Chapter 170: Will it be another twelve years?

(Chen Dong’s new work "Heaven Covering" has already surpassed 300,000 words. Fans of the immortal hero genre can dive in.)

Li Yan now had time to analyze Qiao Huanxuan’s situation earlier. He estimated that it wasn’t physical discomfort, but perhaps due to seeing his intense concern for Yu Xiaodi, while for her, he never showed such tension, hence her mood was somewhat down.

Outside the airport, Li Yan looked around but didn’t see Chen Mingying, Yu Xiaodi, or the others. He guessed they had let the driver wait, so they could leave right after getting out. That’s good, otherwise, being seen together with Qiao Huanxuan wouldn’t be ideal.

Qiao Huanxuan stood at the taxi passenger drop-off zone, waiting for a cab to arrive. The last time Li Yan sent her home, he also took a taxi.

"Wait here a moment, I’ve come by car." Li Yan handed his luggage to her, telling her to wait here, no need for both to walk to the parking lot.

"You drove here? Nice." Qiao Huanxuan was a bit surprised but didn’t think much of it.

Li Yan quickened his pace, fetched the car from the parking lot, and drove back up, the whole process took only a few minutes. As he returned, he already saw from afar someone entangled with Qiao Huanxuan, seemingly pulling her luggage!

He promptly accelerated over, parking behind a taxi. Ahead was a taxi driver overly eager to help Qiao Huanxuan load her suitcase into the car.

"Miss, I’ll take a shortcut, my speed is quick, ensuring you arrive as fast as possible. I drive civically with credibility guaranteed, let’s go!"

Qiao Huanxuan still held onto her suitcase, not letting him take it, initially refusing verbally. When she saw a car stop and Li Yan get out, she ceased to speak further.

Seeing her loosening her grip on the suitcase, the taxi driver immediately carried it to the back of his car.

"Stealing stuff?" Li Yan reached from behind, pinching his neck.

The taxi driver was taken aback, feeling pain in his neck, hurriedly turned to look at him, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? Why are you stealing my wife’s luggage?" Li Yan sneered and retorted.

"Your...wife?"

The taxi driver had just asked Qiao Huanxuan, she said she was waiting for someone to pick her up. He waited with her for a bit, not seeing anyone, thinking it was because it was night, she didn’t trust him. So he enthusiastically promoted himself, even proactively helping passengers with luggage. For them, regardless of having passengers or not, surrendering company rent was a fixed cost. Waiting was wasteful, driving was productive efficiency. Him being overly enthusiastic to grab passengers at the airport was better since at bus and train stations it was most common, if not proactive someone else would snatch them away.

He glanced back at Li Yan’s car, indeed not a fellow taxi. As he was dazed, the suitcase was already snatched by Li Yan.

"Get in your car and leave quickly! I’ll report you for forcefully taking customers and accuse you of stealing!"

Painfully pinched by the neck, the driver initially wanted to retaliate, but hearing Li Yan’s words, restrained himself, thinking now wasn’t a suitable environment for a fight, grudgingly got in his car.

Li Yan put the suitcase back, calling Qiao Huanxuan into the car. The driver had already driven away, not stopping in front to block the way.

"The car is nice." Qiao Huanxuan had just clearly seen Li Yan’s car. If it was his, it surprised her a bit. "Did you buy it?"

The driving Li Yan felt a bit awkward. This car was bought for him by Yurong, yet now he was driving another woman. "It was bought by someone else."

He answered briefly, without detailed explanation. Hearing might make others think it was a borrowed car, but he was telling the truth. It was bought by someone else, just intended for him.

Qiao Huanxuan didn’t ask further, she even caught Li Yan’s momentary awkwardness. She wasn’t aware Li Yan had thought of Zhang Yurong, assuming his embarrassment was because the car was borrowed.

"Right, what did you just say?" She changed the topic, one she was interested in.

"What?"

"What did you say to that taxi driver?" Qiao Huanxuan looked at him, half-smiling.

Li Yan turned to glance at her, laughed, "What did I say? Wasn’t it correct? You once forcibly kept me, not acknowledging it now?"

"Who isn’t acknowledging? I’m just afraid someone doesn’t want to!" Qiao Huanxuan subtly hinted.

She’s already of marriageable age, recent years parents and friends worried and focused on this issue. Waiting for years to finally see him, she certainly wouldn’t want to give up due to his having a girlfriend. Twelve years of emotions accumulated, not something easily forsaken.

Li Yan was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Qiao Huanxuan, I understand what you mean... However, for me right now, this issue...is heavy. Maybe it can be resolved in the future, but if faced now..."

He didn’t finish, Qiao Huanxuan was smart, naturally could guess the rest. It’s not the time yet to resolve, if forced to confront it might result in splitting apart.

She also fell silent. Twelve years had placed him in an irreplaceably important position in her heart. Of course, she wouldn’t accept complete separation, but she understood Li Yan might have liked her in the past, but in these twelve years his situation had differed greatly, he forgot about her, has a girlfriend. Asking him to abandon his current girlfriend for her right away was clearly impossible. If it truly comes to a choice, the one likely discarded would be her!

If twelve years can be waited through, can’t wait longer now? Things are different now than before, a bit more time could better develop their relationship, dissolve the barriers of time.

Thinking this, Qiao Huanxuan sighed, "If it can be resolved later, then let it be resolved later. It won’t be another twelve years, right?"

Her lament made Li Yan feel uncomfortable inside, the woman by his side dedicated twelve years to him, those were her prime years, hurting her was something he truly couldn’t bear.

...

After touching on heavy topics, the two reached a tacit understanding, merely talked about each other’s work situations, avoided those matters. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Qiao Huanxuan was staying at the same hotel as before, traveling from the airport, one direction was west, the other east, needing to traverse the entire city. So now Li Yan was driving toward town.

Not many minutes passed when Li Yan sensed someone was tailing them!

With his top-notch professional assassin acumen and observation skills, he easily noticed being followed.

Through observation and analysis, the taxi tailing them was likely the one that had earlier had a minor incident at the airport. Though unknown his intentions, was he seeking revenge?

If an ordinary person, might not notice; even if noticed would only consider this explanation. But Li Yan had to consider more. If targeting him, maybe the earlier scene at the airport was intentional!

"I’ll speed up a bit!" Li Yan suggested.

"Whatever, you’re the driver." Beside him, Qiao Huanxuan minded little; she also felt a bit tired sitting, wanted quickly to reach the hotel, soak in a bath, lie down and rest.

Li Yan began to accelerate. This Lexus now was far superior to the previous QQ. With his skill, losing the trailing taxi was virtually indisputable, unless the driver was a racing expert and the car wasn’t regular.

Once accelerating, he kept an eye on the rear through the mirror; that taxi truly couldn’t endure anymore. But with the displayed power, catching up seemed challenging.

After another intersection passed, Li Yan had already distanced from the trailing taxi considerably. This rather made him suspicious, just this level? Is it truly just a taxi driver out for petty revenge? It was his fault to begin with, so why chase me?

At this moment, he noticed things were amiss upfront, unexpectedly several taxis coincidentally appeared in his path, blocking his way, then adjusting speed, forming a fore, side encirclement restricting Li Yan’s speed!

Li Yan certainly didn’t think it coincidental, surely related to the earlier person, he smirked faintly, the rear one should catch up soon, right? Let me see who you are, what you’re intending!

Observed from the rear mirror, not only one but two taxis rapidly approached. Together with the front and side ones, six taxis encircled Li Yan!

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