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?"

the restroom." Shen Zhixian braced herself against

as well, his hand casually in his pocket, watching her shakily walk, leaning against the wall. She had been to a meeting today, dressed in a

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

constitution was such that she was prone

"Senior..."

her room when she stumbled, leaned

his collar, bringing her whole body

...

and Shen Zhixian instinctively reached for it beside her bed, finding

long arm reached in front of her, the muscles toned and powerful, handing her

only the sound of

a shower." He had actually rolled out

young girl; the sensations in

Where were her clothes?

All gone?

sat up in bed, and that’s when she noticed all her clothes were on the

it been torn

who had initiated it, throwing herself

Zhixian, have you gone

earth were you

the wardrobe, picked clothes at random,

Yanting suddenly

Shen Zhixian felt a tingling numbness on

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

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

and Shen Zhixian handed the

the steam swirling

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

pulled her into

"Jiang Yanting!"

of hot water came pouring down, and Shen Zhixian lamented that she had just changed her

initiative, now it’s my

Shen Zhixian thought she was beyond rescue, Jiang Yanting let go and pulled back, cupping her face and giving

you, told us to come back for dinner, Jiangjiang and

matters... we can talk about them when

were mentioned, it was like a bucket of cold water

I said you

"You..."

today, just that at the crucial moment, you actually