Chapter 972 - Duke Houston (1/2)

After the act staged by Wen Xinya, it was no longer appropriate for her to stay. After all, Si Yiyan’s real motive was to use the document to help Lucifer reap the greatest benefit. Hence, she immediately informed Si Yiyan about it and bade Duke Moville farewell before taking her leave.

As soon as Duke Moville saw her leave, his gray eyes it up and he loosened his grip on the cane.

Wen Xinya headed to the kitchen to check on the medicinal soup that she had brewed, after which she instructed the servants to bring some snacks to the living room and serve them to Duke Moville. When she exited the kitchen, she caught sight of Avrora standing at a spot not too far away from her.

She smirked coldly, having already expected that Avrora would wander off on her own.

Wen Xinya walked towards her slowly, her light blue maxi dress swaying gracefully together with her footsteps. “Miss Avrora, what brings you here? If you’d like to take a tour around the mansion, why didn’t you inform me beforehand so that I could make arrangements? This mansion is huge, it’s easy to get lost here.”

Although Wen Xinya sounded courteous and was polite with her tone, Avrora understood that she was just trying to remind her not to wander around the mansion on her own.

Avrora’s face grew sullen, though she still tried her best to suppress her immense anger. “I’m here specially to look for you, Miss Bella.”

Avrora tried her best to remind herself that she had to swallow her pride and stoop lower in order to obtain the document from Wen Xinya.

Staring at her apprehensively, Wen Xinya asked, “You are looking for me? What’s the matter?”

She was obviously well aware of Avrora’s purpose in looking for her. However, she felt that Avrora was being extremely naive for thinking that she could get the document back just by putting down her pride and ego.

Avrora looked down and said softly, “I’d like to talk to you about the document, Miss Bella.”

Wen Xinya glanced at her quietly while smirking coldly. “Miss Avrora, I’ve already handed the document to Rex, so he’ll naturally be the one in charge of everything. We women better not get involved, lest we cause more trouble.”

She came to look for me out of the blue and the first thing she mentions is the document. How confident of her.

Avrora said softly, “Miss Bella, you’re right. As women, we really shouldn’t get involved when men are discussing matters. However, I’m the daughter of an aristocratic family and I’ve been taught since a young age to always put my family’s interests first. I have been taught to do everything I can to solve the problems faced by my family. So, I hope you can understand my plight, Miss Bella.”

When she came out to look for Wen Xinya, she was already expecting to hear some excuses. Hence, she made all the necessary preparations beforehand.

Seemingly having no reason to reject her, Wen Xinya asked softly, “In that case, there’s no harm in us having a chat.”

Avrora was over the moon.

Wen Xinya brought her to the pavilion by the lake where the servants quickly served some fruit, snacks and floral tea.

Most wealthy European women enjoyed drinking floral tea because they found it to be a graceful and refined hobby.