Gui Xingli frowned and didn't respond, though it was clear from her tense breath that she was holding something back.
Ye Yuning gazed out the window, silent. Everything about Upper City now felt suffocating, oppressive. Before, because things had never been good, she hadn't cared. But after possessing something, and considering certain people and events deeply important, her heart had become unsettled.
「...」
Ye Yuning couldn't return to her Xiangti now. Gui Xingli took her directly to a hotel owned by Simon, arranging for the presidential suite and assigning two bodyguards to watch over her. Although she had already swapped Old Master Xiao's items, he was, after all, a man of means. They had to guard against him preparing a countermove.
"I'll arrange for you to leave here as soon as possible," Gui Xingli said to Ye Yuning.
