Xu Zhenlan didn't answer.
There was nothing he could say that wouldn't make the situation worse, and judging by the way Zhou Chenghai's shoulders had gone rigid beside him, his second had reached the same conclusion.
They turned away from the open storeroom and walked out of the basement without another word.
Rouxi had turned her head to watch them go, but the cold look in her eyes confirmed that there was no part of his ward in her anymore. Instead, she just sat on the couch, her two lap dogs around her, eating a snack she never would have touched in his last life.
No one stopped them from leaving, no one demanded an answer from them. They just watched them leave, Wei Lingyun wiggling his fingers in a bastardization of a wave.
It shouldn't have bothered him, but for some reason, the look on Wei Lingyun's face was a challenge Xu Zhenlan didn't want to back away from.
