There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 26.2

So after a slight hesitation, she nodded lightly.

“Hello, I’m Qin Ke.”

Sitting furthest inside the sofa, Jiang Chuang and Qi Yiming exchanged a glance, both nodding as a greeting.

The one called Jiang Chuang, who looked somewhat fierce, spoke in a relatively easygoing tone, with a hint of joking.

“She looks like a well-behaved girl who does well in school and is liked by teachers. Why did Young Master Huo bring her to a bar to corrupt her?”

“Indeed.”

Qi Yiming next to him jokingly agreed. He wore silver-rimmed glasses and looked refined, somewhat out of place with the music and lights of the Hell bar.

Huo Jun snorted lightly, not bothering to banter with them.

In Qin Ke’s blind spot, he casually draped his arm over the back of the sofa behind her.

The young man tugged at the corner of his mouth, smiling a bit contemptuously and provocatively, his gaze sweeping over them condescendingly.

“Introductions done?”

“……”

Directly across, Dou Yingjie’s smile faded as he shook his head and sighed, patting Qiao Jin’s shoulder next to him.

“You’re right, I’ve never seen anyone so ‘food-guarding’ as him.”

This teasing remark was made without any attempt to hide it, and Huo Jun heard it clearly, but cared even less.

He turned his eyes to the person beside him, his voice lowering slightly, “What did you want to ask me earlier? You can ask now.”

“……”

Qin Ke frowned slightly, glancing at her surroundings and the occasional looks from Dou Yingjie and the others across the table.

She hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Huo Jun, “Can we go somewhere else?”

Huo Jun paused.

Qin Ke added, “There are too many people here.”

“……”

Huo Jun looked at her for two seconds, then nodded.

“Okay.”

Huo Jun stood up with Qin Ke.

“We have something to discuss, we’ll be back in a few minutes.”

“Hm?”

The others at the table were stunned, but Huo Jun didn’t give them time to react. He and Qin Ke went down the steps together, heading towards a quieter corner at the far end of the bar.

Watching their retreating figures, Dou Yingjie lifted his chin towards them, asking Qiao Jin who was sitting close to him.

“… Seriously?”

Qiao Jin took a sip of fruit wine from his glass, “If it wasn’t serious, would he have brought her here?”

Dou Yingjie: “Tsk… I don’t get it.”

Qiao Jin: “What’s not to get?”

“More like we couldn’t have imagined it,” From inside the sofa, Qi Yiming pushed up his silver-rimmed glasses, chuckling. “Didn’t we guess before what kind of person could tame a madman like Huo Jun… We thought it would be someone even crazier than him, but we never expected this.”

Jiang Chuang: “Wonder how the Huo family will react.”

“……”

With these words, everyone at the table fell silent.

On the other side.

Huo Jun finally stopped in front of the piano in the corner. He turned and leaned against the piano lid, looking down at Qin Ke with his pitch-black eyes, smiling.

“Can you speak here?”

Qin Ke hesitated for a second, “Mm.”

“What did you want to ask?”

“……”

Qin Ke slowly raised her gaze, meeting Huo Jun’s eyes.

She asked softly, enunciating each word:

“Are you… related to the Huo family in Sijiu City?”