“Yanxin, my younger sisters have all grown up. They don’t want to talk to me about their worries anymore. It’s because I, as their eldest sister, haven’t cared for them enough, which is why they’ve become distant from me.” Lin Xiazhu was very melancholy. She had been thinking a lot these past few days and felt that Taozi and Xiaoxue were hiding something from her.
If you talk to Bai Ru'an, he will tell you to relax and say that Xiaoxue and Taozi are adults and it's normal for them to have worries. Everyone has things they don't want others to know.
But is she just anyone? She's the eldest sister, the one who raised them all. Was it easy for her?
What's most infuriating is that Yan Xin was also absent-minded. While she was talking, Yan Xin seemed distracted, lost in thought, not knowing what she was thinking about.
"Wake up, snap out of it! Can't you hear me? Are you playing with snakes?" Lin Xiazhu tapped the table and glared at her, annoyed.
They met at a coffee shop today. Since having her second child, Lin Xiazhu has rarely come over, leaving the coffee shop entirely to the manager she hired. Yan Xin occasionally comes by, while Lin Xiazhu stays home taking care of the kids and collecting money.
"What did you just say? I didn't hear you clearly. Could you say it again?" Yan Xin blinked, looking troubled.
"What am I supposed to say? What's wrong with you? You look like you're in love. Are you thinking about men?" Lin Xiazhu was just being sarcastic and deliberately trying to provoke her.
To her surprise, she had guessed correctly. Yan asked in astonishment, "How did you know?"
Lin Xiazhu: "..." No, she didn't know.
"Tell me honestly, have you met any man recently that made this barren tree bloom?"
"What do you mean 'iron tree blooms'? I've loved before, okay? I must have loved in my past life." Yan Xin was referring to her relentless pursuit of Chen Zisong.
“That doesn’t count. Tell me about your current situation,” Lin Xiazhu interrupted without any mercy.
"That day I went to a banquet at the Chen family's house and met someone. He has been pursuing me ever since, and it has been going on for three months now. My parents are very happy with him, and my two little drama queens are jealous. I'm quite satisfied."
Lin Xiazhu understood the key point: because Yan's parents were satisfied, and her two younger sisters were envious and jealous, Yan Xin felt that the other party was very helpful and she had the urge to date him.
"So you accepted their advances?"
"Not yet. Back then, I pursued Chen Zisong for over ten years without giving up, but he only pursued me for three months. How can such a short time prove his attitude? We still need to test him."
"Take it easy, or you'll ruin your chances. It's not like someone's interested in you, so just accept them." She's thirty-two and still so picky. Sigh, I hope she finds her happiness soon.
"Hey, I don't like hearing that. I've always had suitors, okay? Although many of them are after my family background and money, I'm pretty too, and many people still like to pursue me. It's just that I look down on those stinky men." Yan Xin jumped up and down.
"Don't get excited. I know you have high standards. I was just joking. I wasn't saying anything. But does the man you're paired with have to be from the Chen family?"
“He’s not a member of the Chen family, nor is he from Beijing. He’s been abroad and has only been back in China for less than two months. He doesn’t speak Mandarin fluently, but his eyes are very clear and he seems a bit naive. I heard he has five siblings and he’s the youngest…” Yan Xin talked on and on about the man. She probably didn’t even realize that she had already taken him to heart. Otherwise, how could she know him so well?
But she told Lin Xiazhu that the other party had told her all of this, and that she had not specifically looked it up.
"If you have a good feeling about him, then give it a try. By the way, is that person still abroad? If you marry him, wouldn't you have to settle abroad too?" Lin Xiazhu felt a headache coming on whenever the topic of going abroad came up. Why does everyone like to go abroad?
“If we really get together, we’ll definitely make it clear beforehand that I can’t settle abroad long-term. I prefer China to abroad. My parents are still here, and so are you all,” Yan Xin said.
"You haven't even started dating yet, and you're already thinking about marriage. It seems you really like him."
"...Didn't you say that first? I was just responding to you. I haven't even confirmed my relationship with him yet, okay?" Yan Xin laughed angrily.
"How about this, come to my house for dinner tonight. You bring the person over and An and I will help you take a look." Lin Xiazhu quickly changed her mind and invited the two to her home.
Yan thought for a moment and then agreed, "Okay, I'll let him know when I get back."
After leaving the coffee shop, Lin Xiazhu sat in the car on her way home. Remembering the purpose of her meeting with Yan Xin earlier that day, she slapped her head hard, completely forgetting about Xiaoxue and Taozi.
After much deliberation, Lin Xiazhu still felt uneasy, so she secretly arranged for someone to investigate Lin Taozi and Lin Xiaoxue's whereabouts abroad, and to find out what they had been busy with lately, and whether they were really filming a movie as they said.
However, the matter dragged on for two months without any results. The people sent out only said that everything was normal and told her not to worry. Of course, she couldn't rest easy and had people continue to investigate, but the result was still the same.
Later, she finally realized that these people were just giving her the runaround. They hadn't really put any effort into investigating. They were just taking her money and living a carefree life without doing anything. What were they thinking?
"Pay me back! Give me back every penny of the money I paid you!" The airfare for several round trips, plus the food and lodging expenses abroad, had cost a lot of money. I can't let them waste it all.
"Young Madam, here's the money, not a penny less. Please count it." The two men carefully placed over ten thousand yuan in cash in a paper bag on the table in front of her and made her count it in front of them.
She didn't even blink. She realized she'd been tricked. These people were incredibly audacious, insulting her intelligence and wasting her time. They were utterly despicable. They thought it would be that easy to get away with it? No way.
"I'm going to banish you from the capital, never to return, and blacklist you so that no one in the country will dare to hire you, and I won't let you leave the country. I want to see how long you can keep this up." Lin Xiazhu sneered as she looked the two men up and down.
The two men, who had been keeping a straight face, finally cracked their expressions. They were members of the Bai family, but also Bai Junbai's people. They would definitely report to Bai Junbai before doing anything. This time, they couldn't do it for the young mistress.
Not only can't we handle it for her, we also have to find ways to delay it so she won't find someone else to investigate. If we ruin Young Master Bai's plans, no one will have a good time.
Young Master Bai said that after this matter was over, he would arrange for them to go abroad. At that time, they would no longer have to appear in front of the young mistress and would not have to worry about being discovered by her and being punished. However, the young mistress suddenly took a tantrum, not only discovering their double-dealing as they had expected, but also blocking their way out.
"Don't think that just because someone is paying off your debts and arranging your future, everything will be fine. Don't you even know if I agree to this?" Lin Xiazhu deliberately put pressure on them, slamming her hand on the table, which immediately shattered, and the money in the bag was also shaken to the ground.
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