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Although Lin Yuan and her companion had already agreed to help An Jie keep the secret, getting past the Chief of An Family was still a tough hurdle. Of course, these were not concerns for Lin Yuan and company to worry about.

After sending An Jie away, Lin Yuan suddenly glanced sideways at Xia Zheng and couldn’t help but tease, "Well, well, since when did our Young Master Xia start worrying about others’ happiness?"

Xia Zheng curled his lips. "I don’t care about others’ happiness. I only care about ’our’ happiness."

After saying that, he didn’t forget to wickedly lick his lips, a gesture as enchanting as it could possibly be.

Lin Yuan couldn’t help but shiver and decided not to discuss anything about happiness with him anymore. She coughed and said, "How did you know that Luomeiyan likes An Jie? What if, when they go back, she starts harming him again? Ow, why are you knocking on my head!"

"Knocking on it is light; I was thinking about cracking it open to see what’s stuffed inside!" Xia Zheng sighed helplessly, mourning silently for a moment for having such a silly girl: "You are a woman yourself; can’t you see that Madam An’s gaze towards Young Master An is off?"

What’s off about it?

Seeing Lin Yuan’s clueless expression, Xia Zheng held his forehead, "Remember our first visit to An’s House? You said Young Master An adores his wife, that they were loving. I scoffed at that time."

"Oh, I remember now; I even asked you why you laughed! Don’t tell me you had already realized Luomeiyan was poisoning him back then?"

Xia Zheng nodded, "I didn’t notice the poisoning, but I could tell that Luomeiyan’s treatment of An Jie was not as loving as he described. To put it accurately, her gaze at An Jie back then was a mix of love and hate. Thinking back now, she must have been quite conflicted as well."

So that was it.

"I hope the two of them can recognize each other’s good qualities and live a stable and peaceful life." This was Lin Yuan’s innermost thought. To be honest, An Jie treated Luomeiyan very well; to have such devotion from a loved one was all one could desire in life.

"Now that An Jie’s poisoning is about to be resolved, has Boss Lin thought of any strategies for our Fragrant Full Building to regain its glory?" Xia Zheng asked with raised eyebrows, looking interestedly at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan rolled her eyes, "Boss Lin, my foot. Don’t forget that you are the real Young Master of Fragrant Full Building.

Me? I just joined in halfway, and at best, I’m just a small-time worker for you.

With my tiny, oh so tiny significance, how can I shoulder the heavy responsibility of restoring Fragrant Full Building’s prestige? You really think too highly of me!"

To make a point to someone, Lin Yuan deliberately slowed down her words when saying "tiny, oh so tiny" and even flexed her little finger as a comparison, amusing Xia Zheng to the point he couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

"Hence, such a trivial matter as restoring the honor of Fragrant Full Building should naturally be assigned to a boss with such tiny, oh so tiny significance as yourself. A boss like me is meant for bigger things!"

Pah!

Lin Yuan couldn’t help spitting in contempt, but even after spitting once, she still didn’t feel relieved, so she spat twice more before stopping.

Amidst a succession of spitting sounds, Shopkeeper Wu suddenly came in to report that Miss An and Magistrate Tang’s daughter had arrived together.

Lin Yuan quickly wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, her cheeks blushing.

However, Xia Zheng appeared to have anticipated this visit, "Just the two young ladies?"

Shopkeeper Wu looked at him in surprise, "There is also a young master, with... um, a rather noble air about him."

After finishing, he couldn’t help but add, "I’ve never seen him before."

A noble young master, not from Yecheng?

Lin Yuan grasped the handkerchief and pondered.

She’d heard that An’s House was getting quite close to Drunken Immortal Residence, and that the An Family Winehouse’s business had begun involving the Capital city.

Could it be that the young master was someone from the Capital city? Perhaps even that Prince?

Lin Yuan shivered at her own guess and when she saw Xia Zheng’s admiring gaze, she was even more breathless.

Heavens! Was she actually going to meet a Prince? It was almost like a dream!

Xia Zheng was baffled by her excited and nervous expression. If he knew what Lin Yuan was thinking right now, he would definitely show a disdainful smile and drop a contemptuous "So shameless!"

The visitors were indeed Second Prince Zhao Hongsheng, Miss An Yueyue of An’s House, and Magistrate Tang’s daughter Tang Ruyan. However, standing beside Zhao Hongsheng, An Yueyue and Tang Ruyan looked at each other disapprovingly.

Tang Ruyan, born into an official’s family, well-read and smart from a young age, how could she look favorably upon a merchant’s daughter like An Yueyue?

An Yueyue naturally did not like Tang Ruyan’s cold and prideful demeanor, but she did not have Tang Ruyan’s intelligence and breadth of mind to hide her emotions.