“No need to thank me, just be more careful when you walk in the future. I don’t know how your family lets you go out. I saw your man in the car the other day, he seemed to care about you a lot, why isn’t he with you? For a woman as foolish as you, I can’t understand how I ended up caught up with you. Truly, it’s something I can’t figure out.” Lin Ziqi stepped back two steps after seeing Qin Xue was fine, putting some distance between them.

No matter how others view or comment on it, he must act with a clear conscience. He can’t let people gossip about them.

Speaking and acting inconsistently allows others to see what state they are truly in.

For the sake of her reputation, he wouldn’t think too much about it.

“You, aren’t you being too controlling? I originally wanted you to help me find out who threw it down with such malicious intent. Seeing you like this, you definitely won’t want to help. I guess I’ll do it myself then.” Qin Xue felt annoyed, the man’s lecturing tone particularly grating and anger-inducing.

But the concern revealed in his words made her feel she was being too petty.

Situations like this weren’t unfamiliar to her; she hadn’t cared much before, but now she felt differently.

Better to figure out this person’s background first, but she wanted to figure out who’s so uncouth as to throw a flower pot down, otherwise she’d feel uneasy.

“You wait here, I’ll help you check. A pregnant woman shouldn’t be worrying so much.” Lin Ziqi muttered to himself, glancing at the spot where the flower pot fell, then directed Qin Xue to wait aside.

He didn’t want her running around heavily pregnant; if she really fell, he’d be in big trouble.

“You speak so fiercely, yet you’re still willing to help me investigate. Seems like you’re a good person after all.” Qin Xue nodded.

This kind of man has a sense of responsibility; she might be able to return his thing to him or directly ask him something.

Qin Xue stroked her chin, and under such circumstances, the only thing she could do was wait.

Lin Ziqi asked house by house, but everyone said they weren’t growing any flowers, and upon inspection, it was true—there were no flower growers, which was strange. If no one was growing flowers, where did the flower pot come from?

If it was an empty flower pot, it’d be easier to explain, but the problem was it had soil and flowers inside. Who would deliberately carry a pot of flowers here to throw down?

Lin Ziqi really uncovered the truth, but this was something they only learned later. For now, he returned empty-handed.

“Didn’t find anything?” Qin Xue looked at him, seeing his somewhat dejected expression, and asked puzzledly.

“Nope, none of the households were growing flowers. Who knows who did this and why?” Lin Ziqi, having encountered many people and situations, knew this wasn’t simple.

But who would be that vicious – she didn’t do anything, yet had to face such a situation—as anyone witnessing this wouldn’t be pleased.

So Lin Ziqi admired how Qin Xue could stand there calmly; her ability to handle pressure was commendable.

He was more than willing to help her now. Now not only did Qin Xue want to understand Lin Ziqi’s identity, he also wanted to find out why he had a protective instinct toward her.

This was something he had never encountered before, so no matter what, he couldn’t say much more nor do anything extra—just do what he could.

Facing this situation, getting closer to Qin Xue was inevitable; apart from knowing the man called her Xue’er, he knew nothing else about her.

Her demeanor was even more harmless, if not for the earlier incident, he wouldn’t have caught her attention, let alone anything else.

Qin Xue and Lin Ziqi walked upstairs together, she wanted to see who could do such a thing but then deny it.

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