"Oh? Is that so?"
Flek Streeter, with a cigar in one hand and patting his ample belly with the other, asked.
Antina pouted, as haughty as a little princess, "Hmph, I don't care, Daddy, I just want to go out and travel."
"Shrek is right, you're pregnant, you should rest at home." He pointed to Antina's bulging belly, "You almost miscarried before, and now that you're finally better, you need to behave yourself."
"I won't! Daddy, I'm just pregnant, not disabled, why can't I go out and travel? I'm going!" She pouted and gave her father a sideways glance, "If I really want to go out and travel, you won't be able to stop me!"
To put on a show, Antina flicked her sleeve and left in feigned anger.
"Antina?" Xiao Cheng called out, but Antina ignored him and simply walked away.
He turned to look at Streeter, appearing as if asking, 'What should I do?'
Flek Streeter was at his wit's end, "Fine, fine, let her have her way, let her." After speaking, he prepared to turn back to his room.
Suddenly, he stopped, "You can go anywhere, but it's best not to go to China."
China appeared calm on the surface, but in reality, it was turbulent underneath. Streeter worried that if Antina went to China, she would inevitably go to Lancheng, and if anything happened to her then, he truly wouldn't know what to do.
"Understood."
Xiao Cheng said nothing and turned to leave.
Leaving the small Western-style building of the Left Wing and walking out of the hall, he saw Antina standing outside.
Xiao Cheng walked towards Antina, about to say something, when he saw Antina whisper, "There's someone upstairs, don't look back."
She had given him a warning.
Xiao Cheng was stunned, never expecting Antina to help him like this.
"Hmph, Xiao Cheng, I'm telling you, if you don't accompany me on a trip tomorrow, I'll be done with you!" Antina deliberately raised her voice and yelled at him.
"Alright, you call the shots, I'll listen to everything you say." He helplessly caught up to Antina and walked with her.
Until they were far away, Joey Nibel William, standing by the floor-to-ceiling window of the study on the second floor, turned and walked back to sit on the sofa.
At this moment, Xiao Cheng, who had walked far away, stood beside Antina and asked in a low voice, "Why did you help me?"
Antina looked straight ahead, "I'm just helping myself."
As she spoke, she stopped walking and turned to face Xiao Cheng, "That person is Antony's brother. The last time he came, he discussed with my father about taking revenge on Qing Muye. I couldn't find you in the back garden just now, so I guessed you must have come to my father's study."
Flek Streeter would usually invite important guests to his study to talk, which both Antina and Xiao Cheng knew.
Xiao Cheng did not refute, merely turned his face away to the side.
Antina lowered her head, her deep features filled with helplessness, "Can't you just stand by and watch their affairs?"
Xiao Cheng: "..."
"Don't you remember, Qing Muye is your enemy!" She reminded him again, as if afraid Xiao Cheng would forget.
As her words fell, Xiao Cheng's face was as calm as ever.
Yes, calm.
Not just on his face, but also in his heart.
The deep hatred between him and Qing Muye had gradually faded with each encounter, so much so that with Meng Jingwei in between, he didn't know how to make a move against Qing Muye.
"If I choose to help Meng Jingwei, what will you do?" Xiao Cheng asked, looking at Antina after much consideration.
His deep and complex eyes seemed to hold a thousand unsaid words.
But Antina knew Xiao Cheng too well and understood his nature.
Those deep blue beautiful eyes looked directly at Xiao Cheng. Their eyes met, and a long silence ensued.