CHAPTER FORTY: I Am All Ears.

"Yes," Zhong Ah Lam started off as she stared at the guard in front of her, "I do," she concluded.

Then ask away, I am all ears and ready to answer your queries." The guard replied seeming rather shocked, they did not have many visitors and also questions so it was odd to get a visitor with a question.

Most of the family members just passed by then like they were statues that needed no recognition.

Most of her weight, she was actually losing it. But that did not scare her too much as her engagement had been cancelled and so nothing would happen even after she changed.

Looking at the setting sun with a steamed bun in her hand, Zhong Kexin knew that she had to take the next step - to change her skin tone. The potatoes in the Zhong family mansion were enough to help her loose that tan. She was just needed to make a paste and scrub it on her skin then peel it off like she had previously seen in a tutorial online and she would easily change. Then she would start dieting to get rid of her fat, she would need just three months. But that was nothing to her, she had been a skilled 'dermatologist' in her previous life so that would not worry her.

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Looking down at the tanned young girl, crown prince Jun Yuanchao seemed confused. Wasn't she banned from going outside without permission? Also, he wondered why Zhong Guiying had not visited him yet she was the one who had suggested breaking up the engagement inorder to marry him. He had to message her soon as his father was getting impatient about it. But he kind of felt feeble looking at her, she had been chasing him all her life but at that time, she was enjoying her life while he suffered at the hands of his father. Sighing, he left for the interior of the house.

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"It's already at dusk, we should leave." Zhi Meng Yao suggested as the two stood up and headed for the mansion. They again climbed the walls but from the farm's side as there was no one there during that hour. And with the day over, the two headed to their abode.

" Zhong Kexin, seventh sister has left the mansion, has any of you spotted her?" She asked.

Shaking his head in negation, the guard replied, "The gates have just been opened since morning to allow the passage of the vegetables for the kitchen, so nobody has left or entered maybe she climbed the walls." The guard suggested as Zhong Ah Lam nodded her head in acceptance. She quite understood what he said and walked away. She had no evidence yet her presence was one, of course she would have climbed the walls or disguised herself but nobody could have fallen for that trick, she was too plump and tanned although her size seemed to be changing slightly for the past few days.

Looking at the already bloomed pink chrysanthemum flowers in a vase before her, Zhong Guiying clenched her fists angrily and then caressed softly their soft to the touch petals. The flowers scent was remarkably outstanding - not like other flowers. And she hated it! She hated anyone who competed with her since a child, as a child while in the academy, she had thrown a young girl in the well because the last candied hawthorns berries were bought by her, she excelled better than her in education and got all her parent's love as her father had never married another wife. She hated it just hearing her 'brag' about her good life.