Chapter 94: I'm Allergic To Strawberries!

“Jiang, did you get acquainted with some call girl of sorts out there?”

“And she’s actually come knocking on our door?”

Yan Liang spoke casually, her graceful figure draped in a pale purple silk robe, her neck white as snow, the enticing line of her shoulders like inches of seduction.

Yet Yan Liang’s cold, indifferent temperament added an air of iciness to the room.

In the morning sunlight she looked especially elegant and noble, set against a garden dotted with purple roses, like a goddess descended.

An incomparable beauty.

Yan Liang parted her red lips, her lazy, half-closed snake-like eyes exuding an intimidating pressure. Even though she seemed to ask gently, everyone in the dining room felt a chill down their spine.

Uh oh! Mr. Qin was doomed!!

“Cough cough cough… wh-what are you talking about?”

“I don’t know any call girls, there must be some misunderstanding. Butler Xu, don’t just stand there watching—who came here so early looking for me?”

Qin Jiang said impatiently, afraid that one wrong step would make him miss the right answer.

If he was to receive a whipping of love this early in the morning…

No! He couldn’t let that happen!

He couldn’t take it!

“Mr. Qin, do you have a cold?”

“You’re coughing so badly.”

“Shall I get you some cold medicine?”

Butler Xu, as the top house steward with professional training, of course offered the most attentive service when his master was ‘sick and coughing.’

However, Qin Jiang didn’t need any service right now.

“No need.”

“In that case, I’ll go check the gate with Yanyan. Who would dare come all the way to the Yan family house? They must be tired of living.”

Qin Jiang sneered, putting on the look of an utterly blameless husband-slave.

Zhou Ning almost balked. Where’s the courage you had yesterday when you sent that ball-smashing package to Second Uncle, Mr. Qin?

At the Yan family gate.

After a night of heavy rain, the morning air was icy and mixed with a wild, whipping wind that chilled one to the bone.

Huddled under a small eave not far from the gate, Qin Qianyun was soaked through, the cake box she held in her arms also considerably wet.

But the strawberry cake inside, though not very pretty, had somehow not been soaked despite a night of wind and rain.

All night long Qin Qianyun had used her body, her back, to shield the oncoming dampness and spray of the rain. Her whole body had gone numb.

And in such miserable circumstances.

The guards at the gate finally relented and sent someone to ask Butler Xu to pass the word to Mr. Qin.

After all, they had been trying to drive Qin Qianyun away but she refused to leave. Her rain-soaked, stubborn figure standing there made the male guards feel awkward to push her further.

Finally.

Qin Jiang and Yan Liang stepped out of the gate. The tall, slender young man was holding an umbrella over the noble, cold beauty beside him.

A small thing like this should have been handled by Zhou Ning.

But Qin Jiang hurried to take it upon himself. Although he somewhat expected this, seeing Qin Qianyun in the rain holding a half-wet cake box made him instinctively frown.

There was no other reason—he simply didn’t want to see anyone from the Qin family.

The brazen little tricks she believed could move someone, had no effect in Qin Jiang’s eyes.

If anything, it made him dislike Qin Qianyun even more.

Belated affection was more despicable than grass!!

He didn’t need such cheap sentiment.

Seeing Qin Jiang come out, Qin Qianyun, soaked through, hugged the cake and rushed to the gate with an expectant face and eyes glittering with hope.

“Jiang… Jiang… I’m Fifth Sister!”

As soon as she rushed forward, Zhou Ning rudely grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her aside. “Damn, where did this drowned rat come from? Get lost, don’t block our Young Mistress and Mr. Qin’s way!”

“Ms. Liang, I’ll deal with her right away!”

Zhou Ning was thorough—he had never been merciful to the Qin family.

But to be able to humiliate a Qin sister like that in front of Mr. Qin had the petty part of Zhou Ning’s heart leaping with joy. A**wesome! Absolutely awesome!!

He would never have dared to reprimand Qin family members in front of Qin Jiang in the past.

That would have made Qin Jiang threaten to hang himself.

“No…stop it! Let me go!”

“Jiang, you’re finally willing to see me? Fifth Sister waited for you outside all night, I just… I just wanted to see you.”

“Jiang, this is a strawberry cake Fifth Sister made for you with her own hands!”

“Fifth Sister promises she will never disrespect your feelings again. I’m begging you… will you give Fifth Sister one more chance to repent?”

“I know you took the blame for me before. It was Fifth Sister’s fault, I shouldn’t have treated your feelings that way…”

Holding the cake, Qin Qianyun looked fragile like a helpless child in the morning rain. Her tears mixed with rainwater and streamed down pitifully.

Qin Jiang stood under the eave as Yan Liang signaled for the umbrella in his hand to be given to Butler Xu.

Yan Liang had been observing and gave Qin Jiang complete trust to handle the matter himself.

In short—he could advance when needed, and retreat with her as backup.

Qin Jiang watched coldly and made no move to shield her with his umbrella.

If it were before, Qin Jiang would have run into the rain with the umbrella himself to shelter Qin Qianyun.

But… that could only be in the past.

“Qin Qianyun, I do have two older sisters.”

“But you are not one of them.”

“Nor any of the ones in the Qin family!”

“You all have long been unworthy.”

His two sisters had gone missing along with their foster parents.

And he would not give up searching for them.

Qin Jiang stared down at her as each word landed clearly in Qin Qianyun’s ears.

In an instant, Qin Qianyun’s heart fell from heaven into hell.

But Qin Qianyun wasn’t willing to give up.

After a night of heavy rain, the strawberry cake she had carefully protected was still intact.

She cautiously stepped forward, unwrapped the damaged cake box, and revealed the not-very-appealing strawberry cake inside.

Her body was weak as she wobbled forward.

She walked under the eave as if presenting some rare treasure.

The rain and the shelter separated the two worlds. The stone steps rose step by step, and Qin Jiang stood on the highest step.

Just like the relationship between them.

It could no longer return to an equal state.

Nor to the same level.

Qin Qianyun raised her pale face and forced out a smile at Qin Jiang.

“Jiang, look… strawberry cake.”

“Fifth Sister made it herself too! Remember? You once made me an identical one. Although it doesn’t look as good as what you gave me back then, Fifth Sister can keep practicing.”

“I’ll definitely… definitely be able to make the same strawberry cake as the one you gave me before…“

“Jiang, can we go back to how things were?”

As she spoke, Qin Qianyun carefully presented the slightly misshapen strawberry cake to Qin Jiang like a treasure offering.

The burning hope in her eyes mirrored the Qin Jiang of the past.

Qin Jiang remained expressionless, watching her ridiculous actions with cold eyes, his emotions utterly unmoved.

He was in no way moved by Qin Qianyun’s self-directed pity play.

He looked at the ugly strawberry cake she held up and suddenly laughed out loud, but his tone was as cold as ice.

“Qin Qianyun, I’m allergic to strawberries.”

“The one who loved strawberries as much as you—has always been Qin Yun.”

“You’ve never remembered it right!!”