A couple of people surrounded Xie Qiao at the moment.
"You lost the jade? How did you lose it!?" Xie Qiao did not hide it when someone asked. However, she did not say that it was stolen.
It would be embarrassing if the news of the jade being stolen from Xie Pinghuai's courtyard spread.
The outsiders would only make fun of them. They would not help to look for the jade.
"My younger brother was rather reckless. He placed it somewhere casually and lost it," Xie Qiao said calmly.
"That's too reckless. You can even make the dean your master with that piece of jade…" Those outsiders could not help but feel pain. They looked at Xie Qiao with sympathy.
Xie Qiao had put in a great effort to win that thing. She had even fainted for it. Now that she had lost it, she must be feeling terrible.
Since finding out that Xie Qiao was weak, their hostility had decreased significantly.