Chapter 703 - Did She… Forget?

Did She… Forget?

Translator: Henyee Translations | Editor: Henyee Translations

After Jiang Weiyang made a fool of herself, it was like a signal that made this banquet completely unstable.

When Murong Qiao went back to look for Huo Yichen, she saw a waiter standing beside him. He seemed to be holding a package in his hand. The package looked gorgeous from afar.

“Ah Chen?” Murong Qiao walked over and called him.

Huo Yichen turned around. When he saw Murong Qiao coming over, he instinctively reached out to stop her shoulder. Then, he frowned and looked at the attendant’s package before explaining.

“I wonder who brought this. It only has the word ‘gift1 written on it. There’s no signature,” he said, staring at the package.

Initially, he didn’t want to care about this thing, but the package said that it

was for Huo Yichen and even wished him a happy birthday today.

The beautiful calligraphy was paired with a white ribbon. It was dark blue and had a slightly flickering packaging. It was difficult to imagine which n.o.ble it came from.

“Why don’t we open it and take a look?” Murong Qiao suggested. “Perhaps it’s just carelessness. Let’s take a look at the gift. We might be able to know who it came from.”

Birthdays were definitely filled with gifts. Perhaps some careless person had forgotten their signature.

Seeing this, Huo Yichen gestured for the waiter to open the package.

However, after the gorgeous and exquisite wrapping paper was opened from the outside, there was another very unexpected and disgusting thing inside.

A bat corpse that looked like it had died not long ago was lying quietly in the box.

“This!” The waiter was shocked, but seeing that Huo Yichen was standing in front of him, he suppressed his disgust and didn’t let go of the box to throw it out.

Murong Qiao stuck her head out and only saw a blurry black and bat-shaped figure. Before she could take a closer look, her vision was completely blocked by a palm.

“Don’t look.” Huo Yichen’s calm voice sounded in her ear.

However, as he spoke, he told Murong Qiao not to look. In the end, Huo Yichen’s hand was still pulled off by Murong Qiao herself. Then, she saw what the bat looked like.

She didn’t know if it was her imagination, but when she saw the bat, even though it wasn’t close, Murong Qiao felt that there was a smell floating towards her.

In addition to the corpse of a recently dead bat, there was also a pattern of a human head in the box. The lines looked Greek.

‘■What are these? Bat and… Greece?” Murong Qiao frowned.

Huo Yichen didn’t say anything. Instead, he glanced at the surrounding people who were gradually approaching, as if they were watching a show.

From the moment the waiter exclaimed just now, the other guests had noticed the strange situation on Huo Yichen’s side, not to mention that Huo Yichen and Murong Qiao were the focus of the crowd again.

He pondered for a moment. “It’s revenge.”

“Revenge?” Murong Qiao looked at Huo Yichen and repeated his words.

“Yes.” Huo Yichen nodded and explained to Murong Qiao softly, “In Greek legends, bats are the incarnations of revenge from the dead. They come back to take revenge on the people they hate.”

This was the first time Murong Qiao had heard this. She raised her eyebrows in surprise. “There’s such a thing?”

“It’s rare, but—” Huo Yichen pursed his lips as if he was thinking. “After I returned to the Huo Family, one of the many courses I studied was related to this knowledge.”

As Huo Hong was about to nurture him to be the heir, Huo Yichen studied hard every day and his knowledge was deeply ingrained in his mind.

Revenge?

Murong Qiao looked at the “gift” that didn’t seem to be a gift. She put herself in his shoes and thought about it. If she had received such a gift on her birthday-

It couldn’t be said to be just a little unlucky. It was very unlucky.

No one with a proper brain would have sent such a gift.

“Take it away first,” Huo Yichen instructed the waiter.

There were too many suspects for this gift. For a moment, Huo Yichen was not in the mood to do this mental work. His priority now was the banquet.

The attendant hurriedly bowed and took the gift away in front of everyone. However, this special birthday gift still left an indelible mark in the hearts of everyone at the banquet.

Sensing the strange gazes of the people around him, Huo Yichen calmly took a sip of the red wine in his hand. From the beginning to the end, he didn’t say a word, as if nothing had happened.

When everyone saw this, they didn’t discuss it. After all, this was still the Huo Family.

However, when the banquet was about to end, everyone who was preparing to go home finally couldn’t help but chat when they arrived outside and got into their cars.

“Who do you think can give Huo Yichen so much face on a day like today?”

“In my opinion, he’s provoked countless people in the Huo Corporation during this period of time. It’s too difficult to get to the bottom of it.”

“They can send the gift at any time, but they chose today. I feel uneasy, as if something is going to happen.”

“Let’s wait and see for a while more…”

Similar discussions appeared among the people who left.

Humans like to gossip, especially these so-called upper-cla.s.s families. They were even more concerned about every piece of news about the big shots.

As the host today, what happened with Huo Yichen undoubtedly offended everyone.

In less than a night, just within the time when people were walking out of the banquet, even many people who didn’t come to the Huo Family heard the news. After the banquet ended, Murong Qiao first sent her Big Brothers away. Then, she took off her complicated and gorgeous gown before looking for Huo

Yichen.

When she went over, the other party was standing at the door, still wearing the suit.

Murong Qiao looked at him from behind and saw him staring fixedly at the departing cars. He seemed to be deep in thought. In the end, she gently walked behind him and tapped Huo Yichen’s shoulder as a reminder.

“Are you still thinking about what happened just now?” She hooked her arm around Huo Yichen’s.

Huo Yichen paused for a moment. “Sort of.”

However, he had yet to come up with any results.

Huo Yichen was actually thinking more about Murong Qiao and his birthday. Ever since Murong Qiao came to the banquet, she had never mentioned giving gifts.

Had she… forgotten?

“Don’t think about those nonsense. Let’s go out and relax? The entire night of the banquet made me feel like my bones were about to fall apart.” Murong Qiao suggested naturally, pretending not to see the disappointment on Huo Yichen’s face.

How could Huo Yichen not agree to her request? Even though it was already one in the morning, he still agreed to Murong Qiao’s request to go out.

“Then I’ll go change.”

A suit was not suitable for going out.

Looking at Murong Qiao’s casual denim jacket and snow-white and beautiful short skirt, it didn’t take long for Huo Yichen to change into a set of clothes that matched Murong Qiao.

The two of them, who had removed their formal clothes, were dressed in the cowboy style. When they stood together, they looked like a couple that had returned to university.

“I won’t trouble the birthday boy to drive today—” Murong Qiao took out her spare car keys from her pocket and waved them in her hand.

She had driven her own car over this time, so Murong Qiao walked over first and imitated Huo Yichen’s usual actions of opening the door for him.

Seeing her play tricks like this, Huo Yichen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but he still followed Murong Qiao’s arrangements and sat in the front pa.s.senger seat..