Although Huo Chengyu was his brother, he still hoped that he would keep a distance from Yan Jinyi.
Huo Chengyu stopped his steps and turned to meet Huo Xishen's gaze, "Why? Are you bothered by it?"
"Yes, I'm quite bothered."
"Xishen, you've fallen for her."
Huo Xishen's thick eyelashes trembled a little. 'What?
"I won't let her become my weakness."
'So it doesn't matter if I've fallen for her.'
Huo Chengyu remained silent and merely waved his hand at him before continuing to go upstairs.
'What has it to do with me how that woman is doing now?'
Huo Xishen simply stared at his back, seemingly in thought.
When Yan Jinyi arrived at the restaurant where they had agreed to meet at, Shen Yan and Shen Guanzhou had already arrived, and the two were chatting, the atmosphere between them looking extraordinarily harmonious
"Yan Yan," Yan Jinyi called out intimately to Shen Yan and walked over to sit beside her.
Seeing Yan Jinyi, Shen Yan's eyes lit up and her smile grew wider. "Jinyi, you're here, let's order some food. You must be hungry."
"I'm alright." She casually picked out two dishes and then looked at Shen Guanzhou. The more she looked at her, the more she felt that he was gentle and personable.
He gave off the vibes of a nice boy-next-door, unlike the gloomy and petulant Huo Chengyu.
"Nice to meet you, Miss Yan. Shen Yan mentions you all the time and I finally have the honor to meet you in person," Shen Guanzhou said as he stood up and reached his hand out to Yan Jinyi.
"You're standing on ceremony with me, Mr. Shen. Shen Yan and you share the same last name, surely you two aren't relatives, right?"
It was said that incestuous marriage is against the law, and the children born out of incest tend to be mentally handicapped.
It was only when she arrived in modern times that she figured out why the mortality rate of children in her era was high.
Shen Guanzhou didn't expect Yan Jinyi to ask such a sharp question as soon as she arrived, so she couldn't help but cough violently and shake her head. "Miss Yan, you're overthinking. It's just a coincidence, which also led me to meet Shen Yan."
With a strange gaze in her eyes, Yan Jinyi asked, "Are you sure? Why don't you go back and ask your parents? What if your father and Shen Yan's father are long-lost brothers?"
"…"
Feeling a little embarrassed, Shen Yan and Shen Guanzhou glance at each other with an extremely gentle smile on their faces. "Jinyi, we just happen to share the same last name. Besides, Senior Shen and I are just friends."
With a trace of disappointment in his eyes, Shen Guanzhou soon smiled. "Shen Yan tends to get shy easily. Don't tease her anymore, Miss Yan. I heard that you're Mr. Huo Xishen's wife. Should I be addressing you as Second Young Mistress Huo?"
Yan Jinyi frantically shook her head and said, "Don't, just call me Jinyi. Yan Yan's friend is my friend too."
After saying that, she leaned against Shen Yan and wrapped her hands around her arm. "Yan Yan, I missed you to death when you weren't around. Bai Moliang and his oddball of a sister ganged up against me. Bai Moliang even made things hard for me when I went to Hong Kong. Atrocious!"
Shen Yan had already guessed that outcome.
She had contacted Leng Yuxi before and knew that she was spoiled rotten. Leng Yuxi had always been competitive since she was a child and due to the fact that she had previously been sick for a long time, everyone chose to tolerate her.
"Are you hurt?"
"Have you forgotten who I am?" Yan Jinyi patted her chest. "Shen Yan, don't worry, I'll still be your guardian and your strongest shield no matter what."
The three of them were seated in the open dining area on the first floor.
The surrounding people came and went, and soon, Yan Jinyi discovered that someone was keeping an eye on their table. Many were pointing at her and whispering among themselves.
"The private rooms are all fully booked. Jinyi, why don't we go to another restaurant?"