“What’s the good news?” Mu Yu was awakened from her sleep. “Would it be that the murderer of Sun Meilan got captured?”
Jiang Wenwen replied, “That’s not it. It’s Gan Wulin. He got into a car accident last night and broke one of his legs. I heard that he will become a handicap for the rest of his life. Haha, let’s see how he’s going to act after that accident of his.”
“Who’s Gan Wulin?”
“That savage son of Sun Meilan. Didn’t I tell you about him yesterday. Haha, I told you so, karma’s a b*tch. You will reap what you sow sooner or later. Now it’s getting back on them one by one.” Jiang Wenwen was clapping her hands over the phone.
Mu Yu responded and remembered the death of Sun Meilan. She asked immediately, “Is this really an accident or…”
“I didn’t ask much about this. I don’t care how he got involved in the car accident, I only care whether he's involved in the car accident for real.”
“Who told you he met with a car accident?”
“My mum.”
“How did your mum get the news?”
“The news had passed all around my entire neighborhood. The neighbors are all busy gossiping about it now. My mum had just told me about this. I was so happy that I immediately called you.” Feeling that Mu Yu wasn’t that excited, Jiang Wenwen felt a little disappointed. She said with a little self-deprecating tone, “Sigh, I thought you would be as happy as me.”
Mu Yu didn’t explain and asked her back, “Wenwen, can you go around your neighborhood to find out the place and the reason for Gan Wulin’s car accident?”
Jiang Wenwen responded, “You think his car accident and his mother’s death are connected?”
Mu Yu answered slowly, “I don’t know, that’s why I want to find out more.”
“Sure, I’ll ask my mum to go around the neighborhood and ask about it immediately. I’ll call you once I get the news.”
“Okay.”
Mu Yu hung up and saw it was only a quarter past six. She had lost all her sense of sleepiness and decided to get up from bed. She casually glanced at the side of the bed, and found out that there wasn’t anyone. Then, she immediately looked around, but she couldn’t find any trace of Qin Jinhuan. She couldn’t help but feel strange, as she knew Qin Jinhuan wasn’t an early riser, but she couldn’t care about him. She went downstairs to brush her teeth and change her clothes.
After going downstairs, she realized that none of the servants had been seen and felt something wasn’t right about it. While she was getting suspicious, Dong Wanqing’s voice came from the dining room, “Grandpa, let me hold this for you.”
“This is ridiculous.” Qin Xiaozhi’s tone was clearly laced with dissatisfaction.
After hearing their conversation, Mu Yu regretted coming downstairs this early. She would usually wait until it was past seven o’clock to come downstairs, just so she could miss breakfast time with the both of them. As she wanted to turn around and go back upstairs, Dong Wanqing’s voice rang again.
“Grandpa, don’t be angry. Don’t you have me to take care of you? Sigh, grandpa, do you think that woman has voodoo powers? Based on Huan’s personality, he wouldn’t fall so hard for an average woman like her. He has even let all the servants serve her, and hasn’t even left one servant to tend to you while you have your meal. He is also well aware that you dislike her, but he still insists on spoiling her. Grandpa, why do I feel like he’s doing it to deliberately anger you?”
She’s causing trouble again! How many days was it since she stopped doing so?
Mu Yu was a little unhappy as she paused her steps.
“Hmph. I’ll see how much longer he can pretend.”
“Grandpa, have you realized it? I think so too.” Dong Wanqing was obviously very happy. “It’s not normal to not have a wedding after registering the marriage certificate. It’s reasonable if Huan is using his mother as an excuse, but it doesn’t make sense if they’ve gotten married without any wedding photos and a honeymoon. It’s too fake.”
“Let him be. He’s already thirty-two years old. There isn’t much time for him to lose. You have to be patient. Grandpa is here. The position of the Qin family’s mistress will be yours sooner or later.”
“Thank you, grandpa. Being patient is one of my biggest advantages. Grandpa, the egg is peeled, you can eat it slowly. Do you want another crab roe dumpling?”
“Sure.”
“The milk is also heated. Be careful as it’s hot.”
“You are still so nice and obedient. I didn’t misjudge you. Alright, don’t just look after this old man, sit down and help yourself too.”
“I like looking after you.”
“Good, very good.”
The dining room was filled with Qin Xiaozhi’s joyful laughter.
Mu Yu was sullen and didn’t bother to continue listening to their conversation. She didn’t even go upstairs, but she went outside instead. She immediately understood what Dong Wanqing meant when she mentioned that the servants in the entire manor were serving only her.
As soon as she went out, she saw all the servants were busy under the osmanthus tree.
“Why are you up? Don’t you want to sleep longer?” Qin Jinhuan, who was standing under another osmanthus tree and was chatting with Bian Zijun, noticed her and immediately greeted her with a smile.
“Stop picking. Everyone stop picking.” Mu Yu ignored him and went forward to stop everyone.
Everyone looked at her. Then, all of them had their eyes on Qin Jinhuan.
“What is it?” Qin Jinhuan was also confused.
“There are droplets from the morning mist, so the osmanthus flowers that are picked won’t last long. It would be best to pick them during the afternoon or the evening.”
“Oh, pick them during the afternoon then.” Qin Jinhuan waved at everyone. Everyone took his signal, kept all of their tools and returned to their workplaces.
How good is he at pretending! No wonder Dong Wanqing is always jealous. This Qin Jinhuan, doesn’t he know about ‘the more affectionate you show, the harder you fall’?
Mu Yu didn’t find it funny.
“Have you taken your breakfast?” Qin Jinhuan walked beside her and put his arm over her shoulders naturally while he asked softly.
“Not yet.” Mu Yu didn’t wave his hand away. She knew today was just the beginning of them showing their affection toward each other.
“Let’s go and eat.” Qin Jinhuan pulled her into the house toward the dining room.
Inside the dining room, Dong Wanqing and Qin Xiaozhi hadn’t finished eating yet.
Qin Jinhuan pulled a seat for Mu Yu. After she had sat down, he went and sat beside her.
At this moment, Li Xianglan had already served their breakfasts.
Mu Yu was aware that Dong Wanqing’s jealous gaze was aimed at her from time to time. When she was about to eat her eggs, there was something else shone in Mu Yu’s eyes. She picked her egg yolk out from her plate and pushed it to Qin Jinhuan, whispering softly, “Huan, I don’t want to eat the egg yolk. You help me eat it.”
Yesterday, Mu Yu had coincidentally heard Rong Jian mentioned that Qin Jinhuan didn’t eat egg yolks, because he would easily choke on it.
At this moment, Mu Yu was gloating at her.
Today, Qin Jinhuan was the one who started their big show of showing their affection toward each other. If he refused to cooperate with her, it would be his own consequences that he needed to bear.
Of course, she was hoping that he would eat the egg yolk. One, it was to make Dong Wanqing jealous; two, it was simply because she wanted to enjoy the look on Qin Jinhuan’s face when he was choking.
After looking at Qin Jinhuan staring at the egg yolk for two seconds and picked up his chopsticks to eat the egg yolk, Mu Yu knew he was about to eat it. She immediately took the glass of milk in front of her and drank the whole glass.
She had everything figured out in her mind. When Qin Jinhuan choked, she would pretend to care for him and give him a glass of milk. She would then grab the opportunity to spill the milk, so that Qin Jinhuan would suffer longer on his choke while waiting for Li Xianglan to bring him some water.
However, she was soon disappointed. Because the egg yolk was eaten and Qin Jinhuan hadn’t choked on it.
“Why aren’t you eating? Don’t they suit your appetite? I’ve forgotten that you like to eat noodles in sour soup in the morning.” Qin Jinhuan then ordered Li Xianglan, “For tomorrow morning, prepare some noodles in sour soup for the mistress. Oh, she likes to add minced parsley in her noodles. Add more parsley for her.”
“Yes, Young Master.”
Oh God, I hate eating parsley the most!
It seemed that her little scheme of letting him choke on his egg yolk had been seen through by him.
Terrified at the thought of eating parsley, Mu Yu quickly smiled and tried to stop her, “Auntie Lan, there’s no need to be so troublesome. I can just eat it like that, it tastes quite good.”
“There’s no trouble, no trouble indeed. Mistress, you don’t have to be so polite. This is my duty.”
Li Xianglan waved her hand continuously.
“The noodles that Auntie Lan makes are delicious. You will definitely love it.” Qin Jinhuan smiled while he poured a glass of milk for Mu Yu.
This vengeful Beast Qin!
Mu Yu was cursing under her breath, but she couldn’t not put on a happy smile until Dong Wanqing and Qin Xiaozhi left the dining room.
After she finished her breakfast, Mu Yu got up and was ready to walk out of the dining room. However, she was pulled down by Qin Jinhuan while he carefully adjusted her blouse for her and helped her push away the hair on her messy fringe.
“Grandpa is already upstairs. There’s no one to watch the show.” She reminded him rudely.
Take acting as a habit, it will look more natural.” After Qin Jinhuan finished saying, he gave her a gentle smile, and then took her hand and walked out of the door together.
The driver, Huang Bo, had already parked the car outside the manor. When he saw the both of them coming out, he quickly went and opened the car door.
Qin Jinhuan put his hand over Mu Yu’s head. After carefully helping her get into the car and made sure she was seated, he closed the car door and walked to the other side to get into the car.
Cough!
Mu Yu could only show how speechless she was.
After the car started moving, Qin Jinhuan returned to his normal self in Mu Yu’s eyes and kept his distance from sitting with her. He didn’t even make another sound.
After sending her to work, he repeatedly told her that he was going to pick her up at two o’clock in the afternoon and left.
Finally having her own space of freedom, Mu Yu’s mood instantly felt so much better. She cleaned up the forensic lab and saw there wasn’t anything left for her to do. Then, she went to Rong Jian’s office. At least, Mu Yu finally got all the interrogation records of all the people that held a grudge on Sun Meilan regarding the case. She had happily gone back to her office to have a further study on them.
At two o’clock in the afternoon, Qin Jinhuan came over to pick her up on time.
Since she had already taken her day off, she followed him to the OnlyOne Styling Center. The person-in-charge of OnlyOne, Sister Ou, had welcomed them warmly.
After Qin Jinhuan briefed on Sister Ou, he passed Mu Yu to her and was about to leave. Suddenly, Mu Yu thought of Jiang Wenwen and immediately pulled him while she pleaded, “Can I bring a friend to the party tonight?”
“A female?”
“Yes. She’s my friend, my best friend.”
“Seven o’clock tonight, third floor of Gloria Hotel, tell her to mention my name.”
“Hey!” Mu Yu grabbed his arms again. “It looks like it's going to take a long time during this afternoon. I’m going to be bored being alone. Can I ask her to come now?”
At the same time, she could also ask about Gan Wulin.
Qin Jinhuan didn’t know of her thoughts. After thinking awhile, he called Sister Ou again and pointed at Mu Yu, saying, “My wife’s friend will come over later. Serve her well and put her on my bill too.”
Sister Ou was smiling brightly. “Don’t worry, Mr. Qin. We will make sure that your wife and her friend will be satisfied with our service.”
Hearing what he said, Mu Yu immediately called Jiang Wenwen and told her everything. Jiang Wenwen was delighted, and said that she would change her classes to take the rest of the day off. After half an hour, she managed to rush to OnlyOne.
While the both of them were getting their hair and makeup done, Jiang Wenwen told everything that her mother had told her about Gan Wulin’s accident to Mu Yu. This was before Mu Yu even had the chance to ask.
“An accident? Are you sure?”
“I’m sure! It was due to him drinking too much and drunk driving. They didn’t even report it to the insurance company.”
Mu Yu was disappointed with her words. She took out her notebook and scanned the list of people that had held a grudge on Sun Meilan, trying to get something out of Jiang Wenwen but to no avail. She was so disappointed that she kept her notebook and stopped talking about the case. Instead, she had a light chat with Jiang Wenwen.
At five thirty in the evening, the two of them were dolled up and sent to the entrance of the Heavenly Shopping Centre by Huang Bo. Huang Bo had given Mu Yu a card so that they could go to the seventh floor of Clothing World’s studio to try out their evening gowns and left.
When the both of them reached the seventh floor of Clothing World, they were very excited at the dazzling array of beautiful clothes. After looking around, Mu Yu finally decided to try on a little white dress.
She didn’t realize that she had torn the zipper after being too forceful with it when she was trying on the dress. Looking at the wall, there was a sign writing ‘All the clothes in this shop are fine products. Please try them on carefully. If it is damaged due to personal reasons, it is considered as sold.’ She then quietly looked at the tag that had 38,000 printed on it and became instantly nervous. Immediately, she asked Jiang Wenwen to bring her bag to her so that she could use the card that Huang Bo had given her in order to see if she had enough money to pay for the dress.
“Bag? I didn’t take your bag!”
After taking a moment to realize, Mu Yu’s face turned pale.
She had forgotten and left her bag in the car. The card and her phone were in her bag. What was even worse was that she couldn’t even remember Qin Jinhuan’s phone number.
“I only have 3,000 on my card. It’s not enough to pay! What should we do?” Jiang Wenwen, who just learnt the situation, was also shocked.
“Or shall we run? Anyway, they can still sell it as a new dress after repairing the zipper.”
“Okay.”
While they were discussing in a low tone and holding their hands together, ready to run away, they didn’t expect to be surrounded by the workers of the studio once they stepped out of the changing room.
It turned out someone had felt something wasn’t right when Mu Yu called for Jiang Wenwen to get into the changing room with her. A short employee pushed aside the both of them, walked quickly into the changing room and took out the white dress with the torn zipper. With a proud look, she passed the dress to the lady in a cheongsam to see. “Boss, I told you there’s something fishy about the two of them, didn’t I? We could have lost money if we let them sneak out.”The cheongsam lady looked at the dress with the torn zipper and looked at the sign. Pointing at the friendly reminder that was hung on the wall, she asked Mu Yu, “When you entered my studio, did my worker tell you about the friendly reminder?”“He did,” Mu Yu guiltily said the truth. “In that case, please pay according to the price. 38,000, are you paying by card or by cash?”“I don’t have any money.”The short employee yelled, “How dare you ent
If she had encountered something like this in the past, Mu Yu would definitely call Xin Yihan for help immediately, but now… Yihan was so clever. She mustn’t let him see through anything. Sigh… Thinking of Qin Jinhuan taking revenge on her behalf at Clothing World, she had felt her previous performance must have been really bad. Even Wenwen knew how to use Qin Jinhuan as a shield. Her aura was so weak that nobody even believed that she was Qin Jinhuan’s lawfully wedded wife. Although behind closed doors, Qin Jinhuan would find various excuses to take advantage of me, he had always played the role of being a good husband really well in public. When it was time to fight for myself, why couldn’t I grab that opportunity nicely? What if Yi Yunzhe had seen through it? How am I going to explain to Qin Jinhuan?Thinking of this, Mu Yu’s depression turned into nervousness. Beside her, Jiang Wenwen was praising Qin Jinhuan
“Mu Yu, don’t overreact. You will scare your friend.” Wen Zeyu smiled and put his arm on Mu Yu’s shoulders as he slowly pressured her to sit down. Mu Yu had a serious look on her face. “Zeyu, tell me the truth. Do you have anything to do with Gan Wulin’s car accident?” The ‘you’ that she mentioned included Qin Jinhuan, and Wen Zeyu knew it. He asked jokingly, “Mu Yu, would you believe me if I say no?” “Stop fooling around. I’m talking about a serious matter with you!” When he saw Mu Yu’s face turn sour, Wen Zeyu immediately gave an apologetic smile. “Come on, don’t be angry. Didn’t I just say no? It’s nothing. Huan and I are good citizens! Really good citizens!” “Then how did you know that he broke his right leg? Wenwen doesn’t know this even though she is Gan Wulin’s neighbor.” “Nobody in our neighborhood knows about this.” Jiang Wenwen’s eyes lit up as she added. The way she looked at Wen Zeyu had
As the sun rose, the alarm clock rang too. Mu Yu, who was sleeping soundly, opened her eyes. She yawned and stretched out her hand to switch off the alarm clock. Lifting her sheets, she got up and glanced at the left side of the bed habitually. She wasn’t surprised to see Qin Jinhuan absent. She wore her slippers and got off from bed. As she walked to the french windows, she pulled the curtains aside and opened the windows. A gust of cool wind swept past her. As she took a deep breath, there was an instant feeling of delight spreading all over her. Giving herself a big lazy stretch, she was ready to wash up. As she turned around, she caught two figures standing at a distance from the corner of her eyes. She immediately paused to take a closer look. She could only see Qin Jinhuan and Rong Jian standing by the fountain in the middle of the backyard. As Qin Jinhuan's back was facing the window where she was standing by, she couldn
In Qin Jinhuan’s room. Mu Yu placed a bowl of osmanthus flowers on the coffee table. She picked up some flowers and demonstrated to Qin Jinhuan. “Only keep the light-yellow petals. You can’t leave any green stems or else it’ll affect your health after consumption. Put the osmanthus flowers that are plucked into this empty bowl here. Do you understand?” Qin Jinhuan was shocked. “This is a huge amount of osmanthus flowers. Do all of them need to have their stems plucked off?”“Yes.”“How long would I need to finish plucking them?” “We need to see your speed then.” Mu Yu sat down on the side of the sofa happily, crossing her legs. “You obeyed my every word before I was pregnant. Now that I'm pregnant, you should spoil me in every way you can. Auntie Lan has even bought the sugar for preserving the osmanthus flowers, and is waiting for you to get it downstairs. If you’re not going to do anything this whole time, keep i
“What-What is it?” Mu Yu looked at him nervously. “My phone number, written a thousand times. I’ll come back and check for it tonight.” As it turned out, he was asking about this. Mu Yu heaved a sigh of relief and asked with a smile, “Let me do a memory playback for you. It’s 1…”Qin Jinhuan glanced at her faintly. “Did I ask you to memorize it? I want you to copy it down.” “There’s no need to copy it down if I can memorize it. I…” “Then I’ll give your parents a call.” “Don’t, don’t, don’t! You promised me not to disturb them over trivial things!” When he already fished out his phone, there was no more space for negotiation. Mu Yu’s imposing manner instantly turned weak and she timidly grabbed his hands. “I’ll write. I’ll write, okay? A thousand times, not one time less.” “Very good. Let me check it tonight.” Qin Jinhuan put his phone back into his pocket. Then, he hummed a
That woman was scolding angrily but got cut off by Mu Yu. Seeing Mu Yu in an ordinary outfit and looking pissed off, the woman rolled her eyes disdainfully. “What? So you decided to be a busybody? Nowadays, you can’t be one without having money.”The man in spectacles looked at Mu Yu in shock. He then turned his gaze away and continued apologizing humbly to the woman. Mu Yu didn’t even bother looking at the woman and turned to the man in spectacles. “What actually happened?”When she saw that he was ignoring her, she knew that he couldn’t recognize her, so she immediately introduced herself, “I am Jiang Wenwen’s classmate.” “Oh. Thank you, but this is no big deal. I can handle it.” The man in spectacles wiped away his sweat, and pretended nothing serious had happened as he donned a smile. “Ugh, such big talk like it’s really no big deal! It’s 50,000 we’re talking about!” the woman mocked him sarcastically.
‘Clothing World’s owner’, ‘jumped off the building’, ‘died on the spot’ were the few key phrases that made Mu Yu’s head spin. “How could this be? How could this be?” She subconsciously grabbed Jiang Wenwen’s arm tightly. Her voice was shaky, and her eyes were trembling. No wonder the woman was instantly shocked to that extent just now. Jiang Wenwen, whose face was just as pale, held her phone tightly and looked at Yan Xiaobing with disbelief. “Bing, is-is this true?” Yan Xiaobing nodded solemnly. “After that incident, there were some colleagues that went to the scene to have a look. They confirmed that the victim was the owner of the Clothing World, Fu Hongyun.” “Oh my God!” Mu Yu felt her legs weakened. Jiang Wenwen immediately helped her up and was speaking so fast as if she was trying to convince herself. “Maybe the reason she jumped off the building wasn’t because of what happened yesterday, but