After a few seconds of silence in which each other's breathing was audibly clear, Lian Qiao's tone quickly became steady. She did not pursue the matter of her own eyes with Huo Ge, but instead stated directly what she now needed to do.
"Huo Ge, could you please not touch him, let him leave the country..."
"Reason?"
Hearing Huo Ge's voice, calm and almost devoid of any emotion, Lian Qiao bit her lower lip. The words she wanted to say were first reviewed several times in her mind, and after being carefully considered at her lips, she then said with a smile,
"He has shown kindness to me and Sanqi, 'a drop of water should be returned with a gushing spring'—that's the principle of gratitude my father taught me."
This was the best excuse she could think of. As for those other things that would definitely backfire, of course, she couldn't mention them.
Invoking her own father, to put it plainly, was also a way to apply pressure on Huo Ge's mind.