do something to ease its unrest.

Guan Mingchen took things to heart. Hearing this, his brow was still deeply furrowed, "You were the one who wanted the lab’s help from the start. No matter what the reason, you shouldn’t have had such thoughts.

And hasn’t Miss Li been good enough to us? She provided funds and unconditional help. Without her, I’d still be laboring on a construction site.

No matter how tempting it was what that old woman offered, could it be as forthright as Miss Li? You, you better think it through yourself."

Guan Mingchen couldn’t bear to see her teary-eyed and full of regret, but he was also angry that she had actually harbored thoughts of betraying Miss Li.

In the end, he could only go to his room to sulk and smoke in silence.

...

After leaving the hotel, Li Qiao and Xia Siyu drove to the police station.

Shang Qiongying was taken away for investigation, and a final meeting was inevitable.

At the entrance to the police station, Director Wen had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Li Qiao getting out of the car, he hurried over obsequiously to shield her from the car roof, "Miss Li, you’re here."

Xia Siyu, sitting in the car as the driver, "?"

Something doesn’t seem right.

Li Qiao gave Director Wen a nod, threw the car door shut, and passed a look to Xia Siyu before following Director Wen into the police station.