Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

But when they saw the smile return to Liu Miaomiao's face, Lu Mingfei didn't think much of it.

However, Su Xiaoqiang kept this subtle change in mind.

During the subsequent conversation, Liu Miaomiao remained absent-minded, appearing preoccupied.

Qiao Yiran found her best friend's sudden change strange, but she didn't think about anything else. She just assumed that Liu Miaomiao might not be fully recovered from her illness and was feeling unwell again.

However, Su Xiaoqiang clearly noticed that Liu Miaomiao's attitude towards him was different.

Miao Miao seemed to be ignoring what I was saying.

After the visit, on the way home, Su Xiaoqiang asked Lu Mingfei:

"Have you noticed that Miaomiao seems to be ignoring me today?"

Lu Mingfei hadn't expected Su Xiaoqiang to suddenly ask him this question. But after thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei realized that Liu Miaomiao's appearance today seemed a little strange.

Liu Miaomiao was stunned when she saw the little fairy as soon as she entered the door.

The stunned feeling wasn't the kind of surprise you get when you suddenly see something unexpected; it was more like being suddenly hit by some kind of blow.

Could it be that Little Fairy and Little Hairy Girl had some kind of conflict? But judging from Little Fairy's expression, she doesn't seem to know the reason for Miao Miao's change in attitude.

After thinking about it, Lu Mingfei decided to take advantage of the nighttime raid on Liu Miaomiao to ask her about this matter.

To prevent Su Xiaoqiang from overthinking, he offered words of comfort:

"I think it's alright. Maybe Miaomiao is still not fully recovered and is talking sickly, which is why you feel like she's not paying attention to you. You're probably just overthinking it."

"I hope so," Su Xiaoqiang nodded and said softly.

Also, when did Lu Mingfei change how he addressed Miaomiao?

Su Xiaoqiang looked at Lu Mingfei's profile, pondering the name "Miaomiao" in her mind.

……

Evening, California Sunshine Community.

The BMW drove into the villa's underground parking garage. Liu Yue got out of the driver's seat and entered the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the second floor. Liu Yue walked through the corridor and had just entered the master bedroom when he saw Ji Ruyan, wearing pajamas and gold-rimmed glasses, sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, waiting for him.

Liu Yue was stunned by the scene and immediately began to think about the mistakes he had made recently.

Did she find out that the scratch on her car last time was from when I was driving? Or did she discover that when I said I was going to work overtime and wouldn't be home that night, I actually went night fishing with Lao Zhao and a few others?

Liu Yue cautiously approached Ji Ruyan: "Wife..."

"Heh, so you still know I'm your wife?" Ji Ruyan sneered.

"How could I forget that? Even if I drank the Meng Po soup, I still wouldn't forget it," Liu Yue said with a forced smile.

"Hmph." Ji Ruyan snorted coldly, "Then let me ask you, during the time you were with Miaomiao in the hospital, who did you allow into the ward to see Miaomiao?"

Liu Yue was taken aback, not expecting his wife to bring up this matter.

Did his wife find out that he let that brat in to see Miaomiao?

Where did the secret slip up?

Liu Yue composed himself and decided to insist that he hadn't let anyone else in, except for his daughter's friend, Qiao Yiran.

Seeing that Liu Yue wouldn't admit it, Ji Ruyan sneered and picked something up from the table beside her. Liu Yue leaned closer to look and realized it was a hair. The hair was black and short, clearly male.

“This is a hair I found next to Miaomiao’s pillow. You’ve had gray hair for so many years, this hair can’t possibly be yours, can it?” Ji Ruyan said.

……

I'm going to Jay Chou's concert tonight, so I'm taking half a day off. I'll make up for the missed chapter tomorrow! I'm really sorry!

Happy Children's Day to everyone!

Chapter 166 Confession Bureau

No matter how hard Liu Yue thought about it, he never imagined that the flaw in letting Lu Mingfei in to visit his daughter would be revealed by a single hair.

Of course, he had no idea that even if he didn't let Lu Mingfei into the ward during the day, Lu Mingfei would still sneak into Liu Miaomiao's ward at night.

Now that the truth had come out, in order to gain his wife's leniency, he had no choice but to confess that he had indeed allowed Lu Mingfei to visit his daughter in the hospital.

Liu Yue had expected his wife, Ji Ruyan, to fly into a rage after he revealed the matter, but Ji Ruyan sat silently on the sofa.

"From what day did you start letting that boy into your daughter's ward?" Ji Ruyan suddenly asked coldly.

Liu Yue quickly replied, "The next day."

the next day……

Was that the day her daughter's condition began to improve? Ji Ruyan pondered.

Angry? Of course she was angry. Ji Ruyan had assumed that her husband and she were on the same side in this matter, but she hadn't expected that one of them would turn out to be a traitor.

However, besides being angry, there are other things to consider now.

For example, how should I handle the relationship between that guy and my daughter?

She initially thought her daughter's condition was improving because she was gradually becoming more relaxed. Now it seems that in reality, there's no such thing as a better mood without a reason.

Ji Ruyan thought that her daughter's mood had been noticeably better these past two days, which seemed to be related to that boy named Lu Mingfei.

And he even laughs in his dreams.

The doctor said Miao Miao's illness was caused by excessive mental stress, and her condition improved because the boy named Lu Mingfei visited her every day. Perhaps the reason Miao Miao was under so much mental stress before was because the doctor prevented her from having contact with Lu Mingfei.

Ji Ruyan rubbed her temples, feeling a bit of a headache. Suddenly, she felt a little depressed, wondering how her daughter could have grown up to be so love-obsessed.

However, this also forced her to re-examine the relationship between Lu Mingfei and her daughter.

Acknowledge him? Unlikely. But we can't condemn them both like before. During their three years of high school, it's acceptable for Miaomiao and him to have normal interactions as classmates, as long as the relationship doesn't cross any lines.

Once they both go to university, their understanding deepens, and Miao Miao meets guys who are better in every way, her relationship with Lu Mingfei will naturally drift apart.

I'm just worried that the two of them...

Just as Ji Ruyan was pondering these questions, her phone rang at an inopportune moment. Ji Ruyan picked up her phone from the side, glanced at the caller ID, and was taken aback.

After the call connected, she asked softly, "Miaomiao?"

“Mom…” Liu Miaomiao’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

Her voice sounded very weak. Ji Ruyan suddenly became a little nervous: "Miaomiao, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell again? Wait for me, I'm coming to the hospital right away..."

"No." Liu Miaomiao shook her head on the other end of the phone, interrupting her mother.

She took a deep breath, opened her mouth, and said with difficulty, "Mom, I want to talk to you about what you told me last time..."

……

After hanging up the phone, Liu Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief, stuffed her phone under her pillow, and turned to look at the moon outside the window.

The inpatient ward of the private hospital was very quiet, perhaps because there weren't many patients there to begin with. Liu Miaomiao wondered if public hospitals were just as quiet. They were probably much noisier than this.

A sudden sound came from the doorway: "thump, thump, thump," three knocks.

Liu Miaomiao tilted her head. It was already ten o'clock at night. Her parents had already gone home. Yi Ran's family had a curfew, so her parents definitely wouldn't allow her to go out at this hour. As for Lu Mingfei, he usually arrived even later, and he never used the front door; he would only climb through the window.

Liu Miaomiao racked her brains for several seconds but still couldn't figure out who would come at this time, so she spoke first:

"Please come in, the door is unlocked."

After receiving permission, the door was slowly pushed open with a screeching sound from the metal hinges. Such a sound is always particularly jarring at night.

Upon seeing who it was, Liu Miaomiao was taken aback, but quickly recovered and greeted the person.

"Good evening, Qiangqiang," Liu Miaomiao said with a smile. "Why are you here so late?"

Su Xiaoqiang placed a beautifully wrapped bouquet of fragrant lilies beside Liu Miaomiao's bed and said with a smile, "What's wrong, Miaomiao? Aren't you happy to see me?"

Unexpectedly, Liu Miaomiao pursed her lips and answered quite decisively: "To be honest, I'm not very welcome."

Su Xiaoqiang paused briefly, clearly not expecting Liu Miaomiao to be so blunt.

But after a moment, she shrugged to herself and sat down on the edge of the bed as if no one else was there.

"Anyway, you're the one who let me in. Whether you welcome me or not, I'm not leaving," Su Xiaoqiang said nonchalantly. It's unclear where she learned this shamelessness from.

"You guy..."

Liu Miaomiao turned her gaze away from Su Xiaoqiang, looked at the ceiling, pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, and obediently huddled in the blanket, whispering, "...How annoying."

Why aren't you welcoming me?

Su Xiaoqiang crossed her legs, rested her left hand on her smooth thigh, propped her right elbow on her knee, and supported her chin with her palm, looking at Liu Miaomiao with great interest: "Were you asleep just now?"

"No, I've been thinking about things," Liu Miaomiao said.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, did I bother you?"

"It's okay, I don't want to think about it anymore anyway." Liu Miaomiao said, then turned her gaze from the ceiling to Su Xiaoqiang, "Did you come here specifically to see me?"

"More or less," Su Xiaoqiang said. "There are also some things I want to tell you."

"what's up?"

Su Xiaoqiang glanced at Liu Miaomiao's expression, her hesitant gaze conveying the words "Then I'll say it."

Liu Miaomiao did not respond.

"A few days ago... ah, it was Saturday," Su Xiaoqiang said dryly, as if it were nothing, "did you go to the music salon held at the Plens Hotel?"

After realizing that Liu Miaomiao seemed to be acting strangely towards her in the afternoon, Su Xiaoqiang already had some doubts in her mind.

After inquiring with the butler, Uncle Li, and learning that on the same day as the premiere banquet, the InterContinental Prestige Hotel had also hosted a music salon by a famous female pianist from China, Su Xiaoqiang had a bold guess in her mind.

That means Liu Miaomiao most likely saw her and Lu Mingfei attending the banquet that day.

If that's the case, then Liu Miaomiao's change in attitude towards him would make sense. Considering the timing of Liu Miaomiao's illness, perhaps it's also related to witnessing him and Lu Mingfei attending the banquet.

The only thing that cannot be confirmed is what exactly Liu Miaomiao saw that day.

Thinking of this, Su Xiaoqiang felt a vague unease. She hesitated for a long time. It wasn't convenient to ask about this during the day with Lu Mingfei and Qiao Yiran present. And if she waited until after the National Day holiday to ask at school, it would be too late.

After much deliberation, she decided that it would be most appropriate to come and ask Liu Miaomiao about this matter tonight.

Liu Miaomiao was quite surprised to hear that Su Xiaoqiang had come to her to ask about this matter. However, she quickly nodded and said, "Yes."