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CHAPTER 294

"Yin Lifen is lonely, kindly go and keep her company."

Jia Huang did not need someone to tell him what Kim Fan meant. He simply wanted to talk to Li Jing and have some alone time with her.

"Oh… Alright, I would be heading out now. Li Jing, nice talking to you, my friend needs me." He winked at her when he made mention of my friend.

A small smile appeared on Li Jing"s face and she shook her head. "Carry on. Tell her I am okay."

"Sure. Catch ya later." With that Jia Huang was gone, leaving them to their fate.

"Are you okay?" Kim Fan asked her after about a minute of them not talking. "You seem to be bothered by something."

A smile formed on Li Jing"s pretty lips. "Really? It is nothing, I just wanted to have time to calm myself down while still just allowing my mind to be free and relaxed."

"Oh… that is nice. So mind if I join you?" Kim Fan asked politely.

"No worries, you can."

"Alright. Thanks." None of them spoke after that.

They just relaxed against the tree and watched the night sky for a long while before Li Jing broke the silence. "Such a beautiful breathtaking view."

As soon as the words fell out of her mouth, she took her camera and took a snapshot of the view.

Meanwhile, Kim Fan could not take his eyes off of her and let them remain glued to her. He watched as she took several more shots till she was satisfied and stopped.

Al the time her smile never dropped and each time she viewed a picture, it was like a new wonder just happened that she had not seen before.

"I like you, Li Jing." Kim Fan confessed to her.

Instantly her lovely smile dwindled and she turned her head in his direction not still saying anything.

"I know what you said earlier on but I am just going to be truthful with you. I like you. I like your personality, Miss Li Jing. You are easy to roll with and it is always fun being around you. So please do not blame us guys when we see something good and we want to get it."

"Kim Fan, I told you…"

"I know. I am not asking you to like me back but right now I just want to be happy watching you smile every day and being able to appreciate your beauty."

"Thanks."

"Welcome. So whatever you do or whatever happens, always learn to appreciate yourself."

"I will point taken."

Both of them spent the remaining time chatting and getting to know each other. It was indeed one of the best times Li Jing had since she could remember.

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By the next day, they returned home as planned and had a brief meeting with her father the chairman before any other thing.

By and by, days turned into weeks and weeks into month. Within the blink of an eye, another month had gone away so fast.

Work became all she knew as she was very busy fixing things after their return from the hotel.

Li Jing had been too involved and focused on her grandfather"s business to be bothered by anyone and anything. Unfortunately too, so was Ye Cheng.

With the new business in place, he was very much overwhelmed. First was the project he won for the year and then was also Li Jing"s hotel plan.

Do everything side by side became c.u.mbersome. Regardless, he was already too used to this kind of work to be exhausted by it.

The only thing that suffered was their communication system.

No one had time for the other and there wasn"t any free time to create out of it actually.

By the first Friday of the week of the new month, Li Jing woke up just like any other day and got prepared for work. Taking it to be the same as her previous days, she was not prepared for what was about to happen.

It was already noon time when a knock came on her door and her a.s.sistant walked in to announce the arrival of a visitor.

"Good afternoon ma"am. There is somebody out here to see you."

"Oh, is that so? Do I have an appointment with this person? Does this person have a name?"

"He refused to say and no you do not have an appointment."

Just by hearing her say that, Li Jing"s heartbeat increased and began to race wildly in her mind.

"What was happening? Was it him that decided to pay me a visit?" Li Jing thought to herself. Her a.s.sistant could see that her countenance changed into a happy one.

And she thought her boss was indeed expecting this person or she knew who it was. None of them would have guessed or be well-expecting of who it was.

"Let him in, please."

"Yes, ma." Without another moment to waste, her a.s.sistant left to do as she was instructed while Li Jing tried composing herself and controlling her fast-beating heart to calm down.

Knock!

"Come in," Li Jing did her best to sound calm but if one paid keen attention, they would notice she failed slightly.

Immediately the door pushed open, Li Jing automatically ceased her breath as she waited to see the person behind the door but instead she saw her a.s.sistant who smiled sheepishly at her before stepping aside for the main guest to come in.

Subconsciously, Li Jing did not know that she was already stretching her neck to see past her a.s.sistant who was wasting her time now.

One step! Two steps!

Her breathing hitched, she managed to breathe but it stopped once more. And he was within a clear view of her line of sight.

Just as he raised his head to look at her, Li Jing felt like the world stopped spinning and her heart stopped beating all of a sudden.

"You…"

"h.e.l.lo Li Jing, miss me?"