Chapter 95: Chatting Alone

Pei Yuning ate a few bites at noon and went back to his room to play Landlord.

She took out the snacks hidden in the cupboard and ate them without any taste, hoping that Shang Yanci would push the door open and confiscate all her snacks the next second.

But she knew it was impossible. Shang Yanci sent her a WeChat message when he boarded the plane and landed eight hours later.

The cicadas outside the window chirped one after another, disturbing people's mood.

Pei Yuning lay down, stood up, and sat down, his mind filled with the image of Shang Yanci, which was both sweet and worrying.

There was a knock on the door, and Pei Yunzhi's voice came in: "Ningning, are you still sleeping?"

Hearing this, Pei Yuning quickly hid the snacks in the cupboard. She couldn't let her brother's favorability towards Ah Yan drop again. After hiding the snacks, she raised her hand to ruffle her hair, yawned, opened the door, and replied, "Just woke up."

When Pei Yizhi entered the room, he smelled the spicy noodles. He did not expose her, but handed her the dessert bag in his hand: "You ate too little at noon, eat some more."

Pei Yuning took over: "Brother, did you go to the dessert shop in the south of the city?"

Pei Yunzhi: “Yeah.”

Pei Yuning sat on the sofa and took out the desserts from the dessert bag one by one. He placed a piece of strawberry cake in front of Pei Yunzhi and took a piece of egg tart and caramel brulee for himself.

The egg tarts are rich in milk flavor and taste as delicious as ever.

The tender and smooth custard brulee is sprinkled with a layer of brown sugar and melted with a torch to form a thin layer of crispy caramel, which is sweet but not greasy and tastes just right.

Pei Yuning: "Brother, why don't you eat?"

Pei Yunzhi: “Not hungry.”

"Oh." Pei Yuning nodded and continued to eat dessert.

Pei Yunzhi looked at her in silence for a moment, and while combing her messy hair, he said slowly: "The group doesn't have any important cooperation recently. You can actually go to France with Yanci."

Pei Yuning ate the dessert in her mouth, her eyelashes drooping, and she was determined: "Brother, I can miss him very much in my heart, but I can't give up my work just because I miss him. This is a matter of principle."

Pei Yunzhi leaned against the sofa behind him and asked calmly, "My principled young lady, I really want to know how much you will eat tonight?"

Pei Yuning smiled with a smile on his face: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. In short, it's a lot of mouthfuls."

Pei Yunzhi chuckled, patted her head, picked up the strawberry cake on the table, turned around and left the bedroom.

Pei Yuning picked up his phone and sent a WeChat message to Pei Yuchen: [Brother, come to the bedroom to get dessert.]

When Shang Yanci arrived in France, it was ten o'clock in the morning. After sending a text message to Jiang Xuanzhi, he received a reply an hour later with a home address asking him to come over for lunch.

After saying goodbye to my grandparents, Shang Yanci bought some gifts and went to visit them.

The person who opened the door was a gentle and easy-going man. He introduced himself: "Hello, Li Yanqing, the lover of Xianzhi."

Shang Yanci looked calm and nodded politely: "Hello, Shang Yanci."

"Come in." Li Yanqing took the gift from his hand and put it on the table. He led him to the living room and raised his hand to signal, "Please sit down."

Shang Yanci sat down and did not look around. Just by looking at the living room in front of him, he could see the careful decoration of the villa owner.

The walls were painted light yellow, with a person-high potted plant placed in the corner, and a three-layer small hanging bookshelf on the side, with delicate shell wind chimes hanging below. The armchair was padded with soft embroidered cushions, and a bunch of bright yellow roses were placed in the vase on the table.

Li Yanqing poured a cup of tea and placed it in front of Shang Yanci: "Xunzhi is still upstairs, wait a moment."

"No problem." Shang Yanci clasped his five fingers together and tapped the table three times in return, then picked up the teacup and took a sip.

In the kitchen, the nanny is making lunch.

Jiang Xuanzhi walked down from the upstairs. Her thin body looked so frail that she seemed like she would be blown away by the slightest breeze.

Walking into the living room, she sat down, looked at Shang Yanci, and asked, "Is Ningning here?"

Shang Yanci: "No, I have something I want to talk to you about alone."

Li Yanqing stood up, patted Jiang Xinzhi on the shoulder, and left the living room, but did not go far. He had no intention of eavesdropping on their conversation, but Jiang Xinzhi's mood had been unstable recently, and he was worried about her because she was taking more medicine.

Shang Yanci took out his cell phone, opened Zhou Du's recordings and played them one by one.

Jiang Xinzhi listened expressionlessly and asked, "What do you want to talk about?"

Shang Yanci asked slowly, "I want to know why you pinched Ningning when she was four years old?"