212: SUSPICION ARISES (PART 10)

SUSPICION ARISES (PART 10)

"I heard about Li Shen. He was after Lan dear for a long time," Yan Su lowered her voice and remarked. She was in the mood to gossip.0

Upon hearing Yan Su's remark, Xue Lin looked at her. "Who told you that?"

Yan Su answered, "Second cousin Feng did. He dug up more information and found out that his brother was behind our accident in Germany ."

"That was the scariest moment I have ever had in my life," Qi Ying commented. Her face paled recollecting that incident.

"Getting buried in snow couldn't be the scariest thing for me," Xue Lin stated. What she experienced was far more dangerous. The incident where she was running in the jungle with an injured leg was much more dangerous.

"Just what did you experience in China to say something like that?!" Qi Ying asked.

"I heard you were forced to marry this handsome guy?" Yan Su commented. "It's not bad to have an arranged marriage with someone who is hot, right? So, tell me, how good is he in bed?"

Yan Su's eyes were sparkling to hear some juicy stuff. She looked like a child wanting to listen to a bedtime story.

"Xiao Su!" Qi Ying's face turned scarlet in bashfulness.

"You…" Xue Lin clenched her teeth and glared at her friend who was looking at her with great interest. Her white jade-like face was tinted in red color.

Her friends couldn't understand why her face was so red. Was it from anger or embarrassment?

"Why are you acting like you are a virgin?" Yan Su shrugged and glanced at her friend coyly.

Noticing an icy glare without any change of expression, her expression also turned serious. She came to a sudden realization. "…Wait, don't tell me you are!"

"So, what if I am?" Xue Lin gloomily questioned her friend.

Yan Su gasped. "What a waste of a good product!" She felt pity for Ge Chen from the bottom of her heart.

At that time, Ge Chen sneezed loudly in the bedroom. He wrapped the comforter around him tightly and slept soundly.

"Correction," Xue Lin corrected her. "He is a human. Not a sex machine."

"He is your legal sex machine!" Yan Su protested aloud. She was extremely earnest.

Xue Lin covered her face with her palm. She didn't want to continue this conversation.

On the other side, Qi Ying's head was spinning.

The beautifully peaceful afternoon suddenly became sour.

As if to save Xue Lin, someone came to the room. "Ladies, what are you talking about?"

The 'ladies' turned around and found the driver of Mu Lan, Mark. This Sri Lankan man was wearing a sky blue shirt with a white floral print.

He came closer with a jolly mood and said, "Good afternoon ladies, sorry to interrupt your meal. Are you having lunch this early?"

Yan Su answered for others, "No, we are having snacks because I want to have some. Lin dear is here to have breakfast."

"I see. Then, I won't interrupt you. Please have a good time." Mark bowed and turned to leave.

He came to see if the dining hall was empty. If it was, he would rather all Cobra members have lunch together. Since there were three ladies, he would give others a red signal.

Just then, Xue Lin spoke, "Wait." She stood up and walked in his direction. "Excuse me, with whom did you sit yesterday in the wedding ceremony?"

"I beg your pardon?" Mark didn't envision that he would be questioned about this topic abruptly. Even an experienced man like him was caught off guard.

Xue Lin repeated politely, "I mean in the wedding ceremony, you sat with some people. Do you know them? Are you in a group?"

She was thinking, 'For some reason, I feel like I need to remember their faces but I can't. This isn't the first time my head betrayed me but still, it's weird that I remember his face but not others around him. I think I heard Chen mentioning that.'

The thing that bugged her was when Ge Chen talked to her about them, she took a glance at them several times.

Since she usually couldn't memorize people's faces, she thought she would easily forget them too. That's why she wasn't worried when she couldn't remember them anymore.

However, seeing Mark Anthony, she recalled that she saw him at the wedding ceremony. That surprised her. What surprised her more was that she couldn't remember whom he was with.

For a few seconds, she debated with herself thinking – since Mark was working for Mu Lan for so long and Xue Lin was acquainted with him, that's why she could remember him.

If that was the case, she wouldn't ponder so deeply. It was like, before she saw him, she completely forgot his existence. She only remembered him because she saw him now.

There were times when she would forget about her own existence. It happened on her exam days. Nonetheless, this seemed different. She had a feeling that something was different about this but she couldn't pinpoint the problem.

Mark answered, "I don't know them. I've never met them before. It was our first time meeting and I got to know them. We barely talked though. Why are you asking? Did something happen?"

Her eyes were piercing through him, trying to find out whether he was telling the truth or lying. However, he didn't bat an eye. His unwavering eyes were looking straight at hers without fear.

Xue Lin replied casually, "No, not at all. Thank you for your answer. You must be busy. Please go ahead."

"I'm going then," saying that Mark left. His walking pace was neither fast nor slow. His movement was decisive.

Xue Lin moved back to her own seat and resumed eating her meal.

"Why did you ask him something so weird all of a sudden?" Yan Su inquired.

"Just felt like it," Xue Lin answered.

Yan Su poked her nose. "Do you think the men around him were criminals?"

"Criminals?!" Qi Ying gasped. Her face became ashen in fear. 'If there are criminals on board this ship, what if an accident happens? What will we do in the middle of the ocean?' she wondered.

Xue Lin brushed off their wild imaginations. "No, I don't think they are criminals. And Ying, please don't fret over the word 'criminal'. Your fiancé would be hurt."

Qi Ying looked ashamed. She had no right to get scared of criminals when her fiancé was the biggest criminal in Europe.

"Aww, don't be too hard on Ying dear. She can't handle it," Yan Su defended her friend.

"If she wants to perform the duty of Madam Mu, she must accept it quickly." Xue Lin stared at Qi Ying and asked, "Or, do you want Xiao Lan's help?"

"No!" Qi Ying clenched her fists. "I want to do it on my own. Xiao Lan gave up on the title so that I could be acknowledged by others. Because of my weakness, other elders didn't want me to be with Feng. Xiao Lan made a path for me so that I can work diligently and earn their trust. This is the only way I can peacefully marry Feng."

Xue Lin was pleased with her words. "As long as you have the determination to go further, you can do this. Even though your fiancé is a mafia lord, he kept the powerful position only to protect those who are dear to him. Maybe you know or maybe you don't know how much he had sacrificed for you. This is the least you can do for him." After she was done with her lecture, she left the dining hall.

After she was gone, Yan Su tried to coax Qi Ying, "Ying dear, don't be upset. You know how straightforward she is. She is just worried about you and thought you were struggling. That's why she said that."

"I know. I know very well how kind she is. If she wasn't worried, she wouldn't have bothered to open her mouth. It's far better than how she was before," Qi Ying softly smiled.

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Xue Lin went back to her room and turned on her laptop. She sent an email to someone and was eagerly waiting for a reply. She found a reply to that email and her eyes lit up. She excitedly opened the email and read it attentively.

The corner of her lips raised when she finished reading. She replied to the email and then turned off her laptop. She shut her eyes and tried to think of yesterday and todays' incidents one by one.

When she remembered Mark's answer to her question. She frowned slightly. 'It's fine as long as he said, "No, I don't know them". But why did he try to explain it to me? It was almost like he tried to hide something. He didn't seem to be lying but his answer was definitely fishy. If he wasn't guilty there was no point in explaining. Why would it matter to him? But he went all the way to describe how they talked and got to know each other and then left the ship. What is he trying to cover up?'

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