The Favored Heiress
Chapter 628: Black Hawk

Chapter 628: Chapter 628: Black Hawk

The man stood still in front of her, leaned down, and lifted her chin. "It’s so cold, what are you spacing out here for?"

Li Qiao looked up at his silhouette against the light, her pupils gradually focusing.

Before she could speak, Shang Yu pulled her arm and dragged her into his embrace. After a rustling sound, the cape fell onto her shoulders.

"Did you see Yin Mo?"

The man wrapped her in his arms and led her to the other side of the square.

Distracted, Li Qiao responded, while her other hand grabbed the hem of the cape and muttered, "Why is this so long."

Shang Yu turned his handsome face, glancing at her furrowed little expression, and curved his lips teasingly, "Shall I carry you?"

Li Qiao held the hem of the cape with one hand and sighed softly, "No need, that’s too pretentious."

It wasn’t a big deal, she just couldn’t figure out Yin Mo’s actions and was a bit annoyed.

A few minutes later, they got into the car.

Shang Yu wrapped Li Qiao in his arms as they got seated, touching her slightly cold cheek, "What did you talk about?"

Li Qiao leaned against the back of the seat, patting the dust off the hem of the cape, "She said she will always be my second sister."

This sentence, upon careful consideration, was also a double entendre.

She is her second sister and will not be her enemy.

Even if she were to be an enemy, she is still her second sister.

Shortly after, Li Qiao sorted out her thoughts, and her gaze returned to its usual calm, "When did you get here?"

This morning, he said he was busy and only arranged for Luoyu and Cheng Mo to attend the lecture.

Yan Emperor Group had three spots for the lecture, so Li Qiao followed the flow and came to the scene.

Shang Yu crossed his legs, resting his arm on the chair back behind Li Qiao’s head, "Just arrived."

Li Qiao pouted toward the conference center across from them, "Aren’t you going in to have a look?"

The conference suffered an accident, and even if Qianmu Group could turn the tide, their cooperation with Charlman would definitely come to an end," Shang Yu said as he touched her forehead with the pad of his finger, "Was this your plan?"

Li Qiao nodded honestly, "Of course, killing two birds with one stone."

She wanted the Flame Alliance Z to never again be receptive to Charlman’s advances, so she had to ensure their rupture was complete.

The core technology had a problem, becoming the laughingstock of the entire AI tech industry.

As the initiator of the lecture, Qianmu Group lost face completely.

The termination of the cooperation was the least of the issues, the real consequences were yet to come.

The people in the Flame Alliance were not exactly charitable philanthropists.

After this line was destroyed, other members of the Flame Alliance would surely take heed.

By then, intervening in other cooperations would be a piece of cake.

At this moment, Shang Yu’s deep eyes sparkled with amusement, his fingertips lingering around Li Qiao’s delicate brows and the corners of her eyes, "The boss of Qianmu isn’t that easy to fool."

"But he’s not that smart either," Li Qiao dismissed with a twist of her mouth.

At this time, in the conference center backstage, numerous staff members bowed their heads, silent as cicadas in winter.

Liu Zinan was even paler looking at the man making a call ahead, large beads of sweat continuously rolling down his forehead.

"Duke Xiao, are you fucking kidding me? You’ve got the nerve to present such immature technology, do you think I’m easy to bully?"

The man speaking was clad in a leather jacket and jeans, a tuft of hair tied into a bun on his head, with buzzed hair above the temples on either side, a very trendy fashion style.

This man, Gu Chenn, Flame Alliance Z.

On the other side of the phone was Xiao Yehui.

Gu Chenn, hearing the other party’s response, couldn’t help but sneer, "Being schemed against? When we initially discussed the cooperation, you certainly didn’t say so to me.

Now, with just a mention of being manipulated by others, you want to push the blame onto me? How can there be such a cheap deal? The presentation hasn’t even ended yet. What do you suggest we do!"

"..."

In the blink of an eye, Gu Chenn’s expression underwent a subtle change, "Manager Yin? You mean... let her handle everything?"

"..."

"Heh, fine, if you say so, then don’t blame me for being ruthless when I turn my face."

Gu Chenn hung up the phone with a face full of anger, and seeming still not pacified, raised his hand as if wanting to smash the phone.

Just at this moment, another call came in.

It was from an unknown number. Gu Chenn didn’t want to answer, but after he hung up, the other party called again.

He glanced at the staff next to him and answered the phone with one hand on his hip, "Spit it out quickly."

"Want to know the inside story of the presentation? Meet me at your company at three in the afternoon."

A short command, then the dial tone followed in the earpiece.

Gu Chenn looked at the screen, his expression dark and shadowy, the menace in his eyes growing intense.

"President Gu, what should we do now?" Liu Zinan asked in a state of complete disarray, looking completely washed out.

Seeing this, Gu Chenn glanced sideways at him, a wicked smile blooming at the corner of his lips, "Go bring that Manager Yin from Xiao’s Technology here.

Create some chaos outside, try to make the audience leave early, and also buy back all the master tapes from those journalists’ hands. I want today’s presentation videos destroyed cleanly."

Gu Chenn soberly made a series of arrangements.

He was no pushover after suffering such a big loss, he couldn’t just swallow his pride.

The people from Flame Alliance, before they whitewashed their past, were not a bunch of good people.

On the other side, after Li Qiao finished the call with Gu Chenn, she rested her head on Shang Yu’s shoulder, pondering something.

She was still fiddling with the hem of her cape, her eyes whirling, looking every bit like she was gearing up to scheme against someone.

Suddenly, her hand paused, rubbing the fabric she was holding.

There seemed to be a pattern on it.

Li Qiao gave Shang Yu a sidelong glance, seeing he was busy with his phone, she lifted the hem of the cape and looked down at it.

The fabric of the cape was so soft that the pattern embroidered on the hem could easily be felt.

She unfolded a corner and examined it closely in the light leaking in from the window. Three seconds later, Li Qiao lifted her eyelids, released the cape, and looked out the window.

Black Hawk...

Li Qiao suddenly remembered, the first time she went back to the old house with Shang Yu, many of the bodyguards had a black-gold Eagle Beak Ring on their fingers.

It bore a striking resemblance to this Black Hawk.

Meanwhile, in the plaza in front of the conference center, people were continually casting glances towards the business car.

"The man just now, was he wearing a cape?"

"Haven’t you ever seen a cape? The winds are strong in Aida State; almost everyone has one. Is it worth making such a fuss over?"

"Don’t talk nonsense. Capes are common, but have you ever seen anyone wearing a black-gold cape?"