Chapter 56
Seeing how everyone was still huddled in the kitchen, Bai Jingshu bounded over and asked, “Can we
eat now?”
“Yes, yes… Let’s eat.” An Xia pushed Bai Jingshu over to the dining room, leaving Qin Muchen and Su
Ziyue alone in the kitchen.
Su Ziyue nced at the dining table and caught sight of An Xia waving a fist at her to cheer her on.
Why was An Xia cheering for her? Was it for her to get an alimony payment from the divorce?
Su Ziyue retracted her gaze and whispered, “Let’s eat.”
She wasn’t someone who was very thick-skinned; she had only just chased him off her doorstepst
night, so she was feeling a little self-conscious now that they had met up again.
Qin Muchen himself was a wless person. However, to her, this was far from enough.
A proper rtionship should consist of both parties being honest with each other with no secrets
between them.
Clearly, Qin Muchen was someone with plenty of secrets. When faced with an impossible rtionship,
the first thing she thought of was to mitigate the damage and keep herself safe.
She averted her gaze downward so that Qin Muchen wouldn’t be able to see her eyes and guess her
thoughts.
He turned his head back and watched as the people at the dining table debated whether they should
cook the meat or the vegetables first,pletely unconcerned about him and Su Ziyue. Then, he took
a step forward and reached out to grip Su Ziyue’s chin precisely and lifted it up a little.
Su Ziyue realized what he was about to do and widened her eyes in shock. Despite this, she still
couldn’t stop his forceful invasion in the end.
He gripped her chin and pressed his lips against hers eagerly. Their lips bumped against each other,
teeth cking and breaths intertwining.
He kissed her so hurriedly and dizzyingly that Su Ziyue was forced to take a few steps back. Had Qin
Muchen not pulled her back in time, she would certainly have tripped and fell onto the floor.
“Let’s eat.”
Su Ziyue pushed him off with a panicked expression on her face before turning around; she then
walked toward the dining table.
An Xia rapped Bai Jingshu’s hand with her chopsticks. “You’re a man—how can you be this
unreasonable! You can’t cook m beef in clear soup!”
“But I like m beef when it’s cooked in clear soup!”
Bai Jingshu dumped the remaining beef on the tter into the pot of clear soup.
An Xia was about to tell him off when she saw Su Ziyue and Qin Muchen approaching them. She
leaned in from her seat across Bai Jingshuo’s and whispered, “Toothpick.”
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Incidentally, Qin Muchen heard this as he sat down, so he nced at Bai Jingshu with an odd
expression.
Gooseflesh prickled all over Bai Jingshu as a result of Qin Muchen’s stare. “What are you looking at?”
Qin Muchen sized him up wordlessly, his gaze finally settling on the space right below his waist.
Bai Jingshu was alert. “If you’ve got something to say, then say it. Why are you looking at me?”
“Nothing.”
Qin Muchen’s expression was still off, but he did not continue to look at Bai Jingshu.
Apart from Su Ziyue and her tempestuous feelings, this meal went by peacefully.
Before Qin Muchen left, he looked at Su Ziyue with a gaze filled with meaning. All of a sudden, she
recalled that Qin Muchen had bought the food for their hotpot yesterday.
...
Bai Jingshu followed Qin Muchen and crammed himself into the car.
“Why were you looking at me earlier?” Bai Jingshu asked from the passenger seat as he fastened his
seatbelt.
Qin Muchen mulled it over. In the end, he decided to ask after his friend’s health; after all, they had
been friends for years. “What’s going on between you and Miss An?”
“That t-chested girlie? I just haven’t met such an unreasonable woman before!” He was primarily
disgruntled that his years of pick-up tricks—which had always worked without fail—were useless on An
Xia.
“There are some things that we, as men, have to restrain at times.” Qin Muchen’s expression was
nk as he drove.
Bai Jingshu finally could detect the implications in Qin Muchen’s words. He stared at him fearfully and
asked, “What do you mean?”
“I think that Miss An might not be too pleased with your performance in a certain area.”
Qin Muchen vaguely conveyed the implied meaning from An Xia’s words earlier.
Bai Jingshu’s face darkened immediately; it wasn’t like he could tell Qin Muchen that this moniker was
something that Su Ziyue had suggested.
However, the enmity between him and An Xia grew.
Seeing how Bai Jingshu remained silent, Qin Muchen assumed that he agreed, but was too
embarrassed to mention it; he did not follow up on it either.
He got to know Bai Jingshu when he went abroad at 14 years old; their years of friendship made him
think that he should be concerned about his only friend.
“I’ve postponed the checkup to the afternoon. Let’s go together.”
Bai Jingshu red at him and turned his head around, staring at the window to nurse his wounded
feelings.
He wasn’t a toothpick; he was an eggnt!
...
The weekend had been packed, and Saturday ended with a hotpot dinner.
On Sunday, Su Ziyue and An Xia went out the entire day, leaving all their troubles and worries at the
back of their minds.
Monday finally came, and Su Ziyue got up early for work. When she arrived at her office, someone
came to look for her.
“Miss Su, the chairman has asked for you.”
“Alright, thank you. I’ll be over immediately.”
As soon as the person left, An Xia leaned in from her seat next to Su Ziyue. “Why is the chairman
calling for you? You don’t think he’s out to get you now, isn’t he?”
“Rx—he’d just threaten me at most or put some pressure. He won’t do much to me for the time
being.” Su Ziyue knew Su Youcheng’s behavior very well, and patted An Xia’s shoulder to show that
she shouldn’t worry.
...
When she arrived at Su Youcheng’s office, she realized that Su Yige was also there.
“Ziyue.” Su Yige turned to look at her, a natural and graceful smile on her face.
Su Ziyue returned her smile. “Yige.”
Su Youcheng did not seem to have picked up on the hidden war between them and waved a hand at
Su Ziyue. “Come, Ziyue. Give me a simple report about the talks with LK Group.”
Su Ziyue had also guessed that he called her in to ask about LK Group; she walked over and began
her report.
Last week, they had immediately sent her to LK Group on her first day of work, but she wasn’t able to
come to an agreement even after the whole day.
She gave a brief update on her report before Su Youcheng nodded. After a few minutes of silence, he
said, “In that case, bring Yige with you as well the next time you go. She has more experience, so she
can still help you if there’s anything you don’t know.”
Upon hearing those words, Su Ziyue looked up to nce at Su Yige. Su Yige was attempting to steal
her credit.
“If Yige wants toe, then I have no right to object.”
Su Ziyue’s generosity pleased Su Youcheng greatly.
However, Su Yige wasn’t all that pleased; she had wanted to make Su Ziyue feel challenged and get
her to kick up a fuss with Grandpa by making her assume that Grandpa only wanted Su Yige toe
along because he was worried about Su Ziyue’s capabilities.
She hadn’t expected Su Ziyue to immediately say that she was the one who wanted toe instead.
“However, the chairman of LK Group isn’t quite well-tempered. Yige, you’ll have to prepare yourself
mentally.” Su Ziyue was all smiles as her voice pitched higher toward the end. It sounded as though
she was giving a kind reminder to Su Yige.
Su Youcheng agreed. “You can tell that he is a little entric because he has never once shown his
face to the media throughout these years.”
“Then, what kind of person is the LK Group’s chairman?” asked Su Yige.
“He’s a handsome man. A very dashing one.”
And that man is not interested in you at all.
Su Yige’s eyes brightened.
Su Ziyue smiled indiscernably; based on her interactions with him, she knew that Qin Muchen would
not fall for a woman like Su Yige. She was actually a little eager to see how things would turn out when
they finally meet.