Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 199

Chapter 199 An Honorable Love!

Mu Zhi glanced at the time. When she was preparing to leave the bed, Lu Jinye reached out to hold her hand.

“Where are you going?”

Mu Zhi rolled her eyes at u Jinye, “This dating thing isn’t really working out. I need to pick up Mu Xiaomu from school.” All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

Shuffling towards Mu Zhi, Lu Jinye did not stop her from leaving. He brought Mu Zhi into his embrace and breathed into her ear, “I think this dating thing works out perfectly. We should do it every day.”

“…”

Mu Zhi was left with no words.

Once a day?!

She had the intention to refuse him earlier…

But unfortunately, Lu Jinye knew her too well. Her body was not able to resist what was coming at her.

Mu Zhi then glared at him in the end and hopped off the bed, disregarding Lu Jinye completely. She headed into the bathroom, took a shower before starting to dress up. “Xiaomu is finishing class soon, I need to fetch her.”

Lu Jinye followed suit. He looked stunning as always after getting dressed. “I’m coming with you.”

His phone went off as soon as he finished those words.

Lu Jinye was buried in endless work lately. Mu Zhi was aware of it. She glanced at the phone and said to him, “You should get to work first. If you could bring it home, I can bring Xiaomu home and the three of us can have a meal together.”

Mu Zhi grabbed her coat and prepared to leave right after.

But before she could step out of the door, her phone suddenly went off.

Mu Zhi took a look at the caller’s name, answered it, and said, “How is it, Xiaoning?”

Jian Xiaoning sounded a little anxious, “Are you preparing to pick up Xiaomu from school now?”

“Yeah,” Mu Zhi held the phone in her hand while staggering to change into a pair of ballet flats.

“No, don’t go.”

Jian Xiaoning hurriedly cut her off. “Let me pick her up.”

Mu Zhi was a little bemused by Jian Xiaoning’s abrupt suggestion.

“What happened?”

“I’ll bring her to my place today and drop her off at school tomorrow morning. I think it will take a while for the scandals revolving around you guys to die off. So, just leave Xiaomu to me, alright? Ciao.”

Jian Xiaoning blabbered a series of words before immediately hanging up the call.

Meanwhile, Mu Zhi remained in a daze… What is Jian Xiaoning referring to?

What rumors?

Mu Zhi blinked her eyes multiple times and hurriedly searched for her and Lu Jinye’s names on the phone.

True enough! An exposé!

For the lack of a better word, the newest scandals could only be described as head-scratching.

Because… The floating rumors were piping hot. It was about her date to the movies with Lu Jinye and Lu Jinye was mistaken as a superstar.

As a result, the actual movie star, who was there to market his movies, lost half of his fans for his event.

Some of the paparazzi caught some photos of the Lu Jinye and Mu Zhi.

And the headline wrote, ‘Humble tycoon, Lu Jinye, caught holding hands with Mu Zhi to the movies. His charms caught more eyes than a movie star!’

The headline was followed by countless photos of Lu Jinye being swamped by fans.

How do I end up in the hot search by doing nothing?

Mu Zhi could feel a twinge of headache coming over her.

Lu Jinye was facing a vast challenge at work. She did not intend to add more onto his load.

Mu Zhi turned around and catch a glimpse of Lu Jinye’s face. She wanted to bring it up to him but Lu Jinye was focused on work.

He was in the middle of a remote conference, attentively directing the next course of action of the company. The collaboration with Xie Xiu was almost set in place.

The agenda of the meeting was to maximize the value of Xie Xiu’s funds and consequently recover the losses of the Lu Group in the shortest possible period!

Mu Zhi overheard parts of the call. Seeing that the sky was gradually getting darker, she headed into the kitchen.

Now that she did not have to pick up Mu Xiaomu and thinking that Lu Jinye’s meeting might take a while, Mu Zhi decided to prepare some food for him.

Lu Jinye had been staying up late. Thus, Mu Zhi especially prepared a serve of goji berries and cinnamon porridge for him to go with some light, home-made dishes to counter-pose the greasy food he had been having.

Despite understanding that it was routine for Lu Jinye to stay up late and knowing that his body would undoubtedly handle a few sleepless nights, Mu Zhi could not help caring for him.

The remote conference lasted over three hours. It was around eight at night by the time it finished.

Mu Zhi reheated all the dishes and served them on the dining table in a presentable fashion. When Lu Jinye shut his laptop and returned to the dining table, he looked at Mu Zhi with a curious frown, “Why didn’t you pick up Xiaomu?”

“I can’t.”

Mu Zhi was lamenting a little as she responded.

“You’re on the news again from this afternoon.”

In between her words, Mu Zhi searched the recent news and headed it to Lu Jinye.

“You’ve been portrayed as a scumbag nowadays. Now that Xiao Qingqing has broken up with you while bearing your child, do you think we should… Keep it low?”

Mu Zhi mumbled towards the end of her sentence.

Lu Jinye threw a casual glance at the content of the news before returning the phone to Mu Zhi. He said, “Are you upset because we got caught dating, or are you upset because I’m portrayed as a scumbag by the media?”

Lu Jinye questioned Mu Zhi with a stern face.

Mu Zhi raised her head. She drew a deep breath as she locked her eyes at Lu Jinye. Then, she heaved a sigh, pretending to be busy with setting the table.

“I’m afraid that this news will affect you.” She said.

Mu Zhi suddenly took two steps towards Lu Jinye and grabbed his hand.

She added, “Do you think you should release a statement saying that you’re purely consoling me by going to the movies with me earlier? You can say that I’m a needy woman and I threatened you with our child.”

“Then, stay closer with Xiao Qingqing in the coming days. Lu Jinye, I don’t mind how the public perceives me, it doesn’t really bother me. But you’re different. You bear the Lu Group’s reputation on your shoulders. This affects tens of thousands of jobs.”

Mu Zhi was becoming increasingly agitated.

Lu Jinye gazed at Mu Zhi with violent emotions dancing in his eyes.

“Mu Zhi, I, Lu Jinye, wish to treat you with an honorable love. I won’t let you sacrifice for me.”

Mu Zhi was astonished. She lifted her eyes and was drown in Lu Jinye’s gush of love.

Everything about him told her that he was willing to endure all hardships for her.