"Young Miss, this is the storage room, and in front is the gym. There's also a study and a tea room; you can go and enjoy tea when you have time."
"Next is the card room, which has all kinds of cards, both Eastern and Western, so you can play cards when you're bored."
Ji Zhinan looked at Shelley, who was rambling on and on, and asked, "Are you a member of the Warrens family?"
Shelley shook her head and said, "I am just a servant of the Warrens family. I entered the Warrens family when I was seven years old and have been here for fourteen or fifteen years."
Ji Zhinan looked at her beautiful blue eyes, then at her black hair, and hesitated before asking, "You... are you mixed race?"
“Yes,” Shelley said with a smile. “My father was a foreigner and my mother was an Asian. Actually, I was a child abandoned by my mother.”
"..."
“I heard from the nuns at the orphanage that I was conceived when my mother came to study abroad. Because she was a student at the time and couldn’t take responsibility for me, she sent me to the orphanage after I was born. I grew up in the orphanage.”
When talking about her background, Shelley did not show any sadness; on the contrary, she was very calm and at ease.
"Your life at the orphanage... must have been very tough."
Ji Zhinan had previously visited an orphanage in Beijing, where the children were all orphans. Because there were so many children, they couldn't receive adequate care and were very pitiful.
“It’s alright.” Shelley chuckled. “We were quite pitiful at first, but thanks to Mr. Warrens for helping us all these years, giving us a lot of food and money, we’ve been living a pretty good life.”
When Li Yuan was mentioned, Shelley seemed to have a lot to say.
“Mr. Warrens is the best person I have ever met. Although he is not good with words and his attitude towards people is cold, he is an absolutely good person. It was Mr. Warrens who brought me back to the Warrens family and gave me a salary. My life is all thanks to Mr. Warrens. Miss, I really envy you for having such a good father.”
Shelley's eyes sparkled as she said this, and it was clear that it was the truth from the bottom of her heart.
Ji Zhinan curled his lips into a smile.
"However, I think Mr. Warrens is very withdrawn. Apart from Mr. Charleson, he rarely interacts with others. He always likes to stay alone in his study, sometimes for an entire day. I happened to see him a few times when I was a child, but every time I saw him, he looked sad, and his eyes seemed to have seen through the coldness and warmth of the world. It was clear that Mr. Warrens was not happy."
"..." Ji Zhinan was slightly taken aback.
“I remember seeing him kneeling before the statue of Jesus and praying devoutly before me before he was taken away from the orphanage. The nuns talked about him privately, saying that he had something he didn't want to let go of, so he did good deeds to accumulate good karma for someone. At the time, the nuns were even speculating whether it might be his wife…”
Upon hearing this, Ji Zhinan's heart sank.
She lowered her eyelids, frowned slightly, and felt an indescribable heaviness in her chest; in short, she felt very uncomfortable.
Was it for her mother?
He thought something had happened to his mother and grandfather back then, so he's been feeling guilty ever since, right?
Seeing that Ji Zhinan's expression was a little off, Shelley was taken aback: "Miss, did I say something wrong?"
"No." Ji Zhinan shook his head: "You're not wrong."
On the contrary, she thanked Shelley for what she said.
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