"The dead are the most important, not to mention she was your senior. Offering incense to your senior is not too much, is it?" Sack said as he held out the incense stick closer to Qiao Ying.
Qiao Ying: "..."
Qiao Ying wanted to curse.
She took the incense stick, psyched herself up for two seconds, and under Sack's urging gaze, she bowed three times to her own gravestone.
She must be the first and only person in this world who bowed to herself and offered incense at her own grave.
This is really maddening!
"Only you would do this. If it was someone else, I would have blown up this gravestone and buried him in it."
"What did you say?" Sack didn't hear clearly.
Qiao Ying forcefully stuck the incense into the ground and gritted her teeth, "Do I have to kowtow to her three times too?"
"Does Huaguo have this tradition too?" Sack was about to say, "If so, it would be best if you do it."
But he saw Qiao Ying stand up and walk away directly.
Sack hurried to catch up and said fiercely, "If you dare tell anyone about my bedwetting, I will..."
"Little Sack, are you threatening your boss?"
"Humph," Sack snorted, and after a while, he took the initiative to say, "You and my boss were very close? Then do you know her real name?"
"No."
"What do you mean no? Even orphans who grew up in welfare homes have names given by the director. I asked Bai Xiao, in your Huaguo, no name means no name."
"She's dead, what's the point of knowing her name?"
"To engrave it on her gravestone?"
"Were you part of the funeral service in your previous life? Did engraving gravestones become an addiction?"
"My point is to engrave her real name on it."
As the two spoke, Sack arrived at the car and looked puzzled as he asked, "How did you drive the God's Army's car?"
"Not only that, we're staying at God's Army tonight too." Qiao Ying opened the car door and got in, "Get in quickly."
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"Young Master, do we really not need to look into Miss Qiao's background?"
Three days later, Qin Yan couldn't help but ask Qin Hanyue's opinion again. He wanted to say: Aren't you really curious or find it odd?
"For a student in her teens, Miss Qiao has such terrifying skills..." Qin Yan recalled the scene at the fighting ring that day and was at a temporary loss for words to describe it.
"It's too unscientific."
Up until now, Qin Yan still felt it was unreal. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it even if he was beaten to death.
"Also, I remember Young Master Qin Yuchen investigated some basic information about Miss Qiao. She had never left Yun City since she was little, but that day I heard Miss Qiao's English was in standard American pronunciation. She should have stayed in Country M before." It was too suspicious.
Just then, Qin Hanyue, who was standing on the second floor corridor, saw a figure walk in at the door. He said, "No rush."
If she found out he was investigating her, she would definitely be unhappy, right? From the first time they met, gazing at each other through the car window, Qin Hanyue felt that Qiao Ying was definitely not someone good-tempered.
While Qin Hanyue was still hesitant about Qiao Ying's identity,
The Dark Shadow had already investigated three generations of Qiao Ying's ancestors thoroughly.
"Leader, we've already looked into it. This Chinese girl named Qiao Ying has never left Yun City since she was little, and has never had any connection with our Blood Shadow organization at all. Three generations of Qiao's family including this one are all ordinary people."
"There's nothing outstanding about this girl since she was little, until a certain day three months ago when she suddenly changed drastically, as if she was a different person. It's really suspicious, but we couldn't find anything."
The man referred to as Leader said, "Three months ago? That was when Blood Shadow died?"
"That's right. We also found out something else, this girl is not Qiao's biological child, but from the Su family in Beijing."
Qiao Ying went upstairs, intending to rest in her room, but bumped into Qin Hanyue in the corridor.
The room was specially prepared for her by Qin Hanyue, and she didn't stay with Bai Xiao and the others.
Of the entire God's Armed Alliance, Qin Hanyue's place was the quietest, so of course Qiao Ying had no reason not to stay there.
"Mr. Qin hasn't rested yet, were you waiting for me?"
"Miss Qiao is a guest, it's only right for me to wait a little."
"Mr. Qin is too polite." Qiao Ying then moved to open the door, with her hand already on the door handle.
She heard the man suddenly say, "The room is too big, if Miss Qiao is afraid to sleep alone, I'm very willing to accompany you."
Qiao Ying's hand on the handle paused, and she turned to look at him with an insincere smile as she replied, "Is Mr. Qin addicted to sleeping on the sofa?"
"If Miss Qiao needs it, forget the sofa, even the floor is fine."
Qiao Ying retracted her hand, turned around, leisurely leaned against the door with her arms crossed, and sized up the man with a subtle gaze.
Qin Hanyue felt strangely uneasy under her ambiguous stare.
Then he heard the girl ask, "Mr. Qin can't beat me, right?"
"What does Miss Qiao mean?"
"Literally."
Qin Hanyue thought of Qiao Ying's fierce scene kicking mercenaries one by one at the fighting ring and said, "I'm afraid there are few people in this world who are a match for Miss Qiao."
Qiao Ying dropped her smile. "Then aren't you afraid I'll snap you in two?"
Qin Hanyue laughed bitterly, "Miss Qiao really knows how to joke."
"Mr. Qin is very good at joking too." After saying that, Qiao Ying went in and closed the door.
To build a foothold, recruit troops and buy horses, Black Water had a huge project with many things to do. Fortunately Qiao Ying didn't need to worry about any of it.
Qin Hanyue came out of the room and received a call from his nephew Qin Yuchen.
"Third Uncle, I've finished things here, I can set off for M Continent this afternoon."
Upon hearing this, Qin Hanyue, who was upstairs in the corridor, looked down at the girl sitting on the sofa in the first floor lobby and said to Qin Yuchen who had already packed and was ready to set off over there, "No need to come here, go back home directly and help me handle the company's affairs."
"But..." Qin Yuchen was puzzled. Didn't he say earlier he was sending him to M Continent to gain experience? Why did he suddenly change his mind about not wanting him to go?
"Any problem?"
"No, it's just one thing. Grandma has arranged a marriage prospect for you, it's Miss Su, and wants me to go to M Continent to help you handle affairs so you can come back sooner to meet Miss Su."
"I'm not interested in Miss Su, convey my words to the family."
After saying that, Qin Hanyue hung up before Qin Yuchen on the other end could react.
Qin Hanyue came downstairs from the second floor and hadn't gotten close to the sofa yet when he heard a voice message playing aloud from the girl's phone: [Baby, things are popping up nonstop for me here, and now I'm in Morocco again, so I can't make it to M Continent for now]
Then another message followed: [I heard you broke records at the fighting ring. Can't say you broke records since there were so few people for you to beat up. I bought some good wine to reward you, baby give me an address and I'll send it over to you]
It was a young man's voice.
Qin Hanyue's footsteps slowly came to a stop.
Qiao Ying sent back a voice message: [A few bottles is probably not enough, I drank a few bottles of someone's wine the other day, still owe them]
[Owe? That expensive? Did you go bankrupt?!] Ye Si got excited and blurted out profanity.
He then quickly said, [No, baby you're joking with me right? Since when did you become so easy to take care of? Got tired of eating exotic delicacies and switched to plain rice and vegetables? Aren't you afraid those hundred-thousand dollar wines will hurt your throat? Back then, you'd disdain using hundred-thousand dollar wines to soak your feet because you didn't like the smell]
