"If he really planned on acknowledging you as his goddaughter and stopped talking about it afterward, and even stopped caring about you, that must have had nothing to do with you getting together with Chen Jun. Quite on the contrary, he stopped mentioning you or paying attention to you to protect you from being watched and preyed on by Wang Yang."
Even the most brilliant people made mistakes. Wang Yang was ambitious while Qiao Nan was in a vulnerable position and no match for Wang Yang at all. Zhu Chengqi had to have full confidence in raising Qiao Nan into someone who could defeat Wang Yang in the shortest possible time.
Otherwise, Zhu Chengqi's good intentions toward Qiao Nan would only harm her. Just like in the past, he would simply have to divert his attention away from Qiao Nan to maintain peace on the surface. Then, Wang Yang would not even care about a trivial character like Qiao Nan.