Otherwise, why would Qi Yan suddenly appear in front of her window and look at her with such... gentle eyes?
With a chuckle, Ling Yutong's eyes suddenly lit up.
"you……"
Has it really come?
The corners of her lips unconsciously pulled into a smile. Under the night, her eyes were moist and translucent, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes away.
The corners of Qi Yan's mouth also curved.
The sullenness in my heart was gone after seeing her.
He was tall and had long legs. Ling Yutong's window was open again, half of his body leaned forward, and his fingertips affectionately hooked a strand of her hair.
"Why are you still up so late?"
His tone was hoarse, and she immediately knew there was a problem.
Ling Yutong calmed down from the surprise of seeing him suddenly. The corners of her mouth were still raised, but her expression was already filled with worry.
"I'm fine. I just know something and want to help, but I don't know where to start."
"It's you, why are you so tired? Didn't you get much rest after going to Northern Xinjiang?"
"Also, why did you suddenly appear in the capital?"
"There is a secret..." mission?
Her eyes were shining, her red lips opened and closed when she spoke, and her words floated into his ears like a gust of wind.
He also kept looking at her with a very serious look.
After Ling Yutong asked, he waited for his answer.
Qi Yan lowered his eyes and bent the ends of his eyes, showing a tired look.
"Indeed, I haven't had a good rest in a while."
"I came to the capital not for any secret mission, but just to verify a guess I made."
"and you……"
Qi Yan nodded: "Verified."
The cold wind was blowing, and it was almost dawn. When she saw the white fish belly in the sky, Ling Yutong suddenly realized that she was about to sit in front of the window and blow the cold wind all night.
And Qi Yan came to her window at the last moment of darkness before dawn.
The atmosphere was quiet and peaceful.
Ling Yutong originally had many questions, such as when he would leave, and since he did not come to the capital to perform a secret mission, what was he trying to verify?
However, when she met Qi Yan's eyes, she suddenly calmed down and didn't want to ask anymore.
The wind was gentle and Qi Yan smiled intoxicatingly.
"I have an unkind request. I wonder if Yutong can agree?"
"oh?"
Ling Yutong raised his eyebrows: "Tell me about it."
Qi Yan slowly shook his head: "That's not quite right. I just have a question. I don't know whether I should ask it."
Ling Yutong was surprised.
She couldn't help laughing: "Will there be any questions that you don't even know how to deal with?"
"I'm curious."
"Are you sure you don't want to tell me?"
Qi Yan looked at her, a deep emotion flashing across his eyes, which was fleeting.
"It's not that I don't know how to deal with it, but I'm afraid that after I ask the question, the result won't be what I want to hear."
The corners of his lips raised a little more.
"However, I still asked, and I asked An Xin."
"Yutong, you once told me that life-long matters should be considered after the family becomes prosperous. Do you still think so now?"
He paused and then said: "In other words, do you have someone you like now?"
Ling Yutong was stunned.
Her eyes widened and she squinted, ignoring her heart that had just skipped a beat, and quickly thought of a possibility.
"Did Lai Che tell you something?"
Her explosive reaction made him couldn't help but curl his lips, reach out and tap her forehead, he said: "So, are you going to avoid this problem?"
Ling Yutong's eyelashes trembled.
She is not.
But when the word "escape" came out of his mouth, she felt a little hot for no reason.
She coughed lightly, her eyes wandered for a moment, then she met his eyes and replied: "You must have misunderstood something, I can explain it."
Qi Yan suddenly felt a little funny.
The two of them were separated by a window sill. As long as he leaned forward slightly, he could easily touch her and lift her head, which dropped lower as she spoke.
Ling Yutong shuddered when her chin touched his slightly cold fingertips.
A smiling bass escaped from his mouth.
"Answer me, Yutong."
"The answer to this question is very important to me."
After a moment of silence, Ling Yutong opened his hand with a sullen face.
"I'm not big or small, who asked you to pinch my chin."
Qi Yan tilted his head and let go of his hand obediently, but he leaned forward without taking a step back.
Ling Yutong coughed again, and seeing that she couldn't push him away, she said, "What I said was never false."
"I've already told you that it was a misunderstanding, and it was a deal. I took advantage of the queen, so naturally I have to help her brother solve the problem."
She puffed her mouth and murmured in a low voice: "It's true that I..."
She still remembered what Qi Yan wrote in the letter to her.
Qi Yan pursed his lips, not suppressing his sudden relief, and raised the corners of his mouth.
"The woman who suddenly appeared in the camp actually had another purpose. I was just forced to use her plan, just like you."
"I promised the Marquis, I can't escape."
He finished explaining very quickly, his serious gaze always staying on Ling Yutong.
Ling Yutong was stunned and didn't know how to react at the moment, so he just nodded casually.
Qi Yan raised his eyes to look at the sky, calculated the time in his mind, and spoke faster: "I came back tonight to save the life of a person. That person is..."
Ling Yutong tightened her fists and asked tentatively: "Yan?"
Qi Yan nodded.
Time goes back to when he first entered the capital at night.
Qi Yan had a clear goal and went straight to the Criminal Department, carrying in his arms the life-saving medicine that Ling Yutong had prepared for him. There were no dangers along the way.
Although he had confirmed that the rumor was true, when he actually saw Yan Lishen's state, his pupils shrank.
It's so tragic.
Yan Lishen was even awake.
The other party already had bags under his eyes due to age, and now he was tortured and forced to stay awake and experience pain.
When the other party spotted him, the look he gave him made it hard not to be moved by the scene.
Qi Yan lowered his eyes, calmly opened his lips, and made mouth shapes silently.
Then, he clearly saw that Yan Lishen's expression showed no surprise or any intense emotions.
The other party just looked at him lightly, and then lowered his eyelids.
Qi Yan pursed his lips. At this moment, he was sure.
"After that, I gave him one of the medicine you gave me, and he fell asleep."
"I watched him for about half the night, then woke him up, and then returned to my house."
Qi Yan lowered his eyes and finished the last sentence of his memory.
"What I said to him at that time was: You let my second brother go, right?"
Ling Yutong raised her hand and covered her mouth tightly.
Her eyes became sour in an instant, and she closed her eyes, unable to say a word.
Qi Yan's hand paused for a moment, and finally only landed on the tip of her hair, patting it gently.