Chapter 25: Files are missing
"Ugh, I wonder who's trying to set me up," Shentu Jing pinched the space between his brows.
His aunt was a handful to deal with. Every now and then she would try to set him up with all kinds of blind dates. His dates always fail because they were after his money. Even if they were after his heart, their end goal was still to gain his trust, get his money or inherit his properties. They were nothing but gold-diggers and money grubbers underneath the gentle sweet smile they put on. He wasn't interested in any women other than Little Pearl. Little Pearl was different, he felt it. There was something in the way she glared at him every time.
"News spreads fast. Now everyone knows I have a fiancée," Shentu Jing started to go through the documents on his desk.
"Mother says you have to be careful. What happens if she steals your money away and seduces you? But mother's happy that you brought a girl home nevertheless," Jiang Zhaoling leaned in to whisper those words to Shentu Jing because she knows how much her cousin dreaded explaining his sexuality to everyone.
She wanted to piss Shentu Jing off on purpose and it worked. She smirked at him.
Shentu Jing stood up and was about to strangle the life out of his annoying cousin when she suddenly stood up too and said, "Alrighty, jokes aside!" She announced loudly to push that matter away. She suddenly remembered something more important than their usual little antics.
Although they were cousins, Shentu Jing saw her as his little sister.
"Guess what I saw today, Brother Jing?" Jiang Zhaoling asked with so much enthusiasm that Shentu Jing thought she had finally gone mad. She always had this crazy glint in her bright eyes.
"What? I'm no more for any games so out with it. Or get out of my office," Shentu Jing replied grumpily.
"Aish," Jiang Zhaoling waved his grumpy words away. "Try guessing," she insisted.
"You did something to my house?"