CHAPTER 97: 097: THE PERSON I NATURALLY LIKE

"Hmm." Jiang Baizhou responded lightly, casting a glance at her without a trace.

"Why did you suddenly think of buying a house? Are you planning to move out from next door?" Cen Jin looked at him in surprise, her bright and clear eyes full of confusion.

"For marriage." Jiang Baizhou pressed his lips together, squinting his long eyes, and tugged at his thin lips meaningfully.

Cen Jin’s steps suddenly halted at his words, and something deep inside her twisted painfully a few times, her face, which was originally bewildered and confused, became dazed.

Perhaps noticing that she hadn’t caught up, Jiang Baizhou also stopped, turned his head to look at her: "What’s wrong?" As soon as the words fell, he caught a glimpse of the loneliness in her eyes that he had never seen before. A strange feeling immediately swept through his heart, as if it was excitement, or joy, or more like disbelief.

His words successfully brought her thoughts back, and Cen Jin tried hard to conceal her nervousness and helplessness. She stepped forward, secretly adjusting her breath, wanting to pull out a smile, but it felt too forced, so she simply didn’t smile. Her tone was very calm: "You’re getting married? When?"

"It should be soon." Jiang Baizhou replied rather carelessly, a slight smile in his eyes.

"With whom?"

"With the one I love, naturally."

Cen Jin’s breathing instantly stopped, as if a sharp blade was slicing slowly across her heart. Pain, so intense she couldn’t breathe, more painful than ever, and she completely forgot to react.

As they locked eyes, a sales representative came over with three sets of keys, breaking the eerie silence: "Mr. Jiang, here are the keys to the three houses. Would you like to see them yourself, or do you need me to show you around?"

Jiang Baizhou withdrew his gaze, took the keys from the sales representative, and said politely in a soft voice: "No need, we’ll go ourselves, thank you, sorry to trouble you."

"Alright, after Mr. Jiang is done, you can come directly to find me."

Jiang Baizhou nodded slightly, then turned to Cen Jin: "Let’s go!"

Cen Jin pressed her lips together, her pale jade hands clenched into tight fists, her once rosy face gradually turned a bit pale. She nodded, lowered her eyes, and slowly followed his steps.

The neighborhood he had his eye on was only about a ten-minute drive from the development. Once there, Jiang Baizhou led her into the first building, and they took the elevator straight to the fifteenth floor. After unlocking the door, they walked in together.

The layout of the apartment was a typical three-bedroom, two-living-room design, facing south with excellent sunlight, and the area was spacious enough. After touring the place, Cen Jin stood on the balcony, gazing at the gray, gloomy sky, with the phrase ’with the one I love, naturally’ playing repeatedly in her mind.

Although she knew in her heart that he had already belonged to someone, hearing it directly from him was still hard to accept, that suffocating feeling tightly wrapped around her, making it difficult to breathe.

"What do you think?" Just as her thoughts began to drift, a low, indifferent voice suddenly sounded behind her.

Cen Jin instinctively turned to look at him, her rosy lips tightly pressed together, her brows furrowed, and she nodded: "Hmm, it’s nice, the layout and environment are all quite good. The other day when you had dinner with Ke Yuanfan, was it about the house?"

"Yeah." Jiang Baizhou responded softly, turned around to take a broad view of the overall layout of the room: "I had my eye on it before, but this batch of houses is very sought after, so I pulled some strings."

Upon hearing this, Cen Jin’s gaze dimmed. It turned out that for the wedding house, he went to such great lengths, even though he disliked socializing, he still drank and got drunk for it.

"So you brought me today just to be your consultant, to accompany you on a tour?" After a long silence, Cen Jin finally found her voice again, with a trace of desolation in her tone.