Chapter 24: Deleted

Qin Ruyan returned home and chatted with Qin Chaoyang and his wife for a while.

“Uncle, Aunt, I’m going to Hangzhou in a couple of days to check out some fabric for clothing.”

She poured each of them a glass of water before sitting down on the sofa.

Qin Chaoyang knew she had opened a clothing design studio and nodded.

“Do you need us to go with you? We’re still not very comfortable with you going alone.”

Qin Chaoyang took a sip of tea, put down his cup, and turned to look at her.

Qin Ruyan shook her head.

“I’m going with a friend, a high school classmate. I met her when I was studying abroad, and we added each other on WeChat. She picked me up at the airport when I came back this time.”

Hearing this, Qin Chaoyang didn’t force her, only saying, “Then Ruyan, be careful. If anything happens, you can tell Uncle or Aunt. If you need funds, just tell Uncle directly.”

Qin Ruyan smiled and nodded.

“My brother invested some money in me, and my friend also invested some money in me.”

Qin Ruyan thought for a moment and didn’t hide it from them.

“You should know Zhang Qiyao, she’s the one going with me.”

Qin Chaoyang’s body stiffened, he turned his head and looked at her in disbelief.

“You’re not talking about Zhang Qiyao from the Lu Group, are you? Lu Jingchen’s sister?”

Qin Chaoyang was a little surprised. His niece had pulled a big surprise on him without a sound?

Qin Ruyan nodded.

“Yeah, it’s her. She told me the fabrics over there are good. We also checked out the fabrics in Beijing, but they’re too expensive. I can’t afford them for now.”

Qin Ruyan sat up straight and explained the whole thing to Qin Chaoyang in detail.

After she finished speaking, the living room fell into an eerie silence.

Qin Ruyan skipped over the part about Lu Jingchen. She wasn’t really familiar with him anyway, and there was no connection between them. Besides, she was going with Zhang Qiyao, so she didn’t think it was necessary to mention Lu Jingchen.

After a long while, Qin Chaoyang finally reacted. He mechanically raised his head, glanced at his wife beside him, and they both had worried expressions.

“Ruyan, you don’t have any relationship with Lu Jingchen, do you?” Qin Chaoyang looked a little serious.

“Uncle isn’t interfering with your personal life, but Lu Jingchen is a very deep and ruthless person. If you deal with him, Uncle is afraid you’ll get hurt.”

Lu Jingchen did have a strong sense of the overall situation. Since he took over Lu Group three years ago, the company’s performance has increased several times over. He has also participated in many economic forums, promoting the development of many small businesses.

His Qin Pharmaceutical also expanded its scale.

Business is business, Lu Jingchen is ambitious and has a keen eye. He is a business prodigy. But this kind of person is deep and calculating. Qin Chaoyang would never want to see Qin Ruyan entangled with him. His niece was no match for Lu Jingchen.

Qin Ruyan pursed her lips and spoke in a slightly flat tone.

“No, I don’t have any contact with him. I just learned that Yao Yao is his sister.”

She didn’t dare say that Lu Jingchen had confessed to her, because she didn’t plan to agree anyway.

After getting out of Lu Jingchen’s car, she deleted his WeChat.

Qin Chaoyang looked at Qin Ruyan’s expression, finding that she looked indifferent, and he felt relieved that she really didn’t have any relationship with Lu Jingchen.

After thinking for a moment, Qin Chaoyang cautiously asked, “Ruyan, do you have a boyfriend?”

His niece was indeed beautiful and intelligent. He thought that if she didn’t have a boyfriend, he could keep an eye out for someone suitable.

Qin Ruyan honestly admitted, shaking her head.

Qin Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, “Then Ruyan, do you have any thoughts about it now? Uncle isn’t saying you need to get married urgently, but if you think there’s someone suitable, you can give it a try. If I see someone outstanding, I can keep an eye out for our little princess.”

He spoke vaguely, afraid that Qin Ruyan would misunderstand.

Qin Ruyan shook her head.

“I’ve been focusing on the clothing studio lately, so I haven’t had any other thoughts.”

Qin Chaoyang nodded. Shen Meng, who was sitting beside them, couldn’t take it anymore. She stood up and patted Qin Chaoyang on the shoulder.

“You’re such a nag today, a big man. Ruyan is still young, and she just came back. I want to keep her at home for another two years, to accompany me shopping and getting beauty treatments. You’re so eager to push her out?”

Qin Chaoyang was scolded by his wife and didn’t dare to say anything.

Shen Meng chased him to take a bath and then sat next to Qin Ruyan, holding her hand and smiling softly.

“Ruyan, don’t listen to your uncle. We’re not in a hurry to get married. We must find someone we like before we consider it. Let your uncle and your brother work hard to make money and give our little princess Qin the best.”

Qin Ruyan smiled and snuggled into Shen Meng’s arms. “Auntie loves me the most!”

Shen Meng stroked her head and didn’t say anything.

After a long time, Qin Ruyan raised her head from her arms. She pursed her lips, still feeling a little embarrassed.

They chatted for a while longer, and Qin Ruyan got up and walked upstairs.

“Auntie, I’m going upstairs. I’m leaving the day after tomorrow, so I need to pack my bags.”

Shen Meng nodded with a smile.

Qin Ruyan went into her room, took her pajamas and went to the bathroom. She washed her hair and took a shower. When she came out of the bathroom, she was wiping her hair as she walked.

She walked to the bedside, picked up the hairdryer, and dried her hair halfway. Then she sat at the dressing table and applied skincare to her face.

Qin Ruyan had fair skin and slender limbs, thin but not skinny. Her skincare routine was simple, just basic hydration. At her age, she didn’t need anti-aging yet.

In less than two minutes, she finished applying her face cream and then picked up body lotion to apply to her arms, thighs, and calves.

Five minutes later, after tidying up everything, Qin Ruyan went to the bathroom to wash her hands and prepare for bed.

She habitually picked up her phone, which was on the bedside table, and glanced at it. There was one unread message, no sender name, just a string of unfamiliar numbers.

Qin Ruyan frowned. She had only been back in the country for a short time, and not many people knew her phone number.

She clicked on the message and read it. It was only a few short words.

“Is deleting me on WeChat your final decision?”

Qin Ruyan was stunned. Even across the screen, she could feel the displeasure in the other person’s tone.

Lu Jingchen was probably rejected by a woman for the first time, right? There were countless people with his conditions who would be eager to pursue him.

Qin Ruyan pursed her lips, didn’t think much about it, deleted the message, put her phone on the bedside table, pulled up the blanket, lay down in bed, and closed her eyes to sleep.

Of course, she didn’t expect that her act of deleting him on WeChat and not replying to his message would infuriate a certain petty man.

Lu Jingchen discovered that Qin Ruyan had deleted him when he was scrolling through his circle of friends at home that night.

He could still see Qin Ruyan’s circle of friends when they were having dinner, but after he sent Qin Ruyan home and clicked on her WeChat circle of friends again, it was just a straight line, blank.

He searched online and found that some people said it might be deletion, or it might be blocking. He could try transferring some money to her in the chat box to see what the prompt said.

He clicked on the transfer page in the chat box, randomly entered an amount, and the next second, a prompt popped up in the WeChat chat box.

The other party has enabled friend verification, you are not yet his/her friend…

Lu Jingchen chuckled. He clicked on his contact list and pinned her to the top. He was originally going to call, but he didn’t know what he was thinking, so he sent a text message instead.

He waited for almost half an hour, but he didn’t receive a reply. The message he sent went unanswered.

Lu Jingchen snorted, tugged at his collar, and silently muttered her name.

Qin Ruyan.