Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 894

“Forget it,” Jiang Mohan ordered. Ultimately, he still did not have the courage to go over. He was still not ready to face those haunting memories after all this while.

Over at the driver’s seat, the driver had been taking an unusually long time to get the engine started because he knew Jiang Mohan would change his mind after he calmed down. The driver gave him a quick look from the rearview mirror and asked where they should head for instead, but Jiang Mohan remained silent.

He leaned his head against the headrest and closed his eyes as the driver drove off, wandering aimlessly through the bustling city. Jiang Mohan needed to get his mind off his feelings. But before long, he opened his eyes in frustration, reached for his phone, and dialed a number.

“Nan Cheng?” The call got through instantly.

“Yes, speaking.” Over on the other end, Nan Cheng was standing right before Jiang Mohan’s office. He was dropping him a document when he ran into Ling Wei crying her eyes out on the floor in his office.

They had been colleagues for some time ever since he started working for Jiang Mohan. Although he did not agree with her on how she handled things, he still saw her as a friend.

When he saw Ling Wei on the floor, he went over and helped her up.

Back in the car, Jiang Mohan shifted his gaze to the fleeting skyline of the city outside the car window. “I need you to run a background check on Lin Ruixi.”

Jiang Mohan simply had to get to the bottom of it. He hated that feeling when he mistook her for Zong Yanxi. But most of all, he hated himself for acting unusual whenever he was with her.

He needed to know badly who she was and why he kept taking her for Zong Yanxi.

A brief silence came from Nan Cheng’s side when he heard Jiang Mohan’s request. He was still trying to get his head around why he asked him to do a search on her. “What am I supposed to look for? How she got into Rui Mei?”

“No. I want to know why she got into Rui Mei,” Jiang Mohan corrected.

“Alright, I’ll look into it,” Nan Cheng replied before Jiang Mohan ended the call.

Beside Nan Cheng, Ling Wei overheard their conversation and shot him a questioning look. “Did he ask you to run a check on Lin Ruixi?”

Nan Cheng nodded briefly without looking at her. “Did you guys get into a fight?” he asked.

Judging from how she was balling her eyes out on the floor, Nan Cheng knew something must have happened. “This is our workplace and you’re the head of the Planning Department. What do you think other people will say if they see you like this?” Nan Cheng criticized.

But Ling Wei was lost in her own thoughts. Instead of answering him, she asked, “Don’t you think Mohan has changed a lot?”

Nan Cheng shook his head definitely.

Yet Ling Wei disregarded him and her gaze hardened. “I can tell he’s changed. He asked me to apologize to Lin Ruixi, and now he’s asking you to do a background check on her. What does he think he’s doing? Is he interested in her? We’ve worked for him for a long time, and we know what kind of a person he is. He’s not someone who’s into women. Yes, he got together with Zong Yanxi and was loyal to her throughout, but that’s because he wanted to get revenge. But what about Lin Ruixi? I can’t believe I have to tackle yet another woman now that Zong Yanxi is dead!”

A short silence followed Ling Wei’s spiteful tirade before Nan Cheng finally spoke calmly. “Ling Wei, Mohan stayed away from women even after he divorced Mrs. Jiang because he genuinely loved her. I don’t think it’s because he’s not into women.”

Ling Wei glared at him in ferocity and cried out, “Are you out of your mind? He loved Zong Yanxi? She’s his enemy! Also, they’re not married anymore, so stop calling her Mrs. Jiang!”

Nan Cheng stood unmoved in face of her aggressive reproach. He knew she was too blinded by jealousy to look at the situation objectively.

In this regard, Jiang Mohan was the same as Ling Wei. He was so consumed by vengeance that he did not realize his own feelings for Zong Yanxi.

Over the past year, he had become colder to people around him and had even cut all the women out of his life. In Nan Cheng’s eyes, that was all because he had lost Zong Yanxi.

But there was nothing Nan Cheng could do—they were all too deep in the abyss of their emotions.

Having made up his mind to leave Ling Wei alone, Nan Cheng walked towards the door. Before vanishing around the door, he turned towards her and left her some words of advice. “Ling Wei, it’s time you stop.”

But his advice fell on deaf ears. Seeing Nan Cheng leave, Ling Wei dashed over and clung to him. “Nan Cheng, we’re friends, right?” she asked imploringly.

“Yes,” Nan Cheng replied.

“Then do me a favor. Please add one extra piece of information about Lin Ruixi regardless of what you find out about her.”