Snare of Love/C13 She Understands How To Speak A Nation
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C13 She Understands How To Speak A Nation

Lin Xinyan’s body stiffened under his embrace. Never would she have expected Hee Ruize to suddenly hug her.

Once she regained her senses, she started struggling.

From where Zong Jinghao was sitting, there seemed to be quite a lot of flirting going on.

He was unable to contain the frown on his face.

Bai Zhuwei said casually, “I never knew that she already had a boyfriend.”

Zong Jinghao suddenly felt down for some reason.

He put his foot on the accelerator and the car sped away.

Concerned, Bai Zhuwei pursed her lips. “Don’t tell me you’re angry.”

Zong Jinghao made an ugly sneer. “Why would I be angry?”

She was pregnant, so, of course, there must be a man around!

But it was different once he actually saw her with a man. The displeasure he was feeling was really rather inexplicable!

Soon, they arrived at Bai Zhuwei’s residence. She didn’t get out of the car right away, but instead looked at Zong Jinghao and said, “Aren’t you coming inside?”

Afraid that he would come up with some excuse, Bai Zhuwei quickly added, “Ah Hao, come inside. I’ve prepared your favorite foods…”

“Zhuwei.” Zong Jinghao took the chance to interrupt her. He couldn’t quite put a finger on it, but the churning emotions within him were leaving him confused. With an outstretched hand, he reached out to smooth her hair. “I won’t be going inside today. You should take care to rest early.”

“But…” Bai Zhuwei decided to not say anything and obediently got out of the car. “Make sure you drive slower.”

Zong Jinghao acquiesced to her request and drove away.

He sped the entire car ride home and once he arrived back, Lin Xinyan was still not there.

He unbuttoned his shirt. “When did she head out?”

“Around noon.” Nanny Yu took the coat from him. “Are you ready to eat now?”

“Just a moment.” He had no appetite right then.

He continued with undoing the two buttons on his shirt. It wasn’t like he was going to strangle anyone, but he was still feeling bored.

Such a strange feeling made him very uncomfortable!

Still feeling preoccupied, he pushed open the door to the study room. He could see that Lin Xinyan’s note was still sitting there on his desk. He picked it up and coldly laughed. “You’re so two-faced you can act in front of me and at the same time, hang out with other guys.”

Without looking at it, he crumpled the note in his hand.

Lin Xinyan called a taxi to get back. Hee Ruize wanted to send her off, but she didn’t want Hee Ruize to discover her relationship with Zong Jinghao, so she declined his offer.

Once she arrived back, only Nanny Yu was home. Lin Xinyan relaxed a lot thinking that Zong Jinghao had yet to return.

Seeing Lin Xinyan in such a good mood, Nanny Yu could not help but ask, “What are you so happy about?”

Lin Xinyan gave her a smile and said, “It’s just that when he’s not here, I feel a bit freer.”

She couldn’t believe that she finally had the courage to say that. This had been weighing on her for a long time and now that she said it, the burden seemed to be lifted.

“Do you mean I’m unnecessary?” His slender figure was perched against the door of the study room. Though his posture was lazy and casual, there was a hint of ridicule in it.

This sound coming from...

Lin Xinyan stiffly turned around to see the man leaning against the door with a gloomy expression on his face.

He… when did he get home?

Since he was nowhere to be seen when she returned, Lin Xinyan had thought that he wasn’t there by default, so she didn’t think to put a filter over her mouth when she spoke.

“I…” Lin Xinyan was trying to explain, but Zong Jinghao instead just walked past her in the direction of the dining room and told Nanny Yu to start dinner.

Lin Xinyan sat down at the dining table and after many attempts to explain, she just gave up after a while.

Zong Jinghao paid her no mind. Without looking at her, he said after he finished the meal, “Come to the study with me.”

Lin Xinyan put down her chopsticks and walked behind him into the study.

Zong Jinghao sat down at his desk, placed the documents she had translated on the table, and gave her an indifferent look. “You know the A Nation language?”

Lin Xinyan nodded her head calmly.

This made Zong Jinghao more curious. “Where did you learn this language? It’s unavailable internationally.”

Lin Xinyan wanted to speak, but there was just too much pain in her heart whenever the place that she had lived in for eight years came up.

No one else could comprehend the pain she had suffered. She had endured a miserable and terrible past during that period of time.

It was not something she wanted to show in front of outsiders.

She forced a relaxed smile on her face. “If it’s something I’m interested in, I’ll learn it.”

Zong Jinghao’s face scrunched up in a frown. She seemed to be covering up with her good mood. The grief that had popped up while they talked did not come away unnoticed by him.

What could it be that she was hiding?

“Come here.” His voice was lowered so that it was barely audible.

Lin Xinyan was feeling torn. She was unable to gauge his thoughts just then, but right then, she had no choice but to deal with this difficult man.

She went over with light footsteps.

Zong Jinghao took out and placed a document in front of her. “Since you know the language, translate this document for me.”

Lin Xinyan lowered her eyes and read the words “Wanyue Group” printed on the top right corner of the folder.

The previous night she had been so preoccupied with her work to notice the mark in the upper right-hand corner.

Noticing the words for the first time, she quickly raised her head. “Have you managed to recruit a translator yet?”

Zong Jinghao’s eyebrows were slightly raised.

Lin Xinyan took the documents in her hand and whispered, “I applied for a job at your company as a translator. In the beginning, I was satisfied with the job, but for some reason, I was dismissed. They said I was unsuitable for the position.”

“Is that really true?” Hearing her say all this was altogether deeply thought-provoking to him.

Lin Xinyan went on to reply. She had no desire to lie to him.

“It would be my pleasure to translate this document, but…” Lin Xinyan wasn’t a greedy person, but she wanted to get something out of this. Currently, she had very little, so overestimating herself shouldn’t be a problem.

Zong Jinghao gazed at her with a calm expression on his face. Without waiting for her to continue, he cautioned her, “If you’re talking about Shallow Bay’s land, I will have to disagree. The Lin company doesn’t have the means to take it.”

Lin Xinyan was about to say this, but she definitely would not give it to Lin Guoan. She wanted to negotiate a deal so that he would give it to her so that she could make an exchange with Lin Guoan.

But that was all dashed now that he refused.

A single translation was obviously not an adequate exchange.

“You can pay me with cash.” Since her mother’s dowry was unavailable for the time being, it was imperative that she first earn some money to ensure her mother has a good life. In the future, she also had to take into account the baby. She needed to earn a lot of money so that they could live well.

Lin Xinyan flipped through the documents and discovered that it held more than 20 pages. “One hundred yuan each. That’s all I’m asking.”

Zong Jinghao: “...”

~ Are the Lin family really that short of money?

Why was it getting so hard to gauge this woman’s actions?

Zong Jinghao did not say a word. Lin Xinyan thought that the price didn’t agree with him. “I’m really not asking for too much. If you think it’s too expensive, how about we talk it over for a bit more?”

“No need. The price is fine.”

“Sure.” Lin Xinyan took the documents in her hands and stood up from the table. “I might not get to all this right now. But I’ll take this back to my room and translate it so that you can have something to work with.”

“Hold on for a minute.”

“Is there anything wrong?”

Lin Xinyan peered at him with a puzzled expression on her face.

“It is my hope that you understand something.”

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