Qin Jingru and Li Anquan were working together. Since Li Anquan had treated her to such a fine meal, Qin Jingru held nothing back, relaying every piece of information she had pried out of Mrs. Jia.
As he listened, Li Anquan stroked his chin, sifting through Qin Jingru’s words for useful clues. Based on her account, the relationship between Mrs. Jia and Yi Zhonghai was certainly out of the ordinary—and perhaps even more profound than it appeared on the surface. Qin Jingru’s description was vivid, going so far as to detail the way Mrs. Jia would blush and look smug. Judging by this, could it be that Mrs. Jia and Yi Zhonghai once shared a scandalous past?
Furthermore, the fact that Yi Zhonghai had been a heartless flirt in his youth who was popular with women was completely unexpected to Li Anquan. In the eyes of the Courtyard neighbors, Yi Zhonghai was the very model of moral rectitude; he and Aunt Tan had barely ever exchanged a cross word!
Chapter 87