CHAPTER 407: CHAPTER 399: THEN I’LL HELP YOU INHERIT YOUR FAMILY FORTUNE

The room layout was spacious, even larger than the single room she previously rented. The design was in a modern minimalist style—simple yet full of texture.

But there were too few things in the room, and it lacked a sense of lived-in warmth.

Chen Xixi looked around, like a curious baby, not missing a single corner.

It wasn’t someone else’s home, after all. This was her intern boyfriend’s room, so getting to know it a bit wasn’t overstepping, right?

After looking around for a while and not spotting anything particularly interesting, Chen Xixi pouted.

Zhou Jinyuan was leaning lazily against the door frame, arms crossed, watching Chen Xixi’s drooping eyelids and pursed lips. He couldn’t help but chuckle, "Disappointed you didn’t find anything intriguing?"

Chen Xixi turned to meet Zhou Jinyuan’s gaze: "Don’t you usually live here?"

"Right, my usual place is where you celebrated my last birthday."

Chen Xixi nodded. It was a pity she hadn’t seen his regular bedroom last time. She only went into the study, the living room, and the kitchen.

They say a person’s bedroom reveals their character traits, and she felt she still needed to understand Zhou Jinyuan better.

"Why don’t you live here?" Chen Xixi asked curiously.

Ms. Zhen, the wealthy lady, was very kind. Zhou Jinyuan’s father, although seeming not very talkative and quite stern, didn’t enforce too many strict rules on Zhou Jinyuan and also showed no class discrimination towards her—a girl of ordinary background.

With housekeepers at home and nothing amiss, most people probably wouldn’t want to move out of such a family environment, right?

Zhou Jinyuan slowly spoke up, "Live here? You never know, there might suddenly be an extra woman in my bed one day. Isn’t that scary?"

Chen Xixi almost forgot.

Ms. Zhen was now in a frenzy to get him married.

Judging by Ms. Zhen’s typically unpredictable behavior, such a scenario wouldn’t be too surprising.

"You sure know the wealthy lady well."

Chen Xixi walked to the French window, gazing at the natural estate landscape outside, her heart sighed for the umpteenth time—if the Xu Family hadn’t bankrupted her father, she might be living in a place like this, right?

The world almost had one more rich person!

All thanks to the damned Xu Family!

She absolutely had to make the Xu Family go bankrupt too!

Unfortunately, her last attempt to stir up discord between the Bai Family and the Xu Family was thwarted by Xu Nianying, allowing her escape catastrophe. She hoped that this time Zheng He wouldn’t disappoint her.

Chen Xixi suddenly turned and asked, "If I’m staying here, are you going to stay in the guest room?"

"Yeah."

Right after Zhou Jinyuan finished speaking, a housekeeper came from behind carrying desserts, a fruit platter, and juice in her hands.

Initially, the housekeeper thought the young master would have this girl stay in the guest room. She searched the second floor before finally discovering the young master had brought the girl to his own bedroom on the third floor.

This was the first girl the young master brought home! And the first girl went straight into the young master’s bedroom!

The housekeeper was all smiles like a doting aunt, seeing the Zhou Family finally stirring with excitement again!

Zhou Jinyuan sensed someone approaching from behind, so he turned his head to glance and then stepped forward into the room. The housekeeper entered, set down the items, and turned to leave.

But just as the housekeeper reached the door, she unexpectedly closed it, and then the sound of the lock snapping was heard.

Through the door, the housekeeper’s exclamatory voice came as a surprise: "Oh no! Young master, I accidentally closed the door, and then I broke the key! I’ll rush to find a locksmith!"

After shouting out Ms. Zhen’s instructed lines, the housekeeper didn’t care about the two people inside and dashed off immediately.

Listening to the frantic footsteps fading away, Chen Xixi and Zhou Jinyuan were both stunned: "..."

It wasn’t hard to guess who orchestrated this play.

Ms. Zhen’s move is truly unexpected.

Chen Xixi walked over to the sofa, took a seat, picked a grape, and popped it into her mouth, her expression unchanging: "Looks like we’re going to be sharing a room again tonight."

She had lived together in a house during a romance reality show, shared a hotel room in Jing City not long ago, and now, staying in the same room at Zhou Jinyuan’s place—she was almost getting used to it.

But in an instant, she felt there was something slightly off about this habit.

Was she becoming increasingly accustomed to living with Zhou Jinyuan?

Just after the door had closed, Zhou Jinyuan suddenly felt an inexplicable heat surge within his body.

A man’s intuition told him that Zhen Mei Qiu had quite a few tricks up her sleeve tonight.

Zhou Jinyuan quickly walked over to the fridge, took out a bottle of cold mineral water to drink.

Curious, Chen Xixi leaned to take a look at Zhou Jinyuan and asked, "What are you doing?"

After drinking, Zhou Jinyuan unbuttoned his shirt collar without turning back, his voice somewhat husky as he asked, "Do you feel unwell at all?"

Unwell?

Chen Xixi thoroughly checked herself from inside out, then with a slight frown, she said, "No? Why? Was there poison in the food?"

Zhou Jinyuan’s brows furrowed deeply. The door was locked, and he was drugged—Ms. Zhen really wanted to see if he was capable, didn’t she?

His Adam’s apple moved as the veins on his arms faintly bulged, "It seems I’m the one who’s been poisoned."

"What?!" Chen Xixi immediately stood up, rushed to Zhou Jinyuan’s side with panic, and looked at him with concern, asking, "Should I call an ambulance?"

Zhou Jinyuan stretched out his hand quickly, grabbing Chen Xixi’s wrist, "No need."

If he really had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night with his girlfriend because of this, he’d rather choose to die at home tonight.

His large hand held Chen Xixi’s slender wrist; she clearly felt the scorching heat from his palm transferring to the skin on her wrist.

She also saw an unusual emotion in Zhou Jinyuan’s deep eyes.

At that moment, her heartbeat also unconsciously quickened.

She and Zhou Jinyuan hadn’t even held hands ordinarily; this touch was already the most intimate contact they had had since they started dating.

Though Chen Xixi had never been in a relationship, she had seen enough of the world.

Wasn’t this just like the heart-pounding and blush-inducing plot from those melodramatic TV series!

She never imagined that one day it would happen to her!

She hurriedly pulled Zhou Jinyuan, located the bathroom from memory, pushed him inside, then turned on the showerhead.

Having done all that, she walked out of the bathroom without hesitation, closed the door behind her, her face flushed as she stood outside and exclaimed, "Call out if you need anything, or even if you don’t need anything."

Zhou Jinyuan stood under the shower, feeling a bit better as the cold water poured over him.

But when he heard Chen Xixi’s concerned voice coming from behind the door, he felt his entire body getting restless again.

Soon after, the woman’s gentle voice continued to reach him through the door, "Even though I can’t help you much, just let me know you’re still alive. If something really happens to you today..."

The woman’s voice suddenly stopped.

Zhou Jinyuan’s heart was hooked in an instant, and he couldn’t help asking urgently, "What would you do then?"

Chen Xixi replied earnestly, "Then I’ll help inherit your family fortune because if you were in trouble and I just stood by, my conscience wouldn’t be clear, so I’d have to do something to help."

Zhou Jinyuan: "......"

Quite helpful indeed.