Chapter 541: White lotus
Xu Fangyang almost choked on her drink out of shock. She coughed for a while and Lanni panicked. Had she gone too far? When the latter stopped coughing, she offered the bottle of water that she had bought but was yet to drink from. "I’m so sorry. Are you alright?"
Xu Fangyang nodded and drank a few sips before she managed to stop her cough. "Thank you." Her voice was still hoarse for a while.
When she was alright, she glared at Lanni. "What nonsense are you insinuating? There is nothing between Storm and me! He has been married for years and that only ended a few days ago, and I’m nothing but his lawyer."
Lanni made sure the latter was not about to drink her cappuccino, not ready to make her choke again. She looked indifferent about it. "The private investigators I just mentioned found it out. I’m sorry that he invaded your privacy but he didn’t mean to. He only wanted to find something that we could use to prove Storm’s innocence and accidentally stumbled upon the information." She bluffed and kept things vague.
There was no freaking investigator who had uncovered anything. She had done so herself within the few minutes that she saw Xu Fangyang. The woman looked like she wanted to get away from what she felt was bullshit but at the same time, her eyes held a ray of hope that this media agency could really help her prove Storm’s innocence.
She clearly didn’t trust anyone but was willing to try for him. Only a woman in love would act like that and have the kind of horrified expressions that Xu Fangyang did when Lanni talked about a star’s career potentially ending because the truth was found out too late.
Her reaction to the news that her feelings had been found out was enough evidence to prove that Lanni was right, and it was too late to keep pretending.
Luckily, the woman didn’t probe about the investigation. She might have given herself away, considering the latter was a lawyer.
Xu Fangyang looked into her cup. "He doesn’t know."
Lanni was relieved that she had only talked about feelings, not a relationship.
"Do you prefer to talk about it somewhere else?" She offered.