Ever since her last phone call with Li Aiguo, Li Yuan had been torn between confessing and staying silent.
She had been on edge for days, worried that if she confessed and her true identity was exposed, the Zheng family would be furious and might even refuse to protect her. To make matters worse, after several days of searching, Li Aiguo still couldn't find any trace of Su Qing and Li Wan. He didn't know where they were, or if they were even in Jia City.
This outcome only made Li Yuan more anxious. Especially in the last few days, whenever she visited Mr. Li, she couldn't shake the feeling—perhaps just her imagination—that her family was treating her with a strange, hard-to-place formality. The feeling made her panic. She tried to probe Shang Yuqi for information, but came up with nothing.
And yet, everything seemed perfectly normal.
