Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot by Beautiful Crescent

Chapter 435: 279 The eldest brother was pounced: a lover’s kiss, two lines of tears from family members_2

Jiang Yanting had never heard her talk about her mother before, "Your mother..."

"She was just a foolish woman!" Shen Zhixian bitterly smiled, her eyes reddening and a mist forming over them as she looked at the person before her.

"And the relatives who adopted you, were they good to you?"

Under normal circumstances, Shen Zhixian would never bring up such matters.

Perhaps it was the stimuli of today’s events and the alcohol that made her speak out, "They call themselves relatives, but they were never close. Their family was already struggling, and the only reason they were willing to take me in was to get their hands on the small inheritance my mother left me after she died."

"Didn’t they contact you afterward?"

Jiang Yanting put down his chopsticks and stared intently at her. If they were after money, knowing she had been acknowledged by the Xie Family, how could they not have contacted her?

"After I went abroad, I never got in touch with them again. Those people..." Shen Zhixian snorted lightly, "they would’ve been happier if I were dead. I took... I took their..."

It wasn’t clear what she thought of next, but Shen Zhixian suddenly started to breathe rapidly, her grip tightening on the stem of the wineglass until her knuckles turned white.

Jiang Yanting saw her expression change and took her hand, "Xianxian?"

"Would you like to have a drink with me?" Shen Zhixian gave him a smile, both bitter and astringent.

He nodded, and Shen Zhixian slowly stood up with the help of the table, pouring the drink and moving closer to him. As she leaned over, her arm unintentionally brushed against the man’s crisply ironed fabric, and having drunk some wine already, she felt as if she were on fire.

Perhaps the force used to straighten up was too much, or it was just coincidence, but her hair got tangled with Jiang Yanting’s button.

She was forced to bend over, his breath coming in unerring waves, raising the temperature on her face inch by inch.

The more frantic she felt trying to untangle her hair and his button, the harder it was to do so.

"Let me do it." Jiang Yanting’s deep voice trembled in her ear, tickling her.

As he reached out, their fingers entangled, the hair separated from the button, and just as Shen Zhixian was about to straighten up, he caught her wrist.

"Senior..." Her breath carried the scent of alcohol, sweet and rich, yet scalding.

"Do you still like me?"

"I..."

"I like you, from the start until now. You know that, don’t you?"

to use the restroom." Shen

in his pocket, watching her shakily walk, leaning against the wall. She had been to a meeting today, dressed in a blouse and a pencil skirt, her ankles

to fall to the ground, when Jiang Yanting quickly stepped forward and

fingers tightly clutched his sleeve; her constitution was such that she was prone to sweating, and

"Senior..."

back to her room when she stumbled, leaned into his embrace, and with a

at his collar,

...

and Shen Zhixian instinctively reached for it beside

front of her, the muscles toned and powerful,

buzz, and her eyes flew open, leaving only the sound of her rapid breathing and the still-vibrating

shower." He had actually rolled out of

the sensations in her body told her they hadn’t gone all

Where were her clothes?

All gone?

up in bed, and that’s when she noticed all her clothes were on the headboard. Using the time he took to shower, she prepared

had it been torn

it, throwing herself on Jiang Yanting, pressing him against the

have you

earth were you drinking

room. She swiftly opened the wardrobe, picked clothes at random, and decided

Yanting suddenly spoke

Shen Zhixian felt a tingling numbness on

help me find a piece of clothing." This was Shen Zhixian’s bedroom, naturally, there were no clothes for

neat white shirts, almost all identical, filled the space. She randomly grabbed one and knocked on the bathroom door,

opened a crack, and Shen Zhixian handed the clothes

arm holding his shirt, amidst the steam swirling inside the bathroom, inevitably stirred sinful

to him, Shen Zhixian was still puzzled why he wasn’t taking the clothes as the mist

tug pulled

"Jiang Yanting!"

of hot water came pouring down, and Shen Zhixian lamented that she

it was you taking the initiative,

go and pulled back, cupping her

so I answered for you, told us to come back for dinner, Jiangjiang and

matters... we can talk about them

water was poured over her; Shen Zhixian was completely sobered up, "The elder

truth, I said you

"You..."

did have some ideas today, just that at the crucial moment, you actually threw up, to