After Lu Chengzi left indignantly, she said, "Cheng Si, I need to go out for a while."
Lu Cheng Si looked at her pale face and asked, "Yan Yan, your face looks very bad. Are you not feeling well?"
"Did Yiyi call me just now and say she's coming back tonight?"
Jin Yan raised an eyebrow slightly, her expression worsening. "She called me and said she was feeling unwell and wouldn't be back? She's a grown woman, all she knows is to play. I even asked the eldest to call her, and she refused to come back to see her grandmother for the same reason."
Lu Cheng Si smiled when he saw she was truly angry. "You, why are you arguing with a child? Yiyi is our family's little princess. It's okay for her to be a bit playful. We have plenty of money, and even if she marries into another family, she'll have financial backing."
"Hmph! Spoiled by a doting father. Look at other people's children; they are wealthy yet very hardworking. Look at Yiyi, how spoiled she has become by you two!"
"Forget it, let's not talk about this. I need to go out for something." Jin Yan's doubts grew larger, making her restless.
Jiang Nuan, every smile and frown of that child felt so familiar to her.
Lu Cheng Si followed her, a little worried. "Yan Yan, your complexion is not good, did something happen?"
Jin Yan forced a smile and said, "Nothing much happened. By the way, I wanted to ask you something..." Jin Yan suddenly stopped speaking.
What was she doing?
Asking so much was useless. A paternity test would give her the best answer.
Once she asked, she might alert them. Looking at Yiyi, she bore no resemblance to herself or Cheng Si.
Lu Cheng Si saw her hesitation and knew something was on her mind. "Yan Yan, you can tell me."
Jin Yan said, "Do you know what Yiyi went to Jin City for?"
Lu Cheng Si smiled and said, "She said she was going on vacation, that the weather was good there and she wanted to stay for a while."
"Mm!" Jin Yan said no more.
"Yan Yan, Jiang Nuan who came today looks so much like you when you were young, especially when she was wearing the qipao. It seems she has a special connection with our family. Mother likes her very much."
Jin Yan clenched her fist slightly. All the coincidences were too much.
"Indeed, she's practically a replica of me when I was young, even more beautiful than I was." A soft light flashed in Jin Yan's eyes.
"No, no, no, in my eyes, Yan Yan is still the most beautiful."
"You're so glib." Jin Yan smiled shyly, returned to the walk-in closet, took her hair, and left.
In the car, Rong Yin was driving. He glanced at Jiang Nuan, who was deep in thought in the rearview mirror. The girl seemed absorbed in her thoughts, oblivious to his presence.
"Nuan Nuan, you don't have to stay in a hotel. Come to my apartment."
Rong Yin's pleasant voice came through. Jiang Nuan slowly came back to her senses. She looked up at Rong Yin. His peach blossom eyes held a faint smile, his lips as red as the sunset, not diminishing his bewitching appearance at all.
She shook her head slightly. "No need. Just take me to the hotel closest to your pharmaceutical company. I have to go back in a week, and I'll sort everything out for you within that week."
Rong Yin was displeased when he heard this.
"Nuan Nuan, isn't that compromising you?"
"It's not compromising," Jiang Nuan said. She disliked complications.
If another woman suddenly appeared in Rong Yin's apartment, his family would know, and it would be quite a trouble.
"By the way, what about your elder brother, Rong Yao?" She hadn't paid attention to this matter since then.
"He's back. Last time he sent people to kill me, and I beat them up. He's back now to accuse me first." A cold glint flashed in Rong Yin's eyes. He knew a quarrel was unavoidable when he returned home tonight.
That foolish elder brother was not his biological brother.
His real elder brother had sacrificed himself to save him, and that was the brother he wanted.
"Oh, Nuan Nuan, when I return this time, I'll kick out that treacherous fake elder brother and bring back my real brother."
"Great!" Jiang Nuan was also happy. "Big Brother must be very happy. But don't rush. Let's see if Rong Yao knows the truth." She always knew her brother wanted to return to their parents' side.
At a red light, Rong Yin stopped the car and looked at her. A deep meaning flashed in his peach blossom eyes.
She looked so much like Mrs. Lu. He had obtained a strand of Lu Cheng Si's hair and now needed to get one from Jiang Nuan.
Rong Yin glanced at Jiang Nuan's tied-up long hair. How could he get it... how to pull it down?
In the end, Rong Yin still took Jiang Nuan to a presidential suite in a hotel he owned.
Entering the room, Rong Yin glanced at Jiang Nuan's tied-up hair, walked over, and smiled. He said casually, "Nuan Nuan, you look so beautiful in the qipao. You meet all my aesthetic standards."
Jiang Nuan: "..."
"Alright, you can go now. I'm tired too." She was genuinely tired.
The things she learned today made her unable to figure things out.
Grandpa said Dad was in Modu, but who could it be?
Rong Yin watched Jiang Nuan sink into thought again. He abruptly untied her hair. "Wow! Nuan Nuan, I still prefer you with your hair down. It looks so good."
Jiang Nuan was thinking about a crucial point when her hair was pulled, and her expression changed. She looked at Rong Yin, who was acting like a child, feeling a little helpless.
"Third Young Master, stop fooling around and go back to rest." Her mood was bad, and her expression turned grim.
"Understood, I'm leaving. Get some rest early." Rong Yin left with a smile, his roguish demeanor greatly subdued.
Jiang Nuan was very tired. She was also afraid something might happen to Meng Yuan. She picked up her phone and dialed Meng Yuan's number.
"Nuan Nuan."
"Yuan Yuan, how are you today?"
Meng Yuan glanced at He Mingrun, who looked lost and absentminded beside her. She was fine, but He Mingrun seemed troubled.
"Nuan Nuan, I'm fine. Don't worry about me, you focus on your business."
"Really?" Jiang Nuan looked at the sunset outside the window, like fire. The overlapping mushroom clouds were dyed red by the setting sun, beautiful like a painting.
"Really, Nuan Nuan, you truly don't need to worry about me, nor about Xia Xia. She's been feeling much better these past two days. Big Brother also went out for something today."
Jiang Nuan slowly curved her lips. "Okay, then I can rest assured!"
After hanging up, Jiang Nuan checked Mu Jiuchen's flight. He would land in Qi Kingdom in another four hours.
She put down her phone and went to take a bath.
Meng Yuan looked at He Mingrun beside her. He had asked her out, but he had been like this the whole time.
Meng Yuan's expression was also not good. He had looked at her several times, as if he had something to say but hesitated. Was he regretting his decision?
Since he found it difficult to speak, she decided to ask.
"He Mingrun, do you regret it?" she asked, her heart aching.
He Mingrun was lost in thought. Hearing Meng Yuan's voice, he simply looked at her blankly.
He hadn't heard what Meng Yuan said clearly.
"Yuan Yuan, what did you say?" His voice was dry.
Meng Yuan: "..."
Looking at his bloodshot eyes and the faint dark circles beneath them, she said, "He Mingrun, you asked me out, and you haven't said anything. Do you regret it?"