Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 73

Chapter 73 The Footage From Years Ago

Staring at Mu Zhi, Lu Jinye subconsciously curved his lips into a smile. RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only

He asked, “Do you care?”

Mu Zhi realized that what she asked had been pushing her boundaries. She responded with a faint smile, “I’m alright, just afraid that Miss Xiao would misunderstand.”

“She won’t.”

After listening to what he had to say, Mu Zhi bolted into the bedroom. She was lying on the bed when Lu Jinye headed into the bathroom. The sound of water splash made Mu Zhi stay wide awake.

It was pretty awkward to sleep next to him. Thus, Mu Zhi was eagerly trying to fall asleep so that she did not have to face Lu Jinye when he was done.

However, the flow of water ceased in the bathroom. When Lu Jinye came out, Mu Zhi felt no sleepiness at all.

She shut her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

And the more she pretended, the more she could sense what was happening around her, as though her senses were suddenly heightened. Mu Zhi could hear the sound of Lu Jinye climbing onto the bed.

She could also hear Lu Jinye lying down and reaching out the turn the lights off with a click.

In the past, except for that time of the month, Lu Jinye would attack her pink fortress every night without fail.

This was the first and the only time when the two of them called a truce, lying next to each other without any form of negotiation.

Outside, the sound of rain appeared to have become increasingly heavy.

And for some reason, it was difficult to fall asleep that night.

…

On the other hand, Xiao Qingqing almost did not sleep through the night. She wrote another story. This time zoomed into the part where Mu Zhi and Lu Junnian had a child.

Using the force of internet users in a dull and bleak night, she managed to push the story to the front page once again.

Apart from her, staying up through the night were Lu Junnian and Xu Changshu.

Stepping through the door in a hectic manner as he was escaping the rain, Lu Junnian was greeted by Xu Changshu with a stern face, sitting on the couch.

He could hardly bother greeting her. “What are you doing here?” He muttered to Xu Changshu irritably.

Xu Changshu rose and gradually walked before Lu Junnian and said, “After the baseless accusations against you and Mu Zhi, how could I sit around and do nothing?”

Lu Junnian raised his eyes and glanced at her, “Mom, go home and get some rest, I can handle it myself.”

He was emotionless, showing no intention of asking Xu Changshu stay.

At this moment, Xu Changshu pulled a pile of documents from her bag and handed it to Lu Junnian, “Junnian, check these out, what type of woman do you like? Mu Zhi is not the only woman in the

world!”

Xu Changshu sounded a little anxious when she mentioned Mu Zhi’s name.

Lu Junnian barely batted an eye at the documents. He said, “Take these away, Mu Zhi is not the only woman in the world, but she is the only woman of my world!”

His words immediately made her fume.

But Lu Junnian was seemingly unwilling to say another word to Xu Changshu. He stood up and headed towards the bathroom.

Xu Changshu came before him within a few strides.

“Listen to me, go on a blind date, find a decent woman and marry her. I can handle the ordeal for you.”

Xu Changshu was struck with anxiousness as she spoke.

Hearing that, Lu Junnian turned around and faced her, eyes filled with coldness. “Handle it for me? How? By pushing Mu Zhi off the cliff?”

If it weren’t for her interfering with him and Mu Zhi years ago, they would have been married by now.

He was a coward in the past, and he was paying for his cowardice now.

He refused to budge.

Listening to Lu Junnian’s hostile voice, Xu Changshu was starting to lose patience. She looked at him, head tilted upwards, and said overbearingly, “So what if I push her off the cliff? It was true that she did all those, I’m not framing her.”

“She does not deserve you.”

“Hoho,” Lu Junnian scoffed, “She doesn’t deserve me, does she? Mom, aren’t you riding on the Lu’s Family’s coattails too?!”

Finishing what he needed to say, Lu Junnian was done with her. He pushed the bathroom door open and entered.

Turning on the water, the sound of running water and the sturdy door became a perfect barrier between the two of them.

Xu Changshu waited by the door for a long time. She shouted at him. But all her words were drowned in the splashing water.

In the end, she put the photos and documents back into her bag, hopped into her car under the heavy downpour, and took off.

She dialed a number as soon as she got in her car. A man’s voice sounded, indistinct noises clamoring in the background. She said, “Where are you? I want to see you.”

“I’m at City A, it’s not too convenient, anything happened?”

The man’s voice was laced with insouciance.

While a woman’s giggle could be heard intermittently throughout the call, “Mr. Zhang, when you were the Floor Manager at the sumptuous hotel, did you have experience with celebrities going there for a one-night-stand?”

“Oh yeah, let us know.”

Another woman teased.

Xu Changshu could not help but scowl at the sound of the women’s flirtatious voice. She told Mr. Zhang, “Didn’t I tell you to keep the surveillance footage from years ago? Pass it to me, I need it now.”

“Sure, I’ll look for it at home after this session. It’ll be 500 thousand for the footage.”

The man said straight away.

“Why don’t you go rob a bank?!”

“Then I shall destroy it. Listen, after all these years keeping it, it’s bound to grow in some interest, right? Or… I could sell it to the woman you framed?”

He burst into a peal of scornful laughter.

“Fine, 500 thousand, deal.”

Xu Changshu punched the steering wheel and ended up agreeing to the offer.

While the man had hung up the call.

…

Mu Zhi lied on the bed. She dared not move, maintaining her posture for over a few hours. She could feel her body numbing.

After hesitating briefly, thinking that Lu Jinye had fallen asleep, she shifted around.

However, the moment she finished shifting, Li Jinye cracked his mouth open casually.

“Can’t sleep?”

Do I answer him?

Mu Zhi was taken aback. Lu Jinye was clever enough to realize that she was pretending to sleep.

After a long moment, she responded, “Yeah, can’t sleep.”

“I suppose it’s the bed.”

It had only been a few days since she moved out, how was it the bed’s problem?

In the darkness of the room, Lu Jinye asked Mu Zhi, “Do you have any trouble? Or is there someone you miss?”

Mu Zhi hesitated. She too, did not know…

Whether she was troubled or she missed someone.

“Don’t know, perhaps both.”

Mu Zhi answered reluctantly.

Then, Lu Jinye reached out an arm and gathered Mu Zhi into his embrace without a warning.

Mu Zhi’s body stiffened up, but she did not retaliate.

Allowing him to do as he will.

For some reason, lying on his chest, Mu Zhi instantly felt exhaustion kicking in.

Very quickly, she dozed off.