Free Web NovelChapter 1263: Chapter 1260: The Maker
Bi Xia looked at the video with a dark face, seeing Xia Shi acting like a timid wife, "So you just followed Ji Han to Beijing without even telling me?!"
"..." Xia Shi nodded cautiously, her eyes slowly moving upwards, her fingers fidgeting with each other, "I... Brother Han told me he already told you. When I tried calling you this afternoon before leaving, I couldn’t reach you... so I had no choice but to follow Brother Han to Beijing first... I thought he really told you... that you were also on your way to Beijing..."
Listening to Xia Shi’s words, Bi Xia’s mouth twitched. Couldn’t reach by phone? Damn, could it be that they just missed each other—one flying to Qing City and the other to Beijing?
With a frustrated deep breath, Bi Xia glared at Xia Shi, "Then shouldn’t you call me once you got there?! You know how worried I was when I found out you weren’t in Qing City?!"
"I..."
"Enough..." A pair of hands appeared in front of the lens, followed by a change in the person on the other side of the video. Bi Xia squinted her starry eyes, looking at the person by the lens, leaning against the screen nonchalantly. The person calmly sat beside Xia Shi and said in a low voice, "You go out first, let me talk to Little Nine, okay?"
Xia Shi glanced at Ji Han and then Bi Xia, just about to nod but hesitated at Bi Xia’s half-frozen face, quickly shaking her head, "No need, I’m staying right here. I’m Little Nine’s mom, I have the right to hear what you say to my daughter."
Listening to Xia Shi’s words, Bi Xia smiled contentedly, raising an eyebrow at Ji Han, "Uncle, did you hear that? Even if you took my mom away, her heart is still with me."
Ji Han shrugged indifferently with a gentle smile, although Bi Xia only found that smile filled with too much else, causing her to dislike it strongly, turning her face cold, "Speak up, the reason for taking my mother to Beijing."
"I feel..." Ji Han paused, then laughed, "this reason may not be something your mother would want to hear."
Understanding Ji Han’s implication instantly, Bi Xia darkened her gaze, staring expressionlessly at Ji Han, for a long time before looking at Xia Shi, "Mom, please step out; I think I need a good talk with Mr. Ji."
Originally President Ji, then Uncle, now Mr. Ji—Ji Han smiled helplessly, thinking how low his future daughter would perceive him...
Mimicking a reassuring gesture to Xia Shi, Xia Shi hesitated as she stood, ultimately warning Ji Han, "Don’t bully my daughter, you hear?!"
Ji Han: ...I’d be grateful if your daughter doesn’t bully me...
Finally getting Xia Shi to leave, Ji Han sighed, just about to look up and speak to Bi Xia, only to be confronted immediately with her faintly smiling eyes.
Ji Han: ...
"Speak," Bi Xia crossed her arms, "what do you want to discuss with me."
"Little Nine, you don’t need to be so hostile towards me. Everything I did was for your mother’s well-being, as right now Qing City isn’t nearly as safe as Beijing. Regardless of whether you return or not, I had to bring her to Beijing first. Furthermore, Beijing has many of your grandfather’s old friends, including my father, so your mother is safe here."
"But I believe she’s safer with me by her side."
Looking at the teenager’s unfriendly demeanor, Ji Han realized how his actions might have genuinely provoked Bi Xia, so he sighed lightly and said, "Alright, let’s be completely transparent then."
Bi Xia sneered, "You should have been transparent from the start."
Ji Han: "..."
Laughing helplessly, Ji Han cleared his throat, his demeanor turning serious, "During the time you’ve been away, others might not have noticed, but I sensed disturbances in spiritual power happening in Qing City. On the day you left, I got reports from my informants that a spiritual power wielder appeared in Qing City."
"Meanwhile, countless spiritual power wielders started emerging in Beijing—they all acquired their powers later on. The military has begun dealing with them, and we’re searching for the source."
"Wei Ba just reported back, saying these newfound spiritual power wielders have controlled spiritual powers. Consequently, we hurriedly extracted spiritual powers from the ones caught previously and found this to be the case. Therefore, we suspect someone is mass-producing spiritual power wielders."
