REBORN ARISTOCRAT: RETURN OF THE VICIOUS HEIRESS

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Seeing that she looked distracted, Old Mr. Wen shifted his glance to her fiddling actions towards her earring. Upon closer scrutiny of the earring’s design, he felt that the material and quality of the earring were rather peculiar—something that he had never seen before, and asked uncontrollably, “The dangling earring on your right ear looks very exquisite, seems like I’ve never seen you take it off?”

Wen Xinya instinctively retracted her hand, as if it was scalded by the earring on her earlobe, and said, “Is it? I think it looks very exquisite too, so I’ve been wearing it, not bearing to take it off.”

How could Old Mr. Wen not be able to tell that her emotions were slightly unnatural? “It’s material and quality are rather peculiar, something that I’ve never seen.”

The Wen Corporation’s jewelry line was a world-renowned luxury brand, and there were not many custom-made accessories with material and quality that were unknown to him, so her earring had piqued his interest.

Touching her earring, Wen Xinya smiled and said, “I bought it from the antique market previously. It also caught my eye due to its special material and quality.”

Old Mr. Wen was merely chatting leisurely with her, so was not particularly bothered. After chatting for a while longer, he returned to his room to rest.

Gently fiddling with the dangling earring on her ear, Wen Xinya asked casually, “Mother Wang, who called just now—Grandpa seemed slightly unhappy.”

Mother Wang replied, “I didn’t notice either, seems like a call from the Xia Family—the call lasted almost an hour, and the Old Man’s face didn’t look good the whole time—probably some business matters.”

A call from Xia Ruya’s family? Wen Xinya nodded and said, “Mother Wang, it’s getting late, you should rest early too!”

The Xia Family must have called Grandpa regarding business matters. Wen Xinya carefully searched her brain for everything regarding the Xia Family, but couldn’t make any sense of them. So, she decided to stop grappling with it, returned to her room and went to the cloakroom. As expected, Si Yiyan’s parcel was placed in the cloakroom.

It was a rather huge suitcase. Wen Xinya entered her own birthday and indeed broke the password on the suitcase. Within the suitcase were four or five boxes. Wen Xinya opened them one by one—there were three sets of handmade clothes by the Henry Poole Family, of which all the materials used were very expensive textiles.

Two boxes contained accessories, shoes, and bags—obviously handmade and customized as well—which matched with the clothes.

Lastly, at the bottom of the suitcase, Wen Xinya discovered an exquisite hollow air-tight box. Gently opening it, she saw an exquisite crystal turtle lying on yellow silk. The turtle’s head was hidden within its shell, and its tiny tail fluttered gently—its silly disposition made Wen Xinya smile.

Wen Xinya couldn’t help but recall the night of her homecoming party when Si Yiyan teased her for belonging to the zodiac of the Turtle, and previously, when she went to Nantong City, he had also sent her a picture of a turtle as a secret signal. She never could have thought that he would really gift her a small turtle.

She stared angrily at the turtle in the box uncontrollably. Just then, the small turtle’s head gently came out of its shell, his pair of tiny, beady eyes peering through suspiciously, and when it didn’t sense any threat in the surroundings, it held its head up high. Wen Xinya’s playful spirit was triggered and as she caught its tiny tail, it instantly retracted its head back into its shell.

“Hahahaha!” Wen Xinya couldn’t help but roll on her bed laughing, the small turtle in her arms. However, she didn’t know that the small turtle’s performance just now was exactly Si Yiyan’s reason for wanting a pet turtle previously!