Pampered by My Ex's Cousin-Chapter 691 - 683: We Are Close Uncle and Nephew (Part 11)
"Madam, we have arrived."
The taxi driver turned around and politely reminded Ji Anning.
Ji Anning looked outside; the car had reached the entrance of the hotel. She checked the hotel’s name and compared it with the hotel Qi Helian had sent her, confirming it was the right one before she pushed the door open and got out.
She had already booked her own room, which was not on the same floor as Ji Chicheng’s. She first took her luggage back to her room, and then went to knock on Ji Chicheng’s door.
After knocking for a while with no answer, she checked her wristwatch, wondering if at this time, he might have already gone to the hospital?
Just as Ji Anning was about to turn around and head straight to the hospital, the door she had been knocking on suddenly opened. "Who are you looking for?"
The lazy voice of a woman, clearly just awakened.
Ji Anning stiffened, and then she slowly turned around to see the woman dressed in a loose bathrobe, leaning against the doorframe, squinting sleepily at her.
It took a while for Ji Anning to recover from the sharp pain in her heart, and she looked at Xin Xiaoxiao with a smile, saying, "I’m here to look for Fenfen; I’ll come back later."
After speaking, she turned and quickened her steps to leave.
Ji Anning didn’t knock on Ji Chicheng’s door again. She returned to her room, dragged her luggage, and left that hotel.
It was her own hometown; no matter how many years she left and returned, she always felt a sense of familiarity. If it wasn’t her hometown, just leaving for a few months would make it feel strange.
Dragging her suitcase, Ji Anning stood outside the gate of Charles Mansion, looking at the house that resembled a castle. She had lived inside it for two years and yet, on returning, felt no sense of intimacy at all.
"Miss Niannian."
The butler of Charles Mansion saw Ji Anning standing at the entrance for a long time, came over, recognized her, and hurriedly opened the gate of the courtyard.
Ji Anning nodded slightly to the butler and stepped into the courtyard. The distance from the gate to the front door was almost half a station’s length in her home country.
Her suitcase glided over the marble pavement, hardly making a sound.
"Niannian, you actually arrived so much earlier than expected; I’m truly delighted."
Probably alerted by the butler, Charles suddenly came out to greet her before she reached the front door.
Her stride faltered briefly before she continued forward, meeting Charles. When she stopped, she frowned at the handsome older man in front of her.
Charles, watched by her, started to laugh. "Isn’t it wonderful? I’m about to become your uncle by marriage."
As he spoke, he reached out and affectionately wrapped an arm around Ji Anning’s shoulder, smiling at her, "Coincidentally, I was about to go to the hospital to see your aunt."
"Mr. Charles, my grandfather has already passed away," Ji Anning abruptly stopped in her tracks and raised her voice at Charles. "He’s gone now. What are you still planning to do?"
"So, out of respect for the relationship between him and me in the past, I’m marrying his daughter. Isn’t that great?" Charles said it as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
He even thought he was being generous.
Ji Anning knew pleading on her own would be useless; it all depended on Ji Mingyue herself. So, she now needed to see Ji Mingyue urgently.
That’s why she agreed to go to the hospital with Charles.
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"There’s something I forgot to tell you; just a while ago, Fenfen’s mom came by. She knocked on the wrong door, mine," Xin Xiaoxiao said, finally finding a break after taking a slew of calls in the car. She turned to look at Ji Chicheng, who was sitting in the backseat, to inform him that Ji Anning had been looking for him.
Ji Chicheng started, and Xin Xiaoxiao looked at him with a laugh, adding, "I was wearing a sexy nightie, just woke up, and her eyes were red when she left."
