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?"

Shen Zhixian braced herself against the table and

the wall. She had been to a meeting today, dressed in a blouse and a pencil skirt, her ankles delicate, and her walk was

to fall to the ground, when Jiang

constitution was such that she was prone to sweating, and with the

"Senior..."

was about to suggest helping her back to her room when she stumbled, leaned into his embrace, and with a "thud," collided with his

his collar, bringing her whole body

...

vibrated, and Shen Zhixian instinctively reached for it beside

frowned, and then a long arm reached in front of her,

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

take a shower." He had actually rolled out of bed and stood

sensations in her body told her they hadn’t

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 to get dressed,

been

had initiated it, throwing

Zhixian, have you

earth were you drinking

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

Jiang Yanting suddenly

felt a tingling

help me find a piece of clothing." This was Shen Zhixian’s bedroom, naturally, there

room and to his wardrobe, where neat white shirts, almost all identical, filled the space.

opened a crack, and Shen Zhixian handed the

steam swirling inside the bathroom, inevitably

wasn’t taking the clothes as the mist

a forceful tug pulled her into the

"Jiang Yanting!"

deluge of hot water came pouring down, and Shen

was you taking the initiative,

let go and pulled back, cupping her face

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

talk about them when we

like a bucket of cold water was poured over her; Shen Zhixian was completely sobered up, "The elder uncle called? What did you tell

truth, I said you

"You..."

moment, you actually threw up, to be honest... it left a bad