Meng Jingwei looked up, "Where is Ah Ye? Did you tell him?"
"No," Tang Si shook his head. "Second Brother is on a plane right now. I was afraid he'd worry too much if he knew, so I haven't told him yet."
Hearing Tang Si's words, Meng Jingwei let out a long sigh of relief. "It's good he doesn't know. He'll definitely worry if he does."
Shen Liannuo rolled her eyes. "At a time like this, you're still worrying about Master? You're really something!"
Despite her words of disdain, Shen Liannuo secretly envied Meng Jingwei and Qing Muye. Their deep affection for each other, that genuine bond, made her envious. She wondered if she'd ever find her own other half in this lifetime, a man who doted on Meng Jingwei like Qing Muye did.
"If you don't tell him now, you'll have to tell him after he lands," Lu Yanming shrugged. "You're all he sees and thinks about. You can't hide it forever, can you?"
Speaking of which, Lu Yanming suddenly thought of something and asked, "You were poisoned, so you must have eaten something. Think, where did the problem originate?"
"Where did it originate?"
Meng Jingwei recalled carefully. "I came to the film city unexpectedly this morning. I bought a cup of milk tea from a roadside shop, and then I met Qiao Ziqian to have barbecue."
Suddenly, she paused, a glint of realization in her eyes. "Barbecue? Yes, I remember. When Qiao Ziqian and I were dining at the barbecue restaurant, the waiter brought over a case of beer, saying it was a gift for the lucky customers of the barbecue restaurant."
"You and Qiao Ziqian were drinking at the barbecue restaurant, so why did you get poisoned and Qiao Ziqian is fine?" Shen Liannuo keenly identified the crucial point.
Meng Jingwei recalled the events at the barbecue restaurant. "I took four bottles of beer when I went. Qiao Ziqian was in a bad mood. Before I could finish one bottle, he drank three. Then, I drank from the case of beer the waiter brought, but I only had a few sips and didn't drink anymore."
Thinking of this, a bad feeling arose in Meng Jingwei's heart.
"What kind of person is Qiao Ziqian?" Tang Si inquired.
Meng Jingwei lowered her eyelids, lost in thought. After a few seconds, she shook her head. "He's not the problem."
"Little Pepper, don't lie to me!"
Tang Si immediately saw that Meng Jingwei was lying. Her facial expression was clearly wrong just now; could he have mistaken it?
Shen Liannuo and Lu Yanming looked at Meng Jingwei and asked in unison, "What's your relationship with Qiao Ziqian?"
Seeing that she couldn't hide it any longer, Meng Jingwei pursed her lips. "I don't know, I'm not sure. I just wanted to ask him personally."
All her life, Meng Jingwei had been kind-hearted. Her master had always told her to be a good person. She initially trusted everyone around her, only to be met with betrayal and schemes in the end. Then Qiao Ziqian appeared. Meng Jingwei found it hard to imagine how wicked people could be if Qiao Ziqian had also approached her with premeditation.
"This..." Shen Liannuo rubbed his nose. "I'm afraid you won't have the chance to ask him personally."
"What do you mean?" Meng Jingwei didn't understand.
"He might have done many bad things, and his luck ran out. The car accident was very severe. He's in a coma now, and doctors say he might never wake up," Shen Liannuo stated truthfully.
Meng Jingwei suddenly remembered that before the incident, her car had nearly been hit. It was Qiao Ziqian who swerved the steering wheel to avoid the danger, resulting in him being covered in blood.