Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 150 - 148

Under the gleam of the moonlight and the street lamps, Jiayi’s face was veiled with a soft glow, her expression tranquil with no great turmoil, yet her brows and eyes seemed to brim with stories.

"I came to H City to avoid Huo Zhenyang. He has been looking for me these months, but I didn’t want to go back with him. So now you understand, Anya, he took control of Boda Group and intentionally withdrew the investment from the Liang Family just to spite me, to make me beg him. In other words, it is right for me to help you, because if it weren’t for me, the Liang Family wouldn’t have faced this ordeal. So, don’t say that it’s enough for me to sleep with him a few times, even if the price is higher, it is right for me to help you. Do you understand, Anya?"

Jiayi spoke word by word, as if narrating someone else’s story, striving to keep her tone even.

Liang Anya was stunned for a long moment upon hearing this. So that was it...

However, even though the man had come for Xiaoyi, she did not want to see Xiaoyi being controlled and unable to move freely in his grasp.

During this half-year, she had come to view Xiaoyi as her own younger sister.

"Xiaoyi, Anya, why are you standing here talking? Aren’t you going back?"

A male voice came from not far away.

Liang Jue had come out to look for them.

Although the security in this kind of villa complex was good, he was still a bit worried and came out to see, only to find the two girls sitting by the fountain, deep in conversation.

Jiayi quickly shut her mouth and signaled Liang Anya with her eyes, then bowed her head swiftly and said in a low voice, "Let’s not tell Brother Jue or godfather about this."

It was enough for Anya to know about this.

Brother Jue and godfather were both hot-tempered. If they knew, no matter what, they would feel humiliated by Huo Zhenyang.

Especially Brother Jue, who had just had a run-in with the police station not long ago—it was unpredictable what he might do next.

If he went to trouble Huo Zhenyang and angered the man, there’s no telling what issues could arise.

Liang Anya hadn’t snapped out of it yet, reacting a beat too slow.

Liang Jue had already caught his sister’s unusual expression and his brows wrinkled in concern, "What’s going on with you two? Did something happen?"

Liang Anya finally came to her senses, "Nothing, just talking with Xiaoyi. Let’s go, it’s getting late, let’s go back."

Liang Jue saw that she seemed unwilling to talk and didn’t press further. He took the baggage from Xiaoyi’s hands and followed the two girls, the three of them heading back together.

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Happy and leisurely times always fly by too quickly.

Once the holidays started, time slipped through the fingers like sand, half gone in an instant.

Jiayi had also prepared her entry for the competition, spending about ten days to draw and produce a set of design blueprints.

The theme of this design competition was "bedroom."

That is to say, design students participating in the competition would create various types of bedroom styles, and then the judges would select the work that most fits the modern urban lifestyle.

With the design blueprints done, Jiayi was much relieved, just waiting for school to start again to submit her entry for the results of the competition.

Meanwhile, the New Year arrived.

The atmosphere at the Liang Family became relaxed and joyful.

On New Year’s Eve, Auntie Cao and a few hourly workers cooked a large table full of dishes.

Jiayi and Liang Anya, along with Liang Jue, joined Liang Tao at the dining table for a reunion dinner.

Liang Tao’s amusement park was doing well, and this year he had joyfully taken in another favored goddaughter, making the New Year’s dinner very cheerful.

The faces of the young and handsome siblings, Liang Anya and Liang Jue, were flushed with a slight tipsiness.

The atmosphere of celebrating the New Year in the city was not very strong, yet this was Jiayi’s first taste of familial warmth.

If she had parents and siblings, would she have been able to celebrate the New Year together like this?

In the midst of the celebration, watching the lively scene of the three Liang men at the dinner table, Jiayi couldn’t help feeling a touch of faint loss and loneliness.

No matter how wonderful the Liang family was, they weren’t her own family.

Done with New Year’s Eve dinner with the Liang family, it was getting late, so Jiayi retired to her room.

She ran a tub of hot water and settled in comfortably, her eyes half-closed, fully indulging in the sensations of her first New Year’s Eve since the amnesia.

"Ding-dong—"

In the bedroom, the sound of her phone ringing. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

She sat up from the tub, wrapped herself in a big bathrobe, slipped into a pair of cotton slippers, and hurried out of the bathroom.

An unfamiliar number was displayed on the screen of her phone. Without much thought, she answered, "Hello, who is this?"

"Hello."

The voice from the other end was deep and magnetic, so familiar, as if coming from far away.

Jiayi gripped the phone; it was Huo Zhenyang.

The winter break was almost over, nearly twenty days had passed, and Huo Zhenyang hadn’t reached out to her, not even once.

She even secretly thought to herself, could it be that he had seen her getting ready for the design competition and decided not to disturb her?

It was only after overhearing Liang Tao mention it one time when he came home that she realized Huo Zhenyang had temporarily gone back to G City to handle business. She laughed at herself mockingly. How could that man be so considerate?

If he had been in H City, he would’ve certainly called her out.

This holiday, in the absence of that man, her days passed peacefully, leisurely, comfortable, and unrestrained.

She even fantasized that maybe, after his return to G City, the overwhelming amount of business had entangled him, and he might not come back to H City any time soon.

After all, that man was at the helm of his Huo empire, and should anything go wrong, the second young master who was eyeing his position might seize his place at any moment. He couldn’t stay in the north for long.

And now, Huo Zhenyang’s unexpected call had snapped Jiayi back to reality.

She checked the number again, and sure enough, it was a G City area code.

He must still be in G City.

Despite how busy he was, did this man still remember his short-term mistress left in H City?

She calmed her emotions, "Hello, what is it?"

What is it? On the other end of the line, the corners of the man’s thin lips lifted in a mix of self-mockery and a tint of melancholy.

On New Year’s Eve, due to overseeing a major overseas deal at the office, he was so busy that he didn’t have time to join his grandfather for the New Year’s Eve dinner at Huo Garden.

After finally finishing up, sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of his CEO office, overlooking the myriad lights of the city, there was only one thing on his mind.

And that was her.

The little thing alone in H City.

Alone in the north for the New Year without family, would she feel too lonely?

Although it seemed the Liang family took good care of her, even acknowledging her as their goddaughter, they weren’t blood relatives after all. Would she feel slighted, or was there something they might’ve neglected to do for her?

Just the thought of her looking aggrieved made him restless. Amid the busy workload, he dialed her cell number in H City.

And as he called with hopeful anticipation, she simply asked him in a plain tone, "What do you want?"

Her previous "Hello, who is this?" sounded relaxed and cheerful, but when she realized it was him, her tone suddenly tightened like a screw.

Was he that terrifying?