624 The Secret About the Past 242 (1/2)
Never would he have expected that a woman could make him this stunned.
With that face of hers previously, when she was still called Mu Ning, he had gradually felt that with her around, he had the power to do anything.
Now, even with her face changed, she was still the same person.
It was a delightful fact.
The chauffeur got onto the car again and drove it back to the Lin residence.
Lin Shishi had just come out from a shower. Seeing him return, she asked with a grin, ”When I went down just now, the butler said you went out. Where were you?”
”I went to admire the night view here.”
Looking at the gentle expression on his face, Lin Shishi held onto his hand. ”You finally look relaxed now. That's wonderful. Go and take a shower.”
”Umm, okay.”
Lin Shishi sat on the bed, playing with her phone and waiting for him to come out.
But little did she expect that she'd be waiting for such a long time. Only after more than an hour did Tuoba Gucheng finally come out from the shower.
When he came out, Lin Shishi's eyelids were already getting heavy. ”Why did you take so long?”
”I soaked for too long.” He lay down and casually asked, ”Tonight, the one that came… that sister of yours is Jin Qingyan's ex-wife?”
”Yup.” At the mention of An Xiaoning, Lin Shishi became energetic again. ”Now that we're talking about this, I feel that it's really such a shame. I heard my ex-brother-in-law and my sister were a really loving couple.”
”Then why did they get divorced?” He used his arms to rest his head on.
”I'm not very sure, and neither are my parents. My sister didn't tell us. This is her second divorce with my ex-brother-in-law already. They have a five- or six-year-old son as well. However, my sister's really amazing. If not for her, I would have long been dead. She gave me the chance to live again, so I like her especially much and I'm really full of admiration for her.”
”Why didn't I hear you talk about her before, then? How did she save your life, care to share?”
Lin Shishi chuckled. ”When I talk about her, there's just too many things to say. I feel like it'll take forever to finish. We met at a gathering…”
She explained the whole process of her meeting An Xiaoning and how she saved her. Tuoba Gucheng was listening to her story in awe.
”She can see and talk to spirits, does that mean her body's weak during the Ghost Festival?”
”Probably. I'm not too sure about that, but her birthday is during the Ghost Festival.”
Tuoba Gucheng probed, ”Ghost Festival? Which one?”
”The fifteenth day of the seventh Lunar month.”
No wonder she was possessed by his beloved Labrador during the day of the Ghost Festival.
That explained it.
What a mysterious woman.
Regardless of whether she had a beautiful face or not, she was a woman with an attractive character. Her beautiful looks were just a bonus.
”After hearing all these things, don't you think my sister is amazing?” A smile appeared on Lin Shishi's face. ”That's why she is the person I admire most. However, her married life is really not smooth sailing. I really don't understand, why is such a great woman always facing so many obstacles when it comes to marriage?”
”How old is she now?” Tuoba Gucheng suddenly asked.
Lin Shishi replied, ”She's thirty.”
Tuoba Gucheng thought of the photocopied document of her background information. It stated that she was twenty-four. Hmm, she had a fake surname, name, age, family background, and face.
What an expert forger.
She was really something.
She was already thirty, but it really did not look like it. It was indeed believable if she claimed she was twenty-four. He himself had just passed his twenty-seventh birthday and was only three years younger than she was.
The gap was not that huge at all.
Tuoba Gucheng's mind was in a mess. So why exactly did she sneak into the Autumn Palace?
And why did she leave after staying in there for only a few months?
Xiao Chi had said that a friend recommended her to enter the Autumn Palace. Since Xiao Chi's friend was sacrificed, he must have been killed by An Xiaoning.