The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

Leaving the CEO’s office, Lanni could not comprehend what she was feeling. She got a cup of coffee to calm her nerves before getting back to work.

In the evening, she went to The Star restaurant where Luna was already waiting. However, she was not on her own. At the table next to theirs, Cheng Yu and Cedric were exchanging infatuated smiles.

"It’s a coincidence that Xiao Yu and her guy decided to have dinner here as well." Luna explained as Lanni sat down. It was not unexpected. After all, The Star Restuarant was widely known for its calm and romantic ambience. It was practically heaven for young couples and Cedric and Cheng Yu were no different. To be close to their friends but still have their own private conversations, they had chosen the that was just a few feet away from theirs.

"I’m hungry. Have you placed the orders yet?" Lanni’s stomach grumbled just as she spoke.

"I ordered crab for you. I heard that this restaurant has the best sea food in town." Luna responded, Sighing at the fact that she could no longer eat sea food. It always made her lose her appetite no matter how delicious it tasted.

Lanni laughed and patted her head. "Don’t worry. Once my nephew/niece is born, I will take you to eat all the sea food in the world."

Luna swatted her hand away in disdain. "How is work? You look tired."

"Hanging in there." She was having trouble keeping up. She had started as a chief editor as soon as she joined the company. The work load would be unbearable if it increased in the slightest. Of course she would be tired. She was not a superhuman, after all. However, she was not about to give up. She believed that she would get used to it after some time.

Their food arrived; Lanni’s oven-roasted crab and Luna’s vegetable salad. Although it looked especially pleasing to the eye, it was all veggies and no meat. Lanni looked at the plate of her sister who disliked vegetables and looked aggrieved every time she ate them. She was puzzled. What puzzled her even more was that Luna dug in and looked like she was enjoying her meal.

"Uh..."

Was her nephew or niece a future vegetarian?

"Don’t push yourself too hard." Luna lectured. In the next second, she turned her head sharply and looked around behind her.

"What’s wrong?" Lanni followed her gaze and frowned when she saw nothing out of place.

Luna retracted her gaze and squinted her eyes. "It’s nothing. I think I’m just being too sensitive." Even she couldn’t understand why she suddenly felt that something was ammiss. When she remembered how the gynecologist had mentioned that women were more sensitive when they were pregnant, she calmed down.

Lanni thought about it and subconsciously placed a hand over her chest. Why was her heart racing? Was it because her sister was uneasy so it had startled her?

"Lanni, that..." Cheng Yu suddenly looked in the sisters’ direction.

They looked over in unison, their faces equally anxious. Even the way they raised their left eyebrows to probe was identical.

Cheng Yu laughed and shook her head. "It’s nothing."

Her turned to continue eating. Just now, she had seen Xia Hanchen with a woman, hugging intimately. Her first reaction was to gasp in shock and call for Lanni’s attention. But as soon as she called Lanni, she realized how silly she was being.

Why was she making a fuss out of nothing? If Xia Hanchen was with a woman, it could be Li Yuming. She had not seen the woman’s face but she shouldn’t be a young woman based on her style. Not only that, she also had the same hair color which should be about the same length as Li Yuming’s.

If the sisters were to see their parents together, they might be too excited about the possibility of their family reuniting. However, what if things were not the way they appeared? She had not seen the woman’s face after all. Perhaps she was someone else.

Of course, she would not judge Xia Hanchen if he were to get together with another woman since he and Li Yuming were long divorced. It would just be a shock, and it was probably better if Xia Hanchen was the one to tell his daughters about his relationship.

Obviously, Cheng Yu did not realize that Xia Hanchen had noticed his daughters and that he had hugged the woman to conceal her identity. He had also retreated behind a pillar. It was almost as if... there was something to hide.

....

"Lanni, are the Yuns troubling you?" Luna changed the topic when she realized that Cheng Yu was no longer going to talk.

The latter shook her head. "Do they dare?"

She had been trying to be polite but kept her distance from them. It was not sure what Uncle Yun was thinking, he had stopped trying to find trouble with her. He was even friendlier to her. Either way, Lanni wanted to stay out of trouble so she did not bother about him. She had a more important matter bugging her at the moment.

...

After finishing dinner, she waited for the Jiang family’s chauffeur to pick Luna up before she went to Xiehan’s place.

The man was in the study, paper carelessly strewn on his desk.

She waked forward and gently asked, "You didn’t find anything?"

If he did, he would not look this distressed.

He shook his head and grabbed her hand, yanking her into his arms. His heart raced and she couldn’t help tousling his soft hair gently. She then made herself comfortable on his lap and took up a piece of the strewn paper.

Xiehan was investigating the matter regarding Ruby’s past. He had managed to prove that indeed, Ruby had mysteriously appeared in the hospital where Neil Chan’s baby was born. However, there was nothing strange that happened in the hospital where Ji Feifei was born.

To put it simply, the culprit must have found a baby from a different hospital so it would be untraceable even if anyone ever had suspicions. However, what was the motive of doing such a thing?

"Ji Feifei should be a pawn that should be used for the other party’s benefit. That is why they have supported her for so long." Xiehan analyzed.

Lanni thought about it. "People usually plant moles in the form of employees or spouses. This is the first time I’m hearing of someone planting a child...it takes long for the child to grow up into someone who can be of use. This means, the other party was not in a hurry to execute their plan."

The man’s arms tightened around her. "But then, she is an adult now. It’s a ticking time bomb."

They both silently wondered whether the other party not helping Ji Feifei out of prison was part of their grand plan. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The main point was, "For one to plan a scheme for more than twenty years... Just who did the Ji family offend in the past?"

"That’s what I’ve been trying to investigate." He glanced at the documents on the large desk. Knowing that he might miss a detail, he had searched on every single detail related to the Ji family before Ji Feifei’s birth. He had even investigated Ji Feifei, hoping that he would find a clue regarding the mysterious supporter. However, both searches were futile.

He let Lanni go through the tiny snippets of information that he had found. Perhaps, from a third party’s point of view, she might discover something that he might have missed thanks to his anxiety.

She calmly read through them word by word and frowned when she saw a printed picture of a letter. She pointed at it. "This is?"

"It was in the Old Ji Mansion’s library. It’s old and almost unreadable so I took a picture and printed it, but I don’t know what language that is." He had had people search for one of the phrases and to his dismay, it wasn’t any of the known languages on earth. It was almost as if it was a random combination of characters. However, it was letter. Which went to say that it was an existent language.

Lanni scanned it for a while. Something flashed through her mind but she was unable to grasp it before it faded away.

Xiehan noticed the change in her expression and sighed. "Forget it. I thought it could be a lead but it’s useless if we cannot understand it. We have other leads; Ji Feifei is a major lead."

"I’ve seen this before." She gasped.

"What?" He leaned over and looked at what her finger was touching. At the end of the letter, there was something after the initials and signature. It looked like a logo of sorts, but the character was incomprehensible. He had thought that it was a strange signature.

Lanni looked up. "Do you have the original letter?"