Chapter 530: Once I’ve Decided on Someone, I Won’t Change
“I’ve asked them to get the guest room ready, you’ll be sleeping here tonight, just let me know if you need anything!” Lin Zhiya said, with an air as if she was afraid Rong Yan would run away, immediately grabbing Rong Yan’s hand with a beaming smile, “Since you’re staying here tonight, let’s not rush into acupuncture right away. Come, come, try the fruit tea we made earlier. Taste it and see if it’s good. If you like it, next time I’ll teach you how to make another kind. The roses in the garden have bloomed; we can make rose tea too.”
“…Okay.” Rong Yan had never been treated so warmly by any elder. In the Rong Family, Jiang Meiqi acted as if she didn’t exist, and Rong Nanfeng was out of the house on 360 of the 365 days in a year. Even on the rare occasions he did come back, he would only pay her lip service with a few words of concern before burying himself in his study. As for Old Madame Jiang, she saw Rong Yan as a thorn in her side and never hid her dislike.
Compared to the coldness of the Rong Family, Lin Zhiya’s enthusiasm overwhelmed her. That kind of warmth, like that of the sun, was something she had never experienced before.
It made her sometimes feel at a loss, unsure how to respond.
Lin Zhiya didn’t need her to respond; she liked her genuinely from the bottom of her heart. During the fruit tea, she kept Rong Yan engaged in conversation from start to finish, bringing up topics that Rong Yan would find interesting.
Eventually, she even brought up Shen Siyuan on her own initiative, seemingly to reassure Rong Yan not to take Shen Siyuan’s earlier provocation to heart, pouring her a cup of fruit tea and saying, “Oh, and about Siyuan. Siyuan didn’t play with Shengxiao and the others when she was a child. It was only later when her brother took her with them to play once, and since then she always nagged her brother to bring her along. Later on, when Shengxiao went abroad to study and Jiangjing and others also went overseas for further education, they seldom met with Siyuan. After that, even though Shengxiao and the others returned, she reached the age to study and went abroad too, hardly seeing them.”
“These past years she’s been overseas, I haven’t even heard Shengxiao mention her. If it weren’t for her sudden visit today, I wouldn’t have known that this girl came back to the country.”
Rong Yan was intelligent enough to detect that Lin Zhiya was clarifying Li Shengxiao’s relationship with Shen Siyuan for her. She blinked her eyes and said calmly, “I see.”
Lin Zhiya could tell she was smart, so she spoke even more straightforwardly, “Shengxiao just sees this girl as a sister, caring for her occasionally out of respect for his friend. Don’t take to heart what Siyuan said at dinner. I know Shengxiao; when he likes someone, he’s committed and won’t waver or become entangled with someone else. You can rest assured, if he dares to do something wrong behind your back, I’ll be the first to not let him off the hook!”
Rong Yan had not expected her to be so direct, and she felt embarrassed, “Mrs. Lin, Li Shengxiao and I are just dating, actually…”
Lin Zhiya immediately cut her off, with a firm and commanding tone, “Even if it’s just dating, no one should be two-timing. If he dares to wrong you, I’ll still break his legs!”
Rong Yan really wanted to know what it would look like for that man to have his legs broken and chased.
After summarizing Shen Siyuan’s situation briefly, Lin Zhiya moved on to other topics. Rong Yan glanced at the time, set down her cup, and stood up from the sofa, “It’s about time. Mrs. Lin, let me give you a check-up first.”