100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 81.3: Were You Playing Me All This Time? (3)

Ji Fanyin shook her head. As she put down her phone, she heard Li Xiaoxing’s voice, “You seem to be busy.”

“Not as much as you.” Ji Fanyin chuckled as she slipped her phone back into her coat. “Can we make this quick? I forgot to feed my tropical fish at home.”

The trio walked into a small meeting room.

Secretary Fan took a bow before quietly leaving the room.

“You were that little girl.” Li Xiaoxing positioned himself to face Ji Fanyin. “Were you aware of that all this time?”

“I only remembered it not too long ago, but I don’t think it’s important.” Ji Fanyin calmly locked eyes with Li Xiaoxing with a relaxed body posture. “Is it important to you?”

Li Xiaoxing stared intensely at Ji Fanyin as he subconsciously tightened his grip around the armrests. “Of course it’s important. Why didn’t you tell me if you’ve already found out about it?”

“Isn’t that obvious?” Ji Fanyin cocked her head to one side and said, “I might have mistaken you for someone else too. It’s quite a common occurrence, after all.”

Li Xiaoxing choked on her sarcasm. He took a deep breath to calm himself before continuing on, “Do you know how much I wanted to see you?”

“Not much, I’d guess,” Ji Fanyin nonchalantly shrugged. “You had everything you needed to conduct an investigation. If you’d really wanted to find that little girl, you could have easily done so with a snap of your finger.”

If Li Xiaoxing was sincere about finding ‘Ji Fanyin’, all he really had to do was to drop a call to Evergreen Nursing Home. Yet, he only ‘reunited’ with Ji Xinxin five years ago. This spoke volumes about how much he treasured that little girl he kept harping on about.

“This proves one thing though. The person whom you have fallen in love with is the Ji Xinxin you met after your ‘reunion’.” Ji Fanyin tucked her hands behind her back and looked at Li Xiaoxing questioningly, “Isn’t that good news?”

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“Could it be that your inner perfectionist felt that the relationship was sullied the moment you realized Ji Xinxin has been lying to you? So you don’t feel obliged to

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