The Favored Heiress
Chapter 603: The Antique Dealer

Chapter 603: Chapter 603: The Antique Dealer

And Jin Rong was examining Li Qiao with the benevolent face of an elder doting on a younger relative, finding her more and more precious by the look.

How wonderful it would be if she were his daughter.

At that moment, Shang Yu pinched a fork and, peering at the girl’s fair profile, asked in a low voice, "Like to eat guava?"

Li Qiao turned her head and met his gaze, her voice neither warm nor cold, "Don’t like it."

Jin Rong: "..." You’re lying.

Shang Yu pursed his thin lips in satisfaction, pulled over the fruit plate on the table, and tilted his chin upward, "What do you like then?"

"Oranges, I guess."

Despite her words, Shang Yu still fed her several pieces of guava afterward.

Then, Jin Rong, who had been neglected for quite some time, squinted his eyes and tapped his knuckles on the table surface, "Kid, what happened to your face?"

He was so enamored with Li Qiao that he had almost overlooked the scars on her face.

Her forehead was scraped, and there was a bruise on her chin, which was quite unsightly.

Li Qiao lifted her eyelids to look at him, and instead of answering, she countered, "When will you go to the factory?"

"Isn’t it tomorrow?" Jin Rong answered subconsciously, only to furrow his brows immediately, "You’re already here, so what am I going to the factory for? Where’s the vase I wanted?"

The back-and-forth between the two sounded exceptionally familiar.

Even Luoyu could feel that Master Rong had an extraordinary amount of patience for Miss Li.

Not only that, but why did he always have the pleased expression of a father seeing his daughter?

Li Qiao swallowed the guava in her mouth, patted Shang Yu’s wrist, and signaled that she didn’t want any more, then responded, "Once the order is signed, the vase is yours."

Jin Rong licked his back teeth helplessly and with evident indulgence, he pointed at her through the air, "You’re the only one who can order me around, try switching with someone else!"

Shang Yu cast him an indifferent glance.

Jin Rong slightly shifted his finger and added, "Both of you can order me around."

Luoyu: "..."

Life is full of mysteries.

Before long, Li Qiao got up from Shang Yu’s legs and hooked a single-person rattan chair to sit down.

Jin Rong gazed at her longingly like a father doting on his daughter, and in the next second, he looked across with raised eyebrows, "Shaoyan, do you remember I told you a few years ago that I met a kid in Myanmar?"

Shang Yu vaguely remembered the incident; he lazily lifted his eyelids, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, "The kid you wanted to be her godfather?"

The man emphasized the word ’kid’ with a smirk forming at the corners of his thin lips.

Hmph, wanting to be Li Qiao’s godfather?

Jin Rong laughed dryly, reached for the cigarette box in front of him, and cleared his throat, "Yes, it’s her, Qi Qi."

Qi Qi?

Li Qiao, half reclining in the chair, casually crossed her legs as if she hadn’t heard anything.

While Jin Rong lit a cigarette, his eyes smiling, he became more and more like a father, "I didn’t know her name was Li Qiao; I heard those people calling her Miss Qi, so I have always called her Qi Qi."

With his fingers still rhythmically tapping on the table, Shang Yu fell silent for a few seconds, then curved his thin lips into a dangerous arch, speaking with deep meaning, "The same Qi Qi you wanted to introduce to Feng Yi as his Countess?"

Jin Rong went stone-cold on the spot.

He remembered it now.

He was so smitten with Li Qiao that he felt this kid was extraordinarily gifted, seemingly cold but actually warm-hearted.

Mainly because she was so good-looking, it was hard to find a second to compare.

Following the principle that one should keep the best resources within the family, Jin Rong secretly pondered introducing Li Qiao to Feng Yi to become the Countess, thinking that after she moved into the Earl’s Mansion and was surrounded by people attending to her, wouldn’t that be blissful?

However, he brought up the matter several times, but Feng Yi was uninterested, so Jin Rong dropped the idea.

Latterly, he had always wanted to take Li Qiao as his goddaughter, but the kid outright refused, which didn’t prevent him from doting on her as if she were his own daughter.

In this situation, Jin Rong was helplessly awkward.

He sighed while smoking, occasionally glancing at Shang Yu with a resentful expression, "I never expected your girlfriend to be her..."

Their group of brothers had all secretly investigated Li Qiao before.

Jin Rong had only checked her basic information, not even her photograph; whatever woman Shaoyan chose was fine as long as he liked her, Jin Rong didn’t want to bother.

After all, in his heart, no woman could compare to his ’goddaughter’.

Well, now it was family on top of family, his long-desired goddaughter was now his sister-in-law.

What kind of fate was this!

Jin Rong was troubled, watching Shang Yu’s handsome face darken like ink, he attempted to change the subject, "Shaoyan, who were you preparing the medical room for?"

The man pressed his lips together, glancing at Jin Rong, then started to leisurely roll up his shirt cuffs, "Where’s your meeting gift?"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Jin Rong, upon seeing him rolling up his sleeves, immediately pretended to be busy, "I’ve prepared it long ago, an island to the east, a gift without any cost."

After speaking, he looked at Li Qiao and asked with a kind smile, "Is that good?"

Li Qiao tugged at the corner of her mouth, icily rejecting, "No need, you’ve given me some before."

A few years ago, Jin Rong had given her three islands, apparently on the west coast, but she had never visited them.

From their brief conversation earlier, she had also learned about his relationship with Shang Yu.

Turns out, Jin Rong was the eldest of five sworn brothers, an internationally renowned antique dealer.

And the reason she had left the house early at six in the morning two days ago was to find Jin Rong in the Wenxi Archipelago.

She had driven the yacht back and forth by herself, which was why she got herself covered in sea spray.

At this moment, Jin Rong put on a stern face, feigning anger, "It’s not okay not to accept it, the three islands I gave you before are what you deserved, today’s gift is a meeting present, and you must accept it."

Shang Yu’s thin lips slightly curled, eyeing his sworn brother, "Only one meeting gift?"