The CEO Bought the Villa With the Ghost Cultivator Inside novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Gate

"Where did you learn that song?" Meiyin asked in the morning.

They were in the kitchen, and Bai Ling was standing on tiptoe at the stove in Meiyin's grey sweater, trying to understand why the kettle had no fire under it.

"Which song?"

"The one you hummed in bed."

Bai Ling's hand stopped on the kettle's handle.

"I do not know that I hummed."

"You did.

It goes down, then up, then down again."

"Ah." Bai Ling turned her back to the counter.

Her face was careful.

"It is an old tune of the Su household.

The maids sang it at the lake while they washed the silk.

I suppose it has stayed in my bones."

"My mother sang it to me."

"Many people sing old tunes."

It was a calm, polite answer.

Meiyin heard the small pause at the front of it.

She decided to ask again later.

Then the doorbell at the gate rang, long and flat, three times.

Meiyin knew that ring.

It was the ring of a woman who had never once waited on a doorstep in her life.

She went out in her bare feet and her silk robe, across the cold gravel, with Bai Ling behind her.

Jiang Xue stood on the other side of the iron bars.

She wore a cream blazer and cream trousers and a camel coat over her shoulders.

Her chestnut waves were perfect.

Beside her stood a man in a gray suit with a briefcase, who did not look up.

"Meiyin," Jiang Xue said, with a warm smile that did not touch her eyes.

"I tried to call."

"I saw."

"You didn't answer."

"I know."

"Well." Jiang Xue lifted a folded paper through the bars.

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