257 Collateral Damage

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"I have done nothing to you."

"Really?" Lily raised an eyebrow before she unceremoniously took a small bite of her doughnut. "Last time I heard…"

"It was all Qi Xia. He wanted to attract your attention and wanted to use me to divert Zhuo Jingren's focus away from you. I never thought that it would blow up like this." Mu Lihua explained. Since Qi Xia already left her, she will make sure to drag him along into this misery.

"Oh… Mr. Qi… why would he do that?" Lily asked.

"I have no idea. He never told me. It was obvious that he was not interested in you, so someone else must have asked him to do it." She said. Qi Xia was actually acting mysterious and never talked to her directly about the reasons behind his actions.

"Alright." Lily nodded.