Falling For The Contract Bride

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 Are You Not Reluctant To Leave My Side?

Xiao Qingqing was very close to Lu Jinye. She was sitting on the sofa. She smiled at Mu Zhi when she saw her. Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

But Mu Zhi felt a little uncomfortable.

Lu Jinye only glanced at Mu Zhi, then turned to Xiao Qingqing, “I will let the driver send you back.”

Xiao Qingqing’s face clearly showed reluctance, but she just looked at Lu Jinye, then stood up, leaned in to give Lu Jinye a kiss, and walked out.

After Xiao Qingqing left, Mu Zhi still had a smile plastered on her face.

Lu Jinye sat on a chair and looked at Mu Zhi with a stern face, “What are you laughing at?”

“I suddenly understand why Mr. Lu likes Miss Xiao Qingqing.”

Mu Zhi narrowed her smile and replied seriously.

Lu Jinye frowned when he heard these words, “Did you just call me Mr. Lu?”

“I shall address you as Mr. Lu for now since we’re going to talk about business.”

Mu Zhi smiled slightly and walked towards Lu Jinye slowly. She looked at Lu Jinye, her eyes full of determination.

Lu Jinye was secretly irritated, but he brushed it off, “Alright, go ahead.”

“I’d like to resign in two weeks’ time and I wish to bring our divorce forward. Is it okay?”

“Oh, why?”

Lu Jinye’s eyes veiled his emotions. He stared at Mu Zhi, sizing up at her.

“Because… I don’t want to work by your side after the divorce. This will make me feel a little awkward. However, after leaving you, I don’t think anyone in this industry dares to hire Lu Jinye’s ex-secretary.”

Mu Zhi said these few words in a completely official tone, and they were on point.

Lu Jinye tapped his slim fingertips on the desk and looked up at Mu Zhi, “Continue.”

“I found a new job in an industry that I am interested in. It is a rare opportunity. Therefore, I hope to complete the resignation procedures in half a month.”

“Honey, may I?”

After Mu Zhi had said everything that had to do with her work, but had not received Lu Jinye’s answer, Mu Zhi changed into a coquettish manner.

Lu Jinye stood up, walked slowly towards Mu Zhi, stretched out his hand, raised her chin and forced her to look at him.

After staring for a long time, then only did he start to speak.

“Are you not reluctant to leave my side?”

“Is my honey reluctant?”

Mu Zhi blinked and stared at Lu Jinye the same way, and asked in a low voice.

Lu Jinye suddenly raised his lips, “Well, submit your resignation application in a moment and start sourcing a personal secretary for me.”

After saying this, he let go of Mu Zhi and went back to sit on his office chair.

Mu Zhi acknowledged, and gave Lu Jinye a faint smile before leaving.

However, the moment she closed the door, she did not feel as relieved as she thought she would. Instead she felt overwhelmed by sorrow.

What was she sad about?

Was it because Lu Jinye let her go when she asked him if he felt any reluctance?

It was as if her existence had no influence on Lu Jinye.

Mu Zhi quickly swept away these complicated emotions when they started to come. It can’t be like this. This must not happen! She and Lu Jinye shouldn’t have feelings for each other.

After Mu Zhi sat at the desk for a short while, she saw Lu Jinye come out of his office, quickly leaving the company with his jacket.

As soon as Lu Jinye left, several secretaries in the secretary’s office looked around to ascertain that the course was clear, and then began to chat.

“Hey, Xiao Qingqing sure knew her way to the chairman’s heart. She had sat in the chairman’s office for hours. I’ve never seen the chairman so caring about any of his girlfriends.”

“Why did you think Xiao Qingqing was so determined all these while?”

“Her technique in bed, perhaps!”

Mu Zhi hadn’t had the mood to listen to what these people were saying, but suddenly a voice came into her ears, and she quickly looked at the woman who said ‘technique in bed’.

It was a secretary who enjoyed celebrity gossips.

Following what she said, a secretary suddenly cut her off, “As if you had been in the chairman’s bed and witnessed their skills.”

However, the secretary doubled down, “Seriously, I‘m not lying. Xiao Qingqing’s debut was made by stripping. Of course, woman like her is good in bed, and she must have been a wild character.”

“And…”

The secretary leaned a little closer and said, “Also, you can see that she dresses up so clean and well on the surface. The more women behave as such, the dirtier they secretly are, and the more men are fascinated.”

Mu Zhi turned around, looked at the secretary who was talking, and couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Did the chairman love her before then?”

She didn’t know why she asked this.

“Love. I remembered reading this in the gossip column once. The chairman spent a lot of money for her debut, and to re-establish her image. It was a pity that the two did not get married. The chairman married someone else in the end.”

“Why marry someone else?”

The audience was captivated by the story, and pursued further.

“I don’t know the specifics, but I’d presume that the chairman’s wife is also a noblewoman, it could be a business marriage or something. Otherwise why hasn’t the chairman’s wife been photographed once? For so many years, it was as if she does not exist. Maybe the chairman doesn’t dare to file a divorce due to the influences of her family.”

When it came to this, Mu Zhi stopped listening. She stood up and took her cup to the pantry for a glass of water. There was nothing that intrigued her anymore.

Because there was no truth in the latter at all.

And she, the wife of the chairman, was also supposed to be divorced soon.

Under normal circumstances, Lu Jinye would return to the company by evening. Even if he did not return, he would give Mu Zhi a call after work.

But Mu Zhi didn’t receive any calls from Lu Jinye even after she had reached home.

Mu Zhi expected Lu Jinye to have engaged Xiao Qingqing in a date. Thus, she was planning to pay Mu Xiaomu another visit. In the end, just as she was about to leave, the home phone rang.

Mu Zhi thought for a while. Staring at the unfamiliar number on it, she didn’t know who it was.

But she answered it anyway.

“Hello.” She greeted.

Alas, Xiao Qingqing’s voice came on the other end of the phone, “Hello, this is Xiao Qingqing, are you Jinye’s wife, can I come to your place for you? I want to have a chat with you.”

Upon listening to the words, Mu Zhi hung up the phone before Xiao Qingqing could speak again.

She must neither say yes nor no.

A single ‘hello’ might be difficult to recognize, but if she had talked too much, Xiao Qingqing could find out her true identity as Lu Jinye’s wife.

When she thought that Xiao Qingqing had gotten her hands the house’s phone number after only returning for a few days, she hurriedly pulled all curtains at home close.